Faraneh Vargha-Khadem

Faraneh Vargha-Khadem
Born1949 (age 75–76)
Alma materMcGill University
University of Massachusetts
AwardsBPS Barbara Wilson Lifetime Achievement Award (2013)
Scientific career
FieldsCognitive neuroscience
InstitutionsUniversity College London
Montreal Children's Hospital
Great Ormond Street Hospital
ThesisHemispheric specialization in congenitally deaf and hearing children and adolescents (1979)
Doctoral advisorMichael Corballis
Websiteiris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=FVARG91

Faraneh Vargha-Khadem (born 1949) is a British cognitive neuroscientist specializing in developmental amnesia among children. Faraneh was a part of the team that identified the FOXP2 gene, the so-called 'speech gene', that may explain why humans talk and chimps do not.

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