Berlin NeuroImaging Center Dept. of Neurology Charité, Humboldt-University Charitéplatz 1 10117 Berlin Fon ++49 30 450 560 143 Fax ++49 30 450 560 952 sonja.rossi@charite.de

Curriculum Vitae

29.12.1978	born in Bolzano / Bozen (Italy)
2003	Master of Science (Mag. rer. nat.) in Psychology from University of Salzburg (Austria)
2003-2005	PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig (Germany)
2005	PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Psychology from University of Salzburg (Austria)
Since 2006	Postdoctoral Researcher at the Berlin NeuroImaging Center, Charité, in Berlin (Germany)

Research Interests

• Neuronal processing mechanisms of language in children and adults
• First- and Second language processing
• Syntax, Morphosyntax, Semantics
• Basic Auditory Processing
• Phonotactics

Methods

• EEG
• NIRS

Publications

Rossi, S., Gugler, M.F., Hahne, A., & Friederici, A.D. (2005). When word category information encounters morphosyntax: An ERP study. Neuroscience Letters, 384, 228-233.

Gugler, M.F., Rossi, S., Friederici, A.D., & Hahne, A. (2005). The processing of subject specificity in sentence comprehension: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Poster presented at 11th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing AMLaP), Ghent, Belgium, September 2005.

Rossi, S., Gugler, M.F., Friederici, A.D., & Hahne, A. (2005). The role of proficiency in second language processing: ERP evidence from German and Italian. Poster presented at 11th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Ghent, Belgium, September 2005.

Rossi, S., Gugler, M.F., Friederici, A.D. & Hahne, A. (2005). Syntactic processing and the role of proficiency in second language learners of German and Italian as revealed by ERPs. Poster presented at Rovereto Workshop on Bilingualism, Rovereto, Italy, October 2005.

Rossi, S., Gugler, M.F., Friederici, A.D., & Hahne, A. (2006). The impact of proficiency on syntactic second-language processing of German and Italian: evidence from event-related potentials. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 2030-2048.

Rossi, S. (2006). The role of proficiency in syntactic second language processing: Evidence from event-related brain potentials in German and Italian. MPI series in human cognitive and brain sciences, 69. Leipzig: MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences.

Rossi, S. (2006). Brain and Syntax: Electrophysiological evidence from native speakers, early and late bilinguals in German and Italian. In: W. Wiater & G. Videsott (Eds.), Schule in mehrsprachigen Regionen / School Systems in Multilingual Regions of Europe. Wien: Peter Lang.

Gugler, M.F., Rossi, S., Friederici, A.D., & Hahne, A. (2006). Reference processing in sentence comprehension: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Poster presented at Mining Brain Dynamics: A Tutorial Workshop on Independent Component Analysis in Neuroimaging, Bergen, Norway, September 2006.

Rossi, S., Gugler, M.F., Friederici, A.D. & Hahne, A. (2006). How does the second language proficiency influence syntactic processing? Evidence from event-related brain potentials in German and Italian. Poster presented at Mining Brain Dynamics: A Tutorial Workshop on Independent Component Analysis in Neuroimaging, Bergen, Norway, September 2006.