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Curriculum Vitae

max@maccs.mq.edu.au
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Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science
Macquarie University
Sydney NSW 2109
Australia
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Last updated 6 September 2008.

Academic career and previous employment:
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1957 - 64: Undergraduate and postgraduate student, University of Sydney: B.A. (1961), M.A. (1962), Ph.D (1968).

1965 - 66: Lecturer, Psychology Department, University of Sydney.

1967 - 68: Lecturer, Psychology Department, Monash University, Melbourne.

1969: Senior Lecturer, Psychology Department, Monash University, Melbourne.

1969 - 71: Assistant Professor, Psychology Department, Waterloo University, Canada.

1971 - 72: Associate Professor, Psychology Department, Waterloo University, Canada.

1972 - 75: Reader, Psychology Department, University of Reading.

1975 - 87: Professor, Psychology Department, Birkbeck College, University of London.

1981: Visiting Professor, Psychology Department, Emory University, U.S.A.

1986: Professore Contratto, University of Padua, Italy.

1987 - 2007: Professor of Psychology, Macquarie University (on leave 2000 - present)

1992 - 97: Head, Department of Psychology, Macquarie University.

2000 - present: Director, Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science

2001: Awarded degree of DSc (Macquarie University)

2001 - 2002: Research Affiliate, Philosophy Program, RSSS, Australian National University

2002 - 2007: ARC Federation Fellow and Scientific Director, Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science

2002 - 2006: Adjunct Professor, Philosophy Program, RSSS, Australian National University

2004 - 2008: Academic Director, Childrens Hospital Education Research Institute (CHERI), The Childrens Hospital at Westmead.

2004 - 2008: James Packer Professor of Educational Research, The Childrens Hospital at Westmead.

2004 - 2006; 2007 - 2009: Honorary Professor, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Queensland.

2006 (Sept-Oct): Professore Contratto, Faculty of Cognitive Sciences, University of Trento, Italy.

2007 - present: Professor of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University.


Current research interests
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  • Cognitive neuropsychology (particularly acquired and developmental disorders of language and of semantic memory).
  • Cognitive neuropsychiatry (particularly in relation to delusional belief).
  • Cognitive science (particularly computational modelling of cognitive processes)

Publications: Books.
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1. Coltheart, M. (Ed.) Readings in Cognitive Psychology . Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972.

2. Coltheart, M., Patterson, K., and Marshall, J.C. (Eds.), Deep Dyslexia . London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980. Second edition 1987.

3. Coltheart, M. British Books on Psychology. London: The British Council, 1981.

4. Patterson, K.E., Marshall, J.C., and Coltheart, M. (Eds.), Surface Dyslexia: Cognitive and Neuropsychological Studies of Phonological Reading . Hove: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1985.

5. Harris, M., and Coltheart, M. Language Processing in Children and Adults. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986.

6. Coltheart, M., Sartori, G., and Job, R. (Eds.), The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Language. Hove: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1987.

7. Coltheart, M. (Ed.), The Psychology of Reading (Attention & Performance XII). Hove: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1987.

8. Kay, J., Lesser, R. and Coltheart, M. PALPA: Psycholinguistic Assessments of Language Processing in Aphasia. Hove: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1992.
    • Spanish translation by Cuetos, Kay, Lesser, Coltheart and Valle published 1995.
    • Dutch translation by Bastiaanse, Bosje, Kay, Lesser, Coltheart and Visch-Brink, published 1995.
    • Hebrew adaptation by Gil, Edelstein, Kay, Lesser, and Coltheart published 2001.   
    • Portuguese translation by Castro, Calo and Gomes published 2007.

9. Coltheart, M. (Ed.), Phonological Dyslexia. Hove: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996.

10 Coltheart, M. (Ed.), Pure Alexia (Letter-by-Letter Reading) . Hove: Psychology Press, 1998.

11. Coltheart, M. and Davies, M. (Eds). Pathologies of Belief. Oxford: Blackwells, 2000.

12. Jackson, N. and Coltheart, M. Routes to Reading Success and Failure. Hove: Psychology Press, 2001.

13. Coltheart, M., and Caramazza, A. (Eds). Cognitive Neuropsychology Twenty Years On.  Hove: Psychology Press, 2006.


Publications: articles and chapters.
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1. Blessing, W., Landauer, A.A., and Coltheart, M. The effect of false perspective cues on size and distance judgements: an examination of the invariance hypothesis. American Journal of Psychology, 1967, 80, 250-256.

2. Coltheart, M., and Curthoys, I. The effect of a priori signal probability on response times and error rates in short-term recognition memory for pitch. Perception and Psychophysics, 1968, 4, 85-89.

3. Coltheart, M., and Irvine, D. The slope of ROCS in the rat. Journal of Auditory Research, 1968, 8, 167-170.

4. Coltheart, M., and von Sturmer, G.D. A serial effect in time estimation. Psychonomic Science, 1968, 10, 283-284.

5. von Sturmer, G.D., Wong, T., and Coltheart, M. Distraction and time estimation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1968, 20, 380-384.

6. Coltheart, M. The effects of two kinds of distance information upon visual judgments of absolute size. Nature, 1969, 221, 383.

7. Cumming, G.D., and Coltheart, M. Short-term memory: are item and position information stored independently? Psychonomic Science, 1969, 15, 216-217.

8. Coltheart, M. The influence of haptic size information upon visual judgments of absolute distance. Perception and Psychophysics, 1969, 5, 143-144.

9. Wallace, G., Coltheart, M., and Forster, K.I. Reminiscence in recognition memory for faces. Psychonomic Science, 1970, 18, 335-336.

10. Coltheart, M., and Geffen, G. Grammar and memory: phonological similarity and proactive interference. Cognitive Psychology, 1970, 1, 215-224.

11. Coltheart, M. The effects of verbal size information upon visual judgments of absolute distance. Perception and Psychophysics, 1971, 9, 222-223.

12. Coltheart, M. Visual feature-analysers and after-effects of tilt and curvature. Psychological Review, 1971, 78, 114-121.

13. Coltheart, M., and Arthur, B. Visual hemifield differences in tachistoscopic performance with visual hemifield report. American Journal of Psychology, 1971, 84, 355-364.

14. Merikle, P.M., Coltheart, M., and Lowe, D.G. On the selective effects of a patterned masking stimulus. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 1971, 25, 264-279.

15. Merikle, P.M., Lowe, D.G., and Coltheart, M. Familiarity and method of report as determinants of tachistoscopic performance. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 1971, 25, 167-174.

16. Coltheart, M. Is there lateral inhibition in the visual cortex? Nature, 1971, 231, 256.

17. Coltheart, M., and Cooper, C. The retinal reference of the tilt after-effect. Perception and Psychophysics, 1972, 11, 321-324.

18. Coltheart, M., and Coltheart, V. On Rumelhart's model of visual information processing. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 1972, 26, 292-295.

19. Merikle, P.M., and Coltheart, M. Selective forward masking. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 1972, 26, 296-304.

20. Coltheart, M. Visual information-processing. In Dodwell, P.C. (Ed.), New Horizons in Psychology, II. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1972.

21. Coltheart, M., and Arthur, B. Evidence for an interruption theory of visual masking. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1972, 234, 252-269.

22. Henderson, L., Coltheart, M., and Woodhouse, D. Failure to find a syllable effect in number naming. Memory and Cognition, 1973, 1, 304-306.

23. Coltheart, M. Colour-specificity and monocularity in the visual cortex. Vision Research, 1973, 13, 2595-2598.

24. Coltheart, M., and Glick, M.J. Visual imagery: a case study. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1974, 25, 438-453.

25. Cole, R.A., Coltheart, M. and Allard, F. Memory for a speaker's voice: reaction time to same- or different-voiced letters. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1974, 26, 1-7.

26. Coltheart, M., and Freeman, R. Case alternation impairs word identification. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 1974, 3, 102-104.

27. Coltheart, M., Lea, C.D., and Thompson, K. In defence of iconic memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1974, 26, 633-641.

28. Coltheart, M. Iconic memory: a reply to Professor Holding. Memory and Cognition, 1975, 3, 42-48.

29. Coltheart, M., Hull, E., and Slater, D. Sex differences in imagery and reading. Nature, 1975, 253- 438-440.

30. Davelaar, E., and Coltheart, M. Effects of interpolated non-words on the association effect in lexical decision tasks. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 1975, 6, 269-272.

31. Besner, D., and Coltheart, M. Same-different judgments for words and non-words: the effects of relative size. Memory and Cognition, 1975, 3, 673-677.

32. Blount, P., Holmes, J., Rodger, J., Coltheart, M., and McManus, C.I. On the ability to discriminate original from mirror-image reproductions of works or art. Perception, 1975, 4, 385-389.

33. Coltheart, M. Contemporary models of the cognitive processes, I: Iconic storage and visual masking. In Hamilton, V., and Vernon, M.D. (Eds.), The Development of Cognitive Processes. London: Academic Press, 1976.

34. Besner, D., and Coltheart, M. Mental size scaling re-examined. Memory and Cognition, 1976, 4, 525-531.

35. Coltheart, M., Davelaar, E., Jonasson, J.T., and Besner, D. Access to the internal lexicon. In Dornic, S. (Ed.), Attention and Performance VI. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1977.

36. Stirling, N. and Coltheart, M. Stroop interference in a letter-naming task. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 1977, 10, 31-34.

37. Coltheart, M. Cognitive Psychology: Experimental Design. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1977. (An Open University Unit).

38. Coltheart, M. Attention and schizophrenia. Gaceta Medica de Bilbao, 1977, 74, 577-582.

39. Coltheart, M. Lexical access in simple reading tasks. In Underwood, G. (Ed.), Strategies of Information Processing. London: Academic Press, 1978.

40. Davelaar, E., Coltheart, M., Besner, D., and Jonasson, J.T. Phonological recoding and lexical access. Memory and Cognition, 1978, 6, 391-402.

41. Besner, D., and Coltheart, M. Reaction time and error rates in the effect of stimulus probability on character classification: an addendum. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 1978, 12, 85.

42. Coltheart, M. The internal lexicon and its access during reading. In Sutcliffe, J.P. (Ed.), Conceptual Analysis and Method in Psychology. Sydney: University of Sydney Press, 1979.

43. Coltheart, M. When can children learn to read, and when should they be taught? In Waller, T.G., and McKinnon, G.E. (Eds.), Reading Research: Advances in Theory and Practice, Volume 1. New York: Academic Press, 1979.

44. Besner, D., and Coltheart, M. Ideographic and alphabetic processing in skilled reading in English. Neuropsychologia, 1979, 17, 467-472.

45. Coltheart, M., Besner, D., Jonasson, J.T., and Davelaar, E. Phonological encoding in the lexical decision task. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1979, 31, 489-507.

46. Rusted, J., and Coltheart, M. Facilitation of children's prose recall by the presence of pictures. Memory and Cognition, 1979, 7, 354-359.

47. Coltheart, M. Critical duration and visibility persistence. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1979, 2, 258-259.

48. Coltheart, M. Mysteries of reading in brain defects. New Scientist, 1979, 81, 368-370.

49. Coltheart, M. Deep dyslexia: a review of the syndrome. In Coltheart, M., Patterson, K., and Marshall, J.C. (Eds.), Deep Dyslexia. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980.

50. Coltheart, M. Deep dyslexia: a right hemisphere hypothesis. In Coltheart, M., Patterson, K., and Marshall, J.C. (Eds.), op. cit.

51. Coltheart, M. Reading phonological recoding, and deep dyslexia. In Coltheart, M., Patterson, K., and Marshall, J.C. (Eds.), op. cit..

52. Coltheart, M. The semantic error: types and theories. In Coltheart, M., Patterson, K., and Marshall, J.C. (Eds.), op. cit..

53. Coltheart, M. Iconic memory and visible persistence. Perception and Psychophysics. 1980, 27, 183-228.

54. Coltheart, M. Persistences of vision. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1980, 290, 57-69.

55. Doctor, E.A., and Coltheart, M. Phonological recoding in children's reading for meaning. Memory and Cognition, 1980, 80, 195-209.

56. Coltheart, M. Disorders of reading and their implications for models of normal reading. Visible Language, 1981, 15, 245-286.

57. Coltheart, M. MRC Psycholinguistic Database. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1981, 33A, 497-505.

58. Coltheart, M. Right-hemisphere reading. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1981, 4, 67-68.

59. Coltheart, M. The psycholinguistic analysis of acquired dyslexias: Some illustrations. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1982, B298, 151-164.

60. Coltheart, M. Ecological necessity of iconic memory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1981, 6, 17-18.

61. Coltheart, M. Aphasia therapy research: a single case study approach. In Code, C., and Muller, D.C. (Eds.), Aphasia Therapy. London: Edward Arnold, 1983.

62. Coltheart, M., Byng, S., Masterson, J., Prior, M., and Riddoch, M.J. Surface dyslexia. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1983, 35A, 469-495.

63. Coltheart, M. Phonological awareness: a pre-school precursor of success in reading. Nature, 1983, 301, 370.

64. Coltheart, M. Iconic memory. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1983, B302, 283-294.

65. Coltheart, M. The right hemisphere and disorders of reading. In Young, A. (Ed.), Functions of the Right Hemisphere. London: Academic Press, 1983 pp 173-201.

66. Coltheart, M. Writing systems and reading disorders. In Henderson, L. (Ed.), Orthographies and Reading. London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1984.

67. Besner, D., Coltheart, M., and Davelaar, E. Basic processes in reading: computation of abstract letter identities. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 1984, 38, 126-134.

68 Coltheart, M. Acquired dyslexias and normal reading. In Malatesha, R.N., and Whitaker, H.A. (Eds.), Dyslexia: A Global Issue. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1984.

69 Coltheart, M. Sensory memory. In Bouma, H., and Bouwhuis, D. (Eds.), Attention and Performance X. Hillsdale, New Jersey, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1984.

70. Byng, S., Coltheart, M., Masterson, J., Riddoch, M.J. and Prior, M. Bilingual biscriptal deep dyslexia. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1984, 36A, 417-434.

71. Campbell, R., and Coltheart, M. Gandhi: the non-violent road to spelling reform? Cognition, 1984, 17, 185-192.

72. Job, R., Sartori, G., Masterson, J., and Coltheart, M. Developmental surface dyslexia in Italian. In Malatesha, R.N., and Whitaker, H.A. (Eds.), Dyslexia: A Global Issue. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1984.

73. Coltheart, M. Theoretical analysis and practical assessment of reading disorders. In Cornoldi, C. (Ed.), Aspects of Reading and Dyslexia. Padua: Cleup, 1984.

74. Coltheart, M. Right-hemisphere reading revisited. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1985, 8, 363-379.

75. Masterson, J., Coltheart, M., and Meara, P. Surface dyslexia in a language without irregularly-spelled words. In Patterson, K.E., Marshall, J.C., and Coltheart, (Eds). Surface Dyslexia: Neuropsychological and Cognitive Studies of Phonological Reading. London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1985.

76. Coltheart, M. Dyslexia. In Kuper, A., and Kuper, J. (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of Social Sciences. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985.

77. Coltheart, M. Cognitive neuropsychology and the study of reading. In Posner, M.I., and Marin, O.S.M. (Eds.), Attention and Performance XI. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1985.

78. Byng, S., and Coltheart, M. Aphasia therapy research: methodological requirements and illustrative results. In Nilsson, I.G., and Hjelmquist, E. (Eds.), Communication and Handicap: Aspects of Psychological Compensation and Technical Aids. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing, 1986.

79 Coltheart, M. New directions in aphasia therapy research. Proceedings of the 10th meeting of the Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment, Melbourne, 1986.

80. Coltheart, M. Graphemics and visual word recognition. In Augst, G. (Ed.), International Research in Graphemics and Orthography. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1986.

81. Coltheart, M. Functional architecture of the language-processing system. In Coltheart, M., Sartori, G., and Job, R. (Eds.), The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Language. London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1987.

82. Coltheart, M., and Funnell, E. Reading and writing: One lexicon or two? In Allport, D.A., MacKay, D.G., Prinz, W., and Scheerer, E. (Eds.), Language Perception and Production: Shared Mechanisms in Listening, Reading and Writing. London: Academic Press, 1987.

83 Coltheart, M., Patterson, K.E. and Marshall, J.C. Deep dyslexia since 1980. In Coltheart, M., Patterson, K.E. and Marshall, J.C. (Eds.), Deep Dyslexia. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987 (second edition).

84. Coltheart, M. Varieties of developmental dyslexia. Cognition, 1987, 27, 97-101.

85. Black, M., Coltheart, M. and Byng, S. Forms of coding in sentence comprehension. In Coltheart, M. (Ed). The Psychology of Reading: Attention and Performance XII. London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

86. Riddoch, M.J., Humphreys, G.W., Coltheart, M., and Funnell, E. Semantic systems or system? Neuropsychological evidence re-examined. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 1988, 5, 3-26.

87. Stuart, M. and Coltheart, M. Does reading develop in a sequence of stages? Cognition, 1988, 30, 139-181.

88. Coltheart, M. Cognition and its disorders. Science, 1989, 246, 827-828.

89. Crisp, A.H., Levett, G., Davies, P., Rose, F.C. and Coltheart, M. Cerebral hemisphere function and migraine. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 1989, 23, 201-212.

90. Coltheart, M. and Byng, S. A treatment for surface dyslexia. In Seron, X. (Ed.). Cognitive Approaches in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Ltd., 1989.

91. Coltheart, M. Remarks on rehabilitation: restoration versus reorganization. Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment, 1989.

92. Fox A.M., Michie, P.T. & Coltheart, M. ERP effects of temporal and spatial recall using verbal and visual stimuli. In C.H.M. Brunia, A.W.K. Gaillard & A. Kok (Eds.) Psychophysiological Brain Research, Tilburg University Press, Vol. 1, 1989.

93. Coltheart, M. Cognitive neuropsychology and aphasia therapy. In Bennett, A. and McConkey, K. (Eds.). Cognition in Individual and Social Contexts. The Hague: North-Holland, 1989

94. Coltheart, M. Implicit memory and the functional architecture of cognition. In Lewandowsky, S., Dunn, J. and Kirsner, K. (Eds.): Implicit Memory: Theoretical Issues. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1989.

95. Michie, P.T. Siddle, D.A.T. & Coltheart, M. Stimulus selection, sensory memory and orienting. Commentary on R. Naatanen: The role of attention in auditory information processing as revealed by event- related potentials and other brain measures of cognitive function. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 1990, 13, 248-249.

96. Coltheart, M. Cognitive psychology applied to the treatment of acquired language disorders. In Martin, P (ed): Handbook of Behaviour Therapy and Psychological Science: An Integrative Approach. Oxford: Pergamon Press 1991.

97. Coltheart, M. and Davies, M. Le concept de modularite a l'epreuve de la neuropsychologie. In Andler, D. (Ed.) Introduction aux Sciences Cognitives. Paris: Gallimard, 1992

98. Sartori, G., Job, R. and Coltheart, M. The neuropsychology of object knowledge. In Meyer, D.E. and Kornblum, S. (Eds) Attention and Performance XIV. Hillsdale, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum, 1993.

99. Castles, A. and Coltheart, M. Varieties of developmental dyslexia. Cognition, 1993, 47, 149-180..

100. Coltheart, M., Curtis, B. Atkins, P. and Haller, M. Models of reading aloud: Dual-route and parallel-distributed-processing approaches. Psychological Review, 1993, 100, 589-608.

101. Coltheart, M. Bates, A. and Castles, A. Cognitive neuropsychology and rehabilitation. In Humphreys, G.W. and Riddoch, M.J. (eds): Cognitive Neuropsychology and Cognitive Rehabilitation. London: Lawrence Erlbaum 1994.

102. Sartori, G., Coltheart, M., Miozzo, M. and Job, R. Category specificity and informational specificity in neuropsychological impairment of semantic memory. In Umilta, C. and Moscovitch, M. (Eds): Attention and Performance XV. Cambridge, Mass: Bradford Books, 1994.

103. Coltheart, M. and Rastle, K. Serial processing in reading aloud: Evidence for dual-route models of reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1994, 20, 1197-1211.

104. Coltheart, M. Treating reading difficulties caused by brain damage. In McConkey, K.M., Wilton, H., Barnier, A.J. and Bennett, A. (Eds.) Australian Psychology: Selected Applications and Initiatives. Australian Psychological Society, 1994.

105. Fox, A.M., Michie, P.T., Coltheart, M. and Solowij, N. Memory functioning in social drinkers: A study of event-related potentials. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 1995, 303-310.

106. Weekes, B., and Coltheart, M. Surface dyslexia and surface dysgraphia: Treatment studies and their theoretical implications. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 1996, 13, 277 - 315

107. Castles, A. and Coltheart, M. Cognitive correlates of developmental surface dyslexia: A single case study. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 1996, 13, 25-50.

108. Coltheart, M., Langdon, R. and Haller, M. Computational cognitive neuropsychology and acquired dyslexia. In Dodd B, Worrall L and Campbell R (eds). Evaluating Theories of Language: Evidence from Disordered Communication. London: Whurr Publishers, 1996.

109. Coltheart, M. Phonological dyslexia: Past and future issues. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 1996, 13, 749-762.

110. Castles, A., Coltheart, M., Savage, G., Bates, A., and Reid, L. Morphological processing in acquired dyslexia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 1996 13, 1041-1058

111. Coltheart, M. and Leahy, J. Assessment of lexical and nonlexical reading abilities in children: Some normative data. Australian Journal of Psychology, 1996, 48, 136-140.

112. Coltheart, M. Are dyslexics different? Dyslexia, 1996, 2, 79-81.

113. Kay J. Lesser R. and Coltheart M. Psycholinguistic assessments of language processing in aphasia (PALPA) - an introduction.. Aphasiology, 1996, 10, 159-180.

114. Kay J. Lesser R. and Coltheart M. PALPA - the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Psycholinguistic assessments of language processing in aphasia - an introduction.. Aphasiology, 1996, 10, 202-215.

115 Coltheart, M. Computational modelling and cognitive psychology. Noetica, 1996, Issue 1. http://psych.psy.uq.oz.au/CogPsych/Noetica/OpenForum

116 Coltheart, M. and Coltheart, V. Reading comprehension is not exclusively reliant upon phonological representation. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 1997, 14, 167-175.

117. Langdon, R., Michie, P.T., Ward, P.B., McConaghy, N., Catts, S. and Coltheart, M. Defective self and/or other mentalizing in schizophrenia: A cognitive neuropsychological approach. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 1997, 2, 167-193.

118 Coltheart, M., Langdon, R. and Breen, N. Misidentification syndromes and cognitive neuropsychiatry. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1997, 1, 157-158

119 Haslam, C., Coltheart, M. and Cook, M. Preserved category learning in amnesia. Neurocase, 1997, 3, 337-347.

120. Weekes, B., Coltheart, M. and Gordon, E. Deep dyslexia and right-hemisphere reading - A regional cerebral blood flow study. Aphasiology, 1997, 11, 1139-1158.

121 Coltheart, M. Seven questions about pure alexia (letter-by-letter reading). Cognitive Neuropsychology, 1998, 15, 1-6.

122. Coltheart, M. and Jackson, N. Defining dyslexia. Child Psychology & Psychiatry Reviews, 1998, 3, 12-16.

123. Pearce S., McDonald S. and Coltheart M. Interpreting ambiguous advertisements - the effect of frontal lobe damage. Brain & Cognition, 1998, 38, 150-164.

124. Rastle, K and Coltheart, M. Whammy and double whammy: Length effects in nonword naming. Psychonomic Bulletin and Reviews, 1998, 5, 277-282..

125. Coltheart, M. and Langdon, R. Autism, modularity and levels of explanation in cognitive science. Mind and Language, 1998, 13, 138-152.

126 Coltheart, M., Inglis, L., Cupples, L., Michie, P., Bates, A. and Budd, B. A semantic subsystem specific to the storage of information about visual attributes of animate and inanimate objects. Neurocase, 1998, 4, 353-370.

127. Davis, S.J.C. and Coltheart, M. Rehabilitation of topographical disorientation: An experimental single case study. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 1999, 9, 1-30.

128. Coltheart, M. Trains, planes and brains: Attention and consciousness. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 1999, 22, 152-153.

129. Rastle, K. and Coltheart, M. Lexical and nonlexical phonological priming in reading aloud. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1999, 25, 461-481.

130 Rastle, K. and Coltheart, M. Serial and strategic effects in reading aloud. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1999, 25, 482-503.

131 Coltheart, M., Woollams, A., Kinoshita, S. and Perry, C. A position-sensitive Stroop effect: Further evidence for a left-to-right component in print-to-speech conversion. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 1999, 6, 456-463.

132. Zorzi, M., Perry, C., Ziegler, J., & Coltheart, M.  Category-specific deficits in a self-organizing model of the lexical-semantic system. In D. Heinke, G.W. Humphreys, and A.C. Olson (Eds.), Connectionist Models in Cognitive Neuroscience. London: Springer Verlag, 1999.

133. Coltheart, M. Modularity and cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1999, 3, 115-120.

134. Cestnick, L. and Coltheart, M. The relationship between language-processing and visual-processing deficits in developmental dyslexia. Cognition, 1999, 71, 231-255.

135. Langdon, R. and Coltheart, M. Mentalizing, schizotypy and schizophrenia. Cognition, 1999, 71, 43-71.

136. Coltheart, M. Connectionism, commerce and cognition. In Jagota, A., Plate, T., Shastri, L. & Sun, R. (eds), Connectionist Symbol Processing: Dead or Alive?, Neural Computing Surveys 2, 1--40, 1999. http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~jagota/NCS

137 Fox, A., Coltheart, M., Solowij, N., Michie, P.T. & Fox, G.A. Cognitive impairments in problem drinkers. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 2000, 35, 52-54

138. Rastle, K., Harrington, J.M., Coltheart, M. and Palethorpe, S. Reading aloud begins when the computation of phonology finishes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2000, 26, 1178-1191

139. Breen, N, Caine, D, Coltheart, M (2000) Models of Face Recognition and Delusional Misidentification: A Critical Review. Cognitive Neuropsychology , 17, 55-71. Reprinted in Kanwisher, N & Moscovitch, M. (Eds) The Cognitive Neuroscience of Face Processing. East Sussex, UK: Psychology Press

140. Haywood, M. and Coltheart, M. Neglect dyslexia and the early stages of visual word recognition. Neurocase , 2000, 6, 33-44.

141. Coltheart, M. Dual routes from print to speech and dual routes from print to meaning: Some theoretical issues . In Kennedy, A., Radach, R., Pynte, J. & Heller D. (Eds.) Reading as a Perceptual Process. Oxford: Elsevier, 2000.

142. Coltheart, M. Deep dyslexia is right hemisphere reading. Brain & Language, 2000, 71, 299-309.

143. Davies, M. and Coltheart, M. Introduction: Pathologies of belief. Mind & Language, 2000, 15. 1-46.

144. Langdon, R. & Coltheart, M. The cognitive neuropsychology of delusions. Mind & Language, 2000, 15, 184-218.

145. Breen, N., Caine, D., Coltheart, M., Hendy, J. & Roberts, C. Delusional misidentification. Mind & Language, 15, 74-110. Reprinted in Coltheart, M. & Davies, M. (Eds) Pathologies of Belief. Oxford: Blackwells.

146. Rastle, K. and Coltheart, M. Lexical and nonlexical print-to-sound translation of disyllabic words and nonwords. Journal of Memory and Language, 2000, 42, 342-364.

147. Rastle, K. and Coltheart, M. Serial processing in reading aloud: A reply to Zorzi Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2000, 26, 1232-1235.

148. Ziegler, J., Perry, C. and Coltheart, M. When a model learns a new language: the DRC generalizes to German. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 2000, 12, 413-430.

149. Bibb, B., Nickels, L.A., and Coltheart, M. (2000) Impaired Auditory Lexical Access and the effect of speech-reading. Asia Pacific Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing, Vol 5, Issue 2 (Special Issue)

150. Cole-Virtue, J.C., Nickels, L.A., & Coltheart M.(2000) Evaluating spoken word-picture matching: What affects performance? Asia Pacific Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing , Vol 5, Issue 2 (Special Issue).

151. Coltheart, M. (2001). Assumptions and methods in cognitive neuropsychology. In Rapp, B. (Ed.) Handbook of Cognitive Neuropsychology. New York: Psychology Press

152. Coltheart, M., Rastle, K., Perry, C., Langdon, R., & Ziegler, J. (2001) DRC: A Dual Route Cascaded model of visual word recognition and reading aloud. Psychological Review , 108, 204 - 256. [ISI Hot New Paper, September 2002; see http://esi-topics.com]

153. Breen, N., Caine, D. & Coltheart, M. (2001) Mirrored-self misidentification: Two cases of focal-onset dementia. Neurocase , 7, 239-254

154. Langdon, R., Coltheart, M., Ward, P.B. & Catts, S.V. (2001) Mentalising, executive planning and disengagement in schizophrenia. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 6, 81-108.

155. Haywood, M. and Coltheart, M. (2001) Neglect dyslexia with a stimulus-centred deficit and without visuospatial neglect. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 18, 577-615

156. Langdon, R., Coltheart, M., Ward, P.B. & Catts, S.V. (2001) Visual and cognitive perspective-taking impairments in schizophrenia: a failure of allocentric simulation? Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 6, 241-169.

157. Haslam, C., Cook, M. & Coltheart, M. (2001) 'I know your name but not your face': explaining modality-based differences in access to biographical knowledge in a patient with retrograde amnesia. Neurocase, 7, 189-200.

158. Langdon, R. & Coltheart, M. (2001) Visual perspective-taking and schizotypy: Evidence for a simulation-based account of mentalising in normal adults. Cognition, 82, 1-26.

159. Breen, N., Coltheart, M. & Caine, D. (2001) A two-way window on face recognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences , 5, 234-235.

160. Coltheart, M. (2001), The cognitive psychology of acquired dyslexia. In Smelser, N J & Baltes, P. (Eds) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Kidlington: UK: Elsevier Science Ltd.

161. Coltheart, M. (2001) Learning to read: The self-teaching hypothesis investigated cross-linguistically. Contemporary Psychology, 46, 205-207

162. Davies, M., Coltheart, M., Langdon, R. & Breen, N. (2002) Monothematic delusions: Towards a two-factor account. Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology , 8, 133-158.

163. Rastle, K., Harrington, J., & Coltheart, M. (2002) 358,534 Nonwords: The ARC Nonword Database. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 55A, 1339-1362.

164. Breen, N., Caine, D, & Coltheart, M. (2002) The Role of Affect and Reasoning in a Patient with a Delusion of Misidentification. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 7, 113-138.

165. Coltheart, M. (2002). Cognitive Neuropsychology. In Wixted, J. (Ed.) Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology, Third Edition - Volume 4: Methodology. John Wiley & Sons, pp 139-174.

166. Coltheart, M. (2002) Dyslexia. In Nadel, L. (Ed.) The Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. London: Nature Publishing Group.

167. Perry, C., Ziegler, J. C., & Coltheart, M. (2002), How predictable is spelling ? An analysis of sound-spelling contingency in English, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 55, 897-915..

168. Langdon, R., Davies, M. & Coltheart, M. (2002), Understanding minds and understanding communicated meanings in schizophrenia. Mind & Language, 17, 68-104.

169. Perry, C., Ziegler, J.C. & Coltheart, M. (2002) A dissociation between orthographic awareness and spelling production. Applied Psycholinguistic, 23, 43-73.


170. Brunsdon, R., Hannan, T., Nickels, L.. & Coltheart, M. (2002), Successful treatment of sublexical reading deficits in a child with dyslexia of the mixed type. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 12, 199-229.

171. Brunsdon, R. K., Hannan T. J., Coltheart, M. & Nickels, L (2002) Treatment of lexical processing in mixed dyslexia: A case study.  Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 12, 385-418. 

172. Langdon, R., Coltheart, M., Ward, P.B. & Catts, S.V. (2002) Disturbed communication in schizophrenia: the role of poor pragmatics and poor mind-reading. Psychological Medicine, 32, 1273-1284.

173. Davis, C. J. & Coltheart , M. (2002) Paying attention to reading errors in acquired dyslexia. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6, 359 


174. Coltheart, M. & Davies, M. (2003) Inference and explanation in cognitive neuropsychology. Cortex, 39, 18-191.

175. Jackson, N.E. & Coltheart, M. (2002). Distinguishing proximal from distal causes is useful and compatible with accounts of compensatory processing in developmental disorders of cognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25, 758-759.

176. Lupker, S., Kinoshita, S., Coltheart, M. & Taylor, T. (2003). Mixing costs and mixing benefits in naming words. Journal of Memory and Language, 49, 556-575.

177. Rastle, K., Kinoshita, S., Lupker, S. & Coltheart, M. (2003). Cross-task strategic effects. Memory and Cognition, 31, 867-876.

178. Breen, N., Caine, D. & Coltheart, M. (2003) Mirrored-self misidentification: two cases of focal-onset dementia. Dementia Review Journal , 2, 16-17.

179. Roberts, M., Rastle, K., Coltheart, M. & Besner, D. (2003), When parallel processing in visual word recognition is not enough: New evidence from naming. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12, 405-414.

180. Peretz, I. & Coltheart, M. (2003). Modularity of music processing. Nature Neuroscience, 6, 688-691

181. Karayanadis, F., Coltheart, M., Michie, P.T. & Murphy, M. (2003). Electrophysiological correlates of anticipatory and post-stimulus components of task-switching. Psychophysiology, 40, 329-348.

182. Coltheart, M. (2003) Contributions of experimental psychology to neuropsychology. Journal of the Japanese Psychonomic Society, 22, 58-66.

183. Ziegler, J.C., Perry, C. & Coltheart, M. (2003). Speed of lexical and nonlexical processing in French:  The case of the regularity effect. Psychonomic Bulletin & Reviews, 10, 947-953.

184. Rae, C., Joy, P., Harasty, J., Kemp, A., Kuan, S., Christodoulou, J., Cowell, C.T. & Coltheart, M. (2004)  Enlarged temporal lobes in Turner syndrome. An X-chromosome effect? Cerebral Cortex, 14, 156-164.

185. Castles, A. & Coltheart, M. (2004) Is there a causal link from phonological awareness to success in learning to read? Cognition, 91, 77-111.

185. Coltheart, M. (2004). Brain imaging, connectionism, and cognitive neuropsychology. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 21, 21-25.

186. Langdon, R. & Coltheart, M. (2004). Recognition of metaphor and irony in young adults, Psychiatry Research, 125. 9-20.

187. Taouk, M. & Coltheart, M. (2004) Learning to read in Arabic. Reading and Writing, 17, 27-57.


188. Bates, T.C., Castles, A., Coltheart, M., Gillespie, N., Wright, M. & Martin, N.G. (2004). Behaviour genetic analyses of reading and spelling: A component processes approach. Australian Journal of Psychology, 56, 115-126.

189. Coltheart, M. (2004). PALPA: What next?  Aphasiology, 18, 181-183.

190. Coltheart, M. (2004) Are there lexicons? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 57A, 1153-1171.

191. Palermo, R., & Coltheart, M. (2004) Photographs of facial expression: Accuracy, response times and ratings of intensity. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments and Computers, 10, 634-638.

192. Coltheart, M. (2004). Cognitive neuropsychology. In Kuper, A., and Kuper, J. (Eds). Encyclopaedia of Social Sciences. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, Third Edition.

193. Coltheart, M. (2004). Dyslexia. In Kuper, A., and Kuper, J. (Eds). Encyclopaedia of Social Sciences. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, Third Edition.

194. Green, M.J., Uhlhaas, P.J., & Coltheart, M. (2005) Context processing and social cognition in schizophrenia. Current Psychiatry Reviews, 1, 11-22.

195. Coltheart, V., Mony, S., & Coltheart, M. (2005). Repetition blindness for novel objects. Visual Cognition,  12, 519-541.

196. Porter, M. & Coltheart, M. (2005) Cognitive heterogeneity in Williams Syndrome. Developmental Neuropsychology, 27, 275-306.

197. Coltheart, M. (2005). Modelling reading: The dual-route approach. For Snowling, M.J. & Hulme, C. (Eds). The Science of Reading. Oxford: Blackwells Publishing.

198. Brunsdon, R., Coltheart, M. & Nickels, L. (2005) Treatment of irregular word spelling in developmental surface dysgraphia. Cognitive Neuropsychology. 22, 213-251.

199. Davies, M., Davies, A.A. & Coltheart, M. (2005) Anosognosia and the two-factor theory of delusion. Mind and Language, 20, 209-236.

200. Coltheart, M. (2005). Analysing developmental disorders of reading. Advances in Speech-Language Pathology, 7, 49-57.

201. Coltheart, M.  (2005). Delusional belief. Australian Journal of Psychology, 57, 72-76.

202. McKay, R., Langdon, R. & Coltheart, M. (2005) Sleights of mind: Delusions, defenses and self-deception. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 10, 305-326.

203. Coltheart, M., Brunsdon, R. & Nickels, L. (2005) Cognitive rehabilitation and its relationship to cognitive-neuropsychological rehabilitation In P.W. Halligan & D.T. Wade (Eds), The effectiveness of rehabilitation for cognitive deficits. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 11-20.

204. Blazely, A., Coltheart, M., & Casey, B. (2005). Semantic dementia with and without surface dyslexia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 22, 695-717.

205. Coltheart, M. (2005) Conscious experience and delusional belief. Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology, 12, 153-157.

206. Rastle, K., Croot, K., Harrington, J. & Coltheart, M. (2005). Characterizing the motor execution stage of speech production: Consonantal effects on delayed naming latency and onset duration. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31, 1083-1095.

207. McKay, R., Langdon, R. & Coltheart, M. (2005). Paranoia, persecutory delusions and attributional biases. Psychiatry Research, 136, 233-245.

208. Castles, A., Bates, T., Coltheart, M., Luciano, M. & Martin, N.G. (2006). Cognitive modelling and the behavior genetics of reading. Journal of Research in Reading, 29, 92-103.

209. Coltheart, M. (2006). The genetics of learning to read. Journal Research in Reading, 29, 124-132.

210. Langdon, R., Corner, T., McLaren, J., Coltheart, M; & Ward, P. (2006).  Attentional orienting triggered by gaze in schizophrenia. Neuropsychologia, 44. 417-429.

211. Coltheart, M. (2006). Acquired dyslexias and the computational modelling of reading. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 23, 96-109.

212. Coltheart, M. (2006). What has functional neuroimaging told us about the mind (so far)? Cortex, 42, 323-331.

213. Coltheart, M. (2006). Perhaps cognitive neuroimaging has not told us anything about the mind (so far). Cortex, 42, 422-427.

214. Coltheart, M. (2006). Dual route and connectionist models of reading: An overview. London Review of Education, 4, 5-17.

215. Caramazza, A., & Coltheart, M. (2006). Cognitive Neuropsychology twenty years on. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 23, 3-12.

216. Langdon, R.A., Coltheart, M., & Ward. P. (2006). Empathetic perspective-taking is impaired in schizophrenia: evidence from a study of emotion attribution and theory of mind. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry. 11, 133-155.

217. Langdon, R., Corner, T., McLaren, J., Coltheart, M., & Ward, P. (2006).  Attentional orienting triggered by gaze in schizophrenia. Neuropsychologia, 44, 417-429.

218. Langdon, R., Corner, T., McLaren, J., Ward, P.B., & Coltheart, M. (2006) Externalizing and personalizing biases in persecutory delusions: the relationships with poor insight and theory of mind. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 44, 699-713.

219. Howard, D., Nickels, L., Coltheart, M. & Cole-Virtue, J. (2006). Cumulative semantic inhibition in picture naming: experimental and computational studies. Cognition, 100, 464-482,

220. Arguedas, D. Green, M.J., Langdon, R. & Coltheart, M. (2006) Attention to threatening faces in delusion-prone individuals: Evidence of a pre-attentive bias and delayed disengagement. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 11, 556-575.

221. Brunsdon, R., Coltheart, M. & Nickels, L. (2006). Severe developmental letter processing impairment: A treatment case study. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 23, 795-821.

222. Brunsdon, R., Coltheart, M., Nickels, L. & Joy, P. (2006). Developmental prosopagnosia: A case analysis and treatment study. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 23, 822-840.

223. McKay, R.,  Langdon, R. & Coltheart, M. (2006) The persecutory ideation questionnaire. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 194, 628-631.

224. Castles, A., Bates, T. & Coltheart, M. (2006). John Marshall and the developmental dyslexias. Aphasiology, 20, 871-892.

225. Rastle, K., & Coltheart, M. (2006). Is there serial processing in the reading system; and are there local representations? In Andrews, S. (Ed), All about words: Current issues in lexical processing. Hove: Psychology Press.

226. Bates, T.C., Castles, A., Luciano, M., Wright, M.J., Coltheart, M. & Martin, N.G. (2006). Genetic and environmental bases of reading & spelling: A unified genetic dual route model. Reading and Writing, 20, 147-171.

227. Coltheart, M. (2006). John Marshall and the cognitive neuropsychology of reading. Cortex, 42, 785-790.

228. Porter, M. A., & Coltheart, M. (2006). Global and local processing in Williams, Down, Autism and Asperger's Syndrome: Perception, attention and construction. Developmental Neuropsychology, 30, 771-789.

229. McKay, R., Langdon, R., & Coltheart, M. (2006). Need for closure, jumping to conclusions and decisiveness in delusion-prone individuals, Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease, 194, 422-426.

230. Allen, J. L., Abbott, M., Rapee, R. M., & Coltheart, M. (2006). Ew gross! Recognition of expressions of disgust by children with obsessive compulsive disorder. Behaviour Change, 23, 239-249

231. McKay, R., Langdon, R. & Coltheart, M. (2007). The defensive function of persecutory delusions: an investigation using the implicit association test. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 12, 1-24.

232. Brunsdon, R., Nickels, L., Coltheart, M. & Joy, P. (2007). Assessment and treatment of childhood topographical disorientation. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 17, 53-94.

233. Brunsdon, R., Nickels, L. & Coltheart, M. (2007). Topographical disorientation: Towards an integrated framework for assessment. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 17, 34-52.

234. Hayes, C., Coltheart, M., & Stevenson, R.J. (2007). Disgust and Huntington's Disease. Neuropsychologia, 45, 1135-1151.

235. Coltheart, M., & Prior, M. (2007). Learning to read in Australia. Occasional paper 1/2007, The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

236. Langdon, R., McLaren. J., Polito, V., Coltheart, M .& Ward, P.B. (2007). Willed action in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research, 150, 193-207.

237.  Metcalf, K., Coltheart, M. & Langdon, R.  (2007) Models of confabulation: A critical review and a new framework. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 24, 23-47..

238. Green, M., Waldron, J.H., & Coltheart, M. (2007). Emotional context processing in schizophrenia. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 12, 259-280.

239. Bates, T.C., Luciano, M., Castles, A., Coltheart, M., Wright, M.J., & Martin, N.G. (2007). Replication of reported linkages for Dyslexia and Spelling and suggestive evidence for novel regions on chromosomes 4 and 17. European Journal of Human Genetics, 15, 194-203.

240. Coltheart, M. (2007). The 33rd Bartlett Lecture: Cognitive neuropsychiatry and delusional belief. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60, 1041-1062.

241. McKay, R., Langdon, R. & Coltheart, M. (2007). Jumping to delusions? Paranoia, probabilistic reasoning and need for closure. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 12, 1-24.

242. McKay, R., Langdon, R. & Coltheart, M. (2007). Models of misbelief: Integrating motivational and deficit theories of delusions. Consciousness and Cognition, 16, 932-941.

243. Coltheart, M., Langdon, R., & McKay, R. (2007). Schizophrenia and monothematic delusions. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 33, 642-647.

244. Porter, M.A., Coltheart, M. & Langdon, R. (2007). The neuropsychological basis of hypersociability in Williams and Down syndrome. Neuropsychologia, 45,  2839-2850.

245. Fernyhough, C., Bland, K., Meins, E. &  Coltheart, M. (2007). Imaginary companions and young children's responses to ambiguous auditory stimuli: implications for typical and atypical development. Journal of Child Psychology and Child Psychiatry, 48,  1094-1011.

246.  Biedermann, B., Ruh, N., Nickels, L., & Coltheart, M. (2008). Information retrieval in tip of the tongue states: New data and methodological advances. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 37, 171-198.

247.  Langdon, R., McKay, R. & Coltheart, M. (2008). The cognitive neuropsychological understanding of persecutory delusions.  In Freeman, D., Garety, P. & Bentall, R. (Eds) Persecutory Delusions: Assessment, theory and treatment.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.

248. Green, M., Waldron, J, Simpson, I. & Coltheart, M. (2008). Visual processing of social context during mental state perception in schizophrenia. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 33, 34-42.

249.  Nickels, L., Biedermann, B., Coltheart, M., Saunders, S. & Tree, J. (2008). Computational modelling of phonological dyslexia: How does the DRC model fare? Cognitive Neuropsychology, 25, 165 - 193.

250.  Porter, M., Langdon, R. & Coltheart, M. (2008) . Theory of mind in Williams Syndrome assessed using a nonverbal task.  Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 38, 806-814.

251. McArthur, G.M.,Ellis, D., Atkinson, C.M, & Coltheart, M. (2008). Auditory processing deficits in children with reading ad language impairments: Can they (and should they) be treated?. Cognition, electronic publication 8 February 2008.,

252. Hayes, C.J., Stevenson, R.J. & Coltheart, M. (2008). Production of spontaneous and posed facial expressions in patients with Huntington's disease: Impaired communication of disgust. Cognition and Emotion, electronic publication 2 April 2008.,

253. Schmalzl, L., Palermo, R. & Coltheart, M. (accepted 28 October 2007). Cognitive heterogeneity in genetically-based prosopagnosia: a family-based study. Journal of Neuropsychology,

254. Brakioulis, V., Langdon, R., Sloss, G., Coltheart, M., Meares, R. & Harris, A. (2008). Delusions and reasoning: A study involving cognitive behavioural therapy. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 13, 148-165.

255. Coltheart, M. (accepted 4 February 2008). Iconic memory. In Bayne, T. & Cleeremans, A. (Eds): Oxford Companion to Consciousness. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

256. Coltheart, M. (2008). Cognitive neuropsychology. Scholarpedia, 3(2), 3644.       http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Cognitive_neuropsychology

257. Kohnen, S., Nickels,  L., Coltheart, M. & Brunsdon, R. (2008). Predicting generalization in the training of irregular word spelling: Treating lexical spelling deficits in a child. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 25, 165-193.

258.  Barnier, A.J., Cox, R.E., O’Connor, A., Coltheart, M., Langdon, R., Breen, N., & Turner, M. (2008). Developing hypnotic analogues of clinical delusions: Mirrored-self misidentification. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 13, 406-430.

259.  Russell, T., Green, M., Coltheart, M., & Simpson, I. (Accepted 28 April, 2008). Remediation of facial emotion perception in schizophrenia: Concomitant changes in visual attention. Schizophrenia Research, 103, 248 - 256.

260. Langdon, R., Coltheart, M. & Ward. P. (Accepted 29 May, 2008). Reasoning anomalies associated with delusions in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin,

261. Schmalzl, L., Palermo, R., Green, M., Brunsdon, R. & Coltheart, M. (Accepted 25 June, 2008). Training of familiar face recognition and visual scan paths for faces in a child with congenital prosopagnosia.  Cognitive Neuropsychology,

262. Thompson, W.F. & Coltheart, M. (2008). Emotional responses to music: Signal detection and amplification. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31, 597-598.

263. Coltheart, M. (in press). Cognitive science now and then. In Rabbitt, P. M. A. (Ed.), Inside Psychology: a science over 50 years.   Oxford University Press.

264. Rastle, K., Havelka, J., Wydell, T.N., Coltheart, M. & Besner, D. (Accepted 17 September, 2008). The cross-script length effect: Further evidence challenging PDP models of reading aloud.   Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition,

265. Biedermann, B., Nickels, L., & Coltheart, M. (Accepted 29 October, 2008). Effects of homophony on reading aloud: Implications for models of speech production,   Language and Cognitive Processes,



Editorial:
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  • Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief, Cognitive Neuropsychology 1984 - 1997;
  • Editor, British Journal of Psychology 1979-1983;
  • Associate Editor, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 1972-1985;
  • Associate Editor, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1981- 
  • Consulting Editor, Memory and Cognition 1972-1982;
  • Consulting Editor, Cognitive Development Abstracts 1982-1986;
  • Editor, International Library of Psychology. (A book series published by Routledge and Kegan Paul), 1978-1983;
  • Editor, Introductions to Modern Psychology. (A set of introductory books published by Routledge and Kegan Paul), 1981-1986;
  • Editorial Board, Reading Research Quarterly 1985-1986;
  • Editorial Board, Psychological Review, 1997-1999;
  • Editorial Board, Cortex, 2001-2002;
  • Editorial Board, Neuropsychologia, 2001-2003.
  • Consulting Editor, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 2000-2007;
  • Consulting Editor, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 1997-2007;
  • Editorial Board, Psychonomic Bulletin & Reviews, 2000-2006
current
  • Joint Founding Editor, Mind and Language 1986-present;
  • Associate Editor, Cognitive Neuropsychology 1997 - present;
  • Series Editor, Macquarie Monographs in Cognitive Science (Published by Psychology Press) 2000-present;
  • Editorial Board, Psychological Review, 2003 - present;
  • Section (Action) Editor, Neuropsychologia, 2003-2007;
  • Editorial Board, Visual Cognition, 2001-present;
  • Editorlal Board, Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 2004 - present;
  • Editorial Board, Reading and Writing, 2005 - present.

Honours, etc:
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  • Academy Address, American Academy of Aphasia, 1982.
  • Association Lecturer, Attention and Performance, 1984.
  • President, Experimental Psychological Society (Great Britain), 1985-1987.
  • Organiser, Attention and Performance XII, 1986.
  • President's Award, British Psychological Society, 1987.
  • Honorary Life Member, British Psychological Society, 1987.
  • Mary Law Lecturer, Action for Dysphasic Adults, 1987.
  • Advisory Council of the International Association for the Study of Attention and Performance (Chair, 1988 - 94).
  • Elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia, 1988.
  • President, Australian Cognitive Science Society, 1991.
  • Member, Australian Research Council Cognitive Science Priority Panel, 1991-1993.
  • McEachran Lecturer, University of Alberta, 1994.
  • President's Invitation Lecturer, British Neuropsychological Society, 1994.
  • Elected member, Council, Macquarie University, 1994-1996, 2002-2004, 2005-2007.
  • Australian Research Council Special Investigator Award, 1997-1999.
  • Member, Australian Research Council Expert Advisory Committee for Social, Economic and Behavioural Sciences, 2001-2002.
  • DSc (Macquarie University), 2001.
  • Elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, 2001.
  • Foundation ARC Federation Fellow, 2002-2007.
  • Elected Corresponding Fellow, British Academy, 2002.
  • Commonwealth Centenary Medal, 2003.
  • Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, Australian Psychological Society, 2003.
  • Elizabeth Usher Lecturer, Speech Pathology Australia, 2004.
  • 33rd Bartlett Lecturer, Experimental Psychology Society (Great Britain), 2005.
  • President, AUSPELD, 2006-2008.
  • Mona Tobias Award, Learning Difficulties Australia, 2007
  • President, Learning Difficulties Australia, 2008-2009.
  • CSIRO Eureka Prize for Scientific Leadership, 2007.

Research grants
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1969-70 National Research Council of Canada: Encoding of information in human memory.

1970-1971 National Research Council of Canada: Processing of brief visual displays. Evaluation of a neurophysiological theory of after-effects of tilt and curvature.

1971-73 National Research Council of Canada: Non-verbal auditory memory.

1972-75 Science Research Council: Processing of visual information.

1975 Social Science Research Council: Sex differences in information processing.

1975-77 Social Science Research Council: The skilled reader's use of letter-sound correspondence rules in reading isolated words.

1976 University of London Central Research fund: Processes of skilled reading.

1977-79 Medical Research Council: Cerebral organisation of lip-reading.

1978-81 Medical Research Council: Development of a computerised psycho linguistic database.

1979 Medical Research Council: Cambridge conference on deep dyslexia.

1980-83 Medical Research Council: Disorders of reading.

1981-84 Medical Research Council: Rehabilitation of acquired disorders of reading.

1982 Medical Research Council: Oxford conference on surface dyslexia.

1983-86 Medical Research Council: Disorders of reading and their rehabilitation.

1984-87 Social Science Research Council: Non-lexical procedures in reading.

1984-87 Medical Research Council: Development of standardised materials for the neuropsychological analysis of acquired dyslexias and dysgraphias (with R. Lesser and J. Kay).

1986-89 Medical Research Council: Sentence comprehension deficits in aphasia: analysis and treatment (with S. Byng).

1986 Birkbeck College Research Committee: Disambiguation in sentence comprehension (with M. Harris, S. Guttenplan and M. Davies).

1986 Economic and Social Research Council: Conference grant for Attention and Performance XII.

1987 - 90 Australian Research Grants Scheme: Sentence comprehension in aphasia: theory and therapy.

1988 Macquarie University Research Grants Scheme: Reading Chinese and Japanese.

1989 Macquarie University Research Grants Scheme: Towards a computational model of reading.

1990- Australian Research Council: Computational modelling of the human language-processing system

1990 Macquarie University Research Grants Scheme: Electrophysiology of language-processing (with P. Michie)

1991 Macquarie University Research Grants Scheme: Electrophysiology of language and memory (with P. Michie)

1991 Macquarie University Research Grants Scheme: Computational modelling of motion perception (with R. Power)

1992 Macquarie University Research Grants Scheme: Computational modelling of motion perception (with R. Power)

1992- 94 Australian Research Council: Electrophysiological studies of the language-processing system (with P. Michie)

1993- 94 Australian Research Council: Computational modelling of the human language-processing system

1995 - 97 Australian Research Council: Electrophysiological studies of the language-processing system (with P. Michie): $120,000

1995 - 96 Australian Research Council: Computational modelling of the human language-processing system : $220,000

1995 - 97 National Health and Medical Research Council: PET studies of language processing (with J Watson and B O'Sullivan): $120,000

1995 Macquarie University Teaching Development Award: Mosaic at Macquarie: Teaching and Learning in the World Lecture Hall (with P Wenderoth, J Sutton, M Patel, J Brien & P Havukainen): $33,000

1997 - 1999 Australian Research Council Special Investigator Award; $390,000

2000 - 2008: ARC Special Research Centre: Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science. (M. Coltheart & others).  $6,675,000.

2002 - 2006: ARC Federation Fellowship. (M. Coltheart).  $1,517,066 with matching support from host institution.

2002 - 2004: NHMRC Project Grant: Molecular genetics of dyslexia: A component processes approach (with T Bates & A Castles) $345,000

2004 - 2006: ARC Discovery Project: Is reading automatic?: Investigating hypnotic elimination of the Stroop effect (with A. Barnier) $150,000

2004 - 2006: ARC Discovery Project: Does phonological awareness help children learn to read? (with A. Castles) $150,000

2006 - 2008: NHMRC Project Grant: The RANE and SPAIN routes in the brain: functional studies and remediation in dyslexia subtypes  (with C. Rae & G. McArthur). $365,250.

2006: ARC LIEF Grant to establish a magnetoencephalography (MEG) based cognitive neuroscience laboratory at Macquarie University (S. Crain, M. Coltheart and others). $650,000.

2006-2009: ARC Linkage Industrial Partners Grant to develop the world's first MEG system for cognitive neuroimaging of children (S. Crain, R. Thornton, H. Kado & M. Coltheart). ARC contribution $220,000.

2008: ARC LIEF Grant: A 3.0 Tesla MRI system for human cognitive neuroscience research.  (J.B. Mattingley & others, including M. Coltheart). $650,000.

2008-2012: NHMRC Project Grant: A randomised control trial of treatments for children with different types of reading difficulty (G. McArthur, M. Coltheart & A. Castles). $840,000.

2008-2012: ARC Discovery Project Grant: Children's difficulties in learning to read: Causes and consequences of poor letter-sound knowledge. (G. McArthur, M. Coltheart & A. Castles). $454,322.



Doctoral supervision 1972- current
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53 PhDs successfully supervised so far. Most of these people have gone on to research or academic staff positions in departments of psychology in Canada, USA, Britain, Iceland, Singapore and Australia (including twelve full Professors of Psychology and a retired Vice-Chancellor).


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