Research Interests

I am interested in the consequences of brain damage on specific cognitive functions (Cognitive Neuropsychology) – in particular, disorders of reading (dyslexia), speech production (aphasia), memory (amnesia) and face processing (prosopagnosia). In each case the work seeks to better illuminate the processing components of these specific functions in the normal population.

Selected Publications

Coltheart, M., Tree, J. J. & Saunders, S (2010) Computational modelling of the effects of semantic dementia on visual word recognition, Cognitive Neuropsychology, 27 (2), 101-114.

Tree, J. J. & Wilkie, J. (2010). Face and object imagery in congenital prosopagnosia: A case series. Cortex, 46, (9), 1189-1198.

Coltheart, M., Tree, J. J. & Saunders, S. J. (2010). Computational modelling of reading in semantic dementia: Comment on Woollams, Lambon Ralph, Plaut and Patterson (2007). Psychological Review, 117 (1), 256-271.

Bate, S., Haslam, C., Tree, J. J. & Hodgson, T. L. (2008) Evidence of an eye movement-based memory effect in congenital prosopagnosia, Cortex, 44 (7), 806-819.

Tree, J. J. (2008) Two types of phonological dyslexia - a contemporary review, Cortex, 44 (6), 698-706.