Svetlana Malyutina
- Deputy Director:Center for Language and Brain
- Svetlana Malyutina has been at HSE University since 2015.
Responsibilities
Psycho- and neurolinguistic research using various behavioral, neuroimaging and brain stimulation methods.
Young Faculty Support Program (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "New Researchers" (2016-2017)
Courses (2021/2022)
- Psycho- and neurolinguistics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Speech and Language Psychology and Neurophisiology (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2020/2021)
- Psycho- and neurolinguistics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Speech and Language Psychology and Neurophisiology (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Courses (2019/2020)
Peer-reviewed papers in English22
- Article Zdorova N., Malyutina S., Laurinavichyute A., Kaprielova A., Anastasia Zuibanova, Lopukhina A. Do we rely on good-enough processing in reading under auditory and visual noise? // Plos One. 2023. Vol. 18. No. 1. Article e0277429. 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 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
- Article Lopukhina A., Laurinavichyute A., Malyutina S., Ryazanskaya G., Savinova E., Simdianova A., Antonova A., Korkina I. Reliance on semantic and structural heuristics in sentence comprehension across the lifespan // The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 2022. Vol. 75. No. 7. P. 1367-1381. doi
- Article Bolgina T., Vidya Somashekarappa, Cappa S. F., Cherkasova Z., Feurra M., Malyutina S., Sapuntsova A., Shtyrov Y., Dragoy O. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation modulates action naming over the left but not right inferior frontal gyrus // Brain Structure and Function. 2022. Vol. 227. No. 8. P. 2797-2808. 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 Savinova E., Malyutina S. Evidence for dual-route morphological processing across the lifespan: data from Russian noun plurals // Language, Cognition and Neuroscience . 2021. Vol. 36. No. 6. P. 730-745. doi
- Article Johari K., Riccardi N., Malyutina S., Modi M., Desai R. H. HD-tDCS over motor cortex facilitates figurative and literal action sentence processing // Neuropsychologia. 2021. Vol. 159. Article 107955. 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
- Article Malyutina S., Zelenkova V. Verb argument structure effects in aphasia are different at single-word versus sentence level // Aphasiology. 2020. Vol. 34. No. 4. P. 431-457. doi
- Article Den Ouden D., Malyutina S., Basilakos A., Bonilha L., Gleichgerrcht E., Yourganov G., Hillis A. E., Hickok G., Rorden C., Fridriksson J. Cortical and structural-connectivity damage correlated with impaired syntactic processing in aphasia // Human Brain Mapping. 2019. Vol. 40. No. 7. P. 2153-2173. doi
- Article Malyutina S., Zelenkova V., Buivolova O., Oosterhuis E. J., Zmanovsky N., Feurra M. Modulating the interhemispheric balance in healthy participants with transcranial direct current stimulation: No significant effects on word or sentence processing // Brain and Language. 2018. Vol. 186. P. 60-66. doi
- Article Malyutina S., Laurinavichyute A., Terekhina M., Lapin Y. No evidence for strategic nature of age-related slowing in sentence processing // Psychology and Aging. 2018. Vol. 33. No. 7. P. 1045-1059. doi
- Article Malyutina S., Den Ouden D. Task-dependent neural and behavioral effects of verb argument structure features // Brain and Language. 2017. Vol. 168. P. 57-72. 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 Malyutina S., Richardson J. D., Den Ouden D. Verb argument structure in narrative speech: Mining AphasiaBank // Seminars in Speech and Language. 2016. Vol. 37. No. 1. P. 34-47. doi
- Article Malyutina S., Den Ouden D. What is it that lingers? Garden-path (mis)interpretations in younger and older adults // The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 2016. Vol. 69. No. 5. P. 880-906. doi
- Article Malyutina S., Den Ouden D. High-Definition tDCS of Noun and Verb Retrieval in Naming and Lexical Decision // NeuroRegulation. 2015. Vol. 2. No. 3. P. 111-125. doi
- Article Garnett E., Malyutina S., Datta A., Den Ouden D. On the Use of the Terms Anodal and Cathodal in High Definition Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation: A Technical Note // Neuromodulation. 2015. Vol. 18. No. 8. P. 705-713. 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 Grindrod C. M., Garnett E., Malyutina S., Den Ouden D. Effects of representational distance between meanings on the neural correlates of semantic ambiguity // Brain and Language. 2014. Vol. 139. P. 23-35. 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.
Abstracts 3
- Article Malyutina S., Akinina Y., Zelenkova V. The subject-object-verb word order as a self-cueing strategy inaphasia: An exploratory study // Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie. 2019. Vol. 24. No. Suppl.. P. 42-44.
- Article Zelenkova V., Malyutina S., Feurra M. Effects of tDCS over Broca's area coupled with linguistic training are not specific to language // Brain Stimulation. 2017. Vol. 2. P. 450. doi
- Article Malyutina S., Den Ouden D. Single-Word Naming Modulated with High-Definition Transcranial Direct Current Brain Stimulation // Brain Stimulation. 2017. Vol. 10. P. e1. doi
Employment history
2012-2015 - Neurolinguistics Lab, University of South Carolina, research assistant.
Since 2015 - Center for Language and Brain, HSE University.
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.
Researchers Have Developed a Russian-Language Method for the Preoperative Mapping of Language Areas
Neurolinguists from HSE University, in collaboration with radiologists from the Pirogov National Medical and Surgical Centre, developed a Russian-language protocol for functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) that makes it possible to map individual language areas before neurosurgical operations. The study was published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
Svetlana Malyutina, Senior Research Fellow, Deputy Director of the Center for Language and Brain visited the Color Lab at the Smolensk State University.
On 24-27 November, Svetlana Malyutina, Senior Research Fellow, Deputy Director of the Center for Language and Brain gave lectures and discussed cooperation with the Smolensk State University laboratory.
Senior researcher of the Center shared her expert opinion with the online magazine "Mel"
Svetlana Malyutina, a Senior Researcher at the Center, simply answered difficult questions to the online magazine "Mel".
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.
New publications of the winter 2021
In winter 2021, members of the Center for Language and Brain have published several works
Anna Zhuravleva at the international conference Words in the World
Anna Zhuravleva, a member of the HSE the Center for Language and Brain, presented at the international conference Words in the World a study done jointly with Svetlana Malyutina and Ekaterina Stupina.
Olga Buivolova presented a poster at BrainSTIM online conference
The member of HSE Center for Language and Brain Olga Buivolova presented a poster about a combination of Verb Network Strengthening Treatment (VNeST) with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in people with chronic non-fluent aphasia at BrainSTIM online conference.
‘Reading’ with Aphasia Is Easier than ‘Running’
Because it is easier to retrieve verbs with a more complex argument structure
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.
Our team at the conference “Neurobiology of Speech and Language”
A team of the members of the Center for Language and Brain attended the 3rd International Conference “Neurobiology of Speech and Language”.
Svetlana Malyutina and Elena Savinova at the 5th international conference "Aging and Cognition"
Two members of the Center for Language and Brain, Svetlana Malyutina and Elena Savinova, participated at the 5th international conference "Aging and Cognition", which was aimed at stimulating research in the domain of cognitive aging.
Svetlana Malyutina and Kirill Elin in Helsinki
Two members of the Center for Language and Brain, Svetlana Malyutina and Kirill Elin, participated in the Corpora for Language and Aging Research 4 conference, Helsinki, Finland.
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.
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".
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.
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.