Dr Lauren Stewart BSc MSc PhD
Position held:
Senior Lecturer and director of the MSc in Music, Mind and Brain
Phone:
+44 (0)20 7919 7195
Fax:
+44 (0)20 7919 7873
Email:
l.stewart (@gold.ac.uk)
Room 202/3 Whitehead Building
Department of Psychology
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross, London, SE14 6NW
Publications
Empirical Papers
Omigie, D. & Stewart, L. (in press). Preserved Statistical Learning of Tonal and Linguistic Material in Congenital Amusia. Frontiers in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience
Williamson, V.J. & Stewart, L. (in press). Congenital Amusia. In Handbook of Clinical Neurology. Dulac, Lassonde, Sarnat, Eds. Elsevier.
Stewart, L. (2011). Characterizing Congenital Amusia. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64(4), 625-638.
Williamson, V., Cocchinni, G. & Stewart, L. (2011). The relationship between pitch and space in congenital amusia. Brain and Cognition, 76(1), 70-76.
Williamson, V.J. & Stewart, L. (2010). Memory for pitch in congenital amusia: Beyond a fine-grained pitch discrimination problem.. Memory, 18(6), 657-669.
Okalumbi, D., Bamiou, D., Stewart, L., Luxon, L.M. (2010). Evaluation of musical skills in children with a diagnosis of an auditory processing disorder. Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology
Liu, F., Patel, A., Fourcin, A. & Stewart, L. (2010). Intonation processing in congenital amusia: Discrimination, identification, and imitation. Brain 133; 1682-1692.Williamson, V.J., McDonald, C., Deutsch, D., Griffiths, T. & Stewart, L. (2010). Faster decline of pitch memory over time in Congenital Amusia. . Advances in Cognitive Psychology.
Overath T, Kumar S, Stewart L., von Kriegstein K, Cusack R, Rees A, Griffiths TD. (2010). Cortical mechanisms for the segregation and representation of acoustic textures. J Neurosci. 30(6):2070-6.
Stewart, L. Von Kriegstein, K., Dalla Bella, S., Warren, J.D. & Griffiths, T. (2009). Disorders of musical cognition. In Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology. S. Hallam, I. Cross & M. Thaut, Eds.:184-196. Oxford University Press. New York.
Garrido, L., Eisner, F., McGettigan, C., Stewart, L., Sauter, D., Hanley, J.R., Schweinberger, S.R., Warren, J., Duchaine, B. (2009). Developmental phonagnosia: A selective deficit of vocal identity recognition [pdf] Neuropsychologia 47(1); 123-131
McDonald, C., & Stewart, L. (2008). Uses and functions of music in congenital amusia [pdf] Music Perception, 25 (4); 345-355.
Stewart L., Overath T, Warren JD, Foxton JM, Griffiths TD (2008). fMRI evidence for a cortical hierarchy of pitch pattern processing [pdf] PLoS ONE 3(1): e1470. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001470.
Griffiths, T.D., Kumar, S., Warren, J.D., Stewart, L., Stephan, K.E., Friston, K.J. (2007). Approaches to the cortical analysis of auditory objects [pdf] Hearing Research 229 (1); 46-53
Stewart, L. Von Kriegstein, K., Warren, J.D. & Griffiths, T. (2006). Disorders of musical listening [pdf] Brain, 129; 2533-2553
Stewart, L., Walsh, V. & Frith, U. (2004). Reading music modifies spatial mapping in pianists [pdf] Perception & Psychophysics, 662; 183-195
Stewart, L., Henson, R., Kampe, K., Walsh, V., Turner, R. & Frith, U. (2003) Becoming a pianist: brain changes associated with learning to read and play music [pdf] Neuroimage, 20; 71-83
Stewart, L., Henson, R., Kampe, K., Walsh, V., Turner, R. & Frith, U. (2003). An fMRI study of musical literacy acquisition [pdf] Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 999; 204-208
Stewart, L., Walsh, V., Frith, U., & Rothwell, J.C. (2001). TMS produces two dissociable types of speech disruption [pdf] Neuroimage 13; 472-478
Stewart, L., Walsh, V., Frith, U., & Rothwell, J.C. (2001). Transcranial magnetic stimulation produces speech arrest but not song arrest [pdf] Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 930; 433-435
Stewart, L., Walsh, V. & Rothwell, J.C. (2001). Motor and phosphene thresholds: a TMS correlation study [pdf] Neuropsychologia 34 (4); 114-119
Stewart, L., Ellison, A., Walsh, V. & Cowey, A. (2001). The role of transcranial magnetic stimulation in studies of vision, attention and language. [pdf] Acta Psychologica 107; 275 – 291
Stewart, L., Meyer, B.U. , Frith, U. & Rothwell, J. (2000). Left Posterior BA37 is involved in object recognition: a TMS study [pdf] Neuropsychologia 39 (1); 1-6
Stewart, L., and Walsh, V. (2000). Probing the mind with magnetism [pdf]. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, A Trends Guide 83 – 86
Stewart, L., Battelli, L., Walsh, V. & Cowey, A. (1999). Motion perception and perceptual learning studied by magnetic stimulation. Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology 51; 334 – 350
Reviews, Book Chapters, Commentaries
Stewart, L. (2009). Lost in music. The Psychologist , 22; 1030-1033.
Stewart, L. (2008). Fractionating the musical mind: Insights from congenital amusia [pdf] Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 18; 127-130.
Stewart, L. (2008). Do musicians have different brains? Clinical Medicine, 8; 304-308.
Stewart, L.& Williamon, A. (2008). What are the implications of neuroscience for musical education? [pdf]. Educational Research, 50(2), 177–186.
Stewart, L. & Walsh, V. (2007). Music Perception: Sounds Lost in Space. Current Biology; [pdf] 17(20); R892-R893
Stewart, L. (2008). Music Reading: A cognitive neuroscience approach. Music and Dyslexia: A Positive Approach, Miles, Westcombe & Dichfield, Eds.162-170, Wiley & Sons. ISBN: 9780470065570.
Stewart, L. (2006). Congenital amusia [pdf] Current Biology, 16(21); R904-6
Stewart, L. & Walsh, V. (2006). Transcranial magnetic stimulation in cognitive neuroscience. Methods in Mind, edited Senior, C., Russell, T. & Gazzaniga, MIT press
Stewart, L. (2005). A neurocognitive approach to music reading. [pdf] Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1060; 377-386
Stewart, L. (2005). Neurocognitive studies of musical literacy acquisition. Musicae Scientiae, 9 (2); 223-237
Stewart, L. and Walsh,V. (2005). Infant learning: music and the baby brain. [pdf] Current Biology 15(21); R882-884
Stewart, L. (2004). Tuning the musical brain. Piano Professional, April; 9-13
Backhouse, G., Bishop-Liebler, P., Frith, U. & Stewart, L. (2003). Music, dyslexia and the brain PATOSS, (162); 9- 14
Ellison, A., Stewart, L .,Cowey, A. & Walsh, V. (2003). Magnetic Simulation Studies of Vision Visual Neuropsychology, edited Fahle, M. & Greenlee, M., OUP (163 – 176)
Stewart, L. & Walsh, V. (2002). Congenital amusia: all the songs sound the same. [pdf] Current Biology 12(12); R420-1
Stewart, L. (2002). Zoning in on music and the brain. [pdf] Trends in Cognitive Sciences (611); 451
Stewart, L. (2002). Probing perceptual asynchrony [pdf] Trends in Cognitive Sciences (64); 153
Stewart, L. & Walsh, V. (2001). Music of the hemispheres [pdf] Current Biology 11(4); R125 -127
Stewart, L. (2001). Priming: a tool for imaging [pdf] Trends in Cognitive Sciences (512); 511
Stewart, L. (2001). Attending and intending [pdf] Trends in Cognitive Sciences (57); 284
Stewart L. (2001). Universal dyslexia? [pdf] Trends in Cognitive Sciences (55); 188
Stewart L. , Battelli, L., Walsh, V. & Cowey, A. (1999) Motion perception and perceptual learning studied by magnetic stimulation [pdf] Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology 51; 334-350
Book Reviews
Stewart, L. (2007). Musical Thrills and Chills [pdf] (Book Review of Sweet Anticipation, by David Huron) Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11(1); 5-6
Stewart, L. (2004). Through the eyes of a child (Book Review of Descartes’ Baby, by Paul Bloom). New Scientist, May