Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2018
- Subjects
- Education, Psychology
- Sections
- Psychology , Education
Summary
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is Professor of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, UK, and leader of the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Group. Her group's research focuses on the development of social cognition and decision making in the human adolescent brain, and adolescent mental health. Her group runs behavioural studies in schools and in the lab, as well as neuroimaging studies, with adolescents and adults.
Current post
Professor of Psychology, University of Cambridge; Leader, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Group
Past appointments
UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Deputy Director
2014 - 2019
University College London Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
2009 - 2019
Publications
Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore - Published in 2019 by Black Swan
The Learning Brain: Lessons for Education
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Uta Frith - Published in 2005 by Wiley-Blackwell
Other Fellows of the British Academy
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
Professor Simon Baron-Cohen FBA
The neuropsychology of autism (in particular, the phenomenon of mindblindness); the psychology of sex differences in humans; the role of foetal testosterone in neurocognitive development
