Saloni Krishnan
BASLP, MSc, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Junior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College
- Stipendiary Lecturer in Psychology, Lady Margaret Hall
Neurobiological basis of speech and language disorders
I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Speech and Brain Group. Before coming to Oxford, I was based at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL. I completed my PhD in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience in London at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development. I am also a qualified speech and language therapist.
I am interested in identifying brain changes that underlie childhood speech and language disorders such as developmental language disorder or stuttering, and using this knowledge to improve existing clinical tools. My existing work has approached this issue from multiple perspectives:
- determining how brain circuits for speech/language change over childhood and in disorders,
- exploring the factors that explain individual differences in speech/language performance,
- questioning how speech/language learning can be improved, and
- pinning down the neural changes occur as a function of learning and training in the auditory-motor domain (such as being a musician).
I use classical behavioural paradigms, as well as structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging and non-invasive brain stimulation to address these questions.
Currently, I am working on the BOLD study, where the aim is to investigate the neural basis of developmental language disorder. This project is funded by the Medical Research Council.
Key publications
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Neurobiological Basis of Language Learning Difficulties.
Journal article
Krishnan S. et al, (2016), Trends Cogn Sci, 20, 701 - 714
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Convergent and Divergent fMRI Responses in Children and Adults to Increasing Language Production Demands.
Journal article
Krishnan S. et al, (2015), Cereb Cortex, 25, 3261 - 3277
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The influence of evaluative right/wrong feedback on phonological and semantic processes in word learning.
Journal article
Krishnan S. et al, (2018), R Soc Open Sci, 5
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The effect of recall, reproduction, and restudy on word learning: a pre-registered study.
Journal article
Krishnan S. et al, (2017), BMC Psychol, 5
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Beatboxers and Guitarists Engage Sensorimotor Regions Selectively When Listening to the Instruments They can Play.
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Krishnan S. et al, (2018), Cereb Cortex, 28, 4063 - 4079
Recent publications
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A challenge for the procedural deficit hypothesis: How should we measure sequential learning in childhood?
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Krishnan S. and Watkins KE., (2019), Dev Sci
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What underlies the emergence of stimulus- and domain-specific neural responses? Commentary on Hernandez, Claussenius-Kalman, Ronderos, Castilla-Earls, Sun, Weiss, & Young (2018)
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Dick F. and Krishnan S., (2019), Journal of Neurolinguistics, 49, 235 - 236
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Beatboxers and Guitarists Engage Sensorimotor Regions Selectively When Listening to the Instruments They can Play.
Journal article
Krishnan S. et al, (2018), Cereb Cortex, 28, 4063 - 4079
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The influence of evaluative right/wrong feedback on phonological and semantic processes in word learning.
Journal article
Krishnan S. et al, (2018), Royal Society open science, 5
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The influence of evaluative right/wrong feedback on phonological and semantic processes in word learning.
Journal article
Krishnan S. et al, (2018), R Soc Open Sci, 5