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    Professor Peter Bright BSc MSc PhD (Cantab)

    University Position
    Professor
    Professor Peter Bright is pleased to consider applications from prospective PhD students.

    Interests

    1. Neuroimaging and neuropsychological investigations of object processing (with an emphasis on the role of medial temporal lobe structures). 2. Disease progression and cognitive decline in semantic dementia. 3. Retrograde amnesia in brain damaged patients. 4. Fluid intelligence, working memory and the frontal lobes. 5. Psychometric assessment of intelligence 6. Bilingual cognition

    Collaborators

    Cambridge
  • Alex Clarke
  • Key Publications

    A cross-sectional developmental approach to bilingualism: Exploring neurocognitive effects across the lifespan.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amper.2022.100097
    Journal: Ampersand, 10, 100097
    Year: 2023
    Authors: Filippi, R., & Bright, P.

    Trajectories of verbal fluency and executive functions in multilingual and monolingual children and adults.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218211026792
    Journal: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 75, 130-147.
    Year: 2022
    Authors: Filippi, R., Ceccolini, A., & Bright, P.

    A role for the cerebellum in the control of verbal interference: Comparison of bilingual and monolingual adults.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231288
    Journal: PLOS ONE, 15(4), e0231288.
    Year: 2020
    Authors: Filippi, R., Periche Tomas, E., Papageourgiou, A., & Bright, P.

    Comparison of methods for estimating premorbid intelligence.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09602011.2018.1445650
    Journal: Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 30, 1, 1-14.
    Year: 2020
    Authors: Bright, P., & van der Linde, I.

    The National Adult Reading Test: Restandardisation against the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale – Fourth Edition.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09602011.2016.1231121
    Journal: Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 28, 1019-1027.
    Year: 2018
    Authors: Bright, P., Hale, E., Gooch, V. J., Myhill, T. D., & van der Linde

    The importance of socioeconomic status as a modulator of the bilingual advantage in cognitive ability.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01818
    Journal: Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1818.
    Year: 2018
    Authors: Naeem, K., Filippi, R., Periche-Tomas, E., Papageourgiou, A., & Bright, P.

    A genetic algorithm to find optimal reading test word subsets for estimating full-scale IQ.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205754
    Journal: PLOS ONE, 13(10), e0205754.
    Year: 2018
    Authors: van der Linde, I., & Bright, P. (2018).

    On remembering and forgetting our autobiographical pasts: Retrograde amnesia and Andrew Mayes’s contribution to neuropsychological method.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.07.028
    Journal: Neuropsychologia, 50, 2961-2972.
    Year: 2012
    Authors: Kopelman, M. D., & Bright, P.

    Longitudinal studies of semantic dementia: The relationship between structural and functional changes over time.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.02.019
    Journal: Neuropsychologia, 46, 2177-2188.
    Year: 2008
    Authors: Bright, P., Moss, H. E., Stamatakis, E. A., & Tyler, L. K.

    Goal neglect and Spearman's g: Competing parts of a complex task.

    DOI: https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/0096-3445.137.1.131
    Journal: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 137, 131-148.
    Year: 2008
    Authors: Duncan, J., Parr, A., Woolgar, A., Thompson, R., Bright, P., Cox, S., Bishop, S., & Nimmo-Smith, I.

    Conceptual structure modulates anteromedial temporal involvement in processing verbally presented object properties.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhl016
    Journal: Cerebral Cortex, 17, 1066-1073.
    Year: 2007
    Authors: Bright, P., Moss, H.E., Longe, O., Stamatakis, E.A., & Tyler, L.K.

    Retrograde amnesia in patients with hippocampal, medial temporal, temporal lobe, or frontal pathology.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101%2Flm.265906
    Journal: Learning and Memory, 13, 545-557.
    Year: 2006
    Authors: Bright, P., Buckman, J., Fradera, A., Yoshimasu, H., Colchester, A.C.F., & Kopelman, M.D.

    The anatomy of object processing: The role of anteromedial temporal cortex.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724990544000013
    Journal: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58B, 361-377.
    Year: 2005
    Authors: Bright, P., Moss, H.E., Stamatakis, E.A. & Tyler, L.K.

    Unitary versus multiple semantics: PET studies of word and picture processing.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2004.01.010
    Journal: Brain and Language, 89, 3, 417-32.
    Year: 2004
    Authors: Bright, P., Moss, H.E & Tyler, L.K.

    The National Adult Reading Test as a measure of premorbid intelligence: A comparison with estimates derived from demographic variables.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355617702860131
    Journal: Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 8, 847-854.
    Year: 2002
    Authors: Bright, P., Jaldow, E. & Kopelman, M.D.

    Grammatical SLI: A distinct subtype of developmental language impairment?

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716400002010
    Journal: Applied Psycholinguistics, 21, 159-181.
    Year: 2000
    Authors: Bishop, D.V.M., Bright, P., James, C., Bishop, S.J., & Van der Lely, H.K.J.

    Publications

    A systematic review of process evaluations for psychosocial interventions designed to improve the wellbeing and quality of life of community‐dwelling people with dementia and their carers.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.5828
    Journal: International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 37(12)
    Year: 2022
    Authors: Wyman, D. L., Butler, L., Bright, P., Morgan‐Trimmer, S., Budgett, J., & Cooper, C.

    Process evaluation of the New Interventions for independence in Dementia Study (NIDUS) Family stream randomised controlled trial: protocol.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-054613
    Journal: BMJ Open, 12(6), e054613.
    Year: 2022
    Authors: Wyman, D. L., Butler, L., Cooper, C., Bright, P., Morgan-Trimmer, S., & Barber, J.

    Effect of infant bilingualism on audiovisual integration in a McGurk task.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105351
    Journal: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 217, 105351.
    Year: 2022
    Authors: Mercure, E., Bright, P., Quiroz, I., & Filippi, R.

    The validity of abbreviated forms of the National Adult Reading Test and Spot-the-Word 2 for estimating full-scale IQ.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09602011.2021.1958874
    Journal: Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 32, 2534-2543.
    Year: 2022
    Authors: van der Linde, I., Horsman, L., & Bright, P.

    Cognitive Reserve and Language Experience: Can Long-Term Use of Multiple Languages Protect Our Brains From the Effects of Aging?

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.748181
    Journal: Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 748181.
    Year: 2021
    Authors: Filippi, R., & Bright, P.

    Individual and family experiences of loss after acquired brain injury: A multi-method investigation.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09602011.2019.1708415
    Journal: Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 31(4), 531-551.
    Year: 2021
    Authors: Buckland, S., Kaminskiy, E., & Bright, P.

    Preference for lighting chromaticity in migraine with aura.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/head.13801
    Journal: Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain, 60(6), 1124-1131.
    Year: 2020
    Authors: Vieira, A., van der Linde, I., Bright, P., & Wilkins, A.

    Developmental trajectories of metacognitive processing and executive function from childhood to older age.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1747021820931096
    Journal: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73, 1557-1773.
    Year: 2020
    Authors: Filippi, R., Ceccolini, A., Periche-Tomas, E., & Bright, P.

    Developmental trajectories of control of verbal and non-verbal interference in speech comprehension in monolingual and multilingual children.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104252
    Journal: Cognition, 104252.
    Year: 2020
    Authors: Filippi, R., Ceccolini, A., Periche-Tomas, E., Papageourgiou, A., & Bright, P.

    Editorial: Perspectives on the ‘Bilingual Advantage’: Challenges and Opportunities

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01346
    Journal: Frontiers in Psychology
    Year: 2019
    Authors: Bright, P., & Filippi, R., eds.

    Multilingualism and metacognitive processing.

    DOI:
    Journal: The Handbook of the Neuroscience of Multilingualism (pp. 357-371). Wiley-Blackwell.
    Year: 2019
    Authors: Bright, P., Ouzia, J., & Filippi, R. (2019).

    A developmental approach to bilingual research: The effects of multi-language experience from early infancy to old age.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1367006917749061
    Journal: International Journal of Bilingualism, 23(5), 1195-1207.
    Year: 2019
    Authors: Filippi, R., D’Souza, D., & Bright, P.

    Attentional control in bilingualism: an exploration of the effects of trait anxiety and rumination on inhibition.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/bs9080089
    Journal: Behavioral Sciences, 9(8), 89.
    Year: 2019
    Authors: Ouzia, J., Bright, P., & Filippi, F.

    Evidence against a cognitive advantage in the older bilingual population.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1747021818796475
    Journal: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(6), 1354-1363.
    Year: 2019
    Authors: Papageourgiou, A., Bright, P., Periche-Tomas, E., & Filippi, R.

    Multi-language acquisition and cognitive development.

    DOI:
    Journal: The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (Ed. K. Cohen-Kaddosh). Oxford University Press.
    Year: 2019
    Authors: Periche-Tomas, E., Papageourgiou, A., Bairaktari, O., Bright, P., & Filippi, R.

    Impact of language experience on attention to faces in infancy: evidence from unimodal and bimodal bilingual infants.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01943
    Journal: Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1943.
    Year: 2018
    Authors: Mercure, E., Quiroz, I., Goldberg, L., Bowden-Howl, H., Coulson, K., Gliga, T., Filippi, R., Bright, P., Johnson, M. H., & MacSweeney, M.

    Evidence of an advantage in visuo-spatial memory for bilingual compared to monolingual speakers.

    DOI: https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1017/S1366728915000917
    Journal: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 20, 602-612.
    Year: 2017
    Authors: Kerrigan, L., Bright, P., Thomas, M. S. C., & Filippi, R.

    Involvement of Spearman's g in conceptualisation versus execution of complex tasks.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2016.06.011
    Journal: Acta Psychologica, 170, 112-126.
    Year: 2016
    Authors: Carroll, E. L., & Bright, P.

    A bilingual disadvantage in metacognitive processing.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2016.02.008
    Journal: Cognition, 150, 119-132.
    Year: 2016
    Authors: Folke, T., Ouzia, J., Bright, P., De Martino, B., & Filippi, R.

    Cognitive mechanisms associated with auditory sensory gating.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2015.12.005
    Journal: Brain and Cognition, 102, 33-45.
    Year: 2016
    Authors: Jones, L. A., Hills, P. J., Dick, K. M., Jones, S. P., & Bright, P.

    The biology of resilient beliefs.

    DOI:
    Journal: Current Ethology, 15, 30-54.
    Year: 2016
    Authors: Pinto, A., A., & Bright, P.

    Bilingual children show an advantage in controlling verbal interference during spoken language comprehension.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728914000686
    Journal: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 18, 490-501.
    Year: 2015
    Authors: Filippi, R., Morris, J., Richardson, F. M., Bright, P., Thomas, M. S. C., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Marian, V.

    Autobiographical Memory

    DOI:
    Journal: Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences (pp. 1036-1038). Oxford, UK: Elsevier Press.
    Year: 2014
    Authors: Bright, P., & Kopelman, M. D.

    Possible effects of pramipexole on neck muscles in a patient with Parkinson's disease.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omu003
    Journal: Oxford Medical Case Reports, 1, 8-10.
    Year: 2014
    Authors: Filippi, R., Lenzi, M., Rasetti, M. and Bright, P.

    Functional and structural MRI studies of impulsivity in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and borderline personality disorder.

    DOI:
    Journal: Neuroimaging III: Cognitive Neuroscience (pp. 205-228). Rijeka, Croatia: InTech Publishing.
    Year: 2012
    Authors: Archer, T., & Bright, P.

    Remote semantic memory in patients with Korsakoff’s syndrome and herpes encephalitis.

    DOI: https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/a0014447
    Journal: Neuropsychology, 23, 144-157.
    Year: 2009
    Authors: Kopelman, M. D., Bright, P., Fulker, H., Hinton, N., Morrison, A., & Verfaellie, M.

    Recall and recognition memory in amnesia: patients with hippocampal, medial temporal, temporal lobe or frontal pathology.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.10.005
    Journal: Neuropsychologia, 45, 1232-1246.
    Year: 2007
    Authors: Kopelman, M.D., Bright, P., Buckman, J., Fradera, A., Yoshimasu, H., Jacobson, C., & Colchester, A.C.F.

    Temporal lobe lesions and semantic impairment: A comparison of herpes simplex virus encephalitis and semantic dementia.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awl344
    Journal: Brain, 130, 1138-1147.
    Year: 2007
    Authors: Noppeney, U., Patterson, K., Tyler, L.K., Moss, H., Stamatakis, E.A., Bright, P., Mummery, C., & Price, C.

    Invited commentary on Keith R Laws: “Illusions of normality”: A methodological critique of category-specific naming.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70304-6
    Journal: Cortex, 41, 852-853.
    Year: 2005
    Authors: Bright P., Moss, H.E., & Tyler L.K.

    Selecting among competing alternatives: Selection and Controlled Retrieval in the Left Prefrontal Cortex.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhi049
    Journal: Cerebral Cortex, 15, 1723-1735.
    Year: 2005
    Authors: Moss, H.E., Fletcher, P.C., Abdallah, S., Pilgrim, L.K., Acres, K., Bright, P., & Tyler, L.K.

    Anteromedial temporal cortex supports fine grained differentiation among objects.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhh163
    Journal: Cerebral Cortex, 15, 616-627.
    Year: 2005
    Authors: Moss, H.E., Rodd, J.M., Stamatakis, E.A., Bright, P., & Tyler, L.K.

    Correlations of regional cerebral metabolism with memory performance and executive function in patients with herpes encephalitis or frontal lobe lesions.

    DOI: https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/0894-4105.19.5.555
    Journal: Neuropsychology, 19, 555-565.
    Year: 2005
    Authors: Reed, L.J., Lasserson, D., Marsden, P., Bright, P., Stanhope, N., & Kopelman, M.D.

    Remote memory in Alzheimer’s disease.

    DOI:
    Journal: The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Alzheimer’s Disease (pp. 141-151). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    Year: 2004
    Authors: Bright, P. & Kopelman, M. D.

    Neural processing of nouns and verbs: the role of inflectional morphology.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2003.10.001
    Journal: Neuropsychologia, 42 (4), 512-523.
    Year: 2004
    Authors: Tyler, L.K., Bright, P., Fletcher, P. & Stamatakis, E.A.

    Processing objects at different levels of specificity.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/089892904322926692
    Journal: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16(3), 1-12.
    Year: 2004
    Authors: Tyler, L.K., Stamatakis, E.A., Bright, P., Acres, K., Abdallah, S., Rodd, J.M. & Moss, H.E.

    Deficits for semantics and the irregular past tense: A causal relationship?

    DOI: https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1162/0898929041920559
    Journal: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 1159-1172.
    Year: 2004
    Authors: Tyler, L.K., Stamatakis, E.A., Jones, R.W., Bright, P., Acres, K, & Marslen-Wilson, W.D.

    Unitary versus multiple semantics: Evidence from neuroimaging studies.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00213-X
    Journal: Brain and Language, 87, 90-91.
    Year: 2003
    Authors: Bright, P., Moss, H.E. & Tyler, L.K.

    Do semantic categories activate distinct cortical regions? Evidence for a distributed neural semantic system.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02643290244000211
    Journal: Cognitive Neuropsychology, 20, 541-559.
    Year: 2003
    Authors: Tyler, L.K., Bright, P., Dick, E., Tavares, P., Pilgrim, L., Fletcher, P., Greer, M., & Moss, H.

    Objects and their actions: Evidence for a neurally distributed semantic system.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1053-8119(02)00047-2
    Journal: NeuroImage, 18, 542-557.
    Year: 2003
    Authors: Tyler, L.K., Stamatakis, E.A., Dick, E., Bright, P., Fletcher, P., & Moss, H.E.

    Tigers and teapots: what does it mean to be alive?

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1364-6613(02)01981-2
    Journal: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6, 409-410.
    Year: 2002
    Authors: Rodd, J.M., Bright, P., & Moss, H.E.

    Learning and memory: Recent findings.

    DOI:
    Journal: Current Opinion in Neurology, 14, 449-455.
    Year: 2001
    Authors: Bright, P. & Kopelman, M. D.

    Different origin of auditory and phonological processing problems in children with language impairment: evidence from a twin study.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1044/jslhr.4201.155
    Journal: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 42, 155-168.
    Year: 1999
    Authors: Bishop, D. V. M., Bishop, S. J., Bright, P., James, C., Delaney, T., & Tallal, P.

    The measurement of hand preference: A validation study comparing three groups of right-handers.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8295.1996.tb02590.x
    Journal: British Journal of Psychology, 87, 269-285.
    Year: 1996
    Authors: Bishop, D.V.M., Ross, V.A., Daniels, M.S., & Bright, P. (1996).