Hatice Zora

Hatice Zora is a researcher at the Department of Linguistics at Stockholm University. Her interdisciplinary work bridges linguistics and cognitive neuroscience, with a focus on the neural mechanisms underlying prosody and lexical access in speech processing.

• Key collaboration: Mary Rudner (Professor, Linnaeus Centre HEAD, Linköping University)
• Other collaborations: Tomas Riad (Stockholm University), Sari Ylinen (University of Helsinki)

Research Interests

• Investigates how subcortical emotional systems influence neocortical speech-related processing via prosodic features
• Studies hidden events in turn-taking dynamics with Mattias Heldner and Marcin Wlodarczak
• Develops electrophysiological-perceptual taxonomies of prosodic processing

Publications

• 4 major works (2015-2016) including a doctoral thesis on prosody-lexicon mapping
• Focus on mismatch negativity (MMN), P200 responses, and cross-linguistic comparisons (English, Turkish, Swedish)