Goulven Josse

Wellcome Trust Functional Imaging Laboratory, UCL
12 Queen Square
LONDON
WC1N 3BG

Tel: +44 (0)20 7833 7487
Fax: +44 (0)20 7813 1420

Research Interests

I am a post-doctoral fellow interested in the neural basis of language, more particularly in inter-individual variability, in other words how brain regions associated with language may be different, or work in a different way from one subject to another. In order to study this, we use fMRI in normal subjects while they perform word reading or semantic decision tasks. This work is motivated by the lack of data on variability in the neuroimaging literature, while knowing about alternative neural pathways could teach us a great deal about the normal brain and lead to hypotheses on how reorganization may occur in the lesioned brain. My PhD work (mentor: N. Tzourio-Mazoyer, U. of Caen, France) was closely related and involved, like some of my work here, the study of differences between right- and left-handers, the latter showing more variability in their brain regions associated with language, a fascinating fact that remains to be explained and could be the hallmark of a link between action and language.

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