Evie A.

Malaia
Curriculum Vitae
08/2016
1330 E. Allendale Drive, Bloomington, IN, USA
cell: +1-765-418-1229

email: evie1706@gmail.com
website: eviemalaia.weebly.com

EDUCATION
2005
Ph.D., Computational Linguistics, Purdue University, IN
2001
MS, Education and Linguistics, Chuvash State Pedagogical University, Russia
1999
BS, Education and Linguistics, Chuvash State Pedagogical University, Russia
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2016 present
Visiting Scholar, Purdue University, IN, USA
2015 2016
Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, The Netherlands
2011 2015
Assistant Professor, Center for Mind, Brain, and Education, UT Arlington, TX
2010 2011
Assistant Scientist, Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, IN
2005 2010
Researcher, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Purdue University, IN
GRANTS
2015-16 EURIAS Fellowship, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, The Netherlands
2015 Association of Psychological Science Award for Teaching and Public Understanding of
Psychological Science, project EEG workshop in Eastern Europe, PI
2014 NSF grant International Mind, Brain, and Education conference, PI
2014 ORAU (Department of Energy) Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award,
Network analysis of electrophysiological activity in ASD youths, PI
2013 Research Enhancement Program grant, Neural processing of emotional cues in Children
with Autism Spectrum Disorders, UT Arlington, PI
2012 NSF grant REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Mathematics in
Indiana University, role: Neuroscience strand leader (PI: Kevin Pilgrim)
AWARDS
2015
2015
2012-13
2013

National Certificate of Merit in Research Advising (NACADA)

Outstanding Academic Advisor Award, University of Texas at Arlington
Faculty for Service Learning Fellowship, UT Arlington 2012-2013
Best Article of the Year, College of Education and Health Professions, UTA

PUBLICATIONS

Citations: 229, h-index: 8

Refereed Journal Articles

2016 Malaia, E., Borneman, J.D., Wilbur, R.B. (in press) Assessment of information content in
visual signal: analysis of optical flow fractal complexity. Visual Cognition
doi:10.1080/13506285.2016.1225142

2016

Malaia, E. (in press) Methodologies for quantitative analysis of information transfer sign
language and gesture data. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

2016 Malaia, E., Bates, E., Seitzman, B., Coppers, K. (in press) Altered resting state network
dynamics in youths with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Experimental Brain Research.
doi:10.1007/s00221-016-4737-y
2016 Cockerham, D., Malaia, E. (in press) Neuroscience-supported approaches to teaching
students on the autism spectrum. Zeitschrift fur Psychologie, Special Issue on
Educational Neuroscience.
2015 Malaia, E., Newman, S. Neural bases of syntax-semantics interface processing. Cognitive
Neurodynamics, 9(3), 317-329.
2015 Malaia, E., Newman, S. Neural bases of event knowledge and syntax integration in
comprehension of complex sentences. Neurocase, 21 (6), 753-766.
2014 Malaia, E., Tommerdahl, J., Mckee, F.W. Deductive and heuristic reasoning processing
markers in EEG. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 44 (5), 533-544.
2014 Malaia, E., Talavage, T., Wilbur, R.B. Functional connectivity in task-negative network of
the Deaf: effects of sign language experience. PeerJ, doi: 10.7717/peerj.446
2014 Malaia, E. It Still Isn't Over: Event Boundaries in Language and Perception. Language and
Linguistics Compass, 8(3), 89-98.
2014 Newman, S., Malaia, E., & Seo, R. Does degree of handedness in a group of right-handed
individuals affect language comprehension? Brain and Cognition, 86, 98-103.
2013 Malaia, E., Wilbur, R.B., Milkovid, M. Kinematic parameters of signed verbs at morphophonology interface. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 56 (5), 1-12.
2013 Newman, S., Malaia, E., Seo, R., Hu, C. The effect of individual differences in working
memory capacity on sentence comprehension: an fMRI study. Brain Topography, 26(3),
458-67.
2012 Malaia, E., Ranaweera, R., Wilbur, R.B., Talavage. T.M. Event segmentation in a visual
language: Neural bases of processing American Sign Language predicates. Neuroimage,
59(4), 4094-4101.
2012 Malaia, E., Wilbur, R.B., Weber-Fox, C. Down the garden path in EEG: telicity effects on
thematic role re-assignment in relative clauses with transitive verbs. Journal of
Psycholinguistic Research, 41(5), 323-345.

2012 Malaia, E., Wilbur, R.B. Motion capture signatures of telic and atelic events in ASL
predicates. Language and Speech, 55(3), 407-421.
2010 Malaia, E., Wilbur, R.B. Early Acquisition of Sign Language: What Neuroimaging Data Tell
Us. Sign Language and Linguistics, 13(2), 189-193.
2010 Malaia, E., Wilbur, R.B. Sign Languages: Contribution to Neurolinguistics from Crossmodal Research. Lingua, 120 (12), 2704-2706.
2009 Malaia, E., Wilbur, R., Weber-Fox, C. ERP evidence for telicity effects on syntactic
processing in garden-path sentences. Brain and Language, 108(3), 145-158.
2008 Wilbur, R., Malaia, E. Contributions of Sign Language research to gesture understanding:
What can multimodal computational systems learn from Sign Language research.
International Journal of Semantic Computing, 2(1), 5-20.
Book Chapters
In press Malaia, E., Milkovid, M. Aspect theoretical and experimental perspectives. In J. Quer,
R. Pfau and A. Herrmann (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Theoretical and Experimental Sign
Language Research.
In press Wilbur, R.B., Malaia, E. A new technique for assessing narrative prosodic effects in
sign languages. In A. Hbl & M. Steinbach (eds.), Linguistic Foundations of Narration in
Spoken and Sign Languages, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2016 Malaia, E., Egorova, E., Hinesley, V. Developmental Characteristics of Gifted Children:
Educational Approaches. In J. Horvath, J. Lodge, and J. Hattie (eds.) From the
Laboratory to the Classroom: Translating the Science of Learning for
Teachers. Routledge, UK.
2014 Malaia, E., Wilbur, R.B. Enhancement of spatial processing in sign language users. In D.
R. Montello, K. E. Grossner, and D. G. Janelle (eds.), Space in Mind: Concepts and
Ontologies for Spatial Thinking, pp. 159-171, MIT press.
2014 Barbu, A., Barrett, D., Chen, W., Siddarth, N., Xiong, C., Corso, J., Fellbaum, C., Hanson,
C., Hanson, S., Helie, S., Malaia, E., Pearlmutter, B., Siskind, J., Talavage, T., Wilbur, R.
(2014). Seeing is Worse than Believing: Reading Peoples Minds Better than
Computer-Vision Methods Recognize Actions. In D. Fleet et al. (eds.) European
Conference on Computer Vision 2014, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 612
627. Springer: Lausanne.
2014 Malaia, E., Gonzalez-Castillo, J., Weber-Fox, C., Talavage, T.M., Wilbur, R.B. Neural

processing of verbal event structure: temporal and functional dissociation between

telic and atelic verbs. In: Mandouilidou, C., de Ameida, R. (eds.) Cognitive Science
Perspectives on Verb Representation and Processing, pp. 131 - 140. Springer:
Lausanne.
2013 Malaia, E., Wilbur, R.B., Weber-Fox, C. Event end-point primes the Undergoer
argument: a look at neurobiological bases of event structure. In Gehrke, B.,
Arsenijevic, B. (eds.) Subatomic semantics of event predicates, pp. 231-248. Springer:
Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy.
2013 Newman, S. D., Malaia, E. The neural bases of intelligence: a perspective based on
functional neuroimaging. In Plucker, J.A. & C. Callahan (eds.) Critical Issues and
Practices in Gifted Education: What the Research Says, pp. 451-464. Prufrock Press.
2012 Malaia, E., Wilbur, R.B. Telicity expression in visual modality. In McNally, L. &
Delmonte, V. (eds.) Telicity, change, and state: A cross-categorial view of event
structure, pp. 122-136. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2012 Malaia, E., Wilbur, R.B. What Sign Languages show: neurobiological bases of visual
phonology. Di Sciullo, A.M. (ed.) Towards a biolinguistic understanding of grammar:
essays on interfaces, pp. 265-275. John Benjamins Publishing.
2012 Wilbur, R., Malaia, E., Shay, R. Degree Modification and Intensification in American
Sign Language Adjectives. In Aloni, M., Kimmelman, V., Roelofsen, F. (eds.) Logic,
Language and Meaning, pp. 92-101. Springer: Berlin.
2010 Malaia, E., Wilbur, R.B. Representation of verbal event structure in sign languages.
Bertinetto, P.M., Korhonen, A., Lenci, A., Melinger, A., Shulte im Walde, S.,
Villavicencio, A. (eds.) Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary workshop on verbs: The
Identification and representation of verb features, pp. 165-170. Pisa, Italy.
2009 Malaia, E. Ontological representation of event structure across languages: the case of
psych verbs. Proceedings of International Congress of Linguists CIL-2008, pp. 27272740. Seoul, Korea.
2008

Malaia, E., Wilbur, R.B. The biological bases of syntax-semantics interface in natural
languages: cognitive modeling and empirical evidence. Samsonovich, A. V. (ed.)
Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures: Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium,
113-116. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.

2008 Malaia, E., Wilbur, R., Talavage, T. Experimental evidence of event structure effects on
ASL predicate production and neural processing. Proceedings of the 44th meeting of

Chicago Linguistic Society, 44(2), 203-211.

2008 Malaia, E., Borneman, J., & Wilbur, R. B. Analysis of ASL Motion Capture Data towards
Identification of Verb Type. In J. Bos & R. Delmonte (Eds.), Semantics in Text
Processing. STEP 2008 Conference Proceedings, 155-164. College Publications.
2006

Malaia, E. Domain acquisition for ontological semantics: Methodology and practice.

Proceedings of International Conference on Corpus Linguistics - 2006, 250-255. St.
Petersburg, Russia.

2004

Malaia, E. Event structure and telicity in Russian: an event-based analysis for telicity
puzzle in Slavonic languages. Ohio State University Working Papers in Slavic Studies,
Vol. 4, 87-98. Columbus, Ohio.

Manuscripts under review

Malaia, E., Shannon, N., Puce, A., Newman, S. Alpha-power gating of intra-network efficiency
in late bilinguals. Language and Cognition
Malaia, E., Cockerham, D., Rublein, K. Visual processing of face and body emotional cues in
children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: an EEG study. Neuropsychologia
Malaia, E., Wilbur, R.B. Understanding the interaction of visual input processing in sign
language and working memory span. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
INVITED TALKS
2015
Ashoka University, Delhi, India (December 4th)
2015
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (November 6th)
2015
Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany (June 5th)
2015
EMCL Program, University of Potsdam, Germany (May 11th)
2015
Department of Education, University of Cincinnati, OH (February 3rd)
2014
Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Mississippi, MS (October 30th)
2014
St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia (July 31st)
2013
Department of Mathematics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (June 7th)
2012
Applied Mathematics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX (November 8th)
2010
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (December 7th)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Panels Organized
2014
Event representation and processing. Association for Psychological Science, San
Francisco, CA; May 22 - 25
2014
Memory and learning. International Mind, Brain, and Education conference, Fort
Worth, TX; November 6 - 8

Papers Presented
2016
Malaia, E., Borneman, J.D., Wilbur., R.B. Information-carrying capacity of sign
language measured by fractal complexity of motion. Languages as Mechanisms for
Interaction: Explorations and Repercussions, Ghent University, Belgium; June 24-25
2016
McDonald, Wolfe, Wilbur, Moncrief, Malaia, Fujimoto et al. A new tool to facilitate
prosodic analysis of motion capture data and a data-driven technique for the
improvement of avatar motion. Language Resources and Evaluation Conference,
Portoro, Slovenia; May 23-28
2016
Malaia, E., Borneman, J.D., Wilbur., R.B. Bioinformatic properties of sign language
motion as indicated by fractal complexity of optical flow. International Neuroscience
Winter Conference. Slden, Austria; April 2-6
2015
Malaia, E. Binding during garden-path recovery: a combined EEG-fMRI approach.
Experimental Psycholinguistics Conference, Madrid, Spain; October 6-8
2015
Malaia, E., Borneman, J.D., Wilbur., R.B. How does a language-ready brain recognize
language? Information transfer in sign language as measured by fractal complexity of
motion. Functional and Experimental Approaches to Sign Language Theory (FEAST),
Barcelona, Spain; May 4-6
2014
Malaia, E. The tradeoffs in generalized vs. specific memory resources for spatial and
linguistic processing. International Mind, Brain, and Education conference, Fort Worth,
TX; November 6-8
2014
Malaia, E. Borneman, J., Wilbur, R.B. Bioinformatic properties of sign language motion
as indicated by fractal complexity of optical flow. 79th CSHL symposium on
Quantitative Biology: Cognition. Cold Spring Harbor, NY; May 28 June 2
2014
Malaia, E. Event representation and processing in sign language users crosslinguistically. Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA; May 22 - 25
2014
Malaia, E., Bates, E., Coppers, J. Network dynamics in EEG of youths with Autism
Spectrum Disorder. International Neuroscience Winter Conference. Slden, Austria;
April 8-12
2014
Perry, T., Malaia, E. Working Memory Intervention: A Reading Comprehension
Approach. American Educational Research Association meeting, Philadelphia, PA; April
3-7
2013
Seitzman, B., Bates, E., Coppers, J., Poelhios, J., Malaia, E. EEG time series analysis and
functional connectivity network measures of typically developing and autism spectrum
disorder youths. Cell symposia: the Networked Brain. San Diego, CA; November 7-8
2013
Malaia, E., Borneman, J., Wilbur, R.B. Bioinformatic properties of sign language
motion: fractal complexity of optical flow. Workshop on Advances in Biolinguistics,
Geneva, Switzerland; July 26
2013
Malaia, E., Shannon, N., Newman, S.D. Cognitive effort during reading in late
bilinguals: an EEG study. 19th Congress International of Linguists, Geneva, Switzerland,
July 21-27

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Malaia, E., Wilbur, R.B. Functional connectivity for visual language processing.
Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, University College London, London, UK
Malaia, E., Wilbur, R.B. Functional connectivity for visual language processing. Human
Brain Mapping, Seattle, WA; June 16-20
Cockerham, D., Rublein, K., Malaia, E. Processing of face and body emotional cues in
children with autism spectrum disorders. International Mind, Brain, and Education,
Quito, Equador; May 30 June 1
Malaia, E., Shannon, N., Newman, S.D. Easy as pie: reading in late English-Spanish
bilinguals: an EEG study. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA; April 13-16
Malaia, E., Tommerdahl, J., Mckee, F.W. Deductive vs. heuristic reasoning markers in
EEG. Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL; May 24-27
Malaia, E., Newman, S.D. Noun animacy and verbal telicity jointly modulate sentence
processing. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Chicago, IL; March 31 - April 3
Malaia, E., Wilbur, R.B. A neural link between processing event boundaries and verb
meaning. Experimental Studies in Sign Language Research workshop, Frankfurt-amMain, Germany; March 7
Malaia, E., Newman, S.D. Telicity effect on event segmentation in sentence reading:
fMRI study. Society for Neuroscience conference, Washington, D.C.; November 12-16
Malaia, E., Newman, S.D. Resource allocation effect on reading times: an animacytelicity interaction study. Structuring the Argument: A Multidisciplinary Workshop on
the Mental Representation of Verbal Argument Structure, Paris, France; September 5-7
Malaia, E., Ranaweera, R.,Wilbur, R.B., Talavage, T.M. Default network in the Deaf:
fMRI evidence for modality-specific adjustments. Human Brain Mapping, Quebec City,
Canada; June 26-30
Malaia, E., Weber-Fox, C., Wilbur, R.B. Syntax-semantics interface effects in online
processing of relative clauses. On Linguistic Interfaces II, Ulster, UK; December 2-4
Malaia, E., Weber-Fox, C., Wilbur, R.B. Verbal event structure affects thematic role
processing: neurophysiological evidence relevant for theory of lexicon-syntax
interface. Verb Meaning, Event Semantics and Argument Structure, Barcelona, Spain;
December 2-3
Malaia, E., Wilbur, R.B. Event structure: from perception to sign language production.
Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Purdue University, IN; September 30
October 2

TEACHING
Semester courses
2015 Conducting Research in Education, Graduate Seminar, UT Arlington
Experimental Design in Language and Cognition Research
2014 Models in Mind, Brain, and Education, UT Arlington
Experimental Design in Language and Cognition Research
EEG Methods for Language Research, Graduate Workshop
Research in Language Education, Graduate Seminar

2013

2012
2011

Development of Mathematical Abilities, Graduate Seminar

Models in Mind, Brain, and Education, UT Arlington
Introduction to Educational Neuroscience
Experimental Design in Language and Cognition Research
Neuroscience of Language and Logic, UT Arlington
Phonological Development and Disorders, Indiana University (62 students)

Invited short courses

July 2015
Experimental Psycholinguistics, NYI-St. Petersburg Summer Institute, Russia
May - June 2015 EEG method and experimental design, University of Potsdam, Germany
July 2014
Information theory in linguistics, NYI-St. Petersburg Summer Institute, Russia
June-July 2012 Network analysis of EEG time-series, NSF REU, Indiana University, IN
Dissertation supervision
2015 Amber Harris, Ph.D; Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Arlington.
2014 Tracy Carnes, Masters in Mind, Brain, and Education, UT Arlington
Deborah Cockerham, Masters in Mind, Brain, and Education, UT Arlington
2013 Katherine Rublein, Masters in Mind, Brain, and Education, UT Arlington
SERVICE TO PROFESSION
Review Editor
2012 present
2013 2015

Frontiers in Language Science

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Research Grant Reviewer, Full Panelist

2016
European Institute for Advanced Studies, selection committee
2015
National Science Foundation, Division for Research on Learning
2014
NIH, Language and Communication Section, Center for Scientific Review
2014, 2016
National Defense Science and Engineering Fellowship
2013-2015
National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship
Manuscript Reviewer
2016 Cognitive Neurodynamics; Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders; Journal of
Educational Psychology
2015 Behavioral and Brain Sciences; Language and Cognition; Psychonomic Bulletin & Review;
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience; Frontiers in Language Science
2014 Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders; Visual Cognition; Bridgepoint Education
(textbook manuscript); Frontiers in Human Neuroscience; Frontiers in Language Sciences
2013 Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience; Cognitive Neurodynamics; Frontiers in Human
Neuroscience; Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures
2012 Taylor & Francis (textbook manuscript); NeuroImage
2011 Sign Language and Linguistics; Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures

2009 Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

2008 Brain and Language
Departmental/University service
2015 College Student Awards committee
2014 College Research Review committee
LANGUAGES
English, Russian - native
German, Dutch conversational
American Sign Language basic
Chuvash, Croatian Sign Language, Austrian Sign Language linguistic familiarity
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIP
2005
2008
2010
2010
2011
2013
2013
2015
2015

Cognitive Neuroscience Society

Organization for Human Brain Mapping
American Psychological Association
Society for Neuroscience
International Mind, Brain, and Education Society
American Educational Research Association
Psychonomic Society
Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
Dutch Neurofederation