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Experience-dependent neuroplasticity in the hippocampus of bilingual young adults
eNeuro. 2025. Vol. 12. No. 6. Article ENEURO.0128-25.2025.
Models of experience-dependent neuroplasticity predict that the acquisition and extensive use of a new skill trigger a nonlinear trajectory of neurostructural modifications, where initial expansion of relevant brain areas subsequently (once the skill is acquired) gives way to volumetric renormalization. Such predictions also apply in the domain of language during learning and/or simultaneous management of two (or more) linguistic systems. In a sample of 69 young adult Russian–English bilinguals, we tested the hypothesis that individual differences in bilingual engagement nonlinearly correlate with normalized volume of the hippocampus—a key learning-related brain region particularly amenable to experience-dependent plasticity. Results revealed an inverted U-shape association between second language engagement and left hippocampal gray matter volume. The present results replicate and expand the findings from aging populations, showing a nonlinear pattern of structural hippocampal plasticity in healthy young adults. These findings support the role of bilingualism as a promoter of experience-dependent neuroplasticity.
Medushevsky A. N., Liberal.ru 2026
The Liberal Mission Foundation continues to introduce readers to new concepts of democracy and relevant publications. This discussion focuses on the challenges facing democracy in the era of globalization, as addressed in two recent books: *The Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies* by S.C. Stokes (2025) and *Critical Theories and the Postsocialist Challenge: Race, ...
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Medushevsky A. N., Вопросы теоретической экономики 2026 № 2 С. 146–164
It is generally accepted that the basis of social and legal stability in any society is a consensus on vir tue — the fundamental values of proper behavior, ways of maintaining and reproducing them. And, conversely, the destruction of this consensus is a sign of the loss of stability and divergence of positions of social ...
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Vlasenko D., Saranskaia I., Zakharov D., European Physical Journal: Special Topics 2026 P. 1–16
Hypergraphs provide a natural framework for representing neurophysiological interactions distributed across sets of sensors. A key methodological question is how hyperedges should be defined from frequency-resolved electroencephalography/magnetoencephalography (EEG/MEG) data. We demonstrate a construction strategy in which hyperedges are obtained from canonical coherence (caCOH), an extension of coherence that estimates coupling between multidimensional signal spaces. To ...
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Diachkova M., Lelik V., Dorofeeva S. et al., Language Resources and Evaluation 2026 Vol. 60 Article 68
This article presents the Russian Language-Monolingual corpus (RusLan-M, v.1.0), a longitudinal multimedia collection of early child speech from two Russian-speaking monolingual children: Tosya (ages 0;10–3;10, 246 recordings) and Yasha (ages 1;04–3;00, 42 recordings). The corpus consists of approximately 41 h (2,454 min.) of video recordings and 35,386 child utterances, available with transcriptions in the CHAT ...
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Vasilieva E., Trifonova A., Bultseva M. A., Current Psychology 2026 Vol. 45 Article 1320
The current exploratory study aims to reveal identity gaps and interpersonal communication strategies used by Russians to overcome social identity crises. Based on previous research, we assume that many Russians who live both in Russia and abroad face ethnic and national identity threats and experience different social identity crises due to recent geopolitical events. This ...
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Ulgen H., Journal of International Students 2026 Vol. 16 No. 17 P. 283–312
This study reports a secondary analysis of phenomenologically informed, semistructured interviews with 15 Turkish undergraduate and graduate students at three universities in Moscow and examines how peer networks function beyond emotional buffering to support academic engagement and institutional navigation in Russian–medium higher education. Drawing on social support theory, communities of practice, and community cultural wealth ...
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A. Radygina, S. Kulikova, Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2025 Vol. 95 No. 6 P. 963–970
Musical training has a significant impact on brain organization, leading to functional and structural
adaptations that enhance auditory, visual, motor, and cognitive processes. This study investigates how
extensive musical training shapes functional brain connectivity by comparing professional musicians and
non-musicians. Using EEG phase-locking value (PLV) analysis, we examined neural synchronization across
alpha, beta, and gamma frequency ranges during music ...
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Zolotareva A., Социальные науки и детство 2026 Т. 7 № 2 С. 66–77
Context and relevance. Early detection of anxiety and depression symptoms is a priority task for the child and adolescent mental health system. As Russian practice traditionally relies on separate instruments, assessing anxiety and depression in isolation, there is a need for integrated instruments. Objective. To examine the factor structure of the Russian version of the ...
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Iskakova B., Kleinlein E. V., Prisyazhniuk D. et al., European Journal of Education 2026 Vol. 61 No. 3 Article e70810
This study examines pre-service teachers' (PSTs) attitudes towards inclusive education in Germany and Russia and investigates how they relate to teacher training curricula and teacher educators' discourse. A mixed-methods design was used, including an online survey of PSTs (n = 460) with an open-ended question, curriculum review and exploratory interviews with university educators in both contexts. The ...
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Reznichenko S. I., Кияненко И. К., Nartova-Bochaver S. K. et al., Экспериментальная психология 2026 Т. 19 № 2 С. 10–28
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Context and relevance. In the context of accelerated urbanization and a growing disconnect from the natural
environment, there is increasing interest in biophilic attitudes — a system of stable views, beliefs, and
evaluations that reflect a person’s relationship with living nature and shape their psychological well-being and
environmentally responsible behavior. Existing tools for their measurement, such as the ...
Added: August 3, 2026
Andresyuk E., Porozova N., Londaridze G. D. et al., Frontiers in Oncology 2026 Vol. 16 Article 1875861
Inhibition of the PD-1/PD-L1 axis has become a clinical standard across multiple malignancies, yet durable benefit remains restricted to selected settings, and many biologically rational combinations fail to maintain clinical benefit in late-phase evaluation. This structured, registry-derived narrative review, supported by expert-guided interpretation, was designed to identify the most clinically meaningful development directions among strategies ...
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Krivoshchekov V., Gulevich O., Frontiers In Social Psychology 2026 Vol. 4
Precarious manhood theory (PMT) explains men's compensatory responses to masculinity threats in domains such as affect, aggression, risk-taking, dominance, and social attitudes. While recent meta-analytic evidence suggests that masculinity threat has a small-to-medium average effect, recent preregistered replication work has failed to reproduce some influential masculinity-threat effects in a large representative sample, raising questions about ...
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Hachaturova M. R., Safonova A., Экспериментальная психология 2026 Т. 19 № 2 С. 51–66
Context and relevance. The influence of the environment on psychological well-being has been studied in a wide variety of contexts, including workplaces, schools, healthcare facilities, and digital spaces. However, the psychological well-being of university faculty, particularly in relation to their connection to the university environment in the wide sense, remains virtually unrepresented in psychological research. ...
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Vasiliev F., Vasilieva E., Мир психологии. Научно-методический журнал 2026 № 2 (125) С. 113–126
This study examines how various team aspects influence their evaluation
of teamwork outcomes. The research was conducted on a targeted sample in Russian
organizations. Using structural equation modeling, three groups of factors were identified:
team aspects that affected cognitive evaluation, emotional evaluation of work, and satisfaction
with the work process (team reputation and commitment); team aspects that did not ...
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Khudyakova M., Udalova D., Dragoy O., , in: Язык как он есть: Сб. ст. к 60-летию Андрея Александровича Кибрика.: Буки Веди, 2023. P. 234–239.
Наша статья — о языке как живой функции: о последствиях языковых
контактов, о реальном использовании языка человеком, о том, что языковая
категория может вести себя по-разному в учебнике по грамматике и в речи
носителя, — о всем том, о чем мы в свое время только начинали догадываться во время лекций Андрея Александровича на ОТиПЛе. ...
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Chuikova Z., Faber A., Abutalebi J. et al., European Journal of Neuroscience 2026 Vol. 64 No. 1 Article e70591
Bilinguals' language‐switching ability is regulated by language control mechanisms associated with executive control system. Cognitive flexibility (CF), one of the executive functions, is closely linked to language switching. Existing functional magnetic resonance imaging data demonstrate diverse patterns of neural activity elicited in language‐switching and CF tasks, and the degree of overlap between the respective brain ...
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Zamkovaya M., В кн.: Образовательное пространство в информационную эпоху: сборник научных трудов международной научно-практической конференции (2024 International conference «Education Environment for the Information Age» (EEIA– 2024)).: М.: ФГБУ «Российская академия образования», 2024. С. 648–651.
The article highlights the positive aspects of bilingualism and bilingual education in general, and describes the experience of introducing bilingual education in schools of the Republic of Serbia. The importance of bilingual education as a means of forming a multicultural and tolerant society is emphasized. A number of schools implementing educational programs with a bilingual ...
Added: March 14, 2026
Zamkovaya M., ЦИТИСЭ 2026 № 1(47) 2026 С. 463–472
The article examines bilingual education as a complex pedagogical phenomenon that affects not only students’ language training but also their cognitive, academic, and sociocultural development. Particular attention is paid to clarifying the essence of the content of the concept of “bilingualism” in the context of the modern educational process, as well as to the analysis of the positive effects ...
Added: March 14, 2026
Karliukova A., Malyshevskaya A., Shtyrov Y. et al., , in: Abstracts and authors of the 9th International Conference on Spatial Cognition: Segmentation and Binding in Spatial Cognition (ICSC 2024)Vol. 25: Segmentation and Binding in Spatial Cognition (ICSC 2024).: Springer, 2024.
Existing research indicates involvement of brain systems underpinning spatial abilities in processing emotive semantics in L1: positive emotions are associated with the right part of space, negative ones with the left. Some suggest similar sensorimotor activations in L1 and L2. Others indicate attenuated processing of L2 emotional words. Aims: We investigated differences in sensorimotor biases ...
Added: February 21, 2026
Kudryavtseva V. A., Narasimha M. B., Moiseeva A. V. et al., Current Medicinal Chemistry 2025 Vol. 32 Article e09298673377087
Background: Ovarian reserve reflects the functional capacity of a woman's ovaries, encompassing factors such as follicle quantity, egg quality, and fertilization potential. Assessment of ovarian reserve is essential in reproductive medicine, particularly for fertility evaluation and assisted reproductive technologies (ART). While traditional biochemical markers such as anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) are commonly used, ...
Added: February 18, 2026
Tang G., Ahmadi S., Jillings S. et al., Eye 2025 Vol. 39 No. 18 P. 3294–3305
INTRODUCTION: Robust and objective quantification of ophthalmic and retroorbital structures from standard neuroimaging is an accessible but still untapped resource for clinical assessment. Current approaches mostly rely on subjective manual measurements, introducing variability and limiting clinical integration. We developed and validated an automated ocular morphometrics pipeline enabling diagnostic precision through standardised orbital measurements.
METHODS: The presented pipeline consists of: ...
Added: December 28, 2025
Federico Gallo, Jubin Abutalebi, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 2024 Vol. 27 No. 2 P. 287–294
The umbrella term cognitive reserve-enhancing factors refers to those experiential and lifestyle factors (such as intellectual activities, regular physical exercise, healthy nutrition, educational attainment, etc.) that may help individuals to compensate for age-related neural deterioration, thus enabling them to maintain relatively stable cognitive functioning during senescence. In the last 10 years, mounting evidence has shown ...
Added: December 12, 2025
Terekhina L., Gallo F., Myachykov A. et al., Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 2025 P. 1–11
We investigated the interactive effects of bilingualism and sleep on executive functioning at the behavioral level. We conducted two experiments using two independent samples of bilingual young adults, the Flanker task to assess executive performance, the Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index to measure retrospective sleep quality over a one-month period and the Insomnia Severity Index to ...
Added: December 11, 2025
Yakovleva A., Kosheliuk N., Moroz G., International Journal of Bilingualism 2025 P. 1–19
Aims and Research Questions: In this paper, we present a corpus-based study of preposition drop (p-drop) in the speech of Mari-Russian and Beserman-Russian bilinguals compared to the speech of Russian monolinguals. Based on data from spoken corpora, we demonstrate that the prepositions v ‘in’, k ‘to’, s ‘with’ are omitted in the speech of bilinguals ...
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