Centre for Language and Brain Conducts First Neurolinguistic Field Study of Reading in Yakut
In July, a team from the HSE Centre for Language and Brain, in collaboration with the Centre for the Study, Preservation, and Development of Native Languages of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), conducted the first-ever neurolinguistic expedition to the village of Churapcha to study reading in the Yakut language using electroencephalography (EEG). For the first time, EEG data from 43 adults and behavioural data from 40 children was collected during the two-week expedition.
HSE Scientists Explain How to Identify Brain Areas Critical for Language Function During Surgery
The HSE Centre for Language and Brain conducted a course on tractography, a method that enables visualisation of key brain connections and helps surgeons avoid damaging language-critical areas during surgery. The course was attended by neurosurgeons and radiologists from Moscow and other Russian regions who are interested in methods of preoperative language mapping.
Researchers Uncover Specific Aspects of Story Comprehension in Young Children
For the first time, psycholinguists from the HSE Centre for Language and Brain, in collaboration with colleagues from the USA and Germany, recorded eye movements during a test to assess narrative skills in young children and adults. The researchers found that story comprehension depends on plot structure, and that children aged five to six tend to struggle with questions about protagonists' internal states. The study findings have been published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.
HSE Researchers Identified the Age-Related Changes in Gamma-Band Oscillations in Auditory Cortex in Children
Researchers from the HSE Center for Language and Brain have identified previously unknown age-related changes in brain activity during the perception of auditory information in a group of children aged 7–12 years. The researchers used magnetoencephalography (MEG), an ultra-precise method of brain activity recording. The results obtained can be used to explore the impairments in language comprehension in children with autism. The study was published in the Human Brain Mapping.
The Center for Language and Brain has established contacts with preschool institutions in the city of Saratov
From April 12 to 16, the Center's staff conducted a comprehensive survey of speech skills using the KORABLIK test in a population of children with general speech underdevelopment.
The team of the Center for Language and Brain conducted a study at a school in Nizhny Novgorod
From April 15 to 23 in Nizhny Novgorod, members of the Center for Language and Brain conducted a study among pupils in grades 2 and 4.
New clinical study with the Children's Academy of Speech
Center for Language and Brain launched a new collaboration project together with the speech therapy center Children's Academy of Speech, which provides intervention and treatment for children with language-learning difficulties or delays in cognitive and behavioural development.
Tatiana Bolgina at the Fifth conference-school "Problems of language: young researchers' perspective"
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.
Seminar "Correction for multiple comparisons at the level of clusters in fMRI: what's the problem?"
The seminar was held by Ekarterina Pachenkova, PhD in Psychological sciences
Lecture by Ram Frost "Statistical learning as an individual ability"
Ram Frost is from Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel