Research successes: September 2009
September 2009
Papers accepted
September was another busy month for papers being accepted / published.
Firstly, within Clinical Neuroscience and Language Disorders (CNLD) Research Group, congratulations to Ray Wilkinson whose paper “Acquired dysarthria in conversation: Identifying sources of understanding problems.” (Bloch, S. & Wilkinson, R.) was published in the International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders 44, 5, 769-783.
Also, congratulations to Matt Lambon Ralph and his team for their paper looking at the relationship between semantic cognition and language processing (E. Jefferies, T.T. Rogers, S. Hopper, & M.A. Lambon Ralph “"Pre-semantic" cognition revisited: Critical differences between semantic aphasia and semantic dementia.”) This has been accepted into Neuropsychologia.
Faye Corbett had her paper on sequential object use in SA appear in Neuropsychologia (F. Corbett, E. Jefferies, & M.A. Lambon Ralph (2009). "Exploring multimodal semantic control impairments in semantic aphasia: Evidence from naturalistic object use." Neuropsychologia, 47, 2721-2731.
Paul Conroy whose paper on errorless and errorful therapy for verb naming has appeared in Aphasiology. (P. Conroy, K. Sage, & M.A. Lambon Ralph (2009). "Errorless and errorful therapy for verb and noun naming in aphasia." Aphasiology, 23, 1311 – 1337).
CNLD were not alone in their success with papers in September. Catherine Siciliano had a paper accepted into the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (Siciliano C, Faulkner A, Rosen S and Mair K. "Resistance to learning binaurally mismatched frequency-to-place maps: Implications for bilateral stimulation with cochlear implants.").
Colette McKay had a paper published. “Amplitude modulation and loudness in cochlear implantees,” (McKay CM and Henshall KR. (2009)) now appears in the Journal of the Association for Research in Otolryngology.
Other news
Congratulations to Ray Wilkinson and Michael Clarke (Ray's PhD student at UCL) - they were awarded the ISAAC/AAC Editor's Award for 'most significant student article' of 2008 for their paper, 'Interaction between children with cerebral palsy and their peers 2: Understanding initiated VOCA-mediated turns', published in the journal 'Augmentative and Alternative Communication' in March 2008.
Christine Barrowclough and Nicholas Tarrier were invited by the Chief Executive of the Mental Health Foundation to attend a reception with Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer at 11 Downing Street on Wednesday 14th October 2009 to launch a declaration to publicise the need for more strategic investment in mental health research.