Andriy Myachykov
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1666243 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Andriy Myachykov |
| NOMBRES | Andriy |
| APELLIDO | Myachykov |
| FIRMA | MYACHYKOV A |
| AFILIACIONES | National Research University Higher School of Economics |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1489-8582 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The interplay between bilingualism and sleep quality in modulating executive performance
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 assess insomnia-related symptoms. In Experiment 1, we registered b…
Interplay between switching, inhibition, and mental attention
Embodied Lexical Semantics in a Second Language
Sensorimotor embodiment of emotional semantic representations in the second language (L2) has been largely studied through behavioral paradigms. However, most neuroscience research of embodied semantics has almost exclusively focused on the native language (L1). The representational architecture of emotive concepts (e.g., love, hate) in L2 has been explored from the neurocognitive perspective to a lesser degree. In this review, we first scrutiniz…
Supplementary materials
The role of attention in language and speech
Lexical and perceptual biases in speakers’ syntactic choices
Russell Tomlin's groundbreaking work laid a foundation for the explorations of the interplay between linguistic and nonlinguistic factors determining structural choice during sentence production. The present article investigates the interplay between two such factors, lexical priming and visual cueing, which may prioritize a particular referent of an event for privileged subject status within a sentence. To this end, native speakers of English re…
In memoriam, Russell Schenck Tomlin (1951–2022)
Linguistic distance affects executive performance in trilinguals
Recent research has highlighted potential benefits associated with bilingualism for overall cognitive efficiency and health. One understudied dimension of the bilingual experience is linguistic distance (LD), a measure defining how (dis)similar two given languages are. The previous study has explored the role of LD as a modulator of bilingualism-induced neurocognitive consequences in aging individuals. However, this has scarcely been investigated…
Bilingualism, sleep, and cognition
Bilingualism and sleep affect similar cognitive abilities. • Bilingualism and sleep affect similar neural structures. • Bilingualism and sleep both contribute to reserve during aging. • We highlight the need to explore how they interact at neural and cognitive levels. Sleep and language are fundamental to human existence and have both been shown to substantially affect cognitive functioning including memory, attentional performance, and cognitive…
Lexico-Semantic Attrition of Native Language
Native language (L1) attrition is ubiquitous in modern globalized society, but its cognitive/psycholinguistic mechanisms are poorly understood. We investigated lexico-semantic L1 attrition in L1 Russian immigrants in Israel, who predominantly use their second language (L2), Hebrew, in daily life. We included Russian monolinguals as a control group. We tested two potential causal mechanisms of attrition: L2 interference versus L1 disuse. Participa…
А Database of 126 Images of Everyday Objects Standardized for Visual Attractiveness (Boss Extension)
Experimental studies in psychology and cognitive neuroscience often employ images of everyday objects as experimental stimuli. To ensure consistency and reliability across such studies, stimulus sets need to be subjected to rigorous standardization procedures leading to the creation of extensive databases that contain a wide range of detailed information regarding various properties of the depicted materials. However, while existing databases are…
Eye Movement Correlates of Working Memory Capacity
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 n-back task, on peak saccade velocity during reading when …
Neural correlates of cross-alphabetic interference and integration in the biliterate brain
We investigated the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying bi-alphabetic reading using event-related potentials (ERPs). Brain activity was recorded using EEG in a group of Russian–English biliterates during a reading-aloud task with familiar and novel words. Capitalizing on a partial overlap between the Roman and Cyrillic alphabets, the stimuli were presented in L1 Cyrillic, L2 Roman, or in an ambiguous script, in a counterbalanced fashion. The…
Neuroplasticity and cognitive reserve effects in the Caudate Nucleus of young bilingual adults
This study investigates bilingualism-induced neuroplastic and cognitive-reserve effects in the Caudate Nucleus (CN), a structure believed to support both bilingual language control and domain-general executive functioning. We computed a generalized bilingualism index incorporating several dimensions of bilingual experience in a sample of bilingual young adults and tested whether this index would predict behavioral executive performance (measured …
Linguistic distance dynamically modulates the effects of bilingualism on executive performance in aging
To better explain various neurocognitive consequences of bilingualism, recent investigations have adopted continuous measures of bilingual experience, as opposed to binary bi/monolingual distinctions. However, few studies have considered whether bilingualism's effects on cognition are modulated by the linguistic distance (LD) between L1 and L2, and none of the existing studies has examined cognitive consequences of LD in aging populations. Here, …
Phrasal frequency and literacy as predictors of individual differences in on-line processing and comprehension of English complex NP subject-verb agreement
We present experimental evidence suggesting that frequency and literacy predict online processing and comprehension of subject-verb agreement constructions by adult native speakers of English. We measured participants’ eye fixations, reaction times, and response accuracy in a forced-choice task using audio-visual eye-tracking paradigm. Participants completed a battery of tasks, inc. the Literacy Rating Scale (Tarone et al., Literacy and Second La…
Mapping of individual time units in horizontal space
We often refer to space when we talk about time. To support this, studies show that we tend to associate the past with the left and the future with the right, space. However, there is little research that compares the spatial mapping of individual time units within the same methodological framework. Here, we used the same line-bisection paradigm to study horizontal spatial biases in various individual time units (i.e., hours, days, and months). F…
Biliteracy and acquisition of novel written words
Individual differences in bilingual experience modulate executive control network and performance
Dual/multiple language use has been shown to affect cognition and its neural substrate, although the replicability of such findings varies, partially due to neglecting the role of interindividual variability in bilingual experience. To address this, we operationalized the main bilingual experience factors as continuous variables, investigating their effects on executive control performance and neural substrate deploying a Flanker task and structu…
Understanding Language Attrition through Orthography
The decay in the proficiency of the native language (L1), known as first language attrition, is one of the least understood phenomena associated with the acquisition of a second language (L2). Indeed, the exact cause for the deterioration in L1 performance, be that either the interference from L2 acquisition or the less frequent use of L1, still remains elusive. In this opinion paper, we focus on one largely understudied aspect of L1 attrition-na…
Random word generation reveals spatial encoding of syllabic word length
Existing random number generation studies demonstrate the presence of an embodied attentional bias in spontaneous number production corresponding to the horizontal Mental Number Line: Larger numbers are produced on right‐hand turns and smaller numbers on left‐hand turns (Loetscher et al .,2008, Curr. Biol., 18 , R60). Furthermore, other concepts were also shown to rely on horizontal attentional displacement (Di Bono and Zorzi, 2013, Quart. J. Exp…
Cognitive and brain reserve in bilinguals
Attention and Memory Play Different Roles in Syntactic Choice During Sentence Production
Attentional control of referential information is an important contributor to the structure of discourse. We investigated how attention and memory interplay during visually situated sentence production. We manipulated speakers’ attention to the agent or the patient of a described event by means of a referential or a dot visual cue. We also manipulated whether the cue was implicit or explicit by varying its duration (70 ms vs. 700 ms). Participant…
Visual Attention and Structural Choice in Sentence Production Across Languages
To represent the complexity of a visually perceived event, viewers need to attend selectively to different aspects of the event and its associated entities. Spoken descriptions of such complex events must encode the corresponding perceptual properties. This review discusses how the speaker's attentional focus on one of the referents in a given event influences the structural choice in languages with different degrees of word order flexibility. Fi…
A parallel interface for language and cognition in sentence production
The debate about the place of linguistic theory in cognitive science encouraged by The Linguistic Review is a good example of communication between different research communities. In this follow-up paper we (1) clarify our theoretical and methodological positions, (2) propose a theoretical model for language production similar to Jackendoff's Parallel Architecture , and (2) discuss emerging empirical evidence for this model. Our data suggest that…
Cognitive and brain reserve in bilinguals
Attention and Memory Play Different Roles in Syntactic Choice During Sentence Production
Attentional control of referential information is an important contributor to the structure of discourse. We investigated how attention and memory interplay during visually situated sentence production. We manipulated speakers’ attention to the agent or the patient of a described event by means of a referential or a dot visual cue. We also manipulated whether the cue was implicit or explicit by varying its duration (70 ms vs. 700 ms). Participant…
Lexical and perceptual biases in speakers’ syntactic choices
Russell Tomlin's groundbreaking work laid a foundation for the explorations of the interplay between linguistic and nonlinguistic factors determining structural choice during sentence production. The present article investigates the interplay between two such factors, lexical priming and visual cueing, which may prioritize a particular referent of an event for privileged subject status within a sentence. To this end, native speakers of English re…
Understanding Language Attrition through Orthography
The decay in the proficiency of the native language (L1), known as first language attrition, is one of the least understood phenomena associated with the acquisition of a second language (L2). Indeed, the exact cause for the deterioration in L1 performance, be that either the interference from L2 acquisition or the less frequent use of L1, still remains elusive. In this opinion paper, we focus on one largely understudied aspect of L1 attrition-na…
Visual Attention and Structural Choice in Sentence Production Across Languages
To represent the complexity of a visually perceived event, viewers need to attend selectively to different aspects of the event and its associated entities. Spoken descriptions of such complex events must encode the corresponding perceptual properties. This review discusses how the speaker's attentional focus on one of the referents in a given event influences the structural choice in languages with different degrees of word order flexibility. Fi…
Attention and empirical studies of grammar
How is the generation of a grammatical sentence implemented by the human brain? A starting place for such an inquiry lies in linguistic theory. Unfortunately, linguistic theories illuminate only abstract knowledge representations and do not indicate how these representations interact with cognitive architecture to produce discourse. We examine tightly constrained empirical methods to study how grammar interacts with one part of the cognitive arch…
A parallel interface for language and cognition in sentence production
The debate about the place of linguistic theory in cognitive science encouraged by The Linguistic Review is a good example of communication between different research communities. In this follow-up paper we (1) clarify our theoretical and methodological positions, (2) propose a theoretical model for language production similar to Jackendoff's Parallel Architecture , and (2) discuss emerging empirical evidence for this model. Our data suggest that…
Visual Attention and Structural Choice in Sentence Production Across Languages
To represent the complexity of a visually perceived event, viewers need to attend selectively to different aspects of the event and its associated entities. Spoken descriptions of such complex events must encode the corresponding perceptual properties. This review discusses how the speaker's attentional focus on one of the referents in a given event influences the structural choice in languages with different degrees of word order flexibility. Fi…
Attention and Memory Play Different Roles in Syntactic Choice During Sentence Production
Attentional control of referential information is an important contributor to the structure of discourse. We investigated how attention and memory interplay during visually situated sentence production. We manipulated speakers’ attention to the agent or the patient of a described event by means of a referential or a dot visual cue. We also manipulated whether the cue was implicit or explicit by varying its duration (70 ms vs. 700 ms). Participant…
Random word generation reveals spatial encoding of syllabic word length
Existing random number generation studies demonstrate the presence of an embodied attentional bias in spontaneous number production corresponding to the horizontal Mental Number Line: Larger numbers are produced on right‐hand turns and smaller numbers on left‐hand turns (Loetscher et al .,2008, Curr. Biol., 18 , R60). Furthermore, other concepts were also shown to rely on horizontal attentional displacement (Di Bono and Zorzi, 2013, Quart. J. Exp…
Cognitive and brain reserve in bilinguals
Individual differences in bilingual experience modulate executive control network and performance
Dual/multiple language use has been shown to affect cognition and its neural substrate, although the replicability of such findings varies, partially due to neglecting the role of interindividual variability in bilingual experience. To address this, we operationalized the main bilingual experience factors as continuous variables, investigating their effects on executive control performance and neural substrate deploying a Flanker task and structu…
Understanding Language Attrition through Orthography
The decay in the proficiency of the native language (L1), known as first language attrition, is one of the least understood phenomena associated with the acquisition of a second language (L2). Indeed, the exact cause for the deterioration in L1 performance, be that either the interference from L2 acquisition or the less frequent use of L1, still remains elusive. In this opinion paper, we focus on one largely understudied aspect of L1 attrition-na…
Biliteracy and acquisition of novel written words
Mapping of individual time units in horizontal space
We often refer to space when we talk about time. To support this, studies show that we tend to associate the past with the left and the future with the right, space. However, there is little research that compares the spatial mapping of individual time units within the same methodological framework. Here, we used the same line-bisection paradigm to study horizontal spatial biases in various individual time units (i.e., hours, days, and months). F…
А Database of 126 Images of Everyday Objects Standardized for Visual Attractiveness (Boss Extension)
Experimental studies in psychology and cognitive neuroscience often employ images of everyday objects as experimental stimuli. To ensure consistency and reliability across such studies, stimulus sets need to be subjected to rigorous standardization procedures leading to the creation of extensive databases that contain a wide range of detailed information regarding various properties of the depicted materials. However, while existing databases are…
Eye Movement Correlates of Working Memory Capacity
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 n-back task, on peak saccade velocity during reading when …
Neural correlates of cross-alphabetic interference and integration in the biliterate brain
We investigated the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying bi-alphabetic reading using event-related potentials (ERPs). Brain activity was recorded using EEG in a group of Russian–English biliterates during a reading-aloud task with familiar and novel words. Capitalizing on a partial overlap between the Roman and Cyrillic alphabets, the stimuli were presented in L1 Cyrillic, L2 Roman, or in an ambiguous script, in a counterbalanced fashion. The…
Neuroplasticity and cognitive reserve effects in the Caudate Nucleus of young bilingual adults
This study investigates bilingualism-induced neuroplastic and cognitive-reserve effects in the Caudate Nucleus (CN), a structure believed to support both bilingual language control and domain-general executive functioning. We computed a generalized bilingualism index incorporating several dimensions of bilingual experience in a sample of bilingual young adults and tested whether this index would predict behavioral executive performance (measured …
Linguistic distance dynamically modulates the effects of bilingualism on executive performance in aging
To better explain various neurocognitive consequences of bilingualism, recent investigations have adopted continuous measures of bilingual experience, as opposed to binary bi/monolingual distinctions. However, few studies have considered whether bilingualism's effects on cognition are modulated by the linguistic distance (LD) between L1 and L2, and none of the existing studies has examined cognitive consequences of LD in aging populations. Here, …
Phrasal frequency and literacy as predictors of individual differences in on-line processing and comprehension of English complex NP subject-verb agreement
We present experimental evidence suggesting that frequency and literacy predict online processing and comprehension of subject-verb agreement constructions by adult native speakers of English. We measured participants’ eye fixations, reaction times, and response accuracy in a forced-choice task using audio-visual eye-tracking paradigm. Participants completed a battery of tasks, inc. the Literacy Rating Scale (Tarone et al., Literacy and Second La…
Embodied Lexical Semantics in a Second Language
Sensorimotor embodiment of emotional semantic representations in the second language (L2) has been largely studied through behavioral paradigms. However, most neuroscience research of embodied semantics has almost exclusively focused on the native language (L1). The representational architecture of emotive concepts (e.g., love, hate) in L2 has been explored from the neurocognitive perspective to a lesser degree. In this review, we first scrutiniz…
Supplementary materials
The role of attention in language and speech
Lexical and perceptual biases in speakers’ syntactic choices
Russell Tomlin's groundbreaking work laid a foundation for the explorations of the interplay between linguistic and nonlinguistic factors determining structural choice during sentence production. The present article investigates the interplay between two such factors, lexical priming and visual cueing, which may prioritize a particular referent of an event for privileged subject status within a sentence. To this end, native speakers of English re…
In memoriam, Russell Schenck Tomlin (1951–2022)
Linguistic distance affects executive performance in trilinguals
Recent research has highlighted potential benefits associated with bilingualism for overall cognitive efficiency and health. One understudied dimension of the bilingual experience is linguistic distance (LD), a measure defining how (dis)similar two given languages are. The previous study has explored the role of LD as a modulator of bilingualism-induced neurocognitive consequences in aging individuals. However, this has scarcely been investigated…
Bilingualism, sleep, and cognition
Bilingualism and sleep affect similar cognitive abilities. • Bilingualism and sleep affect similar neural structures. • Bilingualism and sleep both contribute to reserve during aging. • We highlight the need to explore how they interact at neural and cognitive levels. Sleep and language are fundamental to human existence and have both been shown to substantially affect cognitive functioning including memory, attentional performance, and cognitive…
Lexico-Semantic Attrition of Native Language
Native language (L1) attrition is ubiquitous in modern globalized society, but its cognitive/psycholinguistic mechanisms are poorly understood. We investigated lexico-semantic L1 attrition in L1 Russian immigrants in Israel, who predominantly use their second language (L2), Hebrew, in daily life. We included Russian monolinguals as a control group. We tested two potential causal mechanisms of attrition: L2 interference versus L1 disuse. Participa…
The interplay between bilingualism and sleep quality in modulating executive performance
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 assess insomnia-related symptoms. In Experiment 1, we registered b…
Psychology (22 obras) · Cognition (14 obras) · Linguistics (14 obras) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (14 obras) · Cognitive psychology (13 obras) · Computer Science (13 obras) · Reading and Literacy Development (10 obras) · Neuroscience (9 obras) · Natural language processing (7 obras) · Philosophy (7 obras)