Maria Alexeeva

Research Assistant:Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience / Centre for Cognition & Decision Making

Maria Alexeeva has been at HSE University since 2019.

Responsibilities

Research Assistant

Education

2017

Bachelor's in Fundamental and Applied Linguistics
HSE University

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"

Publications⁴

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. 2269-2269.
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

2019
Architecture 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.
2017
VIII 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