Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Born 11 August 1974
Fields
Institutions University College London
Alma mater
Thesis Recognising the sensory consequences of one's own actions (2000)
Doctoral advisor
Doctoral students
  • Delia Fuhrmann
  • Anne-Lise Goddings
  • Hauke Hillebrandt
  • Emma Kilford
  • Kate Mills
  • Laura Wolf
Notable awards Rosalind Franklin Award (2013)

Website

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (born 11 August 1974) is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London and co-director of the Wellcome Trust PhD Programme in Neuroscience at UCL[3][4][5][6][7][8]

Early life

Blakemore was born on 11 August 1974 to Professor Colin Blakemore and educated at Oxford High School and St John’s College, Oxford where she graduated with a BA degree in Experimental psychology in 1996.[9][10] She went on to study at University College London where she was awarded a PhD in 2000[11] for research co-supervised by Daniel Wolpert and Chris Frith.[2][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]

Research

Blakemore's research covers the development of social cognition and decision-making during human adolescence.[1][19][20][21][22][23][24]

Blakemore was a scientific consultant on the television documentary The Human Mind in 2003. She is a member of Royal Society BrainWaves working group for neuroscience and the Royal Society Vision Committee for Maths and Science Education 5-19.[3]

Blakemore is a Royal Society University Research Fellow.[10]

In March 2015 Blakemore was the guest on BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific.[25]

Awards and honours

Blakemore was awarded the Rosalind Franklin Award in 2013.[26]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sarah-Jayne Blakemore's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a free service provided by Google
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Daniel Wolpert CV
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Iris Profile". UCL. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
  4. ↑ Sarah-Jayne Blakemore's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  5. ↑ Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain, TED talk, Edinburgh 2012-09-17 on YouTube
  6. ↑ Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on the teenage brain at the Royal Society 2013-11-08 on YouTube
  7. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  8. ↑ Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on Twitter
  9. ↑ "BLAKEMORE, Prof. Sarah-Jayne". Who's Who 2015. A & C Black.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore at the Royal Society
  11. ↑ Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne (2000). Recognising the sensory consequences of one's own actions (PhD thesis). University College London.
  12. ↑ Blakemore, S. J.; Wolpert, D. M.; Frith, C. D. (2002). "Abnormalities in the awareness of action". Trends in cognitive sciences 6 (6): 237–242. doi:10.1016/s1364-6613(02)01907-1. PMID 12039604.
  13. ↑ Blakemore, S. J.; Frith, C. D.; Wolpert, D. M. (2001). "The cerebellum is involved in predicting the sensory consequences of action". NeuroReport 12 (9): 1879–84. doi:10.1097/00001756-200107030-00023. PMID 11435916.
  14. ↑ Blakemore, S. J.; Wolpert, D; Frith, C (2000). "Why can't you tickle yourself?". NeuroReport 11 (11): R11–6. doi:10.1097/00001756-200008030-00002. PMID 10943682.
  15. ↑ Blakemore, S. J.; Frith, C. D.; Wolpert, D. M. (1999). "Spatio-temporal prediction modulates the perception of self-produced stimuli". Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 11 (5): 551–9. doi:10.1162/089892999563607. PMID 10511643.
  16. ↑ Blakemore, S. J.; Wolpert, D. M.; Frith, C. D. (1999). "The cerebellum contributes to somatosensory cortical activity during self-produced tactile stimulation". NeuroImage 10 (4): 448–59. doi:10.1006/nimg.1999.0478. PMID 10493902.
  17. ↑ Blakemore, S. J.; Wolpert, D. M.; Frith, C. D. (1998). "Central cancellation of self-produced tickle sensation". Nature Neuroscience 1 (7): 635–40. doi:10.1038/2870. PMID 10196573.
  18. ↑ Blakemore, S. J.; Goodbody, S. J.; Wolpert, D. M. (1998). "Predicting the consequences of our own actions: The role of sensorimotor context estimation". The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 18 (18): 7511–8. PMID 9736669.
  19. ↑ "Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience". UCL. 2010-06-14. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
  20. ↑ Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne; Frith, Uta (2005), The learning brain : lessons for education, Blackwell, ISBN 1405124016
  21. ↑ Blakemore, S. J.; Mills, K. L. (2014). "Is Adolescence a Sensitive Period for Sociocultural Processing?". Annual Review of Psychology 65: 187–207. doi:10.1146/annurev-psych-010213-115202. PMID 24016274.
  22. ↑ Blakemore, S. J. (2013). "Teenage kicks: Cannabis and the adolescent brain". The Lancet 381 (9870): 888. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61578-5.
  23. ↑ Blakemore, S. J. (2008). "The social brain in adolescence". Nature Reviews Neuroscience 9 (4): 267–77. doi:10.1038/nrn2353. PMID 18354399.
  24. ↑ Blakemore, S. J.; Choudhury, S. (2006). "Development of the adolescent brain: Implications for executive function and social cognition". Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 47 (3–4): 296–312. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2006.01611.x. PMID 16492261.
  25. ↑
  26. ↑ "Rosalind Franklin Award". Royal Society. Retrieved 2014-01-18.

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