BIOGRAPHY

Chris Barry joined the Department in November 2003. From 2000 to 2003, he was Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Kent (at Canterbury) and from 1989 to 2000 he was a Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at Cardiff University. He has a B.Sc. in Psychology from the University of London and a Ph.D. from the University of St. Andrews.

RESEARCH OVERVIEW

Chris's main research interests are in the cognitive psychology and cognitive neuropsychology of language production, and especially word production in speech (e.g., naming) and writing (spelling, handwriting, and typing).  He is also interested in: word production and language control in bilinguals;  Stroop and picture-word interference tasks;  morphological processes in word production; age-of-acquisition effects in lexical processing; and ‘false’ recognition memory.

RECENT PUBLICATION

Budd, M.J., Paulmann, S., Barry, C., Clahsen, H. (in press). Brain potentials during language production in children and adults: an ERP study of the English past tense. Brain and Language.

Bonin, P., Roux, S., Barry, C., & Canell, L. (2012).  Evidence for a limited-cascading account of written word naming.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38, 1741-1758.

Martin, D.H., & Barry, C. (2012).  Writing nonsense: The interaction between lexical and sublexical knowledge in the priming of nonword spelling.  Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 19, 691-698.

Bonin, P., Roux, S., & Barry, C. (2012). Translating nonverbal pictures into verbal word names: Understanding lexical access and retrieval.   In V. Berninger (Ed.), Past, present, and future contributions of cognitive writing research to cognitive psychology (Pp. 315-332).  Psychology Press/Taylor Francis Group.

Johnston, R.A., Dent, K., Humphreys, G.W., & Barry, C. (2010). British-English norms and naming times for a set of 539 pictures: The role of age of acquisition.  Behavior Research Methods, 42, 461-469.

Bonin, P., Méot, A., Mermillod, M., Ferrand, L., & Barry, C. (2009).  The effects of age of acquisition and frequency trajectory on object naming: Comments on Pérez (2007).  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 1132-1140.

Dewhurst, S.A., Holmes, S.J., Swannell, E.R., & Barry, C. (2008).  Beyond the text: Illusions of recollection caused by script-based inferences. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 20, 367-386.

Dewhurst, S.A., Barry, C., Swannell, E.R., Holmes, S.J., & Bathurst, G.L. (2007). The effects of divided attention on false memory depend on how memory is tested. Memory and Cognition, 35, 660-667.

Delattre, M., Bonin, P., & Barry, C. (2006). Written spelling to dictation: Sound-to spelling regularity affects both writing latencies and durations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 32, 1330-1340.

Dewhurst, S.A., & Barry, C. (2006). Dissociating word frequency and age of acquisition: The Klein effect revived (and reversed). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 32, 919-924.

Bonin, P., Chalard, M., Méot, A., & Barry, C. (2006). Are age-of-acquisition effects on object naming simply due to differences in object recognition? Comments on Levelt (2002). Memory and Cognition, 34, 1172-1182.

Phelps, F.G., Macken, W.J., Barry, C., & Miles, C. (2006). Primacy of functional knowledge in semantic representations: The case of living and nonliving things. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59, 1984-2009.
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Johnston, R.A., & Barry, C. (2006). Age of acquisition and lexical processing. Visual Cognition, 13, 789-845.

Barry, C., Johnston, R.A., & Wood, R.F. (2006). Effects of age of acquisition, age, and repetition priming on object naming. Visual Cognition, 13, 911-927.

Johnston, R.A., & Barry, C. (2006). Repetition priming of access to biographical information from faces. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59, 326-339.

Johnston, R.A., & Barry, C. (2005). Age of acquisition effects in the semantic processing of pictures. Memory and Cognition, 33, 905-912.

Dewhurst, S.A., Barry, C., & Holmes, S.J.  (2005) Exploring the false recognition of category exemplars:  Effects of divided attention and explicit generation. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 17,803-819.

Bonin, P., Barry, C, Méot, A., and Chalard, M. (2004) The influence of age-of-acquisition in word reading and other tasks: A never ending story? Journal of Memory and Language, 50, 456-476.

Barry, C., and Gerhand, S. (2003) Both concreteness and age-of-acquisition affect reading accuracy but only concreteness affects comprehension in a deep dyslexic patient. Brain and Language, 84, 84-104.

Barry, C., Hirsh, K.W., Johnston, R.A., and Williams, C.L.  (2001) Age of acquisition, word frequency, and the locus of repetition priming of picture naming. Journal of Memory and Language, 44, 350-375.

Johnston, R.A., and Barry, C. (2001) Best face forward: Similarity effects in repetition priming of face recognition. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 54, 383-396.

Treiman, R., and Barry, C. (2000) Dialect and authography: Some differences between American and British spellers. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26, 1423-1430.

Gerhand, S., McCaffer, F., and Barry, C. (2000) Surface or deep dyslexia? A report of a patient who makes both regularization and semantic errors in oral reading. Neurocase, 6, 393-401.

Gerhand, S., and Barry, C. (2000) When does a deep dyslexic make a semantic error? The roles of age-of-acquisition, concreteness, and frequency. Brain and Language, 74, 26-47.

Gerhand, S., and Barry, C. (1999) Age of acquisition, word frequency, and the role of phonology in the lexical decision task. Memory and Cognition, 27, 592-602.

Gerhand, S., and Barry, C. (1999) Age-of-acquisition and frequency effects in speeded word naming. Cognition, 73, B27-B36.

Johnston R.A., and Barry, C. (1999) Repetition priming of the recognition of familiar proper names. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 52A, 47-65.

Barry, C., Johnston, R.A., and Scanlan, L.C. (1998) Are faces 'special' objects? Associative and semantic priming of face and object recognition and naming. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 51A, 853-882.

Dewhurst, S.A., Hitch, G.J., and Barry, C. (1998) Separate effects of word frequency and age of acquisition in recognition and recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 24, 284-298.

Newton, P.K., and Barry, C. (1997) Concreteness effects in word production but not word comprehension in deep dyslexia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 14, 481-509.

Barry, C., and De Bastiani, P. (1997) Lexical priming of nonword spelling in the regular orthography of Italian. Reading and Writing:  An Interdisciplinary Journal, 9, 499-517.