Representative Publications

* indicates student author

Van Petten, C. & Luka, B. J. (2006). Neural localization of semantic context effect in electromagnetic and hemodynamic studies, Brain and Language, 97, 279-293. (PDF)

Luka, B. J. & Barsalou, L. W. (2005). Structural facilitation: Mere exposure effects for grammatical acceptability as evidence for syntactic priming in comprehension. Journal of Memory & Language, 52(3), 436-459. (PDF)

Luka, B.J. (2005). A cognitively plausible model of linguistic intuitions. In S. S. Mufwene, E. Francis, & R. Wheeler (Eds.), Polymorphous Linguistics: Jim McCawley's legacy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 479-502.  (PDF)

Luka, B. J. (2005). A cognitively plausible model of linguistic intuitions. In, S. S. Mufwene, E. Francis, & R. Wheeler (Eds.), Polymorphous Linguistics: Jim McCawley's legacy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 479–502.

Current Projects

Luka, B. J. & *Choi, H. (submitted). Is structural facilitation in language comprehension long lasting? Further evidence that indirect tests of memory for syntactic priming share characteristics of implicit learning.

Luka, B. J. (submitted). Software to streamline the function of Institutional Review Boards at Small College

*Maquilan, M. & Luka, B.J. (submitted). Differential perception of pitch-ambiguous stimuli in Filipino and American listeners: The Tritone Paradox with new methods of data analysis.

Luka, B. J. & Van Petten, C., (forthcoming). Neural bases of metaphor comprehension. To appear in Faust, M., The Neuropsychology of Language: Towards Synthesis of Basic Science and Clinical Research. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell.

Luka, B. J. (under review). Autolexical Grammar and the neurological substrates of language processing: Mismatch and resolution of semantic and syntactic representations. In Yuasa, E. and Bagchi, T. Jerry Sadock, Pragmatics, and Autolexical Syntax. John Benjamins.

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