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Jackie Masterson is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas within psychology, with a notable focus on developmental and educational psychology. This work intersects fields such as education, cognitive neuroscience, and experimental and cognitive psychology, reflecting a diverse scholarly interest.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Psychology

Within this broad area, their subfields of study are:

  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Education
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Surgery

Masterson's work addresses several specific topics, including:

  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Writing and Handwriting Education
  • Second Language Acquisition and Learning
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning

Their recent publication record includes several articles from 2020 to 2022. Notable examples are:

  • "Effects of Orthographic Forms on Second Language Speech Production and Phonological Awareness, With Consideration of Speaker-Level Predictors" (2020, Language Learning)
  • "Predictors of single word spelling in English speaking children: a cross sectional study" (2020, Journal of Research in Reading)
  • "Understanding differing outcomes from semantic and phonological interventions with children with word-finding difficulties: A group and case series study" (2020, Cortex)
  • "The efficacy of grapheme-phoneme correspondence instruction in reducing the effect of orthographic forms on second language phonology" (2022, Applied Psycholinguistics)
  • "Spelling predictors; investigating the role of phonological ability and rapid naming in a large cross-sectional British study" (2022, Learning and Instruction)

Frequent publication venues for Masterson's research include:

  • Learning and Instruction
  • Preschool and Primary Education
  • The Journal of Sexual Medicine
  • Language Learning
  • Journal of Research in Reading

Masterson has collaborated multiple times with a consistent group of coauthors. These frequent collaborators are:

  • Georgia Niolaki
  • Aris Terzopoulos
  • Janet I. Vousden
  • Bene Bassetti
  • Tania Cerni

Best Publications

  • Surface dyslexia: neuropsychological and cognitive studies of phonological reading

    K. E. Patterson;J. C. Marshall;M. Coltheart

  • Noun and verb differences in picture naming: past studies and new evidence.

    Simone Mätzig;Judit Druks;Jackie Masterson;Gabriella Vigliocco

  • Surface Dyslexia

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  • Children's printed word database: Continuities and changes over time in children's early reading vocabulary

    Jackie Masterson;Morag Stuart;Maureen Dixon;Sophie Lovejoy

  • The word-length effect and disyllabic words.

    Peter Lovatt;S.E. Avons;Jackie Masterson

  • How long do the advantages of learning to read a transparent orthography last? An investigation of the reading skills and reading impairment of Welsh children at 10 years of age.

    J. Richard Hanley;Jackie Masterson;Llinos H. Spencer;Dylan Evans

  • Interpretable vs. uninterpretable features: Evidence from six Greek-speaking agrammatic patients

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  • Patterns of reading and spelling in 10-year-old children related to prereading phonological abilities

    Morag Stuart;Jackie Masterson

  • Is action naming better preserved (than object naming) in Alzheimer's disease and why should we ask?

    Judit Druks;Jackie Masterson;Michael Kopelman;Linda Clare

  • Description of a set of 164 nounsand 102 verbs matched for printed word frequency, familiarityand age-of-acquisition

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  • The development of picture naming: Differences between verbs and nouns

    Jules Davidoff;Jackie Masterson

  • The Children's Printed Word Database

    Jackie Masterson;Morag Stuart;Maureen Dixon;D Lovejoy

  • Object and action picture naming in three- and five-year-old children.

    Jackie Masterson;Judit Druks;Donna Gallienne

  • Are children's representations of words distributed? effects of orthographic neighbourhood size, consistency and regularity of naming

    Veronica Laxon;Jackie Masterson;Roni Moran

  • Spongelike acquisition of sight vocabulary in beginning readers?

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  • Children's early reading vocabulary: Description and word frequency lists

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  • Posttraumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury: Are they mutually exclusive?

    Stephen Joseph;Jackie Masterson

  • Developmental Surface Dyslexia in Italian

    Remo Job;Giuseppe Sartori;Jacqueline Masterson;Max Coltheart

  • The relationship between phonological awareness and the development of orthographic representations

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  • Evidence for semantic involvement in regular and exception word reading in emergent readers of English

    Jessie Ricketts;Robert Aye Imanol Davies;Jackie Masterson;Morag Stuart

  • Nonword naming: further exploration of the pseudohomophone effect in terms of orthographic neighborhood size, graphemic changes, spelling-sound consistency, and reader accuracy

    Veronica J. Laxon;Jackie Masterson;Maggie Pool;Corriene Keating

  • Selective naming (and comprehension) deficits in Alzheimer's disease?

    Jackie Masterson;Judit Druks;Michael Kopelman;Linda Clare

  • Reduced orthographic learning in dyslexic adult readers: Evidence from patterns of letter search

    Nicola J. Pitchford;Timothy Ledgeway;Jackie Masterson

  • Effects of orthographic forms on second language speech production and phonological awareness, with consideration of speaker-level predictors

    Bene Bassetti;Paolo Mairano;Jackie Masterson;Tania Cerni

  • Classroom Implications of Recent Research into Literacy Development: From Predictors to Assessment

    Laura R. Shapiro;Jane Hurry;Jackie Masterson;Taeko N. Wydell

  • Spelling development in 6-11 year-old Greek-speaking Cypriot children

    Nataly Loizidou-Ieridou;Jackie Masterson;J. Richard Hanley

  • HelexKids: A word frequency database for Greek and Cypriot primary school children

    Aris R. Terzopoulos;Lynne G. Duncan;Mark A. J. Wilson;Georgia Z. Niolaki

  • Transfer effects in spelling from transparent Greek to opaque English in seven-to-ten-year-old children

    Georgia Z. Niolaki;Jackie Masterson

  • Surface Dyslexia in a Language Without Irregularly Spelled Words

    J. Masterson;M. Coltheart;P. Meara

  • Predictors of single word spelling in English‐speaking children: A cross‐sectional study

    Georgia Z. Niolaki;Janet Vousden;Aris R. Terzopoulos;Aris R. Terzopoulos;Laura M. Taylor

  • Varieties of developmental dyslexia in Greek children

    Georgia Z. Niolaki;Aris R. Terzopoulos;Jackie Masterson

  • Effects of Orthographic Forms on the Acquisition of Novel Spoken Words in a Second Language

    Tania Cerni;Bene Bassetti;Jackie Masterson

  • Phonological Skill, Lexical Decision and Letter Report Performance in Good and Poor Adult Spellers.

    Jackie Masterson;Veronica Laxon;Sophie Lovejoy;Victoria Morris

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael S.C. Thomas
Michael S.C. Thomas Birkbeck, University of London
David Howard
David Howard Newcastle University
J. Richard Hanley
J. Richard Hanley University of Essex
Tony Charman
Tony Charman King's College London
Linda Clare
Linda Clare University of Exeter
Jane Hurry
Jane Hurry University College London
Michael D. Kopelman
Michael D. Kopelman King's College London
Gabriella Vigliocco
Gabriella Vigliocco University College London

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