Dr Hannah Hobson
Senior Lecturer

Profile

Biography

I have studied and worked in Oxford, KCL and Greenwich. In addition to my research activities, I have an active interest in reproducibility in psychology and the biomedical and social sciences. 

• 2009-2012 - BA Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
• 2012-2016 - DPhil Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
• 2015 – Policy internship, Academy of Medical Sciences (funded by Medical Research Council)
• 2016-2017 - Postdoctoral Researcher, Kings College London, UK
• 2017-2019 - Lecturer, University of Greenwich, UK
• 2019 – Joined University of York as a Lecturer

Research

Overview

My research considers language and communication problems, especially their relation to non-language difficulties, including social and emotional problems. I have conducted research with a range of populations who have developmental or acquired communication problems, including autism spectrum disorder, developmental language disorder, traumatic brain injury and stroke.  My research has also considered imitation abilities and neural systems that underlie imitation, particularly focussing on how we measure activity in the human mirror neuron system using EEG. I also have an active interest in reproducibility in psychology and the broader biomedical sciences.

Projects

I would be happy to consider PhD students who are interested in social/emotional difficulties in individuals with communication problems, or experimental projects examining the functional role of language processes in emotion recognition and regulation.

Research group(s)

Developmental Research Group

Collaborators

Supervision

Publications

Selected publications

• Hobson, Hannah, Brewer, Rebecca, Catmur, Caroline and Bird, Geoffrey (2019) 
  The role of language in alexithymia: moving towards a multi-route model of alexithymia. In: Emotion Review. Sage Publishing. pp. 247-261. ISSN 1754-0739 ISSN 1754-0739
• Hobson, Hannah, Hogeveen, Jeremy, Brewer, Rebecca, Catmur, Caroline, Gordon, Barry, Krueger, Frank, Chau, 
  Aileen, Bird, Geoffrey and Grafman, Jordan (2018)
  Language and alexithymia: Evidence for the role of the inferior frontal gyrus in acquired alexithymia. In: Neuropsychologia. Elsevier. pp. 229-240. ISSN 0028-3932 ISSN 0028-3932
• Hobson, Hannah and Bishop, Dorothy V. M. (2017) The interpretation of mu suppression as an index of mirror neuron activity: past, present and future. In: Royal Society Open Science. The Royal Society.
• Hobson, Hannah and Bishop, Dorothy V. M. (2016) Mu suppression – a good measure of the human mirror neuron system?. In: Cortex. Elsevier Ltd.. pp. 290-310. ISSN 0010-9452 ISSN 0010-9452

Full publications list

See Google Scholar or the York Research Database. 

Teaching

Postgraduate

• Module Leader for Clinical Research Methods (Developmental Disorders and Clinical Practice MSc)

External activities

Editorial duties