Elena Kulkova

Contact e-mail: kulkovauuni-potsdampde

room: 14.6.23

Elena Kulkova is a scientific assistant in the Potsdam Embodied Cognition Group (PECoG). Having completed her specialist’s degree in linguistics (Tambov State University, Russia) and a M.Sc. degree in psychology (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia), she is currently working on her Ph.D. on the embodiment of non-literal language processing. The project is aimed at exploring the embodied aspects of figurative language and at distinguishing the mechanisms of idiomatic and metaphoric processing with the use of such techniques as the grip-force sensor and TMS.

Publications

Belli, F., Jeglinski-Mende, M. A., & Kulkova, E. (2024). Physiological methods: Heart rate, breathing, electrodermal activity. In: Felisatti, A., & Fischer, M. H. (eds.). Experimental Methods in Embodied Cognition. How Cognitive Psychologists Approach Embodiment(pp. 70–88). Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003290698-7

Kulkova. E., & Belli, F. (2024). Non-invasive brain stimulation methods: Transcranial magnetic stimulation, transcranial electric stimulation, transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation. In: Felisatti, A., & Fischer, M. H. (eds.). Experimental Methods in Embodied Cognition. How Cognitive Psychologists Approach Embodiment (pp. 109–132). Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003290698-10

Miklashevsky, A, Kulkova, E., & Fischer, M.H. (2022). Emotions at our fingertips: Grip force signatures of emotional information processing, A11. Poster-Presentation at 9th Mind, Brain, Body Symposium (MSSB),Leipzig, Germany, March 16–18 2022.

Kulkova, E., Shtyrov, Y., Matteo Feurra, Myachykov, A. Motor cortex contributes to figurative language processing: A TMS study of metaphoric and idiomatic sentence comprehension (in prep.).

Kulkova, E., Myachykov, A., Matteo Feurra, Shtyrov, Y. Motor system involvement in metaphoric and idiomatic language comprehension: A TMS-MEP study. (under review).

Fischer, M. H., Felisatti, A., Kulkova, E., Mende, M. A., & Miklashevsky, A. (2021). Embodied Numbers and Arithmetic. In: Robinson, M.D., & Thomas, L. E. (Hrsg.). Embodied Psychology: Thinking, Feeling, and Acting. Springer: New York. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-78471-3.