max@maccs.mq.edu.au

Username: max@maccs.mq.edu.au

Participant details

	Network Member	Max Coltheart
	Organisation/Institution	Macquarie University
	Department/Centre	Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science
	Lab
	Website	http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/~max/
	Research area	Psychology Psycholinguistics
	Research keywords

Research Interests

My major current research interest in relation to language & communication is in further development of the DRC computational model of visual word recognition and reading aloud. These developments are proceeding in a number of directions: (a) building versions of the model for other languages (currently Portuguese, French, German and Italian); (b) adding to the model the ability to spell (i.e. to generate a spelling from a phoneme string); (c) adding a level of lemma representation as a first step towards adding a semantic component to the model. I am also investigating developmental disorders of language and literacy and methods for their treatment; and continue to work in cognitive neuropsychiatry, especially on delusional belief.