Georgina Rippon

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Georgina Rippon is a British psychophysiologist and neuroscientist . She is Professor of Cognitive Neuroimaging at the School of Life and Health Sciences at Aston University and Principal Scientist at the Aston Brain Center and was instrumental in the development of a pediatric magnetoencephalography system for the study of developmental disorders . Rippon was President of the British Psychophysiology Society (today: British Association of Cognitive Neuroscience, BACN). She has been Pro-Vice Chancellor (International) at Aston University since 2012 .

Rippon's research interests include the application of neuroimaging techniques, particularly electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography (MEG) using cognitive neuroscience paradigms to studies of normal and abnormal cognitive processes. The focus is particularly on the functional significance of variations in the frequency characteristics of cortical signals and in the mapping of the functional connectivity between cortical areas. Her work has been applied to the study of autistic spectrum disorders and dyslexia .

In addition, together with the MEG research team, she is looking for ways to enable the temporal resolution of this technology to the spatial resolution with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). This allows classic cognitive neuroscientific problems in e.g. B. linguistic processing, learning and memory - and affect- cognition interactions are explored and the spatial-temporal dynamics of the underlying neural networks are followed.

Career

Georgina Rippon graduated from Bedford College with a bachelor's degree in psychology and then received her PhD in psychophysiology from Birkbeck College . In 1975 she was appointed to the newly established Department of Psychology at the University of Warwick , where she remained until 2000. Parallel them from 1984 to 1985 "Honorary Research Fellow" ( Assistant Professor honorary) in the neuroscience unit of Walsgrave Hospital in Coventry from 1991 to 1996 as a consultant in the Army Personnel Research Establishment (APRE) in Farnborough from 1993 to 2000 Honorary research Fellow at the department of behavioral and cognitive research of the Imperial College School of Medicine , in 1999 as a visiting researcher at the University of Wisconsin in Madison , and from January to July 2000 as a research assistant at the center for Human sciences of the Defense evaluation and research Agency in Farnborough active. In 2000 she was appointed to Aston University as Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Deputy Director of the Neuroscientific Research Institute. In 2003 she became Head of Psychology and Dean of Postgraduate Programs at the School of Life and Health Sciences (LHS). In 2005 she became deputy head of the LHS. In 2008 she became dean of international relations at the LHS, visiting Korea , Vietnam , Singapore , Malaysia and Japan as well as Australia and the USA . In 2012 she assumed the position of Pro-Vice Chancellor (International) at Aston University.

Publications (selection, since 2008)

  • with Rebecca Jordan-Young, Anelis Kaiser, Daphna Joel, Cordelia Fine : Journal of neuroscience research policy on addressing sex as a biological variable: comments, clarifications, and elaborations In: Journal of Neuroscience Research , vol. Early view. 2017 doi : 10.1002 / jnr.24045
  • The trouble with girls? In: Psychologist , 2016 vol. 29, no.12, pp. 918-922.
  • with K. Kessler, RA. Seymour, G. Rippon: Brain oscillations and connectivity in autism spectrum disorders (ASD): new approaches to methodology, measurement and modeling In: Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews , 2016 vol. 71, pp. 601-620. doi : 10.1016 / j.neubiorev.2016.10.002
  • Greetings, Earthlings In: New Scientist , 2015 vol. 228, no. 3050, pp. 9. doi : 10.1016 / S0262-4079 (15) 31785-1
  • with Rebecca Jordan-Young, Cordelia Fine, Anelis Kaiser: Recommendations for sex / gender neuroimaging research: key principles and implications for research design, analysis and interpretation In: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience , 2014 vol. 8, 650, pp. 1-13. doi : 10.3389 / fnhum.2014.00650
  • with Cordelia Fine, Rebecca Jordan-Young, Anelis Kaiser: Plasticity, plasticity, plasticity. . . and the rigid problem of sex In: Trends in Cognitive Sciences , 2014 vol. 17, no.11, pp. 550-551. doi : 10.1016 / j.tics.2013.08.010
  • with Fiona McNab, Arjan Hillebrand, Stephen J. Swithenby: Combining temporal and spectral information with spatial mapping to identify differences between phonological and semantic networks: a magnetoencephalographic approach In: Frontiers in Psychology , 2013 vol. 3, 273. doi : 10.3389 / fpsyg.2012.00273
  • with Frances A. Maratos, Carl Senior, Karin Mogg, Brendan P. Bradley: Early gamma-band activity as a function of threat processing in the extrastriate visual cortex In: Cognitive Neuroscience , 2012 vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 62-68. doi : 10.1080 / 17588928.2011.613989
  • with Nicola Brunswick, G. Neil Martin: Early cognitive profiles of emergent readers: a longitudinal study In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology , 2012 vol. 111, no. 2, pp. 268-285. doi : 10.1016 / j.jecp.2011.08.001
  • with Elaine Foley, Ngoc Jade Thai, Olivia Longe, Carl Senior: Dynamic facial expressions evoke distinct activation in the face perception network: a connectivity analysis study In: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience , 2012 vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 507-520. doi : 10.1162 / jocn_a_00120
  • Seductive arguments? In: Psychologist , 2010 pp. 948-949, 23 11.
  • with Carl Senior: Neuroscience has no role in national security In: American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience , 2010 vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 37-38. doi : 10.1080 / 21507741003699322
  • with Olivia Longe, Frances A. Maratos, Paul Gilbert, Gaynor Evans, Faye Volker, Helen Rockliff: Having a word with yourself: neural correlates of self-criticism and self-reassurance In: Neuroimage , 2010 vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 1849-1856. doi : 10.1016 / j.neuroimage.2009.09.019
  • with Ngoc Jade Thai, Olivia Longe: Disconnected brains: what is the role of fMRI in connectivity research? In: International Journal of Psychophysiology , 2009 vol. 73, no. 1, pp. 27-32. doi : 10.1016 / j.ijpsycho.2008.12.015
  • with Frances A. Maratos, K. Mogg, Brendan P. Bradley, Carl Senior: Coarse threat images reveal theta oscillations in the amygdala: a magnetoencephalography study In: Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience , 2009 vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 133-143. doi : 10.3758 / CABN.9.2.133
  • with Olivia Longe, Carl Senior: The lateral and ventromedial prefrontal cortex work as a dynamic integrated system: evidence from FMRI connectivity analysis In: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience , 2009 vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 141-154. doi : 10.1162 / jocn.2009.21012
  • Atypical connectivity in autistic spectrum disorders In: International Journal of Psychophysiology , 2008 vol. 69, no. 3, pp. 204. doi : 10.1016 / j.ijpsycho.2008.05.577

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SURNAME Rippon, Georgina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rippon, Gina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British psychophysiologist and professor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century