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Brain Signatures of New (Pseudo-) Words: Visual Repetition in Associative and Non-Associative Contexts
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 2018. No. 12.
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The contribution of the two different training contexts to online, gradual lexical acquisition (ERPs) elicited by new, word-like stimuli. Pseudowords were repeatedly preceded by a picture of a well-known object (semantic-associative training context), or by a hash mark (non-associative training context). The two training styles revealed differential effects of repetition in both behavioural and ERPs data. Repetition of pseudowords not associated with any stimulus gradually enhanced the late positive component (LPC) as well as speeded the lexical categorization of these stimuli, suggesting the formation of episodic memory traces. However, the repetition under the semantic-associative context of the recovery in N400 component and categorization latencies.
Akhmedjanova D., Kanonire T., Zakharov A., Plos One 2026 Vol. 21 No. 2 Article e0341318
Research evidence exists on associations of subjective well-being, self-efficacy and various academic and non-academic outcomes with older students; however, there is a research gap on how these variables relate to each other in elementary school students. The goal of this cross-sectional study within a larger longitudinal project was to examine the role of subjective well-being ...
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Laurinavichyute A., Lopukhina A., Reich D., , in: Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational LinguisticsVol. 2: Short papers.: Wien: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025. P. 59–66.
Dyslexia, a common learning disability, requires an early diagnosis. However, current screening tests are very time- and resourceconsuming. We present an LSTM that aims to automatically classify dyslexia based on eye movements recorded during natural reading combined with basic demographic information and linguistic features. The proposed model reaches an AUC of 0.93 and outperforms the ...
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Monahhova E., Morozova A., Bredikhin D. et al., Neuroimage 2026 Vol. 327 Article 121727
Advances in deepfake technology raise concerns about disinformation spread. Novel deepfake technologies make it increasingly difficult to distinguish between real and fake media content. The current study investigated how speakers’ credibility, the participants’ traits and attitudes may influence the brain processing of audio deepfakes arguing for and against COVID-19 vaccination. We analyzed the electroencephalograms (EEGs) ...
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Parshina O., Smirnova A., Goldina S. et al., Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 2025 Vol. 28 No. 2 P. 577–587
The proactive gain control hypothesis suggests that the global language context regulates lexical access to the bilinguals’ languages during reading. Specifically, with increasing exposure to non-target language cues, bilinguals adjust the lexical activation to allow non-target language access from the earliest word recognition stages. Using the invisible boundary paradigm, we examined the flow of lexical activation in ...
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Neklyudova A., Gurgen Soghoyan, Olga Martynova et al., Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 2025 Vol. 40 No. 7 P. 889–897
Research has shown that semantic analysis occurs at early stages of word processing (less than 200 ms). While traditional studies have focused on isolated words/sentences, our research explores rapid semantic processing during reading stories when texts were presented word by word (each word lasting 150 ms), enhancing rapid semantic processing. We sorted words by quartiles according to ...
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Филиппова М. Г., Sherbakova O., Shtyrov Y., Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology 2020 Vol. 50 No. 3 P. 306–314
Perceptual information is often ambiguous and we have to deal with such ambiguity to ensure optimal behavior; yet, the mechanisms that our brain uses for processing ambiguous stimuli are not well understood. In the current study, we tested whether there were any common markers of neural processing of ambiguity, regardless of its type. To this ...
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The paper describes the results of the experimental study aimed at revealing cognitive mechanisms of understanding of texts of various formats. Based on the classical cognitive theories, one can expect that adding illustrations into texts (e.g. infographics) will influence positively the quality of their understanding of. However, recent studies show that readers experience some issues with understanding of ...
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This study examines the impact of the crosslinguistic similarity of translation equivalents on word recognition by Russian-English bilinguals, who are fluent in languages with two different but partially overlapping writing systems. Current models for bilingual word recognition, like BIA+, hold that all words that are similar to the input letter string are activated and considered ...
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In this article, we review a range of Russian-language studies investigating readers’ interaction with
new text formats. We identify the key problems preventing proper generalization of such research data. These
include: (1) the absence of agreed terminology for describing texts of new formats shared by most researchers,
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Bakay E., Yusupova E., Antipkina I., Психологическая наука и образование 2024 Т. 29 № 2 С. 32–49
Test-taking behavior in reading comprehension tests is explained, among other things, by meta-cognitive skills, which can be described by indicators of test behavior. These indicators include reading time, respondent-item interaction time, returning to the text, etc. This study is based on the analysis of the test-taking behavior of fourth graders (N=2168) during a reading comprehension ...
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Zhanna Chuykova, Anna Izmalkova, Shirokova P. et al., Psychology. Journal of the Higher School of Economics 2024 Vol. 21 No. 3 P. 472–487
In reading, eye movements are typically influenced by both higher-level and lower-level cognitive processes that are affected by individual differences such as working memory capacity. However, the extent to which working memory impacts reading under increasing task demands remains uncertain. Therefore, this study aimed to explore the influence of working memory capacity, assessed via the ...
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Parshina O., Ladinskaya N., Gault L. et al., Languages 2024 Vol. 9 No. 5 Article 158
This study investigates the effect of task demands on the predictive processing of mor‐ phosyntactic cues (word class, noun/adjective gender, case, and number) in reading among Heritage Speakers of Russian (N = 29), comparing them with Russian language learners (N = 29) and mono‐ lingual Russian speakers (N = 63). Following the utility account of ...
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Староверова В. Н., Lopukhina A., Zdorova N. et al., Вопросы психологии 2023 Т. 69 № 6 С. 24–33
The Rapid Automatized Naming test (RAN) is widely used in research practice for many European languages. It involves processes such as phonological and orthographic processing, symbol recognition, and articulation. As these processes are also involved in reading, RAN results correlate with reading skills in primary school children and predict reading proficiency in preschoolers. Despite the ...
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Ivanova A., Antipkina I., Вопросы образования 2023 № 3 С. 92–112
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Parshina O., Zdorova N., Kuperman V., The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 2024 Vol. 77 No. 8 P. 1694–1702
Accurate saccadic targeting is critical for efficient reading and is driven by the sensory input under the eye-gaze. Yet whether a reader’s experience with the distributional properties of their written language also influences saccadic targeting is an open debate. This study of Russian sentence reading follows Cutter et al.’s (2017) study in English and presents ...
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Siegelman N., Elgort I., Brysbaert M. et al., Language Learning 2024 Vol. 74 No. 1 P. 249–294
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Chinn L., Momotenko D., Anastasia A. Sukmanova et al., Cortex 2023 Vol. 161 P. 93–115
Individuals raised in institutionalized care settings are more likely to demonstrate developmental deficits than those raised in biological families. One domain that is vulnerable to the impoverished environments characteristic of some institutionalized care facilities is language development. We used EEG to assess ERPs and source-localized event-related spectral perturbations (ERSPs) associated with semantic processing at different levels of picture-word conflict ...
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