Maria Alexeeva
- Junior Research Fellow:Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience / Centre for Cognition & Decision Making
- Maria Alexeeva has been at HSE University since 2019.

Young Faculty Support Program (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "New Researchers" (2021)
Courses (2022/2023)
- Memory, Learning and Cognitive Development (Master’s programme; Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Research Seminar "Cognitive Sciences" (Master’s programme; Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience; 2 year, 1-3 module)Eng
- Research Seminar "Cognitive Sciences" (Master’s programme; Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Past Courses
Courses (2021/2022)
Courses (2020/2021)
- Memory, Learning and Cognitive Development (Master’s programme; Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Theory and Methodology of Modern Psychology (Master’s programme; Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
Projects
RSF 19-18-00534 (2019-2021) "Neural dynamics and neuroanatomical substrates of metamemory and conversational pragmatics". Russian Science Foundation Competition 2019 "Conducting basic research and exploratory research by individual scientific groups"
Scientific-research HSE grant №16-05-0024 (2015-2017) “Linguistic, cognitive, and pragmatic analysis of narratives from the Russian CliPS corpus”
Publications14
- Article Maria Alekseeva, Andriy Myachykov, Yury Shtyrov. Inflectional zero morphology – Linguistic myth or neurocognitive reality? // Frontiers in Psychology. 2022. Vol. 13. Article 1015435. doi
- Article Maria Alekseeva, Myachykov A., Beatriz Bermudez‑Margaretto, Shtyrov Y. Neurophysiological correlates of automatic integration of voice and gender information during grammatical processing. // Scientific Reports. 2022. Vol. 12. Article 13114. doi
- Article Алексеева М. А., Мячиков А. В., Штыров Ю. Ю. Нейрофизиологические корреляты автоматической обработки нулевой морфемы: данные вызванных потенциалов. // Журнал высшей нервной деятельности им. И.П. Павлова. 2022. Т. 72. № 5. С. 666-677. doi
- Chapter Alexeeva M., Myachykov A., Shtyrov Y. NEUROCOGNITIVE PROCESSING OF ZERO MORPHEME: EEG AND MEG EVIDENCE, in: Neurobiology of Speech and Language: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Neurobiology of Speech and Language / Рук.: Y. Shtyrov. St. Petersburg : Scifiya-print, 2021.
- Preprint Martín-Luengo B., Zinchenko O., Dolgoarshinnaia A., Alexeeva M., Leminen A. Normative study of 500 general-knowledge for true-false questions in Russian / fqy42. Series 10.31234 "osf.io". 2021. doi
- Preprint Martín-Luengo B., Altukhov D., Alexeeva M., Leminen A. Retrospective confidence judgements in general-knowledge questions: Magnetoencephalograhy correlates / kcxqr. Series 10.31234 "osf.io". 2021. doi
- Chapter Alexeeva M., Myachykov A., Shtyrov Y. (NON)EXISTENCE OF ZERO MORPHEME: ERP EVIDENCE, in: Neurobiology of Speech and Language. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Neurobiology of Speech and Language. St. Petersburg : Scifiya-print, 2020. doi
- Chapter Alexeeva M., Zinchenko O., Shtyrov Y., Martín-Luengo B. A NORMATIVE STUDY OF RUSSIAN-LANGUAGE GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS, in: Neurobiology of Speech and Language. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Neurobiology of Speech and Language. St. Petersburg : Scifiya-print, 2020. doi
- Preprint Alexeeva M., Bermúdez-Margaretto B., Myachykov A., Shtyrov Y. Automatic Integration of Gender Information during Phrase Processing: ERP Evidence / Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Series http://dx.doi.org/ "BioRxiv". 2020. doi
- Article Martín-Luengo B., Zinchenko O., Alexeeva M., Shtyrov Y. Russian norms for 500 general-knowledge questions // Frontiers in Psychology. 2020. Vol. 11. P. 545304.
- Chapter Alexeeva M., Myachykov A., Bermúdez-Margaretto B., Shtyrov Y. RAPID AUTOMATIC SYNTACTIC PARSING AND INTEGRATION OF EXTRALINGUISTIC INFORMATION INTO MORPHOSYNTACTIC ANALYSIS: ERP EVIDENCE, in: The Fifth Saint Petersburg Winter Workshop on Experimental Studies of Speech and Language (Night Whites 2019) / Ed. by T. Chernigovskaya, T. Petrova, N. Slioussar. St. Petersburg : Центр научно-информационных технологий "Астерион", 2019.
- Chapter Martín-Luengo B., Alexeeva M., Zinchenko O., Shtyrov Y. THE SOCIAL CONTEXT MATTER: DIFFERENCES IN THE INFORMATIVENESS-ACCURACY TRADE-OFF DEPENDING ON THE SITUATION, in: The Fifth Saint Petersburg Winter Workshop on Experimental Studies of Speech and Language (Night Whites 2019) / Ed. by T. Chernigovskaya, T. Petrova, N. Slioussar. St. Petersburg : Центр научно-информационных технологий "Астерион", 2019.
- Preprint Khudyakova M., Shapiro Maria M., Grabovskaya M., Alexeeva M. Coherence in aphasia: implementation of different measurement procedures / NRU HSE. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2016. No. 48.
- Preprint Lyashevskaya O., Droganova K., Zeman D., Alexeeva M., Гаврилова Т. С., Mustafina N. S., Шакурова Е. И. Universal Dependencies for Russian: A New Syntactic Dependencies Tagset / NRU HSE. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2016. No. 44.
Conferences
- 2019Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing 2019 (Москва). Presentation: Syntactic priming and extralinguistic information contribute to rapid automatic syntax parsing: ERP evidence
- Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing 2019 (Москва). Presentation: Syntactic priming and extralinguistic information contribute to rapid automatic syntax parsing: ERP evidence
60th Annual Psychonomics Society Conference (Монреаль). Presentation: (Morpho)Syntactic Priming as a Mechanism for Rapid Automatic Syntax Parsing: ERP Evidence.
60th Annual Psychonomics Society Conference (Монреаль). Presentation: Conversational Pragmatics: The Effect of Formal and Informal Contexts in Sharing Information.
Fifth St. Petersburg Winter Workshop on Experimental Studies of Speech and Language (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Rapid automatic syntactic parsing and integration of extralinguistic information into morphosyntactic analysis: ERP evidence.
Fifth St. Petersburg Winter Workshop on Experimental Studies of Speech and Language (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: The social context matter: differences in the informativeness-accuracy trade-off depending on the situation.
- 2017VIII All-Russian Scientific-Practical Conference “Problems of modern linguistics and methodology of Foreign Languages Teaching” (Kolomna). Presentation: ЭКСПЕРИМЕНТАЛЬНОЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЕ ВОСПРИЯТИЯ СЕНТЕНЦИАЛЬНЫХ АКТАНТОВ В ПОЗИЦИИ ПРЯМОГО ДОПОЛНЕНИЯ В РУССКОМ ЯЗЫКЕ
- XX Open Conference of Students-Philologists in Saint-Petersburg State Universuty. Presentation: Экспериментальное исследование восприятия сентенциальных актантов в позиции прямого дополнения в русском языке
- XX Open Conference of Students-Philologists in Saint-Petersburg State Universuty. Presentation: Исследование топонимики пещер и каменоломен Подмосковья
- Когнитивная наука в Москве "Новые исследования" (Москва). Presentation: Экспериментальное исследование отглагольных существительных и сентенциальных актантов в позициях до и после предиката
- Международная научная конференция студентов, аспирантов и молодых учёных «Ломоносов-2017» (Москва). Presentation: Экспериментальное исследование восприятия сентенциальных актантов в позиции прямого дополнения в русском языке
- Международная научная конференция студентов, аспирантов и молодых учёных «Ломоносов-2017» (Москва). Presentation: Экспериментальное исследование восприятия сентенциальных актантов в позиции прямого дополнения в русском языке
- Когнитивная наука в Москве "Новые исследования" (Москва). Presentation: Экспериментальное исследование отглагольных существительных и сентенциальных актантов в позициях до и после предиката
Employment history
EDUCATION
BSc. Fundamental and Computational Linguistics 2013-2017
National Research University “Higher School of Economics”
School of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities
Thesis: “The Perception of Verbal Nouns and Sentential Actants in Russian: Experimental Study”
MSc. Cognitive Sciences and Technologies: From Neuron to Cognition 2017-2019
National Research University “Higher School of Economics”
Faculty of Psychology
Thesis: “Neurophysiological correlates of grammatical structure processing in Russian” (best diploma reward)
SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS
- cognitive linguistics
- cognitive psychology
- linguistics and language description
- language processing
- syntactic ambiguity
- neurolinguistics
PUBLICATIONS
In Russian
Alexeeva M.A. Eksperimentalnoe issledovanie otglagolnih sushestvitelnih i sententsialnix aktantov v pozitsii do I posle predicate//The Russian Journal of Cognitive Science: Special Issue: 2017 “Cognitive Science in Moscow” conference, 2017, vol 4, №2
In English
Lyashevskaya O., Droganova K., Zeman D., Alexeeva M. A., Gavrilova T.S., Mustafina N. S., Shakurova E.I. Universal Dependencies for Russian: A New Syntactic Dependencies Tagset / NRU HSE. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2016. No. 44.
Khudyakova M.V., Alexeeva M.A., Grabovskaya M.A., Shapiro M.M. Coherence in Aphasia: Implementation of Different Measurement Procedures// Proceeding of the Computational Linguistics and Language Science workshop. - 2016. - National Research University “Higher school of Economics”
Martín-Luengo B., Zinchenko O., Alekseeva M., & Shtyrov Y. Russian norms for 500 general knowledge questions/Behavior Research Methods (in prep)
Alexeeva M., Myachykov A., Bermudez Margaretto B., & Shtyrov Y. Integration of extralinguistic information into morphosyntactic analysis: ERP evidence. Neuropsychologia/Frontiers in Human Neuroscience/Brain and Language (in prep)
CONFERENCES
2017
VIII All-Russian Scientific-Practical Conference “Problems of modern linguistics and methodology of Foreign Languages Teaching” Kolomna, Russia (best report award)
XX Open Conference of Students-Philologists in Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
International Conference for Students and Young Scientists "Lomonosov" in Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Cognitive Science in Moscow: New Research Moscow, Russia
2019
25th Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing Moscow, Russia
Eleventh Annual Neurobiology of Language Conference Helsinki, Finland
SKILLS
Languages |
Russian (mother tongue) English (advanced) French (pre-intermediate) |
Software |
Matlab, Python, R, Experiment Builder, Latex, ELAN, Praat, EPrime[1] |
Experimental methods |
Eyetracking, self-paced reading, EEG |
GRANTS
“Linguistic, cognitive, and pragmatic analysis of narratives from the Russian CliPS corpus”, research team project grant №16-05-0024, National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, 2015-2016, 2016-2017 – member
"Neural dynamics and neuroanatomical substrates of metamemory and conversational pragmatics". RSF 19-18-00534 (2019-2021) Russian Science Foundation Competition 2019 "Conducting basic research and exploratory research by individual scientific groups" - member
OTHER
Summer school
Summer Neurolinguistic School, 2014, National Research University “Higher School of Economics” - attendee