Hatice Zora Researcher

Whether speech and emotions share neuronal networks holds the key to understanding the evolution of speech-like communication. Our ability to speak may be a result of our genetically predisposed sensitivity to emotional sounds that provide information of survival concerns. In my postdoc project I, therefore, investigate if basic subcortical emotional systems have an impact on neocortical expansions that are crucial for speech-related processing mechanisms. The project relies on prosodic features that transmit essential information not only about the content of speech but also about the emotional state that the speaker is in. 

Collaboration:

• Mary Rudner, Professor, Linnaeus Centre HEAD, Swedish Institute for Disability Research, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Learning, Linköping University

Prosody in early morphological and phonological processing 


Collaboration:

• Tomas Riad, Professor, Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism, Stockholm University
• Sari Ylinen, Associate Professor, Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of 
 Medicine, University of Helsinki 


Hidden events in turn taking

Collaboration:

• Mattias Heldner (PI), Professor, Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University
• Marcin Wlodarczak, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University