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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
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2019
Subjects
Psychology
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 Uta Frith FBA

Developmental cognitive neuroscience

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Professor Usha Goswami FBA

Children's cognitive development, particularly the development of language and literacy; cross-language studies of reading and dyslexia; reading development in deaf children and language-impaired children; educational neuroscience of reading and dyslexia

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Professor Mark Williams FBA

Psychological models and treatment of recurrent depression; experimental cognitive psychology of the processes that increase risk of suicidality; prevention of suicidal depression through mindfulness-based treatments

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