Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Psychology Professor, University of Cambridge; Author, Inventing Ourselves
SARAH-JAYNE BLAKEMORE is professor of psychology at the University of Cambridge, UK, and leader of the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Group. Her group's research focuses on the development of social cognition and decision making in the human adolescent brain, and adolescent mental health. Her group runs behavioral studies in schools and in the lab, as well as neuroimaging studies, with adolescents and adults.
She is the author of Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain and co-author (with Uta Frith) of The Learning Brain: Lessons for Education.