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Emeritus Professor - Department of Cognitive Science, Faculty of Human Sciences, Macquarie University
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Emeritus Professor Max Coltheart is a cognitive scientist with interests mainly in cognitive neuropsychology and cognitive neuropsychiatry. He was born in 1939 at Frankston, near Melbourne, and grew up in Brisbane, Canberra and Bega before enrolling at the University of Sydney in 1957, where he did BA, MA and PhD degrees. He came to Macquarie's Psychology Department in 1987 after having had academic posts in Sydney (University of Sydney, 1965-1967), Melbourne (Monash University, 1967-1969), Canada (University of Waterloo, 1969-1972) and England (at the University of London, where he was Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck College 1975-1987, and at the University of Reading, where he was Reader in Psychology 1972-1975).
He became Scientific Director of Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science (MACCS) at its inception in 2000 and held this post until 2009. He was awarded an ARC Federation Fellowship in 2002. In 2010, he was appointed Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Science at Macquarie University.
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