Kate Watkins

• Planum temporale asymmetry in people who stutter.

  Gough PM. et al, (2017), J Fluency Disord

• The role of the left inferior parietal lobule in second language learning: An intensive language training fMRI study.

  Barbeau EB. et al, (2017), Neuropsychologia, 98, 169 - 176

• The neural basis of language learning: Brief introduction to the special issue.

  Watkins KE. et al, (2017), Neuropsychologia, 98, 1 - 3

• Investigating the feasibility of using transcranial direct current stimulation to enhance fluency in people who stutter.

  Chesters J. et al, (2017), Brain Lang, 164, 68 - 76

• Neurobiological Basis of Language Learning Difficulties.

  Krishnan S. et al, (2016), Trends Cogn Sci, 20, 701 - 714

• Cognitive Neuroscience: The Neural Basis of Motor Learning by Observing.

  Lametti DR. and Watkins KE., (2016), Curr Biol, 26, R288 - R290

• Neural basis of understanding communicative actions: Changes associated with knowing the actor's intention and the meanings of the actions.

  Möttönen R. et al, (2016), Neuropsychologia, 81, 230 - 237

• Patterns of Individual Variation in Visual Pathway Structure and Function in the Sighted and Blind.

  Aguirre GK. et al, (2016), PLoS One, 11

• Resting-State Retinotopic Organization in the Absence of Retinal Input and Visual Experience.

  Bock AS. et al, (2015), J Neurosci, 35, 12366 - 12382

• Neurochemical changes in the pericalcarine cortex in congenital blindness attributable to bilateral anophthalmia.

  Coullon GS. et al, (2015), J Neurophysiol, 114, 1725 - 1733

• Neural activation in speech production and reading aloud in native and non-native languages.

  Berken JA. et al, (2015), Neuroimage, 112, 208 - 217

• Subcortical functional reorganization due to early blindness.

  Coullon GS. et al, (2015), J Neurophysiol, 113, 2889 - 2899

• The neurological underpinnings of cluttering: Some initial findings.

  Ward D. et al, (2015), J Fluency Disord, 43, 1 - 16

• The impact of bilateral anophthalmia on sleep and mood: a case series study

  Alexander I. et al, (2014), JOURNAL OF SLEEP RESEARCH, 23, 126 - 126

• Stimulating the lip motor cortex with transcranial magnetic stimulation

  Möttönen R. et al, (2014), Journal of Visualized Experiments

• Stimulating the lip motor cortex with transcranial magnetic stimulation.

  Möttönen R. et al, (2014), J Vis Exp

• Attention fine-tunes auditory-motor processing of speech sounds.

  Möttönen R. et al, (2014), J Neurosci, 34, 4064 - 4069

• Neuroplasticity, neuroimaging, and bilingualism: Commentary on Baum and Titone

  Klein D. and Watkins KE., (2014), Applied Psycholinguistics, 35, 917 - 920

• Disrupted white matter in language and motor tracts in developmental stuttering

  Connally EL. et al, (2014), Brain and Language, 131, 25 - 35

• Discrimination of speech and non-speech sounds following theta-burst stimulation of the motor cortex.

  Rogers JC. et al, (2014), Front Psychol, 5

• Age of language learning shapes brain structure: A cortical thickness study of bilingual and monolingual individuals

  Klein D. et al, (2014), Brain and Language, 131, 20 - 24

• Early auditory processing in area V5/MT+ of the congenitally blind brain.

  Watkins KE. et al, (2013), J Neurosci, 33, 18242 - 18246

• Motor excitability during visual perception of known and unknown spoken languages.

  Swaminathan S. et al, (2013), Brain Lang, 126, 1 - 7

• Auditory-motor processing of speech sounds.

  Möttönen R. et al, (2013), Cereb Cortex, 23, 1190 - 1197

• Investigating language organization with TMS

  Devlin JT. and Watkins KE., (2012), Oxford Handbook of Transcranial Stimulation

• A role for the subthalamic nucleus in response inhibition during conflict.

  Brittain JS. et al, (2012), J Neurosci, 32, 13396 - 13401

• Using TMS to study the role of the articulatory motor system in speech perception

  Möttönen R. and Watkins KE., (2012), Aphasiology, 26, 1103 - 1118

• The fate of the oculomotor system in clinical bilateral anophthalmia.

  Bridge H. et al, (2012), Vis Neurosci, 29, 193 - 202

• Language networks in anophthalmia: maintained hierarchy of processing in 'visual' cortex.

  Watkins KE. et al, (2012), Brain, 135, 1566 - 1577

• Anatomical correlates of dynamic auditory processing: relationship to literacy during early adolescence.

  Sutherland ME. et al, (2012), Neuroimage, 60, 1287 - 1295

• Co-localisation of abnormal brain structure and function in specific language impairment.

  Badcock NA. et al, (2012), Brain Lang, 120, 310 - 320

• Learning to play a melody: an fMRI study examining the formation of auditory-motor associations.

  Chen JL. et al, (2012), Neuroimage, 59, 1200 - 1208

• Developmental disorders of speech and language: from genes to brain structure and function.

  Watkins K., (2011), Prog Brain Res, 189, 225 - 238

• Lateralization of motor excitability during observation of bimanual signs.

  Möttönen R. et al, (2010), Neuropsychologia, 48, 3173 - 3177

• Genetic susceptibility to persistent stuttering.

  Büchel C. and Watkins KE., (2010), N Engl J Med, 362

• Longitudinal changes in grey and white matter during adolescence.

  Giorgio A. et al, (2010), Neuroimage, 49, 94 - 103

• Imaging studies in congenital anophthalmia reveal preservation of brain architecture in 'visual' cortex.

  Bridge H. et al, (2009), Brain, 132, 3467 - 3480

• Integration of measures of functional and structural MRI

  Johansen-Berg H. et al, (2009), Neuromethods, 41, 785 - 809

• Supramarginal gyrus involvement in visual word recognition.

  Stoeckel C. et al, (2009), Cortex, 45, 1091 - 1096

• Motor representations of articulators contribute to categorical perception of speech sounds.

  Möttönen R. and Watkins KE., (2009), J Neurosci, 29, 9819 - 9825

• Correspondence of the brain's functional architecture during activation and rest.

  Smith SM. et al, (2009), Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 106, 13040 - 13045

• Maternal smoking, genes and adolescent brain and body: The saguenay youth study

  Paus T. et al, (2009), Development and Prevention of Behaviour Problems: From Genes to Social Policy, 61 - 112

• Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) as a Tool for Studying Language

  Watkins KE. and Devlin JT., (2008), 115 - 124

• Changes in neural activity associated with learning to articulate novel auditory pseudowords by covert repetition.

  Rauschecker AM. et al, (2008), Hum Brain Mapp, 29, 1231 - 1242

• Neural activity of the anterior insula in emotional processing depends on the individuals' emotional susceptibility.

  Iaria G. et al, (2008), Hum Brain Mapp, 29, 363 - 373

• Structural and functional abnormalities of the motor system in developmental stuttering.

  Watkins KE. et al, (2008), Brain, 131, 50 - 59

• Changes in white matter microstructure during adolescence.

  Giorgio A. et al, (2008), Neuroimage, 39, 52 - 61

• Anatomically related grey and white matter abnormalities in adolescent-onset schizophrenia.

  Douaud G. et al, (2007), Brain, 130, 2375 - 2386

• Genes, maternal smoking, and the offspring brain and body during adolescence: design of the Saguenay Youth Study.

  Pausova Z. et al, (2007), Hum Brain Mapp, 28, 502 - 518

• Stimulating language: insights from TMS.

  Devlin JT. and Watkins KE., (2007), Brain, 130, 610 - 622

• Hemispheric specialization for processing auditory nonspeech stimuli.

  Jamison HL. et al, (2006), Cereb Cortex, 16, 1266 - 1275

• Tract-based spatial statistics: voxelwise analysis of multi-subject diffusion data.

  Smith SM. et al, (2006), Neuroimage, 31, 1487 - 1505

• Asymmetries of the planum temporale and Heschl's gyrus: relationship to language lateralization.

  Dorsaint-Pierre R. et al, (2006), Brain, 129, 1164 - 1176

• Word and nonword repetition in bilingual subjects: a PET study.

  Klein D. et al, (2006), Hum Brain Mapp, 27, 153 - 161

• Cognitive functioning in bilateral perisylvian polymicrogyria (BPP): clinical and radiological correlations.

  Jansen AC. et al, (2005), Epilepsy Behav, 6, 393 - 404

• Modulation of motor excitability during speech perception: the role of Broca's area.

  Watkins K. and Paus T., (2004), J Cogn Neurosci, 16, 978 - 987

• Cognitive functioning in bilateral perisylvian polymicrogyria

  Jansen AC. et al, (2004), EPILEPSIA, 45, 180 - 181

• Developmental amnesia and its relationship to degree of hippocampal atrophy.

  Isaacs EB. et al, (2003), Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 100, 13060 - 13063

• Developmental amnesia: effect of age at injury.

  Vargha-Khadem F. et al, (2003), Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 100, 10055 - 10060

• Bilateral brain abnormalities associated with dominantly inherited verbal and orofacial dyspraxia.

  Belton E. et al, (2003), Hum Brain Mapp, 18, 194 - 200

• Seeing and hearing speech excites the motor system involved in speech production.

  Watkins KE. et al, (2003), Neuropsychologia, 41, 989 - 994

• MRI analysis of an inherited speech and language disorder: structural brain abnormalities.

  Watkins KE. et al, (2002), Brain, 125, 465 - 478

• Behavioural analysis of an inherited speech and language disorder: comparison with acquired aphasia.

  Watkins KE. et al, (2002), Brain, 125, 452 - 464

• Structural asymmetries in the human brain: a voxel-based statistical analysis of 142 MRI scans.

  Watkins KE. et al, (2001), Cereb Cortex, 11, 868 - 877

• Pitch and timing abilities in inherited speech and language impairment.

  Alcock KJ. et al, (2000), Brain Lang, 75, 34 - 46

• Oral dyspraxia in inherited speech and language impairment and acquired dysphasia.

  Alcock KJ. et al, (2000), Brain Lang, 75, 17 - 33

• Developmental amnesia associated with early hypoxic-ischaemic injury.

  Gadian DG. et al, (2000), Brain, 123 Pt 3, 499 - 507

• Functional and structural brain abnormalities associated with a genetic disorder of speech and language.

  Watkins KE. et al, (1999), Am J Hum Genet, 65, 1215 - 1221

• Neural basis of an inherited speech and language disorder.

  Vargha-Khadem F. et al, (1998), Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 95, 12695 - 12700

• Cognitive deficits associated with frontal-lobe infarction in children with sickle cell disease.

  Watkins KE. et al, (1998), Dev Med Child Neurol, 40, 536 - 543

• Localisation of a gene implicated in a severe speech and language disorder.

  Fisher SE. et al, (1998), Nat Genet, 18, 168 - 170

• Differential effects of early hippocampal pathology on episodic and semantic memory.

  Vargha-Khadem F. et al, (1997), Science, 277, 376 - 380

• Management of childhood craniopharyngioma: can the morbidity of radical surgery be predicted?

  De Vile CJ. et al, (1996), J Neurosurg, 85, 73 - 81

• Verbal memory impairment after right temporal lobe surgery: role of contralateral damage as revealed by 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy and T2 relaxometry.

  Incisa della Rocchetta A. et al, (1995), Neurology, 45, 797 - 802

• Praxic and nonverbal cognitive deficits in a large family with a genetically transmitted speech and language disorder.

  Vargha-Khadem F. et al, (1995), Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 92, 930 - 933

• THE ASSESSMENT OF CEREBROVASCULAR-DISEASE IN CHILDREN WITH SICKLE-CELL DISEASE (SCD)

  HEWES D. et al, (1993), BLOOD, 82, A355 - A355

Key Publications

• Language networks in anophthalmia: maintained hierarchy of processing in 'visual' cortex.

  Watkins KE. et al, (2012), Brain, 135, 1566 - 1577

• Structural and functional abnormalities of the motor system in developmental stuttering.

  Watkins KE. et al, (2008), Brain, 131, 50 - 59

• Seeing and hearing speech excites the motor system involved in speech production.

  Watkins KE. et al, (2003), Neuropsychologia, 41, 989 - 994

• Behavioural analysis of an inherited speech and language disorder: comparison with acquired aphasia.

  Watkins KE. et al, (2002), Brain, 125, 452 - 464

• MRI analysis of an inherited speech and language disorder: structural brain abnormalities.

  Watkins KE. et al, (2002), Brain, 125, 465 - 478

Recent Publications

• Planum temporale asymmetry in people who stutter.

  Gough PM. et al, (2017), J Fluency Disord

• The role of the left inferior parietal lobule in second language learning: An intensive language training fMRI study.

  Barbeau EB. et al, (2017), Neuropsychologia, 98, 169 - 176

• The neural basis of language learning: Brief introduction to the special issue.

  Watkins KE. et al, (2017), Neuropsychologia, 98, 1 - 3

• Investigating the feasibility of using transcranial direct current stimulation to enhance fluency in people who stutter.

  Chesters J. et al, (2017), Brain Lang, 164, 68 - 76

• Neurobiological Basis of Language Learning Difficulties.

  Krishnan S. et al, (2016), Trends Cogn Sci, 20, 701 - 714