Nicky studied for her PhD in the psychophysiology of dyslexia at the University of Warwick. This was followed by post-doctoral positions as an E.U. Research Fellow at the Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience (University College London), as a Research Scientist (external collaborator) at the MRC Cognitive Development Unit in London, and as a Research Psychologist in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (UCL Medical School).
Her research focuses on cognitive, behavioural and neuropsychological aspects of children's reading development, of skilled reading, and developmental dyslexia in children and adults. She is also interested in the link between reading and musical expertise (in musicians and dancers), and between reading ability and visuo-spatial/drawing ability (in art/non-art students). She has conducted research using EEG, ERPs, fMRI and PET.
Nicky has written/edited five books on reading and dyslexia, and she served for six years as a Trustee of the British Dyslexia Association with whom she continues to be actively involved. She is a current member of the British Psychological Society, the British Dyslexia Association, and the International Dyslexia Association; she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and the Higher Education Academy. She sits on the editorial boards of Dyslexia, and Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal.
She is co-chair of the Psychology Research Ethics Committee, and a deputy chair of the University Research Ethics Committee. She chairs the Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience Research Group.
Cognitive, behavioural and neuropsychological correlates of reading development, of skilled reading, and developmental dyslexia in children and adults; the relationship between developmental dyslexia, handedness, maths ability, musical proficiency, and visuospatial ability in adults; reading and spoken language processing.
Nicky is a member of the Music, Cognition and Communication Lab at Middlesex, and chair of the Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience Research Group.
Journal articles
Brunswick, N., Wilson, N. J., Kruger, I., Chamberlain, R., & McManus, I. C. (under review). The incidence of Specific Learning Difficulties in Higher Education: A study of UK Universities across 12 academic years
Brunswick, N. & Bargary, S. (2022). Self-concept, creativity and developmental dyslexia in university students: Effects of age of assessment. Dyslexia, 28, 3, 293–308. https://doi.org/10.1002/dys.1722
Chamberlain, R., Brunswick, N., Siev, J., & McManus, I.C. (2018). Meta‐analytic findings reveal lower means but higher variances in visuospatial ability in dyslexia. British Journal of Psychology, 109, 4, 897-916.
Rankin, Q., Riley, H., Brunswick, N., McManus, I. C., & Chamberlain, R. (2017). Talking the line: Inclusive strategies for the teaching of drawing. Drawing: Research, Theory and Practice, 2, 2, 287-304.
Brunswick, N. (2015). Dyslexia: Creating impact through innovation. Dyslexia, 21, 3, 195-196.
Chamberlain, R., McManus, I. C., Brunswick, N., Rankin, Q., & Riley, H (2015). Scratching the surface: Practice, personality, approaches to learning and the acquisition of high level representational drawing ability. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, 9, 4, 451-462.
Rankin, Q., Riley, H., Chamberlain, R., McManus, C. & Brunswick, N. (2014). Learning to perceive: informing pedagogic practice through the empirical study of drawing. TRACEY: The Online Journal of Contemporary Drawing Research. Available to view here
Chamberlain, R., McManus, C., Brunswick, N., Rankin, Q., Riley, H., & Kanai, R. (2014). Drawing on the right side of the brain: a voxel-based morphometry analysis of observational drawing. Neuroimage, 96, 167-173.
Payne, N., Ciclitira, K., Starr, F., Marzano, L., & Brunswick, N.(2014). Evaluation of long-term counselling at a community health service for women who are on a low income. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 1-9.
Chamberlain, R., McManus, C., Riley, H., Rankin, Q., & Brunswick, N. (2014). Cain's House Revisited and Revived: Extending Theory and Methodology for Quantifying Drawing Accuracy. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, 8, 2, 152-167
Chamberlain, R., McManus, I., Riley, H., Rankin, Q., & Brunswick, N. (2013). Local processing enhancements associated with superior observational drawing are due to enhanced perceptual functioning, not weak central coherence. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66, 7, 1448-1466.
Starr, F., Ciclitira, K., Marzano, L., Brunswick, N., & Costa, A. (2012). Comfort and challenge: A thematic analysis of female clinicians' experiences of supervision. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice. DOI:10.1111/j.2044-8341.2012.02063.x
Chamberlain, R., Riley, H., McManus, I.C., Rankin, Q., & Brunswick, N. (2012). The perceptual foundations of drawing ability. Thinking through drawing: Practice into knowledge. Proceedings of an interdisciplinary symposium on drawing, cognition and education. 95-102.
Ciclitira, K., Starr, F., Marzano, L., Brunswick, N., & Costa, A. (2012). Women counsellors' experiences of personal therapy: A thematic analysis. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 12, 2,136-145.
Brunswick, N., Martin, G.N. and Rippon, G. (2012). Early cognitive profiles of emergent readers: a longitudinal investigation. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 111, 268-285.
Carroll, J., Larkin, R. & Brunswick, N. (2011). Editorial: Beyond Boundaries – Introduction to the Special Issue. Dyslexia, 17, 4, 1-2
McManus, I.C., Loo, P.-W., Chamberlain, R., Riley, H. and Brunswick, N. (2011). Does shape constancy relate to drawing ability? Two failures to replicate. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 29, 2, 191-208.
Riley, H., Brunswick, N., Chamberlain, R., McManus, I.C., and Rankin, Q. (2011). Inclusive Practice: Researching the relationships between mathematical ability and drawing ability in art students. Include 2011 Proceedings: Conference on Inclusive Design London: Royal College of Art (available at http://include11.kinetixevents.co.uk/rca/rca2011/paper_final/F406_1469.DOC)
Franco, F., Brunswick, N. and de Mornay Davies, P. (2010). Music of language, language of music. The Psychologist, 23, 11, 913-914.
Brunswick, N., Martin, G.N. and Marzano, L. (2010). Visuospatial superiority in developmental dyslexia: myth or reality? Learning and Individual Differences, 20, 421-426.
McManus, I.C., Chamberlain, R., Loo, P.-W., Rankin, Q., Riley, H. and Brunswick, N. (2010). Art students who cannot draw: An exploration of the relations between personality, dyslexia, perceptual problems and drawing skills. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 4, 1, 18-30
Brunswick, N. (2009). Mind, brain and education in reading disorders. American Journal of Human Biology, 21, 3, 414-415.
Riley, H., Rankin, Q., Brunswick, N., McManus, I.C., Chamberlain, R., and Loo, P-W. (2009). Inclusive Practice: Researching the relationships between dyslexia, personality, and art students' drawing ability. Include 2009 Proceedings: Conference on Inclusive Design London: Royal College of Art.
Martin, G.N., Brunswick, N. and Jolic, N. (2005) Developing an on-line undergraduate course in introductory psychology, Journal of Health, Social and Environmental Issues, 6, 1, 11-26.
Ciclitira, K., Marzano, L., Brunswick, N., Starr, F. and Berger, S. (2004). Theoretical and ethical issues in conducting research at a women's health centre. Psychology of Women Section Review, 6, 1, 60-69.
Brunswick, N. (2002). Dyslexia: A psychosocial perspective - Learning to read the signs, The Psychologist, 15, 2, 82
Wardle, J., Waller, J., Brunswick, N. and Jarvis, M.J. (2001). Awareness of risk factors for cancer among British adults, Public Health, 115, 173-174.
Brunswick, N., Wardle, J. and Jarvis, M.J. (2001). Public awareness of warning signs for cancer in Britain, Cancer Causes and Control, 12, 1, 33-37
Paulesu, E., Démonet, J.-F., Fazio, F., McCrory, E., Chanoine, V., Brunswick, N., Cappa, S. F., Cossu, G., Habib, M., Frith, C. D. and Frith, U. (2001). Dyslexia: Cultural diversity and biological unity, Science, 291, 5511, 2165-2167.
Paulesu, E., Démonet, J.-F., Fazio, F., McCrory, E., Chanoine, V., Brunswick, N., Cappa, S. F., Cossu, G., Habib, M., Frith, C. D. and Frith, U. (2001). Cultural diversity and biological unity in dyslexia, Neuroimage, 13, 6: S584-S584, Part 2 Suppl.
Gallagher, H.L., Happé, F., Brunswick, N., Fletcher, P.C., Frith, U. and Frith, C. (2000). Reading the mind in cartoons and stories: an fMRI study of 'theory of mind' in verbal and non-verbal tasks, Neuropsychologia, 38, 1, 11-21
McCrory, E., Frith, U., Brunswick, N. and Price, C. (2000). Abnormal functional activation during a simple word repetition task: a PET study of adult dyslexics. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 12, 5, 753-762
Paulesu, E., McCrory, E., Fazio, F., Menoncello, L., Brunswick, N., Cappa, S.F., Cotelli, M., Cossu, G., Corte, F., Lorusso, M. L., Pesenti, S., Gallagher, A., Perani, D., Price, C., Frith, C.D. and Frith, U. (2000). A cultural effect on brain function, Nature Neuroscience, 3, 1, 91-96
Rippon, G. and Brunswick, N. (2000). Trait and state EEG indices of information processing in developmental dyslexia, International Journal of Psychophysiology, 36, 3, 251-265
Brunswick, N., McCrory, E., Price, C., Frith, C.D. & Frith, U. (1999). Explicit and implicit processing of words and pseudowords by adult developmental dyslexics: a search for Wernicke's Wortschatz? Brain, 122, 1901-1917.
Rippon, G., Brunswick, N. & Garner, S. (1999). Psychophysiological studies of normal and abnormal reading development, Journal of Psychophysiology, 13, 2, 141.
Gallagher, H.L., Happé, F., Brunswick, N., Fletcher, P.C., Frith, U. & Frith, C.D. (1998). Theory of mind: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, No.SS, 105.
Rippon, G. & Brunswick, N. (1998). EEG correlates of phonological processing in dyslexic children, Journal of Psychophysiology, 12, 261-274.
Brunswick, N., McCrory, E., Price, C., Frith, U. & Frith, C. (1997). An investigation of implicit language processing in dyslexic and non-dyslexic readers, using positron emission tomography. Neuroimage, 5, 4, 569.
Brunswick, N. (1996). Psychological perspectives on...reading disorders, The Bulletin of the British Psychophysiological Society, 27, 9-11
Brunswick, N. & Rippon, G. (1996). The fat cat sat on the ham? An electrophysiological study of impaired phonological processing in developmental dyslexics. Journal of Psychophysiology, 11, 3, 277
Brunswick, N. & Rippon, G. (1994). Auditory event-related potentials, dichotic listening performance and handedness as indices of lateralisation in dyslexic and normal readers, International Journal of Psychophysiology, 18, 3, 265- 275
Books
Brunswick, N. (Ed.) (2012). Supporting dyslexic adults in higher education and the workplace. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell
Brunswick, N. (2011). Living with Dyslexia. New York: Rosen Publishing Group
Brunswick, N., McDougall, S. and de Mornay Davies, P. (Eds) (2010). Reading and dyslexia in different orthographies (with a foreword by Professor Uta Frith). Hove: Psychology Press.
Brunswick, N. and Buskist, W. (2010). Lecturer's Resource Manual for Psychology (3rd European edition). Harlow: Pearson Education
Brunswick, N. (2009). Dyslexia. A Beginner's Guide (with a foreword by Ken Follett). Oxford: Oneworld Publications
Brunswick, N. (Ed.) (2009). The Dyslexia Handbook 2009/10. Bracknell: British Dyslexia Association.
Martin, G.N. and Brunswick, N. (2007). Study Guide: Psychology (3rd edition). Harlow: Pearson Education
Martin, G.N. and Brunswick, N. (2006). Study Guide: Psychology (2nd edition). Harlow: Pearson Education
Brunswick, N. and Buskist, W. (2004). Lecturer's Resource Manual for Psychology (2nd European edition), Harlow: Pearson Education
Buskist, W. and Brunswick, N. (1999). Lecturer's Resource Manual for Psychology: the science of behaviour, Hemel Hempstead: Pearson Education Limited
Audiobook
Brunswick, N. (2012). Dyslexia. Bolinder Beginner Guides. Victoria, Australia: Bolinder Publishing Pty Ltd.
Book chapters
Brunswick, N. (2012). Dyslexie, Legasthenie, Ordblindhed: Dyslexia in different languages. In J. Everatt (Ed.) Dyslexia, Multilingualism and Foreign Language Learning. Bracknell: British Dyslexia Association.
Brunswick, N. (2012). Dyslexia in UK higher education and employment: An introduction and overview. In N. Brunswick (Ed.) Supporting dyslexic adults in higher education and the workplace. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell
Brunswick, N. (2010). The functional neuroanatomy of normal and impaired reading. In P. L. Cornelissen, P. C. Hansen, M. L. Kringelbach and K. Pugh (Eds) The Neural Basis of Reading. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Brunswick, N. (2010). Unimpaired reading development and dyslexia across different languages. In N. Brunswick, S. McDougall and P. de Mornay Davies (Eds) Learning to read and spell in different orthographies. Hove: Psychology Press.
Brunswick, N. (2010). Dyslexia. In K. Malmkjær (Ed.) The Linguistics Encyclopaedia (3rd edition). London: Routledge.
McDougall, S., Brunswick, N., and de Mornay Davies, P. (2010). Reading and spelling in different orthographies: An introduction. In N. Brunswick, S. McDougall and P. de Mornay Davies (Eds) Learning to read and spell in different orthographies, Hove: Psychology Press.
Paulesu, E., Brunswick, N. and Paganelli, F. (2010). Cross-cultural differences in normal and dyslexic reading: Behavioural and functional anatomical observations in adult readers of regular and irregular alphabetic orthographies. In N. Brunswick, S. McDougall and P. de Mornay Davies (Eds) Learning to read and spell in different orthographies. Hove: Psychology Press.
Brunswick, N. (2009). Recent developments in dyslexia. In N. Brunswick (Ed.) The Dyslexia Handbook 2009/10. Bracknell: British Dyslexia Association
Brunswick, N. (2009). A new definition of dyslexia. In N. Brunswick (Ed.) The Dyslexia Handbook 2009/10. Bracknell: British Dyslexia Association
Brunswick, N. and Martin, G.N. (2009). Dyslexia and visuospatial ability: is there a causal link? In N. Brunswick (Ed.). The Dyslexia Handbook 2009/10. Bracknell: British Dyslexia Association
Brunswick, N. and Martin, G. N. (2006). The neuropsychology of language and language disorders. In G. N. Martin, Human Neuropsychology: An Introduction to Human Brain Function and Dysfunction (2nd edition). Hemel Hempstead: Prentice Hall International. 273-320.
Brunswick, N. (2003). Developmental dyslexia: Evidence from brain research. In T. Nunes and P. Bryant (Eds) Handbook of Children's Literacy. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer Press. 275-292.
Brunswick, N. (1998). The neuropsychology of language and language disorders. In G. N. Martin, Human Neuropsychology: An Introduction to Human Brain Function and Dysfunction. Hemel Hempstead: Prentice Hall International
Internet resources
Brunswick, N. and Buskist, W. (2010) Test Bank for Psychology (3rd European edition), Harlow: Pearson Education
Martin, G.N. and Brunswick, N. (2010). Pearson Education on-line course in psychology (3rd edition). Harlow: Pearson Education.
Martin, G.N. and Brunswick, N. (2004). Pearson Education on-line course in psychology (2nd edition). Harlow: Pearson Education.
Brunswick, N. and Buskist, W. (2004) Test Bank for Psychology (2nd European edition), Harlow: Pearson Education
Carlson, N.R., Martin, G.N., Brunswick, N. and Buskist, W. (2004). Psychology: Lecturer's resource CD ROM. Harlow: Pearson Education.
Martin, G.N. and Brunswick, N. (2001). Pearson Education on-line course in psychology. Harlow: Pearson Education.
Carlson, N.R., Buskist, W., Martin, G.N. and Brunswick, N. (2000) Lecturer's Resource CD ROM, Psychology: the science of behaviour. Harlow: Pearson Education.
Buskist, W. and Brunswick, N. (1999). Test Bank for Psychology: the science of behaviour, Hemel Hempstead: Pearson Education Limited
Administrative and professional duties/roles
Brunswick, Nicola and Bargary, Serena (2022) Self-concept, creativity and developmental dyslexia in university students: effects of age of assessment. Dyslexia , 28 (3). pp. 293-308. ISSN 1076-9242
Chamberlain, Rebecca and Brunswick, Nicola and Siev, Joseph and McManus, I. Chris (2018) Meta-analytic findings reveal lower means but higher variances in visuospatial ability in dyslexia. British Journal of Psychology , 109 (4). pp. 897-916. ISSN 0007-1269
Rankin, Qona and Riley, Howard and Brunswick, Nicola and McManus, Chris and Chamberlain, Rebecca (2017) Talking the line: inclusive strategies for the teaching of drawing. Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice , 2 (2). pp. 287-304. ISSN 2057-0384
Chamberlain, Rebecca and McManus, Chris and Brunswick, Nicola and Rankin, Qona and Riley, Howard (2015) Scratching the surface: practice, personality, approaches to learning and the acquisition of high level representational drawing ability. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts , 9 (4). pp. 451-462. ISSN 1931-3896
Brunswick, Nicola (2015) Dyslexia: creating impact through innovation. Dyslexia , 21 (3). pp. 195-196. ISSN 1099-0909
