Research successes: March 2010
March 2010
Papers accepted
In the Audiology and Deafness research group, 2 papers were published in the month of March. Well done to Catherine Siciliano whose paper “Resistance to learning binaurally mismatched frequency-toplace maps: Implications for bilateral stimulation with cochlear implants” (Catherine M. Siciliano, Andrew Faulkner, Stuart Rosen, and Katharine Mair) was published in JASA. Colette Mckay also had a paper published in JASA in March; “The upper limit of temporal pitch for cochlear-implant listeners: Stimulus duration, conditioner pulses, and the number of electrodes stimulated” (Robert P. Carlyon, John M. Deeks and Colette M. McKay).
The Clinical Neuroscience and Language Disorders research group had an impressive 4 papers accepted in March. Anna Woollams had her paper concerning the fMRI correlates of orthographic typicality accepted for publication in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (“Word or word-like? Dissociating orthographic typicality from lexicality in left occipito-temporal cortex.”). Her paper with Daniel Roberts and Matt Lambon Ralph on implicit recognition in pure alexia was also accepted for publication in Neuropsychologia (“When does less yield more? The impact of severity upon implicit recognition in pure alexia.”). Further congratulations to Matt Lambon Ralph whose paper with Gorana Pobric (“Category-specific versus category-general semantic impairment induced by transcranial magnetic stimulation.”) was accepted into “Current Biology”. Finally, congratulations to Patti Adank - her paper ("Comprehension of a novel accent by young and elderly listeners") was accepted into “Psychology and Aging”.
Further success came from the Clinical and Health Psychology (CHP) research group in March. Dr James McManus’s book chapter (“The experience of officers in a therapeutic prison: an interpretative phenomenological analysis”) is to be published in “Grendon and the emergence of forensic therapeutic communities: developments in research and practice.” (R. Shuker & E. Sullivan (Eds.)) very soon. Also in CHP, Dr Sarah Canning (clinical psychology trainee) together with colleagues Mitch Waterman, Nic Orsi, Julie Ayres, Nigel Simpson and Louise Dye had a paper entitled 'The Efficacy of Hypericum perforatum (St John's Wort) for the Treatment of Premenstrual Syndrome' published in CNS Drugs 2010: 24 (3): 207 – 225. Congratulations also to Laura Rowlands (Clin. Psy D. trainee) who had an article published in the Eating and Weight Disorders journal. The title is "Validity of the Eating Disorders Examination-Questionnaire when used with adolescents with bulimia nervosa and atypical bulimia nervosa". Authors are: N. Pretorius, G.Waller, J. Arcelus, J. Beecham, H. Dawson, F. Doherty,I. Eisler, C.Gallagher, S. Gowers, G. Isaacs, E. Johnson-Sabine, A. Jones,C.Newell, J. Morris, L. Richards, S. Ringwood, L. Rowlands, M. Simic, J. Treasure, C. Williams, I. Yi, M. Yoshioka, and U. Schmidt.
There were a further 3 success stories from the Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience research group in March. Luke Jones' paper “Click trains and the rate of information processing: Does “speeding up” subjective time make other psychological processes run faster?” (Jones, L.A., Allely, C. & Wearden, J.H.) was accepted into Quarterly Journal Of Experimental Psychology. Also, Cheryl Capek had her paper (“Superior temporal activation as a function of linguistic knowledge: Insights from deaf native signers who speechread.” (Capek CM, Woll B, Macsweeney M, Waters D, McGuire PK, David AS, Brammer MJ, Campbell R)) published in Brain & Language (112 (2), 129-134.) Finally, Deborah Talmi had her paper accepted for publication in Neuropsychologia ("Framing effect following bilateral amygdala lesion", Deborah Talmi, René Hurlemann, Alexandra Patin, and Raymond J Dolan).
Grants
Katherine Berry from the Clinical and Health Psychology research group secured a bupa foundation small grant to pilot a psychological intervention for older people with schizophrenia.
Audrey Bowen from was awarded £5,500 from NIHR NW Stroke Research Network Flexibility and Sustainability Fund. This was for 'Supporting Service User Involvement in Stroke Rehabilitation Research' and will be used to employ Kate Webster, RA, for 3 months this year. Audrey Bowen (along with Andy Vail) was also awarded £105,000 for 'Developing a Comprehensive, Patient-Centred Outcome Measure of Cognitive Rehabilitation after Stroke’. This was received from The Stroke Association (Junior Research Training Fellowship) and will be used to fund Emma Patchick's PhD, Sept 2011 - 2014.
Other news
Congratulations to Krist Noonan from the Clinical Neuroscience and Language Disorders research group. Krist passed his viva last month with minor corrections.
Well done to Emma Patchick who was awarded a Stroke Association PhD training award (for two years in the first instance, extendable to three years). It is funded at £105,000 and will be supervised by Audrey Bowen and Andy Vail. This will start September 2011 once Emma finishes the ACT NoW study and takes a long-planned travel break.