Prof Padraic Monaghan's Homepage

phone:01524 593813
fax:01524 593744
email:p.monaghan@lancaster.ac.uk

Research Interests

  • computational modelling
  • hemispheric asymmetries
  • reading and dyslexia
  • attentional neglect
  • language acquisition
  • effects of sleep on cognition

My own homepage is here.

Publications

Arciuli, J. & Monaghan, P. (2009). Probabilistic cues to grammatical category in English orthography and their influence during reading Scientific Studies of Reading, 13, 1-21.
St Clair, M., Monaghan, P., & Ramscar, M. (2009). Relationships between Language Structure and Language Learning: The Suffixing Preference and Grammatical Categorization. Cognitive Science, 33, 1317-1329.
de Vries, M., Monaghan, P., Knecht, S., & Zwitserlood, P. (2008). Syntactic structure and artificial grammar learning: The learnability of embedded hierarchical structures. Cognition, 107, 763-774.
Monaghan, P. & Shillcock, R.C. (2008). Hemispheric dissociation and dyslexia in a computational model of reading Brain and Language, 107, 185-193.
Monaghan, P. & Rowson, C. (2008). Repetition and similarity in sequence learning Memory and Cognition, 36, 1509-1514.
Monaghan, P., Christiansen, M.H., & Chater, N. (2007). The Phonological Distributional coherence Hypothesis: Cross-linguistic evidence in language acquisition. Cognitive Psychology, 55, 259-305.
Monaghan, P. & Shillcock, R.C. (2007). Levels of description in consonant/vowel processing: Reply to Knobel and Caramazza. Brain and Language, 100, 101-108.
Farmer, T., Christiansen, M.H., & Monaghan, P. (2006). Phonological typicality influences on-line sentence comprehension. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103, 12203-12208.
Monaghan, P., Chater, N. & Christiansen, M.H. (2005). The differential contribution of phonological and distributional cues in grammatical categorisation. Cognition, 96, 143-182.
Monaghan, P. & Shillcock, R.C. (2004). Hemispheric asymmetries in cognitive modeling: Connectionist modeling of unilateral visual neglect. Psychological Review, 111, 283-308.
Monaghan, P. & Pollmann, S. (2003). Division of labor between the hemispheres for complex but not simple tasks: An implemented connectionist model. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 132, 379-399.

Grants

  • 2007 (for 15 months), small grant from ESRC.
    Computational and cross-linguistic analyses of stress

  • 2007 (for 24 months) from ARC.
    Corpus and experimental analyses of stress
    with Jo Arciuli.

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