Professor Matthew Lambon Ralph FBA

The cognitive, computational and neural bases of semantic cognition, language, associated neurological disorders and their treatments

Elected 2019

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2019
Sections: Psychology
Website: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.lambon-ralph/

Current post

Director of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge

Past appointments

University of Manchester Doctoral College Director

2011 - 2018

University of Manchester Associate Vice-President (Research)

2009 - 2018

University of Manchester Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience

2001 - 2018

Publications

Concepts, control and context: A connectionist account of normal and disordered semantic cognition

Paul Hoffman, Matthew A. Lambon Ralph and James L. McClelland - Published in 2018 by Psychological Review

Using neurostimulation to understand the impact of pre-morbid individual differences on post-lesion outcomes

Anna M. Woollams, Gaston Madrid, and Matthew A. Lambon Ralph - Published in 2017 by PNAS

The neural and computational bases of semantic cognition

Matthew A. Lambon Ralph, Elizabeth Jefferies, Karalyn Patterson, and Timothy T. Rogers - Published in 2017 by Nature Reviews Neuroscience

A unified model of human semantic knowledge and its disorders

Lang Chen, Matthew A. Lambon Ralph and Timothy T. Rogers - Published in 2017 by Nature Human Behaviour

Establishing task- and modality-dependent dissociations between the semantic and default mode networks

Gina F. Humphreys, Paul Hoffman, Maya Visser, Richard J. Binney and Matthew A. Lambon Ralph - Published in 2015 by PNAS

Triangulation of the neurocomputational architecture underpinning reading aloud

Paul Hoffman, Matthew A. Lambon Ralph and Anna M. Woollams - Published in 2015 by PNAS

Lichtheim 2: Synthesising aphasia and the neural basis of language in a neurocomputational model of the dual dorsal-ventral language pathways

Taiji Ueno, Satoru Saito, Timothy T. Rogers and Matthew A. Lambon Ralph - Published in 2011 by Neuron

Coherent concepts are computed in the anterior temporal lobes

Matthew A. Lambon Ralph, Karen Sage, Roy W. Jones and Emily J. Mayberry - Published in 2010 by PNAS

Anterior temporal lobes mediate semantic representation: Mimicking semantic dementia by using rTMS in normal participants

Gorana Pobric, Elizabeth Jefferies and Matthew A. Lambon Ralph - Published in 2007 by PNAS

Semantic impairment in stroke aphasia vs. semantic dementia: A case-series comparison

Elizabeth Jefferies and Matthew A. Lambon Ralph - Published in 2006 by Brain

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Nicholas Tarrier FBA

The understanding of psychological and psychosocial mechanisms underlying mental disorders, particularly schizophrenia, psychoses and post-traumatic stress and the development and evaluation of psychological treatments to improve outcomes

Professor Núria Sebastián Gallés FBA

Learning and language processing with a special emphasis on bilinguals. Research extends from infants to adults with methodologies that are based on behavioural, physiological and brain imaging responses

Professor Russell Alan Poldrack FBA

The cognitive neuroscience of decision making and executive control, and the development of tools and methods to improve the reproducibility of scientific research