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Peer-reviewed journal articles

  • Zora, H., Bowin, H., Heldner, M., Riad, T., & Hagoort, P. (2024). The role of pitch accent in discourse comprehension and the markedness of Accent 2 in Central Swedish. Proceedings Speech Prosody 2024, 921-925. 

  • Zora, H., Wester, J., & Csépe, V (2023). Predictions about prosody facilitate lexical access: Evidence from P50/N100 and MMN components. International Journal of Psychophysiology.

  • Gussenhoven, C., Lu, Y., Lee-Kim, S., Liu, C., Rahmani, H., Riad, T., & Zora, H. (2022). The sequence recall task and lexicality of tone: Exploring tone “deafness”. Front. Psychol., 13:902569.  

  • Zora, H., & Csépe, V. (2021). Perception of simultaneous prosodic cues of linguistic and emotional origin: Evidence from early and late auditory event-related potentials. Front. Neurosci., 15: 797487. 

  • Zora, H., Riad, T., Ylinen, S., & Csépe, V. (2021). Phonological variations are compensated at the lexical level: Evidence from auditory neural activity. Front. Hum. Neurosci., 15:622904. [Invited contribution to the article collection on Phonological Representations and Mismatch Negativity Asymmetries. Eds. Arild Hestvik, Valerie L Shafer, Aditi Lahiri, and Mathias Scharinger]

  • Zora, H., Rudner, M., & Magnusson, A. (2020). Concurrent affective and linguistic prosody with the same emotional valance elicits a late positive ERP response. Eur. J. Neurosci., 51, 2236–2249.  

  • Persson, J., Szalisznyo, K., Antoni, G., Wall, A., Fällmar, D., Zora, H., & Bodén, R. (2020). Phosphodiesterase 10A levels are related to striatal function in schizophrenia: a combined positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Eur. Arch. Psychiatry Clin. Neurosci., 270, 451–459. 

  • Zora, H., Riad, T., & Ylinen, S. (2019). Prosodically controlled derivations in the mental lexicon. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 52. 

  • Zora, H., Riad, T., Schwarz, I.-C., & Heldner, M. (2016). Lexical specification of prosodic information in Swedish: Evidence from event-related potentials. Front. Neurosci., 10:533. 

  • Zora, H., Heldner, M., & Schwarz, I.-C. (2016). Perceptual correlates of Turkish word stress and their contribution to automatic lexical access: Evidence from early ERP components. Front. Neurosci., 10:7.  

  • Zora, H., Schwarz, I.-C., & Heldner, M. (2015). Neural correlates of lexical stress: mismatch negativity reflects fundamental frequency and intensity. Neuroreport, 26(13), 791–796. [The paper is ranked among the most popular articles in NeuroReport, with its topographic figures featuring on the cover page of the journal issue.]

Peer-reviewed conference contributions

  • Zora, H., Bowin, H., Heldner, M., & Hagoort, P. (2023). Relevance of prosodic information at the lexical and discourse levels: Evidence from psychometric and electrophysiological data. 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, 24–26 October, Marseille, France.

  • Zora, H., & Csépe, V. (2022). Inferential process of lexical access as evidenced by a mismatch negativity study. 14th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, 6–8 October, Philadelphia, USA.

  • Gussenhoven, C., Lu, Y., Lee-Kim, S., Liu, C., Rahmani, H., Riad, T., & Zora, H. (2021). The sequence recall task and lexicality of tone: Exploring tone “deafness”. 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI) 6– 9 December 2021, Sonderborg, Denmark. https://event.sdu.dk/tai2021

  • Zora, H., Rudner, M., & Magnusson, A. (2019). The role of affective and linguistic prosody in the cognitive emotional appraisal of language. 5th International Conference on Cognitive Hearing Science for Communication 9–12 June, Linköping, Sweden.

  • Zora, H., Magnusson, A., & Rudner, M. (2018). MMN signatures of symbolic and affective prosody. 8th Mismatch Negativity conference: MMN from basic science to clinical applications, 12–15 June, Helsinki, Finland.

  • Zora, H., Riad, T., & Ylinen, S. (2018). Prosodically controlled suffix alternation in the mental lexicon. 8th Mismatch Negativity conference: MMN from basic science to clinical applications, 12–15 June, Helsinki, Finland.

  • Zora, H., Magnusson, A., & Rudner, M. (2017). The effect of visual deprivation on prosodic processing. 4th International Conference on Cognitive Hearing Science for Communication 18–21 June, Linköping, Sweden.

  • Zora, H. (2013). Suprasegmental features in spoken language processing. Bilingual Minds, Bilingual Machines, 24– 28 June, The Cognition Institute, School of Psychology, Plymouth University, UK.

Books & Editorials

  • Zora, H. (2016). Mapping prosody onto the lexicon: Memory traces for lexically specified prosodic information in the brain. (PhD Dissertation), Stockholm University, Stockholm.

  • Zora, H., Gussenhoven, C., Tremblay, A., & Liu, F. (Eds.) (2022). Crosstalk between intonation and lexical tones: Linguistic, cognitive and neuroscience perspectives. Research Topic in Frontiers in Neuroscience, Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers in Communication, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 10 published articles. 

  • Zora, H., Gussenhoven, C., Tremblay, A., & Liu, F. (2022). Editorial: Crosstalk between intonation and lexical tones: Linguistic, cognitive and neuroscience perspectives. Front. Psychol., 13:1101499. 

Non peer-reviewed conference publications

  • Heldner, M., Riad, T., Sundberg, J., Wlodarczak, M., & Zora, H. (2021). Pride and prominence. Proceedings of Fonetik, 56. 

Invited talks/workshops

  • Zora, H. (2024). (E)lectrified (E)mpirical (G)uide for Language Comprehension. Invited EEG workshop at the MEDAL Summer School on Experimental Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, 17–21 June, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

  • Zora, H. (2024). How does prosody influence spoken language comprehension at the lexical and discourse levels? Insights from psychometric and electrophysiological findings. Scientific talk at the Linguistics Research Seminars, Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg. Invited by Dr. Henrik Bergqvist.  

  • Zora, H. (2023). Relevance of prosodic information for spoken communication at the lexical and discourse levels: Evidence from psychometric and electrophysiological data. Scientific talk at the Research Colloquium, Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, Germany. Invited by Prof. Bettina Braun.

  • Zora, H. (2022). Macro- Micro- and Nano-level Signatures of Prosodic Information Processing. Scientific talk at Language Symposium, The 9th Mismatch Negativity conference, 21–23 September, Fukushima, Japan. Invited by Prof. Thomas Jacobsen.

  • Zora, H. (2018). Neural correlates of symbolic and affective prosody. Scientific talk at the Sweden Korea Collaborative Symposium on Brain Research and Structural Biology, KAIST – Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 9–10 May, Daejeon, Seoul, Korea. Invited by Assoc. Prof. Ji- Joon Song.

Popular science contributions

  • Our brains are exclusively tuned to the sound of warnings. Blog at Het Talige Brein. 2022, 10 May.

  • Long distance communication: From fire beacons to ósanwe in Middle Earth. Blog at MPI TalkLing. 2022, 11 July.

  • Beyin, dil ve duygu geliÅŸimi. Youtube conversation with Dr. Elif Duygu Cindik from Neuro-Psychiatrisches Zentrum Riem, Munich, Germany, 2021, 1 Jun.

  • Çok dilli cocuklar hayatta daha avantajlı. Interview for Oksijen (Weekly newspaper in Turkish). 2021, 24 Sep.

  • Därför tar vi ton. Popular science article in Språktidningen. 2020, 1 Nov.

  • Hjärnan. Public lecture on language and brain. Broadcasted in Bildningspodden. 2020, 27 Feb. 

  • Hon kopplar språk och känslor. Interview for Språktidningen. 2019, 8 May.

  • Kutup Yıldızı III. IEEE YTÜ Basın-Yayın Komitesi Etkinlik, Istanbul Yıldız Teknik University, Turkey. 2019, 22 Oct.

  • Hjärnan tar fast på språkets melodi. Coverage for PhD research in Språktidningen. 2017, 29 Mar.

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