John Skoyles is a dyslexic[1] neuroscientist and evolutionary psychologist. He initially studied philosophy of science at the London School of Economics and then did MRC funded research upon neuroscience and dyslexia at University College London.
He published while a first year undergraduate in the science journal Nature.[2][3] upon the left lateralizing role of the Greek alphabet and the origins of Greek and Western civilization. [2][4] He is the coauthor of a book, Up from Dragons: The evolution of intelligence[5] with Dorion Sagan upon the role of neural plasticity, the prefrontal cortex, symbols upon human evolution and the rise of modern human cognition. He has written about the development of dyslexia and neural networks,[6] and the role of the brain in dyslexia.[7].
In 2004 he initiated and was a consultant upon the BBC documentary The Family That Walks On All Fours [8] that reported on the Ulas family, the first humans reported that could not walk bipedally but who were proficient quadrupedal runners and walkers.[9]
He is presently a member of the Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology at UCL and the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science at the LSE.
Footnotes
- ^ Famous people with dyslexia: Inventors & scientists
- ^ a b Skoyles JR. (1984). Alphabet and the Western mind. Nature. 309(5967):409-10. PubMed
- ^ biography The Third Culture Edge Foundation
- ^ Skoyles JR. (1900). The origin of Classical Greek culture: The transparent chain theory of literacy/society interaction. Journal of Social and Biological Structures. 13, 321-353. doi:10.1016/0140-1750(90)90502-W
- ^ Skoyles JR. Sagan D. (2002). Up from Dragons: The evolution of human intelligence. McGraw-Hill, New York. ISBN 978-0071378253
- ^ Skoyles JR. (1988). Training the brain using neural-network models. Nature. 333(6172):401. PubMed
- ^ Skoyles J, Skottun BC. (2004). On the prevalence of magnocellular deficits in the visual system of non-dyslexic individuals. Brain Lang. 88:79-82.PubMed
- ^ The Family That Walks On All Fours, Passionate Productions, first broadcast BBC2, Friday 17 March 2006
- ^ Humphrey N. Keynes R. Skoyles JR. (2006). Hand-walkers : five siblings who never stood up. Discussion Paper. Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London, UK.
External links
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