Professor Kathy Rastle

BA (Pomona College), PhD (Macquarie University)

Professor of Cognitive Psychology   Email: kathy.rastle@rhul.ac.uk   Room: W343/3   Fax: 01784 434347   Telephone: 01784 443716         Responsibilities:     - Director of Research

Research Interests

My research aims to uncover the nature of the mental representations and computations that underlie aspects of human cognition, within a Cognitive Science perspective that includes Psychology (cognitive psychology and neuropsychology), Computer Science (computational modelling), and Linguistics (experimental phonetics). Within the broad area of human cognition, my primary interest lies in understanding fundamental aspects of the normal language system - in particular, visual word recognition, reading aloud, and speech production - and how they become impaired as the result of brain damage or abnormal development. My work is funded by project grants from the BBSRC, ESRC, British Academy, and Leverhulme Trust.

1. Rastle, K., Havelka, J., Wydell, T.N., Coltheart, M., Besner D (2009).  The cross-script length effect: Further evidence challenging PDP models of reading aloud..  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 35: 238-246.

2. Rastle, K, Davis, MH (2008).  Morphological decomposition based on the analysis of orthography.  Language and Cognitive Processes. 23, 942-971.Download

3. Rastle K, Brysbaert M (2006).   Masked phonological priming effects in English: Are they real? Do they matter? .  Cognitive Psychology. 53, 97-145.

4. Havelka J, Rastle K (2005).   The assembly of phonology from print is serial and subject to strategic control: Evidence from Serbian. .  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition. 31, 148-158.

5. Rastle K, Croot K, Harrington J, Coltheart M (2005).   Characterizing the motor execution stage of speech production: Consonantal influences on delayed naming latency and onset duration. .  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance.. 31, 1083-1095.

6. Rastle K, Davis M H, New B (2004).  The broth in my brother's brothel: Morpho-orthographic segmentation in visual word recognition.  Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 11, 1090-1098.

1. Crepaldi, D, Rastle, K , Davis, C (In press).  Morphemes in their place: Evidence for position-specific identification of suffixes.  Memory & Cognition.

2. McCormick, S.F. , Rastle, K, Davis, MH (2009).  Adore-able not adorable? Orthographic underspecification studied with masked repetition priming.  European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 21: 813-836.

3. McCormick, SF, Brysbaert, M, Rastle, K (2009).  Is morphological decomposition limited to low-frequency words?.  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 1706-1715.

4. Rastle, K., Havelka, J., Wydell, T.N., Coltheart, M., Besner D (2009).  The cross-script length effect: Further evidence challenging PDP models of reading aloud..  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 35: 238-246.

5. McCormick SF, Rastle K, Davis MH (2008).  Is there a 'fete' in 'fetish'?: Effects of orthographic opacity on morpho-orthographic segmentation in visual word recognition.  Journal of Memory & Language. 58, 307-326.

6. Rastle, K, Davis, MH (2008).  Morphological decomposition based on the analysis of orthography.  Language and Cognitive Processes. 23, 942-971.Download

7. Gold B, Rastle K (2007).  Neural correlates of morphological decomposition during visual word recognition.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 19, 1983-1993.

8. Lavric A, Clapp A, Rastle K (2007).  ERP evidence of morphological analysis from orthography: a masked priming study.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 19, 866-877.

9. Rastle K, Brysbaert M (2006).   Masked phonological priming effects in English: Are they real? Do they matter? .  Cognitive Psychology. 53, 97-145.

10. Rastle K, Coltheart M (2006).  Is there serial processing in the reading system; and are there local representations?. In Andrews S (Eds.),  From inkmarks to ideas: Current issues in lexical processing. Hove: Psychology Press 3-24.

11. Rastle, K, Tyler L K, Marslen-Wilson W D (2006).  New evidence for morphological errors in deep dyslexia..  Brain & Language. 97, 189-199.

12. Frost R, Grainger J, Rastle K (2005).  Current issues in morphological processing. New York: Psychology Press

13. Frost R, Grainger J, Rastle K (2005).  Current issues in morphological processing: An introduction.  Language and Cognitive Processes. 20, 1-5.

14. Havelka J, Rastle K (2005).   The assembly of phonology from print is serial and subject to strategic control: Evidence from Serbian. .  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition. 31, 148-158.

15. Rastle K, Croot K, Harrington J, Coltheart M (2005).   Characterizing the motor execution stage of speech production: Consonantal influences on delayed naming latency and onset duration. .  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance.. 31, 1083-1095.

16. Kinoshita S, Lupker S J, Rastle K (2004).  Modulation of regularity and lexicality effects in reading aloud.  Memory and Cognition. 32, 1255-1264.

17. New B, Brysbaert M, Ferrand L (2004).  The processing of singular and plural nouns in French and English.  Journal of Memory and Language. 51, 568-585.

18. Rastle K, Davis M H, New B (2004).  The broth in my brother's brothel: Morpho-orthographic segmentation in visual word recognition.  Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 11, 1090-1098.

19. Rastle K, Davis MH (2003).  Reading morphologically-complex words: Some thoughts from masked priming.. In Kinoshita S & Lupker SJ (Eds.),  Masked priming: State of the art. Hove: Psychology Press

20. Rastle K, Kinoshita S, Lupker S J (2003).  Cross-task strategic effects.  Memory and Cognition. 31, 867-876.

21. Roberts M, Rastle K, Coltheart M (2003).  When parallel processing in visual word recognition is not enough: New evidence from naming.  Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 10, 405-414.

22. Rastle K, Davis M H (2002).  On the complexities of measuring naming..  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance.. 28, 307-314.

23. Rastle K, Harrington J, Coltheart M (2002).  358,534 nonwords: The ARC nonword database.  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 55, 1339-1362.

24. Coltheart M, Rastle K, Perry C, Langdon R, Ziegler J (2001).   The DRC Model: A model of visual word recognition and reading aloud. .  Psychological Review.. 108, 204-256.