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A/PROF ANNE CASTLES



Contact Details

Organization: Behavioural Science
Position: Honorary (Principal Fellow)
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Homepage: http://www.psych.unimelb.edu.au/people/staff/CastlesA.html
Work: 8344 4452
Mobile: 0413 183 493
Fax: 8344 9780
Building: Redmond Barry Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Reading Development, Dyslexia, Reading and Language Processes Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United Kingdom University of Oxford Exchange, Research
United States University of Colorado at Boulder Exchange, Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science The Australian National University
Doctor of Philosophy Macquarie University

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
LANGUAGE SPECIFIC SPEECH PERCEPTION: A MECHANISM FOR LANGUAGE ACQUISITION Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2003
Does phonological awareness help children learn to read? Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2004
Reconciling perceptual and cognitive accounts of dyslexia: The neural rate deficit hypothesis Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Genetic and environmental bases of reading and spelling: A unified genetic dual route model
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Reading and Writing
    Volume: 20
    Page numbers: 147-171
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  • Orthographic learning via self-teaching in children learning to read English: Effects of exposure, durability, and context
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
    Volume: 96
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 71-84
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  • The impact of progressive semantic loss on reading aloud
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Cognitive Neuropsychology
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 162-186
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • How does orthographic learning happen?
    Year: 2006
    Book: From Inkmarks to Ideas: Current issues in lexical processing
    Publisher: Psychology Press(Hove)
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  • John Marshall and the developmental dyslexias
    Year: 2006
    Book: The Representation of Language in the Brain
    Publisher: Psychology Press(Hove)
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Journal Articles

  • A test of the magnocellular deficit theory of dyslexia in an adult sample
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Cognitive Neuropsychology
    Volume: 23
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 1215-1229
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  • Cognitive modelling and the behaviour genetics of reading
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Research in Reading
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 92-103
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  • Effects of consistency and age of acquisition on reading and spelling among developing readers
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Reading and Writing
    Volume: 19
    Page numbers: 133-169
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  • Replication of reported linkages for dyslexia and spelling and suggestive evidence for novel regions on chromosomes 4 and 17
    Year: 2006
    Journal: European Journal of Human Genetics
    Volume: 10
    Page numbers: 1-10
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  • The dual route model and the developmental dyslexias
    Year: 2006
    Journal: London Review of Education
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 49-61
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Sequential processing in hemispheric word recognition: The impact of initial letter discriminability on the OUP naming effect
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Brain and Language
    Volume: 93
    Page numbers: 160-172
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Auditory temporal pattern discrimination and reading ability
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
    Volume: 47
    Page numbers: 1237-1243
    Publisher: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association(Maryland)
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  • Is there a causal link from phonological awareness to success in learning to read?
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Cognition
    Volume: 91
    Page numbers: 77-111
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Contrast sensitivity in subgroups of developmental dyslexia.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Vision Research
    Volume: 43
    Page numbers: 467-477
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • How does orthographic knowledge influence performance on phonological awareness tasks?
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A - Human Experimental Psychology
    Volume: 56A
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 445-467
    Publisher: Psychology Press(Hove)
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  • The effect of orthographic uniqueness and deviation points on lexical decisions: Evidence from unilateral and bilateral-redundant presentations.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A - Human Experimental Psychology
    Volume: 56A
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 287-307
    Publisher: Psychology Press(Hove)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • The Effect of Word Length on Hemispheric Word Recognition: Evidence from Unilateral and Bilateral-Redundant Presentations
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Brain and Cognition
    Volume: 48
    Page numbers: 447-452
    Publisher: Academic Press(California)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Can contrast sensitivity functions in dyslexia be explained by inattention rather than a magnocellular deficit?
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Vision Research
    Volume: 41
    Page numbers: 3205-3211
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Lapses of concentration and dyslexic performance on the Ternus task
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Cognition
    Volume: 81
    Page numbers: B21-B31
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Unexpectedly poor spelling in university students
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Scientific Studies of Reading
    Volume: 5
    Page numbers: 319-350
    Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates(New Jersey)
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