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Dr Josie Briscoe

Lecturer

telephone: +44 (0)117 92 88458 email: J.Briscoe@bris.ac.uk

Room 3D20

Biographical details

I received my first degree from University of Dundee (1992) before moving to the University of Bristol for research experience in the Department of Child Health. I completed my PhD at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol in 1998. Several years of post-doctoral experience followed at the University of Oxford (with Prof. D. Bishop) and at the University of Bristol (with joint collaboration with Prof. S. Gathercole and Prof. F. Khadem) before moving to a lectureship at Cardiff University (2002). I have recently been appointed as a new lecturer at University of Bristol (2005).

Research interests

Key words: developmental disorders, language impairment, working memory, episodic and event memory in children.

One line of research addresses the locus and range of memory-related deficits observed in children at risk of developmental disorders of memory and language. In collaboration with F. Khadem, P. Rankin and S. Gathercole, we have been exploring the behavioural and neural correlates of memory and language impairments in children via the Routes Through Memory Project (Funded by The Wellcome Trust). Continuing projects include:

1. Identification of everyday memory impairment in children of school-age (with P. Rankin)

2. Markers of episodic memory impairment in children at risk of early hypoxic insult.

3. Genetic contributions to everyday memory failure in children and adults (with R. Chilvers, D. Skuse and T. Baldeweg).

A second line of research is concerned with communication deficits in children i.e. whether perceptual or cognitive impairments impede multi-sensory integration in children with communication deficits. Continuing projects include:

1. Face-voice association skills in children with Specific Language Impairment.

2. Multi-sensory perceptual integration in children with Autism (with L. Grayson & A. Holcombe)

The extent to which auditory perception impinges on working memory, language and literacy skills comprise my third line of research. Children with hearing impairments display relative integrity of reading and linguistic abilities, despite weak phonological skills (Briscoe, Bishop & Norbury, 2001). Continuing projects include:

1. Effects of auditory interference on complex working memory

2. Segmentation and phonotactic influences on nonword processing in children with SLI

Recent and current grants

2002 – 2004 £19K, Young Researcher Initiative (Cardiff University).

2003 onwards ESRC 1+3 Studentship, Grayson, supervised by Briscoe

2003 onwards CHRAT Studentship, Chilvers, supervised by Skuse, Briscoe, &
Baldeweg

Collaborations

P. Rankin, F. Khadem at Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, ICH, UCL

R. Chilvers, D. Skuse and T. Baldeweg at Behavioural and Brain Sciences Unit, ICH, UCL

L. Grayson, A. Holcombe & T. Bailey at Cardiff University

PhD students supervised

2003 – L. Grayson; 1+3 ESRC funding, with A. Holcombe, Cardiff University

2003 – R. Chilvers; CHRAT funding (joint supervisor with D. Skuse & T. Baldeweg, ICH, UCL)

Some recent publications

Briscoe, J. & McGlyn, H. (2005). Face-voice association in Specific Language Impairment. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Gathercole, S. E, Tiffany, C., Thorn, A., & Briscoe, J. (in press). Developmental consequences of phonological loop deficits during early childhood: A longitudinal study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

Briscoe, J. (2002). The Beauty of Models for Developmental Disorders (commentary). Brain and Behavioural Sciences, 25, 6, 750-752.

Norbury, C., Bishop, D.V.M. & Briscoe, J. (2002). Does impaired grammatical comprehension provide evidence for an innate grammar module? Applied Psycholinguistics, 247-268.

Briscoe, J. Gathercole, S. E., & Marlow. N. (2001). Everyday memory and cognitive ability in children born prematurely. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 42, 6, 749-754.

Briscoe, J., Bishop, D.V.M., & Norbury, C. (2001). Phonological processing, language and literacy: a comparison of children with mild to moderate sensori-neural hearing loss and those with specific language impairment. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 42, 3, 329-340.

Norbury, C., Bishop, D.V.M. & Briscoe, J. (2001). Production of English finite verb morphology: a comparison of SLI and mild-moderate hearing impairment. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 44, 165-178

Briscoe, J., Gathercole, S. E., & Marlow. N. (1998). Short-term memory and language development in preterm children. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 51, 654-666.


Some Recent Conference Presentations

Gathercole, S. E., & Briscoe, J. (2004). Working memory deficits in Specific Language Impairment: Do they originate in the phonological loop? European Working Memory Symposium, Beaune, France, April.

Gathercole, S. E., Tiffany, C., Briscoe, J., Thorn, A., & ALSPAC Team (2004). Episodic memory in children with poor phonological short-term memory skills. Meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society, 9-11th January.

Briscoe, J., Rankin, P.M., Gathercole, S.E., Gadian, D.G., Vargha-Khadem, F. (2003) Quantitative MRI neural correlates of phonological short-term memory and language. Neuroscience 2003, the Society for Neuroscience 33rd Annual Meeting. New Orleans, USA, 8 – 12th November.

Rankin, P.M., Belton, E., Briscoe, J., Vargha-Khadem, F., Gathercole, S.E., Gadian, D.G. (2003). Quantitative MRI neural correlates for developmental specific language impairment. Neuroscience 2003, the Society for Neuroscience 33rd Annual Meeting. New Orleans, USA, 8 – 12th November.

Briscoe, J., Rankin, P. M. Gadian, D. G., Gathercole, S. E., Vargha-Khadem, F. (2003) Dissociating phonological and episodic memory systems in children; routes to language? Sixth International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) World Congress of Neuroscience. Prague, Czech Republic, 9-11 July.

Rankin, P. M., Briscoe, J., Vargha-Khadem, F., Gathercole, S. E., Gadian, D. G. (2003). Quantitative MRI neural correlates for children with specific deficits in episodic memory, phonological memory and language. Sixth International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) World Congress of Neuroscience. Prague, Czech Republic, 9-11 July.

Gathercole, S. E., Tiffany, C., Briscoe, J., Thorn, A., & ALSPAC Team. (2003). Developmental consequences of impairments of phonological short-term memory. Meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society, 7-9th January.

Briscoe, J. Shortman, R., & Gilchrist, I.D. (2002). Contextual Cueing: Evidence for binding deficits in children with anoxia risk. Binding in Human Memory, Saarbrücken, Germany, 15-18th May.

Briscoe, J., Gathercole, S.E., & Marlow, N. (2002). Working Memory and Episodic Memory in children at risk. Binding in Human Memory, Saarbrücken, Germany, 15-18th May.
Briscoe, J. & Gathercole, S. E. (2001). 3rd International Conference on Memory, Valencia, Spain, July 3-6th.

Briscoe, J., Bishop, D.V.M., & Norbury, C. (2000). Annual Conference of Developmental Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society, Bristol, UK.

Briscoe, J., Bishop, D.V.M., & Norbury, C. (2000). Meeting of Experimental Psychology Society, Nottingham, UK.

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