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Language in developmental and acquired disorders: future directions

12 - 13 June 2013 09:00 - 17:00

Satellite meeting organised by Professor Dorothy Bishop FMedSci FBA, Professor Kate Nation and Professor Karalyn Patterson FMedSci FBA

Event details

Models of developmental and acquired language disorders have evolved separately. At our Discussion meeting in London, the focus will be on opportunities for sharing methods and concepts. At this Satellite meeting we will discuss key questions that can be addressed from both perspectives, and find common ground – or else identify research strategies for resolving differences.

Biographies of the key contributors are available below. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page shortly after the event.

This meeting was preceded by the related scientific discussion meeting Language in developmental and acquired disorders: converging evidence for models of language representation in the brain.

This meeting was preceded by the related scientific discussion meeting .

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Organisers

  • Professor Dorothy Bishop FMedSci FBA, University of Oxford, UK

    Dorothy Bishop studied Experimental Psychology at Oxford University and Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, before completing a D.Phil in neuropsychology back at Oxford. She was for 20 years funded by the Medical Research Council before moving in 1998 to the Department of Experimental Psychology in Oxford to take up her Wellcome Principal Research Fellowship. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Academy of Medical Sciences.

    Her research focuses on the nature and causes of children’s communication problems, encompassing psychological, linguistic, neurological and genetic aspects. Her book Uncommon Understanding won the British Psychology Society’s annual book prize in 1998. As well as publishing in conventional academic outlets, she writes a popular blog which was a runner-up in the Good Thinking Society’s UK Science Blog 2012 prize. She is a founder of a YouTube campaign for Raising Awareness of Language Learning Impairments.

  • Professor Karalyn Patterson FMedSci FBA, University of Cambridge, UK

    Karalyn Patterson is a senior research fellow in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge; a Visiting Scientist at the MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge; and Fellow and Wine Steward of Darwin College, Cambridge. Her educational background is in experimental psychology and neuropsychology, with degrees from the Universities of Toronto (Canada), Michigan and California (USA) and Cambridge (UK). Her research concentrates on what we can learn about the organisation and neural representation of language and memory from the study of neurological patients who were cognitively normal until the onset of brain disease or damage in adulthood. This research programme includes extensive cognitive testing of different patient groups, to obtain detailed patterns of processes that are impaired and those that are still relatively preserved, combined with structural and functional brain imaging to reveal malfunctioning brain regions. She has been lucky to be able to study and compare the impact of the same brain disorders on two very different languages, English and Japanese.

  • Professor Kate Nation, University of Oxford, UK

    Kate Nation is Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford. Kate’s research is focused on language and literacy development and disorder.  She is interested in a range of questions concerning the nature of reading and its development, from how children begin to recognize words through to how we extract and construct meaning from written language.  Further details of her research can be found at: http://lcd.psy.ox.ac.uk