Dr. Adam Attaheri has been a Research Associate for the Centre for Neuroscience in Education since he joined in 2016. He was one of the founding members of the BabyRhythm team and continues to be an active member on the project.
Biography
Adam completed his PhD at Newcastle University, where he wrote his thesis on “EEG and Neuronal Potentials associated with Artificial Grammar Learning”. Newcastle University was also where he was awarded his MRes in Neuroscience and BSC in Physiological Science.
Before joining the Centre for Neuroscience in Education, Adam was researching the electrophysiology of Artificial Grammar Learning and the neural causes of tinnitus at the Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle University.
Publications
Attaheri, A., Ní Choisdealbha, Á., Liberto, G.M., Brusini, P., Rocha, S., Flanagan, S., Mead, N., Boutris, P., Gibbon, S., Olawole-Scott, H., Ahmed, H., Williams, I., & Goswami, U. (2019, October 19-23) Neural Oscillations and nursery rhymes; An EEG study into individual differences in infant language development [Poster presentation]. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL, USA.
Kikuchi, Y., Attaheri, A., Wilson, B., Rhone, A., Nourski, K., Gander, P., Kovach, C., Kawasaki, H., Griffiths, T., Howard, M., & Petkov, C. (2017). Sequence learning modulates neural responses and oscillatory coupling in human and monkey auditory cortex. PLOS Biology, 15, e2000219. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2000219
Milne, A., Mueller, J., Männel, C., Attaheri, A., Friederici, A., & Petkov, C. (2016). Evolutionary origins of non-adjacent sequence processing in primate brain potentials. Scientific Reports, 6, 36259. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep36259
Attaheri, A., Kikuchi, Y., Milne, A., Wilson, B., Alter, K., & Petkov, C. (2015). EEG potentials associated with artificial grammar learning in the primate brain. Brain and Language, 148, 74-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2014.11.006
Ní Choisdealbha, Á., Attaheri, A., Rocha, S., Brusini, P., Mead, N., Gibbon, S., Olawole-Scott, H., Boutris, P., Williams, I., Ahmed, H., Grey, C., Flanagan, S., & Goswami, U. (2020, July 5-9). The development of amplitude rise time detection in the first year [Poster presentation]. International Congress of Infant Studies.
Ní Choisdealbha, Á., Attaheri, A., Rocha, S., Mead, N., Gibbon, S., Olawole-Scott, H., Boutris, P., Flanagan, S., Williams, I., Ahmed, H., Grey, C., Brusini, P., & Goswami, U. (2020, July 5-9). Changes in neural rhythmic entrainment during the first year of life [Symposium talk]. International Congress of Infant Studies.
Rocha, S., Attaheri, A., Ní Choisdealbha, Á., Brusini, P., Flanagan, S., Mead, N., Boutris, P., Gibbon, S., Olawole-Scott, H., Ahmed, H., & Goswami, U. (2020, January 8-10). Infant gross motor rhythmic synchronisation and relationships with language [Poster presentation]. 10th Annual CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.
Rocha, S., Attaheri, A., Ní Choisdealbha, Á., Brusini, P., Flanagan, S., Mead, N., Boutris, P., Gibbon, S., Olawole-Scott, H., Ahmed, H., & Goswami, U. (2020, July 5-9). BabyRhythm: Early infant audio-motor rhythmic synchronisations predicts later language outcomes [Poster presentation]. International Congress of Infant Studies.
Ní Choisdealbha, Á., Attaheri, A., Brusini, P., Rocha, S., Flanagan, S., Mead, N., Boutris, P., Gibbon, S., Scott, H., Ahmed, H., & Goswami, U. (2019, June 13-15). Individual differences in auditory entrainment to speech and nonspeech rhythm by infants and relations with early language development [Poster presentation]. Workshop on Infant Language Development, Potsdam, Germany.
Brusini, P., Attaheri, A., Rocha, S., Flanagan, S., Mead, N., Boutris, P., & Goswami, U. (2018, June 27-29) BabyRhythm: An early neural window into infant language skills [Poster presentation]. International Neurogonomics Conference, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Rocha, S., Attaheri, A., Ní Choisdealbh, A., Brusini, P., Mead, N., Olawole-Scott, H., Boutris, P., Gibbon, S., Flannagan, S., & Goswami, U. (2018, September 21). The BabyRhythm Project: Looking longitudinally at early rhythmic skill and language development [Presentation]. BASIS Annual Scientific Meeting, London, UK.
Teaching and Supervisions
While at the University of Cambridge, Adam has supervised the projects of third year Psychology students including:
- [Dimitris and Alessia's project title]
- This project collected representative adult EEG data to accompany the infant data collected for the BabyRhythm project. The students ran the same passive listening nursery rhyme paradigm used with infants, while EEG was recorded. Their aim is to provide control data for interpretation of our infant data, by using the same analysis protocols to explore whether the same neural mechanisms are engaged by infants and adults.
