Research
Journal Papers
Flower, N. (under review) A Unified Neural Timecourse for Words, Phrases, and Sentences: MEG Evidence from Parallel Presentation
Flower, N. & Pylkkänen, L. (2026) Cortical representation of quantification: The role of the left anterior temporal lobe (Cognition) [link]
Flower, N. & Pylkkänen, L. (2024) The spatiotemporal dynamics of bottom-up and top-down processing during at-a-glance reading (Journal of Neuroscience) [link]
Kumar, A., Di Eugenio, B., Aurisano, J., Johnson, A., Alsaiari, A., Flower, N., & Leigh, J. (2017). Towards multimodal coreference resolution for exploratory data visualization dialogue: Context-based annotation and gesture identification. In The 21st Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2017–SaarDial) (Vol. 48)
Flower, N. (in prep) A Witness on the Island: Dynamic Binding with the Witness Bound
Flower, N., Lee, S., & Pylkkänen, L. (in prep) Considering all the stars visible: Syntactic Processing in the LPTL
Conference Talks
Flower, N., & Pylkkänen L. (2024) The influence of top-down grammatical knowledge on the rapid visual perception of full sentences: MEG evidence. 37th annual conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP)
Flower, N. (2021) Reconstruction Effects in Mandarin Relative Clauses. Talk. SYNC Conference held on Zoom
Conference Posters
Flower, N. & Pylkkänen, L. (2025) Cortical representation of quantification: The role of the left anterior temporal lobe. Poster presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL).
Flower, N. & Pylkkänen, L. (2025) Serial and Parallel Combinatorics: An MEG investigation into lexical and compositional processing during parallel presentation. Poster presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL).
Rodriguez, A., Flower N., & Pylkkänen, L. (2025) Backward surprisal in serial and parallel reading. Poster presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL).
Flower, N. and & Pylkkänen L. (2025) Cortical representation of quantification: The role of the left anterior temporal lobe. Poster presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of Human Sentence Processing (HSP).
Flower, N. and & Pylkkänen L. (2024) All at once: Semantic Effects of Quantification during Parallel Presentation in MEG. Poster presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of MACSIM (Mid-Atlantic Colloquium of Studies in Meaning).
Flower, N. and & Pylkkänen L. (2023) At-a-glance sentence comprehension: Top-Down Impact of Syntactic Structure in Left Lateral Language Cortex Starting at 270 ms. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language.
Flower, N., Lee, S., & Pylkkänen, L. (2022) Considering all the stars visible: MEG correlates of English post-nominal modification. Poster presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language.