Research
I am a cognitive neuroscientist interested in language processing. I lead the ‘Brain, Language and Bilingualism’ lab, where we use behavioural and neuroimaging techniques to explore the mechanisms of spoken language comprehension, and aim to understand how they might have evolved.
The other major strand of my research is bilingualism. This complementary line of work investigates the neuroplastic adaptations that enable speakers to learn and use multiple languages.
Publications
Key publications:
- Klimovich-Gray A, Bozic M, Molinaro N, Lallier M (2026). Dyslexia: a window into the cortical mechanisms of adaptive speech analysis. Trends in Neurosciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tins.2025.12.004
- Phelps, J., Bozic, M. (2024). Flexible functional adaptation of selective attention in bilingualism. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 1-15. doi:10.1017/S1366728924000397
- Phelps J, Attaheri A, Bozic M (2022). How bilingualism modulates selective attention in children. Scientific Reports, 12: 6381
- 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
- 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 (2014). Brain network connectivity during language comprehension: Interacting linguistic and perceptual subsystems. Cerebral Cortex. 25, 3962-3976.
- Marslen-Wilson, W.D., Bozic, M., & Tyler, L.K. (2014). Morphological systems in their neurobiological contexts. In M. Gazzaniga & G. Mangun (Eds) The Cogitive neurosciences, 5th Edition, MIT Press
- Bozic, M., Tyler, L.K., Wingfield, C., Su, L., & Marslen-Wilson, W.D. (2013). Neurobiological systems for lexical representation and analysis in English. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25, 1678-1691.
- Bozic, M., Tyler, L.K., Ives, D.T., Randall, B. & Marslen-Wilson, W.D. (2010). Bihemispheric foundations for human speech comprehension. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 107, 17439-17444.
