Lorraine K. Tyler

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Lorraine Komisarjevsky Tyler (* 1945 ) is a British neuropsychologist and cognitive scientist .

Life

Lorraine K. Tyler studied psychology at the University of Leicester from 1963 to 1966 . After completing her doctorate in 1977 at the University of Chicago with a thesis on cognitive psychology , she was a research assistant at the University of Nijmegen until 1980 . She then worked at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen until 1985 . In 1985 she moved to the University of Cambridge as a lecturer .

In 1990 she became Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck College , London. In 1998 she returned to Cambridge, where she was appointed to a professorship in cognitive neuroscience funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) . She is currently Director of the Center for Speech, Language and the Brain at Cambridge University. She also heads the Cambridge Center for Aging and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN) research network.

In their interdisciplinary Center for Speech, Language and the Brain, the data obtained by means of various imaging processes (such as fMRI , MEG and EEG ) are used to compare the patterns of brain activity in healthy people with those of brain-damaged patients. Of particular interest is the extent to which neurocognitive functions are able to enable reorganization and flexibility after changes in the brain due to normal aging ("healthy aging") or brain damage. These include studies on the relationship between cognitive impairment and maintenance of performance in healthy aging, as well as studies examining acquired language disorders ( aphasia ) due to stroke. She also researches general problems of information processing in the brain. In her research group Cam-CAN, special research is carried out into the effects of age-related changes in brain structure and function on the cognitive functions of aging people. With her numerous scientific publications, Lorraine K. Tyler has contributed significantly to a deeper understanding of the problems mentioned.

She is editor-in-chief of Language, Cognition and Neuroscience .

In 1995 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy and in 2005 a full member of the Academia Europaea . In 2009 she became a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science .

literature

Web links

  • Lorraine K. Tyler at the Center for Speech, Language and the Brain of the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cam-CAN Research Team. Cambridge Center for Aging and Neuroscience, accessed January 26, 2018 .
  2. ^ Membership directory: Lorraine K. Tyler. Academia Europaea, accessed January 26, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Tyler, Lorraine K.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tyler, Lorraine Komisarjevsky (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British neuropsychologist and cognitive scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1945