Dr Mirjana Bozic

Mirjana Bozic

University position

Lecturer

Dr Mirjana Bozic is pleased to consider applications from prospective PhD students.

Departments

Department of Psychology

Email

mb383@cam.ac.uk

Home page

https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/...

Research Theme

Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience

Interests

I study language as a cognitive and a neural system. My research focuses on the neural mechanisms that support spoken language comprehension. Using behavioural and neuroimaging techniques, I investigate how different properties of the speech input engage the underlying neural architecture to produce successful comprehension.

The second major strand of my research is bilingualism. I am interested in understanding the cognitive and the neural consequences of the ability to speak two (or more) languages.

Research Focus

Keywords

language

neuro-biology

speech

neuroimaging

bilingualism

Clinical conditions

No direct clinical relevance

Equipment

Behavioural analysis

Electroencephalography (EEG)

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Collaborators

Cambridge

Tristan Bekinschtein

Olaf Hauk

William Marslen-Wilson

United Kingdom

Caroline Whiting Web: http://www.gla.ac.uk/

Associated News Items


Key publications

Olguin A, Cekic M, Bekinschtein TA, Katsos N, Bozic M (2019), “Bilingualism and language similarity modify the neural mechanisms of selective attention” Scientific Reports 9: 8204

Marslen-Wilson WD, Bozic M (2018), “Dual neurobiological systems underlying language evolution: Inferring the ancestral state” . Current Opinion in Behavioral Science 21, 176–181

Whiting CM, Cowley RG, Bozic M (2017), “The role of semantic context in early morphological processing” Frontiers in Psychology 8:991

Bozic M, Fonteneau E, Su L, Marslen-Wilson WD (2015), “Grammatical analysis as a distributed neurobiological function ” Human Brain Mapping 36: 1190-1201

Fonteneau E, Bozic M, Marslen-Wilson WD (2015), “ Brain network connectivity during language comprehension: interacting linguistic and perceptual subsystems” Cerebral Cortex 25: 3962-3976

Marslen-Wilson WD, Bozic M, Tyler LK (2014), “Morphological systems in their neurobiological contexts ” In M. Gazzaniga, (Ed) The Cognitive Neurosciences, 5th Edition, MIT Press

Bozic M, Tyler LK, Ives DT, Randall B, Marslen-Wilson WD (2010), “Bihemispheric foundations for human speech comprehension.” Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107(40):17439-44 Details

Publications

2019

Klimovich-Gray A, Bozic M (2019), “Domain-general and domain-specific computations in single word processing” NeuroImage 202

2018

Olguin A, Bekinschtein TA, Bozic M (2018), “Neural encoding of attended continuous speech under different types of interference” Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 30, 1606-1619

2017

Klimovich-Gray A, Bozic M, Marslen-Wilson WD (2017), “Perceptual complexity and grammatical processing in left perisylvian cortex: Evidence from Russian” Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 22, 1878-1896

Yang YH, Marslen-Wilson WD, Bozic M (2017), “Syntactic complexity and frequency in spoken language comprehension” Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 29, 1-16

2016

Carota F, Bozic M, Marslen-Wilson WD (2016), “Decompositional morphological complexity: Multivariate fMRI evidence from Italian.” Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 22, 1878-1896

Leminen A, Lehtonen M, Bozic M, Clahsen H (2016), “Editorial: Morphologically Complex Words in the Mind/Brain. ” Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 10:47

2013

Bozic M, Marslen-Wilson WD (2013), “Neurocognitive mechanisms for processing inflectional and derivational complexity in English” Psihologija 46: 437-452

Bozic M, Szlachta Z, Marslen-Wilson WD (2013), “Cross-linguistic parallels in processing derivational morphology: evidence from Polish.” Brain Lang 127(3):533-8 Details

Bozic M, Tyler LK, Su L, Wingfield C, Marslen-Wilson WD (2013), “Neurobiological systems for lexical representation and analysis in english.” J Cogn Neurosci 25(10):1678-91 Details

2012

Szlachta Z, Bozic M, Jelowicka A, Marslen-Wilson WD (2012), “Neurocognitive dimensions of lexical complexity in Polish.” Brain Lang 121(3):219-25 Details

2010

Bozic M, Marslen-Wilson WD (2010), “Left and right hemisphere contribution to processing of morphologically complex words” Language and Linguistic Compass 11, 1063-1073

2008

Marslen-Wilson WD, Bozic M, Randall B (2008), “Early decomposition in visual word recognition: Dissociating morphology, form, and meaning.” Lang Cogn Process 23(3):394-421 Details

2007

Bozic M, Marslen-Wilson WD, Stamatakis EA, Davis MH, Tyler LK (2007), “Differentiating morphology, form, and meaning: neural correlates of morphological complexity.” J Cogn Neurosci 19(9):1464-75 Details