Dr Sharon Geva

Sharon joined ARU as a Senior Lecturer in 2022. Prior to this, she worked at University College London as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, first at the Institute of Child Health, and then at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Neuroimaging.

She works with both paediatric and adult populations, combining structural and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) with neuropsychological testing.

Sharon studies brain mechanism underlying speech and language impairments and recovery after stroke. She also studies the variability in inner speech in healthy adults and post-stroke, with special interest in the relation between inner speech and other aspects of cognition.

She is a member of the ARU Centre for Mind and Behaviour.

• Speech and language
• Inner speech and mental imagery
• Memory
• Stroke
• MRI
• Neuropsychological testing
• Behavioural analysis

• Acquired language disorders
• Typical language processing
• Short-term, long-term and working memory
• Variability and impairments of inner speech

• Imaging and Diagnostics in Cognitive Neuroscience
• Current Theoretical Issues in Cognitive Neuroscience

• UKCGE Recognised Research Supervisor
• PhD Clinical Neuroscience, University of Cambridge
• MSc Neuroscience, University of Oxford
• BSc (Hons) Psychology and Biology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

• Frontiers in Neuroscience
• Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

For a full, up-to-date list of publications, see Sharon's ORCID profile.

Roberts, S. M, Bruce, R., Hope, T. M. H., Geva S., Anderson, S., Woodgate, H., Ledingham, K., Gajardo-Vidal, A., Lorca-Puls, D., Crinion, J. T., Leff, A. P., Green, D. and Price, C. J. (2024) 'The impact of pre-stroke formal education on language test performance in aphasic and non-aphasic stroke survivors'. Aphasiology. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2024.2434864

Parker Jones, O., Geva, S., Prejawa, S., Hope, T. M. H., Oberhuber, M., Seghier, M. L., Green, D. W. and Price, C. J. (2024) 'Dissociating cerebellar regions involved in formulating and articulating words and sentences', Neurobiology of Language, 5(3), pp. 795–817. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_00148

Geva, S., Hoskote, A., Sainee, M., Clark, C. A., Banks, T., Chong, W. K. K., Baldeweg, T., de Haan, M. and Vargha-Khadem, F. (2024) 'Cognitive outcome and its neural correlates after cardiorespiratory arrest in childhood', Developmental Sciences, 27, e13501. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13501

Geva, S., Schneider, L. M., Khan, S., Lorca-Puls, D. L., Gajardo-Vidal, A., PLORAS team, Hope, T. M. H., Green, D. W. and Price, C. J. (2022) 'Enhanced left superior parietal activation during successful speech production in patients with left dorsal striatal damage and error-prone neurotypical participants', Cerebral Cortex.

Geva S., Schneider, L. M., Khan, S., Gajardo-Vidal, A., Lorca-Puls, D. L., PLORAS team, Hope, T. M. H., Green, D. W. and Price, C. J. (2021) 'Accurate speech production following cerebellar stroke is associated with enhanced activation in cerebral motor regions', NeuroImage: Clinical, 32, 102820.

Geva, S., Truneh, T., Seghier, M. L., Hope, T. M. H., Leff, A. P., Crinion, J. T., Gajardo-Vidal, A., Lorca-Puls, D. L., Green, D. W., PLORAS team and Price, C. J. (2021) 'Lesions that impair verbal short-term memory: A study of 816 stroke survivors', Brain Communication, 3(2), fcab031.

Gajardo-Vidal, A., Lorca-Puls, D. L., PLORAS team, Warner, H., Pshdary, B., Crinion, J. T., Leff, A. P., Hope, T. M. H., Geva, S., Seghier, M. L., Green, D. W., Bowman, H. and Price, C. J. (2021) 'Damage to Broca’s area does not contribute to long-term speech production outcome after stroke', Brain, 144(3), pp. 817-832.

Geva, S., Jentschke, S., Argyropoulos, G., Chong, W. K., Gadian, D. G. and Vargha-Khadem, F. (2020) 'Volume reduction of caudate nucleus is associated with movement coordination deficits in patients with hippocampal atrophy due to perinatal hypoxia-ischaemia', NeuroImage: Clinical, 28, 102429.

'Imagination is a spectrum – and 1% of people can’t mentally visualise things at all', The Conversation, 28 February 2023.

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