Dr. R. Muralikrishnan
Research Interests
- Cross-linguistic ERP studies on sentence processing
- Animacy
- Word-order
- Dative subjects
- Agreement
Vita
Academic Education
2011 | PhD (Neurolinguistics), Max-Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany; Institute of Neurolinguistics, Philipps Universität Marburg, Germany |
2007 | Master of Science, Language Science and Technology (Psycholinguistics), Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany |
2000 | Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Madras, India |
Professional Experience | |
Since 10/2014 | Scientific Programmer / Data Scientist, Max-Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
2013–2014 | Post-Doc, Department of Neuropsychology, Max-Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany |
2011–2013 | Post-Doc, Neuroscience of Language Lab, New York University in Abu Dhabi, UAE |
2005–2006 | Research Assistant in the CoSy (Cognitive Systems) project, German Research Centre for AI, Saarbrücken, Germany |
2000–2005 | Senior Software Engineer (Telecom), Alcatel Development Center, Madras, India |
Publications
ORCID Record : https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7103-2497
Christensen, J. F., Muralikrishnan, R., Münzberg, M., Castaño Manias, B., Khorsandi, S., & Vessel, E. A. (2024). Can 5 Minutes of Finger Actions Boost Creative Incubation? In Journal of Cognitive Enhancement. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41465-024-00306-0
Muralikrishnan, R. (2024). Electrophysiological Investigations of Sentence Processing in Tamil. In The Oxford Handbook of Dravidian Languages. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197610411.013.14
Gulati, M., Muralikrishnan, R., & Choudhary, K. K. (2024). An ERP Study on the Processing of Subject-Verb and Object-Verb Gender Agreement in Punjabi. In Journal of Psycholinguistic Research (Vol. 53, Issue 4). Springer Science and Business Media LLC. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-024-10095-4
Sierra, F., Muralikrishnan, R., Poeppel, D., & Tavano, A. (2022). A perceptual glitch in serial perception generates temporal distortions. In Scientific Reports (Vol. 12, Issue 1). Springer Science and Business Media LLC. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25573-9
Bhattamishra, S., Muralikrishnan, R., & Choudhary, K. K. (2021). Animacy modulates gender agreement comprehension in Hindi: An ERP study. In Language, Cognition and Neuroscience (Vol. 37, Issue 5, pp. 560–575). Informa UK Limited. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2021.1980219
Muralikrishnan, R., & Idrissi, A. (2021). Salience-weighted agreement feature hierarchy modulates language comprehension. Cortex, 141, 168–189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2021.03.029
Fayn, K., Willemsen, S., Muralikrishnan, R., Castaño Manias, B., Menninghaus, W., & Schlotz, W. (2021). Full throttle: Demonstrating the speed, accuracy, and validity of a new method for continuous two-dimensional self-report and annotation. Behavior Research Methods, 53 (3). doi:10.3758/s13428-021-01616-3
Sun, L., & Muralikrishnan, R. (2021). Play it by ear? An ERP study of Chinese polysemous verb yǒu. Lingua, 251, 103014. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2020.103014
Idrissi, A., Mustafawi, E., Khwaileh, T., & Muralikrishnan, R. (2021). A neurophysiological study of noun-adjective agreement in Arabic: The impact of animacy and diglossia on the dynamics of language processing. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 58, 100964. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2020.100964
He, Y., Luell, S., Muralikrishnan, R., Straube, B., & Nagels, A. (2020). Gesture’s body orientation modulates the N400 for visual sentences primed by gestures. Human Brain Mapping, 41(17), 4901–4911. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25166
Schaadt, G., Paul, M., Muralikrishnan, R., Männel, C., & Friederici, A.D. (2020). Seven-year-olds recall non-adjacent dependencies after overnight retention. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. doi:10.1016/j.nlm.2020.107225
Omigie, D., Frieler, K., Bär, C., Muralikrishnan, R., Wald-Fuhrmann, M., & Fischinger, T. (2019). Experiencing musical beauty: Emotional subtypes and their physiological and musico-acoustic correlates. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. doi:10.1037/aca0000271
Muralikrishnan, R., Schlesewsky, M., & Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I. (2015). Animacy-based predictions in language comprehension are robust: contextual cues modulate but do not nullify them. Brain Research, 1608, 108-137. doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2014.11.046
Muralikrishnan, R. (2011). An electrophysiological investigation of Tamil dative-subject constructions. Max Planck Institute Series in Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences 132, ISBN 978-3-941504-16-5, Leipzig. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3246522
Muralikrishnan, R. (2007). The influence of Word-order and Animacy in processing transitive sentences: Neurophysiological evidence from Tamil. Unpublished Master’s Thesis. Saarland University, Saarbrücken. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3246519
Conference Presentations
Shalu, S., Muralikrishnan, R., Mathew, Anna Merin, & Choudhary, Kamal Kumar. (2024). An ERP Study on Processing Nominative and Dative Experiencer Verbs in Malayalam. Poster presented at AMLaP 2024, Edinburgh, UK. https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13733815
Muralikrishnan, R., Mustafawi, E., Khwaileh, T., & Idrissi, A. (2019). Humanness rather than morphology explains noun-adjective agreement patterns in Arabic. Poster presented at AMLaP 2019, Moscow, Russia. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3403818
Muralikrishnan, R., Khwaileh, T., Mustafawi, E., & Idrissi, A. (2019). An ERP study of time reference and tense in Arabic. Poster presented at AMLaP 2019, Moscow, Russia. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3380505
Idrissi, A., Mustafawi, E., Khwaileh, T., & Muralikrishnan, R. (2019). Is the VSO word order canonical in Arabic? ERP Evidence. Poster presented at SNL 2019, Helsinki, Finland. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3380487
Idrissi, A., Muralikrishnan, R., Mustafawi, E., Khwaileh, T., & Drury, J. E. (2019). Effects and interactions of orthographic depth and lexicality in Arabic visual word recognition: A lexical decision ERP study. Poster presented at SNL 2019, Helsinki, Finland. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3364900
Muralikrishnan, R., Tavano, Alessandro, Friederici, Angela D., & Brauer, Jens. (2018). Processing role-ambiguous sentences in German: An ERP study in 7-8 year old children. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3246451
Idrissi, Ali, Muralikrishnan, R., Hussain, Hagar, Mohamed, Aya, Khwaileh, Tariq, & Mustafawi, Eiman. (2018). An ERP study on the interaction of humanness and adjective agreement in Arabic. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3246461
Muralikrishnan, R., & Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina. (2017). Actors must be unambiguous: An ERP study on the interaction of actorhood and animacy cues. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3246407
Muralikrishnan, R., & Idrissi, Ali. (2015). Look before you leap: Careful incremental processing of idiosyncratic grammaticalised partial-agreement: ERP and self-paced reading evidence from Arabic. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3246443
Muralikrishnan, R., & Idrissi, Ali. (2014). Verb-initial structures in Arabic: Qualitative ERP differences between singular & plural subjects. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3246437
Idrissi, Ali, & Muralikrishnan, R. (2014). Bad, or just less good? ERPs of Arabic agreement violations: Feature distances are different for singular & plural subjects. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3246433
Muralikrishnan, R., & Idrissi, Ali. (2013). An ERP study on agreement violations in Arabic: Qualitative differences between singular and plural subjects. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3246424
Idrissi, Ali, Al-Kaabi, Meera, & Muralikrishnan, R. (2012). An ERP study on the processing of agreement and tense violations in Arabic. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3246395
Muralikrishnan, R., & Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina. (2011). Agree to disagree: Processing default agreement in dative subject constructions in Tamil. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3246388
Muralikrishnan, R., Schlesewsky, Matthias, & Bronkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina. (2010). I would if I could but I can't: Different types of non-prototypical Actor arguments are processed in a qualitatively similar manner. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3246382
Muralikrishnan, R., Schlesewsky, Matthias, & Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina. (2008). Universal and cross-linguistic influences on the processing of Word-order and Animacy: Neurophysiological evidence from Tamil. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3246372
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External Collaborations
- ERP and behavioural studies on the online comprehension of Arabic, with a focus on animacy and word-order based agreement asymmetry. In collaboration with Prof. Dr. Ali Idrissi at Qatar University.
- Cross-linguistic sentence processing studies on the online comprehension of Indian Languages. In collaboration with Prof. Dr. Kamal Kumar Choudhary at Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar.