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Born February 7, 1947Leningrad, USSR ( 1947-02-07 ) Institutions St. Petersburg State University Notable awards 2010 Honored Worker of Science Fields Neuroscience, Psycholinguistics Institution Saint Petersburg State University Similar Konstantin Anokhin, Natalia Bekhtereva, Vladimir Posner, Sergey Kapitsa |
Tatyana chernigovskaya on the difference between male and female brains 2016
Tatyana Vladimirovna Chernigovskaya (Russian: Татья́на Влади́мировна Черни́говская; Born on 7 February 1947 in Leningrad, USSR) is a Soviet and Russian scientist in the field of neuroscience, psycholinguistics and theory of mind, a Honored Worker of Science (2010). On her initiative in 2000 was first open training specialization "Psycholinguistics" (in General Linguistics Department of St. Petersburg State University Faculty of Philology).
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- Tatyana chernigovskaya on the difference between male and female brains 2016
- Biography
- Activity
- Awards
- Memberships
- Publications
- References

Biography

Chernigovskaya was born in Leningrad. She graduated from the department of English philology of philological faculty of Leningrad State University. She specialized in the field of experimental phonetics. Until 1998, she worked at the Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry.

In 1977 she defended her Candidate of Sciences thesis, and in 1993 doctoral dissertation on "The evolution of linguistic and cognitive function: physiological and neurolinguistic aspects". She is a professor at the Faculty of Philology of the Saint Petersburg State University.
She is engaged in experimental and clinical studies of the mental lexicon of Russian speakers.
Activity

She teaches at St. Petersburg State University, as well as at Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the European University in St. Petersburg.
She also hosted a series of television programs on the "Culture" channel - "Звёздное небо мышления", "We will show the nature of the mirror ..." and "Petersburg - Fifth Channel" - "Night", heading "Intellect".
Awards
On 9 January, 2010, the President of the Russian Federation awarded her the honorary title "Honored Worker of Science".
Memberships
Publications
She has more than 300 publications in Russian and foreign journals.