Professor Brian Butterworth FBA

Psychology; East Asia; cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2002
Subjects
Education, Psychology

Current post

University College London Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology

Past appointments

University College London Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology, University College London

1992 -

University College London Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology, University College London

1992 -

University College London Lecturer, Reader, Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology

1980 -

University of Cambridge Demonstrator, Lecturer in Psychology

1972 - 1980

University of Cambridge Demonstrator then Lecturer in Psychology

1972 - 1980

Publications

Language production (vols 1 and 2) 1980, 1983

The mathematical brain 1999

Category specificity of reading and writing: the case of numbers Nature Neuroscience 2001

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Gordon Brown FBA

Human memory; decision-making in context; the incommensurability of value; money and happiness; polarisation; relationship between income inequality, conspicuous consumption, and nationalism.

Gordon Brown FBA

Professor Catherine Snow FBA

Factors affecting the development of language skills in monolingual and multilingual children, the relation of language skills to literacy development, instructional activities that support critical thinking, argumentation, academic language and perspective-taking

Catherine Snow FBA

Professor Usha Goswami FBA

Children's cognitive development, particularly the development of language and literacy; cross-language studies of reading and dyslexia; reading development in deaf children and language-impaired children; educational neuroscience of reading and dyslexia

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