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Suzi Gage

Research Assistant

telephone: +44 (0)117 92 88465 email: suzi.gage@bristol.ac.uk

Room 3D32

Biographical details



I took my undergraduate degree in Psychology at University College London. Whilst studying for this I was awarded a grant to work with Jamie Ward over one summer, investigating synaesthesia. I also worked with him on my third year project, looking at colour/music associations. I then studied for my MSc in Cognitive Neuropsychology, also at UCL, whilst working as a lab demonstrator for the 2nd year undergraduates. I undertook my MSC project with Gabriella Vigliocco, looking at potential neural locations for action and object words, using TMS on a non-clinical population, as well as studying progressively brain damaged patients.


Current Research

Currently, my main interests are in the field of language. I am working with Jeff Bowers and Sven Mattys in the language group on an ESRC funded project looking at the impact of early language experience on later language ability. We are interested in investigating whether populations exposed to a subsequently 'lost' language show benefits in perceiving and potentially understanding subtle auditory differences in that language later on in life. As well as this I'm aiding Hans Stadthagen with his current research.

Publications

Bowers, J.S., Mattys, S.L., & Gage, S.H. (2009). Preserved implicit knowledge of a forgotten childhood language. Psychological Science, 20, 1064-1069.

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