Scientific journal articles
  • Robidoux, S., Eklund, K., McArthur, G., Francis, D. A., Torppa, M., & Aro, T. (2024). Reading and psychosocial development in Finnish children: Poor reading is associated with later anxiety.  Reading and  Writing. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-024-10559-y
  • Galea, C., Robidoux, S., Salins, A., Noble, C., & McArthur, G. (2024). The Impact of Shared Book Reading on Children and Families: A Study of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library in Tamworth, Australia. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 1-30
  • Georgiou, G. K., Parrila, R., & McArthur, G. (2024). Dyslexia and mental health problems: introduction to the special issue. Annals of Dyslexia, 1-3.​
  • McArthur, G., Doust, A., Banales, E., Robidoux, S., & Kohnen, S. (2024). Are comorbidities of poor reading related to elevated anxiety in children? Annals of Dyslexia, 74, 79-100.
  • Ko, K., Jones, A., Francis, D., Robidoux, S., & McArthur, G. (accepted 2024, February 15). Physiological Correlates of Anxiety in Childhood and Adolescence: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Stress and Health. e3388.
  • Sabio, J., Williams, N. S., McArthur, G. M., & Badcock, N. A. (2024). A scoping review on the use of consumer-grade EEG devices for research. Plos one, 19(3), e0291186.
  • *Mézière, D., Yu, L., von der Malsburg, T., Reichle, E., McArthur, G., & Mézière, D. C. Using Eye Movements from a ‘Read-Only’Task to Predict Text Comprehension. osf.io
  • Mézière, D., Yu, L., McArthur, G., Reichle, E., & von der Malsburg, T. (2023). Scanpath regularity as an index of reading comprehension. Scientific Studies of Reading, 28, 79-100. 
  • Mézière, D. C., Yu, L., Reichle, E. D., Von Der Malsburg, T., & McArthur, G. (2023). Using eye‐tracking measures to predict reading comprehension. Reading Research Quarterly.
  • Mealings, K., Miles, K., Parrila, R., Holt, R., Cox, F., Dillon, H., ... & Buchholz, J. M. (2023). An interdisciplinary approach to enhance children’s listening, learning, and wellbeing in the classroom: The Listen to Learn for Life (L 3) Assessment Framework. In Frontiers in Education (Vol. 8, pp. 1-13). Frontiers Media SA.​
  • McArthur, G, Badcock, N. Castles, A., & Robidoux, S. (2022). Tracking the relations between children’s reading and emotional health across time: Evidence from four large longitudinal studies. Reading Research Quarterly, 57, 555-585.
  • McArthur, G. (2022). Poor reading and anxiety (PRAX): Building a theory and practice. Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 1-12.
  • Francis, D. A., Hudson, J. L., Robidoux, S., & McArthur, G. M. (2022). Are different reading problems associated with different anxiety types? Applied Cognitive Psychology, e2090.
  • Francis, D., Hudson, J., Kohnen, S., Mobach, L., & McArthur, G. (2021). The effect of an integrated reading and anxiety intervention for poor readers with anxiety. PeerJ 9, e10987.
  • Arnold, S. S., Payne, J. M., McArthur, G., North, K. N., & Barton, B. (2021). Profiling the Word Reading Abilities of School-Age Children with Neurofibromatosis Type 1. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 27(5), 484-496.
  • Kohnen, S., Banales, E., & McArthur, G. (2021). Videoconferencing interventions for children with reading and spelling difficulties: a pilot study. Telemedicine and e-Health, 27(5), 537-543.
  • Williams, N., McArthur, G., Badcock, N. (2021). It’s all about time: precision and accuracy of Emotiv event-marking for ERP research. PeerJ, 9:e10700.
  • *Caruana, N., Gelding, R., Zucco, M., McArthur, G. (2021). Effective spelling training is not enhanced by tDCS in adults. PsyArXiv.​
  • Arnold, S., Payne, J., McArthur, G., North, K., & Barton, B. (2020). Profiling the Word Reading Abilities of School-Age Children with Neurofibromatosis Type 1. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 1-13.
  • Williams, N., McArthur, G. M., & Badcock, N. A. (2020). A validation of Emotiv EPOC Flex saline for EEG and ERP research PeerJ, 8:e9713.
  • Caruana, N., Alhasan, A., Wagner, K., Kaplan, D. M., Woolgar, A., & McArthur, G. (2020). The effect of non-communicative eye movements on joint attention. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1747021820945604.
  • McArthur, G. M., Filardi, N., Francis, D. A., Boyes, M. E., & Badcock, N. A. (2020). Self-concept in poor readers: a systematic review and meta-analysis. PeerJ, 8, e8772.
  • Larsen, L., Schauber, S. K., Kohnen, S., Nickels, L., & McArthur, G. (2020). Children’s knowledge of single-and multiple-letter grapheme-phoneme correspondences: An exploratory study. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 51, 379-391.
  • De Lissa, P., McArthur, G., Hawelka, S., Palermo, R., Mahajan, Y., Degno, F., & Hutzler, F. (2019). Peripheral preview abolishes N170 face-sensitivity at fixation: Using fixation-related potentials to investigate dynamic face processing. Visual Cognition, 27, 740-759.
  • Caruana, N., & McArthur, G. (2019). The mind minds minds: The effect of intentional stance on the neural encoding of joint attention. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 1-13.
  • Francis, D.A., Caruana, N., Hudson, J.L., & McArthur, G.M. (2019). The association between poor reading and internalising problems: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Clinical Psychology Review, 67, 45-60.
  • Marinus, E., Powell, Z., Thornton, R., McArthur, G., & Crain, S. (2018). Unravelling the Cognition of Coding in 3-to-6-year Olds: The development of an assessment tool and the relation between coding ability and cognitive compiling of syntax in natural language. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research(pp. 133-141). ACM.
  • Fiveash, A., McArthur, G., & Thompson, W. F. (2018). Syntactic and non-syntactic sources of interference by music on language processing. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 17918.
  • McArthur, G., Sheehan, Y., Badcock, N. A., Francis, D. A., Wang, H. C., Kohnen, S., … & Castles, A. (2018). Phonics training for English‐speaking poor readers. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, (11).
  • Barnes, L.J. McArthur, G.M., Biedermann, B.A., de Lissa, P., Polito, V., & Badcock, N. (2018). No meditation-related changes in the auditory N1 during first-time meditation. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 127, 26-37. 
  • Caruana, N., Stieglitz Ham, H., Brock, J., Woolgar, A., Kloth, N., Palermo, R., & McArthur, G. (2018). Joint attention difficulties in autistic adults: An interactive eye-tracking study. Autism, 22(4), 502-512. 
  • Fiveash, A., Thompson, W.F., Badcock, N.A., & McArthur, G. (2018). Syntactic processing in music and language: Effects of interrupting auditory streams with alternating timbres. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 129, 31-40. 
  • Kohnen, S., Nickels, L., Geigis, L., Coltheart, M., McArthur, G., & Castles, A. (2018). Variations within a subtype: Developmental surface dyslexias in English. Cortex, 106, 151-163. 
  • Larsen, L., Kohnen, S., McArthur, G., & Nickels, L. (2018). An investigation of grapheme parsing and grapheme-phoneme knowledge in two children with dyslexia. Reading and Writing, 31, 991-1015. 
  • Snowling, M.J., Gooch, D., McArthur, G., & Hulme, C. (2018). Language skills, but not frequency discrimination, predict reading skills in children at risk of dyslexia. Psychological Science. 
  • Caruana, N., de Lissa, P., & McArthur, G. (2017). Beliefs about human agency influence the neural processing of gaze during joint attention. Social Neuroscience, 12(2), 194-206. 
  • Caruana, N., McArthur, G., Woolgar, A., & Brock, J. (2017). Detecting communicative intent in a computerised test of joint attention. PeerJ, 5, e2899.
  • Caruana, N., McArthur, G., Woolgar, A., & Brock, J. (2017). Simulating social interactions for the experimental investigation of joint attention. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 74(Part A), 115-125. 
  • McArthur, G., & Castles, A. (2017). Helping children with learning difficulties: Some things we have learned so far. npj Science of Learning, 2(1), 7. 
  • Nash, H., Gooch, D., Hulme, C., Mahajan, Y., McArthur, G., Steinmetzger, K., & Snowling, M. (2017). Are the literacy difficulties that characterise developmental dyslexia associated with a failure to integrate letters and speech sounds? Developmental Science, 20(4), 1-16. 
  • Arnold, S.S., Barton, B., McArthur, G., North, K.N., & Payne, J.M. (2016). Phonics training improves reading in children with neurofibromatosis type 1: A prospective intervention trial. The Journal of Pediatrics, 177, 219-226. 
  • Biedermann, B., de Lissa, P., Mahajan, Y., Polito, V., Badcock, N., Connors, M.H., Quinto, L., Larsen, L., & McArthur, G.M. (2016). Meditation and auditory attention: An ERP study of meditators and non-meditators. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 109, 63-70. 
  • McArthur, G., Kohnen, S., Banales, E., & Castles, A. (2016). Low self-concept in poor readers: Prevalence, heterogeneity and risk. PeerJ, 4, e2669.
  • McArthur, G.M., Francis, D., Caruana, N., Boyes, M.E., & Badcock, N. (2016). Self-concept in poor readers: A systematic review protocol. PeerJ Preprints, 4, e2062v1. 
  • Yau, S., Brock, J., & McArthur, G. (2016). The relationship between spoken language and speech and nonspeech processing in children with autism: A magnetic event-related field study. Developmental Science, 19(5), 834-852. 
  • Badcock, N.A., Preece, K.A., de Wit, B., Glenn, K., Fieder, N., Thie, J., & McArthur, G. (2015). Validation of the Emotiv EPOC EEG system for research quality auditory event-related potentials in children. PeerJ, 3, e907. 
  • Banales, E., Kohnen, S., & McArthur, G. (2015). Can verbal working memory training improve reading? Cognitive Neuropsychology, 32(3-4), 104-132. 
  • Caruana, N., de Lissa, P., & McArthur, G. (2015). The neural time course of evaluating self-initiated joint attention bids. Brain and Cognition, 98, 43-52. 
  • de Lissa, P., Sorensen, S., Badcock, N., Thie, J., & McArthur, G. (2015). Measuring the face-sensitive N170 with a gaming EEG system: A validation study. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 253, 47-54. 
  • Larsen, L., Kohnen, S., Nickels, L., & McArthur, G. (2015). The Letter-Sound Test (LeST): A reliable and valid comprehensive measure of grapheme-phoneme knowledge. Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 20(2), 129-142. 
  • Mahajan, Y., & McArthur, G. (2015). Maturation of mismatch negativity and P3a response across adolescence. Neuroscience Letters, 587, 102-106. 
  • McArthur, G., Kohnen, S., Jones, K., Eve, P., Banales, E., Larsen, L., & Castles, A. (2015). Replicability of sight word training and phonics training in poor readers: A randomised controlled trial. PeerJ, 3, e922. 
  • McArthur, G.M., Castles, A., Kohnen, S., Larsen, L., Jones, K., Anandakumar, T., & Banales, E. (2015). Sight word and phonics training in children with dyslexia. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 48(4), 391-407. 
  • Yau, S.H., Brock, J., Badcock, N.A., & McArthur, G. (2015). Case study: Auditory brain responses in a minimally verbal child with autism and cerebral palsy. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 9, 208. 
  • de Lissa, P., McArthur, G., Hawelka, S., Palermo, R., Mahajan, Y., & Hutzler, F. (2014). Fixation location on upright and inverted faces modulates the N170. Neuropsychologia, 57, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.02.006
  • Peter, V., McArthur, G., & Crain, S. (2014). Using event-related potentials to measure phrase boundary perception in English. BMC Neuroscience, 15(1), 129. 
  • Badcock, N.A., Mousikou, P., Mahajan, Y., de Lissa, P., Thie, J., & McArthur, G.M. (2013). Validation of the Emotiv EPOC® EEG gaming system for measuring research quality auditory ERPs. PeerJ, 1, e38. 
  • Johnson, B.W., McArthur, G.M., Hautus, M., Reid, M., Brock, J., Castles, A., & Crain, S. (2013). Lateralized auditory brain function in children with normal reading ability and in children with dyslexia. Neuropsychologia, 51(4), 633-641. 
  • Mahajan, Y., & McArthur, G.M. (2013). Maturation of auditory t-complex brain response across adolescence. International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience, 31, 1-10. 
  • Marinus, E., Kohnen, S., & McArthur, G. (2013). Australian comparison data for the test of word reading efficiency. Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 18(2), 199-212. 
  • McArthur, G.M., & Castles, A. (2013). Phonological processing deficits in specific reading disability and specific language impairment: Same or different. Journal of Research in Reading, 36, 280-302. 
  • McArthur, G.M., Jones, K., Anandakumar, T., Castles, A., Larsen, L., & Coltheart, M. (2013). A Test of Everyday Reading Comprehension (TERC). Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 18, 35-85. 
  • McArthur, G.M., Kohnen, S., Larsen, L., Jones, K., Anandakumar, T., Banales, E., & Castles, A. (2013). Getting to grips with the heterogeneity of developmental dyslexia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 30, 1-24. 
  • Kohnen, S., Nickels, L., Castles, A., Friedmann, N., & McArthur, G. (2012). When ‘slime’ becomes ‘smile’: Developmental letter position dyslexia in English. Neuropsychologia, 50(14), 3681–3692. 
  • Mahajan, Y., & McArthur, G. (2012). Maturation of auditory event-related potentials across adolescence. Hearing Research, 294, 82-94.
  • McArthur, G., Eve, P., Jones, K., Banales, E., Kohnen, S., Anandakumar, T., Larsen, L., Marinus, E., Wang, H.-C., & Castles, A. (2012). Phonics training for English-speaking poor readers. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 12, CD009115. 
  • McArthur, G.M., & Hogben, J.H. (2012). Poor auditory task scores in children with specific reading and language difficulties: Some poor scores are more equal than others. Scientific Studies of Reading, 16, 63-89.
  • Peter, V., McArthur, G., & Thompson, W.F. (2012). Discrimination of stress in speech and music: A mismatch negativity (MMN) study. Psychophysiology, 49(12), 1590-1600. 
  • Mahajan, Y., & McArthur, G. (2011). The effect of a movie soundtrack on auditory event-related potentials in children, adolescents and adults. Clinical Neurophysiology, 122(5), 934-941. 
  • Mahajan, Y., & McArthur, G. (2011). Maturation of visual evoked potentials across adolescence. Brain & Development, 34(8), 655-666. 
  • McArthur, G., Castles, A., Kohnen, S., Larsen, L., Jones, K., Anandakumar, T., & Banales, E. (2011). Phonics training for English-speaking poor readers (Protocol). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 5, CD009115. 
  • McArthur, G.M. (2011). Living with dyslexia: A review of Living with Dyslexia (2nd Edition). Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 16, 181-182.
  • Castles, A., McLean, G.M.T., & McArthur, G. (2010). Dyslexia (neuropsychological). Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science (WIREs), 1(3), 426-432.
  • Mahajan, Y. & McArthur, G. (2010). Does combing reduce scalp electrode impedances? Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 188(2), 287-289. 
  • McArthur, G. M., Atkinson, C., & Ellis, D. (2010). Can training normalise atypical passive auditory ERPs in children with SRD or SLI? Developmental Neuropsychology, 35(6), 656-678. 
  • McArthur, G.M. (2010). Dyslexia-friendly practice in the secondary classroom: A review [Dyslexia-friendly practice in the secondary classroom]. Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 15, 111-112.
  • Peter, V., McArthur, G., & Thompson, W.F. (2010). Effect of deviance direction and calculation method on duration and frequency mismatch negativity (MMN). Neuroscience Letters, 482(1), 71-75. 
  • Willis, M.L., Palermo, R., Burke, D., Atkinson, C., & McArthur, G. (2010). Switching associations between facial identity and emotional expression: A behavioural and ERP study. NeuroImage, 50, 329-339. 
  • Castles, A., Coltheart, M., Larsen, L., Jones, P., Saunders, S., & McArthur, G. (2009). Assessing the basic components of reading: A revision of the Castles and Coltheart test with new norms. Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 14, 67-88.
  • McArthur, G.M. (2009). Auditory processing disorders: Can they be treated? Current Opinion in Neurology, 22, 137-143.
  • McArthur, G.M., Ellis, D., & Atkinson, C. (2009). Atypical brain responses to sounds in children with language and reading impairments. Developmental Science, 12, 768-783.
  • McArthur, G.M. (2008). Does What Works Clearinghouse work? A brief review of Fast ForWord TM. Australasian Journal of Special Education, 32, 101-107.
  • McArthur, G.M., Ellis, D., Atkinson, C., & Coltheart, M. (2008). Auditory processing deficits in children with reading and language impairments: Can they (and should they) be treated? Cognition, 107, 946-977.
  • Sewell, C., Palermo, R., Atkinson, C., & McArthur, G. (2008). Anxiety and the neural processing of threat in faces. Neuroreport, 19(13), 1339-1343.
  • McArthur, G. (2007). Test-Retest Effects in Treatment Studies of Reading Disability: The Devil is in the Detail. Dyslexia, 13, 240-252.
  • Bishop, D.V.M., & McArthur, G.M. (2005). Individual differences in auditory processing in specific language impairment: A follow-up study using event-related potentials and behavioural thresholds. Cortex, 41, 327-341.
  • Bishop, D.V.M., Reilly, J., & McArthur, G.M. (2005). Electrophysiological evidence implicates automatic low-level feature detectors in perceptual asymmetry. Cognitive Brain Research, 24, 177-179.
  • Sheehan, K.A., McArthur, G.M., & Bishop, D.V.M. (2005). Is discrimination training necessary to cause changes in the P2 auditory event-related brain potential to speech sounds? Brain Research, 25, 547-553.
  • McArthur, G.M., & Bishop, D.V.M. (2005). Speech and non-speech processing in people with specific language impairment: A behavioural and electrophysiological study. Brain and Language, 94, 260-273.
  • Bishop, D.V.M., & McArthur, G.M. (2004). Immature cortical responses to auditory stimuli in specific language impairment: Evidence from ERPs to rapid tone sequences. Developmental Science, 7, F11-F18.
  • Hill, P.R., McArthur, G.M., & Bishop, D.V.M. (2004). Phonological categorisation of vowels: A mismatch negativity study. NeuroReport, 15, 2195-2199.
  • McArthur, G.M. (2004). Disorders of language development: The good, the (not so) bad, and the ugly [Review of the book Disorders of language development. Dyslexia, 10, 141-144.
  • McArthur, G.M., & Bishop, D.V.M. (2004). Frequency discrimination deficits in people with specific language impairment: Reliability, validity, and linguistic correlates. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 47, 527-541.
  • McArthur, G.M., & Bishop, D.V.M. (2004). Which people with specific language impairment have auditory processing deficits? Cognitive Neuropsychology, 21, 79-94.
  • McArthur, G.M., Bishop, D.V.M., & Proudfoot, M. (2003). Do video sounds interfere with auditory event-related potentials? Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 35, 329-333.
  • McArthur, G.M., & Bishop, D.V.M. (2002). Event-related potentials reflect individual differences in age-invariant auditory skills. NeuroReport, 13, 1079-1082.
  • McArthur, G.M., & Bishop, D.V.M. (2001). Auditory perceptual processing in people with reading and oral language impairments: Current issues and recommendations. Dyslexia, 7, 150-170.
  • McArthur, G.M., & Hogben, J.H. (2001). Auditory backward recognition masking in children with a specific language impairment and children with a specific reading disability. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 109, 1092-1100.
  • McArthur, G.M., Hogben, J.H., Edwards, V.T., Heath SM., & Mengler, E.D. (2000). On the ‘specifics’ of specific reading disability and specific language impairment. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 41, 869-874.
  • McArthur, G.M., & Hogben, J.H. (1999). Bringing theory to practice [Review of the book What reading research tells us about children with diverse learning needs: Bases and basics]. American Journal of Psychology, Winter, 654-658.
  • McArthur, G.M., Budd, T., & Michie, P. (1999). The attentional blink and P300. NeuroReport, 10, 3691-3695.
Book chapters
  • Banales, E., Kohnen, S., & McArthur, G. (2016). Can verbal working memory training improve reading? In L. Nickels, S. Kohnen, & B. Rapp (Eds.), Treatment as a Tool for Investigating Cognition (pp. 14-42). Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
  • Coltheart, M., & McArthur, G.M. (2012). Neuroscience, education and educational efficacy research. In S.D. Sala & M. Anderson (Eds.), Neuroscience in Education: The good, the bad and the ugly. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • McArthur, G.M., Ellis, D., Atkinson, C., & Coltheart, M. (2011). Auditory processing deficits in children with reading and language impairments: Can they (and should they) be treated? In R. Dale, D. Burnham, & C.J. Stevens (Eds.), Human Communication Science: A Compendium (pp. 357-386). Sydney: ARC Research Network in Human Comm. Science.
Professional/community publications
  • McArthur, G. (2024, August 19). What can you do if your child hates reading? The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/what-can-you-do-if-your-child-hates-reading-236494
  • Leitão, S., Wilmot, A., Vanluydt, E., McArthur, G., Hill, L., Jackson, E. & Boyes, M.  (2024, August 22). Language, Literacy and Mental Health: Current progress. Bulletin Learning Difficulties Australia.
  • Nayton, M., Fullarton, K., Collins, P., & McArthur, G. (2024, May 14). Supporting secondary student reading: Screening, monitoring and intervention. Australian Education Research Organisation. https://www.edresearch.edu.au/research/research-reports/supporting-secondary-student-reading
  • *Carroll, J., Holden, C., Kirby, P., Thompson, P. A., Snowling, M. J., & Delphi Panel (2024, May 3). Towards a consensus on dyslexia: Findings from a Delphi study. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/tb8mp
  • McArthur, G. & Galea, C. (2023, November 27). What Do The Experts Say About Shared Reading? Street Library National Shared Book Reading Week. https://streetlibrary.org.au/in-support-of-shared-reading
  • McArthur, G. (2023, October 31). Does your child have reading difficulties? They may also have reading anxiety. The Parents Website. https://theparentswebsite.com.au/child-have-reading-difficulties-they-may-also-have-reading-anxiety/
  • McArthur, G. (2023, October 20). Some kids with reading difficulties can also have reading anxiety – what can parents do? The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/some-kids-with-reading-difficulties-can-also-have-reading-anxiety-what-can-parents-do-215438
  • Francis, D. & McArthur, D. (2020). Poor reading, poor self- concept, and anxiety: A review of the evidence and some practical advice. Learning Difficulties Australia Bulletin, 52, 28-33.
  • Parrila, R., Castles, A., Ryan, M., McArthur, G., Hadley, F., Chik, A., ... & Colenbrander, D. (2020). Sample initial teacher education program outlines: reading instruction.  Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL). https://www.aitsl.edu.au/tools-resources/resource/sample-initial-teacher-education-program-outlines-reading-instruction
  • Larsen, L., Kohnen, S., Nickels, L., & McArthur, G. (2016). Other useful free reading assessments for teachers. Learning Difficulties Australia eNews
  • Coltheart, M., & McArthur, G. (2015). Neuroscience, education and educational efficacy research. Learning Difficulties Australia Bulletin, 47, 6-10.
  • Castles, A., & McArthur, G. (2014). ‘Brain-Training’ … or learning, as we like to call it. The Conversation, October 5. http://theconversation.com/brain-training-or-learning-as-we-like-to-call-it-9951.
​Assessment tools
  • Caruana, N., Salins, A., Galea, C., Ko, K., & McArthur, G. (June, 2024) The Assessment of Reading Engagement (ARE).
  • Caruana, N., Salins, A., Galea, C., Ko, K., & McArthur, G. (June, 2024) The Assessment of Reading Values (ARV).
  • Francis, D., Jones, A., Nation, K., Hudson, J., & McArthur, G. (2023). The Reading Anxiety Tests for Children, Adolescents, Adults  (RAT-C/P; RAT-Ad/P; RAT-A; www.motif.org.au)
  • Castles, A., Kohnen, S., Coltheart, M. & McArthur, G. (2021) CC2 – Administration manual. Macquarie University: Sydney. https://www.speldnsw.org.au/shop/
  • Caruana, N., Colenbrander, D., & McArthur, G. (2019). The Macquarie University Advanced Adult Spelling Test (MAAST). www.motif.org.au.
  • Larsen, L., Kohnen, S., Nickels, L., & McArthur, G. (2015). The Letter-Sound Test (LeST). www.motif.org.au.
  • McArthur, G.M., Jones, K., Anandakumar, T., Castles, A., Larsen, L., & Coltheart, M. (2013). The Test of Everyday Reading Comprehension (TERC). www.motif.org.au
  • Marinus, E., Kohnen, S., & McArthur, G. (2013). Australian norms for the Test or Word reading Efficiency. www.motif.org.au
  • Kohnen, S., Glenn, K., McArthur, G., & Nickels, L. (2012). The Diagnostic Spelling Test – Sounds (DiSTs). www.motif.org.au
  • Kohnen, S., Anandakumar, T., McArthur, G. & Castles, A. (2012). The Test of Orthographic Choice (TOC). Available from www.motif.org.au
  • Kohnen, S., Marinus, E., Friedmann, N., Anandakumar, T., Nickels, L., McArthur, G., & Castles, A. (2012). The Letter Position Test (LetPos). Available from www.motif.org.au.
  • Kohnen, S., Larsen, L., Jones, K., Castles, A., & McArthur, G. (2012). The Meanings of Written Words Test (MeOWW). Available from www.motif.org.au.
  • Castles, A., Coltheart, M., Larsen, L., Jones, P., Saunders, S., & McArthur, G. (2009). The Castles and Coltheart Word Reading Test – Second Edition (CC2). www.motif.org.au
Book reviews
  • McArthur, G.M. (2011). Living with dyslexia: A review of Living with Dyslexia (2nd Edition). Australia Journal of Learning Difficulties, 16, 181-182.
  • McArthur, G.M. (2010). Dyslexia-friendly practice in the secondary classroom: A review [Dyslexia-friendly practice in the secondary classroom]. Australia Journal of Learning Difficulties., 15, 111-112.
  • McArthur, G. M. (2004). Disorders of language development: The good, the (not so) bad, and the ugly [Review of the book Disorders of language development]. Dyslexia, 10, 141-144.
  • McArthur, G. M., & Hogben, J. H. (1999). Bringing theory to practice [Review of the book What reading research tells us about children with diverse learning needs: Bases and basics]. American Journal of Psychology, Winter, 654-658.
Conference proceedings
  • Marinus, E., Powell, Z., Thornton, R., McArthur, G., & Crain, S. (2018). Unravelling the cognition of coding in 3-to-6-year olds. In T.B. Gallant & A. Korhonen (Eds.), Proceedings of ACM International Computing Education Research (ICER) Conference (pp. 133-141). Espoo, Finland: ACM, USA.
  • Reid, M., Johnson, B., McArthur, G., Castles, A., Hautus, M. (2010). Auditory processing in the dyslexic brain. In Christensen, W., Schier, E., & Sutton, J. (Eds.), ASCS09: Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science (pp. 293-297). Sydney: Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science.
Conference abstracts
  • Yau, S., McArthur, G., & Brock, J. (2015). Auditory discrimination in children with autism using the magnetic Acoustic Change Complex (mACC) [Abstract]. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Conference Abstract: XII International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON-XII). 
  • Bentvelzen, A., McArthur, G., Badcock, N.A., Johnson, B., Willis, M.L., Lee, S., & Savage, G. (2013). Right-hemisphere memory: Lateralisation effects of material, modality, novelty, verbalisation and sex [Abstract]. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25 (Suppl. 1), 51.
  • Badcock, N.A., Mousikou, B., Mahajan, Y., de Lissa, P., Thie, J., & McArthur, G. (2012). Emotiv versus Neuroscan: Validating a gaming EEG system for research quality ERP measurement [Abstract]. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Conference Abstract: ACNS-2012 Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Conference. 
  • de Lissa, P., Brock, J., & McArthur, G. (2012). Investigating saccade-programming and shifts of attention on a Posner cueing task with saccade-related potentials [Abstract]. Combined Abstracts of 2010 Australian Psychology Conferences [CDROM].
  • Larsen, L., Kohnen, S., McArthur, G., & Nickels, L. (2012). Decoding words: The relationship between parsing and grapheme-phoneme knowledge [Abstract]. Combined Abstracts of 2010 Australian Psychology Conferences [CDROM].
  • McArthur, G., Castles, A., & Kohnen, S. (2012). Sight-word and phonics training in children with dyslexia [Abstract]. Combined Abstracts of 2010 Australian Psychology Conferences [CDROM].
  • McArthur, G.M., Atkinson, C.M., & Ellis, D. (2012). Can children’s atypical passive auditory ERPs be normalised by training? [Abstract]. Clinical EEG and Neuroscience, 43(3), 237. 
  • Bentvelzen, A., McArthur, G., Johnson, B., Willis, M., Lee, S., & Savage, G. (2011). Event-related EEG suggests modality rather than material specific memory lateralisation [Abstract]. Clinical EEG and Neuroscience, 43(3), 224-225. 
  • de Lissa, P., McArthur, G., & Castles, A. (2010). Orthographic learning: Insights from fixation-related potentials [Abstract]. Combined Abstracts of 2010 Australian Psychology Conferences [CDROM].
  • de Lissa, P., McArthur, G., & Castles, A. (2010). Orthographic learning: Insights from fixation-related potentials [Abstract]. Australian Journal of Psychology: Combined Abstracts of 2010 Australian Psychology Conferences.
  • Johnson, B.W., Reid, M., McArthur, G., Castles, A., & Hautus, M. (2010). A comparison of EEG and MEG for assessment of hemispheric asymmetries in brain function [Abstract]. Combined Abstracts of 2010 Australian Psychology Conferences [CDROM].
  • McArthur, G. (2010). The aetiology of poor auditory task scores in children with reading and language impairments [Abstract]. Combined Abstracts of 2010 Australian Psychology Conferences [CDROM].
  • McArthur, G., Atkinson, C., & Ellis, D. (2010). Atypical brain responses to sounds in children with specific language and reading impairment [Abstract]. Clinical EEG and Neuroscience, 41, 112.
  • de Lissa, P., Palermo, R., McArthur, G., Hawelka, S., Mahajan, Y., & Hutzler, F. (2009). New insights into face processing using fixation-related potentials [Abstract]. Combined Abstracts of 2009 Australian Psychology Conferences [CDROM].
  • de Lissa, P., Palermo, R., McArthur, G., Hawelka, S., Mahajan, Y., & Hutzler, F. (2009). New insights into face processing using fixation-related potentials [Abstract]. Australian Journal of Psychology: Combined Abstracts of 2010 Australian Psychology Conferences.
  • Mahajan, Y., & McArthur, G. (2009). Maturation of auditory event-related potentials in adolescence [Abstract]. Combined Abstracts of 2009 Australian Psychology Conferences [CDROM].
  • McArthur, G., Atkinson, C., & Ellis, D. (2009). Can atypical passive auditory ERPs in children with SRD and SLI be normalised by training? [Abstract]. Combined Abstracts of 2009 Australian Psychology Conferences [CDROM].
  • Peter, V., McArthur, G., Thompson, W., & Crain, S. (2009). ERP correlates of phrase boundary perception in speech and music [Abstract]. Combined Abstracts of 2009 Australian Psychology Conferences [CDROM].
  • Savage, G., Johnson, B., Willis, M., Lee, S., & McArthur, G. (2009). ERP measures of material specificity for cross-modal relational memory [Abstract]. NeuroImage, 47, S98.
  • McArthur, G.M., Atkinson, C., & Ellis, D. (2008). Abnormal brain responses to sounds in children with language and reading impairment [Abstract]. Australian Journal of Psychology, 60(Suppl. 1), 92.
  • McArthur, G.M., Atkinson, C., & Ellis, D. (2008). Abnormal brain responses to sounds in children with language and reading impairment [Abstract]. NeuroImage, 41, S123.
  • Palermo, R., Atkinson, C., Willis, M., de Lissa, P., Sewell, C., & McArthur, G. (2008). Implicit and explicit processing of facial expression in childhood, adolescence and adulthood [Abstract]. Australian Journal of Psychology, 60 (Suppl. 1), 92.
  • Palermo, R., Atkinson, C., Willis, M., de Lissa, P., Sewell, C., & McArthur, G. (2008). Implicit and explicit processing of facial expression in childhood, adolescence and adulthood: An ERP study [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 8(6), 704.
  • Peter, V., & McArthur, G. (2008). The relation between auditory processing and prosodic perception in speech and music: An ERP study [Abstract]. NeuroImage, 41, S172.
  • Savage, G., Willis, M., Lee, S., Johnson, B., & McArthur, G. (2008). ERP measures of material specificity in recognition memory [Abstract]. Australian Journal of Psychology, 60(Suppl. 1), 223.
  • Willis, M., Palermo, R., McArthur, G., Burke, D., & Atkinson, C. (2008). Switching associations between facial identity and emotional expression is more difficult for angry expressions compared to happy expressions: A behavioural and ERP study [Abstract]. NeuroImage, 41, S119.
  • McArthur, G.M., Ellis, D., Atkinson, C., & Coltheart, M. (2007). Are specific reading disability and specific language impairment the same thing? [Abstract]. Australian Journal of Psychology, 59 (Suppl. 1), 46.
  • Sewell, C., Palermo, R., McArthur, G., & Atkinson, C. (2007). Attentional biases for facial affect vary with time but not with level of social anxiety: An event-related potentials study [Abstract]. Australian Journal of Psychology, 59 (Suppl. 1), 56.
  • Willis, M., Palermo, R., McArthur, G., Burke, D., & Atkinson, C. (2007). Switching associations between facial identity and emotional expression: A behavioural and ERP study [Abstract]. Australian Journal of Psychology, 59 (Suppl. 1), 64.
  • McArthur, G., Ellis, D., Atkinson, C., & Coltheart, M. (2006). Does sound discrimination training fix specific language and reading impairments? [Abstract]. Australian Journal of Psychology, 58 (Suppl. 1), 85.
  • McArthur, G.M., & Budd, T.W. (2005). Auditory processing in people with specific language impairment: Insights from the N1 [Abstract]. Australian Journal of Psychology, 57, 62.
  • McArthur, G.M., & Bishop, D.V.M. (2004). Speech and non-speech processing in people with specific language impairment [Abstract]. Australian Journal of Psychology, 56, 204.
  • McArthur, G.M., & Bishop, D.V.M. (2002). Temporal resolution and frequency discrimination in people with a specific language impairment: Behavioural and electrophysiological evidence [Abstract]. Temporal Integration in the Perception of Speech.