Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development
School of Psychology, Birkbeck College
32 Torrington Square, London WC1E 7JL
Phone: +44 (0)20 7079 0757
Fax: +44 (0)20 7631 6587
Email: e dot kushnerenko at bbk dot ac dot uk
Research interests
- Cognitive and perceptual development in infancy and childhood
- Maturation of brain event-related potentials (ERPs) from birth and throughout childhood
- Audio-visual speech perception and language acquisition
- Early socio-cognitive development and infant-parent attachment
- Early learning and pre-school education, learning disorders
Curriculum vitae
PhD, Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland, 2003
“Maturation of the cortical auditory event-related brain potentials in infancy”
MSc, Department of Higher Nervous Activity and Psychophysiology, St. Petersburg State University, Russia, 1994
Publications
Kushnerenko, E., Winkler, I., Horváth, J., Näätänen, R., Pavlov, I., Fellman, V, Huotilainen, M. (In Press). Processing acoustic change and novelty in newborn infants. Eur J Neurosci
Csibra, G., Kushnerenko, E., & Grossmann, T. (in press). Electrophysiological methods in studying infant cognitive development. To appear in C. Nelson & M. Luciana (Eds.), Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (2nd Edition) MIT Press, Cambridge, MA pdf
Mikkola, K, Kushnerenko, E., Partanen, E., Serenius-Sirved, S., Leipäläa, J., Huotilainen, M., Fellman, V. (In Press) Auditory event-related potentials and neurocognition of preterm children at five years of age. Clin Neurophysiol.
Sambeth, A., Huotilainen, M., Kushnerenko, E., Fellman, V., & Pihko, E. (2006). Newborns discriminate novel from harmonic sounds: A study using magnetoencephalography. Clin Neurophysiol, 117(3), 496-503 pdf
Fellman, V., Kushnerenko, E., Mikkola, K., Ceponiene, R., Leipala, J., & Naatanen, R. (2004). Atypical auditory event-related potentials in preterm infants during the first year of life: A possible sign of cognitive dysfunction? Pediatr Res, 56(2), 291-297 pdf
Winkler, I., Kushnerenko, E., Horvath, J., Ceponiene, R., Fellman, V., Huotilainen, M., et al. (2003). Newborn infants can organize the auditory world. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 100(20), 11812-11815 pdf
Huotilainen, M., Kujala, A., Hotakainen, M., Shestakova, A., Kushnerenko, E., Parkkonen, L., et al. (2003). Auditory magnetic responses of healthy newborns. Neuroreport, 14(14), 1871-1875.
Kushnerenko, E., Ceponiene, R., Balan, P., Fellman, V., and Naatanen, R. (2002). “Maturation of the auditory change-detection response in infants: A longitudinal ERP study.” Neuroreport, 13(15):1843-1848 pdf
Kushnerenko*, E., Ceponiene, R., Balan, P., Fellman, V., Huotilainen, M., & Naatanen, R. (2002). Maturation of the auditory event-related potentials during the 1st year of life. NeuroReport, 13, 47-51 pdf
Ceponiene, R., Kushnerenko, E. (equal contribution), Fellman, V., Renlund, M., Suominen, K., & Naatanen, R. (2002). Event-related potential features indexing central auditory discrimination by newborns. Cognitive Brain Res, 13, 101-113 pdf
Balan, P., Kushnerenko, E., Huotilainen, M., Naatanen, R., and Hukki, J. (2002). “Auditory ERPs reveal brain dysfunction in infants with plagiocephaly.” J Craniofac Surg. 13(4):520-525
Cheour, M., Kushnerenko, E., Ceponiene, R., Fellman, V., and Naatanen, R. (2002). “Electric brain responses obtained from newborn infants to changes in duration in complex harmonic tones.” Developmental Neuropshychology, 22(2), 471-479 pdf
Kushnerenko, E., Ceponiene, R., Fellman, V., Huotilainen, M., & Winkler, I. (2001). Event-related potential correlates of sound duration: Similar pattern from birth to adulthood. NeuroReport, 12 (17) 3777-3781 pdf
Kushnerenko, E., Cheour, M., Čeponienė, R., Fellman, V., Renlund, M., Soininen, K., Alku, P., Koskinen, M., Sainio, K., & Näätänen, R. (2001). Central Auditory Processing of Durational Changes in Complex Speech Patterns by Newborns: An Event-Related Brain Potential Study. Developmental Neuropsychology, 19(1), 85-89 pdf
Kushnerenko E.V., Bystrova K.S., Batuev A.S. The newborn babies reactions to the olfactory stimuli. (in Russian) Psychologicheski journal, 4, 1999.