Contact Details:
Telephone: (+44)(1382) 384927
Email: Trevor Harley
Website: www.trevorharley.com
Postal Address:
School of Psychology
The University of Dundee
Dundee
DD1 4HN
Scotland, UK
Professor Trevor Harley is the Dean of the School of Psychology. He works on the psychology of language, especially speech production, and high-level cognition. He is particularly interested in how we can control our own cognitive skills. As he gets older he has become interested in research into cognitive ageing. He is author of The Psychology of Language (Psychology Press, 3rd edition 2008), one of the world's leading texts on psycholinguistics. To his knowledge he is the world's only psychometeorologist.
I obtained my undergraduate degree from the University of Cambridge, where I also carried out the research for my PhD on speech errors. I moved to Dundee in 1996 from the University of Warwick. I work primarily on the psychology and neuropsychology of speech production, and the representation of word meaning. I focus in particular on lexicalisation, the processes whereby we turn thoughts into sounds. I am also interested in the degradation of semantic memory in dementia, and how it might be computationally modelled. I have recently begun a programme of research into language impairments in people with Parkinson's disease, and this has led to an interest in control processes in language. The third edition of my textbook, The psychology of language, is now available. More information is available athttp://www.psypress.com/harley. We are always looking for volunteers to help out with our research. If you live in the Dundee area and are aged over 60, and would like to find out more about our research, please email me at t.a.harley@dundee.ac.uk. We particularly welcome volunteers with Parkinson's Disease. For further information please see www.trevorharley.com.
Language; Neuroscience and Development
Psychology of language
Cognitive neuropsychology
Semantics
Speech errors and speech production
Metalinguistic processes
Language in people with Alzheimer's or Parkinson’s diseases
Language, Memory and Aging
Parkinson’s Research
Language Processes and Degenerative Disorder
Harley, T. A. [PI], & MacAndrew, S. Conversation and dialogue in people with Parkinson’s Disease. Parkinson’s Disease Society, 2003-05, £59,596.
Wilson, E.B., Harley T.A. PHD studentship on Autobiographical memory and aging. Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2004-2007.
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| Harley, T.A. (2012). Why the earth is almost flat: Imaging and the death of cognitive psychology. Cortex, 48, 1371-1372. | |
| Harley, T.A. (in press). History lessons: What can we learn about history? Rethinking History. | |
| Harley, T.A., Jessiman, L.J., & MacAndrew, S.B.G. (2011). Decline and fall: A biological, developmental and psycholinguistic account of deliberative language processes and ageing. Aphasiology, 25, 123-153. | |
| Harley, T.A. (2011). Introduction to Psycholinguistics. London: Sage. Six volume series. | |
| Harley, T.A. (2010). Review of Raftopoulos Perception and Cognition. Perception, 39, 441-442. | |
| Loosemore, R.P., & Harley, T.A. (2010). Brains and minds: On the usefulness of localisation data to cognitive psychology. In S.J.Hanson & Bunzl, M. (Eds.), Foundational issues in human brain mapping (pp. 217-240). Cambridge, MA: Bradford Books. | |
| Harley, T.A., Jessiman, L.J., MacAndrew, S.B.G., & Astell, A.J. (2008). I dont know what I know: Evidence of preserved semantic knowledge but impaired metalinguistic knowledge in adults with probable Alzheimer's disease. Aphasiology, 22, 321-335. | |
| Harley, T. A., & O'Mara, D. A. (2006). Hyphenation can improve reading in acquired phonological dyslexia. Aphasiology, 20, 744-761. | |
| Harley, T. A., & Grant, F. (2004). The role of functional and perceptual attributes: Evidence from picture naming in dementia. Brain and Language, 91, 223-234. | |
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Harley, T. A. (2004). Promises, promises. Reply to commentators in a special issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology, 21,51-56. |
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Harley, T. A. (2004). Does cognitive neuropsychology have a future? Lead article in a special issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology, 21, 3-16. |
| Astell, A. J. & Harley, T. A. (2002). Accessing semantic knowledge in dementia: Evidence from a word definition task. Brain and Language , 82, 312-326. | |
| Martin, N., Laine, M., & Harley, T. A. (2002). How can connectionist cognitive models of language inform models of language rehabilitation? In A. Hillis (Ed.), Handbook on adult language disorders (pp. 375-396). New York: Psychology Press. | |
| Harley, T. A., & MacAndrew, S. B. G. (2001). Constraints upon word substitution speech errors. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 30, 395-418. | |
| Vousden, J., Brown, G. D. A., & Harley, T. A. (2000). Oscillator-based control of the serial ordering of phonology in speech production. Cognitive Psychology, 41, 101-175. | |
| Harley, T. A., & MacAndrew, S. B. G. (1999). What causes lexical access difficulties in dementia? The role of covert-category specificity. In D. Heinke, G. W. Humphreys, & A. Olson (Eds.), Connectionist models in cognitive neuroscience: The 5th neural computation and psychology workshop (pp. 149-158). London: Springer-Verlag. | |
| Harley, T. A. (1998). The semantic deficit in dementia: Connectionist approaches to what goes wrong in picture naming.Aphasiology, 12, 299-308. | |
| Harley, T. A., & Bown, H. (1998). What causes tip-of-the-tongue states? British Journal of Psychology, 89, 151-174. | |
| Astell, A. J., & Harley, T. A. (1998). Naming problems in dementia: Semantic or lexical?, Aphasiology, 12, 357-374. | |
| Harley, T. A. (1996). Connectionist modelling of the recovery of language functions following brain damage. Brain and Language, 52, 7-24. | |
| Astell, A., & Harley, T. A. (1996). Tip-of-the-tongue states and lexical access in dementia. Brain and Language, 54, 196-215. | |
| Griffin, G., & Harley, T. A. (1996). List learning of second language vocabulary: The effect of the direction of learning on comprehension and generation. Applied Psycholinguistics, 17, 443-460. | |
| Matthews, G., & Harley, T. A. (1996). Connectionist models of emotional stress and emotional bias. Cognition and Emotion, 10, 561-600. | |
| Harley, T. A. (1995). Connectionist models of aphasia: A comment on Nickels. Language and Cognitive Processes, 10, 47-58. | |
| Harley, T. A. (1993). Connectionist approaches to language disorders. Aphasiology, 7, 221-249. | |
| Harley, T. A. (1993). Phonological activation of semantic competitors during lexical access in speech production. Language and Cognitive Processes, 8, 291-309. | |
| Van Gompel, R.P.G, Fischer, M.H, Murray, W.S., & Hill, R.L. (2007). Eye-movement research: An overview of current and past developments. In R.P.G. van Gompel, M.H. Fischer, W.S. Murray, and R.L. Hill (Eds.). Eye movements: A window on mind and brain. Oxford: Elsevier. ISBN: 978-0-08-044980-7. |
Neuropsychology
Dean of School
Executive Committee Association of Heads of Psychology Departments
Member, BPS Research Board
With Dr Siobhan MacAndrew, University of Abertay, on language, memory, ageing, and Parkinson's Disease.
With Dr Arlene Astell, University of St Andrews, on language and Alzheimer's disease.
With Dr Nadine Martin, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA, on language, brain damage and connectionism.
MA, PhD (Cambridge)
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