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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

Aug 2011 - Aug 2018

University of Manchester Associate Vice-President (Research)

Aug 2009 - Aug 2018

University of Manchester Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience

Aug 2001 - Sep 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

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