EMAIL peter.bright@aru.ac.uk

College Darwin College

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Research Theme Neurons, Circuits and Networks Adaptive Brain Computations Lifelong Brain Development and Brain Ageing

Research Focus

Keywords

Memory

Intelligence

Assessment

Bilingualism

Conceptual Knowledge

Cognitive Neuropychology

Clinical Conditions

Amnesia

Cognitive impairment

Frontotemporal dementia

Equipment & Techniques

Neuropsychological testing

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Science Culture

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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).