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Biography
I was born in Frankston, near Melbourne, in 1939. After graduating from Bega High School in 1957, I went to the University of Sydney where I studied psychology and philosophy and went on to complete a PhD and become a lecturer in psychology. I then held academic positions at Monash University, the University of Waterloo, the University of Reading and the University of London before taking a position as Professor of Psychology at Macquarie University in 1987, and then moving from that position to be Director of the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science (an Australian Research Council Special Research Centre) from 2000 until 2008.
Macquarie University awarded me a DSc in 2001 and an Honorary LLD in 2010, and I was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2010 Australia Day honours for services to children with learning difficulties. I'm a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and the British Academy.
I'm currently working on the cognitive neuropsychology and computational psychology of reading and also on several topics in cognitive neuropsychiatry, especially delusional belief.
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Reading
Medicine & Life Sciences
Delusions
Medicine & Life Sciences
Dyslexia
Medicine & Life Sciences
Aptitude
Medicine & Life Sciences
Semantics
Medicine & Life Sciences
Schizophrenia
Medicine & Life Sciences
Theory of Mind
Medicine & Life Sciences
Language
Medicine & Life Sciences
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Projects 2006 2020
Development of strategic links between Macquarie University, Beijing Language and Culture University and other project partners on language acquisition and childhood language disorders
Crain, S., Gao, L., Cutler, A. & Coltheart, M.
1/06/12 → 31/12/12
Project: Research
Building a model of the reading system: computational and experimental studies
Coltheart, M., Rastle, K., Mulatti, C., Besner, D. & MQRES, M.
1/01/12 → 30/06/15
Project: Research
Two Emotiv systems
McArthur, G., Castles, A., Kohnen, S., Coltheart, M., Larsen, L., Anandakumar, T. & Banales, E.
19/03/10 → 30/06/10
Project: Research
Remediation of mental-state reasoning and emotion recognition in schizophrenia: Theoretical and clinical implications.
1/01/10 → 31/12/10
Project: Research
Research Outputs 1967 2019
Evident absence, absent evidence: a comment on Rotgans et al. (2018)
Watsjold, B. & Coltheart, M., May 2019, In : Medical Education. 53, 5, p. 530 1 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › Research
Somatic delusions as motivated beliefs?
Coltheart, M. & Langdon, R., 1 Jan 2019, In : Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 53, 1, p. 83-84 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/opinion › Research
A computational model of the self-teaching hypothesis based on the dual-route cascaded model of reading
Pritchard, S. C., Coltheart, M., Marinus, E. & Castles, A., Apr 2018, In : Cognitive Science. 42, 3, p. 722-770 49 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Reading
Teaching
Learning
Cues
Decoding
Belief, delusion, hypnosis, and the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex: a transcranial magnetic stimulation study
Coltheart, M., Cox, R., Sowman, P., Morgan, H., Barnier, A., Langdon, R., Connaughton, E., Teichmann, L., Williams, N. & Polito, V., Apr 2018, In : Cortex. 101, p. 234-248 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Delusions
Hypnosis
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Prefrontal Cortex
Suggestion
Charles Bonnet syndrome: cortical hyperexcitability and visual hallucination
Coltheart, M., 5 Nov 2018, In : Current Biology. 28, 21, p. R1253-R1254 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Short survey › Research
Hallucinations
Neurons
Macular Degeneration
Visual Cortex
neurons
Prizes
Henry Guze Award for the Best Research Paper in Hypnosis
Max Coltheart (Recipient), Paul Sowman (Recipient), Amanda Barnier (Recipient), Robyn Langdon (Recipient), Anna Teichmann (Recipient), Nikolas Williams (Recipient) & Vince Polito (Recipient), 2018
Prize
honors and awards
cortex
prefrontal cortex