Olga Dragoy
- Director:Center for Language and Brain
- Professor:Faculty of Humanities / School of Philological Studies
- Tenured Professor (2022)
- Member of the HSE Academic Council
- Olga Dragoy has been at HSE University since 2011.
Education and Degrees
- 2020
Doctor of Sciences*
HSE University - 2007
Candidate of Sciences* (PhD) in Language Theory
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Thesis Title: Relative clause syntactic ambiguity resolution in Russian - 2007
Master's in Clinical Linguistics
Universität Potsdam, human sciences - 2006
Doctoral programme in Theory of Language
Lomonosov Moscow State University, philology - 2003
Degree in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Lomonosov Moscow State University
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.
A post-doctoral degree called Doctor of Sciences is given to reflect second advanced research qualifications or higher doctorates in ISCED 2011.
Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience
2008 - Institute of Defectology and Medical Psychology, Moscow, Russia - Advanced training courses “Foundations of Neuropsychology” and “Aphasia”.
September 2009 - January 2010 - University of Groningen, the Netherlands - Internship "Event-related brain potentials".
June - July 2010 - Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany - Internship "Functional magnetic resonance imaging".
September 2013 - March 2014 - Center for Aphasia and related Disorders, CA, USA - Internship "Voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping".
April - May 2015 - Institute for Advanced Study of Pavia, Italy - Internship "Analysis of resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging data".
Papers in English63
- Article Minnigulova A., Davydova E., Pereverzeva D., Sorokin A., Tyushkevich S., Mamokhina U., Danilin K., Dragoy O., Arutiunian V. Corpus callosum organization and its implication to core and co-occurring symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder // Brain Structure and Function. 2023. Vol. 228. No. 3-4. P. 775-785. doi
- Article Khudyakova Mariya, Antonova Natalia, Nelubina Maria, Surova Anastasia, Vorobyova Anna, Minnigulova Alina, Gronskaya Natalia, Yashin K., Medyanik I., Tatiana Shishkovskaya, Ryazanskaya G., Zuev A., Dragoy Olga. Discourse Diversity Database (3D) for Clinical Linguistics Research: Design, Development, and Analysis // Bakhtiniana. 2023. Vol. 18. No. 1. P. 30-53. doi
- Article Karpychev V., Malyutina S., Zhuravleva A., Bronov O., Kuzin V., Marinets A., Dragoy O. Disruptions in modular structure and network integration of language-related network predict language performance in temporal lobe epilepsy: Evidence from graph-based analysis // Epilepsy and Behavior. 2023. Vol. 147. Article 109407. doi
- Article Arutiunian V., Arcara G., Irina B., Buivolova O., Davydova E., Pereverzeva D., Sorokin A., Tyushkevich S., Mamokhina U., Danilina K., Dragoy O. Event-Related Desynchronization of MEG Alpha-Band Oscillations during Simultaneous Presentation of Audio and Visual Stimuli in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder // Brain Sciences. 2023. Vol. 13. No. 9. Article 1313. doi
- Article Zdorova N., Parshina O., Ogly B., Bagirokova I., Ekaterina Krasikova, Anastasiia Ziubanova, Unarokova S., Makerova S., Dragoy O. Eye movement corpora in Adyghe and Russian: an eye-tracking study of sentence reading in bilinguals // Frontiers in Psychology. 2023. Vol. 14. P. 1. doi
- Article Shalileh S., Ignatov D. I., Lopukhina A., Dragoy O. Identifying dyslexia in school pupils from eye movement and demographic data using artificial intelligence // Plos One. 2023. Vol. 18. No. 11. P. . doi
- Article Arutiunian V., Arcara G., Buyanova I., Davydova E., Pereverzeva D., Sorokin A., Tyushkevich S., Mamokhina U., Danilina K., Dragoy O. Neuromagnetic 40 Hz Auditory Steady-State Response in the left auditory cortex is related to language comprehension in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder // Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. 2023. Vol. 122. Article 110690. doi
- Article Staroverova V., Lopukhina A., Zdorova N., Ladinskaya N., Vedenina O., Goldina S., Kaprielova A., Bartseva K., Dragoy O. Phonological and orthographic parafoveal processing during silent reading in Russian children and adults // Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 2023. Vol. 226. Article 105571. doi
- Article Yurchenko A., Arutiunian V., Maas Shitova N., Bergelson M., Dragoy O. Register switching involving lexical-semantic processing in Russian: An ERP study // Journal of Neurolinguistics. 2023. Vol. 65. Article 101111. doi
- Article Arutiunian V., Gomozova M., Minnigulova A., Davydova E., Pereverzeva D., Sorokin A., Tyushkevich S., Mamokhina U., Danilina K., Dragoy O. Structural brain abnormalities and their association with language impairment in school-aged children with Autism Spectrum Disorder // Scientific Reports. 2023. Vol. 13. Article 1172. doi
- Article Kuptsova S., Dragoy O., Ivanova M. Switching Attention Deficits in Post-Stroke Individuals with Different Aphasia Types // Aphasiology. 2023. Vol. 37. No. 2. P. 260-287. doi
- Article Elin K., Malyutina S., Stupina E., Bronov O., Zhuravleva A., Marinets A., Dragoy O. A New Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Localizer for Preoperative Language Mapping Using a Sentence Completion Task: Validity, Choice of Baseline Condition, and Test–Retest Reliability // Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 2022. Vol. 16. Article 791577. doi
- Article Svetlana V. Dorofeeva, Iskra E., Goranskaya D., Gordeyeva E., Serebryakova M., Zyryanov A., Dragoy O., Akhutina T. V. Cognitive Requirements of the Phonological Tests Affect Their Ability to Discriminate Children With and Without Developmental Dyslexia // Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 2022. Vol. 65. No. 10. P. 3809-3826. doi
- Article Karpychev V., Balatskaya A., Utyashev N., Pedyash N., Zuev A., Dragoy O., Fedele T. Epileptogenic high-frequency oscillations present larger amplitude both in mesial temporal and neocortical regions // Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 2022. No. 16. Article 984306. doi
- Article Parshina O., Lopukhina A., Sofya Goldina, Ekaterina Iskra, Serebryakova M., Staroverova V., Zdorova N., Dragoy O. Global reading processes in children with high risk of dyslexia: a scanpath analysis // Annals of Dyslexia. 2022. Vol. 72. No. 3. P. 403-425. doi
- Article Arutiunian V., Lopukhina A., Minnigulova A., Shlyakhova A., Davydova E., Pereverzeva D., Sorokin A., Tyushkevich S., Mamokhina U., Danilina K., Dragoy O. Language Abilities of Russian Primary-School-Aged Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Evidence from Comprehensive Assessment // Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 2022. Vol. 52. No. 2. P. 584-599. doi
- Article Chrabaszcz A., Onischik E., Dragoy O. Sentence comprehension in heritage language: Isomorphism, word order, and language transfer // Second Language Research. 2022. Vol. 38. No. 4. P. 839-867. doi
- Article Arutiunian V., Arcara G., Buyanova I., Gomozova M., Dragoy O. The age-related changes in 40 Hz Auditory Steady-State Response and sustained Event-Related Fields to the same amplitude-modulated tones in typically developing children: A magnetoencephalography study // Human Brain Mapping. 2022. Vol. 43. No. 17. P. 5370-5383. doi
- Article Zyryanov A., Stupina E., Gordeyeva E., Buivolova O., Novozhilova E., Akinina Y., Bronov O., Gronskaya N. E., Gunenko G., Iskra E., Ivanova E., Kalinovskiy A., Kliuev E., Kopachev D., Kremneva E., Kryuchkova O., Medyanik I., Pedyash N., Pozdniakova V., Pronin I., Rainich K., Reutov A., Samoukina A., Shlyakhova A., Sitnikov A., Soloukhina O., Yashin K., Zelenkova V., Zuev A., Ivanova M., Dragoy O. ‘Moderate global aphasia’: A generalized decline of language processing caused by glioma surgery but not stroke // Brain and Language. 2022. Vol. 224. Article 105057. doi
- Article Ivanova M., Malyutina S., Dragoy O. Advancing Neurolinguistics in Russia: Experience and Implications of Building Experimental Research and Evidence-Based Practices // Frontiers in Psychology. 2021. Vol. 12. Article 702038. doi
- Article Ille S., Ohlerth A., Colle D., Colle H., Dragoy O., Goodden J., Robe P., Rofes A., Mandonnet E., Robert E., Satoer D., Viegas C. P., Visch-Brink E., van Zandvoort M., Krieg S. M. Augmented reality for the virtual dissection of white matter pathways // Acta Neurochirurgica. 2021. Vol. 163. No. 4. P. 895-903. doi
- Article Razmyslovich A., Buivolova O., Samoukina A., Abramova T., Iskra E., Ivanova E., Ivanova M., Pakholiuk O., Pozdniakova V., Shlyakhova A., Soloukhina O., Voronkova Y., Ivanova G. E., Malyutina S., Dragoy O. Combination of Verb Network Strengthening Treatment with TMS and tDCS: Preliminary Results // The Russian Journal of Cognitive Science. 2021. Vol. 8. No. 3. P. 33-45. doi
- Article Arutiunian V., Lopukhina A., Minnigulova A., Shlyakhova A., Davydova E., Pereverzeva D., Sorokin A., Tyushkevich S., Mamokhina U., Danilina K., Dragoy O. Expressive and Receptive Language in Russian Primary-School-Aged Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder // Research in Developmental Disabilities. 2021. Vol. 117. Article 104042. doi
- Article Bergelson M., Khudyakova M., Akinina Y., Dragoy O. Storytelling in Speakers With and Without Brain Damage: A Macrolinguistic Approach // The Russian Journal of Cognitive Science. 2021. Vol. 8. No. 1-2. P. 14-27. doi
- Article Buivolova O., Vinter O., Bastiaanse R., Dragoy O. The Aphasia Rapid Test: adaptation and standardisation for Russian // Aphasiology. 2021. Vol. 35. No. 5. P. 730-744. doi
- Article Ivanova M., Akinina Y., Soloukhina O., Iskra E., Buivolova O., Chrabaszcz A., Stupina E., Khudyakova M., Akhutina T., Dragoy O. The Russian Aphasia Test: The first comprehensive, quantitative, standardized, and computerized aphasia language battery in Russian // Plos One. 2021. Vol. 16. No. 11. Article e0258946. doi
- Article Buivolova O., Bastiaanse R., Dragoy O., Vinter O., Pozdniakova V., Samoukina A., Shlyakhova A., Visch-Brink E. Adaptation of the Aphasia Bedside Check for Russian // The Russian Journal of Cognitive Science. 2020. Vol. 7. No. 3. P. 45-67.
- Article Svetlana V. Dorofeeva, Laurinavichyute A., Reshetnikova V., Akhutina T. V., Tops W., Dragoy O. Complex Phonological Tasks Predict Reading in 7 to 11 Years of Age Typically Developing Russian Children // Journal of Research in Reading. 2020. Vol. 43. No. 4. P. 516- 535. doi
- Article Dragoy O., Zyryanov A., Bronov O., Gordeyeva E., Gronskaya Natalya, Kryuchkova O., Klyuev E., Kopachev D., Medyanik I., Mishnyakova L., Pedyash N., Pronin I., Reutov A., Sitnikov A., Stupina E., Yashin K., Zhirnova V., Zuev A. Functional linguistic specificity of the left frontal aslant tract for spontaneous speech fluency: Evidence from intraoperative language mapping // Brain and Language. 2020. No. 208. Article 104836. doi
- Article Vadinova V., Buivolova O., Dragoy O., van Witteloostuijn M., Bos L. S. Implicit-statistical learning in aphasia and its relation to lesion location // Neuropsychologia. 2020. Vol. 147. Article 107591. doi
- Article Zyryanov A., Malyutina S., Dragoy O. Left frontal aslant tract and lexical selection: Evidence from frontal lobe lesions // Neuropsychologia. 2020. Vol. 147. P. 1-12. doi
- Preprint Novozhilova E., Gordeyeva E., Stupina E., Zelenkova V., Zhirnova V., Zyryanov A., Zuev A., Pedyash N., Bronov O., Medyanik I., Yashin K., Klyuev E., Gronskaya N. E., Sitnikov A., Mishnyakova L., Dmitriev A., Gunenko G., Dragoy O. Linguistic Specificity of the Left Temporal Cortex: Intraoperative Brain Mapping Data / NRU HSE. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2020. No. 94/LNG/2020.
- Article Yurchenko A., Lopukhina A., Dragoy O. Metaphor Is Between Metonymy and Homonymy: Evidence From Event-Related Potentials // Frontiers in Psychology. 2020. Vol. 11. P. 2113. doi
- Article Karpychev V., Bolgina T., Malyutina S., Zinchenko V., Ushakov V., Ignatyev G., Dragoy O. No Association Between Structural Properties of Corpus Callosum and Handedness: Evidence from the Constrained Spherical Deconvolution Approach // The Russian Journal of Cognitive Science. 2020. Vol. 7. No. 3. P. 68-77. doi
- Article Yurchenko A., Golovteev A., Dragoy O. Single-word, sentence, and discourse comprehension in individuals with temporal lobe epilepsy // Epilepsy and Behavior. 2020. Vol. 110. P. 107140. doi
- Article Dragoy O., Virfel E., Yurchenko A., Bastiaanse R. Aspect and tense attrition in Russian-German bilingual speakers // International Journal of Bilingualism. 2019. Vol. 23. No. 1. P. 275-295. doi
- Article Mołczanow J., Iskra E., Dragoy O., Wiese R., Domahs U. Default stress assignment in Russian: evidence from acquired surface dyslexia // Phonology. 2019. Vol. 36. No. 1. P. 61-90. doi
- Article Akinina Y., Dragoy O., Ivanova M., Iskra E., Soloukhina O., Petryshevsky A., Fedinа O., Turken A., Shklovsky V., Dronkers N. Grey and white matter substrates of action naming // Neuropsychologia. 2019. Vol. 131. No. August. P. 249-265. doi
- Article Zyryanov A., Zelenkova V., Malyutina S., Stupina E., Karpychev V., Gordeyeva E., Zhirnova V., Artemova A., Tolkacheva V., Zuev A., Pedyash N., Bronov O., Kopachev D., Pronin I., Dragoy O. The contributions of the arcuate fasciculus segments to language processing // The Russian Journal of Cognitive Science. 2019. Vol. 6. No. 1. P. 25-37.
- Chapter Sekerina I. A., Laurinavichyute A., Dragoy O. What eye movements can and cannot tell us about Wh-movement and Scrambling, in: Grammatical Approaches to Language Processing–Essays in Honor of Lyn Frazier. Springer, 2019. doi Ch. 8. P. 147-165. doi
- Preprint Yurchenko A., Lopukhina A., Dragoy O. Meaning relatedness in polysemous and homonymous words: an ERP study in Russian / NRU HSE. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2018. No. 67.
- Article Ivanova M., Dragoy O., Kuptsova S., Akinina Y., Petrushevsky A., Fedina O. N., Turken A., Shklovsky V., Dronkers N. Neural mechanisms of two different verbal working memory tasks: A VLSM study // Neuropsychologia. 2018. Vol. 115. P. 25-41. doi
- Article Lopukhina A., Laurinavichyute A., Lopukhin K., Dragoy O. The Mental Representation of Polysemy across Word Classes // Frontiers in Psychology. 2018. Vol. 9. P. 1-16. doi
- Article Yurchenko A., Golovteev A., Kopachev D., Dragoy O. Comprehension and production of nouns and verbs in temporal lobe epilepsy // Epilepsy and Behavior. 2017. Vol. 75. P. 127-133. doi
- Article Chrabaszcz A., Dragoy O. Comprehension of locative and instrumental constructions by Russian-American heritage speakers: Testing predictions of the Isomorphic Mapping Hypothesis // The Russian Journal of Cognitive Science. 2017. Vol. 4. No. 4. P. 14-21.
- Article Laurinavichyute A., Jäger L. A., Akinina Y., Roß J., Dragoy O. Retrieval and Encoding Interference: Cross-Linguistic Evidence from Anaphor Processing // Frontiers in Psychology. 2017. Vol. 8. P. 965-1-965-18. doi
- Article Dragoy O., Akinina Y., Dronkers N. Toward a functional neuroanatomy of semantic aphasia: A history and ten new cases // Cortex. 2017. Vol. 97. P. 164-182. doi
- Article Dragoy O., Bergelson M., Iskra E., Laurinavichyute A., Mannova E., Skvortsov A., Statnikov A. Comprehension of Reversible Constructions in Semantic Aphasia // Aphasiology. 2016. Vol. 30. No. 1. P. 1-22. doi
- Article Ivanova M., Isaev D. Y., Dragoy O., Akinina Y., Петрушевский А. Г., Федина О. Н., Dronkers N. Diffusion-tensor imaging of major white matter tracts and their role in language processing in aphasia. // Cortex. 2016. Vol. 85. P. 165-181. doi
- Article Malyutina S., Dragoy O., Ivanova M., Laurinavichyute A., Petrushevsky A., Meindl T., Pöppel E., Gutyrchik E. Fishing is not wrestling: Neural underpinnings of the verb instrumentality effect // Journal of Neurolinguistics. 2016. Vol. 40. P. 37-54. doi
- Article Dragoy O., Chrabaszcz A., Tolkacheva V., Buklina S. Russian intraoperative naming test: a standardized tool to map noun and verb production during awake neurosurgeries // The Russian Journal of Cognitive Science. 2016. Vol. 3. No. 4. P. 4-25.
- Article Soloukhina O., Ivanova M., Akinina Y., Akhutina T., Dragoy O. Development and standardization of a test for the comprehension of nouns and verbs in Russian: Data from individuals with and without aphasia // The Russian Journal of Cognitive Science. 2015. Vol. 2. No. 2-3. P. 14-21.
- Article Brederoo S., Bos L., Dragoy O., Bastiaanse R., Baggio G. Gamma oscillations as a neural signature of shifting reference time in language // Plos One. 2015. Vol. 10. No. 4 doi
- Article Akinina Y., Malyutina S., Ivanova M., Iskra E., Mannova E., Dragoy O. Russian normative data for 375 action pictures and verbs // Behavior Research Methods. 2015. Vol. 47. No. 3. P. 691-707. doi
- Article Ivanova M., Dragoy O., Kuptsova S., Ulicheva A., Laurinavichyute A. The contribution of working memory to language comprehension: Differential effect of aphasia type // Aphasiology. 2015. Vol. 29. No. 6. P. 645-664. doi
- Article Laurinavichyute A., Ulicheva A., Ivanova M., Kuptsova S., Dragoy O. Processing lexical ambiguity in sentential context: Eye-tracking data from brain-damaged and non-brain-damaged individuals // Neuropsychologia. 2014. No. 64. P. 360-373. doi
- Article Malyutina S., Iskra E., Sevan D., Dragoy O. The effects of instrumentality and name relation on action naming in Russian speakers with aphasia // Aphasiology. 2014. Vol. 28. No. 10. P. 1178-1197.
- Article Bos L., Dragoy O., Avrutin S., Iskra E., Bastiaanse R. Understanding discourse-linked elements in aphasia: a threefold study in Russian // Neuropsychologia. 2014. Vol. 57. P. 20-28. doi
- Article Dragoy O., Bastiaanse R. Aspects of time: time reference and aspect production in Russian aphasic speakers // Journal of Neurolinguistics. 2013. Vol. 26. P. 113-128. doi
- Article Yurchenko A., Den Ouden D., Hoeksema J., Dragoy O., Hoeks J. C., Stowe L. A. Processing Polarity: ERP Evidence for Differences between Positive and Negative Polarity // Neuropsychologia. 2013. Vol. 51. No. 1. P. 132-141. doi
- Article Bos L. S., Dragoy O., Stowe L. A., Bastiaanse R. Time reference teased apart from tense: Thinking beyond the present // Journal of Neurolinguistics. 2013. Vol. 26. P. 283-297. doi
- Article Dragoy O., Stowe L. A., Bos L. S., Bastiaanse R. From Time to Time: Processing Time Reference Violations in Dutch // Journal of Memory and Language. 2012. Vol. 66. No. 1. P. 307-325. doi
- Article Dragoy O., Bastiaanse R. Verb production and word order in Russian agrammatic speakers // Aphasiology. 2010. P. 28-55.
Abstracts40
- Chapter Gorshkov G., Buivolova O., Malyutina S., Pozdniakova V., Soloukhina O., Dragoy O. “Training Impaired Grammar” – a Serious Game for Agrammatism Treatment, in: Serious Games: 9th Joint International Conference, JCSG 2023, Dublin, Ireland, October 26–27, 2023, Proceedings. Cham : Springer, 2023. doi P. 391-397. doi
- Chapter Khudyakova M., Natalya Gronskaya, Natalia Antonova, Maria Nelyubina, Surova A., Maria Shibanova, Anna Vorobyova, Dragoy O. Characteristics Of Spoken Discourse Across Different Elicitation Tasks, in: Linguistic Forum 2020: Language and Artificial Intelligence. CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2852 / Ed. by V. Solovyev, N. Loukachevitch, O. Lyashevskaya. Vol. 2852: Proceedings of the Linguistic Forum 2020: Language and Artificial Intelligence (LFLAI 2020), Moscow, Russia, November 12-14, 2020. CEUR-WS.org, 2020. P. 14-16.
- Chapter Zdorova N., Lopukhina A., Olga Vedenina, Sofya Goldina, Kaprielova A., Staroverova V., Dragoy O., Bartseva K. Phonological and orthographic processing affect reading fluency in Russian children, in: Neurobiology of Speech and Language. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Neurobiology of Speech and Language. St. Petersburg : Scifiya-print, 2020. doi P. 29-30.
- Chapter Ulanov M., Shtyrov Y., Dragoy O., Malyutina S., Iskra E., Soloukhina O., Buivolova O., Somashekarappa V., Nikolaeva A. Y., Prokofyev A. O., Pavlova A., Feurra M., Pulvermüller F., Stroganova T. Intensive language-action therapy combined with anodal tDCS leads to verb generation improvements in non-fluent post-stroke aphasia, in: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference Neurobiology of Speech and Language / Ed. by Y. Shtyrov, O. Shcherbakova. Saint Petersburg: Scifiya-print, 2019. P. 63-64.
- Chapter Stupina E., Artemova A, Zhirnova V., Zuev A, Pedyash N., Bronov O., Kopachev D., Dragoy O. Predictors of postoperative language outcome in epileptic patients undergoing anterior temporal lobectomy, in: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference Neurobiology of Speech and Language / Ed. by Y. Shtyrov, O. Shcherbakova. Saint Petersburg: Scifiya-print, 2019. P. 103-104.
- Article Ivanova M., Dragoy O., Akinina Y., Soloukhina O., Iskra E., Khudyakova M., Stupina E., Buivolova O., Akhutina T. Standardizing the Russian Aphasia Test: Normative data of healthy controls and stroke patients // Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 2019. Vol. Conference Abstract: Academy of Aphasia 57th Annual Meeting doi
- Chapter Zyryanov A., Malyutina S., Stupina E., Karpychev V., Gordeeva E, Zhirnova V., Artemova A, Zelenkova V., Tolkacheva V., Zuev A, Pedyash N., Bronov O., Kopachev D., Pronin I., Dragoy O. The role of major associative white matter pathways in language processing, in: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference Neurobiology of Speech and Language / Ed. by Y. Shtyrov, O. Shcherbakova. Saint Petersburg: Scifiya-print, 2019. P. 78-79. (in press)
- Article Buivolova O., Vinter O., Bastiaanse R., Dragoy O. Validation of the Aphasia Rapid Test in the Russian-speaking post-stroke population // Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie. 2019. Vol. 24. No. Supplement. P. 72-73.
- Chapter Dragoy O., Stupina E., Zyryanov A., Chernova M. A., Gordeyeva E, Gronskaya N. E., Gunenko G., Chernov S., Kopachev D., Medyanik I., Pedyash N., Pronin I., Sitnikov A., Yashin K., Zuev A. ‘A moderate global aphasia’: the pattern of language deficits in acute post-surgical tumor patients., in: Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie Issue 24. University of Groningen Press, 2019. doi P. 66-68. doi
- Article Buivolova O., Dragoy O., Vinter O. Aphasia Rapid Test: Adaptation for Russian // Aphasiology. 2018. Vol. 32. No. sup1: International Aphasia Rehabilitation Conference (IARC) September 2018. P. 32-33. doi
- Chapter Ulanov M., Shtyrov Y., Dragoy O., Malyutina S., Pavlova A., Iskra E., Soloukhina O., Buivolova O., Somashekarappa V., Prokofyev A. O., Feurra M., Pulvermüller F., Stroganova T. Combined CIAT-tDCS Therapy in Chronic Post-Stroke Aphasia Improves Neural Speech Processing: Neurophysiological and Behavioral Outcomes, in: Neurobiology of Speech and Language. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop. St. Petersburg : Scifiya-print, 2018. P. 17-17.
- Chapter Arutiunian V., Yurchenko A., Golovteev A., Dragoy O. Narrative Processing in Patients With Left and Right Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, in: Neurobiology of Speech and Language. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop. St. Petersburg : Scifiya-print, 2018. P. 56-57.
- Chapter Dragoy O., Kuptsova S., Canessa N., Zinchenko V., Stupina E., Petrushevsky A., Fedina O., Cappa S. The contribution of corpus callosum to lateralization of the resting state language network, in: Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie. 19th International Science of Aphasia Conference – Venice. Т. 23. [б.и.], 2018. P. 127-129.
- Article Akinina Y., Dragoy O., Dronkers N. Functional Neuroanatomy of Semantic Aphasia // Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie. 2016. Vol. 21. No. 1. P. 29-31.
- Chapter Yurchenko A., Golovteev A., Kopachev D., Dragoy O. Object and action naming in Russian individuals with epilepsy, in: Epilepsia. Special Issue: 12th European Congress on Epileptology, Prague, Czech Republic, 11-15 September, 2016 Vol. 57. Issue 52. Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. doi P. 162-163. doi
- Chapter Khudyakova M., Bergelson M., Akinina Y., Iskra E., Toldova S., Dragoy O. Russian CliPS: a Corpus of Narratives by Brain-Damaged Individuals, in: Proceedings of the Tenth conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), Portoroz, Slovenia : ELRA, 2016.. , 2016. P. 22-26.
- Article Kuptsova S., Soloukhina O., Dragoy O., Akinina Y., Akhutina T., Ivanova M. A new Russian Aphasia Test: development and standardization of single-word comprehension subtests // Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie. 2015. Vol. 20. No. 1. P. 82-84.
- Article Ivanova M., Dragoy O., Akinina Y., Iskra E., Soloukhina O., Kobzeva A., Khudyakova M., Chrabaszcz A., Akhutina T. Developing auditory comprehension subtests of the Russian Aphasia Test // Frontiers in Psychology. 2015. Vol. 6. No. 32 doi
- Chapter Yurchenko A., Dragoy O., Копачев Д. Н., Головтеев А. Л. Discourse comprehension and production in Russian speakers with epilepsy, in: Epilepsia Т. 56: Special Issue: 31st International Epilepsy Congress Istanbul, Turkey 5th–9th September, 2015. Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. doi P. 243-243.
- Chapter Bergelson M., Akinina Y., Khudyakova M., Iskra E., Dragoy O. Pear Stories by Russian speakers with aphasia, in: CEUR Workshop Proceedings Vol. 1419: Proceedings of the EuroAsianPacific Joint Conference on Cognitive Science (EAPCogSci 2015), Torino, Italy, September 25-27, 2015. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2015. P. 15-15.
- Article Akinina Y., Bergelson M., Khudyakova M., Iskra E., Dragoy O. Verbs in aphasic discourse: data from the Russian Clinical Pear Stories Corpus // Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie. 2015. Vol. 20. No. 1. P. 21-23.
- Chapter Kozintseva E., Dragoy O., Ivanova M., Malyutina S., Akinina Y., Sevan D., Kuptsova S., Petrushevsky A., Fedina O., Gutyrchik E. An fMRI study of naming actions in aphasia: the role of right hemisphere activation, in: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Cognitive Science. , 2014. P. 64-65.
- Article Bastiaanse R., Dragoy O., Avrutin S., Iskra E., Bos L. Discourse-linking in agrammatic and fluent aphasia // Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences. 2013. Vol. 94. P. 179-180.
- Article Kozintseva E., Dragoy O., Malyutina S., Ivanova M., Sevan D., Kuptsova S., Petryshevskii A., Fedina O.N., Gutyrchik E.F. Naming actions in non-fluent aphasia: an fMRI study of compensatory reorganization of brain activity // Steam-, Spreak- en Taalpathologie. 2013. Vol. 18. P. 98-99.
- Chapter Laurinavichyute A., Dragoy O., Malyutina S., Ivanova M., Petrushevskiy A., Maindl T., Gutyrchik E. Neural correlates of verb imageability, in: Methods of data processing in EEG/MEG/ Applied aspects of magneto- and electroencephalographic neuroimaging. M. : MSUPE, 2013. P. 24-25.
- Chapter Dragoy O., Bos L., Stowe L., Bastiaanse R. Past and present: electrophysiological differences in processing time reference, in: Methods of data processing in EEG/MEG/ Applied aspects of magneto- and electroencephalographic neuroimaging. M. : MSUPE, 2013. P. 13-14.
- Article Laurinavichyute A., Dragoy O., Ivanova M., Kuptsova S., Уличева А., Петрова Л. Primary and secondary lexical access in persons with aphasia: eyetracking data // Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences. 2013. Vol. 94. P. 116-117.
- Chapter Yurchenko A., Dragoy O., Ailantova S. Processing of semantic violations in Russian aphasic patients, in: Methods of data processing in EEG/MEG/ Applied aspects of magneto- and electroencephalographic neuroimaging. M. : MSUPE, 2013. P. 50-51.
- Article Bos L., Dragoy O., Iskra E., Avrutin S., Bastiaanse R. Understanding discourse-linked processes in agrammatic and fluent aphasia: a threefold study in Russian // Steam-, Spreak- en Taalpathologie. 2013. No. 18. P. 160-163.
- Article Ivanova M., Kuptsova S., Dragoy O., Laurinavichyute A., Ulicheva A., Petrova L. What cognitive mechanisms impact language comprehension in individuals with aphasia? // Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences. 2013. Vol. 94. P. 101-102.
- Chapter Dragoy O., Ailantova S. V., Yurchenko A. Electrophysiology of linguistic performance: evidence for a double dissociation in fluent and non-fluent aphasia, in: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Science Vol. 1. Kaliningrad : , 2012. P. 50-51.
- Article Dragoy O., Ivanova M., Kuptsova S., Ulicheva A. Lexical ambiguity resolution as a function of working memory: eye-tracking data from agrammatic and healthy individuals // Steam-, Spreak- en Taalpathologie. 2012. Vol. 17. No. 2. P. 100-102.
- Article Kuptsova S., Dragoy O., Ivanova M., Ulicheva A. Lexical ambiguity resolution in non-fluent and fluent aphasia: eye-tracking data // Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences. 2012. Vol. 61. P. 291-292.
- Chapter Dragoy O., Malyutina S., Ivanova M., Kozintseva E., Sevan D., Kuptsova S., Petrushevsky A., Fedina O. N., Gutyrchik E. Non-fluency represented in cerebrocerevellar network: an fMRI study of overt action naming in non-fluent aphasia, in: International Symposium on Functional Neuroimaging: Basic Research and Clinical Applications. Abstracts. MSUPE, 2012. P. 36-38.
- Article Akinina Y., Dragoy O. Semantic and phonological naming therapy: New criteria of therapy effects assessment // Steam-, Spreak- en Taalpathologie. 2012. No. 17. P. 15-17.
- Article Bos L., Dragoy O., Stowe L., Bastiaanse R. Time reference teased apart from Tense // Steam-, Spreak- en Taalpathologie. 2012. Vol. 17. P. 158-160.
- Chapter Bergelson M., Dragoy O., Iskra E., Mannova E., Skvortsov A., Statnikov A. What is normal when we are impaired: cognitive effects in processing space, in: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Science Vol. 1. Kaliningrad : , 2012. P. 26-27.
- Chapter Dragoy O., Stowe L., Bos L., Bastiaanse R. Processing Time Reference in Healthy Brain: an ERP study, in: Proceedings of the Forth International Conference on Cognitive Science Vol. 1. Tomsk : ., 2010. P. 38-39.
- Chapter Bergelson M., Dragoy O., Shklovsky V. Telling a Story or Describing a Picture: Cognitive Differences and Similarities across Aphasic and Healthy Speakers, in: Proceedings of the Forth International Conference on Cognitive Science Vol. 1. Tomsk : ., 2010. P. 26-27.
- Chapter Dragoy O., Bergelson M., Statnikov A., Skvortsov A., Mannova E., Iskra E. Understanding logical-grammatical constructions: enhanced diagnostic test, in: Joint Russian-Chinese Scientific Seminar. Methodology of psychophysiological research in Russia and China: theoretical and applied aspects. Book of abstracts. 7-11 December 2009. MSU Pub, 2009. P. 37-39.
Other publications4
- Article Gomozova M., Valeriia Lezzhova, Dragoy O., Lopukhina A. Testing the Continuum/Spectrum Model in Russian-Speaking Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder // Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 2024. P. 1-17. doi
- Preprint Lopukhina A., Zdorova N., Staroverova V., Ladinskaya N., Kaprielova A., Sofya Goldina, Olga Vedenina, Bartseva K., Dragoy O. Benchmark measures of eye movements during reading in Russian children / PsyArXiv. Series - "-". 2022. doi
- Article Karpychev V., Bolgina T., Svetlana Malytina, Zinchenko V., Ushakov V., Ignatyev G., Dragoy O. Greater volumes of a callosal sub-region terminating in posterior language-related areas predict a stronger degree of language lateralization: A tractography study // Plos One. 2022. Vol. 17. No. 12. Article e0276721. doi
- Preprint Provlotskaya I., Dragoy O., Maslennikov M. WADA TEST: AN OPTIMISED PROTOCOL IN RUSSIAN / NRU HSE. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2022.
Editorial board membership
2014: Member of the Editorial Board, Российский журнал когнитивной науки (The Russian Journal of Cognitive Science).
Grants
2006 - 2007 - European Commission, the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency “European Master in Clinical Linguistics (EMCL)”, individual scholarship - €25 800
2009 - 2011 - Russian Foundation of Basic Research - “Spatial relations in language and cognition: interdisciplinary approach”, Principal Investigator - €37 000
2010 - Human Science Center, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany - “Processing the concept of instrumentality in healthy brain”, Principal Investigator - €5 000
2011 - 2012 - Russian Foundation for Humanities - “Verbs and action pictures: stimuli database and psycholinguistic norms”, Principal Investigator - €24 000
2011 - 2012 - European Commission, the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, Visiting lecturer in European Master in Clinical Linguistics (EMCL), individual grant - €14 400
2012 - 2014 - Russian Foundation for Humanities - “Linguistic analysis through the eyes of patients with aphasia: an eye-tracking study of speech disorders”, Principal Investigator - €19 000 per year
2012 - 2014 - Russian Foundation of Basic Research - “Electrophysiology of speech comprehension: processing basic linguistic levels in healthy individuals and patients with aphasia, an ERP study”, Principal Investigator - €16 500 per year
2013 - 2014 - US Department of State, Fulbright Foundation – “Brain correlates of verb production: evidence for voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping”, individual grant - $22 285
2015 - 2016 - Russian Foundation for Humanities - “Online database: norms for verbal and visual stimuli for experimental research and speech therapy”, Principal Investigator - €12 000 per year
2015 - 2017 - Russian Foundation for Humanities - “Space in language: the role of sensorimotor stereotypes in comprehension of spatial linguistic constructions”, Principal Investigator - €15 000 per year
2015 - 2017 - Russian Foundation of Basic Research - “The impact of familial sinistrality on the lateralization of language in the brain”, Principal Investigator - €14 000 per year
Conferences
- 2015
Images of the Mind: new frontiers in brain imaging. Advanced (f)MRI statistical methods and their applications (Милан). Presentation: Right cerebellum as a seed for rs-fMRI analysis of the functional brain reorganization in patients with aphasia
Images of the Mind: new frontiers in brain imaging. Advanced (f)MRI statistical methods and their applications (Милан). Presentation: A new approach to examining the role of white matter tracts in language disorders
28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (Лос-Анджелес). Presentation: Teasing apart retrieval and encoding interference in Russian reflexives
28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (Лос-Анджелес). Presentation: Sensorimotor stereotypes guide comprehension of reversible sentences in individuals with aphasia and healthy people
The Magic of Innovation: New Trends in Language Research and Teaching Foreign Languages (Москва). Presentation: The role of linguistic and nonlinguistic factors in the processing of spatial constructions by monolingual and bilingual speakers
- 2014
27th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (Колумбус, Огайо). Presentation: Online comprehension of object wh-questions: Eye-tracking evidence against syntactic gap filling
- 27th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (Колумбус, Огайо). Presentation: Impact of phonological distance on lexical ambiguity resolution in people with and without aphasia
- 32nd European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology (Брессаноне). Presentation: Narrative Strategies in Individuals with Brain Damage
Cognitive Control, Communication and Perception: Psychological and Neurobiological Aspects (Москва). Presentation: Aspects of Time: Time Reference and Aspect Interaction in Russian
- 15th International Science Of Aphasia Conference (Венеция). Presentation: Russian aphasiology (Luria)
Шестая международная конференция по когнитивной науке (Калининград). Presentation: Asymmetric brain damage effects on narrative production
- Child language acquisition and bilingualism: Grammatical development in Russian and Norwegian (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Aspect and Tense attrition in Russian-German bilingual speakers
The sixth Annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (Амстердам). Presentation: Fishing is not wrestling: Neural correlates of the verb instrumentality effect
- The sixth Annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (Амстердам). Presentation: Neural circuitries underlying distinct types of verb naming errors in aphasia
- 2013
Academy of Aphasia (Люцерн). Presentation: Primary and secondary lexical access in persons with aphasia: eyetracking data
Анализ данных ЭЭГ/МЭГ. Прикладные аспекты магнито- и электроэнцефалографического нейроимиджинга (Москва). Presentation: Neural correlates of verb imageability
Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (Columbia). Presentation: Lexical processing and working memory in individuals with and without aphasia.
Society for Neurobiology of Language Annual Meeting 2013 (Сан Диего). Presentation: Patterns of brain activation predicting greater language improvement in non-fluent aphasia.
14th International Science Of Aphasia Conference (Брюссель). Presentation: Naming actions in non-fluent aphasia: an fMRI study of compensatory reorganization of brain activity
Society for Neurobiology of Language Annual Meeting 2013 (Сан Диего). Presentation: Right brain, wrong verb: functional neuroanatomy of action naming in aphasia
Academy of Aphasia (Люцерн). Presentation: Discourse-linking in agrammatic and fluent aphasia
Academy of Aphasia (Люцерн). Presentation: What cognitive mechanisms impact language comprehension in individuals with aphasia?
Анализ данных ЭЭГ/МЭГ. Прикладные аспекты магнито- и электроэнцефалографического нейроимиджинга (Москва). Presentation: Processing of semantic violations in Russian aphasic patients
Employment history
2008 – 2017. Department of Speech Pathology and Neurorehabilitation, Moscow Research Institute of Psychiatry at Russian Federal Ministry of Health and Social Development. Senior Fellow
2022 – present. Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences. Leading Research Fellow
2013 – present. Center for Language and Brain, HSE University. Director.
Russian-Italian Projects in Biomedicine Discussed at HSE University
HSE University hosted an international mini-conference titled 'Search for new ways to develop Russian-Italian cooperation in the field of Biomedicine,' attended by scientists from both countries and HSE Rector Nikita Anisimov.
‘You Need to Know a Lot of Ideas and Algorithms, Come Up with Something Unconventional’
A student of the HSE Faculty of Computer Science, Andrey Kuznetsov, has become the winner of the 2024 Data Fusion Contest. He took first place in solving geoanalytics tasks, and also won the special ‘Companion’ category. The competition took place as part of the 2024 Data Fusion conference on big data and AI technologies. Researchers from HSE University presented the results of their work and demonstrated applied developments at the conference.
HSE University and Adyghe State University Launch Digital Ethnolook International Contest
The HSE Centre for Language and Brain and the Laboratory of Experimental Linguistics at Adyghe State University (ASU) have launched the first Digital Ethnolook International Contest in the Brain Art / ScienceArt / EtnoArt format. Submissions are accepted until May 25, 2024.
Software for Rapid Detection of Dyslexia Developed in Russia
HSE scientists have developed a software tool for assessing the presence and degree of dyslexia in school students based on their gender, age, school grade, and eye-tracking data. The application is expected to be introduced into clinical practice in 2024. The underlying studies were conducted by specialists in machine learning and neurolinguistics at the HSE AI Research Centre.
HSE Accepting Applications for Competition of Best Russian-language Scientific and Popular Science Papers
Applications for the fourth HSE University Competition of the Best Russian-language Scientific and Popular Science Papers will be accepted from February 1 to March 15. The authors that receive the highest scores from the expert jury will be awarded on June 6—Russian Language Day. The main goal of the competition is to support and promote Russian language as a language of science, as well as to popularise works affiliated with HSE University among the global Russian-speaking audience.
HSE Creates ‘Transfer of Neurocognitive Technologies’ Consortium
HSE, the Pirogov National Medical and Surgical Centre, and the Centre for Speech Pathology and Neurorehabilitation of the Moscow Healthcare Department have signed an agreement on cooperation and the creation of a ‘neuro-consortium’ under the name ‘Transfer of Neurocognitive Technologies’. The new body will boost the development and implementation of advanced solutions in neurotechnology aimed at maintaining and improving people's health. The agreement was signed for five years, and the consortium is open to new participants.
'While it May Sound Futuristic, It Holds Great Promise': Olga Dragoy Shares Her Thoughts on Language Function Restoration and the Future of Neurotechnology
In the spring of 2023, the fifth strategic project of the Priority 2030 programme, 'Human Brain Resilience: Neurocognitive Technologies for Adaptation, Learning, Development and Rehabilitation in a Changing Environment,' was launched at HSE University. The strategic project brings together researchers from all campuses of HSE University. In her interview with the HSE News Service, Olga Dragoy, head of the strategic project and Director of the HSE Centre for Language and Brain, shares an overview of the advanced technologies neuroscientists are creating today, the underlying inspiration driving these efforts, and the operational dynamics of interdisciplinary applied projects.
HSE University Holds 10th Summer School ‘Eye-tracking in the Lab and Beyond’
This year, more than 100 students from Russia and abroad took part in the 10th summer neurolinguistic school, ‘Eye-tracking in the Lab and Beyond’. The school is held annually by the HSE Center for Language and Brain. Leading experts spoke about advanced developments and research in the field of video-oculography.
New Technologies for Preserving Brain Functions: ‘Not Magic, but Normal Engineering’
New methods of brain mapping will make it easier to identify the cortex areas responsible for speech functions and to perform operations on the brain, as well as reduce the likelihood of damage to important areas. In addition, this will allow for more frequent use of non-invasive methods for restoring speech and other functions lost due to injuries and illnesses.
‘We Are Developing Technologies to Support People and Strengthen the Intellect’
HSE News Service spoke to Director of the Institute of Cognitive Neurosciences, Head of the Centre for Cognition and Decision Making at HSE University, Anna Shestakova about the achievements and goals of the new HSE University’s strategic project ‘Human Brain Resilience: Neurocognitive Technologies for Adaptation, Learning, Development, and Rehabilitation in a Changing Environment’.
Members of the Center for Language and Brain took part in a linguistic expedition in the Republic of Adygea
Members of the Language Center for Language and Brain together with colleagues from the Laboratory of Experimental Linguistics at the Adyghe State University conducted a field expedition in the aul Dzhambechiy, the Republic of Adygea.
Expedition Uses New Methods in Minority Language Studies
Researchers from HSE University’s Centre for Language and Brain, together with employees of Adyghe State University’s Laboratory of Experimental Linguistics, are conducting an expedition that is unprecedented in Russia: psycholinguistic field research into the Adyghe language and Russian-Adyghe bilingualism in a village in the Republic of Adygea.
Members of the Center for Language and Brain took part at the conference "Cognitive Science in Moscow: New Research"
Employees of the Center for Language and Brain presented their studies at the conference "Cognitive Science in Moscow: New Research". Director of the Center Olga Dragoy spoke at the round table "Undoubted Achievements of Cognitive Science in the 21st Century", where she talked about the successes of neuroscience.
Scientists from HSE and Adyghe State University Enhance Research at the Intersection of Linguistics and Medicine
Adyghe State University has opened a laboratory of experimental linguistics. Olga Dragoy, Chief Research Fellow at the Center for Language and Brain, will be the laboratory’s academic supervisor and consultant. The laboratory will study the psycho- and neuro-linguistic mechanisms of functioning of the national languages of Russia, both on-site and during scientific expeditions.
Neuroeconomical Research, Speech Tests for Neurosurgical Operations and New Discoveries in Mathematics
At the end of 2022, the results of the Project Competition in Basic Science Research for Intercampus Departments were announced. This was the inaugural competition, and focused on encouraging new research teams at HSE University and developing intercampus cooperation in the field of fundamental research. Here, HSE News Services looks at four winning projects.
'We Wanted to Create an Opportunity for Intercampus Teams to Engage in Promising Studies'
HSE University has announced the winners of the Project Competition in Basic Science Research for Intercampus Departments. The competition, which the university is organising for the first time, will provide funding to 10 research teams working on five topics. Four of the winning projects will be implemented by new research departments formed as a result of the competition.
HSE University Studies Human Capital as Part of Consortium
The Human Capital Interdisciplinary Research Centre (HCIRC) is a world-class research centre comprising a consortium of HSE University, RANEPA, MGIMO University, and the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). Its work was highly rated by the RAS in 2021. Lilia Ovcharova, HSE University Vice Rector and initiator of the centre’s creation, talked to the HSE News Service about integration in international studies on active ageing, creating a database on development trends in human potential, studying the effects of digitalisation, and the centre’s priority activities for the future.
HSE Academic Council Meets for the Last Time This Academic Year
The meeting was held in person for the first time in over two years. It was attended by Sergey Kravtsov, Russian Minister of Education, and Dmitry Smyslov, Vice President of VK. The Council discussed HSE University’s breakthrough projects in engineering and artificial intelligence and elected new distinguished and tenured professors.
A new paper of the Center for Language and Brain in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
A new paper of the Center for Language and Brain, in collaboration with the National Medical and Surgical Center Named After N. I. Pirogov, is now published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
HSE University Researchers Develop First Standardized Russian-Language Test for Aphasia-related Disorders
Researchers from the HSE University Centre for Language and Brain have created and standardized a new test battery for diagnosing language disorders in people with brain damage. The test is the first standardized assessment tool in Russia in the field. The paper entitled ‘The Russian Aphasia Test: The first comprehensive, quantitative, standardized, and computerized aphasia language battery in Russian’ has just beenpublished in the PLOS ONE journal.
Linguists from the Center for Language and Brain in a field trip to the Republic of Adygea
In September-October 2021, a research group from the Center for Language and Brain (Olga Parshina, Olga Dragoy, Nina Zdorova and Anastasia Kromina) collected reading data in children in the capital of the Republic of Adygea, Maykop.
Towards Finding Practical Solutions to Socially Significant Healthcare Problems
The Centre for Language and Brain in Nizhny Novgorod started operations in September 2020. Today, it is comprised of a team of linguists - teachers and students - who are researching the relations between speech and parts of the brain. The Director of the Centre, Natalya E. Gronskaya, spoke to the HSE Look about how the neuro-linguistic laboratory appeared in Nizhny Novgorod, as well as current tasks and prospects the Centre can offer the students and the region.
HSE University Center for Language and Brain Becomes World Leader in Just 10 Years
How can a small Russian research group become a world-famous scientific centre in less than a decade? A special edition of the Frontiers in Psychologyjournal devoted to increasing public awareness of neuroscience features an article about the HSE University Center for Language and Brain, including the successes and challenges of its early years.
Olga Dragoy gave an interview to the HSE YouTube channel
Olga Dragoy, Chief Researcher and Director of the HSE Center for Language and Brain, spoke in a popular way about how linguists can help in clinical practice.
Olga Dragoy, a Chief Research Fellow and a Director of the Center for Language and Brain, defended her doctoral dissertation on December 21
Congratulations to Olga Viktorovna on successfully defending her doctoral dissertation!
Svetlana Dorofeeva, a member of the Center for Language and Brain, defended her PhD dissertation on November 16.
Congratulations to Svetlana on successfully defending her PhD dissertation!
The HSE Center for Language and Brain Team at the Twelfth Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language
Researchers from the HSE Center for Language and Brain presented reports at the Twelfth Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, a community of leading researchers in the study of the neurobiological basis of language.
Members of the HSE Center for Language and Brain made the reports at the IX International Conference on Cognitive Sciences
In 2020, the International Conference on Cognitive Sciences was held for the first time within the framework of the 1st National Congress on Cognitive Research, Artificial Intelligence and Neuroinformatics. The members of the HSE Center for Language and Brain presented reports at this conference.
HSE University Researchers Receive Fifteen Grants from the Russian Science Foundation
The Russian Science Foundation has announced the winners of four 2020 competitions. Some of the winners are from HSE University. They have received grants of 12 to 24 million roubles, for a term of two to four years.
Olga Dragoy spoke about the distribution of functions in the right and left hemispheres of the brain
The portal “My Planet” published a popular science article by the director of the HSE Center for Language and Brain Olga Dragoy.
Director of the HSE Center for Language and Brain Olga Dragoy visited the clinic of the Technical University of Munich
Director of the HSE Center for Language and Brain Olga Dragoy visited the Rechts der Isar Clinic of the Technical University of Munich
HSE Center for Language and Brain at Science of Aphasia 2019
Nine members of the Center for Language and Brain attended the annual Science of Aphasia conference that took place in Rome on 23-26 September 2019.
Olga Dragoy and Andrey Zyryanov at the European Low Grade Glioma Network
Director of the HSE Center for Language and Brain Olga Dragoy, and Andrey Zyryanov took part in the international conference European Low Grade Glioma Network, held in London.
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.
Speech Mapping during Awake-surgery
Scientists from the Center for language and brain, HSE carried out a speech mapping during the awake-surgery
Centre for Language and Brain Opens at HSE
The Centre stems from the International Neurolinguistics Laboratory and brings together researchers in clinical linguistics, special needs education, psycholinguistics, bilingualism, child speech, and gerontolinguistics. The Centre’s academic supervisor is Roelien Bastiaanse, Professor from the University of Groningen (the Netherlands), a researcher into clinical linguistics and founder of EMCL and IDEALAB, unique international educational programmes.
The Center of language and brain at the Higher school of experiments
Family day at the Higher school of Economics in 2018 was held in the great hall of Russian Academy of Sciences, which at the time turned into a Higher school of experiments.
Svetlana Dorofeeva at the XIX international April conference in National Research University Higher School of Economics
Svetlana Dorofeeva, a member of the HSE Center for language and brain, spoke at the 19th annual April HSE international conference in the section "The Russian language in the multilingual world".
Center for Language and Brain Wins 3-Year Grant to Study Prevention, Diagnostics and Therapy of Language Disorders
New article about Center for Language and Brain was published recently on the website of our University: "Neurolinguistics Laboratory Wins 3-Year Grant to Study Prevention, Diagnostics and Therapy of Language Disorders".
Anastasiya Lopukhina at Linguistic Evidence 2018 in Germany
The lab member of Center for Language and Brain Anastasiya Lopukhina at Linguistic Evidence 2018 in Germany
Center for Language and Brain Wins 3-Year Grant to Study Prevention, Diagnostics and Therapy of Language Disorders
The HSE Center for Language and Brain studies a broad range of topics related to the connection between the brain and language. For Svetlana Malyutina, Deputy Head, and Mariya Khudyakova, Junior Research Fellow, particularly interesting areas of focus include the breakdown of language processing after brain damage (e.g., stroke, neurosurgery, epilepsy) and language acquisition in children.
Olga Dragoy and Yulia Akinina on the traditional European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology in Italy
The lab member of Center for Language and Brain Yulia Akinina, with her co-author the head of the lab Olga Dragoy presented their study on the traditional European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology in Bressanone
Unique Brain Surgeries and Electricity from Moss: HSE Scholars Present Their Discoveries at ONF Action Forum
At an exhibition held during the Russian Popular Front (ONF) Action Forum in Moscow, December 18-19, HSE neuro-linguists presented a method to preserve human speech after brain surgeries, and urbanists showcased sources of energy made of ceramics and moss.
The head of the Center for Language and Brain (neurolinguistics Laboratory), HSE was awarded the prize "Golden HSE" for achievements in research
Olga Dragoy, the head of the Center for Language and Brain (neurolinguistics Laboratory), HSE was awarded the prize "Golden HSE" for achievements in research
Neurolinguistics Lab team in Geneva
A numerous delegation of Lab members led by the head of the Lab attended the annual Science of Aphasia Conference 2017 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Three HSE Educational Projects Receive Support of the European Commission
Funding through the European programme Erasmus+ will be allocated to the development of a Master’s programme in clinical linguistics, the organization of a summer school on institutional analysis, and the creation of Russia's first courses on education law.
‘Seeing’ Language through Neurolinguistics
What happens in a person’s head when they hear speech or say something themselves? How does trauma and disease impact a person’s speech capabilities, and can we really help people who have certain medical conditions? Questions like these concern the life of language in the human brain, and this is exactly what researchers in the HSE Neurolinguistics Laboratory are currently studying.