Psychology Research Group staff
Dr Lynne A Barker
Senior lecturer and course leader for the MSc Applied Cognitive Neuroscience; BSc (Hons), PhD, PgCert
Phone 0114 225 5379
E-mail l.barker@shu.ac.uk
Subject area: cognitive neuropsychology/neuroscience
Research centres/institutes associated with: Brain, Behaviour and Cognition Group.
Professional memberships: British Neuropsychological Society and New York Academy of Sciences.
I completed my PhD at the University of Sheffield and returned in 2006 to Sheffield Hallam where I had previously undertaken an undergraduate BSc (Hons) Psychology degree.
Since my appointment as a lecturer I have concentrated (together with my colleagues) on increasing neuropsychology/neuroscience teaching provision. Neuroscience is a rapidly growing discipline and the methods and techniques of neuroscience can be used to investigate broad-ranging cross-disciplinary research questions in innovative ways. My aim is to further develop clinical links allied to our academic provision so that students can conduct research with neuropathological and non-neuropathological groups as a component of their postgraduate training.
I was nominated for the William James prize for Early Career Contributions to the Scientific Study of Consciousness in 2006-7. My current research focuses on late adolescent morphological brain change and cognitive/behavioural correlates, automatic aspects of social cognition, and effects of substance abuse on cognitive function in late adolescence.
Research interests
- implicit cognition, executive function and social cognition
- maturational brain change
- localised cognitive deficits post-head injury
- latent cognitive deficits after early brain injury
- EEG correlates of non-conscious/subliminal processes
Teaching interests
- neuropsychology/neuroscience
- cognitive psychology/working memory
Author of
Taylor, S., Barker, L. A; Reidy, L., and McHale, S. Normal developmental trajectory of social and executive functions in late adolescence. In preparation.
Barker, L. A., and Andrade, J. (2010). Facilitation of implicit stereotype activation after frontal brain injury. In preparation.
Barker L. A., Morton, N. and Gosford, K. (2010). Remediation of a selective letter recognition deficit using a multi-modal approach. In preparation.
Barker L. A., McGuire, B. and Morton, N. (2010) Inter-rater reliability of the DEX (Dysexecutive) measure of social functioning after brain injury. Brain Injury. Under review
Barker L.A. Andrade J; Romanowski C; Morton N; and Bowles, D. (2010). 'Investigating the 'latent' deficit hypothesis: Age at time of head injury, executive and implicit functions and behavioral insight. Neuropsychologia. (In press - available online).
Morton, N. and Barker, L.A. Top down or Bottom up? Executive and implicit function contributions to awareness after Traumatic Brain Injury. (2010). Brain Injury, 24, p38
Barker, L. A., Andrade, J., Morton, N., Romanowski, C. A. J. and Bowles, D. (2010) Effects of age at time of injury on executive and implicit functions and behavioral insight: The latent deficit hypothesis. Brain Injury, 24, p38
Morton, N; and Barker, L. A. (2010). The contribution of executive and implicit processes to awareness of deficits post head injury. International Journal of the Neuropsychological Society, 16, 1-10.
Barker L.A. Andrade J; Romanowski C; Morton N and Wasti A (2006). Implicit cognition is impaired and dissociable after frontal head injury. Neuropsychologia, 44, 1413-1424
Barker L.A. and Andrade J. (2006). Hidden Co-variation Detection produces faster, not slower responses to social judgements. Journal of Experimental Psychology, Learning, Memory and Cognition, 32, 636-641
Barker L.A. Andrade J; Romanowski C; Morton N and Wasti A (2005). Implicit cognition is impaired after frontal head injury. Brain Impairment, Vol 6, (2), p. 119.
Barker L. A; Andrade J and Romanowski C. (2004). Intact executive function with impaired implicit cognition after extensive bilateral prefrontal pathology: a case study. Neurocase, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 233-248.
Research grants
- Sheffield Health Consortium: 2009-10, £17, 563
- University of Sheffield - Non-salary Budget: 2004, L.A. Barker, £2,300
- PPP Healthcare Foundation: J. Andrade, S McHale L. A. Barker: 2000, £53, 832
- Harold Hyam Foundation - Wingate Scholarship: 1999, £15,000.
