Dr. R. Muralikrishnan

Research Interests

  • Cross-linguistic ERP studies on sentence processing
  • Animacy
  • Word-order
  • Dative subjects
  • Agreement

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Vita

Academic Education

2011PhD (Neurolinguistics), Max-Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany; Institute of Neurolinguistics, Philipps Universität Marburg, Germany
2007Master of Science, Language Science and Technology (Psycholinguistics), Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany
2000Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Madras, India

Professional Experience

Since 10/2014Scientific Programmer / Data Scientist, Max-Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2013–2014Post-Doc, Department of Neuropsychology, Max-Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
2011–2013Post-Doc, Neuroscience of Language Lab, New York University in Abu Dhabi, UAE
2005–2006Research Assistant in the CoSy (Cognitive Systems) project, German Research Centre for AI, Saarbrücken, Germany
2000–2005Senior 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.