Publications and Manuscripts

• Matar S. & Marantz A. (2024). Neural bases of proactive and predictive processing of meaningful sub-word units in speech comprehension, Journal of Neuroscience (accepted).
• Cayado K., Wray S., Chacón D., Lai M., Matar S., & Stockall L. (2024). MEG evidence for left temporal and orbitofrontal involvement in breaking down inflected words and putting the pieces back together, Cortex 181, 101-118.
• Matar S. & Marantz A. (2022). Models of processing complex spoken words: the naïve, the passive, and the predictive, Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience.
• Matar S., Dirani J., Marantz. A., & Pylkkänen L. (2021). Left posterior temporal cortex is sensitive to syntax within conceptually matched Arabic expressions, Scientific Reports 11, 7181.
• Matar, S., Pylkkänen L., & Marantz A. (2019). Left occipital and right frontal involvement in syntactic category prediction: MEG evidence from Standard Arabic, Neuropsychologia 135, 107230. Special issue: The Neural basis of Linguistic Prediction (ed: Mante Nieuwland, Nina Kazanina).
• Farah N.†, Zoubi A.†, Matar S.†, Golan L., Marom A., Butson C.R., Brosh I. & Shoham S. (2013). Holographically patterned activation using photo-absorber induced neural–thermal stimulation, Journal of Neural Engineering 10(5) 056004 [†equal contribution].
• Matar S., Golan L. & Shoham S. (2011). Reduction of two-photon holographic speckle using shift-averaging, Optics Express 19(27), 25891-25899.
• Matar S., Golan L., Farah N., Reutsky I. & Shoham S., Holographic photo-stimulation for dynamic control of neuronal population activity, Proceedings of the IEEE EMBS 4^th International Conference on Neural Engineering, April-May, 2009, Antalya, Turkey.

Talks

• Matar S. & Marantz A., Neural bases of proactive and predictive processing of meaningful sub-word units in speech comprehension. Spanish Society for Experimental Psychology (SEPEX) 2024 annual meeting; 2024 October 23-25; Almería, Spain.
• Matar S. Processing latent structural information in language comprehension. MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK; 2024/02)
• Matar S. Neural basis of structure processing in language comprehension. Department of Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL; London, UK; 2024/02)
• Matar S. How the brain processes latent information in language comprehension. Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland (UMD; College Park, Maryland, USA; 2023/03)
• Matar S. & Marantz A., Early cortical sensitivity to ambiguous morpheme boundaries in speech: MEG evidence from Arabic. 28^th edition of Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference (AMLaP); 2022 September 7-9; York, UK.
• Matar S. Processing Latent Information in Language Comprehension. The Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL; 2022/04).
• Matar S., Left posterior temporal cortex is sensitive to syntax within conceptually matched Arabic expressions. Talk presented at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL; 2021/04).
• Matar S., Dirani J., Marantz A. & Pylkkänen L., Dissociating syntactic processing and semantic composition in the left temporal lobe: MEG evidence from Standard Arabic. Talk presented at: 12^th annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL); 2020 Oct 21-24 (virtual).
• Matar S., Dirani J., Pylkkänen L. & Marantz A., Syntactic category prediction during reading: MEG evidence from adjectival modification in Standard Arabic. Talk presented at: Experimental Arabic Linguistics Conference 2018 (EXAL18); 2019 Oct 28-29; Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.
• Matar S., Dirani J., Pylkkänen L. & Marantz A., Syntactic category prediction during reading: MEG evidence from adjectival modification in Standard Arabic. Talk presented at: 1^st Workshop on Predictive Processing; 2018 Jun 20-22; San Sebastián, Spain.
• Matar S. & Shoham S., Two-photon holographic photo-stimulation for dynamic control of neuronal population activity. Talk presented at: 18^th Annual Meeting of Israeli Society for Neuroscience; 2009 Nov 22-24; Eilat, Israel.