CV :: Tatiana Chernigovskaya ::

Tatiana Chernigovskaya

Chernigovskaya

office: St.Petersburg State University, Philological Faculty. Universitetskaya Emb. 11. 199034, St-Petersburg, Russia Tel./FAX (7-812) 328 95 10; E-mail:
tatiana@TC3839.spb.edu http://www.genling.nw.ru/

PhD in Physiology in 1977 and Doctor of Science in Linguistics and in Physiology in 1993 at I. Sechenov Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences.

Present position: Vice-chair, Professor of the Department of General Linguistics and of the Department of Medicine, St. Petersburg State University. Professor of Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences/ Bard College, European University of St. Petersburg. Head of the Research Department of General Linguistics and the Laboratory for Cognitive Studies at the Institute of Philology, St. Petersburg State University.

Positions held: Since 1972 working for I.Sechenov Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 1995 - Professor of the Department of General Linguistics and of the Department of Medicine in St. Petersburg State University. Was standing for corresponding member of Russian Academy of Sciences in 1997. Teaches courses in Psycho- and Neurolinguistics; special seminars on cerebral basis for language and cognition. Supervisor for graduate, post-graduate and PhD students; consulting teachers and speech therapists.

Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

Memberships :

International Neuropsychological Society; International Language Origins Society; International Society of Phonetic Sciences; European Speech Communication Association; International Semiotic Studies Association; Russian National Association of Artificial Intelligence; Russian National Physiological Society; Cognitive Science Society; International Society of Applied Psycholinguistics; Linguistic Society of St. Petersburg. A member of the Steering Committee of the Nordic Neurolinguistic Network; of European Cognitive Science Steering Group

Member of the Editorial Board :

Journal of Language and Language Behavior ( Linguistic Society of St. Petersburg)

Sensory Systems (Russian Academy of Sciences)

I.M. Sechenov Journal of Physiology of Russia (Russian Academy of Sciences)

Smolny Collegium (Smolny College of Liberal Arts & Sciences)

Journal of Institute of Philology (St/ Petersburg State University)

International scientific committee for series Grammaire et Cognition (Paris, CNRS, France),

Scholarships : a grantee of J.William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship (1998) and of Russian State Scholarship for Outstanding Scientists (1998-2001)

Organiser of International Conferences: 'Cultural Norms: A Multiple View' (St. Petersburg, Russia, 1993); Annual Meeting of the Language Origins Society (St.Petersburg, Russia, 1993); Russian-American Conference 'Sensory Biology and Biosensors: Evolutionary Perspective (St. Petersburg, 1995); Nordic Neurolinguistic Network Workshop (St. Petersburg,1999); 'Homo Legens Scribensque' (St. Petersburg, 2002); First Russian Conference on Cognitive Science (Kazan, 2004), The Second Biennial Conference on Cognitive Science, June 9–13, 2006, St. Petersburg; Organizer of an Invited Symposium in the area of LANGUAGE and BRAIN, to take place in the EuroCogSci07 (Delphi, Greece, May 23-27, 2007).

Group leader of international and national grants. Currently sponsored by grants from: Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Russian Scientific Foundation for Research in Humanities and Ministry of Education of Russia

Co-ordinator of Monthly Psycho- and Neurolinguistic Seminar of the Linguistic Society of St. Petersburg.

Major research interests: A. Cerebral basis for linguistic and cognitive functions; B. Theory of Mind; C. Artificial intelligence; D. Language evolution and acquisition; E. Mental lexicon organization; F. Language acquisition and pathology

Languages: Russian: native; English: fluent in speaking, reading, writing; German, French: reasonable in reading and understanding

More than 250 PUBLICATIONS

	K. Gor, T. Chernigovskaya Formal Instruction and the Mental Lexicon: The Acquisition of Verbal Morphology // Instructed Second Language Learning/ Book of Abstracts. Vrie Universiteit Brussel. Centre for Linguistics, 2001
	Gor K., Chernigovskaya T. Rules in the Processing of Russian Verbal Morphology// Current Issues in Formal Slavic Linguistics ed. by Gerhild Zybatow, Uwe Junghanns, Grit Mehlhorn, and Luka Szucsich (= Linguistik International; 5) Frankfurt/Main [etc.]: Lang, 2001 xvi, pp. 528-536. ISBN 3-631-39187-0 finleip.pdf (54Kb)
	T. Chernigovskaya «Neurolinguistic aspects of cognitive space: Do cerebral hemispheres share knowledge?» // International workshop «Interpretation et cognition bilingue» Paris, November-December 2001
	T. Chernigovskaya «Mental lexicon structure in L1 and L2 acquisition: Russian evidence» // International workshop «Interpretation et cognition bilingue» Paris, November-December 2001
	T.V.Chernigovskaya. «Semiotic specificity of cerebral hemispheres: what has changed since the 80-ies?» // International Congress «Semiotics of Culture: Cultural Mechanisms, Boundaries, Identities», Tartu, Estonia, February-March 2002
	T., Gor K. Mental lexicon Structure in L1 and L2 Acquisition: Russian Evidence // Cognitive Linguistics East of Eden, Turku. Finland, 2002
	Chernigovskaya T.«Neurosemiotics- what has changed since the 80-ties?» - International Semiotic Congress, Imatra ( Finland), June 2002
	Chernigovskaya T. Olfactory and visual processing and verbalization: Cross-cultural and neurosemiotic dimensions // 1st International Semiotics Congress SENSE & SENSIBILITY: How can Language cope with color and smell? University of Bremen, Germany, 2002 -2003.
	Strelnikov K., T. Chernigovskaya. The role of prosodic clues in spoken speech syntactic processing. A PET study. // In: Twenty-Sixth Annual Mid-Year Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) and the Annual Meeting of the German Neuropsychological Society (GNP) Berlin, JINS, 2003, V. 9, 516
	Strelnikov K., Vorobiev V., Chernigovskaya T., Medvedev S. Perception of syntagmatic segmentation. A PET study. // 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, 2003, 2529-2532. barcelon.pdf (147Kb)
	K. Gor, T. Chernigovskaya Formal Instruction and the Mental Lexicon: The Acquisition of Verbal Morphology // Instructed Second Language Learning/. Vrie Universiteit Brussel. Centre for Linguistics, 2003, p.103-136 belgium.pdf (286Kb)
	Gor, T. Chernigovskaya. Mental Lexicon Structure in L1 and L2 Acquisition: Russian Evidence. 2003 // «Glossos». The Slavic and East European Language Resource Center. Issue 4, Summer 2003 glossos.pdf (438Kb), (can be accessed from http://www.seelrc.org/glossos/issues/4/).
	Schizophrenic Patients: Hemispheric Involvement. // Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. 2003. V.9. №4. P.553.
	Черниговская Т.В. Дети со специфическими языковыми расстройствами в свете современных дискуссий в лингвистике и психологии // Сборник трудов Международной конференции, посвящённой 100-летию А.Р.Лурия. Москва, 2003, 189-194. LURIA.pdf (238 Kb)
	S. Davtjan & T. Chernigovskaya. Psychiatry in free fall: In pursuit of a semiotic foothold// SIGN SYSTEMS STUDIES. An international journal of semiotics and sign processes in culture and nature, Tartu University Press, 2003, 31(2),533 -545 tartsign.pdf (92Kb)
	T. Chernigovskaya. Cognitive struggle with Sensory Chaos: Semiotics of Olfaction and Hearing. // SEMIOTICA, 2004, 150-1/4, 61-75 chaos.pdf ( Kb)
	Gor K., T. Chernigovskaya. Generation of Complex Verbal Morphology in First and Second Language Acquisition: Evidence from Russian // Nordlyd. Tromsø University Working Papers on Language and Linguistics, 2004, Vol 31, Nr. 6, Proceedings of SCL 19 - Supplement, p. 819-833 TROMSFIG.pdf (136Kb) (can be accessed from http://www.ub.uit.no/munin/nordlyd/viewissue.php?id=6)
	Gor K., Chernigovskaya T. Formal Instruction and the Acquisition of Verbal Morphology. In: (Alex Housen and Michel Pierrard eds.) Investigation in Instructed Second Language Acquisition. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, New York, 2004. Pp. 103-139. MoutonCont.pdf (112 Kb), MoutonPap.pdf (279 Kb).
	Strelnikov K.S., V.A. Vorovjov, M.S. Rudas, T.V. Chernigovskaya, S.V. Medvedev. PET study of the Brain Mechanisms Underlying Perception of Phrases with Syntagmatic Splitting // Human Physiology, 2004, vol.30, No.3, pp.255-261. pet.pdf (201 Kb)
	T. Chernigovskaya, S. Davtian, N. Petrova, K.Strelnikov. Hemispheric Asymmetry in Prosody Perception by Healthy Subjects and Schizophrenic Patients // Human Physiology, 2004, vol.30, No.4, pp.403-409. sch.pdf (152 Kb)
	T. V. Chernigovskaya. Homo loquens: Evolution of Cerebral Functions and Language // Journal of Evolutionary Biochemistry nd Physiology, 2004, 40, N5. TrauEnglF.pdf (66 Kb)
	T.V. Chernigovskaya, T. A. Gavrilova, A. V. Voinov, and K. N. Strel'nikov. Sensorimotor and Cognitive Laterality Profile // Human Physiology, 2005, v.31, # 2, 142-149. LaterEng.pdf (153 Kb).
	K.N. Strelnikov, V.A. Vorobyev, T.V. Chernigovskaya, and S.V. Medvedev. Prosodic clues to syntactic processing - a PET and ERP study // NeuroImage, 2006, # 29, 1127-1134. Prosody_synt.pdf (208 Kb).