Resume

• 1997

  Holly Lodge

  sheffield

  University of Sheffield

  Holly Lodge

  sheffield

  Sheffield Hallam University

  Sheffield Hallam University

  Dept; of Psychology

  I am presently Course Leader for the MSc Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Course within Psychology at Sheffield Hallam. I also lead two elective modules for third year undergraduates in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology. I have four PhD students

  two Research Assistants and three voluntary researchers.

  Cognitive Neuroscientist/Psychologist

  South Yorkshire

  UK

  Sigma Psychological Consultancy

  German

  French

  English

  Early career award nomination

  International Brain Injury Association IBIA

  Nominated for early career award for William James prize for scientific study of cosnciousness

  Association for the scientific study of consciousness

  Wingate Award/Scholarship

  An award made for potential work of academic excellence and innovation

  usually in the Arts

  but in special cases in the area of science.

  Wingate

  Westfield Sixth Form

  Westfield Comprehensive

  Sheffield Hallam University

  Bachelor of Science (BSc)

  Psychology

• Executive function(s): Conductor

  orchestra or symphony? Towards a trans-disciplinary unification of theory and practice across development

  in normal and atypical groups. | Frontiers Research Topic

  View our special edition on executive function

  There are several theories of executive function(s) that tend to share some theoretical overlap yet are also conceptually distinct

  each bolstered by empirical data (Norman and Shallice

  1986; Shallice & Burgess

  1991; Stuss and Alexander

  2007; Burgess

  Gilbert

  & Dumentheil

  2007; Burgess & Shallice

  1996; ...

  Research

  Cognitive Neuroscience

  Psychology

  Literature Reviews

  Experimental Design

  Higher Education

  Health Psychology

  Neuropsychology

  Eye Tracking

  Neuropsychological Assessment

  Teaching

  Clinical Research

  Clinical Psychology

  Cognitive Psychology

  Scientific Writing

  Media

  Cognition

  Neuroscience

  Research Design

  Social Psychology

  Defining the Parameters of Incidental Learning on a Serial Reaction Time (SRT) Task: Do Conscious Rules Apply?

  This is a very experimental paper but I think it is useful work because it shows that incidental/implicit/non-conscious learning can proceed in parallel with little if any demand on working memory processes. The wider implication is support for the notion that we have two learning systems: One that is offline (non-conscious/fast/general) and one that is online (conscious

  slow

  sequential). Importantly our other work has shown that TBI participants with frontotemporal damage have impairments to both systems.

  Defining the Parameters of Incidental Learning on a Serial Reaction Time (SRT) Task: Do Conscious Rules Apply?

  Thomas A. Doherty1

  Lynne A. Barker1*

  Rebecca Denniss1

  Abdurrahman Jalil1 and Martin Beer1

  Current standardised neuropsychological tests may fail to accurately capture real-world executive deficits. We developed a computer-based Cooking Task assessment of executive functions and trialled the measure with a normative group before use with a head-injured population. \n\nForty six participants completed the computerised Cooking Task and subtests from standardised neuropsychological tasks

  including the Tower and Sorting Tests of executive function from the D-KEFS

  and the CAMPROMPT measure of prospective memory

  in order to examine whether standardised executive function tasks

  predicted performance on measurement indices from the Cooking Task. \n\nFindings showed that verbal comprehension

  rule detection and prospective memory contributed to measures of prospective planning accuracy and strategy implementation of the Cooking Task. Results also showed that functions necessary for cooking efficacy differ as an effect of task demands (difficulty levels). Performance on rule detection

  strategy implementation and flexible thinking EF measures contributed to accuracy on the Cooking Task Findings raise questions about the functions captured by present standardised tasks particularly at varying levels of difficulty and during dual-task performance. Our preliminary findings also indicate that Cooking Task measures can effectively distinguish between EF and FSIQ abilities. \n\nResults of the present study indicate that the Cooking Task shows promise as an ecologically valid measure of executive function for future use with a head-injured population and indexes selective EF’s captured by standardised tests.

  The cooking task: making a meal of executive functions

  Charles Romanowski

  In this study we have two TBI groups one who sustained injury in adulthood and those who sustained injury in childhood/adolescence. We tested them all in adulthood and the older group had more bilateral and extensive lesions but the two groups were not different on neuropsychological measures (indirectly this suggests that the younger group underperformed because given the difference in extent of lesion the older group should have been significantly worse). Interestingly the younger group showed more behavioural insight problems than the older group

  Investigating the ‘latent’ deficit hypothesis: Age at time of head injury

  implicit and executive functions and behavioral insight

  Kevin Gosden

  Charles Romanowski

  This paper is interesting because the case is unusual

  we successfully remediated very incapacitating deficits and importantly

  this case raises real issues about the purported Visual Word Form Area of the brain. Contact me if you want a copy as I think BMJ operate a two year embargo.

  Complete abolition of reading and writing ability with a third ventricle colloid cyst: implications for surgical intervention and proposed neural substrates of visual recognition and visual imaging ability

  Brian Edward McGuire

  Todd Graham Morrison

  Possible useful data for clinical assessment suggesting caution when choosing others to rate the problems of TBI patients

  Inter-rater reliability of the Dysexecutive Questionnaire (DEX): Comparative data from non-clinician respondents—all raters are not equal

  The contribution of injury severity

  executive and implicit functions to awareness of deficits after traumatic brain injury (TBI).

  In this work we investigated the potential cognitive functions that might mediate impaired self awareness post-TBI

  including tacit automatic and higher-order executive processes.

  The contribution of injury severity

  executive and implicit functions to awareness of deficits after traumatic brain injury (TBI).

  Lisa Heavey

  Sophie Jane Taylor

  Developmental Psychology

  Great paper of Sophies (my former PhD student) indicating that executive functions do not develop linearly - findings suggest that these functions may develop at different age ranges corresponding to what we know about the morphological change occurring in frontal networks in late adolescence/early adulthood.

  The Typical Developmental Trajectory of Social and Executive Functions in Late Adolescence and Early Adulthood

  Jane Walsh

  Mark Delargy

  Simone Carton

  John McCann

  Colin F Wilson

  Sheena Caldwell

  Judith McBrinn

  Todd Morrison

  Brian Mcguire

  Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

  Methods: We obtained DEX ratings for 113 patients with an acquired brain injury from two brain injury services in the UK and two services in Ireland. We gathered data from two groups of raters—“significant others” (DEX-SO) such as partners and close family members and “clinicians” (DEX-C)

  who were psychologists or rehabilitation physicians working closely with the patient and who were able to provide an opinion about the patient’s level of everyday executive functioning. Intra-class correlation coefficients and their 95% confidence intervals were calculated between each of the three groups (self

  significant other

  clinician). Principal axis factor (PAF) analyses were also conducted for each of the three groups.\n\nResults: The factor analysis revealed a consistent one-factor model for each of the three groups of raters. However

  the inter-rater reliability analyses showed a low level of agreement between the self-ratings and the ratings of the two groups of independent raters. We also found low agreement between the significant others and the clinicians.\n\nConclusion: Although there was a consistent finding of a single factor solution for each of the three groups

  the low level of agreement between significant others and clinicians raises a question about the reliability of the DEX.

  Impaired self-awareness after traumatic brain injury: inter-rater reliability and factor structure of the Dysexecutive Questionnaire (DEX) in patients

  significant others and clinicians

  We are Associate editors of this special edition that includes some of the most recent and innovative work in the area. Edition will be finalised and available for download later in the year.

  Executive function(s): Conductor

  orchestra or symphony? Towards a trans-disciplinary unification of theory and practice across development

  in normal and atypical groups.

  See our recent paper on this topic here

  Jenny Drabble

  Recent media coverage of our research

  Lynne

  Barker

  Sigma Psychological Consultancy

  University of Sheffield

  Sheffield Hallam University