Office: Room 523, Department of Psychological Sciences
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email: f.dick@bbk.ac.uk
Grants
Reported and ongoing research has been funded in part or whole by grants from the: National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, European Commission Marie Curie Actions, Medical Research Council, Royal Society, Great Ormond Street Hospital (SPARKS) Charity, Leverhulme Trust, SEMPRE Foundation, Waterloo Foundation, Nuffield Foundation, Economic and Social Science Research Council, Bloomsbury Consortium, Rothberg Award, and British Academy.
Publications
Articles
2020
Laffere, A., Dick, F., Holt, L.L., & Tierney, A.T. (2020). Attentional modulation of neural entrainment to sound streams in children with and without ADHD. NeuroImage.
Jasmin, K., Dick, F., Stewart, L., & Tierney, A. T. (2020). Altered functional connectivity during speech perception in congenital amusia. eLife, 9, e53539.
Balezeau, F., Wilson, B., Gallardo, G., Dick, F., Hopkins, W., Anwander, A., ... & Petkov, C. I. (2020). Primate auditory prototype in the evolution of the arcuate fasciculus. Nature Neuroscience, 23(5), 611-614.
Jasmin, K., Dick, F., Holt, L. L., & Tierney, A. (2020). Tailored perception: Individuals’ speech and music perception strategies fit their perceptual abilities. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149(5), 914.
Jasmin, K., Dick, F., & Tierney, A. T. (2020). The Multidimensional Battery of Prosody Perception (MBOPP). Wellcome Open Research, 5(4), 4.
Laffere, A., Dick, F., & Tierney, A. (2020). Effects of auditory selective attention on neural phase: individual differences and short-term training. NeuroImage, 116717.
Tierney, A., Rosen, S., & Dick, F. (2020). Speech-in-speech perception, nonverbal selective attention, and musical training. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 46(5), 968.
2019
Jasmin, Kyle and Dick, Frederic and Holt, Lori and Tierney, Adam (2019) Tailored perception: individuals’ speech and music perception strategies fit their perceptual abilities. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General , ISSN 0096-3445. (In Press)
Zhao, S. and Chait, M. and Dick, Frederic and Dayan, P. and Furukawa, S. and Liao, H.-I. (2019) Pupil-linked phasic arousal evoked by violation but not emergence of regularity within rapid sound sequences. Nature Communications 10 (1), p. 4030. ISSN 2041-1723.
Tierney, Adam and Rosen, S. and Dick, Frederic (2019) Speech-in-speech perception, non-verbal selective attention, and musical training. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition , ISSN 0278-7393. (In Press)
Jasmin, Kyle and Dick, Frederic and Holt, Lori and Tierney, Adam (2019) Tailored perception: individuals’ speech and music perception strategies fit their perceptual abilities. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General , ISSN 0096-3445. (In Press)
2018
Dick, Frederic and Krishnan, S. (2018) What underlies the emergence of stimulus- and domain-specific neural responses? Commentary on Hernandez, Claussenius-Kalman, Ronderos, Castilla-Earls, Sun, Weiss, & Young (2018). Journal of Neurolinguistics 49 , pp. 235-236. ISSN 0911-6044.
Bonaiuto, J.J. and Meyer, S.S. and Little, S. and Rossiter, H. and Callaghan, M.F. and Dick, Frederic and Barnes, G.R. and Bestmann, S. (2018) Lamina-specific cortical dynamics in human visual and sensorimotor cortices. eLife 7 , e33977. ISSN 2050-084X.
Fisher, J. and Dick, Frederic and Levy, D. and Wilson, S. (2018) Neural representation of vowel formants in tonotopic auditory cortex. NeuroImage 178 , pp. 574-582. ISSN 1053-8119.
Holt, L.L. and Tierney, Adam and Guerra, G. and Laffere, A. and Dick, Frederic (2018) Dimension-selective attention as a possible driver of dynamic, context-dependent re-weighting in speech processing. Hearing Research 366 , pp. 50-64. ISSN 0378-5955.
Bonaiuto, J.J. and Rossiter, H.E. and Meyer, S.S. and Adams, N. and Little, S. and Callaghan, M.F. and Dick, Frederic and Bestmann, S. and Barnes, G.R. (2018) Non-invasive laminar inference with MEG: comparison of methods and source inversion algorithms. NeuroImage 167 , pp. 372-383. ISSN 1053-8119.
2017
Carey, Daniel and Krishnan, Saloni and Callaghan, M.F. and Sereno, Martin and Dick, Frederic (2017) Functional and quantitative MRI mapping of somatomotor representations of human supralaryngeal vocal tract. Cerebral Cortex , ISSN 1047-3211.
Wilson, B. and Kikuchi, Y. and Sun, L. and Hunter, D. and Dick, Frederic and Smith, K. and Thiele, A. and Griffiths, T.D. and Marslen-Wilson, W.D.and Petkov, C.I. (2015) Auditory sequence processing reveals evolutionarily conserved regions of frontal cortex in macaques and humans.Nature Communications 6 , p. 8901. ISSN 2041-1723.
Krishnan, Saloni and Leech, Robert and Mercure, Evelyne and Lloyd-Fox, Sarah and Dick, Frederic (2015) Convergent and divergent fMRI responses in children and adults to increasing language production demands. Cerebral Cortex 25 (10), pp. 3261-3277. ISSN 1047-3211.
Dick, Frederic and Cao, L. and Gross, J. (2015) Attention wins over sensory attenuation in a sound detection task. PLoS One 10 (8), e0136585. ISSN 1932-6203.
Dick, Frederic and Murphy, C.F.B. and Moore, D.R. and Schochat, E. (2015) Generalization of auditory sensory and cognitive learning in typically developing children. PLoS One 10 (8), e0135422. ISSN 1932-6203.
Gabay, Y. and Dick, Frederic and Zevin, J.D. and Holt, L.L. (2015) Incidental auditory category learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 41 (4), pp. 1124-1138. ISSN 0096-1523.
Carey, Daniel and Rosen, S. and Krishnan, Saloni and Pearce, M.T. and Shepherd, Alex J. and Aydelott, Jennifer and Dick, Frederic (2015)Generality and specificity in the effects of musical expertise on perception and cognition. Cognition 137 , pp. 81-105. ISSN 0010-0277.
Krishnan, Saloni and Bergström, Lina and Alcock, K.J. and Dick, Frederic and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette (2015) Williams syndrome: a surprising deficit in oromotor praxis in a population with proficient language production. Neuropsychologia 67 , pp. 82-90. ISSN 0028-3932.
Lutti, A. and Dick, Frederic and Sereno, Martin I. and Weiskopf, N. (2014) Using high-resolution quantitative mapping of R1 as an index of cortical myelination. NeuroImage 93 (2), pp. 176-188. ISSN 1053-8119.
Saygin, A.P. and Dick, Frederic (2014) The emergence of mirror-like response properties from domain-general principles in vision and audition.Behavioral and Brain Sciences 37 (02), p. 219. ISSN 0140-525X.
Knowland, Victoria C.P. and Mercure, E. and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette and Dick, Frederic and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2014) Audio-visual speech perception: a developmental ERP investigation. Developmental Science 17 (1), pp. 110-124. ISSN 1363-755x.
Krishnan, Saloni and Alcock, K.J. and Mercure, E. and Leech, Robert and Barker, Edward D. and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette and Dick, Frederic(2013) Articulating novel words: children's oromotor skills predict non-word repetition abilities. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 56 , pp. 1800-1812. ISSN 1092-4388.
Sereno, Martin I. and Lutti, A. and Weiskopf, N. and Dick, Frederic (2013) Mapping the human cortical surface by combining quantitative T1 with Retinotopy. Cerebral Cortex 23 (9), pp. 2261-2268. ISSN 1047-3211.
Krishnan, Saloni and Leech, Robert and Aydelott, Jennifer and Dick, Frederic (2013) School-age children’s environmental object identification in natural auditory scenes: effects of masking and contextual congruence. Hearing Research 300 , pp. 46-55. ISSN 0378-5955.
Tierney, A. and Dick, Frederic and Deutsch, D. and Sereno, Martin I. (2013) Speech versus song: multiple pitch-sensitive areas revealed by a naturally occurring musical illusion. Cerebral Cortex 23 (2), pp. 249-254. ISSN 1047-3211.
Campbell, T.F. and Dollaghan, C. and Janosky, J. and Rusiewicz, H.L. and Small, S.L. and Dick, Frederic (2013) Consonant accuracy after severe pediatric traumatic brain injury: a prospective cohort study. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research 56 (3), pp. 1023-1034. ISSN 1558-9102.
Kadosh, K.C. and Johnson, Mark H. and Dick, Frederic and Kadosh, R.C. and Blakemore, S.-J. (2013) Effects of age, task performance, and structural brain development on face processing. Cerebral Cortex 23 (7), pp. 1630-1642. ISSN 1047-3211.
Fancourt, A. and Dick, Frederic and Stewart, L. (2013) Pitch-change detection and pitch-direction discrimination in children. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain 23 (2), p. 73. ISSN 0275-3987.
Dick, Frederic and Taylor Tierney, A. and Lutti, A. and Josephs, O. and Sereno, Martin I. and Weiskopf, N. (2012) In vivo functional and myeloarchitectonic mapping of human primary auditory areas. Journal of Neuroscience 32 (46), pp. 16095-16105. ISSN 0270-6474.
Kadosh, K.C. and Johnson, Mark H. and Henson, R.N.A. and Dick, Frederic and Blakemore, S.J. (2012) Differential face-network adaptation in children, adolescents and adults. NeuroImage 69 (1), pp. 11-20. ISSN 1053-8119.
Filippi, R. and Leech, R. and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Green, D. and Dick, Frederic (2012) A bilingual advantage in controlling language interference during sentence comprehension. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 15 (4), pp. 858-872. ISSN 1366-7289.
Filippi, Roberto and Richardson, Fiona M. and Dick, Frederic and Leech, Robert and Green, D.W. and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Price, C.J. (2011)The right posterior Paravermis and the control of language interference. Journal of Neuroscience 31 (29), pp. 10732-10740. ISSN 0270-6474.
Dick, Frederic and Lee, H.L. and Nusbaum, H. and Price, C.J. (2011) Auditory-motor expertise alters "speech selectivity" in professional musicians and actors. Cerebral Cortex 21 (4), pp. 938-948. ISSN 1047-3211.
Cohen Kadosh, Kathrin and Cohen Kadosh, R. and Dick, Frederic and Johnson, Mark H. (2011) Developmental changes in effective connectivity in the emerging core face network. Cerebral Cortex 21 (6), pp. 1389-1394. ISSN 1047-3211.
Cohen Kadosh, Kathrin and Henson, R.N.A. and Cohen Kadosh, R. and Johnson, Mark H. and Dick, Frederic (2010) Task-dependent activation of face-sensitive cortex: an fMRI adaptation study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 22 (5), pp. 903-917. ISSN 0898-929X.
Saygin, A.P. and Leech, Robert and Dick, Frederic (2010) Nonverbal auditory agnosia with lesion to Wernicke's area. Neuropsychologia 48 (1), pp. 107-113. ISSN 0028-3932.
Leech, Robert and Gygi, B. and Aydelott, Jennifer and Dick, Frederic (2009) Informational factors in identifying environmental sounds in natural auditory scenes. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 126 (6), pp. 3147-3155. ISSN 0001-4966.
Mercure, Evelyne and Ashwin, E. and Dick, Frederic and Halit, Hanife and Auyeung, B. and Baron-Cohen, S. and Johnson, Mark H. (2009) IQ, fetal testosterone and individual variability in children's functional lateralization. Neuropsychologia 47 (12), pp. 2537-2543. ISSN 0028-3932.
Cummings, A. and Saygin, A.P. and Bates, E. and Dick, Frederic (2009) Infants' recognition of meaningful verbal and nonverbal sounds.Language, Learning and Development 5 (3), pp. 172-190. ISSN 1547-5441.
Leech, Robert and Holt, L.L. and Devlin, J.T. and Dick, Frederic (2009) Expertise with artificial nonspeech sounds recruits speech-sensitive cortical regions. Journal of Neuroscience 29 (16), pp. 5234-5259. ISSN 0270-6474.
Josephs, O. and Dick, Frederic and Sereno, Martin I. and Weiskopf, N. (2009) An isodynamic high fidelity MRI compatible headphone.NeuroImage 47 (S1), S186-S186. ISSN 1053-8119.
Mercure, Evelyne and Dick, Frederic and Halit, Hanife and Kaufman, Jordy and Johnson, Mark H. (2008) Differential lateralization for words and faces: category or psychophysics? Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 20 (11), pp. 2070-2087. ISSN 0898-929X.
Mercure, Evelyne and Dick, Frederic and Johnson, Mark H. (2008) Featural and configural face processing differentially modulate ERP components. Brain Research 1239 , pp. 162-170. ISSN 0006-8993.
Cummings, A. and Ceponiene, R. and Dick, Frederic and Saygin, A.P. and Townsend, J. (2008) A developmental ERP study of verbal and non-verbal semantic processing. Brain Research 1208 , pp. 137-149. ISSN 0006-8993.
Roland, D. and Dick, Frederic and Elman, J.L. (2007) Frequency of basic English grammatical structures: a corpus analysis. Journal of Memory and Language 57 (3), 348 - 379. ISSN 0749-596X.
Book Section
Dick, Frederic and Lloyd-Fox, Sarah and Blasi, Anna and Elwell, C. and Mills, D. and Elwell, Clare (2013) Neuroimaging methods. In: Mareschal, Denis and Butterworth, B. and Tolmie, A. (eds.) Educational Neuroscience. Chicester, UK: Wiley, pp. 13-45. ISBN 9781118725894.
Leech, Robert and Dick, Frederic (2010) Language following congenital disorders. In: Whitaker, H. (ed.) Concise Encyclopedia of Brain and Language. Cambridge, UK: Elsevier, p. 279. ISBN 9780080964980.
Dick, Frederic and Leech, Robert and Richardson, Fiona M. (2008) The neuropsychology of language development. In: Reed, J. and Warner-Rogers, J. (eds.) Child Neuropsychology: Concepts, Theory and Practice. Hoboken, U.S.: Wiley Blackwell, pp. 139-182. ISBN 9781405152662.
Dick, Frederic and Richardson, Fiona M. and Saccuman, M.C. (2008) Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to investigate developmental language disorders. In: Norbury, F.C. and Tomblin, J.B. and Bishop, D.V.M. (eds.) Understanding Developmental Language Disorders: From Theory to Practice. Hove, UK: Psychology Press, pp. 53-66. ISBN 9781841696676.
Dick, Frederic and Leech, Robert and Richardson, Fiona M. (2008) Language development. In: Reed, J. and Warner Rogers, J. (eds.) Child Neuropsychology: Concepts, Theory & Practice. Chicester, UK: Wiley. ISBN 9781405152662.
Monograph
Arévalo, A.L. and Dick, Frederic and Della Rosa, P. and Dronkers, N.F. and Bates, E.A. and Cappa, S.F. and Perani, D. (2011) Action and object processing across three tasks: an fMRI study of picture-naming, word reading and repetition in Italian. Technical Report. University of California, San Diego, California, USA.