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Publications

Journal Articles

Book Chapters

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 48th 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 47th 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 30th 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.