2023
Joined the Consciousness, Computation, and Cognition group at Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium).
Following a discussion on plant sentience, published a paper proposing that to demonstrate consciousness in a system, one has to demonstrate both conscious and unconscious functioning in the system (inplying that consciousness can't exist without unconscious processes).
2022
Published a paper on how people transfer solutions from one task to another by manipulating physical objects (using a recreation of a unique 50-year-old soviet experimental equipment that we 3D-printed).
2021
Together with colleagues from St. Petersburg, published a paper on the relationship between theories of consciousness and the measures of consciousness. We showed that researchers rarely motivate their choice of measurement with theories.
Published a paper further investigating positive feelings from conflict resolution – showing that it develops with experience.
Published a provocative paper (in Russian) on the dangers of neuro-reductionism in popular science. Got quite some responses from colleagues and the general audience.
Running experiments on how emotional affect triggers control adaptations.
Digging into computational modeling and trying to apply it to my data.
2020
COVID hits.
My daughter Uliana was born.
Started a podcast with Ilya Zaharov where we discuss new papers in psychology and neuroscience (in Russian).
2019
Joined the Department of experimental psychology at Ghent University (Belgium).
Working on how affective reaction to conflict changes with experience.
Published a paper on how we can prevent the automatic acquisition of social stereotypes via implicit learning.
2018
Published a paper on separate affective signatures to errors and conflicts. We unexpectedly replicated another experiment showing that people like conflicts when they can resolve them successfully.
Worked on metacognition in implicit learning. Looked for the relationships between emotions and metacognition. Applied EEG to study implicit learning.
Took part in the CIFAR Winter school on the neuroscience of consciousness in Canada, where I met a lot of young researchers excited by the Science of Consciousness
2017
Joined the Department of Psychology at the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration in Moscow.
Obtained my first big grant for my own project on Metacognition in implicit learning (Russian Science Foundation).
Worked on metacognition in problem-solving, and experiments with tablets (transfer of solutions from one motor task to another).
Published a paper on the observer paradox in measuring consciousness: when you try to measure awareness in implicit learning, you change behavior under investigation.
After moving to Moscow, I was invited as a speaker to a number of popular science events and platforms, e.g. Science Slam, Geek Picnic, and Postnauka.
2016
Defended my PhD: Interaction between conscious and unconscious processes in artificial grammar learning (supervised by Dr. N. Moroshkina at St. Petersburg University)
Together with my colleagues from the Dept of Psychology at St. Petersburg University, we created the first official MOOC of the university. It was a course on the Psychology of consciousness initially developed for Coursera, now available at openedu.ru.
Was invited to co-lecture in a MOOC on data analysis in R. The MOOC was a great success with more than 47000 students to date. Later I took part in the creation of several other related MOOCs on the same platform [1, 2].
2015
Published a paper with a sketch of a computational model for artificial grammar learning (in Russian).
2014
Published a paper summarizing my theoretical views on various processes called implicit learning.
2012
Graduated from the Department of Psychology at St. Petersburg University and started as a PhD student there.
2009
My first paper ever published as conference proceedings
2007
Graduated from high school and entered the Department of psychology at St. Petersburg university
1989
November 10. I was born in Leningrad, USSR.
November 9. Berlin wall fell.