Dr. R. Muralikrishnan
Research Interests
- Cross-linguistic ERP studies on sentence processing
- Animacy
- Word-order
- Dative subjects
- Aesthetics of typefaces
Vita
Ausbildung
| 2011 | PhD (Neurolinguistics), Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften, Leipzig; Institut für Neurolinguistik, 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, Indien |
Akademische Tätigkeiten | |
| Seit 10/2014 | Wissenschaftlicher Programmierer, Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2013-2014 | Post-Doc Stipendiat, Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften, Abt. Neuropsychologie, Leipzig |
| 2011-2013 | Post-Doc, Neuroscience of Language Lab, New York University in Abu Dhabi, UAE |
| 2005-2006 | Forschungsassistent Projekt CoSy (Cognitive Systems), Deutsches Forschungszentrum für künstliche Intelligenz, Saarbrücken |
| 2000-2005 | Senior Software Engineer (Telecom), Alcatel Development Center, Madras, Indien |
Publikationen
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 Unpublished Master’s Thesis.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 Posters
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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Projects
- ERP and behavioural studies on the processing of word-order based partial verb agreement in Arabic (Adults). In collaboration with Dr. Ali Idrissi at Qatar University.
- ERP study on the processing of subject-object ambiguity in simple SVO and OVS sentences involving one each of a masculine and feminine argument in German (7-8 year-old children). In collaboration with Dr. Jens Brauer at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig.
- ERP study on the learning of non-adjacent dependencies in a foreign language (7-8 year-old children). In collaboration with Dr. Jens Brauer at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig.