Brian Butterworth | |
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| Born | Brian Lewis Butterworth 3 January 1944 (age 80)[1] |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Merton College, Oxford[2] |
| Spouse | Diana Laurillard |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematical psychology, Dyslexia and Speech science |
| Institutions | Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London |
| Notes | |
Fellow of the British Academy | |
Brian Lewis Butterworth FBA (born 3 January 1944) is emeritus professor of cognitive neuropsychology in the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, England.[3] His research has ranged from speech errors and pauses, short-term memory deficits, reading and the dyslexias both in alphabetic scripts and Chinese, and mathematics and dyscalculia. He has also pioneered educational neuroscience, notably in the study of learners with special educational needs (Educational Neuroscience, 2013).
He read psychology and philosophy at Oxford University (1963-1966). He completed an MA on Gödel's theorem at Sussex University (1967-1968) under the direction of Peter Nidditch, and a PhD in psycholinguistics at UCL supervised by Frieda Goldman-Eisler, the first professor of psycholinguistics in the UK.
- ^ BUTTERWORTH, Prof. Brian Lewis, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011, accessed 30 October 2012
- ^ Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900-1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 547.
- ^ Emeritus Staff – UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, accessed 30 October 2012