Publications

Journal Articles

• Thothathiri, M. (2021). Rational and flexible adaptation of sentence production to ongoing language experience. Front. Psychol. 12:647076. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.647076
• Thothathiri, M., Kidd, E., & Rowland, C.F. (registered report, in principle accepted). The role of executive function in the processing and acquisition of syntax. Royal Society Open Science
• Sharer, K., & Thothathiri, M. (2020). Neural mechanisms underlying the dynamic updating of native language. Neurobiology of Language, 1(4), 492–522. https://doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_00023
• Thothathiri, M., & Braiuca, M. C. (2020). Distributional learning in English: The effect of verb-specific biases and verb-general semantic mappings on sentence production. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000814
• Thothathiri, M. (2018). Statistical experience and individual cognitive differences modulate neural activity during sentence production. Brain and Language, 183, 47-53.
• Thothathiri, M., Asaro, C.T., Hsu, N.S., & Novick, J.M. (2018). Who did what? A causal role for cognitive control in thematic role assignment during sentence comprehension. Cognition, 178, 162-177.
• Thothathiri, M., & Mauro, K.L. (2017). The relationship between short-term memory, conflict resolution, and sentence comprehension impairments in aphasia. Aphasiology. 32 (3), 264-289. doi: 10.1080/02687038.2017.1350630
• Thothathiri, M., Evans, D. G., & Poudel, S. (2017). Verb bias and verb-specific competition effects on sentence production. PLoS ONE 12(7): e0180580. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0180580.
• Thothathiri, M. & Rattinger, M. (2016). Acquiring and producing sentences: Whether learners use verb-specific or verb-general information depends on cue validity. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:404. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00404.
• Thothathiri, M., & Rattinger, M. (2015). Ventral and dorsal streams for choosing word order during sentence production. PNAS. 112 (50), 15456-15461. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1514711112.
• Thothathiri, M., Rattinger, M., & Trivedi, B. (2015). Cognitive control during sentence generation. Cognitive Neuroscience. doi: 10.1080/17588928.2015.1090421. [PostPrint]
• Thothathiri, M., & Rattinger, M. (2015). Controlled processing during sequencing. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9:599. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00599.
• Thothathiri, M., Gagliardi, M., & Schwartz, M. F. (2012). Subdivision of frontal cortex mechanisms for language production in aphasia. Neuropsychologia, 50(14), 3284-3294.
• Thothathiri, M., Kim, A., Trueswell, J. C., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2012). Parametric effects of syntactic-semantic conflict in Broca's area during sentence processing. Brain and Language, 120(3), 259-264.
•  Thothathiri, M., Kimberg, D. Y., & Schwartz, M. F. (2012). The neural basis of reversible sentence comprehension: Evidence from voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping in aphasia. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24, 212-222.
• Thothathiri, M., Snedeker, J., & Hannon, E. (2011). The effect of prosody on distributional learning in 12- to 13-month-old infants. Infant and Child Development, 20, n/a. doi: 10.1002/icd.734
• Thothathiri, M., Schwartz, M. F., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2010). Selection for position: The role of left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex in sequencing language. Brain and Language, 113, 28-38.
• Thothathiri, M., & Snedeker, J. (2008). Give and take: syntactic priming during spoken language comprehension. Cognition, 108(1), 51-68.
• Thothathiri, M., & Snedeker, J. (2008). Syntactic priming during language comprehension in three- and four-year-old children. Journal of Memory and Language, 58, 188-213.

Book Chapters

• Thothathiri, M. (2014). Syntactic/structural priming and language development. In P.J. Brooks and V. Kempe (Eds.),Encyclopedia of Language Development. Sage Publishing.
• Snedeker, J. and Thothathiri, M. (2008). What lurks beneath: Structural priming during language comprehension in preschoolers (and adults). In I. A. Sekerina, E. M. Fernandez and H. Clahsen (Eds.), Developmental psycholinguistics: On-line methods in children's language processing. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Conference Talks/Papers

• Lakusta, L., Thothathiri, M., Mendez, D., & Marinkovic, M. (2017). Evidence for a broad notion of source in child language. In Proceedings of the 41st annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (p. 401-410). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
• Thothathiri, M., & Schwartz, M. F. (2010). The neural basis of reversible sentence comprehension. The Academy of Aphasia 48^th Annual Meeting, Athens, Greece.
• Thothathiri, M., Schwartz, M., & Thompson-Schill, S. (2009). Selection for position: The role of left inferior frontal gyrus (LIFG) in sequencing nouns. The Academy of Aphasia 47^th Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
• Thothathiri, M., & Snedeker, J. C. (2009). Generalization within and between verbs: Comprehension priming in 2.5 and 3.5 year olds. Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Denver, CO.
• Thothathiri, M., & Snedeker, J. (2007). Moving beyond the number and animacy of arguments: children show online evidence for mapping semantic roles to syntactic positions. Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
• Thothathiri, M., & Snedeker, J. C. (2007). Using structural priming and eye movements to investigate children's early grammatical representations. Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Boston, MA.
• Thothathiri, M., & Snedeker, J. (2006). Using structural priming to investigate children's early grammatical representations.CUNY Workshop on Online Methods in Children's Language Processing, New York, NY.
•  Thothathiri, M., & Snedeker, J. (2006). Children's representation of verbs: Evidence from priming during online sentence comprehension. In Proceedings of the 30^th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (p. 643). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
• Snedeker, J., & Thothathiri, M. (2005). The influence of lexical biases on eye-movements during unambiguous utterances: Disentangling linguistic and nonlinguistic effects in the visual-world paradigm. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference,Tucson, AZ.

Selected Conference Posters (since 2012)

• Thothathiri, M., & Ostarek, M. (2020). Decoding of syntactic structure during sentence production. The Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language. Virtual Conference.
• Lin, Y., Thothathiri, M., & Fisher, C. (2020). Preschoolers adapt syntax at multiple levels. The 45th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Virtual Conference.
• Thothathiri, M., & Sharer, K. (2019). Dynamic updating of native syntax. The Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Helsinki, Finland.
• Sharer, K., & Thothathiri, M. (2019). Syntactic adaptation following short-term experience: neural correlates and relationship to cognitive control. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Boulder, CO.
• Sharer, K., & Thothathiri, M. (2019). Sentence processing in pars opercularis adapts rapidly with short-term experience. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
• Thothathiri, M., & Evans, D. (2017). The role of individual differences in inhibition on sentence choice during speech. The Ninth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Baltimore, MD.
• Thothathiri, M., & Wlotko, E. (2017). Sentence comprehension under conflict in aphasia. The Ninth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Baltimore, MD.
• Thothathiri, M., & Evans, D. (2017). Differential conflict adaptation between cognitive control and sentence comprehension versus production. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
• Thothathiri, M., & Mauro, K.M. (2016). Conflict during sentence comprehension: What hurts more, executive function or short-term memory deficits? The Academy of Aphasia 54th Annual Meeting, Wales, UK.
• Thothathiri, M. & Poudel, S. (2016). Verb-bias and verb-specific competition effects during spoken language production. International Workshop on Language Production, La Jolla, CA.
• Thothathiri, M. & Rattinger, M. (2015). Neural substrates of sentence choice. Society for Neurobiology of Language 2015 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
• Thothathiri, M. & Rattinger, M. (2015). Phonological selection within posterior left frontal cortex. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
• Thothathiri, M. & Rattinger, M. (2013). Neural correlates of phonological sequencing. Society for Neurobiology of Language 2013 Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
• Thothathiri, M. & Lucio, W. (2013). Executive function and the asymmetry between children’s language production and comprehension. Eighth Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Memphis, TN.
• Thothathiri, M., & Crane, R. (2012). The role of executive function in children?s language comprehension and production. Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Toronto, Canada.
• Thothathiri, M., Grodner, D., Nahmias, D., & Puentes, M. (2012). Priming during real-time comprehension of code-switched utterances. CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, New York, NY.