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Neuroscience and Aphasia Research Unit (NARU) is part of the School of Psychological Sciences

Neuroscience and Aphasia Research Unit

NARU

TMS TMS Sleep lab

About the unit

The Neuroscience and Aphasia Research Unit (NARU), within the School of Psychological Sciences, is a highly innovative research unit whose work centres around 4 major themes.

Topics in each theme are all investigated using an interdisciplinary approach, and applying widely convergent research methods and techniques. Studies range from basic neuroscience (fMRI, MR tractography, TMS) to neuropsychological and clinically-applied investigations of both normal and neurological populations, including neurodegenerative disorders, stroke, traumatic brain injury and herpes simplex encephalitis.

For more details, see: Our publications

NARU News

26 April 2012: The following paper has been published:

  • M. Visser, E. Jefferies, K. Embleton, and M.A. Lambon Ralph (in press). "Both the middle temporal gyrus and the ventral anterior temporal area are crucial for multimodal semantic processing: Distortion-corrected fMRI evidence for a double gradient of information convergence in the temporal lobes." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

4 April 2012: The following papers have been published:

  • S. Carter, D., Caine, A., Burns, K., Herholz, M.A. Lambon Ralph (2012). Staging of the cognitive decline in Alzheimers disease: Insights from a detailed neuropsychological investigation of MCI and mild AD. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 27, 423-432. [DOI: 10.1002/gps.2738]
  • E.J. Mayberry, K. Sage, S. Ehsan, and M.A. Lambon Ralph (2011). "An emergent effect of phonemic cueing following relearning in semantic dementia." Aphasiology, 25, 1069-1077. [DOI:10.1080/02687038.2011.575203]

NARU research themes

tms experiment
  • Semantic cognition
    Semantically-driven verbal and nonverbal behaviour made up of two interactive components: semantic representations (conceptual knowledge) and semantic control

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