Dr. Jeff Hanna
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Phone: +49 (0)30 838 53656
Mail: jeff.hanna@gmail.com
Address: Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Room: JK 31/ 223
Sprechstunde: nach Vereinbarung
Personal Profile:
Holds the PhD in Neurolinguistics (2011) from the University of Cambridge, as well as master’s degrees from the University of Oxford (2006) and the University of Cambridge (2007), in Cuneiform Studies and Applied Linguistics respectively. Now serving as a Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Free University – Berlin, where responsibilities include research, teaching, and EEG lab oversight.
Research Interests:- Adult second language acquisition
- Syntax
- Morphology
- The mismatch negativity event-related potential
- Neurobiologically motivated theories of language use and acquisition
Hanna, J., Mejias, S., Schelstraete, M.-A., Pulvermüller, F., Shtyrov, Y., & Van der Lely, H. K. (2014). Early activation of Broca’s area in grammar processing as revealed by the syntactic mismatch negativity and distributed source analysis. Cognitive neuroscience, 5(2), 66-76. doi:10.1080/17588928.2013.860087
Hanna, J., & Pulvermüller, F. (2014). Neurophysiological evidence for whole form retrieval of complex derived words: a mismatch negativity study. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 8:886. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00886
Hanna, J., Shtyrov, Y., Williams, J., & Pulvermüller, F. (2016). Early neurophysiological indices of second language morphosyntax learning. Neuropsychologia, 82, 18-30. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.01.001
Lucchese, G., Hanna, J., Autenrieb, A. Miller, T.M.C., & Pulvermüller, F. (2016). Electrophysiological Evidence for Early and Interactive Symbol Access and Rule Processing in Retrieving and Combining Language Constructions. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_01038