Autor: Polina Eismont

​ Tatiana Chernigovskaya is Professor of St Petersburg University, Head of the Department of the Problems of Convergence in Natural Sciences and Humanities, Director of Institute for Cognitive research, Doctor of Science in Human Physiology (1993), Member of Russian Academy of Education, Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Honorary member of the Semiotic Society of Finland. Invited lecturer in many European and North American Universities. The author of more than 350 publications. Gold medal of Russian Academy of Sciences for propagation of scientific knowledge winner (2017). Polina Eismont is an Associate Professor at the Department of General Linguistics, St. Petersburg State University. Her research interests include Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistics, Text Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Event Structure, Music Semantics, Syntax of Nulls. She obtained her Ph.D. from St. Petersburg State University in 2008. She isthe author of more than 40 papers in domestic and international journals and the co-editor of two CCIS volumes “Language, Music, and Computing” (Springer Verlag, 2015, 2019).   Tatiana Petrova is an Associate Professor at the Department of Theory and Methodology for Teaching Arts and Humanities, and the leading researcher of the Institute for Cognitive Studies, St. Petersburg State University. Her research interests include Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics, Text Processing, Second Language Acquisition, Context Predictability, Reading and Visual Recognition. She obtained her Ph.D.from St. Petersburg State University in 2000. She is the author of more than 80 papers in domestic and international journals and the co-author of two online courses on Coursera. In the past 10 years, she has been coordinating the work of the St. Petersburg Seminar on cognitive Research. She also organizes St. Petersburg Winter Workshops on Experimental Studies of Speech and Language (2011, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019), serving as a member of Program Committee.