Mairéad MacSweeney is Co-director of the Deafness, Cognition and Languages research centre at University College London.

 

Research


Mairéad’s recent work includes:

Smittenaar, C.R., MacSweeney, M., Sereno, M.I., Schwarzkopf, D.S. (2016). Does Congenital Deafness Affect the Structural and Functional Architecture of Primary Visual Cortex?. The open neuroimaging journal, 10 1-19.

 Gutierrez-Sigut, E., Payne, H., MacSweeney, M. (2016). Examining the contribution of motor movement and language dominance to increased left lateralization during sign generation in native signers. Brain and Language, 159 109-117. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2016.06.004

Kyle, F.E., Campbell, R., MacSweeney, M. (2016). The relative contributions of speechreading and vocabulary to deaf and hearing children’s reading ability. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 48 13-24. doi:10.1016/j.ridd.2015.10.004