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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore FRS FBA FMedSci FRSB CPsychol (born 11 August 1974)[5] is Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge[6] and co-director of the Wellcome Trust PhD Programme Neuroscience at University College London.[7][8][9][10][11]

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
FRS FBA FMedSci FRSB CPsychol
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore speaking at the Latitude Festival in 2015
Born (1974-08-11) 11 August 1974 (age 50)[5]
Cambridge,[5] England
EducationOxford High School, England
Alma mater
Children2
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
University College London
ThesisRecognising the sensory consequences of one's own actions (2000)
Doctoral advisor
Websitesites.google.com/site/blakemorelab/ Edit this at Wikidata

Education

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Blakemore was born in Cambridge and educated at Oxford High School, England and the University of Oxford where she was an undergraduate student at St John's College, Oxford. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in experimental psychology in 1996.[5][1] She completed postgraduate study at University College London where she was awarded a PhD in 2000[3] for research co-supervised by Daniel Wolpert[4][12][13][14] and Chris Frith.[15][16][17][18][19]

Research and career

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After her PhD, she was appointed an international postdoctoral research fellow from 2001 to 2003 to work in Lyon, France, with Jean Decety on the perception of causality in the human brain. This was followed by a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship (2004–2007) and then a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (2007–2013) at UCL.[1] She is actively involved in increasing the public awareness of science, frequently gives public lectures and talks at schools and acted as scientific consultant on the BBC series The Human Mind in 2003.[1] Blakemore has an interest in the links between neuroscience and education and co-wrote a book with Uta Frith[20] on The Learning Brain: Lessons for Education.[21] She co-directs the Wellcome Trust four Year PhD Programme in Neuroscience at UCL and serves as editor-in-Chief of the journal Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.[1]

Blakemore's research covers the development of social cognition and decision-making during human adolescence.[2][6][22][23][24][25][26] She serves on the Royal Society BrainWaves working group for neuroscience and vision committee for mathematics education and science education.[7]

Awards and honours

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Blakemore has been awarded prizes including the British Psychological Society Doctoral Award 2001, the British Psychological Society Spearman Medal for outstanding early career research 2006, the Lecturer Award 2011 by the Swedish Neuropsychology Society and the Young Mind & Brain Prize from the University of Turin in 2013.[citation needed]

Blakemore was awarded the Royal Society's Rosalind Franklin Award in 2013[27] and the Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize in 2015.[28] Blakemore held a prestigious Royal Society University Research Fellowship from 2007 to 2013.[1] In March 2015 Blakemore was interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili on BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific.[29]

In July 2018 Blakemore was elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).[30] The British Psychological Society awarded Blakemore the Presidents' Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge in August 2018 which provides a lifetime membership to the Society.[31] Blakemore was the winner of the 2018 Royal Society Prize for Science Books for her book Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain.[32] She won Suffrage Science award in 2011.[33] She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2022.[34] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2024.[35]

Personal life

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Blakemore is the daughter of Colin Blakemore[29] and Andrée Blakemore (née Washbourne).[5] She has two sons.[36]

In 2024, she wrote in The Times about assisted dying and her father's experience with his terminal illness.[37]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Anon (2010). "Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 11 November 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ^ a b Sarah-Jayne Blakemore publications indexed by Google Scholar  
  3. ^ a b Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne (2000). Recognising the sensory consequences of one's own actions. ucl.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University College London. OCLC 53611534. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.324633.
  4. ^ a b "Daniel Wolpert CV" (PDF). cam.ac.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016.
  5. ^ a b c d e Anon (2017). "Blakemore, Prof. Sarah-Jayne". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.258273. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. ^ a b Sarah-Jayne Blakemore publications from Europe PubMed Central
  7. ^ a b Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne (2014). "Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Iris Profile". UCL. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  8. ^ Sarah-Jayne Blakemore publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  9. ^ Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain, TED talk, Edinburgh 2012-09-17 on YouTube
  10. ^ Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on the teenage brain at the Royal Society 2013-11-08 on YouTube
  11. ^ Sarah Jayne Blakemore's ORCID 0000-0002-1690-2805
  12. ^ Blakemore, S. J.; Wolpert, D. M.; Frith, C. D. (2002). "Abnormalities in the awareness of action". Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 6 (6): 237–242. doi:10.1016/s1364-6613(02)01907-1. PMID 12039604. S2CID 8995474.
  13. ^ Blakemore, S. J.; Frith, C. D.; Wolpert, D. M. (2001). "The cerebellum is involved in predicting the sensory consequences of action". NeuroReport. 12 (9): 1879–84. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.211.5551. doi:10.1097/00001756-200107030-00023. PMID 11435916. S2CID 14844600.
  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.
  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): 551–9. doi:10.1162/089892999563607. PMID 10511643. S2CID 246032.
  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): 448–59. doi:10.1006/nimg.1999.0478. PMID 10493902. S2CID 3034592.
  17. ^ Blakemore, S. J.; Wolpert, D. M.; Frith, C. D. (1998). "Central cancellation of self-produced tickle sensation". Nature Neuroscience. 1 (7): 635–40. doi:10.1038/2870. PMID 10196573. S2CID 9260106.
  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. 18 (18): 7511–8. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.18-18-07511.1998. PMC 6793221. PMID 9736669.
  19. ^ Sarah-Jayne Blakemore at TED  
  20. ^ Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne; Frith, Uta (2005). "The learning brain: Lessons for education: a precis". Developmental Science. 8 (6): 459–465. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2005.00434.x. ISSN 1363-755X. PMID 16246234.
  21. ^ Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne; Frith, Uta (2005), The learning brain : lessons for education, Blackwell, ISBN 978-1405124010
  22. ^ "Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience". UCL. 14 June 2010. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  23. ^ Blakemore, S. J.; Mills, K. L. (2014). "Is Adolescence a Sensitive Period for Sociocultural Processing?". Annual Review of Psychology. 65: 187–207. doi:10.1146/annurev-psych-010213-115202. PMID 24016274.
  24. ^ Blakemore, S. J. (2013). "Teenage kicks: Cannabis and the adolescent brain". The Lancet. 381 (9870): 888–889. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61578-5. PMID 23117180. S2CID 41432255.
  25. ^ Blakemore, S. J. (2008). "The social brain in adolescence". Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 9 (4): 267–77. doi:10.1038/nrn2353. PMID 18354399. S2CID 205504222.
  26. ^ 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 (3–4): 296–312. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2006.01611.x. PMID 16492261. S2CID 145456431.
  27. ^ "Rosalind Franklin Award". Royal Society. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  28. ^ "Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize". Jacobs Foundation. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
  29. ^ a b Al-Khalili, Jim (2015). "Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on teenage brains". bbc.co.uk. BBC.
  30. ^ "Record number of academics elected to British Academy". britac.ac.uk. British Academy. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
  31. ^ "Adolescent brain expert honoured by the British Psychological Society". ucl.ac.uk. 10 August 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  32. ^ Cain, Sian (1 October 2018). "Myth-busting study of teenage brains wins Royal Society prize". theguardian.com. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  33. ^ "Life Sciences Awardees". LMS London Institute of Medical Sciences.
  34. ^ Anon (2022). "Highest number of new Fellows elected to the Academy from across UK". acmedsci.ac.uk. Academy of Medical Sciences. Archived from the original on 1 October 2022.
  35. ^ "Outstanding scientists elected as Fellows of the Royal Society". Royal Society. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
  36. ^ Aitkenhead, Decca (17 August 2018). "Interview: 'Teens get a bad rap': the neuroscientist championing moody adolescents". theguardian.com.
  37. ^ Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne (12 December 2024). "What my dad's death taught me about the assisted dying debate". The Times. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
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