Prof Alan Garnham

Biography

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I came to Sussex in 1977 to study for a doctorate and have been here ever since, apart from one year as a Sloan Pre-doctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and two years lecturing at the University of Reading. I have been employed successively as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, a New Blood Lecturer, a Reader and, since 1999, as a Professor.

My primary research interests are in psycholinguistics, and in particular inference and anaphor resolution in text comprehension, and nonsyntactic influences in sentence processing. I am also interested in belief bias effects in reasoning and in the relation between language development and the developing theory of mind.

I currently teach on the following modules:

Cognitive Psychology (year 2)

Linear Models in Statistics (M-level)

Advanced Research Methods in Psychology (M-level)

I convene

Linear Models in Statistics (M-level)

Research Internship (M-Level)

I am Programme Director for

MRes Psychological Methods

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Fossard, Marion, Garnham, Alan and Cowles, H Wind (2012) Between anaphora and deixis...the resolution of the demonstrative noun-phrase 'that N'. Language and Cognitive Processes, 27 (9). pp. 1385-1404. ISSN 1464-0732

Garnham, Alan, Gabriel, Ute, Sarrasin, Oriane, Gygax, Pascal and Oakhill, Jane (2012) Gender representation in different languages and grammatical marking on pronouns: when beauticians, musicians, and mechanics remain men. Discourse Processes, 49 (6). pp. 481-500. ISSN 1532-6950

Fossard, Marion, Garnham, Alan and Cowles, H Wind (2011) Between anaphora and deixis... the resolution of the demonstrative noun phrase "that N". Language and Cognitive Processes, 27 (9). pp. 1385-1404. ISSN 0169-0965

Oakhill, Jane, Yuill, Nicola and Garnham, Alan (2011) The differential relations between verbal, numerical and spatial working memory abilities and children's reading comprehension. International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education , 4 (1). pp. 83-106. ISSN 1307-9298

Garnham, Alan and Cowles, H Wind (2011) Mental models and noun phrase anaphora. In: Relations between Language and Memory. Peter Lang, pp. 267-291. ISBN 978-3-631-57753-0

Hald, Lea A, Marshall, Julie-Ann, Janssen, Dirk P and Garnham, Alan (2011) Switching modalities in a sentence verification task: ERP evidence for embodied language processing. Frontiers in Psychology, 2 (45). pp. 1-15. ISSN 1664-1078

Ferstl, Evelyn C, Garnham, Alan and Manouilidou, Christina (2011) Implicit causality bias in English: a corpus of 300 verbs. Behavior Research Methods, 43 (1). pp. 124-135. ISSN 1554-351X

Garnham, Alan and Cowles, H Wind (2011) Noun-phrase anaphor resolution: Antecedent focus, semantic overlap and the Informational Load Hypothesis. In: The processing and acquisition of reference. MIT Press, pp. 297-322. ISBN 9780262015127

Oakhill, Jane, Yuill, Nicola and Garnham, Alan (2011) The differential relations between verbal, numerical and spatial working memory abilities and children's reading comprehension. International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 4 (1). pp. 83-106. ISSN 1307-9298

Garnham, Alan (2009) Cognitivism. In: The Routledge companion to philosophy of psychology. Routledge, pp. 99-110. ISBN 9780415396325

Garnham, Alan and Cowles, Wind (2008) Looking both ways: The JANUS model of noun phrase anaphor processing. In: Reference: Interdisciplinary perspectives. Oxford University Press, pp. 246-272. ISBN 978-0-19-533163-9

Jacobs, Naomi and Garnham, Alan (2007) The role of conversational hand gestures in a narrative task. Journal of Memory and Language, 56 (2). pp. 291-303. ISSN 0749-596X

Crinean, Marcelle and Garnham, Alan (2006) Implicit causality, implicit consequentiality and semantic roles. Language and Cognitive Processes, 21. 636-648.. ISSN 0169-0965

Reynolds, David J, Garnham, Alan and Oakhill, Jane (2006) Evidence of immediate activation of gender information from a social role name. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59 (5). pp. 886-903. ISSN 1747-0218

Cowles, H Wind and Garnham, Alan (2005) Antecedent focus and conceptual distance effects in category noun-phrase anaphora. Language and Cognitive Processes, 20 (6). pp. 725-750. ISSN 0169-0965

Oakhill, J, Garnham, A and Reynolds, D (2005) Immediate activation of stereotypical gender information. Memory and Cognition, 33 (6). pp. 972-983. ISSN 0090-502X

Garnham, Alan and Oakhill, Jane (2005) Accounting for belief bias in a mental models framework: Comment on Klauer, Musch, and Naumer (2000). Psychological Review, 112 (2). pp. 509-518. ISSN 0033-295X

Cornish, Francis, Garnham, Alan, Cowles, H. Wind, Fossard, Marion and André, Virginie (2005) Indirect anaphora in English and French: A cross-linguistic study of pronoun resolution. Journal of Memory and Language, 52 (3). pp. 363-376. ISSN 0749-596X

Gygax, Pascal, Garnham, Alan and Oakhill, Jane (2004) Inferring characters' emotional states: Can readers infer specific emotions? Language and Cognitive Processes, 19. pp. 613-639. ISSN 0169-0965

Ruffman, Ted, Slade, Lance, Rowlandson, Kate, Rumsey, Charlotte and Garnham, Alan (2003) How language relates to belief, desire, and emotion understanding. Cognitive Development, 18 (2). pp. 139-158. ISSN 0885-2014

Simner, Julia, Pickering, Martin and Garnham, Alan (2003) Discourse cues to ambiguity resolution: Evidence from "do it" comprehension. Discourse Processes (36). pp. 1-17.

Perner, Josef, Brandl, Johannes L. and Garnham, Alan (2003) What is a perspective problem? Developmental issues in belief ascription and dual identity. Facta Philosophica, 5. pp. 355-378.

Gygax, Pascal, Oakhill, Jane and Garnham, Alan (2003) The representation of characters' emotional responses: Do readers infer specific emotions? Cognition and Emotion, 17 (413-42). ISSN 0269-9931

Garnham, Alan, Oakhill, Jane and Reynolds, David (2002) Are inferences from stereotyped role names to characters' gender made elaborately? Memory and Cognition, 30 (3). pp. 439-446. ISSN 0090-502X

Garnham, Alan (2001) Mental models and the interpretation of anaphora. Essays in Cognitive Psychology . Psychology Press. ISBN 9781841691282

Garnham, Wendy, Brooks, Julie, Garnham, Alan and Ostenfeld, Anne-Marie (2000) From synonyms to homonyms: Exploring the role of metarepresentation in language understanding. Developmental Science, 4. pp. 428-441.

Garnham, Alan, Oakhill, Jane, Ehrlich, Marie-France and Carreiras, Manuel (1995) Representations and processes in the interpretation of pronouns: New evidence from Spanish and French. Journal of Memory and Language, 34. pp. 41-62.

Altmann, Gerry, Garnham, Alan and Dennis, Yvette (1992) Avoiding the garden path: Eye movements in context. Journal of Memory and Language, 31. pp. 685-712.