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Dr Stephanie Burnett Heyes
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I am currently working with the EPaCT team as well as with Jennifer Lau (REDD) at the Department of Experimental Psychology to investigate mental imagery, emotion and social cognition in adolescence. This research is funded by a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Awards
British Neuroscience Association Postgraduate Award (2010)
Women into Science, Engineering and Construction Excellence Award finalist (2010)
Publications
Burnett, S., Sebastian, C., Cohen Kadosh, K & Blakemore, S. J. (2011). The social brain in adolescence: Evidence from functional magnetic brain imaging. Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews, 35(8), 1654-64.
Richardson, F. M., Ramsden, S., Ellis, C., Burnett, S., Megnin, O., Catmur, C., Schofield, T. M., Leff, A. P. & Price, C. J. (2011). Auditory short-term memory capacity correlates with grey matter density in the left posterior superior temporal sulcus in cognitively normal and dyslexic adults. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(12), 3746-56.
Burnett, S., Thompson, S. S., Bird, G. & Blakemore, S. J. (2011). Pubertal development of the understanding of social emotions. Learning and Individual Differences, 21(6):681-689.
Burnett, S. & Husain, M. (2011). Cognitive neuroscience: Distinguishing self from other. Dispatch for Current Biology 21(5), R189-R190.
Jones, A. P., Happé, F. G. E., Gilbert, F., Burnett, S. & Viding, E. (2010). Feeling, caring, knowing: Different types of empathy deficit in boys with psychopathic tendencies and autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 51(11), 1188-1197.
Blakemore, S. J., Burnett, S. & Dahl, R. E. (2010). The role of puberty in the developing adolescent brain. Human Brain Mapping, 31(6), 926-933.
Burnett, S., Bault, N., Coricelli, G. & Blakemore, S. J. (2010). Adolescents' heightened risk-seeking in a probabilistic gambling task. Cognitive Development, 25(2), 183-196.
Burnett, S. & Blakemore, S. J. (2009). Functional connectivity during a social emotion task in adolescents and in adults. European Journal of Neuroscience 29(6), 1294-1301.
Burnett, S., Bird, G., Moll, J., Frith, C. & Blakemore, S. J. (2009). Development during adolescence of the neural processing of social emotion. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 21(9), 1736-1750.
Burnett, S. & Blakemore, S. J. (2009). The development of adolescent social cognition. Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1167, 51-56.
Sebastian, C., Burnett, S. & Blakemore, S. J. (2008). Development of the self-concept during adolescence. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12(11), 441-446.
Solberg, L. C., Valdar, W., Gauguier, D., Nunez, G., Taylor, A., Burnett, S., Arbodelas-Hita, C., Hernandez-Pliego, P., Davidson, S., Burns, P., Bhattacharya, S., Hough, T., Higgs, D., Klenerman,, Klenerman, P., Cookson, W. O., Zhang, Y., Deacon, R. M., Rawlins, J. N., M,, Mott, R., Flint, J. (2006). A protocol for high-throughput phenotyping, suitable for quantitative trait analysis in mice. Mammalian Genome 17(2), 129-146.
Valdar, W., Solberg, L. C., Gauguier, D., Burnett, S., Klenerman, P., Cookson, W. O., Taylor, M. S., Rawlins, J. N., Mott, R., Flint, J. (2006). Genome-wide genetic association of complex traits in heterogeneous stock mice. Nature Genetics 38(8), 879-887.
Non-academic publications and book chapters
Burnett, S., Sebastian, C. & Cohen Kadosh, K. (2012). Brain development and the emergence of social function. In: Developmental social neuroscience and childhood brain insult: Implications for theory and practice. Anderson, V. & Beauchamp, M. (Ed.). Guildford, NY.
Burnett, S., Sebastian, C. & Blakemore, S. J. (2012). The social brain in adolescence. Encyclopedia of Adolescence. Levesque, R. J. R. (Ed.). Springer, NY.
Burnett, S., Sebastian C. & Blakemore S. J. (2009). Understanding the changing adolescent brain. Beyond Current Horizons programme, Futurelab.
Sebastian, C., Burnett, S. & Blakemore, S. (2009). The neuroscience of social cognition in teenagers: Implications for inclusion in society. Foresight Mental Capital and Mental Wellbeing, Office of Science and Innovation.
Burnett, S. (2009). «L'intelligence sociale des adolescents». La Recherche.
Academic talks
Adolescent Psychopathology Conference. Roehampton University, June 2011. Social emotion development during puberty and adolescence: Brain development, cognition and mental health. Keynote talk
Society for Research on Child Develoment biennial meeting. Montreal, March/April 2011. Characterizing the influence of social context on adolescent decision-making. Part of a symposium
Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health. London, 20th October 2010. The cognitive neuroscience of adolescence: Brain development, cognition and mental health
European Society for Neuropsychology. Amsterdam, 22nd September 2010. Adolescent social cognition and the social brain. Part of a symposium
Institute of Psychiatry. London, 15th April 2010. The adolescent brain: Social cognition and decision-making. Research seminar
European Science Foundation Specialist Exploratory Workshop: The Adolescent Brain: Insights from Clinical and Animal Models. Rome, October 2009. The adolescent social brain
Postgraduate cognitive development workshop. University of Birmingham, 22nd May 2009. Risk and emotion in adolescence
Association for Research in Infant and Child Development International Scientific Meeting. London, 8th May 2009. Adolescence: Social cognition and brain development
Interdisciplinary workshop: Enacting Intersubjectivity. University of Lugano, Switzerland, February 2009. Adolescent development of the neural processing of social emotion
Interdisciplinary symposium: La pluralité interprétative: fondements historiques et cognitifs de la notion de point de vue. Collège de France, Paris, June 2008. Cognitive development during adolescence
Theory of mind postgraduate workshop. University of Birmingham, June 2008. Adolescent development of the mentalising network
Anna Freud adolescent development conference. London, June 2007. Social cognitive development during adolescence
Posters at academic conferences
Burnett Heyes S., Zokaei N., van der Staaij I., Bays P. M. & Husain M. Development of visual working memory precision in childhood. European Science Foundation workshop on the developing brain: perspectives from typical and atypical development, Granada, September 2011.
Burnett S, Adam R, Urner M, Bahrami BB, Husain M. Impulsive decision-making and reward. British Neuroscience Association Meeting, Harrogate, April 2011.
Burnett S, Urner M, Bahrami BB, Adam R, Shah P, Harrison N, Critchley H, Husain M. Impulsive decision-making in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. British Neuroscience Association Meeting, Harrogate, April 2011.
Goddings AL, Burnett S, Bird G, Viner R, Blakemore SJ. Relationship between puberty status and neural activity during social emotion processing in female adolescents. Society for Neuroscience 40th Annual Meeting, November 13th-17th, 2010.
Burnett S, Urner M, Bahrami BB, Adam R, Shah P, Harrison N, Critchley H, Husain M. Impulsive decision-making in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience poster evening, October 2010.
Burnett S, Bault N, Coricelli G, Blakemore SJ. Adolescents’ heightened risk-seeking in a probabilistic gambling task. Queen Square Symposium, March 2010 and UCL Neuroscience Symposium, April 2010.
Burnett S, Bird G, Moll J, Frith CD, Blakemore SJ. Development during adolescence of effective connectivity during social emotion processing. Amsterdam conference on Methods and Challenges in Developmental Neuroimaging, May 2009.
Jones AP, Happe F, Gilbert F, Burnett S, Viding E. Emotion processing and empathy in children with Callous-Unemotional traits: evidence for a double dissociation. Society for Research in Child Development Biennial meeting, Denver, CO (April 2009) and Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy, New Orleans, LA (April 2009).
Burnett S, Bird G, Moll J, Frith CD, Blakemore SJ. Development during adolescence of the neural processing of social emotion. CNS San Francisco (April 2008) and EPS London (Jan 2008).
Burnett S, Bird G, Moll J, Frith CD, Blakemore SJ. Self-judged emotion development during adolescence. Child and Adolescent Psychopathology conference, Roehampton (June 2006).
Selected public engagement
July 2011: International Boys’ School Coalition Annual Conference talk “The development of social cognition in adolescence”.
2010-2011: Oxfordshire Education and Business Partnership session “How science works” at King Alfred’s school Wantage and Didcot Girls’ School: 40-minute seminars with year 9 science groups.
March 2010: Café Scientifique session on “the teenage brain” in Leeds with Duncan Dallas.
July 2009, Royal Institution: Junior Café Scientifique session with Susan Greenfield (for 14-19 year olds). “How your brain makes you you”, 10 min opening talk + 20 min open discussion session
June 2009, Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition “Teenage Brain” exhibit (as part of Sarah-Jayne Blakemore’s team)
March 2009, Royal Institution Faraday lecture theatre: “Mysteries of the teenage brain” (one hour)
March 2009: “Managing your brain through puberty”: a cross-curricular, full day workshop for 12/13 year olds at Highgate City Academy, Birmingham in collaboration with Ms. Louise Darby, Dr. Saika Ismail and Ms. Jan Tchamani
January 2009, Oxford. Participation in Generations and Life Course Challenge Workshop with Prof. Susan Harper
June 2008: “Scientists on the Sofa” – informal evening of discussion on the teenage brain at Science Oxford
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