Dr Ekaterina Ostashchenko
Lecturer
My profile
Biography
My research mainly investigates language acquisition in typically and atypically developing children. In my projects, I focus on available evidence about the cognitive processes that are believed to underlie language learning in typical development and try to explore whether and how these processes are disrupted in autism spectrum disorders.
I completed my PhD at the Free University of Brussels in October 2018. Prior to joining MMU, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge, where I worked in a group led by Dr Napoleon Katsos. I utilise a wide range of behavioural techniques and take a special interest in eye-tracking methods.
Research outputs
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Journal articles
Katsos, N., de Linares, B.G., Ostashchenko, E., Wilson, E. (2023) 'Perspective-taking in deriving implicatures: The listener's perspective is important too.' Cognition, 241
Ostashchenko, E., Deliens, G., Durrleman, S., Kissine, M. (2019) 'An eye-tracking study of selective trust development in children with and without autism spectrum disorder.' Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 189
Ostashchenko, E., Deliens, G., Geelhand, P., Bertels, J., Kissine, M. (2019) 'Referential processing in 3-and 5-year-old children is egocentrically anchored.' Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 45(8) pp. 1387-1397.
Ostashchenko, E., Geelhand, P., Deliens, G., Kissine, M. (2019) 'Struggling with alternative descriptions: Impaired referential processing in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.' Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 66
Deliens, G., Antoniou, K., Clin, E., Ostashchenko, E., Kissine, M. (2017) 'Context, facial expression and prosody in irony processing.' Journal of Memory and Language, 99pp. 35-48.
Ruytenbeek, N., Ostashchenko, E., Kissine, M. (2017) 'Indirect request processing, sentence types and illocutionary forces.' Journal of Pragmatics, 119pp. 46-62.