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SHORT CURRICULUM VITAE — JOSÉ MORAIS, PhD., Emeritus Professor
Unité de Recherche en Neurosciences Cognitives (UNESCOG), Center for Research on Cognition and Neuroscience
Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP 191, Av. F. Roosevelt, 50, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgique
Tel : 32-2-650-26-38; e-mail: [email protected]
Past teaching activities: Cognitive Psychology, Psycholinguistics, Neuropsychology
Ph.D. supervision: 17 + 3 in progress
Past Functions:
— Director of the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology (ULB) 1991 - 2000
— Dean of the Faculty of Psychological and Educational Sciences (ULB) 1995-1998.
— Co-director of the Research Unit in Cognitive Neuroscience (ULB) 2000 - 2008
Distinctions:
— 1999-2000: « Chaire Francqui », attributed by the Ghent University.
— November 2000: Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Lisbon
— « Prix international Wernaers 2001 pour la recherche et la diffusion des connaissances »
— “Grande Oficial” of the Order of the “Infante Dom Henrique” (Portugal)
— 2004-2005: « Chaire Francqui », attributed by the Université de Liège.
Activity in Scientific Societies and Scientific Policy activities:
— President of the National Committee of Psychological Sciences of the Royal Academy of Belgium (from 2002 to
2010), and Vice-President of the APSLF (Association de Psychologie Scientifique de Langue Française)
— Member (10 yrs) of the FWO Committee (Flandria) for Psychological and Educational Sciences
— Member (12 yrs) and President (4 yrs) of the FNRS Committee for Psychological and Educational Sciences
— Member of many evaluation committees of CNRS (French) laboratories, sometimes as President
— Member of the Human Sciences Committee of the French ANR (“Agence Nationale de la Recherche”) since 2008
Publications:
A. Chapters in books (out of 95) :
Morais, J. (1978). Spatial constraints on attention to speech. In: J. Requin (Ed.), Attention and Performance VII (pp. 245260). Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.
Morais, J. (1982). The two sides of cognition. In: J. Mehler, E. Walker & M. Garrett (Eds), Perspectives on Mental
Representation, (pp. 277-309). Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.
Peretz, I. & Morais, J. (1988). Determinants of laterality for music: towards an information processing account. In: K.
Hugdahl (Ed.), Handbook of dichotic listening. Theory, methods and research. New York: J. Wiley.
Morais, J. (1991). Constraints on the development of phonological awareness. In: S. Brady & D. Shankweiler (Eds),
Phonological processes in literacy. A tribute to Isabelle Y. Liberman. (pp. 5-27). Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.
Morais, J. (1991). Phonological awareness: a bridge between language and literacy. In: D.J. Sawyer & B.J. Fox (Eds),
Phonological awareness in reading: the evolution of current perspectives (pp. 31-71). Berlin: Springer.
Morais, J. (1993). Phonemic awareness, language, and literacy. In: R.M. Joshi et C.K. Leong (Eds.), Reading disabilities:
diagnosis and component processes (pp. 175-184). Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Peretz, I. & Morais, J. (1993). Specificity for music. In: F. Boller & J. Grafman (Eds), Handbook of Neuropsychology 8,
(pp. 373-390). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Morais, J., & Kolinsky, R. (1995). The consequences of phonemic awareness. In: B. de Gelder & J. Morais (Eds.): Speech
and reading: Comparative approaches (pp. 317-337). UK: Erlbaum.
Morais, J., Mousty, P., & Kolinsky, R. (1998). Why and how phoneme awareness helps learning to read. In C. Hulme &
R. Matatesha Joshi (Eds.), Reading and spelling. Development and disorder (pp. 127-152). Mahawah, N.J.: Erlbaum.
Morais, J., & Kolinsky, R. (2001). The literate mind and the universal human mind. In Dupoux (Ed.). Language, Brain
and Cognitive Development. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Morais, J., & Kolinsky, R. (2002). Literacy effects on language and cognition. In L. Bäckman & C. Von Hofsten (Eds.),
Psychology at the turn of the millennium. Vol. I: Cognitive, biological, and health perspectives, Psychology Press.
Morais, J. & Kolinsky, R. (2003). The linguistic consequences of literacy. In: P. Bryant & T. Nunes (Eds.), Handbook of
Literacy (pp.599-622). Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Morais, J., Macedo, C., & Kolinsky, R. (2004). Contrainte et expérience dans l’apprentissage de la lecture. In L. Ferrand &
J. Grainger (Eds.), Psycholinguistique cognitive (pp. 269-290). Bruxelles: De Boeck Université.
Morais, J. & Kolinsky, R. (2005). Literacy and cognitive change. In M. Snowling & Ch. Hulme (Eds.), The Science of
Reading: a Handbook. Oxford: Blackwell.
B. Papers in Journals (out of 141) :
Morais, J. & Bertelson, P. (1973). Laterality effects in diotic listening. Perception, 2, 107-111.
Morais, J. & Darwin, C.J. (1974). Ear differences for same-different reaction times to monaurally presented speech. Brain
and Language 1, 383-390.
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Morais, J. (1974-1975). The effects of ventriloquism on the right-side advantage for verbal material. Cognition, 3, 127139.
Morais, J. & Bertelson, P. (1975). Spatial position versus ear of entry as determinant of the auditory laterality effects: a
stereophonic test. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 104, 253-262.
Morais, J. (1976). Monaural ear differences for reaction times to speech with a many-to-one mapping paradigm.
Perception and Psychophysics, 19, 144-148.
Morais, J. & Landercy, M. (1977). Listening to speech while retaining music: what happens to the right-ear advantage?
Brain and Language, 6, 461-466.
Morais, J., Cary, L., Alegria, J. & Bertelson, P. (1979). Does awareness of speech as a sequence of phones arise
spontaneously? Cognition, 7, 323-331.
Morais, J., Cary, L., Vanhaelen, H. & Bertelson, P. (1980). Postural determinants of frontal-position advantage in listening
to speech. Perception and Psychophysics, 27, 141-148.
Peretz, I. & Morais, J. (1980). Modes of processing melodies and ear asymmetry in non-musicians. Neuropsychologia, 18,
477-489.
Alegria, J., Pignot, E. & Morais, J. (1982). Phonetic analysis of speech and memory codes in beginning readers. Memory
and Cognition, 10, 451-456.
Bertelson, P., Morais, J., Alegria, J. & Content, A. (1985). Phonetic analysis capacity and learning to read. Nature, 313,
73-74.
Morais, J. (1985). Literacy and awareness of the units of speech: implications for research on the units of perception.
Linguistics, 23, 707-721.
Morais, J., Bertelson, P., Cary, L. & Alegria, J. (1986). Literacy training and speech analysis. Cognition, 24, 45-64.
Castro, S.L. & Morais, J. (1987). Ear differences in illiterates. Neuropsychologia, 25, 409-417.
Kolinsky, R., Morais, J., Content, A. & Cary, L. (1987). Finding parts within figures: a developmental study. Perception,
16, 399-407.
Morais, J., Alegria, J. & Content, A. (1987). The relationships between segmental analysis and alphabetic literacy: an
interactive view. Current Psychology of Cognition, 7, 415-438.
Morais, J., Castro, S.L., Cabral, L., Kolinsky, R. & Content, A. (1987). The effects of literacy on the recognition of
dichotic words. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 39A, 451-465.
Morais, J. & Ladavas, E. (1987). Hemispheric interactions of words and emotional intonations. Cognition and Emotion, 1,
89-100.
Peretz, I. & Morais, J. (1987). Analytic processing in the classification of melodies as same or different.
Neuropsychologia, 25 , 645-652.
Peretz, I., Morais, J. & Bertelson, P. (1987). Shifting ear differences in melody recognition through strategy inducement.
Brain and Cognition, 6, 202-215.
Morais, J., Content, A., Bertelson, P., Cary, L. & Kolinsky, R. (1988). Is there a critical period for the acquisition of
segmental analysis? Cognitive Neuropsychology, 5, 347-352.
Bertoncini, J., Morais, J., Bijeljac-Babic, R., McAdams, S., Peretz, I. & Mehler, J. (1989). Dichotic perception and
laterality in neonates. Brain and Language, 37, 591-605.
Morais, J., Content, A., Cary, L., Mehler, J. & Segui, J. (1989). Syllabic segmentation and literacy. Language and
Cognitive Processes, 4, 57-67.
Radeau, M. & Morais, J. (1990). The effect of the uniqueness point in shadowing spoken words. Speech &
Communication, 9, 155-164.
Radeau, M., Morais, J., Mousty, P., Saerens, M. & Bertelson, P. (1992). A listener's investigation of printed word
processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 18, 861-871.
Morais, J., & Kolinsky, R. (1994). Perception and awareness in phonological processing: The case of the phoneme.
Cognition, 50, 287-297.
Kolinsky, R., Morais, J. & Cluytens, M. (1995). Intermediate representations in spoken word recognition: Evidence from
word illusions. Journal of Memory & Language, 34, 19-40.
Radeau, M., Morais, J., & Segui, J. (1995). Phonological priming between monosyllabic spoken words. Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 21, 1297-1311.
Kolinsky, R., & Morais, J. (1996). Migrations in speech recognition, Language and Cognitive Processes, 11, 611-619.
Morais, J., Kolinsky, R., Ventura, P., & Cluytens, M. (1997). Levels of processing in the phonological segmentation of
speech. Language and Cognitive Processes, 12, (5/6), 35-39.
Dab, S., Claes, T., Morais, J., & Shallice, T. (1999). Confabulation with a selective descriptor process impairment.
Cognitive Neuropsychology, 16, 215-242.
Kolinsky, R. & Morais, J. (1999). We all are Rembrandt experts - or how task dissociations in school learning effects
support the discontinuity hypothesis. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 381-382.
Morais, J., & Kolinsky, R. (2000). Biology and Culture in the Illiterate Mind. Brain and Cognition, 42, 47-49.
Radeau, M., Morais, J., Mousty, Ph., & Bertelson, P. (2000). The effect of speaking rate on the role of the uniqueness
point in spoken word recognition. Journal of Memory and Language, 42, 406-422.
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Ventura, P., Kolinsky, R., Brito-Mendes, C., & Morais, J. (2001). Mental representations of the syllable internal structure
are influenced by orthography. Language and Cognitive Processes, 16, 393-418.
Vanderaspoilden, V., & Morais, J. (2001). Memory aging in university professors. Current Psychology Letters, 6, 41-56.
Kolinsky, J., Fery, P., Messina, D., Evinck, S., Peretz, I., & Morais, J. (2002). The fur of the crocodile and the mooing
sheep : A study of a patient with a category-specific impairment for biological things. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 19,
301-342.
Morais, J. (2003). Levels of phonological representation in learning to read and in skilled reading. Reading and Writing,
special issue, 16, 123-151.
Fery, P., & Morais, J. (2003). A case study of visual agnosia without perceptual processing or structural descriptions
impairment. Cognitive Neuropsychology. 20, 595-618.
Floccia, J., Kolinsky, R., Dodane, C., & Morais, J. (2003). Discriminating spoken words in French: the role of the syllable
and the CV phonological skeleton. Language and Cognitive Processes, 18, 241-267.
Ventura, P., Morais, J., Pattamadilok, C., & Kolinsky, R. (2004). The locus of the orthographic consistency effect in
auditory word recognition. Language and Cognitive Processes, 19, 57-95.
Dab, S., Morais, J, & Frith, Ch. (2004). Comprehension, encoding, and monitoring in the production of confabulation in
memory: A study with schizophrenic patients. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 9, 153-182.
Serniclaes, W., Ventura, P., Morais, J., & Kolinsky, R. (2005). Categorical perception of speech sounds in illiterate adults.
Cognition, 98, B35-B44.
Ventura, P., Kolinsky, R., Querido, J.-L., Fernandes, S., & Morais, J. (2007). Is phonological encoding in naming
influenced by literacy? Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 36, 341-360
Ventura, P., Kolinsky, R., Fernandes, S., Querido, L., & Morais, J. (2007). Lexical restructuring in the absence of literacy.
Cognition, 105, 334-361.
Ventura, P., Morais, J., & Kolinsky, R. (2007). The development of the orthographic consistency effect in speech
recognition: from sublexical to lexical involvement. Cognition, 105, 547-576.
Pattamadilok, C., Morais, J., Ventura, P., & Kolinsky, R. (2007). The locus of the orthographic consistency effect in
auditory word recognition: Further evidence from French. Language and Cognitive Processes, 22, 700 – 726.
Lidji, P., Kolinsky, R., Lochy, A., & Morais, J. (2007). Spatial Associations for musical stimuli: A piano in the head?
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33, 1189-1207.
Pattamadilok, C., Kolinsky, R., Luksaneeyanawin, S., & Morais, J. (2008). Orthographic congruency effects in the
suprasegmental domain: evidence from Thai. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 1515-1537.
Ventura, P., Kolinsky, R., Pattamadilok, C., & Morais, J. (2008). The developmental turn-point of orthographic
consistency effects in speech recognition. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 100, 135-145.
Ventura, P., Pattamadilok, C., Fernandes, T., Kolinsky, R., Klein, O., & Morais, J. (2008). Schooling in Western Culture
promotes context-free processing. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 100, 79-88.
Kolinsky, R., Lidji, P., Peretz, I., Besson, M., & Morais, J. (2009). Interactions between lyrics and tunes: Vowels sing but
consonants speak. Cognition, 112, 1-20.
Bertels, J., Kolinsky, R., & Morais, J. (2010). Emotional valence of spoken words influences the spatial orienting of
attention. Acta Psychologica, 134, 264-278.
Dehaene, S., Pegado, F., Braga, L.W., Ventura, P., Nunes, G., Jobert, A., Dehaene-Lambertz, G., Kolinsky, R., Morais, J.,
& Cohen, L. (2010). How learning to read changes the cortical networks for vision and language (“Research article”).
Science, 330, 1359-1364.
Kolinsky, R., Verhaeghe, A., Fernandes, T., Mengarda, E.J., Grimm-Cabral, L., & Morais, J. (2011). Enantiomorphy
through the looking-glass: Literacy effects on mirror-image discrimination. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General,
140, 210-238.
Bertels, J., Kolinsky, R., Pietrons, E., & Morais, J. (2011). Long-lasting attentional influence of negative and taboo words
in an auditory variant of the emotional Stroop task. Emotion, 11, 29-37.
Bertels, J., Kolinsky, R., & Morais, J. (2012). Lack of habituation to shocking words: The attentional bias to their spatial
origin is context-free. Cognition & Emotion, 26(8), 1345-1358.
Bertels, J., Kolinsky, R., Coucke, D., & Morais, J. (2013). When a Bang Makes you Run away: Spatial Avoidance of
Threatening Environmental Sounds. Neuroscience Letters, 535, 78-83.
Pegado, F., Nakamura, K., Braga, L., Ventura, P., Nunes, G., Jobert, A., Morais, J., Cohen, L., Kolinsky, R., & Dehaene,
S. (in press). Literacy breaks mirror invariance for visual stimuli: a behavioral study with adult illiterates. Journal of
Experimental Psychology: General.
Fernandes, T., Vale, A.P., Martins, B., Morais, J., & Kolinsky, R. (in press). The Deficit of Letter Processing in
Developmental Dyslexia: Combining evidence from dyslexics, typical readers, and illiterate adults. Developmental
Science.