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  • 2009 - Kurt Koffka Medal, Giessen University
  • 2008 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Janette Atkinson is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their work spans multiple fields related to neuroscience and medicine with a focus on cognitive neuroscience, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, developmental and educational psychology, psychiatry and mental health, as well as statistics and probability.

Their research primarily addresses the following topics:

  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Infant development and preterm care
  • Neural and behavioral psychology studies
  • Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Child and animal learning development
  • Color perception and design

Janette Atkinson has published extensively in several academic venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Journal of Vision
  • Perception
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Early Human Development
  • Journal of Visualized Experiments

Some recent publications include:

  • Development of the spatial contrast sensitivity function (CSF) during childhood: Analysis of previous findings and new psychophysical data (2020, Journal of Vision)
  • Dorsal and Ventral Stream Function in Children With Developmental Coordination Disorder (2021, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience)
  • Relation Between Event-Related Potential Latency and Saccade Latency in Overt Shifts of Attention (2020, Perception)
  • Early Childhood Attention Battery: Italian adaptation and new expanded normative data (2020, Early Human Development)
  • Connolly, K. Perceptual Learning: The Flexibility of the Senses (2020, Perception)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Oliver Braddick
  • Giorgia Coratti
  • Maria Mallardi
  • Francesca Gallini
  • Domenico M. Romeo

Janette Atkinson has been recognized with awards such as the Kurt Koffka Medal from Giessen University in 2009 and membership in the Academia Europaea since 2008.

Best Publications

  • Motion processing in autism: evidence for a dorsal stream deficiency.

    Janine Spencer;Justin O'Brien;Kevin Riggs;Oliver Braddick

  • Normal and anomalous development of visual motion processing: motion coherence and 'dorsal-stream vulnerability'.

    Oliver Braddick;Janette Atkinson;John Wattam-Bell

  • The Developing Visual Brain

    Janette Atkinson

  • Brain areas sensitive to coherent visual motion.

    Oliver J Braddick;Justin M D O'Brien;John Wattam-Bell;Janette Atkinson

  • Development of human visual function.

    Oliver Braddick;Janette Atkinson

  • A specific deficit of dorsal stream function in Williams' syndrome.

    Jannette Atkinson;John King;Oliver Braddick;Louise Nokes

  • The Magic Number 4 ± 0: A New Look at Visual Numerosity Judgements

    Janette Atkinson;Fergus W Campbell;Marcus R Francis

  • Disengaging visual attention in the infant and adult

    Bruce M. Hood;Janette Atkinson

  • Form and motion coherence activate independent, but not dorsal/ventral segregated, networks in the human brain.

    O. J. Braddick;J. M. D. O'Brien;J. Wattam-Bell;J. Atkinson

  • Neurobiological models of visuospatial cognition in children with Williams Syndrome: Measures of dorsal-stream and frontal function.

    Janette Atkinson;Oliver Braddick;Shirley Anker;Will Curran

  • Neurocognitive Impairment Is an Independent Risk Factor for Death in HIV Infection

    Ellis Rj;Deutsch R;Heaton Rk;Marcotte Td

  • Neuropsychological impairment in human immunodeficiency virus-infection: implications for employment. HNRC Group. HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center.

    R. K. Heaton;R. A. Velin;J. A. Mccutchan;S. J. Gulevich

  • Visual and visuocognitive development in children born very prematurely

    Janette Atkinson;Oliver Braddick

  • Dorsal and ventral stream sensitivity in normal development and hemiplegia.

    Alison Gunn;Elizabeth Cory;Janette Atkinson;Oliver Braddick

  • Changes in infants' ability to switch visual attention in the first three months of life.

    Janette Atkinson;Bruce Hood;John Wattam-Bell;Oliver Braddick

  • Differential developmental trajectories for egocentric, environmental and intrinsic frames of reference in spatial memory.

    Marko Nardini;Neil Burgess;Kate Breckenridge;Janette Atkinson

  • Subjective Sleep Disturbance in Chronic Back Pain

    J. H. Atkinson;Sonia Ancoli-Israel;Mark A. Slater;Steven R. Garfin

  • Infant astigmatism: its disappearance with age.

    Janette Atkinson;Oliver Braddick;Jennifer French

  • Visual and visuospatial development in young children with Williams syndrome

    Janette Atkinson;Shirley Anker;Oliver Braddick;Louise Nokes

  • HIV-associated psychosis: a study of 20 cases. San Diego HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center Group.

    D D Sewell;D V Jeste;J H Atkinson;R K Heaton

  • Brain development and cognition: a reader

    Janette Atkinson

Frequent Co-Authors

Oliver Braddick
Oliver Braddick University of Oxford
Bruce M. Hood
Bruce M. Hood University of Bristol
Terry L. Jernigan
Terry L. Jernigan University of California, San Diego
Jeremy R. Parr
Jeremy R. Parr Newcastle University
Robert K. Heaton
Robert K. Heaton University of California, San Diego
Anthony T. Moore
Anthony T. Moore University of California, San Francisco
Ian H. Robertson
Ian H. Robertson Trinity College Dublin
Claes von Hofsten
Claes von Hofsten Uppsala University
Tom Manly
Tom Manly MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Ursula Bellugi
Ursula Bellugi Salk Institute for Biological Studies

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