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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (born 11 August 1974) is


Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Institute of
Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London and
co-director of the Wellcome Trust PhD Programme in
Neuroscience at UCL[3][4][5][6][7][8]

[3] Iris Prole. UCL. Retrieved 2014-01-18.


[4] Sarah-Jayne Blakemores publications indexed by the
Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by
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[5] Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: The mysterious workings of the
adolescent brain, TED talk, Edinburgh 2012-09-17 on
YouTube

Early life

[6] Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on the teenage brain at the Royal


Society 2013-11-08 on YouTube

Blakemore was born on 11 August 1974 to Colin Blakemore and Andre Blakemore (ne Washbourne), and
educated at Oxford High School and St Johns College, Oxford where she graduated with a BA degree
in Experimental psychology in 1996.[9][10] She went on
to study at University College London where she was
awarded a PhD in 2000[11] for research co-supervised by
Daniel Wolpert and Chris Frith.[2][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]

[7] List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search


[8] Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on Twitter
[9] BLAKEMORE, Prof. Sarah-Jayne. Whos Who 2015.
A & C Black.
[10] Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore at the Royal Society
[11] Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne (2000). Recognising the sensory
consequences of ones own actions (PhD thesis). University College London.

Research

Blakemores research covers the development of [12] Blakemore, S. J.; Wolpert, D. M.; Frith, C. D. (2002).
social cognition and decision-making during human
Abnormalities in the awareness of action. Trends in
Cognitive Sciences. 6 (6): 237242. doi:10.1016/s1364adolescence.[1][19][20][21][22][23][24]
6613(02)01907-1. PMID 12039604.

Blakemore was a scientic consultant on the television


documentary The Human Mind in 2003. She is a mem- [13] Blakemore, S. J.; Frith, C. D.; Wolpert, D. M. (2001).
The cerebellum is involved in predicting the sensory
ber of Royal Society BrainWaves working group for neuconsequences of action. NeuroReport. 12 (9): 1879
roscience and the Royal Society Vision Committee for
84. doi:10.1097/00001756-200107030-00023. PMID
Maths and Science Education 5-19.[3]
11435916.

Blakemore is a Royal Society University Research


Fellow.[10]

[14] Blakemore, S. J.; Wolpert, D; Frith, C (2000). Why


can't you tickle yourself?". NeuroReport. 11 (11): R11
6. doi:10.1097/00001756-200008030-00002. PMID
10943682.

In March 2015 Blakemore was the guest on BBC Radio


4's The Life Scientic.[25]

[15] Blakemore, S. J.; Frith, C. D.; Wolpert, D. M. (1999).


Spatio-temporal prediction modulates the perception of
self-produced stimuli. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 11 (5): 5519. doi:10.1162/089892999563607.
PMID 10511643.

Awards and honours

Blakemore was awarded the Rosalind Franklin Award


in 2013[26] and the Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize in
2015.[27]

[16] Blakemore, S. J.; Wolpert, D. M.; Frith, C. D. (1999).


The cerebellum contributes to somatosensory cortical
activity during self-produced tactile stimulation. NeuroImage. 10 (4): 44859. doi:10.1006/nimg.1999.0478.
PMID 10493902.

References

[17] Blakemore, S. J.; Wolpert, D. M.; Frith, C. D. (1998).


Central cancellation of self-produced tickle sensation.
Nature Neuroscience. 1 (7): 63540. doi:10.1038/2870.
PMID 10196573.

[1] Sarah-Jayne Blakemores publications indexed by Google


Scholar, a service provided by Google
[2] Daniel Wolpert CV

[18] Blakemore, S. J.; Goodbody, S. J.; Wolpert, D. M. (1998).


Predicting the consequences of our own actions: The role
of sensorimotor context estimation. The Journal of neuroscience : the ocial journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 18 (18): 75118. PMID 9736669.
[19] Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. UCL. 2010-06-14.
Retrieved 2014-01-18.
[20] Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne; Frith, Uta (2005), The learning brain : lessons for education, Blackwell, ISBN
1405124016
[21] Blakemore, S. J.; Mills, K. L. (2014). Is Adolescence a Sensitive Period for Sociocultural Processing?".
Annual Review of Psychology.
65:
187207. doi:10.1146/annurev-psych-010213-115202.
PMID 24016274.
[22] Blakemore, S. J. (2013). Teenage kicks: Cannabis and
the adolescent brain. The Lancet. 381 (9870): 888889.
doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61578-5.
[23] Blakemore, S. J. (2008). The social brain in adolescence. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 9 (4): 26777.
doi:10.1038/nrn2353. PMID 18354399.
[24] Blakemore, S. J.; Choudhury, S. (2006). Development
of the adolescent brain: Implications for executive function and social cognition. Journal of Child Psychology
and Psychiatry. 47 (34): 296312. doi:10.1111/j.14697610.2006.01611.x. PMID 16492261.
[25]
[26] Rosalind Franklin Award. Royal Society. Retrieved
2014-01-18.
[27] Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize. Jacobs Foundation. Retrieved 2016-01-28.

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