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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2014 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Karalyn Patterson is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research spans extensive work in medicine and neuroscience, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, neurology, physiology, and developmental and educational psychology.

The scientist's work has concentrated on topics including:

  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Text Readability and Simplification
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Language Development and Disorders

Among their recent papers are:

  • Redefining the multidimensional clinical phenotypes of frontotemporal lobar degeneration syndromes, 2020, published in Brain
  • Neuroinflammation and protein aggregation co-localize across the frontotemporal dementia spectrum, 2020, published in Brain
  • Understanding the multidimensional cognitive deficits of logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia, 2022, published in Brain
  • Graded, multidimensional intra- and intergroup variations in primary progressive aphasia and post-stroke aphasia, 2020, published in Brain
  • A 'Mini Linguistic State Examination' to classify primary progressive aphasia, 2021, published in Brain Communications

Frequent collaborators include:

  • James B. Rowe
  • Matthew A. Lambon Ralph
  • Peter Garrard
  • Thomas Cope
  • Ajay D. Halai

The scientist's publications have frequently appeared in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Brain
  • Brain Communications
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry

In recognition of their professional achievements, Karalyn Patterson was awarded the status of Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Classification of primary progressive aphasia and its variants

    M L Gorno-Tempini;M L Gorno-Tempini;A E Hillis;S Weintraub;A Kertesz

  • Understanding normal and impaired word reading: computational principles in quasi-regular domains.

    David C. Plaut;James L. McClelland;Mark S. Seidenberg;Karalyn Patterson

  • Where do you know what you know? The representation of semantic knowledge in the human brain.

    Karalyn Patterson;Peter J. Nestor;Timothy T. Rogers

  • Semantic dementia. Progressive fluent aphasia with temporal lobe atrophy.

    John R. Hodges;Karalyn Patterson;Susan Oxbury;Elaine Funnell

  • The Pyramids and Palm Trees Test

    D Howard;KE Patterson

  • The neural and computational bases of semantic cognition

    Matthew A. Lambon Ralph;Elizabeth Jefferies;Karalyn Patterson;Timothy T. Rogers

  • Deep dyslexia since 1980.

    Max Coltheart;Karalyn Patterson;John C. Marshall

  • A voxel-based morphometry study of semantic dementia: Relationship between temporal lobe atrophy and semantic memory

    C. J. Mummery;K. Patterson;C. J. Price;J. Ashburner

  • Non-verbal semantic impairment in semantic dementia.

    Sasha Bozeat;Matthew A. Lambon Ralph;Karalyn Patterson;Peter Garrard

  • Structure and deterioration of semantic memory: a neuropsychological and computational investigation.

    Timothy T. Rogers;Matthew A. Lambon Ralph;Peter Garrard;Sasha Bozeat

  • Semantic dementia: a unique clinicopathological syndrome

    John R Hodges;John R Hodges;Karalyn Patterson

  • IS SEMANTIC MEMORY CONSISTENTLY IMPAIRED EARLY IN THE COURSE OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE? NEUROANATOMICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC IMPLICATIONS

    John R. Hodges;Karalyn Patterson

  • Atypical and typical presentations of Alzheimer's disease: a clinical, neuropsychological, neuroimaging and pathological study of 13 cases.

    Clare J. Galton;Karalyn Patterson;John H. Xuereb;John R. Hodges

  • The special role of rimes in the description, use, and acquisition of English orthography.

    Rebecca Treiman;John Mullennix;Ranka Bijeljac-Babic;E. Daylene Richmond-Welty

  • The cortical localization of the lexicons. Positron emission tomography evidence.

    D Howard;K Patterson;R Wise;WD Brown;WD Brown

  • Surface dyslexia: neuropsychological and cognitive studies of phonological reading

    K. E. Patterson;J. C. Marshall;M. Coltheart

  • Differing patterns of temporal atrophy in Alzheimer’s disease and semantic dementia

    C. J. Galton;K. Patterson;Kim Samantha Graham;M. A. Lambon-Ralph

  • Focal cortical presentations of Alzheimer's disease.

    S. Alladi;J. Xuereb;T. Bak;P. Nestor

  • Rules or connections in past-tense inflections: what does the evidence rule out?

    James L. McClelland;Karalyn Patterson

  • Semantic effects in single-word naming.

    Eamon Strain;Karalyn Patterson;Mark S. Seidenberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew A. Lambon Ralph
Matthew A. Lambon Ralph University of Cambridge
Kim S. Graham
Kim S. Graham Cardiff University
Timothy T. Rogers
Timothy T. Rogers University of Wisconsin–Madison
Anna M. Woollams
Anna M. Woollams University of Manchester
James L. McClelland
James L. McClelland Stanford University
David Howard
David Howard Newcastle University
David C. Plaut
David C. Plaut Carnegie Mellon University
Elizabeth Jefferies
Elizabeth Jefferies University of York
Friedemann Pulvermüller
Friedemann Pulvermüller Freie Universität Berlin
Cathy J. Price
Cathy J. Price University College London

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