BA, PhD

Semantic, morphological and phonological aspects of aphasia; neuropsychology of language; conceptual organisation of semantic memory. Teaching Dissertation Supervision Interests: Language processing, semantic representation, aphasia, acquired dyslexia, language & WM.

Currently teaching on the following modules: Biological & Cognitive Psychology(PSY2013), Language & Communications (PSY3014) ,Research methods (PSY1012), Msc Health Psychology (PSY4110).

Publications

Justus, T., Larsen, J.,Yang, J.,de Mornay Davies, P., Dronkers, N., & Swick, D. (submitted). The role of Broca's area in regular past-tense morphology: An event-related potential study. Neuropsychologia

Brunswick, N., McDougall, S. & de Mornay Davies, P. (Eds.) (2010). Reading and Dyslexia in Different Orthographies. Hove, Psychology Press.

McDougall, S., Brunswick, N., & de Mornay Davies, P. (2010). Readingand dyslexia in different orthographies: An introduction and overview. In N. Brunswick, S. McDougall, & P. de Mornay Davies, (Eds.) Reading and Dyslexia in Different Orthographies. Hove, Psychology Press.

Justus, T.,Yang, J., Larsen, J., de Mornay Davies, P. & Swick, D. (2009).An event-related potential study of cross-modal morphological and phonological priming. Journal of Neurolinguistics 22, 584-604.

Justus, T., Larsen, J., de Mornay Davies, P. & Swick, D. (2008). Interpreting dissociations between regular and irregular past-tense morphology: Evidence from event-related potentials. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience 8, 178-194.

de Mornay Davies, P., & Funnell, E. (2003). Ease of predication does not account for imageability effects in performance: A reply to Jones (2002). Brain & Language87, 305-310.

Moss, H.M., Kopelman, M., Cappelletti, M., de Mornay Davies, P., & Jaldow, E. (2003). Lost for words or loss of memories? Autobiographical memory in semantic dementia. Cognitive Neuropsychology20, 703-732.

Tyler, L.K., de Mornay Davies, P., Anokhina, R., Longworth, C., Randall, B., & Marslen-Wilson, W.D. (2002). Dissociations in processing past tense morphology: Neuropathology and behavioral studies.Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 14, 79-94.

de Mornay Davies, P., & Funnell, E. (2000). Semantic representation and Ease of Predication.Brain & Language 73, 92-119.

de Mornay Davies, P. (1998). Automatic semantic priming: The contribution of lexical and semantic level processes. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology 10, 389-412.

Funnell, E., & de Mornay Davies, P. (1996). JBR: A reassessment of concept familiarity and a category-specific disorder for living things. Neurocase 2, 461-474.

Downes, J.J., Davis, E.J., de Mornay Davies, P., Perfect, T.J., Wilson, K., Mayes, A.R., & Sagar, H.J. (1996). Stem-completion priming in Alzheimer's disease: The importance of target word articulation. Neuropsychologia 34, 63-75.

Perfect, T.J., Downes, J.J., de Mornay Davies, P., & Wilson, K. (1992). Preserved implicit memory for lexical information in Alzheimer's disease. Perceptual and Motor Skills 74, 747-754.