Vardan Arutiunian
- Junior Research Fellow:Center for Language and Brain
- Vardan Arutiunian has been at HSE University since 2018.
Responsibilities
My current project is focused on the neurobiological foundations of language impairment in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). There are several lines in this project:
(1) behavioral assessment for language profiling of the representative group of children with ASD;
(2) neurophysiological studies of auditory processing in ASD with using magnetoencephalography (MEG);
(3) neuroanatomical studies of white-matter tracts, involving in auditory processing and language, with using diffusion-tensor imaging (DTI).
Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience
Courses:
- Fundamental Neuroscience for Neuroimaging – John Hopkins University (Coursera)
- Autism Spectrum Disorder – University of California, Davis (Coursera)
Schools:
- 16-19 January, 2019: 28th ANT Neuromeeting (Beaune, France)
- 21-23 November, 2018: Winter Neurolinguistics School: "Aspects of Bilingualism: neuro-, psycho- and sociolinguistic approaches to bilingual studies" (HSE, Moscow, Russia)
- 28-29 September, 2018: 2nd International Workshop "Neurobiology of Speech and Language" (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia)
- 11-15 June, 2018: 3rd Summer School "Infant Studies on Language Development in Europe" (University of Potsdam, Germany)
- 21-23 May, 2018: 5th Summer Neurolinguistics School "Brainwaves of Language: Neural Oscillations and Language Processing" (HSE, Moscow, Russia)
- 21-22 September, 2015: Eye-tracking workshop "Reading in Cyrillic" (HSE, Moscow, Russia)
- 2-3 April, 2015: Spring School "Visualization of Pathways of the Brain: Introduction to Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Tractography" (HSE, Moscow, Russia)
Young Faculty Support Program (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "New Researchers" (2019-2020)
Articles and book chapters1
Working papers2
- Preprint Arutiunian V. Single-word recognition impairments in primary-school-aged children with Autism Spectrum Disorder / National Research University Higher School of Economics. Series WP BRP "Basic research program". 2019.
- Preprint Arutiunian V., Lopukhina A. Phonological neighbourhood density in Russian word production: Evidence from children and adults / Working papers by the Basic Research Program. Series WP BRP 64/LNG/2018 "Linguistics / LNG". 2018.
Conferences
- 2019
Когнитивная наука в Москве: новые исследования (Москва). Presentation: Фонологическая дискриминация у детей с расстройствами аутистического спектра: пилотное исследование на материале русского языка
Global Speech Forum (Москва). Presentation: Нейрофизиологические механизмы нарушения речи у детей с расстройствами аутистического спектра
- 2018
3rd Summer School: Infant Studies on Language Development in Europe (Потсдам). Presentation: Phonological neighbourhood density effect in word production in Russian children: A naming-task study
Asia-Pacific BabyLab Constellation Conference. Presentation: The influence of phonological neighbourhood density on spoken-word comprehension in Russian children: Evidence from eye-tracking
Grants
2020-2021 – Russian Foundation for Basic Research, № 19-313-51014 "Reading acquisition in Russian-speaking school students: an eye-tracking study of linguistic processing contribution to mastering reading skills"; participant.
2018-2020 – Russian Foundation for Basic Research, № 17-29-09122 "Language deficit and its brain correlates in children with developmental dyslexia"; participant.
2018-2019 – Russian Foundation for Basic Research, № 18-312-00091 "Single-word, sentence and discourse comprehension in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (including effect of non-verbal IQ and verbal working memory span)"; participant.
2016-2017 – Russian Foundation for Basic Research, № 16-36-00029 "Neurocognitive mechanisms for reading: An orthographical processing in the light of information theory by Claude Shannon (Evidence from eye movements)"; principal investigator.
Vardan Arutiunian on the internship in Italy
Member of the Center for Language and Brain Vardan Arutiunian did an internship at the San Camillo Hospital (Venice, Italy).
Vardan Arutiunian at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting in Canada
Member of the Center for Language and Brain Vardan Arutiunian participated at the annual congress which was organised by the International Society for Autism Research.
Center for Language and Brain members are back from the Amazon jungle
Mariya Khudyakova, Vardan Arutiunian and Andres Felipe Reyes Gomez from El Bsque University in Bogota have completed the expedition to Vaupes province in Colombia where speakers of Tuyuca language live.
Olga Dragoy and Vardan Arutiunian at the 28th ANT Neuromeeting 2019 in France
Members of the Center for Language and Brain Olga Dragoy and Vardan Arutiunian participated at the 28th ANT Neuromeeting 2019 which was organised by ANT Neuro company.
Vardan Arutiunian had a talk about the influence of phonological neighborhood density on word production and recognition in Russian children on the Russian TV Culture channel
Vardan Arutiunian, Research Assistant at the Center for Language and Brain HSE, had a talk on the Russian TV Culture channel about phonological neighborhood density.
Vardan Arutiunian at the ABC: Asia-Pacific Babylab Constellation Conference in Singapore
The member of the Center for Language and Brain Vardan Arutiunian at the ABC: Asia-Pacific Babylab Constellation Conference (2018) in Singapore
Russian Center for Language and Brain at the University of Potsdam
A team of specialists from the Center for Language and Brain (HSE) took part in the International summer school for Infant Studies On Language Development in Europe, which was held from 11 to 15 June at the University of Potsdam (Germany).
Vardan Arutiunian and Andrew Zyryanov at the Conference of Young Scientists “Psy-HSE: Contemporary Issues of Psychological Science”
The members of the Center for Language and Brain Vardan Arutiunian and Andrew Zyryanov gave the talks at the Conference of Young Scientists “Psy-HSE: Contemporary Issues of Psychological Science”.
Vardan Arutiunian at the 6th International Conference on Autism (2018) in Moscow
The member of the Center for Language and Brain Vardan Arutiunian at the 6th International Conference on Autism (2018) in Moscow
