Prof Michael Thomas

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• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Coecke, S. (2023) Associations between socioeconomic status, cognition and brain structure: evaluating potential causal pathways through mechanistic models of development. Cognitive Science 47 (1), pp. e13217. ISSN 1551-6709 online.
• Shen, C. and Mireku, M.O. and Di Simplicio, M. and Dumontheil, Iroise and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Röösli, M. and Elliott, P. and Toledano, M.B. (2022) Bidirectional associations between sleep problems and behavioural difficulties and health‐related quality of life in adolescents: evidence from the SCAMP longitudinal cohort study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry Advances 2 (3), pp. e12098. ISSN 2692-9384.
• Gini, S. and Knowland, V. and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Van Herwegen, J. (2021) Neuromyths about neurodevelopmental disorders: misconceptions by educators and the general public. Mind, Brain, and Education 15 (4), pp. 289-298. ISSN 1751-2271.
• Hodgkiss, A. and Gilligan‐Lee, K.A. and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Tolmie, A.K. and Farran, E.K. (2021) The developmental trajectories of spatial skills in middle childhood. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 39 (4), pp. 566-583. ISSN 0261-510X.
• Whiting, S.B. and Wass, S.V. and Green, Simon and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2021) Stress and learning in pupils: neuroscience evidence and its relevance for teachers. Mind, Brain, and Education 15 (2), pp. 177-188. ISSN 1751-2271.
• Thomas, Michael and Ojinaga Alfageme, Olatz and D'Souza, H. and Patkee, P. and Rutherford, M. and Mok, K. and Hardy, J. and LonDownS Consortium, - and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette (2020) A multi-level developmental approach to exploring individual differences in Down syndrome: genes, brain, behaviour, and environment. Research in Developmental Disabilities 104 (103638), ISSN 0891-4222.
• Jenkins, R.H. and Shen, C. and Dumontheil, Iroise and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Elliott, P. and Röösli, M. and Toledano, M.B. (2020) Social networking site use in young adolescents: association with health-related quality of life and behavioural difficulties. Computers in Human Behavior 109 (106320), ISSN 0747-5632.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Fedor, Anna and Davis, Rachael and Yang, Juan and Alireza, Hala and Charman, T. and Masterson, J. and Best, W. (2019) Computational modelling of interventions for developmental disorders. Psychological Review 126 (5), pp. 693-726. ISSN 0033-295X.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. (2019) Response to Dougherty & Robey on neuroscience and education: enough bridge metaphors – interdisciplinary research offers the best hope for progress. Current Directions in Psychological Science 28 (4), pp. 337-340. ISSN 0963-7214.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Ansari, Daniel and Knowland, Victoria (2019) Educational neuroscience: progress and prospects. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 60 (4), pp. 477-492. ISSN 0021-9630.
• Mireku, M.O. and Barker, M.M. and Mutz, J. and Dumontheil, Iroise and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Röösli, M. and Elliott, P. and Toledano, M.B. (2019) Night-time screen-based media device use and adolescents’ sleep and health-related quality of life.. Environment International 124, pp. 66-78. ISSN 0160-4120.
• Gilligan, K.A. and Hodgkiss, A. and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Farran, E.K. (2018) The developmental relations between spatial cognition and mathematics in primary school children. Developmental Science 22 (4), pp. e12786. ISSN 1363-755x.
• Gilligan, K. and Hodgkiss, A. and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Farran, E. (2018) The use of discrimination scaling tasks: a novel perspective on the development of spatial scaling in children. Cognitive Development 47, pp. 133-145. ISSN 0885-2014.
• Mireku, M. and Mueller, W. and Fleming, C. and Chang, I. and Dumontheil, Iroise and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Eeftens, M. and Elliott, P. and Röösli, M. and Toledano, M. (2018) Total recall in the SCAMP Cohort: validation of self-reported mobile phone use in the smartphone era. Environmental Research 161, pp. 1-8. ISSN 0013-9351.
• Hodgkiss, A. and Gilligan, K. and Tolmie, A.K. and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Farran, E.K. (2018) Spatial cognition and science achievement: The contribution of intrinsic and extrinsic spatial skills from 7 to 11 years. British Journal of Educational Psychology 88 (4), pp. 675-697. ISSN 0007-0998.
• Brookman-Byrne, Annie and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2018) Neuroscience, psychology and education: emerging links. Impact 2, pp. 5-8. ISSN 2514-6955.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. (2017) A scientific strategy for life chances. Psychologist Magazine 30, pp. 22-26. ISSN 0952-8229.
• Camp, Joanne and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Farran, E. (2016) Cross-syndrome comparison of real-world executive functioning and problem solving using a new problem-solving questionnaire. Research in Developmental Disabilities 59, pp. 80-92. ISSN 0891-4222.
• Camp, Joanne and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Farran, E.K. (2016) Cross-syndrome comparison of real-world executive functioning and problem solving using a new problem-solving questionnaire. Research in Developmental Disabilities 59, pp. 80-92. ISSN 0891-4222.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. (2016) Do more intelligent brains retain heightened plasticity for longer in development? A computational investigation. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 19, pp. 258-269. ISSN 1878-9293.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. (2016) Understanding delay in developmental disorders. Child Development Perspectives 10 (2), pp. 73-80. ISSN 1750-8592.
• Baughman, F. and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Anderson, M. and Reid, C. (2016) Common mechanisms in intelligence and development: a study of ability profiles in mental age-matched primary school children. Intelligence 56, pp. 99-107. ISSN 0160-2896.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Davis, Rachael and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette and Knowland, Victoria C.P. and Charman, Tony (2016) The over-pruning hypothesis of autism. Developmental Science 19 (2), pp. 284-305. ISSN 1363-755x.
• Kerrigan, L. and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Bright, P. and Filippi, R. (2016) Evidence of an advantage in visuo-spatial memory for bilingual compared to monolingual speakers. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 20 (3), pp. 602-612. ISSN 1366-7289.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Forrester, N.A. and Ronald, Angelica (2016) Multi-scale modeling of gene-behavior associations in an artificial neural network model of cognitive development. Cognitive Science 40 (1), pp. 51-99. ISSN 1551-6709.
• Howard-Jones, P. and Varma, S. and Ansari, D. and Butterworth, B. and De Smedt, B. and Goswami, U. and Laurillard, D. and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2016) The principles and practices of educational neuroscience: commentary on Bowers (2016). Psychological Review 123 (5), pp. 620-627. ISSN 0033-295X.
• Filippi, R. and Morris, J. and Richardson, F.M. and Bright, P. and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette and Marian, V. (2015) Bilingual children show an advantage in controlling verbal interference during spoken language comprehension. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 18 (3), pp. 490-501. ISSN 1366-7289.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Kovas, Y. and Meaburn, Emma L. and Tolmie, A. (2015) What can the study of genetics offer to educators?. Mind Brain & Education 9 (2), pp. 72-80. ISSN 1751-228X.
• Annaz, D. and Leonard, H.C. and Karmiloff, K. and Johnson, Mark H. and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2015) Atypical development of configural face recognition in children with Autism, Down Syndrome and Williams Syndrome. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research 59 (5), pp. 422-438. ISSN 0964-2633.
• Best, A. and Fedor, Anna and Hughes, L. and Kapikian, A. and Masterson, J. and Roncoli, S. and Fern-Pollak, L. and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2015) Intervening to alleviate word-finding difficulties in children: case series data and a computational modelling foundation. Cognitive Neuropsychology 32 (3-4), pp. 133-168. ISSN 0264-3294.
• Forrester, Gillian and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2015) What is universal and what differs in language development?. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 30 (8), pp. 922-927. ISSN 2327-3798.
• Karmiloff-Smith, Annette and Casey, B.J. and Massand, Esha and Tomalski, Przemyslaw and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2014) Environmental and genetic influences on neurocognitive development: the importance of multiple methodologies and time-dependent intervention. Clinical Psychological Science 2 (5), pp. 628-637. ISSN 2167-7026.
• Forrester, Gillian and Pegler, R. and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Mareschal, Denis (2014) Handedness as a marker of cerebral lateralization in children with and without autism. Behavioural Brain Research 268, pp. 14-21. ISSN 0166-4328.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Knowland, Victoria C.P. (2014) Modeling mechanisms of persisting and resolving delay in language development. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 57, pp. 467-483. ISSN 1092-4388.
• Knowland, Victoria C.P. and Mercure, E. and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette and Dick, Frederic and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2014) Audio-visual speech perception: a developmental ERP investigation. Developmental Science 17 (1), pp. 110-124. ISSN 1363-755x.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Knowland, Victoria C.P. (2014) Modelling mechanisms of persisting and resolving delay in language development. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 57, pp. 467-483. ISSN 1092-4388.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Forrester, Neil A. and Ronald, Angelica (2013) Modeling socioeconomic status effects on language development. Developmental Psychology 49 (12), pp. 2325-2343. ISSN 0012-1649.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. (2013) Educational neuroscience in the near and far future: predictions from the analogy with the history of medicine. Trends in Neuroscience and Education 2 (1), pp. 23-26. ISSN 2211-9493.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. (2013) On hermit crabs and humans. Developmental Science 16 (2), pp. 314-316. ISSN 1363-755x.
• Forrester, Gillian and Quaresmini, C. and Leavens, D.A. and Mareschal, Denis and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2013) Human handedness: an inherited evolutionary trait. Behavioural Brain Research 237, pp. 200-206. ISSN 0166-4328.
• Filippi, R. and Karaminis, T. and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2013) Language switching in bilingual production: empirical data and computational modelling. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 17 (2), pp. 294-315. ISSN 1366-7289.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Purser, H.R.M. and Mareschal, Denis (2012) Is the mystery of thought demystified by context-dependent dategorisation? Towards a new relation between language and thought. Mind & Language 27 (5), pp. 595-618. ISSN 0268-1064.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Purser, Harry R.M. and Mareschal, Denis (2012) Is the mystery of thought demystified by context-dependent categorisation? Towards a new relation between language and thought. Mind & Language 27 (5), pp. 595-618. ISSN 0268-1064.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Purser, Harry and Tomlinson, S. and Mareschal, Denis (2012) Are imaging and lesioning convergent methods for assessing functional specialisation: investigations using an artificial neural network. Brain and Cognition 78 (1), pp. 38-49. ISSN 0278-2626.
• Filippi, R. and Leech, R. and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Green, D. and Dick, Frederic (2012) A bilingual advantage in controlling language interference during sentence comprehension. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 15 (4), pp. 858-872. ISSN 1366-7289.
• Ramsden, S. and Richardson, Fiona M. and Josse, G. and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Ellis, C. and Shakeshaft, C. and Seghier, M.L. and Price, C.J. (2012) Addendum: verbal and non-verbal intelligence changes in the teenage brain. Nature 485, pp. 666-666. ISSN 0028-0836.
• Ramsden, S. and Richardson, Fiona M. and Josse, G. and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Ellis, C. and Shakeshaft, C. and Seghier, M.L. and Price, C.J. (2011) Verbal and non-verbal intelligence changes in the teenage brain. Nature 479 (7371), pp. 113-116. ISSN 0028-0836.
• Filippi, Roberto and Richardson, Fiona M. and Dick, Frederic and Leech, Robert and Green, D.W. and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Price, C.J. (2011) The right posterior Paravermis and the control of language interference. Journal of Neuroscience 31 (29), pp. 10732-10740. ISSN 0270-6474.
• Richardson, Fiona M. and Seghier, M.L. and Leff, A.P. and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Price, C.J. (2011) Multiple routes from occipital to temporal cortices during reading. Journal of Neuroscience 31 (22), pp. 8239-8247. ISSN 0270-6474.
• Purser, Harry and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Snoxall, Sarah and Mareschal, Denis and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette (2011) Definitions versus categorization: assessing the development of lexico-semantic knowledge in Williams syndrome. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders 46 (3), pp. 361-373. ISSN 1368-2822.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. (2011) From brain scan to lesson plan. Public Service Review: UK Science and Technology 4, pp. 1-2. ISSN 2046-5696.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Knowland, Victoria C.P. and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette (2011) Mechanisms of developmental regression in autism and the broader phenotype: a neural network modeling approach.. Psychological Review 118 (4), pp. 637-654. ISSN 0033-295x.
• Richardson, Fiona M. and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Price, C.J. (2010) Neuronal activation for semantically reversible sentences. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 22 (6), pp. 1283-1298. ISSN 0898-929X.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and van Duuren, M. and Purser, Harry and Mareschal, Denis and Ansari, D. and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette (2010) The development of metaphorical language comprehension in typical development and in Williams syndrome. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 106 (2-3), pp. 99-114. ISSN 0022-0965.
• Richardson, Fiona M. and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Filippi, Roberto and Harth, H. and Price, C.J. (2010) Contrasting effects of vocabulary knowledge on temporal and parietal brain structure across lifespan. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 22 (5), pp. 943-954. ISSN 0898-929X.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Karaminis, T.N. and Knowland, Victoria C.P. (2010) What is typical language development?. Language Learning and Development 6 (2), pp. 162-169. ISSN 1547-5441.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Richardson, Fiona M. and Forrester, Neil A. and Baughman, Frank D. (2010) Modelling individual variability in cognitive development. Connection Science ISSN 0954-0091.
• Purser, Harry and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Snoxall, Sarah and Mareschal, Denis (2009) The development of similarity: testing the prediction of a computational model of metaphor comprehension. Language and Cognitive Processes 24 (10), pp. 1406-1430. ISSN 0169-0965.
• Annaz, Dagmara and Remington, A. and Milne, E. and Coleman, M. and Campbell, R. and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Swettenham, J. (2009) Development of motion processing in children with autism. Developmental Science 13 (6), pp. 826-838. ISSN 1363-755X.
• Annaz, Dagmara and van Herwegen, J. and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Fishman, R. and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette and Rundblad, G. (2009) Comprehension of metaphor and metonymy in children with Williams syndrome. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders 44 (6), pp. 962-978. ISSN 1368-2822.
• Annaz, Dagmara and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette and Johnson, Mark H. and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2009) A cross-syndrome study of the development of holistic face recognition in children with autism, Down syndrome, and Williams syndrome. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 102 (4), pp. 456-486. ISSN 0022-0965.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Annaz, Dagmara and Ansari, D. and Scerif, G. and Jarrold, C. and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette (2009) Using developmental trajectories to understand developmental disorders. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 52 (2), pp. 336-358. ISSN 1092-4388.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Knowland, V. (2009) Sensitive periods in brain development: implications for education policy. European Psychiatric Review 2 (1), pp. 2-5.
• Sirois, S. and Spratling, Michael and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Westermann, Gert and Mareschal, Denis and Johnson, Mark H. (2008) Precis of neuroconstructivism: how the brain constructs cognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31 (3), pp. 321-331. ISSN 0140-525X.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Westermann, Gert and Mareschal, Denis and Johnson, Mark H. and Sirois, S. and Spratling, Michael (2008) Studying development in the 21(st) century. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31 (3), pp. 345-356. ISSN 0140-525X.
• Richardson, Fiona M. and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2008) Critical periods and catastrophic interference effects in the development of self-organizing feature maps. Developmental Science 11 (3), pp. 371-389. ISSN 1363-755X.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Johnson, Mark H. (2008) New advances in understanding sensitive periods in brain development. Current Directions in Psychological Science 17 (1), pp. 1-5. ISSN 0963-7214.
• Mareschal, Denis and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2007) Computational modeling in developmental psychology. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 11 (2), pp. 137-150. ISSN 1089-778x.
• Westermann, Gert and Mareschal, Denis and Johnson, Mark H. and Sirois, S. and Spratling, Michael and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2007) Neuroconstructivism. Developmental Science 10 (1), pp. 75-83. ISSN 1363-755x.
• Mareschal, Denis and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2006) How computational models help explain the origins of reasoning. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine 1 (3), pp. 32-40. ISSN 1556-603x.
• Richardson, Fiona M. and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2006) The benefits of computational modelling for the study of developmental disorders: extending the Triesch et al. model to ADHD. Developmental Science 9 (2), pp. 151-155. ISSN 1363-755x.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Dockrell, J.E. and Messer, D. and Parmigiani, C. and Ansari, D. and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette (2006) Speeded naming, frequency and the development of the lexicon in Williams syndrome. Language and Cognitive Processes 21 (6), pp. 721-759. ISSN 0169-0965.
• Laing, E. and Grant, J. and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Parmigiani, C. and Ewing, S. and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette (2005) Love is . . . an abstract word: the influence of phonological and semantic factors on verbal short-term memory in Williams syndrome. Cortex 41 (2), pp. 169-179. ISSN 0010-9452.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. (2005) Characterising compensation. Cortex 41 (3), pp. 434-442. ISSN 0010-9452.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette (2005) Can developmental disorders reveal the component parts of the human language faculty?. Language Learning and Development 1 (1), pp. 65-92. ISSN 1547-5441.
• Karmiloff-Smith, Annette and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Annaz, Dagmara and Humphreys, K. and Ewing, S. and Brace, N. and van Duuren, M. and Pike, G. and Grice, Sarah and Campbell, R. (2004) Exploring the Williams Syndrome face-processing debate: the importance of building developmental trajectories. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 45 (7), pp. 1258-1274. ISSN 0021-9630.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. (2004) How do simple connectionist networks achieve a shift from “featural” to “correlational” processing in categorization?. Infancy 5 (2), pp. 199-207. ISSN 1525-0008.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. (2003) Multiple causality in developmental disorders: methodological implications from computational modelling. Developmental Science 6 (5), pp. 537-556. ISSN 1363-755x.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette (2003) Modelling language acquisition in atypical phenotypes. Psychological Review 110 (4), pp. 647-682. ISSN 0033-295x.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. (2003) Essay review: limits on plasticity. Journal of Cognition and Development 4 (1), pp. 99-125. ISSN 1524-8372.
• Karmiloff-Smith, Annette and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2003) What can developmental disorders tell us about the neurocomputational constraints that shape development? the case of Williams syndrome. Development and Psychopathology 15 (4), pp. 969-990. ISSN 0954-5794.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. (2002) Theories that develop. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 5 (3), pp. 216-217. ISSN 1366-7289.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette (2002) Are developmental disorders like cases of adult brain damage? Implications from connectionist modelling. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25 (6), pp. 727-750. ISSN 0140-525X.
• Karmiloff-Smith, Annette and Scerif, G. and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2002) Different approaches to relating genotype to phenotype in developmental disorders. Developmental Psychobiology 40 (3), pp. 311-322. ISSN 0012-1630.
• Atkinson, A.P. and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Cleeremans, A. (2000) Consciousness: mapping the theoretical landscape. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 4 (10), pp. 372-382. ISSN 1364-6613.

Book

• Spencer, J. and Thomas, Michael S.C. and McClelland, J.L. (2009) Toward a new unified theory of development: connectionism and dynamical systems theory re-considered. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195300598.
• Mareschal, Denis and Johnson, Mark H. and Sirois, S. and Spratling, Michael and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Westermann, Gert (2007) Neuroconstructivism: how the brain constructs cognition. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 1, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198529903.

Book Section

• Thomas, Michael S.C. (2020) Using neurocomputational modelling to investigate mechanisms underlying socio-economic status effects on cognitive and brain development. In: Stevens, C. and Pakulak, E. and Soledad Segretin, M. and Lipina, S. (eds.) Neuroscientific Perspectives on Poverty. Erice, Italy: International Mind, Brain and Education School, Ettore Majorana Foundations and Center for Scientific Culture. pp. 234-266. ISBN 9789878667362.
• Yang, J. and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2016) A hidden knowledge discovering approach for past tense and plural problems to language cognition. In: 2016 12th International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grids (SKG). New York, U.S.: IEEE Computer Society. pp. 47-53. ISBN 9781509047956.
• Richardson, Fiona and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2015) Language development in genetic disorders. In: Bavin, E. and Naigles, L. (eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Child Language (2nd edition). Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 585-608. ISBN 9781107087323.
• Karaminis, Themelis and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2015) The relationship between SLI in English and Modern Greek. In: Stavrakaki, S. (ed.) Specific Language Impairment. Language Acquisition and Language Disorders. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins. pp. 145-174. ISSN 0925-0123. ISBN 9789027253217.
• Knowland, Victoria C.P. and Purser, Harry and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2015) Applications of cross-sectional methodologies in developmental psychology. In: Wright, J. (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Elsevier. ISBN 9780080970868.
• Kohli, M. and Magoulas, George D. and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2013) Transfer learning across heterogeneous tasks using behavioural genetic principles. In: Jin, Y. (ed.) 13th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI). IEEE. pp. 151-158. ISBN 9781479915668.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Baughman, Frank D. and Karaminis, T. and Addyman, Caspar (2013) Modelling developmental disorders. In: Marshall, C.R. (ed.) Current Issues in Developmental Disorders. Oxford, UK: Psychology Press. ISBN 9781848720848.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Laurillard, D. (2013) Computational modeling of learning and teaching. In: Mareschal, Denis and Tolmie, A. and Butterworth, B. (eds.) Educational Neuroscience. Oxford, UK: Wiley. pp. 46-76. ISBN 9781119973195.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Purser, Harry and Richardson, Fiona M. (2013) Modularity and developmental disorders. In: Zelazo, P.D. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Psychology: Self and Other. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199958474.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. (2012) Brain plasticity and education. In: Educational Neuroscience. BJEP Monograph Series II. London, UK: The British Psychological Society. pp. 143-156. ISBN 9781854337177.
• Karaminis, T.N. and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2012) Connectionism. In: Seel, N.M. (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. Springer. pp. 767-771. ISBN 9781441914286.
• Kohli, M. and Magoulas, George D. and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2012) Hybrid computational model for producing English past tense verbs. In: Jayne, C. and Yue, S. and Iliadis, L.S. (eds.) Engineering Applications of Neural Networks: 13th International Conference. Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer. ISBN 9783642329098.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Knowland, V.C.P. and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette (2012) Variability in the severity of developmental disorders: a neurocomputational account of developmental regression in autism. In: Davelaar, Eddy J. (ed.) Connectionist Models of Neurocognition and Emergent Behavior: From Theory to Applications. Progress in Neural Processing. Singapore: World Scientific. pp. 309-325. ISBN 9789814340359.
• Karaminis, T.N. and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2011) Connectionist theories of learning. In: Seel, N.M. (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. Springer. pp. 771-774. ISBN 9781441914279.
• Knowland, V.C.P. and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2011) Developmental trajectories in genetic disorders. In: Fidler, D.J. (ed.) Early development in neurogenetic disorders. Elsevier. pp. 43-74. ISBN 9780123744784.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Purser, Harry and van Herwegen, J. (2011) Cognition: the developmental trajectory approach. In: Farran, E.K. and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette (eds.) Neurodevelopmental disorders across the lifespan: A Neuroconstructivist approach. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 13-35. ISBN 9780199594818.
• Westermann, Gert and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette (2010) Neuroconstructivism. In: Goswami, U. (ed.) The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development. New Jersey, U.S.: Wiley Blackwell. pp. 723-748. ISBN 9781405191166.
• Karaminis, T.N. and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2010) A cross-linguistic model of the acquisition of inflectional morphology in English and modern Greek. In: Ohlsson, S. and Catrambone, R. (eds.) Cognition in Flux: Proceedings of 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, Texas, USA: Cognitive Science Society. pp. 730-735. ISBN 9780976831860.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. (2010) Language acquisition in developmental disorders. In: Kail, M. and Hickmann, M. (eds.) Language Acquisition across Linguistic and Cognitive Systems. Language Acquisition and Language Disorders. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins. pp. 67-87. ISBN 9789027253149.
• Spencer, J. and Thomas, Michael S.C. and McClelland, J.L. (2009) Introduction. In: Spencer, J. (ed.) Toward a Unified Theory of Development: Connectionism and Dynamic System Theory Re-Considered. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195300598.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and McClelland, J.L. and Richardson, Fiona M. and Schapiro, A.C. and Baughman, Frank D. (2009) Dynamical and connectionist approaches to development: toward a future of mutually beneficial co-evolution. In: Spencer, J. and Thomas, Michael S.C. and McClelland, J.L. (eds.) Toward a New Unified Theory of Development: Connectionism and Dynamical Systems Theory Re-considered. Oxford Series in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 337-354. ISBN 9780195300598.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and McClelland, J.L. and Richardson, Fiona M. and Shapiro, A.C. and Baughman, Frank D. (2009) Dynamic and connectionist approaches to development: toward a future of mutually beneficial co-evolution. In: Spencer, J. (ed.) Toward a Unified Theory of Development: Connectionism and Dynamic System Theory Re-Considered. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195300598.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. (2009) Competition as a mechanism for producing sensitive periods in connectionist models of development. In: Mayor, J. and Ruh, N. and Plunkett, K. (eds.) Connectionist Models of Behaviour & Cognition II. Progress in Neural Processing. London, UK: World Scientific. pp. 349-360. ISBN 9789812834225.
• Richardson, Fiona M. and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2009) Language development in genetic disorders. In: Bavin, E.L. (ed.) The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 459-471. ISBN 9780521883375.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. (2009) L'acquisition du langage dans les pathologies du diveloppement. In: Kail, M. and Fayol, M. and Hickmann, M. (eds.) Apprentissage des langues. Paris, France: CNRS Editions. pp. 451-475. ISBN 9782271066480.
• Annaz, Dagmara and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2008) The importance of tracing developmental trajectories for clinical child neuropsychology. In: Reed, J. and Warner-Rogers, J. (eds.) Child Neuropsychology: Concepts, Theory and Practice. Hoboken, U.S.: Wiley Blackwell. pp. 7-18. ISBN 9781405152662.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and McLelland, J.L. (2008) Connectionist models of cognition. In: Sun, R. (ed.) The Cambridge Handbook of Computational Psychology. Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 23-58. ISBN 9780521674102.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Richardson, Fiona M. (2006) Atypical representational change: conditions for the emergence of atypical modularity. In: Munakata, Y. and Johnson, Mark H. (eds.) Processes of Change in Brain and Cognitive Development. Attention and Performance. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 315-347. ISBN 9780198568742.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. (2006) Theoretical implications of studying cognitive development in genetic disorders: the case of Williams-Beuren syndrome. In: Morris, C.A. and Lenhoff, H.M. and Wang, P.P. (eds.) Williams-Beuren Syndrome: Research, Evaluation, and Treatment. Baltimore, U.S.: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 254-273. ISBN 9780801882128.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and van Heuven, W.J.B. (2005) Computational models of bilingual comprehension. In: Kroll, J.F. and de Groot, A.M.B. (eds.) Handbook of Bilingualism: Psycholinguistic Approaches. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 202-225. ISBN 9780195151770.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. (2005) Constraints on language development: insights from developmental disorders. In: Fletcher, P. and Miller, J. (eds.) Developmental Theory and Language Disorders. Trends in Language Acquisition Research. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins. pp. 11-34. ISBN 9789027234742.
• Karmiloff-Smith, Annette and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2004) Can developmental disorders be used to bolster claims from evolutionary psychology? a neuroconstructivist approach. In: Langer, J. and Taylor Parker, S. and Milbrath, C. (eds.) Biology and Knowledge Revisited: From Neurogenesis to Psychogenesis. Jean Piaget Symposia Series. Hampshire, UK: Taylor & Francis. pp. 307-321. ISBN 9780805846270.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette (2004) Modelling typical and atypical cognitive development: computational constraints on mechanisms of change. In: Goswami, U. (ed.) Blackwell Handbook of Child Cognitive Development. Blackwell Handbooks of Developmental Psychology. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 575-599. ISBN 9780631218418.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Karmiloff-Smith, Annette (2002) Connectionist models of development, developmental disorders and individual differences. In: Sternberg, R.J. and Lautrey, J. and Lubart, T. (eds.) Models of Intelligence: International Perspectives. Decade of Behavior. Washington, U.S.: American Psychological Association. pp. 133-150. ISBN 9781557989710.
• Karmiloff-Smith, Annette and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2002) Developmental disorders. In: Arbib, M.A. (ed.) The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks (2nd Edition). Cambridge, U.S.: MIT Press. pp. 339-342. ISBN 9780262011976.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Mareschal, Denis (2001) Metaphor as categorisation: a connectionist implementation. In: Barnden, J.A. and Lee, M.G. (eds.) Metaphor and Artificial Intelligence. Metaphor & Symbol. London, UK: Psychology Press. pp. 5-27. ISSN 1092-6488. ISBN 9780805897302.
• Mareschal, Denis and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2001) Self-organization in normal and abnormal cognitive development. In: Kalverboer, A.F. and Gramsbergen, A. (eds.) Handbook of Brain and Behaviour in Human Development. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer. pp. 734-765. ISBN 9780792369431.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Mareschal, Denis (1999) Metaphor as categorisation: a connectionist implementation. In: Proceedings of the AISB'99 Symposium on Metaphor, Artificial Intelligence, and Cognition. The Society for the Study of Artificial Inteligence and Simulation of Behavior. pp. 1-10. ISBN 1902956060.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Mareschal, Denis (1997) A connectionist account of interference effects in early infant memory and categorization. In: Langley, P. and Shafto, M.G. (eds.) Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. London, UK: Psychology Press, Routledge. pp. 757-762. ISBN 9780805829419.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Mareschal, Denis (1996) A connectionist model of metaphor by pattern completion. In: Cottrell, G.W. (ed.) Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. London, UK: Psychology Press, Routledge. pp. 696-701. ISBN 9781138876637.

Conference Item

• Stamate, Cosmin and Magoulas, George and Thomas, Michael (2021) Deep learning topology-preserving EEG-based images for autism detection in infants. 22nd International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, 2021, Crete, Greece (online)
• Baughman, Frank D. and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2008) Specific impairments in cognitive development: a dynamical systems approach. 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2008, Washington, U.S.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. (2008) Ageing, plasticity, and cognitive reserve in connectionist networks. 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2008, Washington, U.S.
• Abreu, M.A. and French, R.M. and Annaz, Dagmara and Thomas, Michael S.C. and Schonen, S. (2005) A visual conflict hypothesis for global-local visual deficits in Williams Syndrome: simulations and data. 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2005, Stresa, Italy
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Redington, M. (2004) Modelling atypical syntax processing. 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2004, Geneva, Switzerland
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Mareschal, Denis and Hinds, A. (2001) A connectionist account of the emergence of the literal-metaphorical-anomalous distinction in young children. 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2001, Edinburgh, U.K.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and de Wet, N.M. (1999) Stochastic double dissociations in distributed models of semantic memory. The 5th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop, 1999, Birmingham, UK
• Thomas, Michael S.C. (1998) Bilingualism and the single route/dual route debate. The 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1998, Madison, U.S.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. (1998) Distributed representations and the bilingual lexicon: one store or two?. 4th Neural Computation & Psychology Workshop, Connectionist Representations: Theory and Practice, 1998, London, UK
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Mareschal, Denis (1997) Connectionism and psychological notions of similarity. 19th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1997, Stanford, U.S.
• Thomas, Michael S.C. and Plunkett, K. (1995) Representing the bilingual's two lexicons. 17th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1995, Pittsburg, U.S.

Letter

• Van Herwegen, J. and Purser, H. and Thomas, Michael S.C. (2019) Studying development in Williams syndrome: Progress, prospects and challenges. Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders 3, pp. 343-346. Springer. ISSN 2366-7532.

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