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Overview

M. Gareth Gaskell is affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom. Their research centers on cognitive neuroscience and psychology, with a significant focus on topics related to sleep, memory, and language processing.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Subfields where their work is concentrated are:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Artificial Intelligence

The primary topics covered in their research encompass:

  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Sleep and related disorders
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Language Development and Disorders

Frequent publication venues for M. Gareth Gaskell include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Memory and Language
  • Cognition
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • Cerebral Cortex

They have collaborated repeatedly with several coauthors, including:

  • Scott A. Cairney
  • Lisa Henderson
  • Victoria C. P. Knowland
  • Elaine van Rijn
  • Matthew HC Mak

Some of their recent publications are:

  • The relationship between sentence comprehension and lexical-semantic retuning, 2020, Journal of Memory and Language
  • Targeted memory reactivation during sleep can induce forgetting of overlapping memories, 2022, Learning & Memory
  • Word-meaning priming extends beyond homonyms, 2022, Cognition
  • Sleep-dependent consolidation in children with comprehension and vocabulary weaknesses: it'll be alright on the night?, 2020, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Episodic memory and sleep are involved in the maintenance of context-specific lexical information., 2023, Journal of Experimental Psychology General

Best Publications

  • Integrating Form and Meaning: A Distributed Model of Speech Perception.

    M. Gareth Gaskell;William D. Marslen-Wilson

  • A complementary systems account of word learning: neural and behavioural evidence

    Matthew H. Davis;M. Gareth Gaskell

  • Sleep Spindle Activity is Associated with the Integration of New Memories and Existing Knowledge

    Jakke Tamminen;Jessica D. Payne;Robert Stickgold;Erin J. Wamsley

  • Sleep-Associated Changes in the Mental Representation of Spoken Words

    Nicolas Dumay;M. Gareth Gaskell

  • The Oxford handbook of psycholinguistics

    M. Gareth Gaskell;Gerry T. M. Altmann

  • Lexical competition and the acquisition of novel words

    M.Gareth Gaskell;Nicolas Dumay

  • Learning and consolidation of novel spoken words

    Matthew H. Davis;Anna Maria Di Betta;Mark J. E. Macdonald;M. Gareth Gaskell

  • Representation and competition in the perception of spoken words

    M. Gareth Gaskell;William D. Marslen-Wilson

  • Leading up the lexical garden path: Segmentation and ambiguity in spoken word recognition

    Matthew H. Davis;William D. Marslen-Wilson;M. Gareth Gaskell

  • Modelling the effects of semantic ambiguity in word recognition

    Jennifer M. Rodd;M. Gareth Gaskell;William D. Marslen-Wilson

  • Consolidation of vocabulary is associated with sleep in children

    Lisa-Marie Henderson;Anna R. Weighall;Helen Brown;M. Gareth Gaskell

  • Reading spoken words: Orthographic effects in auditory priming

    Céline Chéreau;M. Gareth Gaskell;Nicolas Dumay

  • Ambiguity, competition, and blending in spoken word recognition

    M. Gareth Gaskell;William D. Marslen–Wilson

  • A consensus-based transparency checklist

    Balazs Aczel;Barnabas Szaszi;Alexandra Sarafoglou;Zoltan Kekecs

  • Lexical Ambiguity Resolution and Spoken Word Recognition: Bridging the Gap

    M.Gareth Gaskell;William D. Marslen-Wilson

  • Novel word integration in the mental lexicon: Evidence from unmasked and masked semantic priming:

    Jakke Tamminen;M. Gareth Gaskell

  • Learning new meanings for old words: effects of semantic relatedness

    Jennifer M. Rodd;Richard Berriman;Matt Landau;Theresa Lee

  • A connectionist model of phonological representation in speech perception

    M. Gareth Gaskell;Mary Hare;William D. Marslen-Wilson

  • Newly learned spoken words show long-term lexical competition effects

    Jakke Tamminen;M. Gareth Gaskell

  • Accent modulates access to word meaning: Evidence for a speaker-model account of spoken word recognition.

    Zhenguang Garry Cai;Zhenguang Garry Cai;Rebecca A. Gilbert;Matthew H. Davis;M. Gareth Gaskell

  • Modelling regressive and progressive effects of assimilation in speech perception

    M.Gareth Gaskell

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew H. Davis
Matthew H. Davis University of Cambridge
William D. Marslen-Wilson
William D. Marslen-Wilson University of Cambridge
Jennifer M. Rodd
Jennifer M. Rodd University College London
Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky
Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky University of South Australia
Scott O. Lilienfeld
Scott O. Lilienfeld Emory University
Matthias Schlesewsky
Matthias Schlesewsky University of South Australia
Courtenay Frazier Norbury
Courtenay Frazier Norbury University College London
Daniel J. Simons
Daniel J. Simons University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alexandra M. Freund
Alexandra M. Freund University of Zurich
Dolores Albarracín
Dolores Albarracín University of Pennsylvania

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