Psycholinguists from the Centre for Language and Brain at HSE University–St Petersburg have shown that words that are frequently misspelled are processed more slowly by readers, even when presented with the correct spelling. The researchers confirmed this effect for the first time using Russian-language materials and found that response speed is most strongly linked to how confidently individuals can distinguish the correct spelling of a word from an incorrect one. The study has been published in The Mental Lexicon.
Researchers at the HSE Centre for Language and Brain have developed a new digital tool for assessing children's phonological processing skills—the ZARYA (Sound Analysis of the Russian Language) test battery. It is the first standardised application in Russia designed to provide a fast and reliable assessment of children's ability to distinguish speech sounds, retain them in working memory, and perform phonemic analysis. The app runs on Android tablets and smartphones and is available for download from RuStore. Details of the test validation have been published in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.
Europium is a rare-earth metal responsible for the pure red glow in displays and other luminescent materials. For a long time, however, it refused to emit light when surrounded by certain organic molecules known as acylpyrazolone ligands. Chemists have now uncovered the reason: in europium complexes with these ligands, a 'black window' appears—a charge-transfer state in which the energy absorbed by the ligand is dissipated as heat rather than emitted as light. Understanding this mechanism opens the way to designing more efficient red-emitting materials for displays, fluorescent thermometers, and chemical sensors. The results have been published in Dalton Transactions.
Braginskaya N., Шмаина-Великанова А. И., Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 2025 Т. 29 № 1 С. 249–265
The article examines an episode from a prophetic dream, Visio Saturi, included in a collection of documents entitled Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis (cа. 203 CE). In this episode, Satur, a catechist of a group of young people who is condemned to death along with them, sees his own and Perpetua’s posthumous existence. Leaving their bodies ...
Braginskaya N., Lebedev P., Scrinium: Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography 2023 Vol. 19 No. 1 P. 237–255
The early Christian work “The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity” consists of different parts combined into a single book. Three parts are generally accepted: 1) Perpetua’s Notes, 2) Saturus’s Vision, 3) the Eyewitness story and the Prologue and Epilogue written by the same author. We argue that the Prologue plus Epilogue and the Eyewitness story had different authors ...
Braginskaya N., Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2022 Т. 18 № 1 С. 48–77
One of the characters of “Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis” bears the name Revocatus. He is a Saint martyr worshipped in all Christian Churches. In the early Byzantine Acts of the fifth century, where he is declared to be the brother of Felicitas, he takes part in the events and is subjected to an interrogation. In ...