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Research successes: June 2009

June 2009

Grants awarded

• Chris Plack secured a grant of £230,776 from the Wellcome Trust for the University. This will fund the study "Behavioural and Physiological Measures of Pitch Processing by the Human Auditory System". Well done Chris.

Papers accepted

• Congratulations to Kevin Munro from Audiology and Deafness (A&D) who has had the following three papers accepted:
  • Munro KJ and Blount J. (2009) "Adaptive plasticity in brainstem of adult listeners following earplug-induced deprivation" in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Munro KJ and Howlin E. (2009) "Comparison of real-ear to coupler difference values in the right and left ear of hearing aid users." in Ear & Hearing
  • Beukes EW, Munro KJ and Purdy SC. (2009) "Duration-sensitive neurons for the encoding of complex sounds." NeuroReport
• Well done Sara Tai from Clinical and Health Psychology (CHP) who had two papers accepted into Schizophrenia Bulletin:
  
  • "Predictors of Outcome in Brief Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Schizophrenia"
  • "Multimodal cognitive therapy: Combining treatments that bypass cognitive deficits and deal with reasoning and appraisal biases"
• Congratulations to Cheryl Capek from Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN). Cheryl's paper "Brain systems mediating semantic and syntactic processing in deaf native signers: biological invariance and modality specificity" was published in Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. U S A" (106(21), 8784-8789)
• Clinical neuroscience and language disorders (CNLD) had another successful month.
  • Faye Corbett and Matt Lambon Ralph had their paper "Exploring multimodal semantic control impairments in semantic aphasia: Evidence from naturalistic object use." accepted into Neuropsychologia. Also in collaboration with Matt, as well as Anna Woollams, Maya Soni had her paper on cueing effects in the SA patients has accepted for publication (Soni, M., Lambon Ralph, M. A., Noonan, K., Ehsan, S., Hodgson, C. and Woollams, A. "L" is for tiger: Effects of phonological (mis)cueing on picture naming in semantic aphasia." Journal of Neurolinguistics).
  • Matt also submitted his paper "Semantic family resemblances are computed in the anterior temporal lobes." This was in collaboration with Emnily Mayberry and Karen Sage and was based on the first set of data from their under- and over-generalisation matching experiments.
• Well done to Anna Woollams whose paper "Past-tense generation from form versus meaning: Behavioural data and simulation evidence." was recently published in Journal of Memory and Language (61, 55-76).
• Catherine Adams and Elaine Clarke had a paper published in International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders (Catherine Adams; Elaine Clarke; Rebecca Haynes (2009) "Inference and sentence comprehension in children with specific or pragmatic language impairments." International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 44 (3) Pages 301-318 ). Well done.

Other

• A special congratulations should go to Wendy McCracken who put a huge amount of work into organising the international Deaf Education conference (to mark 90 years of Deaf Education), held here at the University. The conference was considered a great success and has provided a huge boost to The University of Manchester's reputation in this area. Thanks to Mary Kean, Gwen Carr, Ailsa Johnson and Mary Hostler who also assisted in organising this event.