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Dr Peter Bright

Dr Peter Bright
Visiting Research Fellow

tel: +44 (0)1223 766 451
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email: pbright@csl.psychol.cam.ac.uk

I am currently based at Anglia Ruskin University.

Following the completion of an M.Sc. in Research Methods in Psychology (Reading University, 1993), I began work as a Scientific Officer at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge. This position provided experience within two areas of study: cognitive and neuropsychological studies of language (with Professor Dorothy Bishop) and frontal lobe function (with Professor John Duncan).

For my Ph.D. (1995-1998, Cambridge University), I investigated the role of frontal lobe function in the organisation of goal-directed behaviour, supervised by John Duncan. I began employment at King's College London in September 1998, exploring the neuropsychology of remote memory in collaboration with Michael D. Kopelman.

In June 2001 I began work as a Research Associate here in the CSLB (part of the Department of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge University). Much of my time, at present, is concerned with the various theoretical accounts that have been put forward to explain object processing and category-specific impairments in conceptual knowledge following brain damage. We are developing strategies for investigating these issues using functional neuroimaging and behavioural data both in healthy volunteers and in brain damaged individuals.

CV

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Selected Publications

Bright P., Moss, H. E., & Tyler L. K. (2004). Invited commentary on Keith R Laws: “Illusions of normality”: A methodological critique of category-specific naming. Cortex, in press.

Bright, P. & Kopelman, M. D. (2004). Remote memory. In The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Alzheimer’s Disease (R. G. Morris & J. T. Becker, eds.). Oxford University Press: Oxford, in press.

Moss, H. E., Fletcher, P. C., Abdallah, S., Pilgrim, L. K., Acres, K., Bright, P., & Tyler, L. K. Selecting among competing alternatives: Selection and Controlled Retrieval in the Left Prefrontal Cortex. Cerebral Cortex, in press.

Moss, H. E., Rodd, J. M., Stamatakis, E. A., Bright, P., & Tyler, L. K. Anteromedial temporal cortex supports fine grained differentiation among objects. Cerebral Cortex, in press.

Reed, L. J., Lasserson, D., Marsden, P., Bright, P., Stanhope, N., and Kopelman, M. D. (2004). FDG-PET findings in organic amnesia: the Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome. Neuropsychology, in press.

Tyler, L. K., Bright, P., Dick, E. & Stamatakis E. A. (2004). Neural mechanisms for regular inflection: interactions with lexical category. Neuropsychologia, in press.

Tyler, L. K., Stamatakis, E. A., Jones, R. W., Bright, P., Acres, K., & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (2004). Deficits for semantics and the irregular past tense: A causal relationship? Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, in press.


Bright, P., Moss, H. E., Morgese, C., Rodd, J., Stamatakis, E. A., & Tyler, L. K. It’s not what you’re naming, it’s how you name it: Process-driven neural recruitment for objects in inferior temporal cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience: Suppl. D82, 2004.

Bright, P., Moss, H. E. & Tyler, L. K. Unitary versus multiple semantics: PET studies of word and picture processing. Brain & Language, 89, 3, 417-32, 2004.

Tyler, L. K., Bright, P., Fletcher, P. & Stamatakis, E. A. Neural processing of nouns and verbs: the role of inflectional morphology. Neuropsychologia, 42 (4), 512-523, 2004.

Tyler, L. K., Stamatakis, E. A., Bright, P., Acres, K., Abdallah, S., Rodd, J. M. & Moss, H. E. Processing objects at different levels of specificity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16(3), 1-12, 2004.

Acres, K., Stamatakis, E. A., Moss, H. E., Bright, P. & Tyler, L. K. The neural basis of object recognition: A new correlational technique. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, Suppl. C124, 2003.

Bright, P., Moss, H. E. & Tyler, L. K. Unitary versus multiple semantics: Evidence from neuroimaging studies. Brain and Language, 87, 90-91, 2003.

Bright, P., Moss, H. E. & Tyler, L. K. The representation of conceptual knowledge: An exploration of modality effects using words and pictures. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15, Suppl. E181, 2003.

Raposo, A., Moss, H. E., Rodd, J., Bright, P., Stamatakis, E. A. & Tyler, L. K. The representation of conceptual knowledge in the brain. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15, Suppl. F172, 2003.

Tyler, L. K., Stamatakis, E. A., Dick, E., Bright, P., Fletcher, P., & Moss, H. Objects and their actions: Evidence for a neurally distributed semantic system. NeuroImage, 18, 542-557, 2003.

Tyler, L. K., Bright, P., Dick, E., Tavares, P., Pilgrim, L., Fletcher, P., Greer, M., & Moss, H. Do semantic categories activate distinct cortical regions? Evidence for a distributed neural semantic system. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 20, 541-559, 2003.

Tyler, L. K., Stamatakis, E. A., Acres, K., Abdallah, S., Bright, P., Rodd, J. & Moss, H. E. Processing objects at different levels of specificity. Human Brain Mapping, New York. NeuroImage, 19, S229, 2003.

Bright, P., Jaldow, E. & Kopelman, M. D. The National Adult Reading Test as a measure of premorbid intelligence: A comparison with estimates derived from demographic variables. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 8, 847-854, 2002.

Rodd, J. M., Bright, P., & Moss, H. E. Tigers and teapots: what does it mean to be alive? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6, 409-410, 2002.

Bright, P. & Kopelman, M. D. Learning and memory: Recent findings. Current Opinion in Neurology, 14, 449-455, 2001.

Bishop, D. V. M., Bright, P., James, C., Bishop, S. J., & Van der Lely, H. K. J. (2000) Grammatical SLI: A distinct subtype of developmental language impairment? Applied Psycholinguistics. 21, 159-181, 2000.

Bishop, D. V. M., Bishop, S. J., Bright, P., James, C., Delaney, T., & Tallal, P. Different origin of auditory and phonological processing problems in children with language impairment: evidence from a twin study. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 42, 155-168, 1999.

Bright, P. Exploring the space between goal and behaviour: Frontal lobes, intelligence and "cognitive reversal". Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, SS, 105, 1998.

Kitchener, E. G., Duncan, J., Bright, P., Carey, D. P. Effects of unilateral frontal lobe damage on encoding and retrieval of episodic memory. Society for Neuroscience, 24, 2114, 1998.

Bishop, D. V. M., Ross, V. A., Daniels, M. S., & Bright, P. The measurement of hand preference: A validation study comparing three groups of right-handers. British Journal of Psychology, 87, 269-285, 1996.

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