Max Coltheart

Cotard delusion—the delusional belief “I am dead”—is named after the French psychiatrist who first described it: Jules Cotard. Ramachandran and Blakeslee proposed that the idea “I am dead” comes to...

Ross Henry Day was an Australian experimental psychologist well known for his research on visual illusions and for his critical role in the establishment of experimental psychology in Australia. This role began with his creation of Australia’s first department of experimental psychology at Monash University in 1965. He also played a leading role in the formation of the Australian Psychological Society in 1966, and in the introduction to Australia of the study of human factors in engineering and ergonomics. He was the first psychologist to be elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.

The target article by Vannuscorps, Galaburda and Caramazza (VGC hereafter) reports work that includes extensive investigations of their subject Davida’s performance on two sets of forced-choice tas...

Capgras delusion is sometimes defined as believing that close relatives have been replaced by strangers. But such replacement beliefs also occur in response to encountering an acquaintance, or the ...

In accounts of the two-factor theory of delusional belief, the second factor in this theory has been referred to only in the most general terms, as a failure in the processes of hypothesis evaluati...

A key method for studying articulatory planning at different levels of phonological organization is masked-onset priming. In previous work using that parad