Research successes: May 2009
May 2009
A special congratulations to Matt Lambon Ralph on being elected as the next President of the British Neuropsychological Society. This is the premier academic neuropsychological society. He is now formally President-elect and takes up the position properly from March 2010 for two years. See the list of past presidents.
Grants awarded
- Congratulations to Ludovica Serratrice and Anne Hesketh (co-applicant) for securing an ESRC grant of £97,671 for researching "Effects of language training on children's use of complex syntax". This starts in September 2009.
Papers accepted
- Congratulations go to PhD student from Audiology and Deafness, Alicja Malicka, whose paper with supervisors Kevin Munro and Richard Baker "Fast method for psychophysical tuning curve measurement in school-age children" has been accepted into the International Journal of Audiology.
- Well done to Warren Mansell from Clinical and Health Psychology. Warren has had the following two papers accepted:
- Mansell, W. and Carey, T. A. (in press). "A century of psychology and psychotherapy: Is an understanding of 'control' the missing link between theory, research and practice?" in Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice.
- Warren Mansell; Seth Powell; Rebecca Pedley; Nia Thomas; Sarah A Jones (in press) "The process of recovery from bipolar I disorder: A qualitative analysis of personal accounts in relation to an integrative cognitive model" in British Journal of Clinical Psychology
In Clinical neuroscience and language disorders (CNLD) a wealth of papers have been accepted/published:
- Well done to Gina Conti Ramsden who has had the following papers published since the start of 2009:
- Conti-Ramsden, G., Durkin, K., Simkin, Z. and Knox, E. (2009) Specific language impairment and school outcomes. I: Idenfitying and explaining variability at the end of compulsory education. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 44, 15-35.
- Durkin, K., Conti-Ramsden, G., Walker, A. and Simkin, Z. (2009) Educational and interpersonal uses of home computers by adolescents with and without Specific Language Impairment (SLI). British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 27, 197-217.
- Durkin, K., Simkin, Z., Knox, E. and Conti-Ramsden, G. (2009) Specific language impairment and school outcomes. II: Education context, student satisfaction, and post-compulsory progress. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 44, 36-55.
- Simkin, Z. and Conti-Ramsden, G. (2009) I went to a language unit: Adolescents' views on specialist education provision and their language difficulties. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 25, 1, 79-97.
- Congratulations go to Ludovica Serratrice. Her article "Bilingual children's sensitivity to specificity and genericity: Evidence from metalinguistic awareness" was published in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 12 (2).
- Well done to Audrey Bowen and Anne Hesketh who have had the following two papers accepted this year:
- Long AF, Hesketh A, Bowen A. Communication outcome after stroke: a new measure of the carer's perspective. In Clinical Rehabilitation.
- Bowen A, West C, Hesketh A, Vail A. Rehabilitation for apraxia: evidence for short-term improvements in ADL functioning. In Stroke.
- Anne and Audrey also recently submitted their paper "Method for measuring apraxic errors within the connected speech of adults with aphasia following stroke." to Aphasiology earlier this year and Audrey had her paper 'Psychology Concise Guide for Stroke 2008' accepted by British Psychological Society/Royal College of Physicians.
- Congratulations to Anna Woollams for having her paper "Past-tense generation from form versus meaning: Behavioural data and simulation evidence." accepted into the Journal of Memory and Language.
- Congratulations also go to Maya Visser who achieved wholly positive reviews following her paper "Semantic processing in the anterior temporal lobes: A meta-analysis of the functional neuroimaging literature." being accepted in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
- Krist Noonan had his paper exploring the nature of semantic control problems ("Elucidating the nature of deregulated semantic cognition in semantic aphasia: Evidence for the roles of prefrontal and temporoparietal cortices.") accepted in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
- Faye Corbett and Matt Lambon Ralph had their paper "Different impairments of semantic cognition in semantic dementia and semantic aphasia: Evidence from the non-verbal domain." accepted into Brain.
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