Taeko Wydell

Memberships of Professional Bodies

• Experimental Psychology Society (EPS): Elected Member
• British Neuropsychology Society(BNS): Elected Member
• British Psychological Society (BPS): Chartered Psychologist
• British Psychological Society (BPS): Associate Fellow
• Royal Society of Medicine (RSM): Invited Fellow
• Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR): Elected Voting Member
• Japanese Cognitive Neuropsychology Society (JCNS): Executive Member
• Japan Dyslexia Research Association (JDRA): Executive Member

Honorary Posts Held

• August, 1995 to Present: Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London (ICU-UCL)

Visiting Appointments (selected)

• April 2005 to Present: An Overseas Visiting Professor to the University of Tsukuba (Institute of Human Sciences), Tsukuba, Ibaraki-Pref., Japan.
• 01 May – 16 July 2009: A Visiting Professor to MACCS, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia with a Royal Society’s International Travel Fellowship.
• 13^th February 1996 – 19 March, 2000: An Overseas Visiting Professor to NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan (a month to six months p.a.)
• April – May 2006: An Invited Scholar to MACCS (Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science), Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
• March 2000 – March 2003: An Invited EU Scientist to BIRCH-III at the Brain Research Unit, Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland.

External Examiner/Assessor

• October 2011 to September 2014: External Examiner to the BSc in Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Southampton, UK
• October 2010 - 2011 : External Examiner to MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience (to replace MSc in Cognitive Neuropsychology) and MSc in Psychology (accredited by the BPS as an conversion course), School of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, UK
• October 2007- 2010: External Examiner to MSc in Cognitive Neuropsychology, School of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, UK.
• February 2010: External Assessor for the 5-YR Programme Review for BSc in Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Southampton, UK

Grants/Contract Received (Since 2003):

• A Project Grant from the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science withDr. Mutsuo Ijuin (Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology) (4/2010 - 3/2013) c.a. 25K
• A Project Grant from the British Academy (12/2009 – 05/2011) as P.I. £138K
• A Project Grant from the ESRC jointly with Dr. Patricia Riddell (Reading) (12/2009-07/2011) £100K
• An International Outgoing Travel award from the Royal Society to visit MACCS, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia (01/05/09 – 15/07/09) £5.0K
• Research Leave funded by Brunel University – two terms (January –August 2009) £8.0K
• A Bursary for an UG student from the Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) (06/08–09/08) £2.0K
• A Small Grant from the Japan Society in Sydney, Australia with Prof. Lyndsey Nickels (MACCS, Macquarie University) (12/07 – 11/08) AU$4.5K
• A Project Grant from the ESRC jointly with Prof. Kathy Rastle (Royal Holloway) (01/07– 04/08) £100K
• A Travel Grant from the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London,UK to work with Prof. A. Uno, Tsukuba University, Japan (2007- 2008) £1.5K

• Convener of PY2005 – Biological Psychology (compulsory)
• Teaching Contribution to MSc in Functional Neuroimaging – Cognitive Neuroscience
• Chair of the Psychology Ethics Committee

Research Interests

• Cognitive and neural processes involved in language, in particular, reading using behavioural and brain imaging (EEG, MEG, fMRI and TMS) data.
• Normal and impaired language/reading processes including Developmental Dyslexia, acquired dyslexia (with neurological patients), and SLI (Specific Language impairment)
• Bilingual’s language/reading processes

PhD Supervision

• Dr Natasha Mott (Teaching Assistant) – completed PhD in 2000 – currently working at a NHS Hospital, Birmingham
• Dr Priscilla Harries (Brunel’s staff) – completed PhD in 2003 – currently S.L. at Brunel
• Dr Nathaniel Upton (ESRC funded) – completed PhD in 2004 – currently working at Addenbrooke Hospital, Cambridge.
• Ryoko Matsumoto (Overseas) – withdrawn due to ill health in 2007
• Joanna John (Research Associate employed on my ESRC grant) – MPhil, moved to Kings College in 2007 due to the end of ESRC grant
• Dr Liory Fern-Pollak (Overseas + TA) – completed PhD in 2008 – currently working at the Institute of Education, London.
• Susumu Okumura (Overseas) – awarded PhD subject to successful revisions in 2009
• Anastasia Giannakopoulou (TA) – current PhD (Co-Supervisor with Dr Maria Uther)
• Lisa Kuhn (ESRC funded) – current PhD (Co-Supervisor with Dr. Maria Uther)
• Solomon Mangvwat (Overseas) – current PhD

Publications

Journal Papers

(2011) Sambai, A., Uno, A., Kurokawa, S., Haruhara, N., Kaneko, M., Awaya, N., Kozuka, J., Goto, T., Tsutamori, E., Nakagawa, K. and Wydell, TN., An investigation into kana reading development in normal and dyslexic Japanese children using length and lexicality effects, Brain and Development

(2011) Imura, J., Haruhara, N., Uno, A., Kaneko, M., Wydell, TN., Awaya, N., Goto, T., Kozuka, J. and Shinya, N., Error analysis of writing to dictation of kanji words in japanese children with developmental dyslexia and normally developed children -using Screening Test of Reading and Writing for Japanese Primary School Children (STRAW)-, Japan Journal of Logopedics and Phoniatrics 52 (2) : 165- 172

(2010) Wang, J-J., Bi, H-Y., Gao, L-Q. and Wydell, TN., The visual magnocellular pathway in Chinese-speaking children with developmental dyslexia, Neuropsychologia 48 (12) : 3627- 3633

(2010) Suzuzki, K., Uno, A., Haruhara, N., Kaneko, M., Wydell, TN., Awaya, N., Kozuka, J. and Goto, T., Characteristics of Hiragana and Katakana writing in children with developmental dyslexia, evaluated by the Screening Test of Reading and Writing for Japanese primary school children (STRAW), The Japan Journal of Logopedics and Phoniatrics 51 (1) : 1- 11

(2009) Uno, A., Wydell, TN., Haruhara, N., Kaneko, M. and Shinya, N., Relationship between reading/writing skills and cognitive abilities among Japanese primary-school children: normal readers versus poor readers (dyslexics), Reading and Writing 22 (7) : 755- 789

(2009) Shapiro, LR., Hurry, J., Masterson, J., Wydell, TN. and Doctor, E., Classroom implications of recent research into literacy development: from predictors to assessment, Dyslexia 15 (1) : 1- 22

(2009) Uno, A., Wydell, TN., Kato, M., Itoh, K. and Yoshino, F., Cognitive neuropsychological and regional cerebral blood flow study of a Japanese-English bilingual girl with specific language impairment (SLI), Cortex 45 (2) : 154- 163

(2009) Rastle, K., Havelka, J., Wydell, TN., Coltheart, M. and Besner, D., The cross-script length effect: further evidence challenging PDP models of reading aloud, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 35 (1) : 238- 246

(2005) Nakamura, K., Oga, T., Okada, T., Sadato, N., Takayama, Y., Wydell, T., Yonekura, Y. and Fukuyama, H., Hemispheric asymmetry emerges at distinct parts of the occipitotemporal cortex for objects, logograms and phonograms: A functional MRI study, NeuroImage 28 (3) : 521- 528

(2003) Richardson, JTE. and Wydell, TN., The representation and attainment of students with dyslexia in UK higher education, Reading and Writing 16 (5) : 475- 503

(2003) Wydell, TN., Vuorinen, T., Helenius, P. and Salmelin, R., Neural correlates of letter-string length and lexicality during reading in a regular orthography, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 15 (7) : 1052- 1062

(2003) Shibahara, N., Zorzi, M., Hill, MP., Wydell, T. and Butterworth, B., Semantic effects in word naming: evidence from English and Japanese Kanji, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A 56 (2) : 263- 286

(2003) Wydell, TN. and Kondo, T., Phonological deficit and the reliance on orthographic approximation for reading: a follow-up study on an English-Japanese bilingual with monolingual dyslexia, Journal of Research in Reading 26 (1) : 33- 48

(2000) Wydell, TN. and Shinkai, T., Kanji character-sond consistency effects in Japanese surface and phonological dyslexic patients (Abstract), International Journal of Psychology 35 (3-4) : 88- 180

(1999) Wydell, TN. and Butterworth, B., A case study of an English-Japanese bilingual with monolingual dyslexia, Cognition 70 (3) : 273- 305

(1998) Wydell, TN., What matters in kanji word naming: consistency, regularity, or On/Kun-reading difference?, Reading and Writing 10 (3-5) : 359- 373

(1996) Kazui, H., Tanabe, H., Ikeda, M., Hashimoto, M., Yamada, N., Okuda, J. and Wydell, TN., Retrograde amnesia during transient global amnesia, Neurocase 2 (2) : 127- 133

(1995) Wydell, TN., Butterworth, B. and Patterson, K., The inconsistency of consistency effects in reading: the case of Japanese Kanji, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 21 (5) : 1155- 1168

(1993) Wydell, TN., Patterson, KE. and Humphreys, GW., Phonologically mediated access to meaning for Kanji: is a rows still a rose in Japanese Kanji?, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 19 (3) : 491- 514