DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
SECTION ANNUAL CONFERENCE15 - 17 SEPTEMBER 2021, VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
Dr Saloni Krishnan
Affiliation
Royal Holloway, University of London
Bio
Saloni Krishnan is a cognitive neuroscientist who investigates language organisation in the developing brain. She is particularly interested in the brain basis of developmental disorders affecting communication. Prior to pursuing a career in research, Saloni qualified and worked as a speech-language therapist. In 2014, Saloni completed her PhD at the Centre of Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London. She then held postdoctoral positions at the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and at the University of Oxford. At Oxford, Saloni was the postdoctoral lead on the Oxford BOLD (Brain Organisation in Language Development) study, a large-scale neuroimaging study set up to understand the neural basis of developmental language disorder. Since 2019, Saloni has been a lecturer in the Psychology department at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she directs the Neuroscience of Communication Development or N-CoDe Lab (www.ncodelab.com). Her new lab has received funding from the Academy of Medical Sciences, ESRC, and the Experimental Psychology Society.
Title
The Neural Basis of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)
Abstract
Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) struggle to learn their native language for no obvious reason. The prevalence of DLD is approximately 7%, making it one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders. DLD has a substantial negative impact on an individual’s social and economic prospects, as well as their health and well-being. Although we know that DLD does not result from gross neural lesions, we do not have a clear picture of how brain structure and function differs in children with DLD. In this talk, I will primarily present functional data from the Oxford BOLD (Brain Organisation in Language Development) study, which we recently published as a registered report. We recruited 175 children between the ages of 10-15, which includes the largest number of children meeting criteria for DLD to date. I will interrogate how our data fits with two hypotheses, 1) that children with DLD show atypical language lateralisation, and 2) that frontostriatal systems are abnormal in children with DLD. I will highlight how our findings clearly showcase the importance of monitoring performance in the scanner, and touch on how examining continuous variation in language vs. categorical dichotomies might influence our interpretation of results. I will also discuss why we chose to use the registered report model for this paper, and some of the advantages offered by the model, as well as the challenges one might encounter in the process of conducting a registered report. I will conclude by highlighting some of our recent findings examining neural structure in children with DLD, as well as discussing possible future avenues for exploration to understand the neural basis of DLD.
Dr Saloni Krishnan
Affiliation
Royal Holloway, University of London
Bio
Saloni Krishnan is a cognitive neuroscientist who investigates language organisation in the developing brain. She is particularly interested in the brain basis of developmental disorders affecting communication. Prior to pursuing a career in research, Saloni qualified and worked as a speech-language therapist. In 2014, Saloni completed her PhD at the Centre of Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London. She then held postdoctoral positions at the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and at the University of Oxford. At Oxford, Saloni was the postdoctoral lead on the Oxford BOLD (Brain Organisation in Language Development) study, a large-scale neuroimaging study set up to understand the neural basis of developmental language disorder. Since 2019, Saloni has been a lecturer in the Psychology department at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she directs the Neuroscience of Communication Development or N-CoDe Lab (www.ncodelab.com). Her new lab has received funding from the Academy of Medical Sciences, ESRC, and the Experimental Psychology Society.
Title
The Neural Basis of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)
Abstract
Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) struggle to learn their native language for no obvious reason. The prevalence of DLD is approximately 7%, making it one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders. DLD has a substantial negative impact on an individual’s social and economic prospects, as well as their health and well-being. Although we know that DLD does not result from gross neural lesions, we do not have a clear picture of how brain structure and function differs in children with DLD. In this talk, I will primarily present functional data from the Oxford BOLD (Brain Organisation in Language Development) study, which we recently published as a registered report. We recruited 175 children between the ages of 10-15, which includes the largest number of children meeting criteria for DLD to date. I will interrogate how our data fits with two hypotheses, 1) that children with DLD show atypical language lateralisation, and 2) that frontostriatal systems are abnormal in children with DLD. I will highlight how our findings clearly showcase the importance of monitoring performance in the scanner, and touch on how examining continuous variation in language vs. categorical dichotomies might influence our interpretation of results. I will also discuss why we chose to use the registered report model for this paper, and some of the advantages offered by the model, as well as the challenges one might encounter in the process of conducting a registered report. I will conclude by highlighting some of our recent findings examining neural structure in children with DLD, as well as discussing possible future avenues for exploration to understand the neural basis of DLD.
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