Understanding delusional belief: a cognitive-neuropsychiatric perspective

Max Coltheart
Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Sydney, Australia

Max Coltheart was born in Frankston, near Melbourne, in 1939. After graduating from Bega High School in 1957, he went to the University of Sydney where he studied psychology and philosophy and went on to complete a PhD. He then held academic positions at Monash University, the University of Waterloo, the University of Reading and the University of London before taking a position as Professor of Psychology at Macquarie University in 1987, and then moving from that position to be Director of the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science (an Australian Research Council Special Research Centre) from 2000 until 2009. Macquarie University awarded him a DSc in 2001 and an Honorary LlD in 2010, and he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2010 Australia Day honours. He is currently working on the cognitive neuropsychology and computational psychology of reading and also on several topics in cognitive neuropsychiatry, especially delusional belief.

Direct routes in object processing: From action to recognition

Glyn Humphreys
University of Birmingham, UK


Glyn Humphreys is an internationally renowned cognitive neuropsychologist with research interests covering: the diagnosis and management of cognitive problems after brain injury, visual attention, perception, language and the control of action, social cognition. His research uses multiple techniques including: neuropsychological and experimental studies, structural and functional brain imaging (fMRI, EEG), trans-cranial magnetic and direct current brain stimulation and computational modelling. He has published over 500 papers in international journals and 16 books. He has been awarded the Spearman Medal, the Prize for Cognitive Psychology, and the President's Award of the British Psychological Society, a Humboldt Fellowship, the Leibniz Professorship and Special Professorship of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Sciences, the Royal Society of Medicine, the Academy of Social Sciences and the British Academy. He has edited the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Visual Cognition (founding Editor) and the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

The frontotemporal dementias: towards more accurate early diagnosis

John R. Hodges
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia


John Hodges trained in medicine and psychiatry in London, Southampton and Oxford before gravitating to neurology and becoming enamoured by neuropsychology. In 1990, he was appointed a University Lecturer in Cambridge and in 1997 became MRC Professor of Behaviour Neurology. He has written over 400 papers on aspects of neuropsychology (especially memory and language) and dementia, plus six books. He is the leader of a multidisciplinary research group focusing on aspects of frontotemporal dementia.

To be announced

Lutz Jäncke
University of Zurich, Switzerland



Lutz Jäncke is Chair of Neuropsychology at the University of Zurich. He has published more than 200 papers in international journals, covering topics such as anatomical and functional brain asymmetry, the brain of the musician, synaesthesia, neural plasticity and others.