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Anne Castles is affiliated with Macquarie University in Australia and has contributed extensively to research in psychology and neuroscience, with a particular focus on developmental and educational psychology.

The main fields of study for Anne Castles include:

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Within these fields, they focus on subfields such as:

  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Education
  • Statistics and Probability
  • Clinical Psychology

Their research covers multiple topics related to language, reading, and learning including:

  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Writing and Handwriting Education
  • Hearing Impairment and Communication
  • Second Language Acquisition and Learning
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills

Anne Castles has published several papers in notable journals. Recent publications include:

  • "Cognitive Precursors of Reading: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective" (2021), Scientific Studies of Reading
  • "Tracking the Relations Between Children's Reading and Emotional Health Across Time: Evidence From Four Large Longitudinal Studies" (2021), Reading Research Quarterly
  • "Tracking the evolution of orthographic expectancies over building visual experience" (2020), Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • "Teaching Children to Read Irregular Words: A Comparison of Three Instructional Methods" (2022), Scientific Studies of Reading
  • "Learning morphologically complex spoken words: Orthographic expectations of embedded stems are formed prior to print exposure." (2020), Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Anne Castles on multiple publications include:

  • Signy Wegener
  • Hua-Chen Wang
  • Elisabeth Beyersmann
  • Kate Nation
  • Danielle Colenbrander

Their work often appears in journals where they have multiple publications, such as:

  • Scientific Studies of Reading
  • Reading Research Quarterly
  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Reading and Writing

Best Publications

  • Varieties of developmental dyslexia

    Anne Castles;Max Coltheart

  • Ending the reading wars: reading acquisition from novice to expert

    Anne Castles;Kathleen Rastle;Kate Nation

  • Is there a causal link from phonological awareness to success in learning to read

    Anne Castles;Max Coltheart

  • Varieties of Developmental Reading Disorder: Genetic and Environmental Influences

    Anne Castles;Helen Datta;Javier Gayan;Richard K. Olson

  • Orthographic learning via self-teaching in children learning to read English: effects of exposure, durability, and context.

    Kate Nation;Philip Angell;Anne Castles

  • Cognitive Correlates of Developmental Surface Dyslexia: A Single Case Study.

    Anne Castles

  • Getting to the bottom of orthographic depth.

    Xenia Schmalz;Xenia Schmalz;Eva Marinus;Max Coltheart;Anne Castles

  • Tracking the acquisition of orthographic skills in developing readers: masked priming effects.

    Anne Castles;Chris Davis;Chris Davis;Pauline Cavalot;Kenneth Forster

  • How does orthographic learning happen

    Anne Castles;Kate Nation

  • How does orthographic knowledge influence performance on phonological awareness tasks

    Anne Castles;V. M Holmes;Joanna Neath;Sachiko Kinoshita

  • Phonics training for English‐speaking poor readers

    Genevieve McArthur;Philippa M. Eve;Kristy Jones;Erin Banales

  • Assessing the basic components of reading: A revision of the Castles and Coltheart test with new norms

    Anne Castles;Max Coltheart;Linda Larsen;Pip Jones

  • Can contrast sensitivity functions in dyslexia be explained by inattention rather than a magnocellular deficit

    Geoffrey W Stuart;Ken I McAnally;Ken I McAnally;Anne Castles;Anne Castles

  • Sight Word and Phonics Training in Children With Dyslexia

    Genevieve McArthur;Anne Castles;Saskia Kohnen;Linda Larsen

  • Context effects on orthographic learning of regular and irregular words.

    Hua Chen Wang;Anne Castles;Lyndsey Nickels;Kate Nation

  • Morphological processing during visual word recognition in developing readers: Evidence from masked priming

    Elisabeth Beyersmann;Anne Castles;Max Coltheart

  • A haplotype spanning KIAA0319 and TTRAP is associated with normal variation in reading and spelling ability.

    Michelle Luciano;Penelope A. Lind;David L. Duffy;Anne Castles

  • Contrast sensitivity in subgroups of developmental dyslexia

    Monica J. Williams;Geoffrey W. Stuart;Anne Castles;Ken I. McAnally

  • Automatic activation of orthography in spoken word recognition: Pseudohomograph priming

    Marcus Taft;Anne E Castles;Chris Davis;Goran Lazendic

  • Chicken or egg? Untangling the relationship between orthographic processing skill and reading accuracy

    S. Hélène Deacon;Jenna Benere;Anne Castles

  • Ending the Reading Wars: Reading Acquisition From Novice to Expert (vol 19, pg 5, 2018)

    A Castles;K Rastle;K Nation

Frequent Co-Authors

Max Coltheart
Max Coltheart Macquarie University
Genevieve McArthur
Genevieve McArthur Macquarie University
Kate Nation
Kate Nation University of Oxford
Lyndsey Nickels
Lyndsey Nickels Macquarie University
Timothy C. Bates
Timothy C. Bates University of Edinburgh
Michelle Luciano
Michelle Luciano University of Edinburgh
Greg Savage
Greg Savage Macquarie University
Nicholas G. Martin
Nicholas G. Martin QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Kevin Wheldall
Kevin Wheldall Macquarie University
Naama Friedmann
Naama Friedmann Tel Aviv University

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