Dr. Sophie Kerttu Scott
Date of Birth 16.11.1966
1971-1983 Westholme School, Blackburn, 10 ӏO levels.
1983 -1985 Queen ElizabethԳ Grammar School, Blackburn, 4
ӁӠlevels, 1 ӓӠlevel.
1990, BSc (Hons), 2:1 Life Sciences, Polytechnic of Central
London
1994 PhD in Cognitive Science from University College London
October 1993 - November 1998, Senior Scientific Officer at
the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (formerly the Applied Psychology Unit)
November 1998 - April 2001 Research Fellow at the Institute
of Cognitive Neuroscience, London.
April 2001 Wellcome Career Development fellowship at UCL,
grant entitled єhe Neurobiology of Speech PerceptionѮ
Visiting Scientist, Max Plank Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience,
Leipzig, August 2002.
Member of the British Psychological Society; Member of the
Society for Neuroscience, and the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Member of the
Experimental Psychology Society.
Committee member of the BPS Cognitive Subsection, member of
the EPS committee. Member of the Centre for Human Communication committee.
Member of the BPS Research Board.
Member of the Collaborative Research in Computational
Neuroscience research panel (NSF and NIH), March 2004.
Wellcome Trust RCDF grant, from April 2001-April 2005, Ӵhe
Neurobiology of speech perceptionӮ Total amount awarded £358,376.
Wellcome Trust Senior Fellowship, awarded May 2004 Ӵhe Neurobiology of Speech Perception ΊCognitive and Clinical LinksӮ Total amount awarded tba.
ESRC grant awarded for one year for new post doctoral researchers (sponsoring Charlotte Jacquemot)
ESRC +3 studentship award (supervising Carolyn McGettigan)
From 1995-2001 I was an assistant lecturer for the Open
University, teaching on the course DSE202, and Introduction to Psychology.
Since 1999 I have been responsible for the course Medical
Aspects (Neurology), a third year level course for BSc Year 3 & PGDip / MSc
Year 2 speech therapists at City University. This involves writing the course,
and setting and grading the course test.
I have given lectures on various undergraduate and
postgraduate courses at UCL, at Human Communication Sciences, Physiology, and
the joint UCL-Birkbeck MSc Cognitive Neuropsychology course.
1999 Πprogramme organizer for BPS Cognitive Section
conference, University of York
2000 Πlocal organizer for EPS London meeting, ICN, UCL.
2002 ΠWellcome Trust grant awarded (along with Tom
Griffiths and Andrew King) for a Workshop on the Cortical Processing of Complex
Sound, Hinxton Hall.
2003 Πorganized ICN Workshop on Cortical Processes in
Speech Perception (Keynote speaker ΠProf. Angela Friederici)
2004 Πorganized ICN Workshop on Perspectives on Linguistic
Functions of Prefrontal Cortex (Keynote speaker ΠProf. Sharon
Thompson-Schill).
2004 Πorganized Centre for Human Communication Workshop ΊӃan Functional Imaging Tell Us Anything We Did Not Already Know?Ӽo:p>
1996 Organized Ӕake your daughter to work dayӠat the MRC
APU.
1996 Designed web-based psychological experiments for
schools, with the MRC.
1998 Designed experiments to run with large groups of
attendees for the Science MuseumԳ ӗomenԳӠScience NightsӠ
1998 Lectured at the first WomenԳ Science Night as an
invited speaker.
2003 exhibited at the Royal SocietyԳ Summer Science Exhibition,
Ӕhe Science of Speaking Πhow the brain understands languageӠ(rated in the
top 3 most popular exhibits).
I have reviewed grants for the NSF, BBSRC, MRC and Wellcome
Trust, and have take part in NSF review panels. I have reviewed papers for
journals including: Nature Neuroscience, Neuroimage, Neuropsychologia, European
Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal
of Neurophysiology, Cognitive Brain Research, Human Brain Mapping, Neurocase,
Journal of Phonetics, Journal of Neurolinguistics, Cortex, Brain, and
Psychological Bulletin. With Richard Wise I edited a special issue of Neurocase
on Functional Imaging Studies of Patients. With Douglas Eck I am editing a
special issue of Psychology of Music on Rhythm Perception and Production.
1. Richardson U., Thompson J., Scott SK, Goswami UC
(in press) Auditory processing skills and phonological representation in
dyslexic. Dyslexia.
2. Sharp D., Scott SK., Cutler A., Wise RJS (in press)
neuroanatomy of word reconstruction. Brain and Language
3. Barnard, P. J. Scott, S.K., Taylor J., May J., and
Knightly W. (in press) Paying attention to meaning, Psychological Science.
4. Griiffiths TD, Warren J, Scott S.K., Nelken I,
King A (2004) Ӕhe cortical processing of complex sounds: a way forward?ӊTrends in Neurosciences, 27(4):181-5.
5. Scott SK (2004) The neural basis of concrete words
ΠwhatԳ right and whatԳ left? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8(4):151-153.
6. Scott, SK, Wise, RJS (2004) the functional
neuroanatomy of prelexical processing of speech. Cognition, 92(1-2):13-45.
7. Scott, SK, Rosen, S, Wickham, L, Wise, RJS (2004)
A positron emission tomography study of the neural basis of informational and
energetic masking effects in speech perception. Journal of the Acoustical
Society of America, 115 (2), 813-821.
8. Sharp DJ, Scott SK, Wise RJS (2004) Monitoring and
the controlled processing of meaning: distinct prefrontal systems. Cerebral
Cortex, 14 (1): 1-10.
9. Narain, C, Scott, SK, Wise, RJS, Rosen, S, Leff,
AP, Iversen, SD, Matthews, PM (2003) Defining a left-lateralised response
specific to intelligible speech using fMRI. Cerebral Cortex, 13:1362-1368.
10. Scott SK, (2003) How might we best conceptualise
speech perception? The view from neurobiology. Journal of Phonetics, 31(3-4):
417-422.
11. Burgess PW, Scott SK, Frith CD. (2003) The role
of the rostral frontal cortex (area 10) in prospective memory: a lateral versus
medial dissociation. Neuropsychologia; 41(8):906-18.
12. Calder AJ, Keane J, Manly T, Sprengelmeyer R, Scott S,
Nimmo-Smith I, Young AW. (2003)
Facial expression recognition across the adult life span.
Neuropsychologia; 41(2):195-202.
13. Manly T, Owen AM, McAvinue L, Datta A, Lewis GH, Scott
SK, Rorden C, Pickard J, Robertson IH. (2003) Enhancing the sensitivity of
a sustained attention task to frontal damage: convergent clinical and
functional imaging evidence. Neurocase, 9(4):340-9.
14. Scott, SK, Johnsrude, IS. (2003) The
neuroanatomical and functional organization of speech perception. Trends
Neurosci.; 26(2):100-7.
15. Scott SK, Leff AP, Wise RJ. (2003) Going beyond
the information given: a neural system supporting semantic interpretation.
Neuroimage; 19(3):870-6.
16. Scott, S. K. and Wise, R. J. S. (2003) Functional
Imaging and Language: A Critical Guide to Methodology and Analysis. Speech
Communication. 41(1) 7-21.
17. Scott, S. K. and Wise, R. J. S. (2003) PET and
fMRI studies of the neural basis of speech perception. Speech Communication,
41(1) 23-34.
18. Blair RJ, Mitchell DG, Richell RA, Kelly S, Leonard A,
Newman C, Scott SK. (2002) Turning a deaf ear to fear: impaired
recognition of vocal affect in psychopathic individuals. J Abnorm Psychol.;
111(4):682-6.
19. Blank SC, Scott SK, Murphy K, Warburton E, Wise
RJ. (2002) Speech production: Wernicke, Broca and beyond. Brain;
125(8):1829-38.
20. Calder AJ, Lawrence AD, Keane J, Scott SK, Owen
AM, Christoffels I, Young AW. (2002) Reading the mind from eye gaze.
Neuropsychologia. 2002;40(8):1129-38.
21. Goswami U, Thomson J, Richardson U, Stainthorp R, Hughes
D, Rosen S, Scott SK. (2002) Amplitude envelope onsets and developmental
dyslexia: A new hypothesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.; 99(16):10911-6.
22. Leff A, Crinion J, Scott S, Turkheimer F, Howard
D, Wise R. (2002) A physiological change in the homotopic cortex following left
posterior temporal lobe infarction. Ann Neurol.; 51(5):553-8.
23. Owen AM, Menon DK, Johnsrude IS, Bor D, Scott SK,
Manly T, Williams EJ, Mummery C, Pickard JD. (2002) Detecting residual cognitive
function in persistent vegetative state. Neurocase; 8(5):394-403.
24. Scott SK, Wise, RJ (2002) Functional neuroimaging
studies of patients. Neurocase;8(5):343-4.
25. Barnard PJ, Scott SK, May J. (2001) When the
central executive lets us down: Schemas, attention, and load in a generative
working memory task. Memory; 9(4):209-221.
26. Leff A. P, Crewes, H., Plant, G. T., Scott, S. K.,
Kennard, C., Wise, R.J.S. (2001). The functional anatomy of single word reading
in patients with haemianopic and pure alexia. Brain, 124, 510-521.
27. Leff A.P., Scott S. K., Rothwell J.C., Wise
R.J.S. (2001) The planning and guiding of reading saccades: a repetitive
transcranial magnetic stimulation study. Cerebral Cortex; Oct;11(10):918-23.
28. Scott, S. K. (2001) New York, New York, so good
you get repetition priming. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5(8), 324-325.
29. Scott, S. K., Barnard, P.J., May, J. (2001)
Specifying executive representations and processes in number generation tasks.
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: Section A: Human Experimental
Psychology. 54(3):641-64.
30. Wise, RJS, Scott, S. K., Blank, S. C, Mummery,
CJ, Warburton, E (2001) Identifying separate neural sub-systems within
ӗernickeԳ areaӬ Brain, 124, 83-95.
31. Leff A. P, Scott, S. K., Crewes, H., Howard, D.,
Cowie, A., Wise, R.J.S., (2000) Impaired reading in patients with right
hemianopia. Annals of Neurology, 47(2), 171-178.
32. Scott, S. K. (2000) review of Ӎodels of the
selfӬ Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4 (6) 247-248.
33. Scott, S. K., Blank, S. C., Rosen S., and Wise,
R. J. S. (2000) Identification of a pathway for intelligible speech in the left
temporal lobe. Brain 123, 2400-2406.
34. Scott, S. K., Holmes, A., Friston, K.J., and
Wise, R.J.S. (2000) A fronto-thalamic system for response choice. Neuroreport,
11 (7), 1523-1527.
35. Wise, R.J.S., Howard, D., Mummery, C.J., Fletcher, P.,
Leff, A., Bchel, C., Scott, S. K. (2000) Noun imageability and the
temporal lobes. Neuropsychologia 38 (7), 985-994.
36. Morris, J.S., Scott, S. K., Dolan, R.J. (1999)
Saying it with feeling: neural responses to emotional vocalizations.
Neuropsychologica., 37(10), 1155-1163.
37. Mummery, C.J., Ashburner, J., Scott, S. K., and
Wise, R.J.S. (1999) Functional neuroimaging of speech perception in six normal
and two aphasic patients. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 106 (1)
449-457.
38. Wise, R.J.S., Greene, J., Bchel, C., Scott, S. K.
(1999) Brain systems for word perception and articulation The Lancet, 353
(9158), 1057-1061.
39. Phillips, M.L., Young A.W., Scott, S.K., Calder,
A.J., Andrew, C., Giampietro, V., Williams, S.C.R., Bullmore, E.T., Brammer,
M., and Gray, J.A. (1998) Neural responses to facial and vocal expressions of
fear and disgust. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 265 (1408), 1809-1817.
40. Scott, S. K. (1998) The Point of P-centres.
Psychological Research, 61(1), 4-11.
41. Scott, S. K., Young, A. W., Calder, A. J.,
Hellawell, D. J., Aggleton, J. P., Johnson, M., (1997) Impaired auditory
recognition of fear and anger following bilateral amygdala lesions. Nature,
385, 254-257.
Scott SK, Rosen S, Lang, H, Wise, R. Neural
correlates of intelligibility in speech investigated with noise vocoded speech
Πa Positron Emission Tomography study. Journal of the Acoustical Society of
America.
Narain C, Wise RSJ, Rosen S, Matthews P, Scott SK.
Plasticity in auditory processing: neural correlates of perceptual
reorganisation in speech perception. Cerebral Cortex.
Scott , S.K. (in press) The Neurobiology of Speech
Perception. To appear in Ӕwenty-First Century Psycholinguistics: Four
CornerstonesӬ ed. Anne Cutler, Lawrence Earlbaum Associates.
Scott, S. K., Mattingley, J., Manly, T., Wise R. J. S.
(2000) Spatial attention deficits and the perception of interaural rhythmic
sequences - a preliminary study. Desain P. and Windsor L. (Eds.) 1999. Rhythm
Perception and Production. Lisse: Swets
May, J., Scott, S. K, and Barnard, P. (1995) Structuring
Displays: a psychological guide. Eurographics Tutorial Notes Series. EACG:
Geneva.
Scott, S. K. (1994) When do we hear a sound happen? A model
of the perceptual centres of acoustic signals. In Proceedings of Time and the
Dynamic Control of Behavior, Liege.
Scott S. K., Howell, P. (1992) Infinite peak clipping
affects the P-centres of speech. In Proceedings of the Fourth Rhythm Workshop:
Rhythm perception and production, Bourges, France.
Scott S. K., Mellerio J., Benton S. (1991) Coloured lenses
affect visual acuity and choice preference. In the proceedings of Coloured
Spectacles and Reading Difficulties: a Joint meeting between the Applied Vision
Association and the Colour Group, London.
єhe application of fMRI to speech perception studiesѠFMRI conference, National University of Taiwan.
2004
XXVIII International Congress of Psychology, Beijing, China.
Invited speaker in two symposia.
Workshop on basic mechanisms of speech perception ΠSchloss
Freudental, Konstanz, Germany (invited speaker).
European Winter Conference on Brain Research ΠLes Arcs,
France (invited speaker)
British Psychological Society Annual Conference ΠLondon
(invited speaker)
Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Franscico (poster)
2003
Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York (poster)
RPPW meeting, France.
International Neuropsychological Society, Berlin (invited
speaker).
Auditory Cortex 2003, Magdeburg (poster).
BPS Cognitive Section conference, University of Reading
(invited speaker)
TUBBS, Grimma, Germany (invited speaker)
Four Corners Workshop, Max Plank Institute for
Psycholinguistics, Nijmagen (invited speaker)
Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans (poster)
2002
ARO meeting, St. Petersburg Beach, Fl. (poster)
Science of Aphasia ESF conference, Maratea Italy
BPS Cognitive Section Conference, Canterbury
ESF meeting єhe Neurobiology of Communication: Comparative
and Evolutionary Perspectives on Receptive LanguageѠ(co-organiser)
Society for Neuroscience, Orlando, USA (poster)
2001
ARO meeting, St. Petersburg Beach, Fl. (poster)
CNS meeting, New York (poster)
British Dyslexia Association, York (invited speaker)
Human Brain Mapping, Brighton (poster)
ICOM III, Valenica, Spain (invited speaker)
BPS Cognitive Section/ESCOP conference, Edinburgh
British Aphasiology Society conference, Exeter (invited
speaker)
2000
Rotman Meeting on the Frontal Lobes (poster)
EPS meeting, Cambridge
RPPW meeting, Derbyshire
BPS Cognitive Section meeting, University of Essex
Special Interest Group in Adult Neurology, Novatis
Foundation (invited speaker)
Acoustical Society of America meeting, Newport Beach, Ca.
BPS London meeting (invited speaker)
1999
Acoustical Society of America Conference, Berlin (poster)
Human Brain Mapping, Dusseldorf (poster)
1998
British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Brighton
Human Brain Mapping, Montreal (poster)
Rhythm Perception and Production Workshop (RPPW), Wassenarr,
Holland
1997
International Neuropsychological Society, Bergen, Norway
Cognitive and Behavioral Psychotherapy Conference,
Canterbury
British Neuropsychological Society Meeting, London
1996
Rhythm Perception and Production Workshop, Olsadht, Germany
1995
BPS Cognitive Psychology Section Conference, Bristol
1994
BPS Cognitive Psychology Section Conference, Cambridge
Rhythm Perception and Production Workshop, Sheffield
1992
Rhythm Perception and Production Workshop, Bourges
Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans
1991
Joint meeting between the Applied Vision Association and the
Colour Group, London
2004
UCL Centre for Human Communication Workshop
2003
Department of Speech, Newcastle University
Cumberland Lodge, Windsor.
Wellcome Trust, London
Universite Rene Descartes, Paris.
ICN, London
MRC CBU, Cambridge
Dept. Psychology, National University of Taiwan
2002
Functional Imaging Laboratory, London
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, London
Psychology Dept., Nottingham University
Psychology dept, University of Essex
Max Plank Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Leipzig
Neuroscience Institute, Aston University
Institute of Child Health, UCL
2001
Dept. of Psychology, University of Exeter
Centre for Complex Systems, Florida Atlantic University
Haskins Laboratory, New Haven
Dept Neuroscience, Keele University
Dyslexia Club, ICN
Dept. Psychology, Dundee University
Dept Psychology, University of Wolverhampton
Dept Psychology, University of Reading
Max Plank Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Leipzig
2000
Psychology Department, Lancaster University
Human and Communication Studies, UCL
Psychology Dept., Manchester University
Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge
University of Lincoln and Humberside, Lincoln
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, London
Dept. of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madsion
1999
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, London
MRC Institute of Hearing Research
1998
Psychology Department, Goldsmiths College
MRC Cyclotron Unit, London
Psychology Department, University College London
1997
Psychology Department, University of Keele
MRC Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge
Psychology Department, University of Sheffield
1996
MRC Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge
1995
Psychology Department, University of Westminster
1994
Psychology Department, University College London
MRC Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge
Psychology Department, Nottingham University