Dr. Sophie Kerttu Scott

Date of Birth 16.11.1966

General Education

1971-1983 Westholme School, Blackburn, 10 ӏO levels.

1983 -1985 Queen ElizabethԳ Grammar School, Blackburn, 4 ӁӠlevels, 1 ӓӠlevel.

 

Qualifications and Employment

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.

 

Membership of organizations

Member of the British Psychological Society; Member of the Society for Neuroscience, and the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Member of the Experimental Psychology Society.

 

Committee membership

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.

 

Research Funding

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)

 

Teaching Experience

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.

 

 

Meetings

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>

 

Public Understanding of Science

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).

 

Reviews

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.

 

Papers Πpublished and in press

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., BŸchel, 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., BŸchel, 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.

 

Under Review

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.

 

Conference Proceedings and Book Chapters

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.

 

Plenary Lecture

єhe application of fMRI to speech perception studiesѠFMRI conference, National University of Taiwan.

 

Conference Papers

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

 

Invited Seminars

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