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A unique awake brain surgery has been carried out in Nizhny Novgorod with the participation of staff of the Centre for Language and Brain Studies. For the first time, neurolinguists in Nizhny Novgorod assisted in the removal of a brain tumour with mapping of a bilingual patient who is a native speaker of Tatar and Russian. The participants—Natalia Gronskaya, Director of the Centre for Language and Brain Studies, Alina Minnigulova, research assistant, and Lilia Mavlekhanova, invited expert and native speaker of Tatar—spoke about the specifics of the operation.

How can a small Russian research group become a world-famous scientific centre in less than a decade? A special edition of the Frontiers in Psychologyjournal devoted to increasing public awareness of neuroscience features an article about the HSE University Center for Language and Brain, including the successes and challenges of its early years.

On March, 18 HSE launched a new project called Research Battles. Our lab member Tatiana Bolgina, a 4-th year student from Linguistics, took part in the first battle of the season.

The conference is held at the Institute of Linguistics and covers a broad range of topics in the areas of linguistics, psycholinguistics and neurolinguistic research.

Silver Nestling prize is awarded for outstanding achievements in studies and research, interesting papers, a proactive attitude, and achievements in self-development.