Marc Joanisse, Ph.D.
Professor and Faculty Scholar
Department of Psychology &
Brain and Mind Institute
Mailing Address
Natural Sciences Centre
The University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5B7 CANADA
phone: (519) 661-2111 x86582
fax: (519) 661-3961Affiliations
Professor and Associate Chair of Graduate Studies
Department of Psychology
Core Member Brain and Mind Institute
The University of Western Ontario
Senior Affiliated Research Scientist
Haskins Laboratories, New Haven CT, USA
Education
Ph.D. (2000), M.A. (1997) University of Southern California
B.A. Hons. (1995) McGill University
Research Interests
My research broadly focuses on reading, speech and language. I believe a key assumption about language is that it is a biological system, and is thus shaped by evolution and genetics, as well as by such general cognitive factors as attention and working memory.
Representative Publications
Jared, D.J., Jouravlev, O. & Joanisse, M.F. (in press). The Effect of Semantic Transparency on the Processing of Morphologically Derived Words: Evidence from Decision Latencies and Event-Related Potentials Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
Joanisse, M.F. & McClelland, J.L. (2015). Connectionist perspectives on language learning, representation and processing. WIREs Cognitive Science. doi: 10.1002/wcs.1340 [PDF]
Welcome, S.E., Pasquarella, A., Chen, X., Olson, D.R. & Joanisse, M.F. (2014). Preserved Mid-Fusiform Activation for Visual Words in a Patient with a Visual Word Recognition Impairment. Neuropsychologia. 65: 113?124. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.10.012
Malins, J.G., Gao, D., Tao, R., Booth, J., Shu, H., Joanisse, M.F., Liu, L. & Desroches, A.S. (2014). Developmental differences in the influence of phonological similarity on spoken word processing in Mandarin Chinese. Brain and Language. 138: 38-50. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2014.09.002
Joanisse, M.F. & Desouza, D.D. (2014) Sensitivity of human auditory cortex to rapid frequency modulation revealed by multivariate representational similarity analysis. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 8:306. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00306