Kohei Haneda

Kohei’s primary research interest lies in the investigation of humans’ remarkable capacity to parse linguistic input (spoken, written, and signed) on the fly and derive interpretations in real time. He is fascinated by the nature of this computation and its interaction with other sensory and cognitive modalities. He is also keen to probe these phenomena cross-linguistically, which allows him to examine what is cognitively universal in our communication system, and what constraints different linguistic structures may impose on their users.

His journey in linguistics began during his undergraduate training carried out on two opposite ends of the Pacific Ocean: at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies (Japan) and San Francisco State University (USA). In 2013, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Cognitive Linguistics from the former. After working as a sales representative in the IT sector of Tokyo for seven years, Kohei returned to academia to pursue his passion for linguistics. He relocated to Europe, where he earned a Master of Arts in General Linguistics from Leipzig University (Germany) in 2022. Subsequently, he was awarded a one-year pre-doctoral research fellowship at Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany) to conduct his psycholinguistic research, which he successfully completed in 2023.

Since 2024, Kohei has been working towards his PhD within the International Doctorate for Experimental Approaches to Language and Brain (IDEALAB) program. His research is conducted jointly at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) under the supervision of Associate Professor Anja Schüppert and Professor Roel Jonkers, and at Macquarie University (Australia) under the tutelage of Associate Professor Lisi Beyersmann and Dr. Jordan Wehrman. His PhD project investigates the visually situated comprehension of elliptical constructions in three languages (English, Dutch, and Japanese), utilizing three methodologies (self-paced reading, eye-tracking while reading, and EEG).\