Professor Brian Byrne
Professor, School of Psychology
Qualifications
Ph.D. McMaster University, B.A. University of Sydney
Contact
| Email: | bbryne@une.edu.au |
| Room: | S5-6 Room 49 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2370 (or +61 2 6773 2370 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3820 |
Areas of Teaching
PSYC 321 Psychology of Language (Co-ordinator & Presenter)
PSYC 401H Reading course: Behavioural Genetics (Co-ordinator & Presenter)
Research interests
My research is in the area of psycholinguistics, with an emphasis on reading acquisition, reading difficulties and language development. In studying reading, our research group has gathered data in the form of laboratory analogues to the acquisition process, in small-scale experiments with preschool and kindergarten children, in larger-scale studies of children in primary grades, and in studies of children at risk for developmental dyslexia. Currently, we are studying the genetics of reading ability using twin methodology, in cooperation with staff at the University of Colorado and University of Linköping.
Representative Publications
Byrne, B. (1998) The foundation of literacy: The child's discovery of the alphabetic principle. Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
Byrne, B., Fielding-Barnsley, R., & Ashley, L. (2000). Effects of preschool phoneme identity training after six years: Outcome level distinguished from rate response. Journal of Educational Psychology, 92, 659-667.
Byrne, B., Wadsworth, S, Corley, R., Samuelsson, S., Quain, P., DeFries, J. C., Willcutt, E., & Olson, R. K. (2005). Longitudinal twin study of early literacy development: Preschool and kindergarten phases. Scientific Studies of Reading, 9, 219-235.
Samuelsson, S., Byrne, B., Quain, P., Wadsworth, S., Corley, R., DeFries, J.C., Willcutt, E., & Olson, R.K. (2005). Environmental and genetic influences on prereading skills in Australia, Scandinavia, and the United States. Journal of Educational Psychology, 97, 705-722.
Hindson, B. A., Byrne, B., Fielding-Barnsley, R., Newman, C., Hine, D. W., & Shankweiler, D. (2005). Assessment and early instruction of preschool children at risk for reading disability. Journal of Educational Psychology, 97, 687-704.
Byrne, B., Olson, R. K., Samuelsson, S., Wadsworth, S., Corley, R., DeFries, J.C., & Willcutt, E. (2006). Genetic and environmental influences on early literacy. Journal of Research in Reading, 29, 33-49.