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Ward, Lawrence
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Core Area(s): Cognitive Science
Research Interests
Cognitive neuroscience of attention and consciousness with special emphasis on EEG and MEG studies of neuronal synchronization; psychophysics, biophysics and general theory of stochastic resonance; psychophysics and cognitive neuroscience of tinnitus; neural plasticity; nonlinear dynamical systems theory and its applications in cognitive neuroscience.
Courses Taught
PSYC 465 Computer Modeling of Psychological Theories, COGS 401 Seminar in Cognitive Systems, PSYC 583 Special Topics in Cognitive Science: Consciousness, COGS 300 Understanding and Designing Cognitive Systems
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Lab Website: http://www.psych.ubc.ca/~lward/
Representative Publications
Ward, L.M. (2002). Dynamical Cognitive Science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (355+xv pages).
Wright, R. D., & Ward, L. M. (2008). Orienting of Attention. New York: Oxford University Press. (292+xiv pages)
Ward, L.M. (2003). Synchronous neural oscillations and cognitive processes. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 553-559.
Moss, F., Ward, L.M. & Sannita, W.G. (2004). Stochastic resonance and sensory information processing: A tutorial and review of applications. Clinical Neurophysiology, 115, 267-281.
Greenwood, P.E., Müller, U.U. & Ward, L.M. (2004). Soft threshold stochastic resonance. Physical Review E, 70, 051110(1-10).
Tata, M.S. & Ward, L.M. (2005). Early phase of spatial mismatch negativity is localized to a posterior “where” auditory pathway. Experimental Brain Research, 167, 481-486.
Doesburg, S.M., Kitajo, K. & Ward, L.M. (2005). Increased gamma-band synchrony precedes switching of conscious perceptual objects in binocular rivalry. NeuroReport, 16, 1139-1142.
Prime, D.J. & Ward, L.M. (2006). Cortical expressions of inhibition of return. Brain Research, 1072, 161-174.
Kitajo, K.,Yamanaka, K.,Nozaki, D., Ward, L.M. & Yamamoto, Y. (2006). Stochastic resonance in attention control. Europhysics Letters, 76 (6), 1-7. Chosen among “Editorial Board’s personal favorites in 2006.”
Doesburg, S.M., Roggeveen, A.B., Kitajo, K. & Ward, L.M. (2007/2008) Large-scale gamma-band phase synchronization and selective attention. Cerebral Cortex, 18(2), 386-396. (2007 online doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhm073).
Doesburg, S.M., Emberson, L., Rahi, A., Cameron, D. & Ward, L.M. (2007/2008). Asynchrony from synchrony: Gamma-band neural synchrony and perception of audiovisual speech asynchrony. Experimental Brain Research, 185(1): 11-20. (2007 online DOI 10.1007/s00221-007-1127-5).
Kitajo, K., Doesburg, S.M., Yamanaka, K.,Nozaki, D., Ward, L.M. & Yamamoto, Y. (2007). Noise-driven large-scale synchronization of human brain activity enhances perception. Europhysics Letters, 80, 40009p1-40009p6. |
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