Dr. Alex Miklashevsky

Teaching

Cognitive Science, Experimental Psychology, and Linguistics

• Linguistic Methods and Research Questions (seminar for undergraduate students)
• Language Function: Language(s), Words, and Concepts in the Brain (seminar for undergraduate students)
• Experimental Psychological Training (ExPrak) (seminar for undergraduate and graduate students)
• General Linguistics (seminar for undergraduate students)
• Linguistics in the System of Natural Sciences (seminar for graduate students)
• Introduction to Applied Linguistics (lecture and seminar for undergraduate students)

Statistics and Computational Linguistics

• Linear mixed-effects modeling in R (workshop for graduate students)
• Linguistic Databases (lecture and seminar for undergraduate students)
• Corpus Linguistics (lecture and seminar for undergraduate students)
• Content Analysis (lecture and seminar for undergraduate and graduate students)

Communication Science

• Introduction to Communication Theory (seminar for undergraduate students)
• Advertising and PR (seminar for undergraduate students)

Publications (selected)

• Platonova, O., & Miklashevsky, A. (2025). Warm and fuzzy: Perceptual semantics can be activated even during shallow lexical processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Advance online publication. doi:10.1037/xlm0001429
• Pohl, J., & Miklashevsky, A. (2025). Vertical and horizontal space-valence associations: A meta-analysis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 106054. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106054
• Wiepke, A., Belli, F., Fischer, M. H., & Miklashevsky, A. (2024). Embodied learning in virtual reality. In Virtual Reality in den Geisteswissenschaften: Konzepte, Methoden und interkulturelle Anwendungen (pp. 235-254). Peter Lang.
• Miklashevsky, A., Reifegerste, J., García, A.M., Pulvermüller, F., Balota, D.A., Veríssimo, J., &  Ullman, M.T. (2024). Embodied cognition comes of age: A processing advantage for action words is modulated by aging and the task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Vol. 153(7), 1725-1764. doi:10.1037/xge0001555
• Malyshevskaya, A., Miklashevsky, A., Fischer, M. H., Scheepers, C., Shtyrov, Y., & Myachykov, A. (2023). Keeping track of time: Horizontal spatial biases for hours, days, and months. Memory and Cognition. doi:10.3758/s13421-023-01508-1
• Gianelli, C., Kühne, K., Miklashevsky, A., Jeglinski-Mende, M. A., Canessa, N., & Borghi, A. M. (2023). COVID-19 and the perceived dangerousness of everyday objects: a behavioral online study in Italy and Germany. Collabra: Psychology. doi:10.1525/collabra.89171
• Laubrock, J., Miklashevsky, A., Kühne, K., Michirev, A., Jeglinski-Mende, M. A., & Felisatti, A. (2023). Continuous methods: Eye tracking, hand tracking, and grip force recording. In Experimental Methods in Embodied Cognition (pp. 49-69). Routledge.
• Miklashevsky, A., & Jeglinski-Mende, M. A. (2023). Non-experimental psychological methods: Questionnaires, tests, and rating studies. In Experimental Methods in Embodied Cognition (pp. 151-165). Routledge.
• Ibáñez, A., Kühne, K., Miklashevsky, A., Monaco, E., Muraki, E., Ranzini, M., Speed, L. J., & Tuena, C. (2023). Ecological Meanings: A Consensus Paper on Individual Differences and Contextual Influences in Embodied Language. Journal of Cognition, 6(1): 59, pp. 1–29. doi:10.5334/joc.228
• Kühne, K., Nenaschew, K., Miklashevsky, A. (2022). Space-valence mapping of social concepts: Do we arrange negative and positive ethnic stereotypes from left to right? Frontiers in Psychology. 13:1070177. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1070177
• Miklashevsky, A., Fischer, M. H., & Lindemann, O. (2022). Spatial-numerical associations without a motor response? Grip force says ‘Yes.’ Acta Psychologica, 231, 103791. doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103791
• Miklashevsky, A. (2022). Catch the star! Spatial information activates the manual motor system. PLoS ONE 17(7): e0262510. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0262510
• Miklashevsky, A. (2018). Perceptual experience norms for 506 Russian nouns: Modality rating, spatial localization, manipulability, imageability and other variables. Journal of psycholinguistic research, 47(3), 641-661. doi:10.1007/s10936-017-9548-1
• Miklashevsky, A., & Fischer, M. H. (2017). Commentary: Down with retirement: Implications of embodied cognition for healthy aging. Frontiers in psychology, 8, 599. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00599

Projects

• WiNoDa Knowledge Lab - Data competence center for natural science collections and object-related data

Curriculum Vitae

Work Experience

• since 2024: Lead of the WiNoDa Knowledge Lab (Natural History Museum, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin)
• 2023-2024: Lecturer, postdoc (Brain Language Laboratory, Free University of Berlin)
• 2017-2023: Postdoc (Potsdam Embodied Cognition Group, University of Potsdam)
• 2014-2018: Researcher, coordinator of research projects (International Centre for Research in Human Development, Tomsk State University)
• 2014-2017: Assistant lecturer (Philological Faculty, Tomsk State University)
• 2013-2014: Secondary school teacher (Tomsk Public School No. 40)

Education

• 2024: Ph.D. in Cognitive Science (University of Potsdam)
• 2018: Ph.D. in Linguistics (Tomsk State University)
• 2015: M.A. in Cognitive Linguistics (Tomsk State University)
• 2015: German language translator (additional education) (Tomsk State University)
• 2013: B.A. in Philology (Tomsk State University)

Tasks

Lead of the WiNoDa Knowledge Lab - Data competence center for natural science collections and object-related data.

Scientific Interests:

• Cognitive science
• Experimental psychology
• Linguistics
• Data management
• Scientific management