Postgraduate Student Profile
Benjamin Wilson
Tel: 0191 222 6948
Email:
benjamin.wilson1@ncl.ac.uk
Website: http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/chris.petkov/
Address:
Institute of Neuroscience
Newcastle University Medical School
Henry Wellcome Building
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
Research Interests
My research combines both behavioural and neuroimaging techniques with Artificial Grammar Learning experiments to investigate how specific aspects of language are learned and processed. Specifically, I am interested in how certain types of grammatical rules are learned and in what circumstances violations of these rules might be detected. I use fMRI to identify which areas of the brain are involved in these processes to clarify the function of the language network.
Project
Neuroimaging of Evolutionary Precursors to Human Communication
Publications
Petkov, C. I. & Wilson, B. (2012). On the pursuit of the brain network for proto-syntactic learning in nonhuman primates: Conceptual issues and neurobiological hypotheses. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, in press.
Wilson, B., & Petkov, C. I. (2011). Communication and the primate brain: Insights from neuroimaging studies in humans, chimpanzees and macaques. Human Biology, 82, 2, 153-173.
Petkov, C. I., & Wilson, B. (2011). Functional imaging of brain regions sensitive to communication sounds in primates. Interspeech 2010 conference proceedings.
