Anatoly V. Kharkhurin

- Director of Laboratory for Linguistic, Intercultural and Creative Competencies

- The head of the project group "Plurilingual Intercultural Creative Keys" (PICK) at Human Capital Multidisciplinary Research Center

2019 Continuing education program "Organization of the educational process at the NRU HSE"

2019 Continuing education program "Teach for HSE"

Kharkhurin, A. V. (2009). Bilingualism and creativity. Article for Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity and Talent. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.

Kharkhurin, A. V. (2009). Turing machine & Turing test. Entries for Cambridge Dictionary of Psychology. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Kharkhurin, A. V. (2019, September). Art on Contemplation: Lecture-performance. EUROTAS Transpersonal Conference, Dourdan, France.

Kharkhurin, A. V. (2017, September). Transpersonal model of creativity. International Transpersonal Conference, Prague, Czech Republic.

Kharkhurin, A. V. & Yagolkovskiy, S. R. (2016, July). Cross-cultural variations in creative perception modulate creative performance. The 31^st International Congress of Psychology. Yokohama, Japan.

Shafiro, V., Gygi, B., & Kharkhurin, A. V. (2015, November). Listening to act: Comparisons of temporal estimates in response to natural and artificial sound patterns. The 14^th Annual Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Kharkhurin, A. V. (2015, June). Combination of Western and Eastern perspectives on creativity in a four-criterion construct. Toward a Science of Consciousness, Helsinki, Finland.

Kharkhurin, A. V. & Isaeva, M. G. (2015, May). Language mediated concept activation in bilingual memory as a facilitation mechanism of creative behavior. The 10^th International Symposium on Bilingualism, New Brunswick, NJ.

Shafiro, V., Giordano, B., & Kharkhurin, A. V. (2015, May). Predicting the timing of future events using sound: Bouncing balls and tone bursts. The 169^th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Pittsburgh, PA.

Kharkhurin, A. V. (2014, July). Bilingual Creative Education: New approach to old curriculum. The 11^th International Centre for Innovation in Education Conference, Paris, France.

Kharkhurin, A. V. & Li Wei (2013, June). The role of code-switching in bilingual creativity. The 9^th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Singapore.

Kharkhurin, A. V. (2013, May). Global thinking in Global University: On the resurrection of creativity fostering higher education. Workshop on Global University, Sharjah, UAE.

Vaid, J., Tossun, S., Kharkhurin, A. V., & Eslami, Z. (2012, November). What Do You See, Duck or Rabbit? Directional Biases in Bistable Figure Perception. The 53^rd Annual Meeting of The Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN.

Vaid, J., Kharkhurin, A. V., Liew, K., & Kim, K. (2012, July). Directionality effects in scene depiction: Evidence from representational drawing. Invited Symposium on Spatial Schemas and Cognition at the International Congress of Psychology, Capetown, South Africa.

Kharkhurin, A. V. (2012, June). Creativity.4in1: Four-criterion construct of creativity and its realization in a unified model. Language, Culture and Mind V, Lisbon, Portugal.

Gygi, B., Giordano, B. L., Shafiro, V., Kharkhurin, A. V., Zhang, P. X. (2012, February). Adapting to changing information: behavioral estimates of bouncing patterns with contradictory acoustic cues. Making Sense of Sounds: SCANDLE Workshop on Sounds and Sound Processing in Natural and Artificial System, Plymouth UK.

Kharkhurin, A. V. (2011, June). Multilingual creative cognition: How multilingual practice encourages cognitive mechanism facilitating creative potential. Multilingual Creativity and Criticality Colloquium at The 8^th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Oslo, Norway.

Kharkhurin, A. V. & Altarriba, J. (2011, June). The influence of bilinguals’ emotions on their creative performance. The 8^th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Oslo, Norway.

Shafiro, V., Levy, E. S., Khamis-Dakwar, R., & Kharkhurin, A. V. (2011, June). Perception of American-English speech sounds by native Arabic bilinguals. The 8^th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Oslo, Norway.

Giordano, B., Shafiro, V., & Kharkhurin, A. V. (2011, May). Accurate estimation of the temporal dynamics of bouncing events. The 161^st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, Washington.

Kharkhurin, A. V. (2011, January). iPNT: An internet based language proficiency assessment. International Conference on Teaching and Learning as Tools of Progress in Higher Education, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Kharkhurin, A. V. (2010, November). What cognitive mechanisms may facilitate bilingual creative potential? The 51^st Annual Meeting of The Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO, USA.

Kharkhurin, A. V. (2010, October). Bilingualism à Selective Attention à Creativity: Exploring cognitive mechanisms encouraging bilingual creative potential. The 10^th Biannual Meeting of the German Society for Cognitive Science, Potsdam, Germany.

Kharkhurin, A. V. (2010, April). The cognitive and creative advantages of introduction of lingua franca. New Challenges for Multilingualism in Europe, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Kharkhurin, A. V. (2009, December). The role of selective attention in bilingual creative behavior. The International Conference on Bilingualism and Bilingual Education, Sharjah, UAE.

Kharkhurin, A. V. (2009, July). Bilingual verbal and nonverbal creative behavior. The 7^th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Shafiro, V., Kharkhurin, A. V., & Levy, E. S. (2009, May). Perceptual confusions of American English vowels and consonants in Arabic-English bilinguals. The 2^nd ASA Special Workshop on Speech, Portland, OR.

Kharkhurin, A. V. (2009, April). How does speaking more than one language improve our creative abilities? First AUS Faculty Research Forum, Sharjah, UAE.

Kharkhurin, A. V. (2008, July). What Makes Bilinguals Creative? A discussion of bilinguals’ development factors influencing their creative cognition. The 29^th International Congress of Psychology, Berlin, Germany.

Kharkhurin, A. V. (2008, June). The impact of culture on the relationship between bilingualism and creative potential. The 3^rd Biennial Conference on Cognitive Science, Moscow, Russia.

Kharkhurin, A. V., Shafiro, V., & Manokhina, M. (2007, September). Do We See As We Hear? The role of native phonology in the visual and auditory word recognition of Russian-English bilinguals. Workshop on Phonological Processing in Bilingual Speech Production and Perception, Rovereto, Italy.

Kharkhurin, A. V. (2007, May). Are bilinguals truly creative? New findings on bilinguals' creative cognition in the Middle Eastern culture. The 6^th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Hamburg, Germany.

Kharkhurin, A. V. (2007, March). Creativity research in UAE. The 2^nd UAE General Psychology Conference, Dubai, UAE.

Kharkhurin, A. V. (2006, September). The role of cross-cultural experience in bilinguals’ creative cognition. The Bilingual Sentence Processing: Functional and Neural Perspectives, Rovereto, Italy.

Kharkhurin, A. V. (2006, June). The influence of cross-linguistic and cross-cultural experience on bilinguals' cognitive abilities. The 2^nd Biennial Conference on Cognitive Science, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Kharkhurin, A. V. (2005, October). The influence of bilingualism on divergent thinking: The spreading activation in bilingual memory. The Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Brighton, UK.

Kharkhurin, A. V. (2005, August). The role of linguistic fluency, age of L2 acquisition and experience with new cultural-linguistic environment in bilinguals’ divergent thinking. The 10^th International Symposium On Child Language, Berlin, Germany.

Shafiro, V. & Kharkhurin, A. V. (2005, October). The influence of native language phonology on auditory and visual word recognition in Russian-English bilinguals. The 150^th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Kharkhurin, A. V. (2005, May). The influence of language proficiency and cross-cultural experience on bilinguals' divergent thinking abilities. The Seminar on Bi- and Multilingualism and Cognition, Bolzano, Italy.

Kharkhurin, A. V., Reber, A., & Tilei, P. (2005, March). On the possible relationships between bilingualism, biculturalism, and creativity: A cognitive perspective. The 5^th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Barcelona, Spain.

Kharkhurin, A. V., Litman, L., & Grasso, F. W. (2002, May). Behavior-based navigation with the Rug Warrior Pro™: Adaptive neural networks learn without a teacher. The City University of New York’s Annual Research Conference, New York, NY.

Kharkhurin, A. V., Kempe, V., & Brooks, P. J. (2001, November). How can vocabulary learning mediate working memory effects on grammatical category learning? The 42^nd Annual Meeting of The Psychonomic Society, Orlando, FL.

Kempe, V., Brooks, P. J., & Kharkhurin, A. V. (2001, March). Exploring individual differences in adult second language learning. The Workshop on Bilingualism and Brain Plasticity, Trieste, Italy.

Kempe, V., Brooks, P. J., & Kharkhurin, A. V. (1999, November). Multiple Determinants of Individual Differences in Language Learning. The 40^th Annual Meeting of The Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles, CA.

2011–2019 Associate Professor American University of Sharjah (UAE)

2005–2011 Assistant Professor American University of Sharjah (UAE)

2002–2005 Adjunct Instructor Touro College (USA)

2001–2005 Adjunct Instructor Brooklyn College CUNY (USA)

2001–2002 Research Assistant Institute of Basic Research (USA)

2000–2001 Research Assistant College of Staten Island CUNY (USA)