Professor Patricia E Cowell
BA, MS, PhD
School of Allied Health Professions, Nursing and Midwifery
Director of One 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂ
+44 114 222 2426
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School of Allied Health Professions, Nursing and Midwifery
Room 125
362 Mushroom Lane
Sheffield
S10 2TS
- Profile
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Patricia Cowell is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Sheffield. Before coming to Sheffield she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (1992-1995) in the Brain Behavior Laboratory, 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Pennsylvania Medical School with a research focus on cortical sex differences in adults in relation to aging and schizophrenia. Patricia completed her PhD (1992) and masters (1990) in Biobehavioral Sciences at the 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Connecticut through research on the corpus callosum and behavioural laterality in humans and rodents. Her undergraduate education at Boston 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ (1983-1987) was in Psychology and Statistics.
- Research interests
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- Modelling mechanisms of neurocognitive plasticity across the life span
- Sex differences in cortical development and aging
- Cerebral asymmetries and interhemispheric relationships
- Ovarian hormone effects on speech, language and cognition
Current projects and collaborations
- Ovarian Hormone Effects of Speech and Language. Collaborators: Prof Sandra Whiteside, Human Communication Sciences, 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Sheffield.
- Language and Neurocognitive Asymmetries in MZ twins. Dr Jennifer Gurd, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Oxford 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂ.
- Neurocognitive plasticity in Apraxia of Speech. Collaborators Prof Sandra Whiteside, 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Sheffield and Prof Rosemary Varley, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL.
- Publications
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Journal articles
Chapters
- Professional activities and memberships
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Affiliations
- Society for Neuroscience
- Organization for the 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Sex Differences