Hello and welcome to my internet corner. Things here tend to get outdated sooner than I manage put them online, but I am doing my best to keep at least the publication list reasonably tidy and up-to-date. If you want to know something that you cannot find on this site, do not hesitate to get in touch.

My research interests are first of all in the field of speech and language science. In my studies, together with my colleagues, I try to explore the nature of speech and language processing in the human brain. This incudes all levels, from acoustic and phonological to lexico-semantic to syntactic processing, but has increasingly been concentrating on the "higher-order" aspects, mostly lexical and syntactic access. I am interested mostly in the automatic early stages of linguistic access and its timecourse in the human brain.

I do most of my work at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (CBU) in Cambridge, UK. At the MRC CBU, we have a brand new MEG laboratory (equipped with a 306-channel magnetoencephalographic set-up and all possible software for data processing), and an even newer 128-channel active electrode set-up in our EEG lab. These host a substantial part of my experimental work at the moment. A lot of imaging work in the Unit is also done at the fMRI scanner. We collaborate a lot with our more clinically oriented colleagues at the Addenbrooke's Hospital and GlaxoSmithKline.

People with whom I work most in Cambridge are: Lucy MacGregor, Olaf Hauk, Bob Carlyon, Lisa Brindley, Rik Henson, Caroline Whiting, William Marslen-Wilson, Karalyn Patterson, Clare Cook, Maarten van Casteren, Matthias Schulz, Natalia Egorova, Rachel Moseley, Zubaida Shebani - and many others whom I may have forgotten! (that kind of thing happens to me...)

Currently, I also serve as a Director of the Cognitive Brain Research Unit in Helsinki, with whom I have a long-standing collaboration (which also involves the BioMag Laboratory in Finland). My principle collaborators in Helsinki are Teija Kujala, Risto Naatanen and Risto Ilmoniemi. My other collaborations include Department of Neurology at Charite - Universitatsmedizin Berlin (Vadim Nikulin), Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage at CNRS in Lyon (Veronique Boulenger), Department of Higher Nervous Activity and Psychophysiology at the University of St.Petersburg (Alexander Alexandrov), MEG Centre at the Moscow City University of Psychology and Education (Tatyana Stroganova), Institute of German and Dutch Studies at the Free University of Berlin (Friedemann Pulvermuller).

Contacts:
You can normally reach me by e-mail at yury dot shtyrov at mrc-cbu dot cam dot ac dot uk
Snail mail:
Dr Yury Shtyrov
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
15 Chaucer Rd., Cambridge
CB2 7EF, Great Britain
Telephone +44 1223 355294
Fax +44 1223 359062.

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