- D’Souza, D. and Dakhch, Y. (2022). Is Early Bilingual Experience Associated with Greater Fluid Intelligence in Adults? Languages, 7(2), pp. 100–100. doi:10.3390/languages7020100.
- D’Souza, D., Brady, D., Haensel, J.X. and D’Souza, H. (2021). Early bilingual experience is associated with change detection ability in adults. Scientific Reports, 11(1). doi:10.1038/s41598-021-81545-5.
- D'Souza, D., D'Souza, H., Jones, E.J.H. and Karmiloff‐Smith, A. (2020). Attentional abilities constrain language development: A cross‐syndrome infant/toddler study. Developmental Science, 23(6). doi:10.1111/desc.12961.
- D'Souza, D., D’Souza, H., Horváth, K., Plunkett, K. and Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2020). Sleep is atypical across neurodevelopmental disorders in infants and toddlers: A cross-syndrome study. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 97, pp. 103549–103549. doi:10.1016/j.ridd.2019.103549.
- Filippi, R., D’Souza, D. and Bright, P. (2019). A developmental approach to bilingual research: The effects of multi-language experience from early infancy to old age. International Journal of Bilingualism, 23(5), pp. 1195–1207. doi:10.1177/1367006917749061.
- D'Souza, D. and D'Souza, H. (2019). Emergent and constrained: Understanding brain and cognitive development. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 49, pp. 228–231. doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2018.04.011.
- D’Souza, D. and Filippi, R. (2017). Progressive modularization: Reframing our understanding of typical and atypical language development. First Language, 37(5), pp. 518–529. doi:10.1177/0142723717720038.
- Soukup-Ascençao, T., D’Souza, D., D’Souza, H. and Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2016). Parent-child interaction as a dynamic contributor to learning and cognitive development in typical and atypical development /Influencia dinámica entre la interacción padre/madre-hijo y el aprendizaje y el desarrollo cognitivo en el desarrollo típico y atípico. Infancia y Aprendizaje, 39(4), pp. 694–726. doi:10.1080/02103702.2016.1221054.
- D’Souza, D., D’Souza, H., Johnson, M.H. and Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2016). Audio-visual speech perception in infants and toddlers with Down syndrome, fragile X syndrome, and Williams syndrome. Infant Behavior and Development, 44, pp. 249–262. doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2016.07.002.
- D'Souza, D. and D'Souza, H. (2016). Bilingual Language Control Mechanisms in Anterior Cingulate Cortex and Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex: A Developmental Perspective. The Journal of Neuroscience, 36(20), pp. 5434–5436. doi:10.1523/jneurosci.0798-16.2016.
- D'Souza, D., Booth, R., Connolly, M., Happé, F. and Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2016). Rethinking the concepts of ‘local or global processors’: evidence from Williams syndrome, Down syndrome, and Autism Spectrum Disorders. Developmental Science, 19(3), pp. 452–468. doi:10.1111/desc.12312.
- D'Souza, D. and Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2016). Why a developmental perspective is critical for understanding human cognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39. doi:10.1017/s0140525x15001569.
- D’Souza, D., D’Souza, H., Johnson, M.H. and Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2015). Concurrent Relations between Face Scanning and Language: A Cross-Syndrome Infant Study. PLOS ONE, 10(10). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0139319.
- D’Souza, D., Cole, V., Farran, E.K., Brown, J.H., Humphreys, K., Howard, J. … Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2015). Face processing in Williams syndrome is already atypical in infancy. Frontiers in Psychology, 6. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00760.
- Karmiloff-Smith, A., D’Souza, D., Dekker, T.M., Van Herwegen, J., Xu, F., Rodic, M. … Ansari, D. (2012). Genetic and environmental vulnerabilities in children with neurodevelopmental disorders. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(supplement_2), pp. 17261–17265. doi:10.1073/pnas.1121087109.
- Karmiloff-Smith, A., Broadbent, H., Farran, E.K., Longhi, E., D’Souza, D., Metcalfe, K. … Sansbury, F. (2012). Social Cognition in Williams Syndrome: Genotype/Phenotype Insights from Partial Deletion Patients. Frontiers in Psychology, 3. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00168.
- D'Souza, D. and Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2011). When modularization fails to occur: A developmental perspective. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 28(3-4), pp. 276–287. doi:10.1080/02643294.2011.614939.
Dr Dean D'Souza
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Dr Dean D'Souza
City, University of London
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About
Overview
Dean is interested in typical and atypical neurocognitive development. He is particularly interested in understanding how early language and cognitive abilities emerge in typically and atypically developing populations, by studying the interplay of various factors (e.g. visual attention, multimodal integration, parent-child interaction) across domains, modalities, and levels of description, over developmental time.
You can find out more about Dean’s research via the ELAN lab: www.elanlab.co.uk
Qualifications
- PhD, Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom
- MSc, Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom
- BSc, Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom
- MA, The Open University, United Kingdom
Fellowships
- Fellow, Higher Education Authority, 2019 – present
- Fellow, Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2016 – present
Memberships of professional organisations
- Chartered Psychologist, British Psychological Society, 2017 – present
Publications
Featured publications
- D’Souza, D. and D’Souza, H. (2021). Bilingual adaptations in early development. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25(9), pp. 727–729. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2021.06.002.
- D'Souza, D., Brady, D., Haensel, J.X. and D'Souza, H. (2020). Is mere exposure enough? The effects of bilingual environments on infant cognitive development. Royal Society Open Science, 7(2), pp. 180191–180191. doi:10.1098/rsos.180191.
- D'SOUZA, D., D'SOUZA, H. and KARMILOFF-SMITH, A. (2017). Precursors to language development in typically and atypically developing infants and toddlers: the importance of embracing complexity. Journal of Child Language, 44(3), pp. 591–627. doi:10.1017/s030500091700006x.
Publications by category
Chapters (2)
- Arzi, A., Banerjee, S., Cox, J. and D'Souza, D. (2014). The significance of cognitive neuroscience: Findings, applications, and challenges. In Gazzaniga, M. and Mangun, G. (Eds.), The Cognitive Neurosciences MIT Press.
- D'Souza, D. and D'Souza, H. The emerging phenotype in infants with Down syndrome: Adaptations to atypical constraints. In Burack, J.A., Edgin, J. and Abbeduto, L.J. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Down Syndrome and Development Oxford University Press.