Lectures and seminars

Neurolinguistics Thursdays

Every Thursday we gather in the lab to learn something from our friends and invited guests or talk about the latest news of neurolinguistics. If you want to join us, follow our newsletter to get information about time and topic of upcoming meetings. 

Summer neurolinguistics school

We organize an annual Summer neurolinguistics school where invited leading specialists give talks on the cutting-edge neurolinguistics topics, and participants may present their research ideas during the poster session.

Recent events

2016

September 5 Guest Lecture
Speaker: Ram Frost (Professor, Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University)
Topic: "Statistical learning as an individual ability"

August 8-9 Workshop
Speaker: Maria Ivanova (Research Fellow, Center for Language and Brain, HSE)
Topic: "FSL package for structural and functional neuroimaging data processing"

June 23 Guest Lecture
Speaker: Julia Rodina (Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan, University of Oslo)
Topic: "Gender change in the Norwegian dialects: Processing Effects Precede Loss in Production" 

June 6 Guest Lecture
Speaker: Joe McInnes (Assistant Professor, department of Psychology, HSE)
Topic: "Diffusion models of reaction time data"

May 26-27 Workshop
Speakers: Julia Akinina, Olga Dragoy and Maria Ivanova (Center for Language and Brain, HSE)
Topic: "Voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping"

May 19 Guest Lecture
Speaker: Stephanie Forkel (Senior Neuroimaging Research Scientist, Neuroanatomy and Tractography Laboratory NATBRAINLAB)
Topic: "Connectional anatomy of language and its impact on language recovery"

April 21 Seminar
Speaker: Olga Soloukhina (Research Assistant, Center for Language and Brain, HSE)
Topic: "Nouns and verbs comprehension by patients with aphasia - are there differences?"

April 14 Guest Lecture
Speaker: Joe McInnes (Assistant Professor, department of Psychology, HSE )
Topic: "Computational models of semantic memory: their use as both critic and guide"

April 7 Guest Lecture
Speaker: Roeland Hancock (Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan, University of Oslo)
Topic: "Neurochemistry of speech oscillations"

February 25 Seminar
Speakers: Maria Ivanova, Svetlana Kuptsova, Ekaterina Iskra, Olga Soloukhina and Anastasia Kobzeva (Center for Language and Brain, HSE )
Topic: “Verb Network Strengthening Treatment"

February 9 Guest Lecture
Speaker: Svetlana Dorofeeva
Topic: "Practical implementation of various methods of dysgraphia/dyslexia treatment"

2015

September 21-22 Workshop 

Speakers: Irina Sekerina (The City University of New York, USA), Reinhold Kliegl (University of Potsdam, Germany), Anna Laurinavichyute (HSE, Moscow, Russia), Svetlana Alexeeva (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia), Daria Chernova (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia), Aleksandr Latanov (Moscow State University, Russia), Victor Anisimov (Moscow State University, Russia), Valeria Demareva (State University of Nizhni Novgorod, Russia)
Topic: "Eye-tracking school"

2014

December 11 Research Seminar
Speaker: Anna Laurinavichyute (Junior Research Fellow, Center for Language and Brain, HSE)
Topic: "Lexical ambiguity resolution: eye tracking data"

November 14  Research Seminar
Speaker: Olga Dragoy (Head of the Center for Language and Brain, HSE)
Topic: "Comprehension of reversible sentences in semantic aphasia: role of motor stereotypes"

November 5-6  Series of consultation seminars
Speaker:  Roelientje Bastiaanse (Professor, University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Topic:  “Neurolinguistic studies of grammar”

October 31  Workshop
Speaker: Stefano Cappa (Professor, University of Pavia, Italy)
Topic: "Approaches to processing resting-state fMRI"

October 30  Joint Seminar between Center for Language and Brain (Philology Department HSE) and Laboratory of cognitive psychophysiology (Psychology Department HSE).
Speaker: Olga Dragoy (Head of the Center for Language and Brain, HSE)
Topic: "Linguistic evoked potentials: achievements and perspectives of electrophysiological investigations of language"

October 28 Guest lecture
Speaker: Stefano Cappa (Professor, University of Pavia, Italy)
Topic: "Resting-state neuroimaging: basic principles and recent advances"

September 26 Guest lecture
Speaker: Alfredo Ardila (Professor, Florida International University, USA)
Topic: "Aphasia and executive functions"

September 25 Guest lecture
Speaker: Stefano Cappa (Professor, University of Pavia, Italy)
Topic: "Role of neurostimulation methods in treating aphasia"

September 22-26 Series of consultation seminars
Speaker: Stefano Cappa (Professor, University of Pavia, Italy)
Topic: "Mapping of language functions"

September 17 Guest lecture
Speaker: Stela Musteata (Postdoc, University Vita Salute San Raffaele, Italy)
Topic: "Transcranial direct current stimulation: a new strategy for the improvement of language performance in chronic post-stroke aphasic patients"

September 2 Guest lecture
Speaker:  Roelientje Bastiaanse (Professor, University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Topic:  "Western classification of aphasia"

September 1-5 Series of consultation seminars

Speaker:  Roelientje Bastiaanse (Professor, University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Topic:  "Comparing Western and Russian approaches to aphasia"

July 29-30 Series of consultation seminars
Speaker:  Roelientje Bastiaanse (Professor, University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Topic:  “Crosslinguistic studies of aphasia”

July 23 Research Seminar
Speaker:  Anna Lukyanchenko (Senior Research Fellow, Center for Language and Brain, HSE)
Topic:  "From sound to meaning: the influence of context on lexical disambiguation" 

July 17 Guest lecture
Speaker: Thomas Bever (Regent’s professor, University of Arizona, USA)
Topic:"There are at least two “normal” neurological organizations for language and music" 

July 3 Guest lecture
Speaker: Thomas Bever (Regent’s professor, University of Arizona, USA)
Topic:"Normative language organization in the brain"  

May 28 Research Seminar
Speaker:  Grigoriy Ignatiev (first-year student at the Faculty of Philology, HSE)
Topic:   "Lateralization of language: the influence of familial left-handedness"  

March 26 Research Seminar at the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University
Speaker:  Rosa Vlasova (Research Fellow, Center for Language and Brain, HSE)
Topic:   "Application of fMRI in clinical practice: neuropsychological aspects"

March 25 Research Seminar
Speaker:  Dmitry Isaev (Junior Research Fellow, Center for Language and Brain, HSE)
Topic:  "Data of evoked brain potentials processing using "Fieldtrip" package" 

March 18 Research Seminar
Speaker: Anna Yurchenko (Research Fellow, Center for Language and Brain, HSE)
Topic: "Method of evoked brain potentials"

February 27 Research Seminar
Speaker: Members of the Laboratory
Topic: "International Science News" laboratory staff spoke about the latest development in the field based on attendance of recent conferences.

February 20 Research Seminar
Speaker:  Maria Khudiakova (Junior Research Fellow, Center for Language and Brain, HSE)
Topic:  "Study of discourse in psycholinguistics"

January 30 Guest lecture
Speaker: Anastasia Ulicheva (PhD student at the University of Hong Kong, China)
Topic: "How the correspondence between letters and sounds in Russian language affect children who are learning to read"