Dr Andrew Olson BSc, MA, PhD

Dr Andrew Olson

School of Psychology
Associate Professor
Director of PGT Programmes

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 3328
Email
a.l.o.olson@bham.ac.uk
Address
The School of Psychology
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Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Andrew Olson is a neuropsychologist who is interested in cognition and its various forms of breakdown and especially in the organization of language in the brain. He works with patient volunteers with aphasia, children, healthy adults and members of the deaf community.

Qualifications

BSc, Eckerd College; MA, Johns Hopkins; PhD Johns Hopkins

Biography

Andrew Olson did his undergraduate work in biology and an MA in poetry at the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University before completing his PhD with Alfonso Caramazza at Johns Hopkins. He did post-doctoral work with Glyn Humphreys at Birmingham before joining the staff as a Lecturer.

Teaching

Andrew currently teaches on the 2nd year Introduction to Psycholinguistics module and on the 1st year Language and Memory module and has contributed to various Masters courses that include topics related to language and the brain. In the past he has also taught statistics and programming.

Postgraduate supervision

Andrew is very happy to talk to potential PhD students who have interests in neuropsychology, speech and language therapy, linguistics, psycholinguistics and computational modeling. Students interested in joining the lab should email Andrew directly.

Research

Scopus Author ID: 35965895600

Andrew is interested in how language is organized in the mind and brain. He works with brain-damaged patients, children with developmental disorders (e.g. neurodegenerative disease) and other special populations, including participants from the deaf community. He uses a wide variety of methods, including standard neuropsychological assessment, computerized experiments and eye-tracking. He is interested in computational and statistical models of cognition and in using explicit models for testing theories of language organization.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Romani, C, Silverstein, P, Ramoo, D & Olson, A 2022, '', Cognitive Neuropsychology, vol. 39, no. 3-4, pp. 170-195.

Romani, C, Olson, A, Aitkenhead, L, Baker, L, Patel, D, Van Spronsen, F, MacDonald, A, van Wegberg, A & Huijbregts, S 2022, '', Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, vol. 143, 104925.

Ramoo, D, Olson, A & Romani, C 2021, '', Cognitive Neuropsychology, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 485-517.

Goranova, J, Olson, A & Krott, A 2021, '', Neuropsychology, vol. 35, no. 8, pp. 822-846.

Clark, R, Blundell, J, Dunn, M, Erichsen, J, Giardini, M, Gottlob, I, Harris, C, Lee, H, Mcilreavy, L, Olson, A, Self, J, Vinuela-Navarro, V, Waddington, J, Woodhouse, JM, Gilchrist, I & Williams, C 2019, '', Eye, vol. 33, no. 8, pp. 1200鈥�1202.

Blundell, J, Frisson, S, Chakrapani, A, Kearney, S, Vijay, S, MacDonald, A, Gissen, P, Hendriksz, C & Olson, A 2018, '', Cognitive Neuropsychology, vol. 35, no. 3-4, pp. 120-147.

Blundell, J, Frisson, S, Chakrapani, A, Gissen, P, Hendriksz, C, Vijay, S & Olson, A 2018, '', Molecular Genetics and Metabolism, vol. 123, no. 2, pp. 159-168.

Romani, C, Thomas, L, Olson, A & Lander, L 2018, '', Aphasiology, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 253-288.

Westwood, SJ, Olson, A, Miall, R, Nappo, R & Romani, C 2017, '', Cortex, vol. 86, pp. 64-82.

Olson, A, Halloran, E & Romani, C 2015, '', Cortex, vol. 73, pp. 158-179.

Breadmore, HL, Krott, A & Olson, AC 2014, '', The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 474-498.

Frisson, S, Olson, A & Wheeldon, L 2014, '', Journal of Memory and Language, vol. 73, pp. 148鈥�173.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Ramoo, D, Romani, C & Olson, A 2021, . in G Sharma & J Lowe (eds), Trends in South Asian Linguistics. Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM], vol. 367, De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin, pp. 415-462.

Comment/debate

Westwood, SJ, Olson, A, Miall, C & Romani, C 2017, '', Cortex.

Review article

Thomas, L, Olson, A & Romani, C 2023, '', Molecular Genetics and Metabolism, vol. 138, no. 1, 106969, pp. 1-15.