Brian Lewis Butterworth FBA was born on 3 January 1944 and is emeritus professor of cognitive neuropsychology in the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, England.
14 Facts About Brian Butterworth
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Brian Butterworth's 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.
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Brian Butterworth has pioneered educational neuroscience, notably in the study of learners with special educational needs.
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Brian Butterworth read psychology and philosophy at Oxford University.
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Brian Butterworth completed an MA on Godel's theorem at Sussex University 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.
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Brian Butterworth confirmed that pauses are required for both long-range planning and lexical selection.
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Brian Butterworth showed that this applies to Chinese, as he showed with his student, Yin Wengang and Japanese with colleague Taeko Wydell.
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Brian Butterworth showed that the phonic route could be selectively impaired or spared in both learners and neurological patients.
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Brian Butterworth changed this by bringing together a range of disciplines.
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Brian Butterworth argued that this is the foundation of arithmetic development.
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Brian Butterworth showed using data from neurological patients and from brain imaging that there is a specialized brain network that underpins this mechanism.
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Brian Butterworth designed an experiment that ran as an interactive exhibit at the Explore-At-Bristol science museum to find whether subitising differed between women and men.
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Brian Butterworth announced his finding that women were better than men at subitising at the British Association for the Advancement of Science's 2003 annual science festival.
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Brian Butterworth found that people were six per cent faster on calculating the number of dots if they were presented on the left side of the screen but only if there were five or more and so counted.