Biography:Faraneh Vargha-Khadem
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Faraneh Vargha-Khadem | |
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| Born | 1949 (age 74–75) |
| Alma mater | McGill University[1] University of Massachusetts |
| Awards | BPS Barbara Wilson Lifetime Achievement Award (2013) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cognitive neuroscience |
| Institutions | University College London Montreal Children's Hospital Great Ormond Street Hospital |
| Thesis | Hemispheric specialization in congenitally deaf and hearing children and adolescents (1979) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Corballis |
| Influenced | Kate Watkins |
| Website | iris |
Faraneh Vargha-Khadem (born 1949) is a British cognitive neuroscientist specializing in developmental amnesia among children.[2][3] Faraneh was a part of the team that identified the FOXP2 gene, the so-called 'speech gene', that may explain why humans talk and chimps do not.[4]
Education
Vargha-Khadem was educated at McGill University and the University of Massachusetts.[1]
Career and research
She served as head of the clinical neuropsychology service at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and director of the centre for developmental cognitive neuroscience at University College London.[5] Faraneh was the awarded the BPS Barbara Wilson Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Faraneh Vargha-Khadem". https://www.gosh.nhs.uk/our-people/staff-z/faraneh-vargha-khadem. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
- ↑ Faraneh Vargha-Khadem publications from Europe PubMed Central
- ↑ Vargha-Khadem, F.; Gadian, D. G.; Watkins, K. E.; Connelly, A.; Van Paesschen, W.; Mishkin, M. (1997). "Differential Effects of Early Hippocampal Pathology on Episodic and Semantic Memory". Science 277 (5324): 376–380. doi:10.1126/science.277.5324.376. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 9219696.
- ↑ "Faraneh Vargha-Khadem on memory, The Life Scientific". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07j4jg8.
- ↑ "Faraneh Vargha-Khadem". Great Ormond Street Hospital. http://www.gosh.nhs.uk/medical-information/staff-z/faraneh-vargha-khadem-0. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
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