Research successes: April 2009
April 2009
Grants awarded
- Within the Audiology and Deafness research group both Kevin Munro and Karolina Kluk-de-Kort both successfully secured grants.
- Kevin secured a grant of £250,000 from NIHR for the study of 'Cochlear dead regions in hearing-impaired adults' (this represents the first NIHR grant for the group) as well as funding from The Royal National Institute for the Deaf (a UK charity) for two undergraduate students to undertake a research project on the topic of hearing aid assessment in infants using EEG techniques over the Summer.
- Karolina was awarded an MRC grant of £230,000 on measuring dead regions using ASSRs and an RNID Flexi Grant of £5000 on deprivation-induced plasticity measured using CAEP and psychoacoustics. Karolina's MRC grant is extremely worthy of congratulations as she is only 3 years postdoc. Well done Karolina.
- Richard Brown from Clinical and Health Psychology and colleagues from the Universities of Sheffield and Leeds, were awarded a three-year NHS Research for Patient Benefit grant worth £214k for their project Non-epileptic Seizures Treatment (NEST) study: an evaluation of the feasibility of a randomised controlled trial of a psycho-educational intervention.
- Luvodica Serratrice was awarded a grant from the Leverhulme Trust (£69,051) for work on language processing in bilingual children ("Language comprehension in bilinguals"). Work has since started.
- Congratulations to Ray Wilkinson, Paul Hoffman and Karen Sage, who have been awarded a Stroke Association bursary of £105,000 to support a new PhD student (Marcella Carragher) in the project: Improving the talk of speakers with non-fluent aphasia: Evaluating the combination of impairment-focused therapy and interaction therapy.
Papers accepted
Congratulations must go to the Clinical Neuroscience and Language Disorders (CNLD) research group for a whole swag of new papers in the last 3 months:
- Penny Lewis had her paper "Precision in temporal judgement - milliseconds, many minutes, and beyond" included in the Phil. Trans. of the Royal Society.
- Paul Hoffman's "Semantic memory is key to binding phonology: Converging evidence from immediate serial recall in semantic dementia and healthy participants." was included in Neuropsychologia.
- Paul Conroy had two papers included in Asphasiology:
- "Errorless and errorful therapy for verb and noun naming in aphasia" in January
- "A comparison of word versus sentence cues as therapy for verb naming in aphasia" with Karen Sage and Matt Lambon-Ralph in March.
- This followed on from Matt and Karen's earlier success in having their collaboration with Christina Green and Marcello Berthier ("Relearning and retention of verbal labels in a case of semantic dementia") included in the same journal in February.
- Matt's other papers:
- "The association between semantic dementia and surface dyslexia in Japanese" with Karalyn Patterson was included in Neuropsychologia
- "Conceptual knowledge is underpinned by the temporal pole bilaterally: Novel data from rTMS" with Gorana Pobric was included in Cerebral Cortex
- Other successes in CNLD include:
- Lauren Cloutman whose paper "Where (in the brain) do semantic errors come from?" was accepted into Cortex,
- Roland Zahn whose paper "Subgenual cingulate activity reflects individual differences in empathic concern" was accepted into Neuroscience Letters