Max Coltheart
Biographic Data
| ID | 746204 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Max Coltheart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Max |
| FAMILY NAME | Coltheart |
| SIGNATURE | COLTHEART M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6580-0047 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ross Henry Day 1927–2018
Ross Henry Day was an Australian experimental psychologist well known for his research on visual illusions and for his critical role in the establishment of experimental psychology in Australia. This role began with his creation of Australia’s first department of experimental psychology at Monash University in 1965. He also played a leading role in the formation of the Australian Psychological Society in 1966, and in the introduction to Australia…
Are people consistent when reading nonwords aloud on different occasions
Tests of nonword reading have been instrumental in adjudicating between theories of reading and in assessing individuals’ reading skill in educational and clinical practice. It is generally assumed that the way in which readers pronounce nonwords reflects their long-term knowledge of spelling–sound correspondences that exist in the writing system. The present study found considerable variability in how the same adults read the same 50 nonwords ac…
How unexpected observations lead to new beliefs
A Peircean Pathway from Surprising Facts to New Beliefs
The concept of abduction was extensively analyzed by the pragmatist philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce more than a century ago. Modern philosophers typically treat abduction as being the same as “inference to the best explanation” and often even attribute this position to Peirce. But this was not his position. For him, abduction involved inference to any possible explanation. He was particularly concerned with how people respond to experiences th…
Beliefs about hearing voices
Delusions
A delusional belief is a belief adopted on the basis of insufficient evidence and held strongly in the face of much counterevidence. Some people with a delusional condition have a single delusional belief—this is monothematic delusion and much is now understood about what cause the various kinds of monothematic delusion. I describe six kinds of monothematic delusions. Other people with a delusional condition have many different delusional beliefs…
A laboratory analogue of mirrored-self misidentification delusion
A reanalysis of the personal/impersonal distinction in moral psychology research
Information Retrieval in Tip of the Tongue States
Models of misbelief
Is there a causal link from phonological awareness to success in learning to read?
Nonwords
The authors present a model of the phonotactic and orthographic constraints of Australian and Standard Southern British English monosyllables. This model is used as the basis for a web-based psycholinguistic resource, the ARC Nonword Database, which contains 358,534 monosyllabic nonwords—48,534 pseudohomophones and 310,000 non-pseudohomophonic nonwords. Items can be selected from the ARC Nonword Database on the basis of a wide variety of properti…
Monothematic Delusions
We provide a battery of examples of delusions against which theoretical accounts can be tested. Then we identify neuropsychological anomalies that could produce the unusual experiences that may lead, in turn, to the delusions in our battery. However, we argue against Maher's view that delusions are false beliefs that arise as normal responses to anomalous experiences. We propose, instead, that a second factor is required to account for the transi…
DRC
This article describes the Dual Route Cascaded (DRC) model, a computational model of visual word recognition and reading aloud. The DRC is a computational realization of the dual-route theory of reading, and is the only computational model of reading that can perform the 2 tasks most commonly used to study reading: lexical decision and reading aloud. For both tasks, the authors show that a wide variety of variables that influence human latencies …
Evaluating spoken word-picture matching
One of the most widely used tasks in the assessment of individuals with aphasia is the spoken word-picture matching subtest from PALPA (subtest 47; Kay, Lesser and Coltheart, 1992). Sub-test 47 requires the individual with aphasia to listento a spoken word and make the correct choice from five pictures (target plus four distractors: close semantic, distant semantic, visually related and semantically unrelated). Kay et al. (1992) state that the ch…
Impaired auditory lexical access and the effect of speech-reading
This paper presents a case study of KRJ, a man with aphasia, who is demonstrated to benefit from speech-reading (the use of visual information in speech recognition). KRJ presented with a severe impairment of auditory comprehension and repetition. Assessment of his disorder revealed a marked deficit in accessing the stored phonological forms of words from auditory input, which was more severe for abstract words than for concrete words. An auditor…
Models of reading aloud
It has often been argued that various facts about skilled reading aloud cannot be explained by any model unless that model possesses a dual-route architecture (lexical and nonlexical routes from print to speech). This broad claim has been challenged by Seidenberg and McClelland (1989, 1990). Their model has but a single route from print to speech, yet, they contend, it can account for major facts about reading that have hitherto been claimed to r…
Are there varieties of development dyslexia
Deep Dyslexia
The MRC Psycholinguistic Database
This paper describes a computerised database of psycholinguistic information. Semantic, syntactic, phonological and orthographic information about some or all of the 98,538 words in the database is accessible, by using a specially-written and very simple programming language. Word-association data are also included in the database. Some examples are given of the use of the database for selection of stimuli to be used in psycholinguistic experimen…
A reanalysis of the personal/impersonal distinction in moral psychology research
Ross Henry Day 1927–2018
Ross Henry Day was an Australian experimental psychologist well known for his research on visual illusions and for his critical role in the establishment of experimental psychology in Australia. This role began with his creation of Australia’s first department of experimental psychology at Monash University in 1965. He also played a leading role in the formation of the Australian Psychological Society in 1966, and in the introduction to Australia…
A Peircean Pathway from Surprising Facts to New Beliefs
The concept of abduction was extensively analyzed by the pragmatist philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce more than a century ago. Modern philosophers typically treat abduction as being the same as “inference to the best explanation” and often even attribute this position to Peirce. But this was not his position. For him, abduction involved inference to any possible explanation. He was particularly concerned with how people respond to experiences th…
Information Retrieval in Tip of the Tongue States
The MRC Psycholinguistic Database
This paper describes a computerised database of psycholinguistic information. Semantic, syntactic, phonological and orthographic information about some or all of the 98,538 words in the database is accessible, by using a specially-written and very simple programming language. Word-association data are also included in the database. Some examples are given of the use of the database for selection of stimuli to be used in psycholinguistic experimen…
Deep Dyslexia
Are there varieties of development dyslexia
Models of reading aloud
It has often been argued that various facts about skilled reading aloud cannot be explained by any model unless that model possesses a dual-route architecture (lexical and nonlexical routes from print to speech). This broad claim has been challenged by Seidenberg and McClelland (1989, 1990). Their model has but a single route from print to speech, yet, they contend, it can account for major facts about reading that have hitherto been claimed to r…
Evaluating spoken word-picture matching
One of the most widely used tasks in the assessment of individuals with aphasia is the spoken word-picture matching subtest from PALPA (subtest 47; Kay, Lesser and Coltheart, 1992). Sub-test 47 requires the individual with aphasia to listento a spoken word and make the correct choice from five pictures (target plus four distractors: close semantic, distant semantic, visually related and semantically unrelated). Kay et al. (1992) state that the ch…
Impaired auditory lexical access and the effect of speech-reading
This paper presents a case study of KRJ, a man with aphasia, who is demonstrated to benefit from speech-reading (the use of visual information in speech recognition). KRJ presented with a severe impairment of auditory comprehension and repetition. Assessment of his disorder revealed a marked deficit in accessing the stored phonological forms of words from auditory input, which was more severe for abstract words than for concrete words. An auditor…
Monothematic Delusions
We provide a battery of examples of delusions against which theoretical accounts can be tested. Then we identify neuropsychological anomalies that could produce the unusual experiences that may lead, in turn, to the delusions in our battery. However, we argue against Maher's view that delusions are false beliefs that arise as normal responses to anomalous experiences. We propose, instead, that a second factor is required to account for the transi…
DRC
This article describes the Dual Route Cascaded (DRC) model, a computational model of visual word recognition and reading aloud. The DRC is a computational realization of the dual-route theory of reading, and is the only computational model of reading that can perform the 2 tasks most commonly used to study reading: lexical decision and reading aloud. For both tasks, the authors show that a wide variety of variables that influence human latencies …
Nonwords
The authors present a model of the phonotactic and orthographic constraints of Australian and Standard Southern British English monosyllables. This model is used as the basis for a web-based psycholinguistic resource, the ARC Nonword Database, which contains 358,534 monosyllabic nonwords—48,534 pseudohomophones and 310,000 non-pseudohomophonic nonwords. Items can be selected from the ARC Nonword Database on the basis of a wide variety of properti…
Is there a causal link from phonological awareness to success in learning to read?
Models of misbelief
Information Retrieval in Tip of the Tongue States
A reanalysis of the personal/impersonal distinction in moral psychology research
A laboratory analogue of mirrored-self misidentification delusion
Delusions
A delusional belief is a belief adopted on the basis of insufficient evidence and held strongly in the face of much counterevidence. Some people with a delusional condition have a single delusional belief—this is monothematic delusion and much is now understood about what cause the various kinds of monothematic delusion. I describe six kinds of monothematic delusions. Other people with a delusional condition have many different delusional beliefs…
Beliefs about hearing voices
A Peircean Pathway from Surprising Facts to New Beliefs
The concept of abduction was extensively analyzed by the pragmatist philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce more than a century ago. Modern philosophers typically treat abduction as being the same as “inference to the best explanation” and often even attribute this position to Peirce. But this was not his position. For him, abduction involved inference to any possible explanation. He was particularly concerned with how people respond to experiences th…
Are people consistent when reading nonwords aloud on different occasions
Tests of nonword reading have been instrumental in adjudicating between theories of reading and in assessing individuals’ reading skill in educational and clinical practice. It is generally assumed that the way in which readers pronounce nonwords reflects their long-term knowledge of spelling–sound correspondences that exist in the writing system. The present study found considerable variability in how the same adults read the same 50 nonwords ac…
How unexpected observations lead to new beliefs
Ross Henry Day 1927–2018
Ross Henry Day was an Australian experimental psychologist well known for his research on visual illusions and for his critical role in the establishment of experimental psychology in Australia. This role began with his creation of Australia’s first department of experimental psychology at Monash University in 1965. He also played a leading role in the formation of the Australian Psychological Society in 1966, and in the introduction to Australia…
Psychology (19 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Linguistics (11 works) · Cognitive psychology (9 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (9 works) · Cognition (7 works) · Natural language processing (6 works) · Reading (process) (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Delusion (5 works)