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    Age of language learning shapes brain structure: A cortical thickness study of bilingual and monolingual individuals by Klein, Denise, Mok, Kelvin, Chen, Jen-Kai, Watkins, Kate E.

    Published in Brain and language (01-04-2014)
    “…•Learning two languages from birth has no effect on cortical thickness compared to learning only one language.•In the bilingual brain, the later a second…”
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    Transcranial direct current stimulation over left inferior frontal cortex improves speech fluency in adults who stutter by Chesters, Jennifer, Möttönen, Riikka, Watkins, Kate E

    Published in Brain (London, England : 1878) (01-04-2018)
    “…See Crinion (doi:10.1093/brain/awy075) for a scientific commentary on this article. Chesters et al. present the first randomized controlled trial of…”
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    Neurobiological Basis of Language Learning Difficulties by Krishnan, Saloni, Watkins, Kate E, Bishop, Dorothy V.M

    Published in Trends in cognitive sciences (01-09-2016)
    “…In this paper we highlight why there is a need to examine subcortical learning systems in children with language impairment and dyslexia, rather than focusing…”
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    Motor Representations of Articulators Contribute to Categorical Perception of Speech Sounds by Mottonen, Riikka, Watkins, Kate E

    Published in The Journal of neuroscience (05-08-2009)
    “…Listening to speech modulates activity in human motor cortex. It is unclear, however, whether the motor cortex has an essential role in speech perception…”
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    Morphological and functional variability in central and subcentral motor cortex of the human brain by Eichert, Nicole, Watkins, Kate E., Mars, Rogier B., Petrides, Michael

    Published in Brain Structure and Function (01-01-2021)
    “…There is a long-established link between anatomy and function in the somatomotor system in the mammalian cerebral cortex. The morphology of the central sulcus…”
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    Correspondence of the brain's functional architecture during activation and rest by Smith, Stephen M, Fox, Peter T, Miller, Karla L, Glahn, David C, Fox, P. Mickle, Mackay, Clare E, Filippini, Nicola, Watkins, Kate E, Toro, Roberto, Laird, Angela R, Beckmann, Christian F

    “…Neural connections, providing the substrate for functional networks, exist whether or not they are functionally active at any given moment. However, it is not…”
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    Cross-species cortical alignment identifies different types of anatomical reorganization in the primate temporal lobe by Eichert, Nicole, Robinson, Emma C, Bryant, Katherine L, Jbabdi, Saad, Jenkinson, Mark, Li, Longchuan, Krug, Kristine, Watkins, Kate E, Mars, Rogier B

    Published in eLife (23-03-2020)
    “…Evolutionary adaptations of temporo-parietal cortex are considered to be a critical specialization of the human brain. Cortical adaptations, however, can…”
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    The role of the left inferior parietal lobule in second language learning: An intensive language training fMRI study by Barbeau, Elise B., Chai, Xiaoqian J., Chen, Jen-Kai, Soles, Jennika, Berken, Jonathan, Baum, Shari, Watkins, Kate E., Klein, Denise

    Published in Neuropsychologia (01-04-2017)
    “…Research to date suggests that second language acquisition results in functional and structural changes in the bilingual brain, however, in what way and how…”
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    Tract-based spatial statistics: Voxelwise analysis of multi-subject diffusion data by Smith, Stephen M., Jenkinson, Mark, Johansen-Berg, Heidi, Rueckert, Daniel, Nichols, Thomas E., Mackay, Clare E., Watkins, Kate E., Ciccarelli, Olga, Cader, M. Zaheer, Matthews, Paul M., Behrens, Timothy E.J.

    Published in NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.) (15-07-2006)
    “…There has been much recent interest in using magnetic resonance diffusion imaging to provide information about anatomical connectivity in the brain, by…”
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    Learning to play a melody: An fMRI study examining the formation of auditory-motor associations by Chen, Joyce L., Rae, Charlotte, Watkins, Kate E.

    Published in NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.) (16-01-2012)
    “…Interactions between the auditory and motor systems are important for music and speech, and may be especially relevant when one learns to associate sounds with…”
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    A role for the subthalamic nucleus in response inhibition during conflict by Brittain, John-Stuart, Watkins, Kate E, Joundi, Raed A, Ray, Nicola J, Holland, Peter, Green, Alexander L, Aziz, Tipu Z, Jenkinson, Ned

    Published in The Journal of neuroscience (26-09-2012)
    “…The subthalamic nucleus (STN) is a key node in the network that supports response inhibition. It is suggested that the STN rapidly inhibits basal ganglia…”
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    Separation of trait and state in stuttering by Connally, Emily L, Ward, David, Pliatsikas, Christos, Finnegan, Sarah, Jenkinson, Mark, Boyles, Rowan, Watkins, Kate E

    Published in Human brain mapping (01-08-2018)
    “…Stuttering is a disorder in which the smooth flow of speech is interrupted. People who stutter show structural and functional abnormalities in the speech and…”
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    Functional organisation for verb generation in children with developmental language disorder by Krishnan, Saloni, Asaridou, Salomi S., Cler, Gabriel J., Smith, Harriet J., Willis, Hannah E., Healy, Máiréad P., Thompson, Paul A., Bishop, Dorothy V.M., Watkins, Kate E.

    Published in NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.) (01-02-2021)
    “…•We scanned the largest cohort of children with developmental language disorder to date.•Our pre-registered predictions were not upheld.•Children with DLD who…”
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    Quantitative MRI reveals differences in striatal myelin in children with DLD by Krishnan, Saloni, Cler, Gabriel J, Smith, Harriet J, Willis, Hanna E, Asaridou, Salomi S, Healy, Máiréad P, Papp, Daniel, Watkins, Kate E

    Published in eLife (27-09-2022)
    “…Developmental language disorder (DLD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by receptive or expressive language difficulties or both. While…”
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    Neural activation in speech production and reading aloud in native and non-native languages by Berken, Jonathan A, Gracco, Vincent L, Chen, Jen-Kai, Watkins, Kate E, Baum, Shari, Callahan, Megan, Klein, Denise

    Published in NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.) (15-05-2015)
    “…We used fMRI to investigate neural activation in reading aloud in bilinguals differing in age of acquisition. Three groups were compared: French-English…”
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    Cognitive Neuroscience: The Neural Basis of Motor Learning by Observing by Lametti, Daniel R., Watkins, Kate E.

    Published in Current biology (04-04-2016)
    “…Somatosensory feedback from the limbs plays an essential role when we learn to make new movements. A recent study shows that motor learning can be accomplished…”
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    Patterns of Individual Variation in Visual Pathway Structure and Function in the Sighted and Blind by Aguirre, Geoffrey K, Datta, Ritobrato, Benson, Noah C, Prasad, Sashank, Jacobson, Samuel G, Cideciyan, Artur V, Bridge, Holly, Watkins, Kate E, Butt, Omar H, Dain, Aleksandra S, Brandes, Lauren, Gennatas, Efstathios D

    Published in PloS one (03-11-2016)
    “…Many structural and functional brain alterations accompany blindness, with substantial individual variation in these effects. In normally sighted people, there…”
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    Asymmetries of the planum temporale and Heschl's gyrus: relationship to language lateralization by Dorsaint-Pierre, Raquel, Penhune, Virginia B., Watkins, Kate E., Neelin, Peter, Lerch, Jason P., Bouffard, Marc, Zatorre, Robert J.

    Published in Brain (London, England : 1878) (01-05-2006)
    “…Morphological asymmetries favouring the left hemisphere in the planum temporale (PT) and Heschl's gyrus (HG) have both been presumed to relate to the typical…”
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    Hemispheric Specialization for Processing Auditory Nonspeech Stimuli by Jamison, Helen L., Watkins, Kate E., Bishop, Dorothy V. M., Matthews, Paul M.

    Published in Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. 1991) (01-09-2006)
    “…The left hemisphere specialization for speech perception might arise from asymmetries at more basic levels of auditory processing. In particular, it has been…”
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    Discrimination of speech and non-speech sounds following theta-burst stimulation of the motor cortex by Rogers, Jack C, Möttönen, Riikka, Boyles, Rowan, Watkins, Kate E

    Published in Frontiers in psychology (15-07-2014)
    “…Perceiving speech engages parts of the motor system involved in speech production. The role of the motor cortex in speech perception has been demonstrated…”
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