Selected Publications: 1975 - 2008

2001 - 2008

Number forms in the brain by Joey Tang, Jamie Ward & Brian Butterworth in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 20:9, pp. 1 - 10. (250 k) (in press).

Brian Butterworth: Selected Works: UK & US Version (700k) (May, 2008).

Why frequencies are natural by Brian Butterworth in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2007) 303: 259. (30 k).

A case of selective impairment of encyclopaedic numerical knowledge or 'when December 25th is no longer Christmas day, but '20 + 5' is still 25' by Marinella Cappelletti, Ashok Jansari, Michael Kopelman & Brian Butterworth in Cortex 44 : 325 - 336 (400 k) (23rd December, 2007).

Functional optical signal analysis: a software tool for near-infrared spectroscopy data processing incorporating statistical parametric mapping by Peck H. Koh, Daniel E. Glaser, Guillaume Flandin, Stefan Kiebel, Brian Butterworth, Atsushi Maki, David T. Delpy & Clare E. Elwell in Journal of Biomedical Optics 12 (6) 064010 - 064011 - 064010 - 064013 (1 MB) (November to December, 2007).

The responses of students and teachers to maths disabilities in the classroom by Anna Bevan & Brian Butterworth: Draft of 7th December 2002 (600k) (February, 2007).

Bodil Andersson's English Language Interview with Brian Butterworth in Dislexi Aktuellt on läs-och skrivsvårigheter: Årgång 11: Nr. 2: 4 - 6 (2.5 MB) (2006.)

Brian Butterworth Chapter on Mathematical expertise. In K. A. Ericsson's (Ed.), Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance. (pp. 553-568) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (150k) (2006).

Exact and approximate judgements of visual and auditory numerosity: an fMRI study by Manuela Piazza, Andrea Mechelli, Cathy J. Price & Brian Butterworth in Brain Research 1106: 177 - 188 (200k) (in press).

The Understanding of Quantifiers in Semantic Dementia: A Single-Case Study by Marinella Cappelletti, Brian Butterworth & Michael Kopelman in Neurocase 12: 136 - 145 (150k) (2006).

Are numerical impairments syndrome specific? Evidence from Williams syndrome and Down's syndrome by Sarah J. Paterson, Luisa Girelli, Brian Butterworth & Annette Karmiloff-Smith in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 47: 2: 190 - 204 (400k) (2006).

Imaging Informational Conflict: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Numerical Stroop by J. Tang, H. D. Critchley, D. E. Glaser, R. J. Dolan, & B. Butterworth in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 18: 12: 2049 - 2062 (400k) (2006).

What is the relationship between synaesthesia and visuo-spatial number forms? by Noam Sagiv, Julia Simner James Collins, Brian Butterworth & Jamie Ward in Cognition 101: 114 - 128 (200k) (2006).

Spatial representation of pitch height: the SMARC effect by Elena Rusconi, Bonnie Kwana, Bruno L. Giordano, Carlo UmiltUmiltà &, Brian Butterworth in Cognition 99: 113 - 129. (300k) (2006).

Discrete and analogue quantity processing in the parietal lobe: A functional MRI study by Fulvia Castelli, Daniel E. Glaser & Brian Butterworth in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA: Vol. 103 Number 12: 4693 - 4698. (400k) (21st March 2006).

Dissociations in numerical abilities revealed by progressive cognitive decline in a patient with semantic dementia by Marinella Cappelletti, Michael D.Kopelman, John Morton & Brian Butterworth in Cognitive Neuropsychology 22 (7): 771 - 793 (650k) (2005).

Developmental Dyscalculia by Brian Butterworth. Chapter 26 of The Handbook of Mathematical Cognition, edited by Jamie ID Campbell, Psychology Press: Pages 455 - 467: (500k) (2005).

The development of arithmetical abilities by Brian Butterworth. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 46: 1 (2005), pp 3 - 18: (200k) (2005).

Number and language: how are they related? Rochel Gelman & Brian Butterworth. Trends in Cognitive Sciences Vol.9 No.1 January 2005: Page 6 - 10: (150k) (2005).

Developmental dyscalculia and basic numerical capacities: a study of 8 - 9-year-old students by Karin Landerl, Anna Bevan & Brian Butterworth. Cognition 93: (2004) 99 - 125: (440k) (2004).

Semantic effects in word naming: Evidence from English and Japanese Kanji by Naoki Shibahara, Marco Zorzi, Martin P. Hill, Taeko Wydell and Brian Butterworth. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: 56A (2) 263 - 286 (150k) (2003)

Brian Butterworth: Selected Works: (US Version) (700k) (December, 2002).

Why Semantic Dementia Drives You to the Dogs (but Not to the Horses): a Theoretical Account by Marinella Cappelletti, Michael Kopelman & Brian Butterworth. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 2002, 19 (6), 483 - 503 (420k) (2002).

Are Subitizing and Counting Implemented as Separate or Fucntionally Overlapping Processes? by Manuela Piazza, Andrea Mechelli, Brian Butterworth and Cathy J. Price. NeuroImage 15, 435-446 (200k) (2002).

Screening for dyscalculia: a new approach. Mathematical Difficulties: Psychology, Neuroscience and Interventions. Oxford. PDF Version with Summary (1.2MB) (September, 2002).

Multiplication Facts: Passive Storage Or Dynamic Reorganization? by Brian Butterworth, Noemi Marchesini and Luisa Girelli. (To appear presently in "The development of arithmetical concepts and skills", edited by Arthur J. Baroody and Ann Dowker. LEA): PDF Version (100k) (19th June, 2002).

Dyscalculia: Key Facts for Parents from NFER Nelson. (70k) (May 2002).

Theories of Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Oslo Address: (200k) (26th April, 2002)

About Dyscalculia: (30k) (25th April, 2002)

"Mathematics and the Brain": Opening Address to the Mathematical Association (2MB): (3rd April, 2002).

Additional Chapter to "The Mathematical Brain": "From fear of fractions to the joy of maths" with Mathematical Brain Test (US Version) (400k) (April 2002).

Preface (in Japanese) to Japanese version of "The Mathematical Brain", "Naze sugaku ga tokui na hito to nigate na hito ga irunoka?": Translator: Rumi Fujii ("Why are some people good, but others bad at maths?") published by Shufunotomosha Press of Tokyo. (2MB) (February, 2002)

Storage and retrieval of addition facts: The role of number comparison by Brian Butterworth, Marco Zorzi, Luisa Girelli & A.R. Jonckheere. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2001, 54A (4), 1005 - 1029. (300k) (2001).

Category Specificity in reading and writing: the case of number words by Brian Butterworth, Marinella Cappelletti and Michael Kopelman. Nature Neuroscience: Vol 4, No. 8: 784-786. (130k) (August 2001).

What makes a prodigy? by Brian Butterworth. Nature Neuroscience: Vol. 4 No. 1: 11-12 (75k) (January 2001).

 

1991 - 2000

A Computational Model of Number Comparison by Marco Zorzi and Brian Butterworth. M. Hahn & Scott C. Stoness (eds.). Proceedings of the Twenty First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society: 772 - 777. Simon Fraser University Vancouver, British Columbia. Mahwah, NJ: LEA (1 MB) (1999)

Two Routes to Repetition: Evidence from a Case of "Deep Dysphasia" by Brian Butterworth and Elizabeth Warrington. Neurocase 1, 55 - 66. (1 MB) (1995).

Selective impairment in manipulating arabic numerals by Lisa Cipolotti, Elizabeth K. Warrington and Brian Butterworth. Cortex, 31, 73 - 86 . (1 MB) (1995).

Constructing Subject-Verb Agreement in Speech: The Role of Semantic and Morphological Factors by Gabriella Vigliocco, Brian Butterworth and Carlo Semenza. Journal of Memory & Language, 34, 186 - 215. (2 MB) (1995).

The inconsistency of consistency effects in reading: The case of Japanese Kanji by Taeko N. Wydell, Brian Butterworth and Karalyn Patterson. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Language, Memory and Cognition, 21, 1155 - 1168. (2.5 MB) (1995).

Disorders of sentence production by Brian Butterworth. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Series B, 346, 55 - 61. (1 MB) (1994)

Neural organisation and writing systems by Brian Butterworth. European Science Foundation Second Workshop on Written Language and Literacy. Wassenaar, The Netherlands. (1.5 MB) (1993).

Aphasia and models of language production and perception by Brian Butterworth. Blanken, G. et al. (eds.) The Handbook of Linguistic Disorders and Pathologies: 238 - 250. Berlin: De Gruyter. (1.5 MB) (1993).

Disorders of phonological encoding by Brian Butterworth. Cognition, 42: 261 - 286. (1.5 MB) (1992).

Deep and Surface Dyslexia in Chinese by Wengang Yin and Brian Butterworth. Chen, H-C. & Tzeng, O. J. L. (eds.) Language Processing in Chinese. Amsterdam: North Holland/Elsevier. (1 MB) (1992).

1981 - 1990

Paragrammatisms: A Longitudinal Study of an Italian Patient by Brian Butterworth, Marta Panzeri, Carlo Semenza and Tiziana Ferreri. Language and Cognitive Processes, 5, 115-140. (1.5 MB) (1990).

Principles of rehabilitation in dysphasia by Brian Butterworth and David Howard. Neurorehabilitation: European Neurology Society. (500k) (1990).

Short-term Memory and Sentence Comprehension: A Reply to Vallar and Baddeley, 1987 by David Howard and Brian Butterworth. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 6, (5) 455 - 463. (500k) (1989).

Paragrammatisms by Brian Butterworth and David Howard. Cognition, 26: 1 - 37. (2 MB) (1987).

The Uses of Short-Term Memory: A Case Study by Brian Butterworth, Ruth Campbell and David Howard. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 38A: 705 - 737. (2 MB) (1986).

Introduction: A Brief Review of Methods of Studying Language Production by Brian Butterworth. B. Butterworth, B. Comrie and Ö Dahl (eds.) Explanations for Language Universals: 1 - 17. Berlin: Mouton. (1 MB) (1983).

Speech errors: old data in search of new theories by Brian Butterworth. A. Cutler (ed.) Slips of the Tongue and Language Production: 627 - 662. Berlin: Mouton. (2 MB) (1981).

1975 - 1980

Hesitation and the Production of Verbal Paraphasias and Neologisms in Jargon Aphasia by Brian Butterworth. Brain and Language, 8, 133 - 161. (1.5 MB) (1979).

Contextual probability and word-frequency as determinants of pauses in spontaneous speech by Geoffrey W. Beattie and Brian Butterworth Language & Speech, 22: 201 - 221. (2 MB) (1979).

Maxims for Studying Conversations by Brian Butterworth. Semiotica, 24: 217 - 229. . (1.5 MB) (1978).

Hesitation and Semantic Planning in speech by Brian Butterworth. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 4: 75 - 87. (1 MB) (1975).