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ORCID Record : https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7103-2497

Neamaalkassis, H., Boubenec, Y., Fiebach, C., Muralikrishnan, R., & Tavano, A. (2025). The fundamental frequencies of our own voice. In Royal Society Open Science (Vol. 12, Issue 2). The Royal Society. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241081

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

Code and Data

Shalu, S., Choudhary, K. K., & Muralikrishnan, R. (2025). Dataset with EEG data from Malayalam speakers. (Shalu et al., 2025) [Dataset]. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.14986232

Muralikrishnan, R. (2025). Preprocessing pipeline for EEG Data using EEGLAB. (Version 1.0). Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.14988778

Muralikrishnan, R. (2023). Presentation custom interactive UI Modules -- Version 4.4 (Version 4.4). Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.4032981

Muralikrishnan, R., & Idrissi, A. (2021). Dataset pertaining to Muralikrishnan and Idrissi (2021). Salience-weighted agreement feature hierarchy modulates language comprehension. Cortex. (Version 2) [Dataset]. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.4667256

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. https://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. https://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. https://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. https://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. https://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. https://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. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3246443

Muralikrishnan, R., & Idrissi, Ali. (2014). Verb-initial structures in Arabic: Qualitative ERP differences between singular & plural subjects. Zenodo. https://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. https://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. https://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. https://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. https://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. https://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. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3246372

MPG PuRe  Profile

• 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.