Prof. Andriy MYACHYKOV

  • N21-1004c, University of Macau

  • (853) 8822 9353

  • (853) 8822 2456

  • amyachykov@um.edu.mo

Ph.D. in Psychology University of Glasgow, UK

M.Sc. in Psychology University of Oregon, US

Specialist in “English and German Linguistics and Literature” Cherkassy State University, Ukraine

  • 2018 – 2024. Associate Professor. Department of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
  • 2019 – 2024. Deputy Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange. Department of Psychology, Northumbria University.
  • 2018 – 2024. Leader of the Cognition and Neuroscience Research Cluster. Department of Psychology, Northumbria University.
  • 2016 – 2019. Member of Faculty Research Ethics Committee, Northumbria University.
  • 2012 – 2019. Research Ethics Director (Postgraduate). Department of Psychology, Northumbria University.
  • 2014 – 2022. Leading Research Fellow, Visiting Professor, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.
  • 2012 – 2018. Senior Lecturer. Department of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
  • 2009 – 2012. Research Fellow. Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow. ESRC grant: Processing of English be- and get-passives. (RES-062-23-2009)
  • 2008 – 2009. Research Fellow. School of Psychology, University of Dundee. EPSRC grant: Vision, action, and language unified by embodiment. (EP/F026471)
  • 2007 – 2008. Research Fellow. Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh. ESRC fellowship: Integrating perceptual, semantic, and syntactic information in sentence production. (PTA-026-27-1579)
  • 1998 – 2002. University Lecturer and Laboratory Manager. Department of Linguistics, Cherkassy National University, Cherkassy, Ukraine.

  • 2015, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023. Northumbria Teaching Award Nomination.
  • International Cultural Student Program Award, University of Oregon.
  • University of Oregon Recognition, University of Oregon.
  • International Research Recognition Award, Higher School of Economics.

My research interests range from cognitive neuroscience of language comprehension and production to number processing and embodied approaches to knowledge representations. I am also very interested in the interplay between bilingual language functioning, cognitive health, and cognitive reserve.

  • Neuroscience Track in Psychology (NPSY). Erasmus + Capacity Building (2020-2024).
  • Attention, Language, and Sleep. Royal Society International Exchanges Standard Programme Scheme (2021-2023).
  • Posing solutions: Supporting positive learning behaviors in the classroom. Northumbria Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund (2016).
  • Processing of English be- and get-passives. Economic and Social Research Council. RES-062-23-2009 (2009-2012).
  • Integrating perceptual, semantic, and syntactic information in sentence production.” Economic and Social Research Council. PTA-026-27-1579 (2007-2008).
  • Lexical overlap and syntactic priming in sentence production. Economic and Social Research Council. RES-000-22-2295 (2007 – 2009).
  • Integrating perceptual, semantic, and syntactic information in sentence production. Overseas Research Student Awards Scheme (2004 – 2007).
  • The role of visual attention in sentence production. Fulbright Foundation (2002 – 2004).

  • Member of Experimental Psychology Society
  • Scientific expert review college, Sirius university, Sochi, Russia
  • PhD dissertation board, Higher School of Economics, Russia
  • St. Petersburg University Scientific Council

  • Bermúdez-Margaretto, B., Myachykov, A., Fu, Y., Kopytin, G., & Shtyrov, Y. (2024). Neural correlates of cross-alphabetic interference and integration in the biliterate brain. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-14. DOI: 10.1017/S1366728923000779.
  • Gallo, F., Myachykov, A., Nelyubina, M., Shtyrov, Y., Kubiak, J., & Abutalebi, J. (2024). Linguistic distance dynamically modulates bilingualism effects on executive performance in ageing. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-10. DOI:10.1017/S1366728923000743.
  • Gallo, F., Terekhina, L., Shtyrov, Y., & Myachykov, A. (2024). Neuroplasticity and cognitive reserve effects in the Caudate Nucleus of young bilingual adults. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 27(1), 107-116. DOI: 10.1017/S1366728923000457.
  • Malyshevskaya, A., Fischer, M., Shtyrov, Y., & Myachykov, A. (2024). Embodied lexical-semantic access to time-related words in bilinguals. Scientific Reports, 14, 9675. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-60062-1.
  • Malyshevskaya, A., Miklashevsky, A., Fischer, M.H., Scheepers, C., Shtyrov, & Myachykov, A. (2024). Keeping track of time: Horizontal spatial biases for hours, days and months. Memory & Cognition, 52, 894-908. DOI: 10.3758/s13421-023-01508-1.
  • Malyshevskaya, A., Gallo, F., Scheepers, C., Shtyrov, Y. & Myachykov, A. (2023). Mapping of individual time units in horizontal space. Language and Cognition, 15(2), 245-265. DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2022.35.
  • Martín-Luengo, B., Nunez-Vorobiova, A., Feurra, M., Myachykov, A., & Shtyrov, Y. (2023). Transcranial magnetic stimulation of the left middle frontal gyrus modulates the information people communicate in different social contexts. Scientific Reports. 13, 9995. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-36192-3.
  • Winter, B., Fischer, M.H., Scheepers, C., & Myachykov, A. (2023). More is better: English Language statistics are biased towards addition. Cognitive Science, 47(4), e13254. DOI: 10.1111/cogs.13254.
  • Alekseeva, M., Myachykov, A., Bermúdez-Margaretto, B., & Shtyrov, Y. (2022). Neurophysiological correlates of automatic integration of voice and gender information during grammatical processing. Scientific Reports, 12, 13114. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-14478-2.
  • Bermúdez-Margaretto, B., Gallo, F., Novitsky, N., Myachykov, A., Petrova, A., & Shtyrov, Y. (2022). Ultra-rapid and automatic interplay between L1 and L2 semantics in late bilinguals: EEG evidence. Cortex, 151, 147–161. DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2022.03.004.
  • Gallo, F., Novitsky, N., Myachykov, A., & Shtyrov, Y. (2021). Individual differences in bilingual experience modulate executive control network and performance: Behavioral and structural neuroimaging evidence. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 24(2), 293-304. DOI: 10.1017/S1366728920000486.
  • Myachykov, A. & Fischer, M.H. (2019). A hierarchical view of abstractness: Grounded, embodied, and situated aspects. Physics of Life Reviews, 29, 161-163. DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2019.04.005.
  • Novitsky, N., Myachykov, A., & Shtyrov, Y. (2019). Crosslinguistic interplay between semantics and phonology in late bilinguals: Neurophysiological evidence. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 22(2), 209-227. DOI: 10.1017/S1366728918000627.
  • Scheepers, C, Galkina, A., Shtyrov, Y., &. Myachykov, A. (2019). Hierarchical structure priming from mathematics to two-and three-site relative clause attachment. Cognition, 189, 155-166. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2019.03.021.
  • Barclay, N.L. & Myachykov, A. (2017). Sustained wakefulness and visual attention: Moderation by chronotype. Experimental Brain Research, 235(1), 57–68. DOI: 10.1007/s00221-016-4772-8.
  • Dagaev, N., Shtyrov, Y., & Myachykov, A. (2017). The role of executive control in the activation of manual affordances. Psychological Research, 81(6), 1110-1124. DOI: 10.1007/s00426-016-0807-9.
  • Scheepers, C., Raffray, C., & Myachykov, A. (2017). The lexical boost in structural priming is not diagnostic of lexically-specific syntactic representations. Journal of Memory and Language, 95, 102-115. DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2017.03.001.
  • Vukovic, N., Feurra, M., Shpektor, A., Myachykov, A. and Shtyrov, Y. (2017). Primary motor cortex functionally contributes to language comprehension: A TMS study of action word processing. Neuropsychologia, 96, 222-229. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.01.025.
  • Myachykov, A., Ellis, R., Cangelosi, A., & Fischer, M.H. (2016). Ocular drift along the mental number line. Psychological Research, 80(3), 379–388. DOI: 10.1007/s00426-015-0731-4.
  • Akram, U., Ellis, J.G., Myachykov, A., & Barclay, N.L. (2016). Misperception of tiredness in young adults with insomnia. Journal of Sleep Research, 25(4), 466-474. DOI: 10.1111/jsr.12395.
  • Myachykov, A., Cangelosi, A., Ellis, R., & Fischer, M.H. (2015). The oculomotor resonance effect in spatial-numerical mapping. Acta Psychologica, 161, 162-169. DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2015.09.006.
  • Myachykov, A., Scheepers, C., Fischer, M.H., & Kessler, K. (2014). TEST: A Tropic, Embodied, and Situated Theory of cognition. Topics in Cognitive Science, 6(3), 442-460. DOI: 10.1111/tops.12024.
  • Myachykov, A., Ellis, R., Cangelosi, A., & Fischer, M.H. (2013). Visual and linguistic cues to graspable objects. Experimental Brain Research, 229(4), 545-559. DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3616-z.
  • Thompson, D., Ling, S., Myachykov, A., Ferreira, F., & Scheepers, C. (2013). Patient-related constraints on get- and be-passive uses in English: Evidence from paraphrasing. Frontiers in Psychology, 4:848. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00848.
  • Scheepers, C, Sturt, P., Martin, C.J., Myachykov, A., & Teevan, K. (2011). Structural priming across cognitive domains: From simple algebra to relative clause attachment. Psychological Science, 22(10), 1319-1326. DOI: 10.1177/0956797611416997.
  • Myachykov, A., Platenburg, W.P.A., & Fischer, M.H. (2009). Non-abstractness as simulation in the representation of number. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 343-344. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X09990811.
  • Myachykov, A. & Garrod, S. (2008). Perception and word order in Russian and Finnish sentence production. In W. Ramm & C. Fabricus-Hansen (Eds.), Linearization and Segmentation in Discourse (pp. 87-99). Oslo: University of Oslo.
  • Myachykov, A., Posner, M.I., & Tomlin, R.S. (2007). A parallel interface for language and cognition: Theory, method, and experimental evidence. The Linguistic Review, 24, 457-475. DOI: 10.1515/TLR.2007.020.