Dr Holly Robson

- Lecturer in Clinical Language Sciences
- Stroke Association Senior Research Training Fellow
Areas of interest
My research interests are in auditory processing and language comprehension and auditory comprehension impairments post-stroke.
I am interested in applying behavioural and mixed neuroscience methodologies to understand the mechanisms underlying recovery or non-recovery from acute comprehension impairments post-stroke.
Research centres and groups
Language and Cognition
Academic qualifications
- BSc Speech and Language Therapy, Manchester
- PhD Psychology, Manchester.
Publications
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Bangalore, S.
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Robson, H.
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Astell, A.
ORCID: 0000-0002-6822-9472 (2022) Standardizing norms for 180 coloured Snodgrass and Vanderwart pictures in Kannada Language. PLoS ONE , 17 (4). ISSN: 1932-6203 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266359
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Voits, T.
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Robson, H.
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Rothman, J.
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Pliatsikas, C.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7093-1773 (2022) The effects of bilingualism on hippocampal volume in ageing bilinguals. Brain Structure and Function , 227 pp. 979-994. ISSN: 1863-2661 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00429-021-02436-z
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Voits, T.
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Pliatsikas, C.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7093-1773 , Robson, H. , Rothman, J. (2020) Beyond Alzheimer’s disease: can bilingualism be a more generalized protective factor in neurodegeneration?. Neuropsychologia , 147 ISSN: 0028-3932 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107593
- Pilkington, E. , Sage, K. , Saddy, D. , Robson, H. (2020) When does lexical availability influence phonology? Evidence from jargon reading and repetition. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience , 35 (4). pp. 521-540. ISSN: 2327-3801 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2019.1676456
- Kendrick, L. , Robson, H. , Meteyard, L. (2019) Executive control in frontal lesion aphasia: Does verbal load matter?. Neuropsychologia , 133 ISSN: 0028-3932 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107178
- Robson, H. , Griffiths, T. , Grube, M. , Woollams, A. (2019) Auditory, phonological and semantic factors in the recovery from Wernicke’s aphasia post stroke: predictive value and implications for rehabilitation. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair , 33 (10). pp. 800-812. ISSN: 15526844 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1545968319868709
- Pilkington, E. , Sage, K. , Saddy, D. , Robson, H. (2019) What can repetition, reading and naming tell us about Jargon Aphasia?. Journal of Neurolinguistics , 49 pp. 45-56. ISSN: 0911-6044 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2018.08.003
- Moys, J. , Martinez-Freile, C. , McCrindle, R. , Meteyard, L. , Robson, H. , Kendrick, L. , Wairagkar, M. (2018) Exploring illustration styles for materials used in visual resources for people with aphasia. Visible Language , 52 (3). pp. 96-113. ISSN: 0022-2224
- Cope, T. , Wilson, B. , Robson, H. , Drinkall, R. , Dean, L. , Grube, M. , Jones, P. , Patterson, K. , Griffiths, T. , Rowe, J. , Petkov, C. (2017) Artificial grammar learning in vascular and progressive non-fluent aphasias. Neuropsychologia , 104 pp. 201-213. ISSN: 1873-3514 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.08.022
- Pilkington, E. , Keidel, J. , Kendrick, L. , Saddy, J. , Sage, K. , Robson, H. (2017) Sources of phoneme errors in repetition: perseverative, neologistic and lesion patterns in jargon aphasia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience , 11 ISSN: 1662-5161 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00225
- Robson, H. , Pilkington, E. , Evans, L. , DeLuca, V. , Keidel, J. (2017) Phonological and semantic processing during comprehension in Wernicke’s aphasia: a N400 and Phonological Mapping Negativity study. Neuropsychologia , 100 pp. 144-154. ISSN: 0028-3932 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.04.012
- Wairagkar, M. , McCrindle, R. , Robson, H. , Meteyard, L. , Sperrin, M. , Smith, A. , Pugh, M. (2017) MaLT – combined Motor and Language Therapy tool for brain injury patients using kinect. Methods of Information in Medicine , 56 (2). pp. 127-137. ISSN: 2511-705X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3414/ME16-02-0015
- Wairagkar, M. , McCrindle, R. , Robson, H. , Meteyard, L. , Sperrin, M. , Smith, A. , Pugh, M. (2017) MaLT - combined motor and language therapy tool for brain injury patients using Kinect. Methods of Information in Medicine , 56 (2). pp. 127-137. ISSN: 2511-705X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3414/ME16-02-0015
- Robson, H. , Specht, K. , Beaumont, H. , Parkes, L. , Sage, K. , Lambon Ralph, M. , Zahn, R. (2017) Arterial spin labelling shows functional depression of non-lesion tissue in chronic Wernicke’s aphasia. Cortex , 92 pp. 249-260. ISSN: 0010-9452 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2016.11.002
- Thompson, H. , Robson, H. , Lambon Ralph, M. , Jefferies, E. (2015) Varieties of semantic ‘access’ deficit in Wernicke’s aphasia and semantic aphasia. Brain : a journal of neurology , 138 (12). pp. 3776-3792. ISSN: 1460-2156 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/brain/awv281
- Robson, H. , Cloutman, L. , Keidel, J. , Sage, K. , Drakesmith, M. , Welbourne, S. (2014) Mismatch Negativity (MMN) reveals inefficient auditory ventral stream function in chronic auditory comprehension impairments. Cortex , 59 pp. 113-125. ISSN: 0010-9452 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2014.07.009
- Robson, H. , Zahn, R. , Keidel, J. , Binney, R. , Sage, K. , Lambon Ralph, M. (2014) The anterior temporal lobes support residual comprehension in Wernicke’s aphasia. Brain : a journal of neurology , 137 (3). pp. 931-943. ISSN: 1460-2156 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/brain/awt373
- Robson, H. , Grube, M. , Lambon Ralph, M. , Griffiths, T. , Sage, K. (2012) Fundamental deficits of auditory perception in Wernicke’s aphasia. Cortex , 49 (7). pp. 1808-1822. ISSN: 0010-9452 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2012.11.012
- Robson, H. , Davies, S. , Lambon Ralph, M. , Sage, K. (2012) Facilitating and disrupting speech perception in word deafness. Aphasiology , 26 (2). pp. 177-198. ISSN: 1464-5041 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2011.629360
- Robson, H. , Sage, K. , Lambon Ralph, M. (2012) Revealing and quantifying the impaired phonological analysis underpinning impaired comprehension in Wernicke’s aphasia. Neuropsychologia , 50 (2). pp. 276-288. ISSN: 0028-3932 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.11.022
- Robson, H. , Sage, K. , Lambon Ralph, M. (2012) Wernicke’s aphasia reflects a combination of acoustic-phonological and semantic control deficits: A case-series comparison of Wernicke’s aphasia, semantic dementia and semantic aphasia. Neuropsychologia , 50 (2). pp. 266-275. ISSN: 0028-3932 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.11.021