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Kate E. Watkins is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology, with a focus on several subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

Their work involves multiple main topics, notably:

  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Stuttering Research and Treatment
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience

Kate E. Watkins has published extensively, with frequent publications appearing in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neurobiology of Language
  • Cortex
  • Brain Communications
  • Arabixiv (OSF Preprints)

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "RISK6, a 6-gene transcriptomic signature of TB disease risk, diagnosis and treatment response" (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • "Cross-species cortical alignment identifies different types of anatomical reorganization in the primate temporal lobe" (2020, eLife)
  • "Genome-wide analyses of individual differences in quantitatively assessed reading- and language-related skills in up to 34,000 people" (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "T cell receptor repertoires associated with control and disease progression following Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection" (2023, Nature Medicine)
  • "Mapping Human Laryngeal Motor Cortex during Vocalization" (2020, Cerebral Cortex)

Their frequent collaborators include Máiréad P. Healy, Saloni Krishnan, Hanna E. Willis, Gabriel J. Cler, and Jennifer Chesters.

Best Publications

  • Tract-based spatial statistics: voxelwise analysis of multi-subject diffusion data.

    S M Smith;M Jenkinson;H Johansen-Berg;D Rueckert

  • Correspondence of the brain's functional architecture during activation and rest.

    Stephen M. Smith;Peter T. Fox;Karla L. Miller;David C. Glahn

  • Differential effects of early hippocampal pathology on episodic and semantic memory.

    F. Vargha-Khadem;D. G. Gadian;K. E. Watkins;A. Connelly

  • Anatomically related grey and white matter abnormalities in adolescent-onset schizophrenia

    Gwenaëlle Douaud;Stephen Smith;Mark Jenkinson;Timothy Behrens

  • Seeing and hearing speech excites the motor system involved in speech production

    K E Watkins;A P Strafella;T Paus

  • Praxic and nonverbal cognitive deficits in a large family with a genetically transmitted speech and language disorder

    Faraneh Vargha-Khadem;Kate Watkins;Katie Alcock;Paul Fletcher

  • Structural Asymmetries in the Human Brain: a Voxel-based Statistical Analysis of 142 MRI Scans

    K E Watkins;T Paus;J P Lerch;A Zijdenbos

  • Neural basis of an inherited speech and language disorder

    F. Vargha-Khadem;K. E. Watkins;C. J. Price;J. Ashburner

  • Behavioural analysis of an inherited speech and language disorder: comparison with acquired aphasia

    Kate E. Watkins;Nina Dronkers;F. Vargha-Khadem

  • Structural and functional abnormalities of the motor system in developmental stuttering

    Kate E. Watkins;Stephen M. Smith;Steve Davis;Peter Howell

  • MRI analysis of an inherited speech and language disorder: structural brain abnormalities

    Kate E. Watkins;F. Vargha-Khadem;J. Ashburner;R. E. Passingham

  • Longitudinal changes in grey and white matter during adolescence

    A Giorgio;K E Watkins;M Chadwick;S James

  • Developmental amnesia associated with early hypoxic–ischaemic injury

    David G. Gadian;Jean Aicardi;Kate E. Watkins;David A. Porter

  • Management of childhood craniopharyngioma: can the morbidity of radical surgery be predicted?

    C. J. De Vile;D. B. Grant;B. E. Kendall;B. G. R. Neville

  • Modulation of Motor Excitability during Speech Perception: The Role of Broca's Area

    Kate Watkins;Tomáš Paus

  • Supramarginal gyrus involvement in visual word recognition

    Cornelia Stoeckel;Patricia M. Gough;Patricia M. Gough;Kate E. Watkins;Joseph T. Devlin

  • Changes in white matter microstructure during adolescence.

    A Giorgio;K E Watkins;G Douaud;A C James;A C James

  • Motor Representations of Articulators Contribute to Categorical Perception of Speech Sounds

    Riikka Möttönen;Kate E. Watkins

  • Asymmetries of the planum temporale and Heschl's gyrus: relationship to language lateralization.

    Raquel Dorsaint-Pierre;Virginia B. Penhune;Kate E. Watkins;Peter Neelin

  • Stimulating Language: Insights from TMS.

    Joseph T. Devlin;Kate E. Watkins

Frequent Co-Authors

Faraneh Vargha-Khadem
Faraneh Vargha-Khadem University College London
Rogier B. Mars
Rogier B. Mars University of Oxford
Holly Bridge
Holly Bridge University of Oxford
Dorothy V. M. Bishop
Dorothy V. M. Bishop University of Oxford
Paul M. Matthews
Paul M. Matthews Imperial College London
Mortimer Mishkin
Mortimer Mishkin National Institutes of Health
Tomáš Paus
Tomáš Paus University of Toronto
Mark Jenkinson
Mark Jenkinson University of Oxford
Stephen M. Smith
Stephen M. Smith University of Oxford
Heidi Johansen-Berg
Heidi Johansen-Berg University of Oxford

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