Max Coltheart

Max Coltheart <a href="/facts/Member_of_the_Order_of_Australia/rx4oLyAh">AM</a> (born 16 April 1939) is an Australian <a href="/facts/Cognitive_scientist/8qoggl7r">cognitive scientist</a> who specialises in cognitive neuropsychology and cognitive neuropsychiatry.
Coltheart was born in <a href="/facts/Frankston%2c_Victoria/Gfct64eo">Frankston, Victoria</a> and grew up in Brisbane, Canberra and Bega. He commenced a Bachelor of Arts at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Sydney/AzENnAra">University of Sydney</a> in 1957, and completed MA and PhD degrees there, then went on to a succession of academic posts including at the University of Sydney, 1965-1967, <a href="/facts/Monash_University/1wcLcSGe">Monash University</a>, 1967-1969, <a href="/facts/University_of_Waterloo/NANSHN5Y">University of Waterloo</a>, Canada 1969-1972) and the <a href="/facts/University_of_London/spIRAx9B">University of London</a>. He was Reader in Psychology at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Reading/nohWeG6A">University of Reading</a> 1972-1975 and Professor of Psychology at <a href="/facts/Birkbeck_College/0xSxtEUk">Birkbeck College</a> London University from 1975 to 1987. In 1987 he took up the position of Professor of Psychology in the Psychology Department of <a href="/facts/Macquarie_University/XHYaUDow">Macquarie University</a>.
Coltheart was appointed scientific director of the <a href="/facts/Macquarie_University_Faculty_of_Human_Sciences/sn0auJWW">Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science</a> in 2000, and maintained this position until 2009. He was awarded an ARC <a href="/facts/Federation_Fellowship/b0tEULLI">Federation Fellowship</a> in 2002 and in 2010 was appointed Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Science at Macquarie University. He is also a <a href="/facts/List_of_Fellows_of_the_Australian_Academy_of_Science/BLDyQsGv">fellow of the Australian Academy of Science</a> and the <a href="/facts/Academy_of_the_Social_Sciences_in_Australia/qmnv5a8f">Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia</a> and a Corresponding Fellow of the <a href="/facts/British_Academy/RtbyQVwB">British Academy</a>. He is currently a chief investigator in the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Cognition and its Disorders at <a href="/facts/Macquarie_University/XHYaUDow">Macquarie University</a>. Among his prominent students is <a href="/facts/Anne_Castles/2WGowQ9I">Anne Castles</a>.
He is noted for developing the <a href="/facts/Dual-route_hypothesis_to_reading_aloud/9sIYHven">"dual-route" theory</a> of reading) in the late 1970s and the two-factor theory of delusional belief in the 2000s as well as contributions to the debate about what can be learned about cognition from functional neuroimaging work 
Coltheart received a <a href="/facts/Centenary_Medal/AhFA1Esb">Centenary Medal</a> on 1 January 2001 "For service to Australian society and science in cognitive neuropsychology'. He was appointed Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the <a href="/facts/2010_Australia_Day_Honours/8s27Pnje">2010 Australia Day Honours</a> "For service to cognitive psychology as a researcher and academic, and to people with learning difficulties".

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