Dr Yury Shtyrov is a Senior Investigator Scientist at the Medical Research Council’s Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (Cambridge, UK), one the leading centres of Cognitive Neuroscience research. A graduate of St. Petersburg University with experience in fundamental physiological research, he went on to work with speech-impaired patients in clinical environment, and subsequently obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Helsinki where he worked on the mechanisms underlying cerebral asymmetry of the speech function. Dr Shtyrov’s core interest is the neural mechanisms involved in processing speech and language. He has authored and co-authored a number of studies, which address the issues of language processing on different levels: from acoustic and phonological to semantic and syntactic aspects of language function. His has made a particular contribution to uncover early and to a degree automatic stages of language processing in the brain. Dr Shtyrov has published a large number of papers in international journals making a substantial contribution to the field of speech and language research.
Publications
Background acoustic noise and the hemispheric lateralization of speech processing in the human brain: magnetic mismatch negativity study. Y. Shtyrov, T. Kujala, J. Ahveninen, M. Tervaniemi, P. Alku, R.J. Ilmoniemi, R. Näätänen. Neuroscience Letters, 251, 141-144, 1998.
Noise affects speech-signal processing differently in the cerebral hemispheres. Y. Shtyrov, T. Kujala, R.J. Ilmoniemi, R. Näätänen. NeuroReport, 10:10, 2189-2192, 1999.
Lateralization of speech processing in the brain as indicated by the mismatch negativity and dichotic listening. Y. Shtyrov, T. Kujala, H. Lyytinen, J. Kujala, R.J. Ilmoniemi, R. Näätänen. Brain and Cognition, 43:1, 392-398, 2000.
Auditory-cortex evoked magnetic fields and lateralization of speech processing. Y. Shtyrov, T. Kujala, H. Lyytinen, R.J. Ilmoniemi, R. Näätänen. NeuroReport, 11:13, 2893-2896, 2000.
Discrimination of speech and of complex nonspeech sounds of different temporal structure in the left and right cerebral hemispheres. Y. Shtyrov, T. Kujala, S. Palva, R.J. Ilmoniemi, R. Näätänen. NeuroImage, 12:6, 657-663, 2000.
Memory Traces For Words As Revealed By The Mismatch Negativity. Pulvermüller F., Kujala T., Shtyrov Y., Simola J., Tiitinen H., Alku P., Alho K., Martinkauppi S., Ilmoniemi R.J., Näätänen R. NeuroImage, 14:3, 607-616, 2001.
Distinct gamma-band evoked responses to speech and non-speech sounds in humans. Palva, S, Palva, JM, Shtyrov, Y, Kujala, T, Ilmoniemi, R, Kaila, K, Näätänen, R. The Journal of Neuroscience, 22:RC211, 1-5, 2002.
Neurophysiological evidence of memory traces for words in the human brain. Shtyrov, Y & Pulvermüller F. NeuroReport, 13:4, 521-525, 2002.
Memory traces for inflectional affixes as shown by the mismatch negativity. Shtyrov, Y & Pulvermüller F. European Journal of Neuroscience, 15:6, 1085-1091, 2002.
Neurophysiological correlates of perceptual illusion: a mismatch negativity study. Micheyl, C., Carlyon, R.P., Shtyrov, Y., Hauk, O., Dodson, T., Pulvermuller, F. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15:5, 747-758, 2003.
Automatic processing of grammar in the human brain as revealed by the mismatch negativity. Pulvermuller, F. & Shtyrov, Y. NeuroImage, 20, 159-172, 2003.
Plastic cortical changes induced by learning to communicate with non-speech sounds. Kujala, A., Huotilainen, M., Uther, M., Shtyrov Y., Monto, S., Ilmoniemi, R.J., & Näätänen R. NeuroReport, 14:13, 1683-1687, 2003.
Grammar processing outside the focus of attention: an MEG study. Shtyrov, Y., Pulvermuller, F., Näätänen, R., Ilmoniemi R.J. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15:8, 1195-1206, 2003.
Spatiotemporal Dynamics Of Neural Language Processing: An MEG study using Minimum-Norm Current Estimates. Pulvermüller F., Shtyrov Y., Ilmoniemi R.J. NeuroImage, 20:2, 1020-5, 2003.
Word-specific cortical activity as revealed by the mismatch negativity (MMN). Pulvermüller F., Shtyrov Y., Kujala T., Näätänen R. Psychophysiology, 41, 106-112, 2004.
Distributed neuronal networks encoding category-specific semantic information as shown by the mismatch negativity to action words. Shtyrov Y., Hauk O., Pulvermüller F. European Journal of Neuroscience, 19:4, 1083-1092, 2004.
Long-term exposure to noise impairs cortical sound processing and attention control. T. Kujala, Y. Shtyrov, I. Winkler, M. Saher, M. Tervaniemi, M. Sallinen, W. Teder-Salejärvi, K. Alho, K. Reinikainen, R. Näätänen. Psychophysiology, 41, 875-881.
The effect of different noise types on the speech and non-speech elicited mismatch negativity. Kozou, H., Kujala, T., Shtyrov, Y., Toppila, E., Starck, J., Alku, P., Näätänen, R. Hearing Research, 199, 31-39, 2005.
Brain Signatures Of Meaning Access In Action Word Recognition. Pulvermuller, F., Shtyrov, Y., Ilmoniemi R.J. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 884-892, 2005.
Determinants of dominance: Is language laterality explained by physical or linguistic features of speech? Shtyrov Y., Pihko E. & Pulvermüller F. NeuroImage, 27(1), 37-47, 2005.
Training in Morse code enhances involuntary attentional switching to acoustic frequency: evidence from ERPs. Uther M., Kujala A., Huotilainen M., Shtyrov Y., Näätänen R. Brain Research, in press.
Tracking speech comprehension in space and time. Pulvermüller F., Shtyrov Y., Ilmoniemi R.J., Marslen-Wilson, W. NeuroImage, in press.
