Mariya Khudyakova
- Director, Visiting Specialist:HSE Campus in Nizhny Novgorod / Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod) / Centre for Language and Brain Studies
- Research Fellow:Center for Language and Brain
- Mariya Khudyakova has been at HSE University since 2012.

Young Faculty Support Program (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "New Researchers" (2016-2017)
Category "New Lecturers" (2013)
Courses (2023/2024)
- Research and Design Seminar "Linguistic Tools for Solving Business Puzzles" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Research Seminar "Testing and Expertise in Linguistic Research" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2022/2023)
- Psycho- and neurolinguistics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Psycholinguistics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Courses (2020/2021)
- Experimental Linguistics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Psycho- and neurolinguistics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Conferences
- 2017
Science of Aphasia 2017 (Женева). Presentation: Lexical Diversity in Different Types of Aphasia
- 2016
The 22nd Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing conference (Бильбао). Presentation: Processing Grammatical Evidentiality by Bashkir-Russian Bilinguals
- 2015
The 4th Interdisciplinary Workshop on Laughter and Other Non-verbal Vocalisations in Speech (Энсхеде). Presentation: Interpretation of "Embarrassement" Laughter in Narratives by People with aphasia and Non-language-impaired speakers
Одиннадцатый международный междисциплинарный конгресс "Нейронаука для медицины и психологии" (Судак). Presentation: Опыт создания стандартизированного теста для оценки речи при афазии
"Диалог 2015": Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии (Москва). Presentation: Затруднения при порождении слов в дискурсе и их формальные маркеры: норма и патология, или о недискретности нормы в языке и речи
EuroAsianPacific Joint Conference on Cognitive Science (Турин). Presentation: Pear Stories by Russian speakers with aphasia
16th International Science of Aphasia Conference (Aveiro). Presentation: What contributes to discourse coherence? Evidence from Russian speakers with and without aphasia
- ConCorT Junior. Корпусные технологии и компьютерные методы в современной гуманитарной науке (Москва). Presentation: Переключение между настоящим и прошедшимвременем в нарративах людей с афазией на материале корпуса «Рассказы о грушах»
- 2014
Шестая международная конференция по когнитивной науке (Калининград). Presentation: Некатегорический референциальный выбор
- RefNet Workshop on Psychological and Computational Models of Reference Comprehension and Production (Эдинбург). Presentation: Non-categorical referential choice
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20214
- Chapter Antonova Natalia, Khudyakova M., Shibanova Mariya, Nelyubina Mariya, Surova A., Vorobyova Anna, Minnigulova A., Yashin K., Medyanik I., Zuev A., Gronskaya N. E., Dragoy O. Discourse Production Before and After Brain Tumor Removal: Evidence from Three Elicitation Tasks, in: Когнитивная наука в Москве: новые исследования. Материалы конференции 23 – 24 июня 2021 / Под общ. ред.: Е. В. Печенкова, М. В. Фаликман, А. Я. Койфман. М. : Буки Веди, 2021. Ch. 1. P. 17-21.
- 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 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
- Chapter Zdorova N., Artemova A., Parshina O., Khudyakova M. The influence of Nenets-Russian bilingualism on Russian language development in Yamalo-Nenets primary school students, in: Indigenous languages of Russia in contact with Russian II. 11–13 February, 2021. V. V. Vinogradov Russian Language Institute RAS & Institute of Linguistics, RAS, Moscow: Book of abstracts. , 2021. P. 96-97.
20205
- Chapter Ryazanskaya G., Khudyakova M. Automated Analysis of Discourse Coherence in Schizophrenia: Approximation of Manual Measures, in: Proceedings of the LREC 2020 Workshop on: Resources and Processing of Linguistic, Para-linguistic and Extra-linguistic Data from People with Various Forms of Cognitive/Psychiatric/Developmental Impairments (RaPID-3). European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2020. P. 98-107.
- 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 Toldova S., Ivtushok E. I., Shulgina K., Khudyakova M. Coreference in Aphasic and non-Aphasic Spoken Discourse: Annotation Scheme and Preliminary Results, in: Proceedings of the LREC 2020 Workshop on: Resources and Processing of Linguistic, Para-linguistic and Extra-linguistic Data from People with Various Forms of Cognitive/Psychiatric/Developmental Impairments (RaPID-3). European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2020. P. 116-122.
- Chapter Zdorova N., Khudyakova M. How do Spanish natives and Spanish learners resolve pronominal anaphora?, 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. 63-64.
- Chapter Bergelson M., Khudyakova M. Narrative Discourse Segmentation in Clinical Linguistics, in: In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language: A Corpus-Driven Approach. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020. doi Ch. 8. P. 257-284. doi
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- Chapter Bergelson M., Khudyakova M. Interaction and Empathy as Elements of Narrative Strategies in the Russian CliPS Corpus, in: Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии: По материалам ежегодной международной конференции «Диалог» (Москва, 31 мая — 3 июня 2017 г.) / Науч. ред.: В. Селегей. Т. 2: Компьютерная лингвистика: лингвистические исследования. Вып. 16. М. : Изд-во РГГУ, 2017. P. 55-67.
- Article Khudyakova M. Lexical Diversity in Different Types of Aphasia // Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie. 2017. Vol. 22. No. 2. P. 110-112.
20165
- 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 Svetlana Yu. Toldova, Mira B. Bergelson, Elizaveta I. Ivtushok, Kira M. Shulgina, Mariya V. Khudyakova. Coreference annotation in the Russian clinical Pear Stories Corpus: annotation features and preliminary results / NRU HSE. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2016. No. 50.
- Chapter Toldova S. Yu., Bergelson M. B., Khudyakova M. V. Coreference in Russian Oral Movie Retellings (the Experience of Coreference Relations Annotation in “Russian CliPS ” corpus), in: Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии: По материалам ежегодной международной конференции «Диалог» (Москва,1–4 июля 2016 г.) / Под общ. ред.: В. Селегей. Вып. 15. М. : Изд-во РГГУ, 2016. P. 769-781.
- Article Kibrik A. A., Khudyakova M., Dobrov G. B., Linnik A., Zalmanov D. A. Referential Choice: Predictability and Its Limits // Frontiers in Psychology. 2016. Vol. 7. No. 1429. P. 1-21. 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.
20156
- 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 Khudyakova M., Bergelson M. Interpretation of “embarrassment” laughter in narratives by people with aphasia and non-language-impaired speakers, in: Proceedings of the 4th Interdisciplinary Workshop on Laughter and Other Non-verbal Vocalisations in Speech, 14-15 April 2015. , 2015. P. 45-46.
- 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.
- Article Linnik A., Bastiaanse R., Khudyakova Mariya. What contributes to discourse coherence? Evidence from Russian speakers with and without aphasia // Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie. 2015. Vol. 20. P. 107-110.
- Chapter Бергельсон М. Б., Акинина Ю. С., Драгой О. В., Искра Е. В., Худякова М. В. Затруднения при порождении слов в дискурсе и их формальные маркеры: норма и патология, или о недискретности нормы в языке и речи // В кн.: Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии. По материалам ежегодной Международной конференции "Диалог" (2015) / Отв. ред.: В. Селегей. М. : Изд-во РГГУ, 2015. С. 41-51.
20144
- Chapter Bergelson M., Akinina Y., Shitova N., Khudyakova M., Melikyan Z., Dragoy O. Asymmetric brain damage effects on narrative production, in: Шестая международная конференция по когнитивной науке: Тезисы докладов. Калининград, 23–27 июня 2014 г. Вып. 6. Калининград : [б.и.], 2014. P. 728-729.
- Preprint Khudyakova M. Spatial Meanings and Russian Prosody: a Corpus Study / NRU HSE. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2014. (in press)
- Chapter Худякова М. В. Как озвучить мнимый текст? Литуратив и средства его выражения при чтении // В кн.: Современный русский язык в Интернете / Отв. ред.: Е. В. Рахилина, Я. Э. Ахапкина. М. : Языки славянских культур, 2014. С. 39-50.
- Chapter Худякова М. В., Кибрик А. А., Добров Г. Б. Некатегорический референциальный выбор // В кн.: Шестая международная конференция по когнитивной науке: Тезисы докладов. Калининград, 23–27 июня 2014 г. Вып. 6. Калининград : [б.и.], 2014. С. 606-607.
20132
- Chapter Khudyakova M., Kibrik A. A., Dobrov G. B., Linnik A. S. Referential Choice: Factors and Modeling, in: LATEUM 2013. Conference Proceedings. ELT and Linguistics 2013: New Strategies for Better Solutions. M. : Max press, 2013. P. 16-20.
- Article Дубасова А. В., Мазурова Ю. В., Николаева Ю. В., Худякова М. В. V Международная конференция по когнитивной науке // Вопросы языкознания. 2013. № 3. С. 141-148.
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- Chapter Loukachevitch N. V., Dobrov G. B., Kibrik A. A., Khudyakova M., Linnik A. Factors of referential choice: computational modeling, in: Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии: По материалам ежегодной Международной конференции «Диалог» (Бекасово, 25 - 29 мая 2011 г.) / Отв. ред.: А. Е. Кибрик. Вып. 10. М. : Российский государственный гуманитарный университет, 2011. P. 458-467.
- Chapter Khudyakova M. Possessor NPs and referential choice in English business prose (a corpus research), in: Actas Del III Congreso Internacional De Lingüística De Corpus. Las Tecnologías De La Información Y Las Comunicaciones: Presente Y Futuro En El Análisis De Corpus / Ed. by M. L. Carrió Pastor, M. Á. Candel Mora. Valencia : Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2011. P. 247-252.
- Chapter Худякова М. В. Референциальный выбор в позиции посессора: корпусное исследование // В кн.: Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды Института лингвистических исследований РАН. Т. VII. Ч. 3 / Отв. ред.: Н. Казанский, Д. Герасимов. СПб. : Наука, 2011. С. 468-472.
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Employment history
2013 - current |
Center for Language and Brain (former Neurolinguistics Laboratory), National Research University Higher School of Economics; Moscow, Russia Junior research fellow | |
2015-2016 |
Center for innovative sport technologies and national teams, Sport psychology department Lead specialist | |
2012 - 2014 |
Faculty of Philology, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia Senior Lecturer |
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.
Members of the Center for Language and Brain Maria Khudyakova, Ekaterina Stupina and Nina Zdorova participate in the workshop Moving Research Online
During a pandemic, scientists around the world are forced to change the format of research. For experimental linguistics, the key question now is the possibility of conducting experiments online. Research members of the Center for Language and Brain Maria Khudyakova, Ekaterina Stupina and Nina Zdorova are trained to conduct online experiments at the Moving Research Online workshop.
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.
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.
Linguists away at Summer School
HSE lecturers and students took part in the 2015 Summer School near the town of Dubna from July 11 through August 10. The representatives of the HSE School of Linguistics organised two different workshops at this year’s School, one on Language and the Brain, aimed at research in the field of neurolinguistics, and one on Linguistics Research, the main areas of which included field linguistics and anthropology.
Linguists away at Summer School
HSE lecturers and students took part in the 2015 Summer School near the town of Dubna from July 11 through August 10. The representatives of the HSE School of Linguistics organised two different workshops at this year’s School, one on Language and the Brain, aimed at research in the field of neurolinguistics, and one on Linguistics Research, the main areas of which included field linguistics and anthropology.