Senior Lecturer

Contact Details

Office: Coslett 323
Tel No: 0845 196 2197
Email: fiona.richardson@anglia.ac.uk

Modules taught

• Language and Thought
• Developmental Psychopathology
• Research Techniques for Psychology

Research Interests

I am interested in the relationship between brain structure, function, and cognitive development across lifespan - particularly within the domain of language, exploring both typical and atypical language development (particularly Dyslexia and Specific Language Impairment). In order to explore these topics I use a multidisciplinary approach, combining brain imaging (MRI), computational modelling (neural networks and dynamic causal modelling) and behavioural testing.

Publications

Papers

Ramsden, S., Richardson, F.M., Josse, G., Thomas, M.S.C., Ellis, C., Seghier, M.L., & Price, C.J. (2012). Addendum: Verbal and non-verbal intelligence in the teenage brain.. Nature, 485 (7400), 666.

Ramsden, S., Richardson, F.M., Josse, G., Thomas, M.S.C., Ellis, C., Seghier, M.L., & Price, C.J. (2011). Verbal and non-verbal intelligence in the teenage brain.. Nature, 479 (7371), 113-116.

Richardson, F.M., Seghier, M.L., Leff, A.P., Thomas, M.S.C., & Price, C.J. (2011). Multiple routes from occipital to temporal cortices during reading. Journal of Neuroscience, 31 (22), 8239-8247.

Filippi, R., Richardson, F.M., Dick, F., Leech, R., Green, D.W., Thomas, M.S.C., & Price, C.J. (2011). The right posterior paravermis and the control of language interference. Journal of Neuroscience, 31 (29), 10732-10740.

Richardson, F.M., Ramsden, S., Ellis, C., Burnett, S., Megnin, O., Catmur, C., Schofield, T.M., Leff, A.P., & Price, C.J. (2011). Auditory short-term memory capacity correlates with grey matter density in the left posterior superior temporal sulcus in cognitively normal and dyslexic adults. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23 (12), 3746-3756.

Price, C.J., Crinion, J.T., Leff, A.P., Richardson, F.M., Schofield, T., Pejawa, S., Ramsden, S., Gazarian, K., Lawrence, M., Ambridge, L, Andric, M., Small, S.L., & Seghier, M.L. (2010). Lesion sites that predict the ability to gesture how an object is used. Archives Italienne di Biologie, 148 (3), 243-258.

Richardson, F.M., Thomas, M.S.C., Filippi, R., Harth, H., & Price, C.J. (2010). Contrasting effects of vocabulary knowledge on temporal and parietal brain structure across lifespan. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22 (6), 1283-1298.

Richardson, F.M., Thomas, M.S.C., & Price, C.J. (2010). Neuronal activation for semantically reversible sentences. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22 (5), 943-954.

Richardson, F.M., & Price, C.J. (2009). Structural MRI studies of language. Special Issue: Brain Structure and Function, 213 (6), 511-523.

Richardson, F.M., & Thomas, M.S.C. (2008). Catastrophic interference and critical periods in self-organising learning systems Developmental Science, 11 (3), 371-389.

Richardson, F.M., Davey, N., Done, D.J. & Adams, R. (2006). Learning through experience: an emergent connectionist account of letter production behaviour. Connection Science, 18 (3), 231-246.

Book Chapters

Price, C.J. & Richardson, F.M. (2009). Neuroimaging studies of dyslexia: the hopes and limitations. The BDA Handbook.

Thomas, M.S.C., Pursur, H.R.M., & Richardson, F.M. (2009) Modularity and Developmental Disorders. In: Zelazo, P.D. (Ed). Oxford Handbook of Developmental Psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Richardson, F.M., & Thomas, M.S.C. Developmental disorders and language. (2009). In E. Bavin (Ed.) The handbook of child language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Dick, F., Richardson, F., & Saccuman, L. (2008). Using MRI to study developmental language disorders. In: C.F. Norbury, B.J. Tomblin, & D.V.M. Bishop (Eds.) Understanding Developmental Language Disorders: from theory to practice. Psychology Press.

Dick, F., Leech, R., & Richardson, F. (2008). Language Development. In J. Reed, & J. Warner Rogers (Eds.), Child Neuropsychology: Concepts, Theory, & Practice. Wiley-Blackwell.