Our research assistants

Tatyana Bolgina
Research Assistant

Tatyana started with the term paper on regulatory function influence on irony comprehention. She is currently involved in project on language lateralization in people with familial sinistrality where she collects and processes fMRI data.

Maria Grabovskaya
Research Assistant

Maria works in project on Russian metaphors and metonimias and also contributes to creation of database on normative verbal/vicual stimuli. She also works with texts for corpus of pear stories.

Olga Soloukhina
Research Assistant

Olga develops subtests of object and action recognition for Russian Aphasia Test: she prepares stimuli and carries out experiments with aphasia pationts and healthy subjects. She also participates in VLSM data processing.

Valeria Tolkacheva
Research Assistant

Valeria participates in neurosurgery projects of the lab: she helps to carry out the project on objects/actions naming in tumor patients by conducting pre-, intro- and postoperative tests and keeping the operation's records.

Zoya Cherkasova
Research Assistant

Zoya started her work by writing a term paper on time and aspect interactions in aphasia patients; she developed materials, collected norming data and currently collecting patient's data. She is also involved in project on language lateralization, where she collects and processes TMS data.