Adult cognitive processes

Overview

Overview

Introduction

Research on adult cognitive processes focuses primarily on language, memory, spatial and numerical processing, using a diverse set of methods that include eye tracking, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and magnetoencephalography (MEG).

This research area is supported by BBSRC, EU, ESRC, EPSRC, MRC, Nuffield Foundation, Royal Society, and the Wellcome Trust.

Psycholinguistics group

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The Psycholinguistics group (Altmann, Cornelissen, Ellis, Gennari, Gaskell, Jefferies and associated researchers and research students) use a range of methodologies including experimentation, eye movements, neural modelling, and neuroimaging to investigate the cognitive and neural bases of language processing. Specific themes include the acquisition and sleep-related consolidation of new spoken words (Gaskell), how language maps onto visual and conceptual representations, and how it modulates low-level attentional mechanisms (Altmann), the cognitive and brain processes implicated in semantic processing (Gennari, Jefferies), and involved in visual word recognition and the effects of age of acquisition on representations (Ellis), and functional interactions between vision, language and attention during word recognition (Cornelissen).

Lab meetings of the Psycholinguistics group are held weekly during term-time.

Centre for Working Memory and Learning

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The Centre for Working Memory and Learning was formed in 2006, and consists of Baddeley, Hitch, Gathercole, Jefferies, and associate researchers and research students. Research in the Centre includes experimental, developmental and applied research on working memory, learning, and long-term memory. Research includes experimental studies of word learning (Hitch), binding, the control of action and affective disorders (Baddeley), developmental disorders of working memory and attention, and neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies of semantic memory (Jefferies).

Working Memory lab meetings are held regularly during term. The Centre has many collaborations within its staff and with colleagues in other institutions, and regularly attracts international visitors who engage in collaborative research projects.

Further research

Further research includes cognitive and neuroimaging studies of human spatial memory with particular reference to the hippocampus and anterior prefrontal regions (Hartley) and the neural and cognitive representations of number (Göbel).

People

People

Academic staff

Research staff

  • Dr Alice Cruickshank
  • Dr Natalie Snoeren
  • Dr Shane Lindsey

Research students

  • Helen Brown
  • Pascale Engel
  • Roberto Ferreira
  • Debbora Hall
  • Gina Humphreys
  • Gitte Joergensen
  • Xierong Liu
  • Dominic Pearson
  • Chris Racey
  • Chris Rowson

Projects

Projects

Combinatorial semantic processing in the visual domain

An investigation of the nature of the representations constructed as people see objects in their environment and compute, seemingly automatically, the kinds of interaction that those objects can engage in with one another. This project is a part of Chris Rowson's PhD research, supervised by Gerry Altmann and in collaboration with Silvia Gennari.

Event representation, plausibility, and the language-vision mapping

This project explores how the plausibility of events described by the unfolding language mediates overt attention around a visual scene depicting the participants in the event. This is a part of Gitte Joergensen's PhD research, supervised by Gerry Altmann.

Language-induced event-representation: competition and multiple object instantiation

When we hear a sentence describing an event in which an object changes, we have to keep in memory those changes; we need to keep in memory multiple 'instantiations' of those objects, reflecting the 'before' and 'after' of those changes. Here, we explore how these multiple representations interact with one another. This is a collaborative research program involving Gerry Altmann, Yuki Kamide (Dundee), Sharon Thompson-Schill (Philadelphia), and Brian McElress (New York). Behavioural methods on this project include eye-tracking, fMRI, and other techniques.

Eye movement control and Macular Degeneration

This project explores issues concerning eye movement control in individuals suffering from degeneration of the macular (the central area of vision). Macular degeneration is the most common form of age-related blindness. This is the PhD topic of Mr. Richard Gale (Consultant Ophthalmologist, York Hospital), supervised by Gerry Altmann

Combinatorial semantic processes in sentence comprehension

An investigation of how the brain processes sentence meaning from combinations of words. This project is part of Gina Humphreys PhD research supervised by Silvia Gennari.

The interface of language and action. An investigation of the extent to which sentences describing actions share neural representations with action representations. This project is part of Claire Moody's PhD research supervised by Silvia Gennari.

The interface of language and perception

An investigation by Silvia Gennari of the extent to which linguistic meaning is grounded in perceptual processes, in collaboration with Gina Humphreys.

Processing words in contexts

An investigation by Silvia Gennari of the effect of contexts on processing word meanings. This project uses behavioral methods and MEG to establish the time course of context-word interactions. 

Time in sentence comprehension

An investigation of how we process and represent temporal information in reading and listening, supervised by Silvia Gennari in collaboration with Marta Coll-Florit (Barcelona) and Gitte Joergensen (York). The project uses behavioural and eye-tracking methods.

Neural correlates of complex syntactic structures

An investigation of the brain basis of syntactic processing: Silvia Gennari in collaboration with George Tsoulas, Bill Haddican, Eytan Zweig and Hidekazu Tanaka (York, Linguistics).

Sentence production across languages

An investigation of how different languages organize information into different sentence structures. Silvia Gennari in collaboration with Maryellen MacDonald (Wisconsin, USA) and Jelena Mirkovic (York).

Numerical processing and calculation in adults with dyslexia

In this project number processing and calculation skills of adults with reading difficulties are tested behaviourally. With fMRI we will then establish the brain networks used for those tasks by adults with dyslexia and any differences to brain networks used by adults without dyslexia. This is a collaboration between Silke Goebel and Maggie Snowling.

Numerical processing in adults with dyscalculia

This project is very similar to the project described above, but focuses on adults with difficulties in maths. It consists of behavioural and fMRI studies and is conducted by Silke Goebel together with Liane Kaufmann (Austria).

SNARC effect and numerical skills

In this project the reliability of spatial-numerical associations in adults is assessed  and the relationship of these associations to other numerical skills is explored. Project led by Silke Goebel.

Investigating magnitude and distance effects in number comparison with MEG

In this project the timing of the contribution of various brain areas to symbolic number comparison is investigated. Project led by Silke Goebel

Longitudinal study of typical number development

Various aspects of number processing (such as numerical estimation, counting and number comparison) are measured repeatedly in primary school children over 2-3 years. The aim of the project is to identify longitudinal predictors of individual differences in maths. This project is part of Sarah Watson's PhD, supervised by Silke Göbel.

Cultural effects on counting direction in children and adults

In this project the direction of counting and sorting object by size is tested in preschool children, school aged children and adults in Britain and Israel to investigate the influence of reading direction on counting direction. This project is a collaboration between Silke Goebel, Martin Fischer (Dundee) and Samuel Shaki (Israel).

Working memory: investigating the episodic buffer

This project examines the concept an episodic buffer, and its role in binding information from different components of working memory, and linking with long-term memory. Much of this is focused on the binding of visual features in short-term memory. This is a collaboration between Alan Baddeley, Graham Hitch, Richard Allen (now in Leeds) and a range of visitors, including Satoru Saito (Kyoto), Taiji Ueno (Manchester) and Judit Mate (Barcelona). In parallel a series of studies on binding in memory for sentences is continuing.

Role of strategy in working memory

Ongoing studies by Alan Baddeley in collaboration with Guillermo Campoy (Murcia), Judit Mate (Barcelona), and separately with Janet Larsen (Ohio).

Special populations: long-term and working memory, individual differences and deficits

Various projects with Alan Baddeley in collaboration with others.

Semantic impairment in patients with stroke aphasia and dementia

Although semantic disorders occur commonly as a result of stroke and dementia, these debilitating problems are not yet well-understood. This project (between Beth Jefferies and Matt Lambon Ralph and others) investigates the underlying causes of semantic impairment in patients with different areas of brain injury. For example, patients with semantic dementia, who have anterior temporal lobe atrophy, have degraded semantic knowledge. In contrast, patients with left prefrontal or temporoparietal stroke retain a considerable amount of knowledge but have difficulty applying this information in a controlled, flexible way to suit the task in hand. Hannah Gardener is extending this work to examine whether left and right hemisphere stroke patients show differing impairments of semantic control.

Magnetic stimulation and neuroimaging studies of the neural basis of semantic cognition

Functional neuroimaging studies of healthy participants focus on the role of left inferior frontal gyrus in semantic control. However, our patient and fMRI research suggests that posterior temporal and inferior parietal cortex may also contribute to aspects of semantic control. In studies by Beth Jefferies with Carin Whitney, Gorana Pobric and Katya Krieger-Redwood, we are exploring the behavioural consequences of magnetic stimulation (TMS) over these different sites for semantic and non-semantic tasks. We also combine TMS with fMRI to examine the neural consequences of magnetic stimulation.

The contribution of word meaning to phoneme binding

Patients with semantic dementia show that word meaning makes a crucial contribution to verbal short-term memory. These patients make frequent “spoonerism” errors in immediate serial recall for words that they no longer fully understand (for example, “heart, dog” might be recalled as “dart, hog”). This project (Beth Jefferies with Clive Frankish and others) investigates “semantic binding” of phonemes in language production tasks including immediate serial recall and paced reading, in healthy participants and patients.

Rehabilitation of language function in stroke aphasia

In a new project with Beth Jefferies and Azizah Almaghyuli, we aim to explore the potential of electrical stimulation methods (tDCS) to facilitate recovery of language function in stroke aphasia. Recent studies have obtained promising results for the recovery of motor function but there has been little work to date on language or semantic memory.

Processing serial order information in working memory and learning

A multi-site collaboration led by Graham Hitch. This theme includes studies of temporal grouping effects in immediate serial recall, learning new word forms and computational modelling. Graham is also leading other projects on individual differences in visual working memory and effects of strategies in working memory tasks.

How does visual information give rise to spatial experience and memory?

This project investigates how information in visual scenes (e.g., landscapes) enables us to understand where we are, and to form spatial memories (for example recognizing the same place when seen from a different point of view). Tom Hartley and PhD student Chris Racey are investigating how different parts of the brain represent scenes and places, and which parts of the brain are critical for spatial memory. Can brain activity and structure predict or explain variations in spatial memory?

The neural basis of reading in general and visual word recognition in particular

Led by Piers Cornelissen, this project uses a combination of psychophysical and neuroimaging techniques (MEG and FMRI). Specific research questions include: (1) How does information flow through the cortical network which supports reading and visual word recognition? (2) What is the role of early Broca’s area activity during visual word recognition? (3) To what extent does individual variation in visual processing influence visual word recognition? (4) Do people with developmental dyslexia process visual information differently from normally reading controls?

Perception of body image

This collaboration between Piers Cornelissen and Martin Tovee focuses on the perception of human body size, shape and attractiveness in both normal and eating disordered individuals.

Publications

Publications

In press

  • Binney, R. J., Embleton, K. V., Jefferies, E., Parker, G., J., M, Lambon Ralph, M. A. (in press) The inferolateral aspects of the anterior temporal lobe are crucial in semantic memory: Evidence from a novel direct comparison of distortion-corrected fMRI, rTMS and semantic dementia. Cerebral Cortex.
  • Bird C.M., Chan D., Hartley T., Pijnenburg Y.A., Rossor M.N., Burgess N. (in press). Topographical short-term memory differentiates Alzheimer’s disease from frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Hippocampus.
  • Boets, B., Vandermosten, M., Cornelissen, P.L., Wouters, J. and Ghesquière, P. (in press) Coherent Motion Sensitivity and Reading Development in the Transition from Pre-Reading to Reading Stage. Child Development.
  • Cornelissen P.L., Hansen P.C., Kringelbach M.L & Pugh K, (Eds.) (in press) The Neural Basis of Reading. Oxford University Press.
  • Holmes, J., Gathercole, S. E., Place, M., Dunning, D., Hilton, K., & Elliott, J. (in press). Working memory deficits can be overcome: Impacts of training and medication on working memory in children with ADHD. Applied Cognitive Psychology.
  • Huettig, F., & Altmann, G.T.M. (in press). The influence of perceived surface color vs. stored object color knowledge on language-mediated eye movements in the visual world. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
  • Jefferies, E., Frankish, C. & Noble, K. (in press) Strong and long: Effects of word length on phonological binding in verbal short-term memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
  • Noonan, K., Jefferies, E., Corbett, F., Hopper, S. & Lambon Ralph, M. A. (in press) Elucidating the nature of deregulated semantic cognition in semantic aphasia: Evidence for the roles of prefrontal and temporoparietal cortices. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
  • Pobric, G., Jefferies, E., Lambon Ralph, M. A. (in press) Amodal semantic representations depend on both left and right anterior temporal lobes: New rTMS evidence. Neuropsychologia, 48, 1336-1342.
  • Pobric, G., Lambon Ralph, M. A., Jefferies, E. (in press) The role of the anterior temporal lobes in the comprehension of concrete and abstract words: rTMS evidence. Cortex (Special Issue on TMS studies of cognition).
  • Rodriguez-Ferreiro, J., Gennari, S. P., Davies, R., Cuetos, F. (in press) Neural correlates of abstract verb processing, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
  • Visser, M., Embleton, K.V., Jefferies, E., Parker, G.J.M., Lambon Ralph, M.A. (in press) The anterior temporal lobes and semantic memory clarified: Novel evidence from distortion-corrected spin-echo EPI fMRI. Neuropsychologia.
  • Visser, M., Jefferies, E. A., Lambon Ralph, M. A. (in press) Semantic processing in the anterior temporal lobes: A meta-analysis of the functional neuroimaging literature. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 1083-1094.
  • Wheat, K.L., Cornelissen, P.L., Frost, S.J. and Hansen P.C. (in press) During visual word recognition phonology is accessed by 100ms and may be mediated by a speech production code: evidence from MEG. Journal of Neuroscience.
  • Williamson, V., Mitchell, T., Hitch, G.J. & Baddeley, A.D. (in press). Musicians' memory for verbal and tonal materials under conditions of irrelevant sound. Psychology of Music.

2010

  • Baddeley, A.D. & Hitch, G.J. (2010) Working memory. Scholarpedia 5(2), 3015.
  • Baddeley, A.D. (2010) Working memory. Current Biology 20, 136-140.
  • Baddeley, A.D. (2010). Long-term and working memory: How do they interact? In Lars Bäckman and Lars Nyberg (Eds), Memory, aging and the brain: a festschrift in honour of Lars-Göran Nilsson. (pp. 18-30). Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
  • Baddeley, A.D., Allen, R.J. & Vargha-Khadem, F. (2010) Is the hippocampus necessary for visual and verbal binding in working memory? Neuropsychologia 48, 1089-1095
  • Göbel, S.M. & Snowling, M. J. (2010). Number Processing Skills in Adults with Dyslexia. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. DOI: 10.1080/17470210903359206
  • Holmes, J., Gathercole, S. E., Place, M., Alloway, T. P., Elliott, J. G., & Hilton, K. A. (2010). An assessment of the diagnostic utility of executive function assessments in the identification of ADHD in children. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 15, 37-43.
  • Jefferies, E., Rogers, T.T., Hopper, S., Lambon Ralph, M. A. (2010) “Pre-semantic” cognition revisited: Critical differences between semantic aphasia and semantic dementia. Neuropsychologia, 48, 248-261.
  • Malt, B. C., Gennari, S. P., Imai, M. (2010). Lexicalization patterns and the world-to-word mapping. In B. C. Malt and P. Wolf (eds.), Words and the Mind: How words capture human experience. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Williamson, V. Baddeley, A. & Hitch, G. (2010) Musicians’ and nonmusicians’ short-term memory for verbal and musical sequences: Comparing phonological similarity and pitch proximity. Memory and Cognition, 38,??163-175.

2009

  • Allen, R.J., Hitch, G.J. & Baddeley, A.D. (2009). Cross-modal binding and working memory. Visual Cognition, 17, 83-102.
  • Alloway, T. P., Gathercole, S. E., Holmes, J., Place, M., Elliott, J. G., & Hilton, K. (2009). The diagnostic utility of behavioral checklists in identifying children with ADHD and children with working memory deficits. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 40, 353-366.
  • Alloway, T. P., Gathercole, S. E., Kirkwood, H. J., Elliott, J. G. (2009). The Working Memory Rating Scale: A classroom-based behavioral assessment of working memory. Learning and Individual Differences, 19, 242-245.
  • Alloway, T. P., Gathercole, S. E., Kirkwood, H., & Elliott, J. (2009). The cognitive and behavioural characteristics of children with low working memory. Child Development, 80, 606-621.
  • Altmann, G.T.M. and Kamide, Y. (2009). Discourse-mediation of the mapping between language and the visual world: eye-movements and mental representation. Cognition, 111, 55-71.
  • Altmann, G.T.M. and Mirkovic, J. (2009). Incrementality and prediction in human sentence processing. Cognitive Science, 33, 583-609.
  • Archibald, L. M. D., Gathercole, S. E., Joanisse, M. F. (2009). Multisyllabic nonwords: More than a string of syllables. Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 3, 1712-1722.
  • Baddeley, A.D (2009) Psychology in the 1950s: a personal view. In P.Rabbitt (Ed) Inside Psychology: A science over 50 years. (pp 27-35) Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Baddeley, A.D. (2009) Foreword to Special Issue on Autobiographical Memory. What’s it for? Why ask? Applied Cognitive Psychology 23, 1045-1049.
  • Baddeley, A.D., Hitch, G.J., Allen, R.J. (2009) Working memory and binding in sentence recall. Journal of Memory and Language, 61, 438-456.
  • Brandt. K.R., Gardiner, J.M., Vargha-Khadem, F., Baddeley, A.D. and Mishkin, M. (2009) Selective impairment of recollection but not familiarity in a case of developmental amnesia. Neurocase, 15(1), 60-65.
  • Corbett, F., Jefferies, E., Eshan, S., Lambon Ralph, M. A. (2009) Different impairments of semantic cognition in semantic dementia and semantic aphasia: Evidence from the non-verbal domain. Brain, 132, 2593-2608.
  • Corbett, F., Jefferies, E., Lambon Ralph, M. A. (2009) Exploring multimodal semantic control impairments in semantic aphasia: Evidence from naturalistic object use. Neuropsychologia, 47, 2721-2731.
  • Cornelissen, P.L., Hancock, P.J.B., Kiviniemi, V., George, H.R. and Tovee, M.J. (2009) Patterns of eye-movements when Male and Female observers judge female attractiveness, body fat and waist-to-hip ratio. Evolution and Human Behaviour doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2009.04.003.
  • Cornelissen, P.L., Kringelbach, M.L., Ellis, A.W., Whitney, C., Holliday, I.E. and Hansen, P.C. (2009) Activation of the left inferior frontal gyrus in the first 200 ms of reading: evidence from magnetoencephalography (MEG). PLoS ONE  doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0005359.g001.
  • Cornelissen, P.L., Tovee, M.J. and Bateson, M. (2009) Patterns of subcutaneous fat deposition and the relationship between body mass index and waist-to-hip ratio: Implications for models of physical attractiveness. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 256(3), 343-350.
  • Davis, M. H. & Gaskell, M. G. (2009). A complementary systems account of word learning: neural and behavioural evidence. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 364, 3773-3800.
  • Gaskell, M. G. & Ellis, A. W. (2009). Word learning and lexical development across the lifespan. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 364, 3607-3615.
  • Davis, M. H., Di Betta, A, Macdonald, M. & Gaskell M. G. (2009). Learning and consolidation of novel spoken words: behavioural and neural evidence. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 21, 803–820.
  • Gennari, S. P., and MacDonald, M. C. (2009) Linking production and comprehension processes: The case of relative clauses, Cognition. 111, 1-23.
  • Hitch, G.J., Flude, B. & Burgess, N. (2009). Slave to the rhythm: experimental tests of a model for verbal short-term memory and long term sequence learning. Journal of Memory and Language, 61, 97-111.
  • Hoffman, P., Jefferies, E., Eshan, S., Hopper, S., Lambon Ralph, M. A. (2009) Semantic short-term memory impairments: Evidence for a more general semantic deficit. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 35, 137-156.
  • Hoffman, P., Jefferies, E., Eshan, S., Jones, R. W., Lambon Ralph, M. A. (2009) Semantic memory is key to binding phonology: Converging evidence from immediate serial recall in semantic dementia and healthy participants. Neuropsychologia, 47, 747-760.
  • Holmes, J., Gathercole, S. E., & Dunning, D. (2009). Adaptive training leads to sustained enhancement of poor working memory in children. Developmental Science, 12, F9-F15.
  • Jefferies, E., Frankish, C. & Noble, K. (2009) Lexical coherence in short-term memory: Strategic reconstruction or "semantic glue"? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62: 1967-1982.
  • Jefferies, E., Patterson, K., Jones, R.W., & Lambon Ralph, M.A. (2009) Comprehension of concrete and abstract words in semantic dementia. Neuropsychology, 23, 492-499.
  • Laine, M., Tuokkola, T., Hiltunen, J., Vorobyev, V, Bliss, I., Baddeley, A., & Rinne, J. O. (2009) Central executive function in mild cognitive impairment: A PET activation study. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 50, 33-40.
  • Lambon Ralph, M. A., Pobric, G., Jefferies, E. (2009) Conceptual knowledge is underpinned by the temporal pole bilaterally: Convergent evidence from rTMS. Cerebral Cortex, 19: 832-838.
  • Moody, C. L., and Gennari, S. P. (2009) Effects of implied physical effort in sensory-motor and pre-frontal cortex during language comprehension, NeuroImage, 49, 782-793.
  • Richardson, D.C., Altmann, G.T.M., Spivey, M. J., & Hoover, M.A. (2009). Much ado about eye movements to nothing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13, 235-236.
  • Snoeren, N. D., Gaskell, M. G. & Di Betta, A. (2009). The perception of assimilation in newly learned novel words. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 35, 542-549.
  • Sumner, C.R., Gathercole, S. E., Greenbaum, M., Rubin, R., Williams, D., Hollandbeck, M., Wietecha, L. (2009). Atomoxetine for the treatment of Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children with ADHD and dyslexia. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 3: 40.
  • Wing, A.M. & Baddeley, A.D. (2009). Righting errors in writing errors: The Wing and Baddeley (1980) spelling corpus revisited. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 26, 223-226. 

2008

  • Alloway, T.P., Gathercole, S. E., Kirkwood, H. J., & Elliott, J. G. (2008). Evaluating the validity of the Automated Working Memory Assessment. Educational Psychology, 28, 725-734.
  • Alloway, T.P., Gathercole, S.E. (2008). The role of sentence recall in reading and language skills of children with learning difficulties. Learning and Individual Differences. 15, 271-282.
  • Brozzoli, C., Ishihara, M., Göbel, S.M., Salemme, R., Rossetti, Y. & Farnè, A. (2008). Touch perception reveals the dominance of spatial over digital representation of numbers. PNAS 105 (14), 5644-5648.?
  • Campoy, G. & Baddeley, A.D. (2008) Phonological and semantic strategies in immediate serial recall. Memory, 16, 329-340.
  • Corbett F., Jefferies E., & Lambon Ralph M.A. (2008) The use of cueing to alleviate recurrent verbal perseverations: Evidence from transcortical sensory aphasia. Aphasiology, 22, 363-382.
  • Engel, P. M. J., Heloisa Dos Santos, F., & Gathercole, S. E. (2008). Are working memory measures free of socio-economic influence? Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 51, 1580-1587.
  • Foster, E., Matthews, J.N.S, Lloyd, J., Marshall, L., Mathers, J.C., Nelson, M., Barton, K.L., Wrieden, W.L., Cornelissen, P., Harris, J., and Adamson, A.J. (2008) Children's estimates of food portion size: The development and evaluation of three portion size assessment tools for use with children, British Journal of Nutrition, 99, 175-184.
  • Gardiner, J.M., Brandt. K.R., Baddeley, A.D., Vargha-Khadem, F., and Mishkin, M. (2008) Charting the acquisition of semantic knowledge in a case of development amnesia. Neuropsychologia, 46, 2865-2868.
  • Gaskell, M. G.  & Snoeren, N.D. (2008). The impact of strong assimilation on the perception of connected speech. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 34, 1632-1647.
  • Gaskell, M. G., Quinlan, P. T., Tamminen, J. T., & Cleland, A. A. (2008). The nature of phoneme representation in spoken word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 137, 282-302.
  • Gathercole, S. E. & Alloway, T. P. (2008). Working memory and learning: A practical guide for teachers. Sage Publishing. (translated into Japanese 2009)
  • Gathercole, S. E., (2008). Deficits in verbal long-term memory and learning in children with poor phonological short-term memory skills. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 474-490.
  • Gathercole, S. E., Alloway, T. P., Kirkwood, H. J., Elliott, J. G., Holmes, J., & Hilton, K. A. (2008). Attentional and executive behavioural profiles of children with poor working memory. Learning and Individual Differences, 18, 214-223.
  • Gathercole, S. E., Durling, M. Evans, S. Jeffcock, & S. Stone (2008). Working memory abilities and children’s performance in laboratory analogues of classroom activities. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 22, 1019-1037.
  • Gennari, S. P., and MacDonald, M. C. (2008) Semantic indeterminacy in object relative clauses, Journal of Memory and Language. 58, 161-187.
  • George, H.R., Swami, V., Cornelissen, P.L. and Tovée, M.J. (2008) Preferences for body mass index and waist-to-hip ratio do not vary with observer age, Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 6(3), 207-218.
  • Jefferies E., Hoffman P., Jones R.W., & Lambon Ralph M.A. (2008) The impact of semantic impairment on verbal short-term memory in stroke aphasia and semantic dementia: A comparative study. Journal of Memory and Language, 58, 66-87.
  • Jefferies E., Patterson K., Lambon Ralph M.A. (2008) Deficits of knowledge vs. executive control in semantic cognition: Insights from cued naming. Neuropsychologia, 46, 649-658.
  • Joseph, H., Liversedge, S. P., Blythe, H., White, S., Gathercole, S. E. & Rayner, K. (2008). Children’s and adults processing of anomaly and plausibility during reading: Evidence from eye movements. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 708-723.
  • Kringelbach, M.L., Lehtonen, A., Squire, S., Harvey, A.G., Craske M.G., Holliday, I.E., Green, A.L., Aziz, T.Z., Hansen, P.C., Cornelissen, P.L. and Stein, A. (2008) A specific and rapid neural signature for parental instinct, PLoS ONE, 3(2): e1664.
  • Malt, B. C., Gennari, S. P., Imai, M., Ameel, E., Tsuda, N., and Majid, A. (2008) Talking about walking: Biomechanics and the language of locomotion, Psychological Science. 19, 232-240.
  • Tamminen, J., & Gaskell, M. G. (2008). Newly learned spoken words show long-term lexical competition effects. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 361-371.
  • Towse, J.N., Cowan, N., Hitch, G.J. & Horton, N.J. (2008). The recall of information from working memory: Insights from behavioral and chronometric perspectives. Experimental Psychology, 55, 371-383.
  • Towse, J.N., Hitch, G.J. Hamilton, Z. & Pirrie, S.(2008). The endurance of children’s working memory: A recall time analysis. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 101, 156-163.
  • Whitney, C. & Cornelissen, P.L. (2008) SERIOL reading. Special Issue of Language and Cognitive Processes, 23, 143-164.
  • Williams, H.L., Conway, M.A., & Baddeley, A.D. (2008) The boundaries of episodic memories. In T.F. Shipley & J. M. Zacks (Eds) Understanding events from perception to action. (pp 589-616) New York: Oxford University Press.

Grants

Grants

  • Altmann, G. (2006-2011). Cognition Editorial Grant. Elsevier. £245K.
  • Altmann, G. (2008-11) From language-mediated eye movements to goal-directed action: Mapping language onto perception and action. ESRC. £370K.
  • E. Jefferies, M.A. Lambon Ralph, S. Hamdy, J. Rothwell  (2006-2010). The neural basis of semantic memory: A transcranial magnetic stimulation investigation. The Wellcome Trust £141k.
  • Gathercole, S, & Holmes, J.  (2010-1011). Making working memory really work. ESRC. £100K.
  • Gathercole, S. (2008-2011). The impact of training on everyday use of working memory in the classroom. Leverhulme Trust. £135K.
  • Gaskell, M. G. & Weighall, A. (2010-2013) Novel word integration in adults and children. Leverhulme Trust. £159K.
  • Gaskell, M. G. (2007-2010) Neural and behavioural consequences of vocabulary acquisition: an interdisciplinary approach. £335K.
  • Hawkins, S. et al. (inc. Gaskell) (2007-2011) Sound to Sense. European Commission €2,700K
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