Professor Peter Bright University positionProfessor Professor Peter Bright is pleased to consider applications from prospective PhD students. DepartmentsInstitutesCentre for Mind & Behaviour, Anglia Ruskin University Home pageResearch ThemeInterests1. 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 Research Focus
EquipmentBehavioural analysis Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) Neuropsychological testing Collaborators
Associated News ItemsPublications2022Filippi R, Ceccolini A, Bright P (2022), “Trajectories of verbal fluency and executive functions in multilingual and monolingual children and adults: A cross-sectional study” Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 75 (1): 130-147 Mercure E, Bright P, Quiroz I, Filippi R (2022), “Effect of infant bilingualism on audiovisual integration in a McGurk task” Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 217: 105351 Wyman DL, Butler L, Bright P, Morgan-Trimmer S, Budgett J, Cooper C. (2022), “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.” International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.5828 Wyman DL, Butler L, Cooper C, Bright P, Morgan-Trimmer S, Barber J (2022), “Process evaluation of the New Interventions for independence in Dementia Study (NIDUS) Family stream randomised controlled trial: protocol” BMJ Open 12(6), e054613 2021Buckland S, Kaminskiy E, Bright P (2021), “Individual and family experiences of loss after acquired brain injury: A multi-method investigation” Neuropsychological Rehabilitation 31 (4), 531-551 van der Linde, I, Horsman L, Bright P (2021), “The validity of abbreviated forms of the National Adult Reading Test and Spot-the-Word 2 for estimating full-scale IQ” Neuropsychological Rehabilitation 73 (11): 1757-1773 2020Bright P, van der Linde I (2020), “Comparison of methods for estimating premorbid intelligence.” Neuropsychological Rehabilitation 30: 1-14. Filippi R, Ceccolini A, Periche-Tomas E, Bright P (2020), “Developmental trajectories of metacognitive processing and executive function from childhood to older age” Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820931096 Filippi R, Ceccolini A, Periche-Tomas E, Papageorgiou A, Bright P (2020), “Developmental trajectories of control of verbal and non-verbal interference in speech comprehension in monolingual and multilingual children” Cognition 200: 104252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104252 Filippi R, Periche-Tomas E, Papageorgiou A, Bright P (2020), “A role for the cerebellum in the control of verbal interference: Comparison of bilingual and monolingual adults” PLOS ONE e0231288. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231288 Periche-Tomas E, Papageorgiou A, Bairaktari O, Bright P, Filippi, R (2020), “Multi-language acquisition and cognitive development” The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (Ed. K. Cohen-Kaddosh). Oxford University Press. Vieira A, van der Linde I, Bright P, Wilkins A (2020), “Preference for lighting chromaticity in migraine with aura” Headache https://doi.org/10.1111/head.13801 2019Bright P, Filippi R (Eds.) (2019), “Perspectives on the ‘Bilingual Advantage’: Challenges and Opportunities” Frontiers Media. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01346 Bright P, Ouzia J, Filippi R. (2019), “Multilingualism and metacognition” In: Handbook of the neuroscience of multilingualism (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics series). Wiley-Blackwell. Filippi R, D'Souza D, Bright P. (2019), “A developmental approach to bilingual research: The effects of multi-language experience from early infancy to old age.” International Journal of Bilingualism 23:1195-1207 Ouzia J, Bright P, Filippi R (2019), “Attentional control in bilingualism: an exploration of the effects of trait anxiety and rumination on inhibition” Behavioral Sciences 9: 89. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs9080089 Papageorgiou A, Bright P, Periche-Tomas E, Filippi R. (2019), “Evidence against a cognitive advantage in the older bilingual population.” Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 72: 1354-1363 in pressBairaktari O, Bright P, Papageorgiou A, Periche-Tomas E, Filippi, R. (in press), “Multilingualism and Cognitive Development.” The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 2018Bright P, Hale E, Gooch VJ, Myhill TD, van der Linde I (2018), “The National Adult Reading Test: Restandardisation against the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale – Fourth Edition.” Neuropsychological Rehabilitation 28, 1019-1027. Mercure E, Quiroz I, Goldberg L, Bowden-Howl H, Coulson K, Gliga T, Filippi R, Bright P, Johnson MH, MacSweeney M. (2018), “Impact of language experience on attention to faces in infancy: evidence from unimodal and bimodal bilingual infants.” Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1943. Naeem K, Filippi R, Periche-Tomas E, Papageorgiou A, Bright P. (2018), “The importance of socioeconomic status as a modulator of the bilingual advantage in cognitive ability.” Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1818. van der Linde I, Bright P. (2018), “A genetic algorithm to find optimal reading test word subsets for estimating full-scale IQ.” PLOS ONE 13(10), e0205754. 2017Kerrigan L, Bright P, Thomas MSC, Filippi R (2017), “Evidence of an advantage in visuo-spatial memory for bilingual compared to monolingual speakers.” Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 20, 602-612. 2016Carroll EL, Bright P (2016), “Involvement of Spearman's g in conceptualisation versus execution of complex tasks.” Acta Psychologica 170: 112-126 Folke T, Ouzia J, Bright P, De Martino B, Filippi R (2016), “A bilingual disadvantage in metacognitive processing.” Cognition 150: 119-132 Jones LA, Hills PJ, Dick KM, Jones SP, Bright P (2016), “Cognitive mechanisms associated with auditory sensory gating.” Brain and Cognition 102: 3-45 Pinto AA, Bright P. (2016), “The biology of resilient beliefs.” Current Ethology. 15: 30-54. 2015Filippi R, Morris J, Richardson FM, Bright P, Thomas MSC, Karmiloff-Smith A, Marian V. (2015), “Bilingual children show an advantage in controlling verbal interference during spoken language comprehension” Bilingualism: Language & Cognition, 18, 490-501. 2014Bright P, Kopelman, MD (2014), “Autobiographical memory.” In M.J. Aminoff & R.B. Daroff (Eds.), Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences, 2nd Ed. (pp. 1036-1038). London: Elsevier Press. Filippi R, Rasetti M, Lenzi M, Bright P (2014), “Possible effects of pramipexole on neck muscles in a patient with Parkinson’s disease” Oxford Medical Case Reports 1: 8-10 2012Kopelman, MD, Bright, P (2012), “On remembering and forgetting our autobiographical pasts: Retrograde amnesia and Andrew Mayes's contribution to neuropsychological method.” Neuropsychologia 50: 2961-2972 2009Kopelman MD, Bright P, Fulker H, Hinton N, Morrison A, Verfaellie M (2009), “Remote semantic memory in patients with Korsakoff's syndrome and herpes encephalitis” Neuropsychology 2008Bright P, Moss HE, Stamatakis EA, Tyler LK (2008), “Longitudinal studies of semantic dementia: The relationship between structural and functional changes over time” Neuropsychologia Duncan J, Parr A, Woolgar A, Thompson R, Bright P, Cox S, Bishop S, Nimmo-Smith I (2008), “Goal neglect and Spearman's g: Competing parts of a complex task” Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 137: 131-148 2007Bright P, Moss HE, Longe O, Stamatakis EA, & Tyler LK (2007), “Conceptual Structure Modulates Anteromedial Temporal Involvement in Processing Verbally Presented Object Properties” Cerebral Cortex 17:1066-1073 Details Kopelman MD, Bright P, Buckman J, Fradera A, Yoshimasu H, Jacobson C, Colchester ACF (2007), “Recall and recognition memory in amnesia: patients with hippocampal, medial temporal, temporal lobe or frontal pathology” Neuropsychologia 45: 1232-1246 Noppeney U, Patterson K, Tyler LK, Moss H, Stamatakis EA, Bright P, Mummery C, Price CJ (2007), “Temporal lobe lesions and semantic impairment: a comparison of herpes simplex virus encephalitis and semantic dementia.” Brain 130(Pt 4):1138-47 Details 2006Bright P, Buckman J, Fradera A, Yoshimasu H, Colchester ACF, & Kopelman MD (2006), “ Retrograde amnesia in patients with hippocampal, medial temporal, temporal lobe, or frontal pathology” Learning and Memory 13:545-557 2005Bright P, Moss HE, Stamatakis EA, Tyler LK (2005), “The anatomy of object processing: The role of anteromedial temporal cortex” Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 58B:361-377 Details Bright P, Moss HE, Tyler LK (2005), “Invited commentary on Keith R Laws: "Illusions of normality": A methodological critique of category-specific naming.” Cortex 41: 852-853 Moss HE, Abdallah S, Fletcher P, Bright P, Pilgrim L, Acres K, Tyler LK (2005), “Selecting among competing alternatives: selection and retrieval in the left inferior frontal gyrus.” Cereb Cortex 15(11):1723-35 Details Moss HE, Rodd JM, Stamatakis EA, Bright P, Tyler LK (2005), “Anteromedial temporal cortex supports fine-grained differentiation among objects.” Cereb Cortex 15(5):616-27 Details Reed LJ, Lasserson D, Marsden P, Bright P, Stanhope N, Kopelman MD (2005), “Correlations of regional cerebral metabolism with memory performance and executive function in patients with herpes encephalitis or frontal lobe lesions.” Neuropsychology 19(5):555-65 Details 2004Bright P, Kopelman MD (2004), “Remote memory” In RG Morris & JT Becker (Eds.). The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Alzheimer's Disease. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 141-151 Bright P, Moss H, Tyler LK (2004), “Unitary vs multiple semantics: PET studies of word and picture processing.” Brain Lang 89(3):417-32 Details Tyler LK, Bright P, Fletcher P, Stamatakis EA (2004), “Neural processing of nouns and verbs: the role of inflectional morphology.” Neuropsychologia 42(4):512-23 Details Tyler LK, Stamatakis EA, Bright P, Acres K, Abdallah S, Rodd JM, Moss HE (2004), “Processing objects at different levels of specificity.” J Cogn Neurosci 16(3):351-62 Details Tyler LK, Stamatakis EA, Jones RW, Bright P, Acres K, Marslen-Wilson WD (2004), “Deficits for semantics and the irregular past tense: a causal relationship?” J Cogn Neurosci 16(7):1159-72 Details 2003Tyler LK, Bright P, Dick E, Tavares P, Pilgrim L, Fletcher P,Greer M, Moss HE (2003), “Do semantic categories activate distinct cortical regions? Evidence for a distributed neural semantic system.” Cognitive Neuropsychology 20: 541-559 Tyler LK, Stamatakis EA, Dick E, Bright P, Fletcher P, Moss H (2003), “Objects and their actions: evidence for a neurally distributed semantic system.” Neuroimage 18(2):542-57 Details 2002Bright P, Jaldow E, Kopelman MD (2002), “The National Adult Reading Test as a measure of premorbid intelligence: a comparison with estimates derived from demographic variables.” J Int Neuropsychol Soc 8(6):847-54 Details Rodd JM, Bright P, Moss HE (2002), “Tigers and teapots: what does it mean to be alive?” Trends Cogn Sci 6(10):409-410 Details 2001Bright P, Kopelman MD (2001), “Learning and memory: recent findings.” Curr Opin Neurol 14(4):449-55 Details 2000Bishop DVM, Bright P, James C, Bishop SJ, van der Lely HKJ (2000), “Grammatical SLI: a distinct subtype of developmental language impairment?” Applied Psycholinguistics 21: 159-181 1999Bishop DV, Bishop SJ, Bright P, James C, Delaney T, Tallal P (1999), “Different origin of auditory and phonological processing problems in children with language impairment: evidence from a twin study.” J Speech Lang Hear Res 42(1):155-68 Details 1996Bishop DV, Ross VA, Daniels MS, Bright P (1996), “The measurement of hand preference: a validation study comparing three groups of right-handers.” Br J Psychol 87 ( Pt 2):269-85 Details |