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Matt Davis

Research Staff, Speech and Language Group

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Matt Davis

Contact details

E-mail address: matt.davis@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)1223 355294 (extension 320)
Direct line: +44 (0)1223 273637
Fax: +44 (0)1223 359062
Address: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit,
15 Chaucer Road,
Cambridge,
CB2 7EF

Research areas

· Speech perception in challenging listening situations

· Word recognition and repetition priming

· Learning new words and their meanings

· Resolution of ambiguity in spoken language

· Recognising morphologically complex words

· Phonological processing and short-term memory

You can read more about my research by viewing my personal pages. You can view a full list of publications here.

CBU publications

Selected publications

  • Coleman, M.R., Rodd JM, DAVIS, M.H., Johnsrude IS, Menon DK, Pickard JD & OWEN A.M. (2007) Do vegetative patients retain aspects of language comprehension? Evidence from fMRI, Brain, 130(10), 2494-2507 #
  • DAVIS, M.H., Di Betta, A., Macdonald, M.J.E. & Gaskell, M.G. (2009) Learning and consolidation of novel spoken words, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(4), 803-820 #
  • DAVIS, M.H., Coleman M.R., Absalom A.R., Rodd J.M., Johnsrude I.S., Matta B.F., OWEN A.M. & Menon D.K. (2007) Dissociating speech perception and comprehension at reduced levels of awareness, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 104(41), 16032-16037 #
  • DAVIS, M.H. & Johnsrude, I.S. (2007) Hearing speech sounds: Top-down influences on the interface between audition and speech perception., Hearing Research, 229(1-2), 132-147 #
  • DAVIS, M.H., Johnsrude, I.S., HERVAIS-ADELMAN, A.G., TAYLOR, K.J. & Mcgettigan, C. (2005) Lexical Information Drives Perceptual Learning of Distorted Speech: Evidence From the Comprehension of Noise-Vocoded Sentences., Journal of Experimental Psychology - General, 134(2), 222-241 #
  • DAVIS, M.H. & JOHNSRUDE, I.S. (2003) Hierarchical Processing in Spoken Language Comprehension, Journal of Neuroscience, 23(8), 3423-3431 #
  • HAUK, O., DAVIS, M.H., Ford, M., PULVERMULLER, F. & MARSLEN-WILSON, W.D. (2006) The time course of visual word-recognition as revealed by linear regression analysis of ERP data, Neuroimage, 30(4),1383-1400 #
  • HERVAIS-ADELMAN A., DAVIS, M.H., Johnsrude I.S., and CARLYON, R.P (2008) Perceptual learning of noise vocoded words: effects of feedback and lexicality, JEP: Human Perception and Performance, 34(2), 460-474 #
  • ORFANIDOU, E., MARSLEN-WILSON, W.D. & DAVIS, M.H. (2006) Neural response suppression predicts repetition priming of spoken words and pseudowords, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18(8), 1237-1252 #
  • Rastle, K. & DAVIS, M.H. (2008) Morphological decomposition is based on the analysis of orthography, Language and Cognitive Processes, 23(7/8), 942-971 #
  • Rodd, J.M., DAVIS, M.H., JOHNSRUDE, I.S. (2005) The Neural Mechanisms of Speech Comprehension: fMRI studies of Semantic Ambiguity, Cerebral Cortex, 15(8), 1261-1269 #