The Psychophysics and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory
Home | Lab Members | Publications | Links | UBC Psychology | UBC

 

Green, J.J., Doesburg, S.M., Ward, L.M. & McDonald, J.J. (in press) Electrical neuroimaging of voluntary audio-spatial attention: Evidence for a supramodal attention control network. Journal of Neuroscience

Ward, L.M., MacLean, S.E. & Kirschner, A. (2010). Stochastic resonance modulates neural synchronization within and between cortical sources. PLoS ONE, 5(12), e14371 (1-12). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0014371.

Roberts, L.E., Moffat, G., Baumann, M., Ward, L.M., & Bosnyak, D.J. (2009). Residual inhibition overlaps tinnitus spectra and the region of auditory threshold shift. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 9, 417–435.

Doesburg, S.M., Green, J.J., McDonald, J.J. & Ward, L.M. (2009). Rhythms of consciousness: Binocular rivalry reveals large-scale oscillatory network dynamics mediating visual perception. PLoS ONE, 4(7), e6142 (1-14). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006142.

Ward, L.M. & Baumann, M. (2009). Measuring tinnitus magnitude using constrained scaling. American Journal of Audiology,18, 119-128.

Ward, L.M., Doesburg, S.M., Green, J.J. & McDonald, J.J. (March 2009) Rhythms of consciousness: binocular rivalry reveals large-scale oscillatory network dynamics mediating visual awareness. Slide Session talk at 2009 Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco.

MacLean, S. & Ward, L.M. (March 2009) Synchronous interactions and functional organization of auditory change detection. Poster presentation at the 2009 Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco.

Emberson, L., Kitajo, K. & Ward, L.M. (March, 2009) Intermediate levels of uncoordinated gamma-band activity facilitate behavioral responses to simple visual stimuli. Poster presentation at the 2009 Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco.

Doesburg, S.M., Green, J.J., McDonald, J.J. & Ward, L.M. (2009) From local inhibition to long-range integration: a functional dissociation of alpha-band synchronization across cortical scales in visuospatial attention. Brain Research, 1303C, 97-110. doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2009.09.069.

Ward, L.M. (2009). Physics of neural synchronization mediated by stochastic resonance. Contemporary Physics, 50, 563–574.

Wright, R. D., & Ward, L. M. (2008). Orienting of Attention. New York: Oxford University Press. (292+xiv pages)

Doesburg, S.M., Roggeveen, A.B., Kitajo, K. & Ward, L.M. (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. (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).

Ward, L.M. (2008). Attention. Scholarpedia, 3(10):1538. (http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Attention)

Prime, D.J., McDonald, J.J., Green, J. & Ward, L.M. (2008). When crossmodal attention fails: A controversy resolved? Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72, 192-197.

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.

Ward, L.M. & Greenwood, P.E. (2007). 1/f noise. Scholarpedia, 2(12):1537. (http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/1/f_Noise)

Doesburg, S.M. & Ward, L.M. (2007). Corticothalamic necessity, qualia, and consciousness. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30, 90-91.

Doesburg, S.M., Herdman, A. & Ward, L.M. (May, 2007) MEG reveals synchronized neural network for visuospatial attention. Poster presentation at the 2007 Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York.

Emberson, L., Kitajo, K. & Ward, L.M. (May, 2007) Slightly noisy brains see better: Prestimulus dynamics in EEG and perceptual performance. Poster presentation at the 2007 Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York.

Roggeveen, A., Prime, D.J. & Ward, L.M. (2007). Lateralized readiness potentials reveal motor slowing in the aging brain. Journal of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Processes.

Kitajo, K.,Yamanaka, K.,Nozaki, D., Ward, L.M. & Yamamoto, Y. (2006). Stochastic resonance in attention control. Europhysics Letters, 76(6), 1-7.

Prime, D.J., Visser, T.A.W. & Ward, L.M. (2006). Reorienting attention and inhibition of return. Perception & Psychophysics, 68(8), 1310-1323.

Prime, D.J. & Ward, L.M. (2006). Cortical expressions of inhibition of return. Brain Research, 1072, 161-174.

Ward, L.M., Doesburg, S.M., Kitajo, K., MacLean, S.E. & Roggeveen, A. (2006). Neural synchrony in stochastic resonance, attention, and consciousness. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60(4), 319-326.

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.

Roggeveen, A., Prime, D.J. & Ward, L.M. (2005). Inhibition of return and response repetition within and between modalities. Experimental Brain Research, 167, 86-94.

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.

Greenwood, P.E., Müller, U.U. & Ward, L.M. (2004). Soft threshold stochastic resonance. Physical Review E, 70, 051110(1-10).

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.

Prime, D.J. & Ward, L.M. (2004). Inhibition of return from stimulus to response. Psychological Science, 15, 272-275.

Tata, M.S. & Ward, L.M. (2004). Spatial attention modulates activity in a posterior “where” auditory pathway. Neuropsychologia, 43, 509-516.

Ward, L.M. (2004). Psychophysics of stochastic resonance. Fluctuations and Noise Letters, 4, L11-L21.

Wells, C., Ward, L.M., Chua, R. & Inglis, J.T. (2004). Touch noise increases vibrotactile sensitivity in old and young. Psychological Science, 16, 313-320.

Kitajo, K., Nozaki, D., Ward, L.M. & Yamamoto, Y. (2003). Behavioral stochastic resonance within the human brain. Physical Review Letters, 90(21): Art. No. 218103.

Ward, L.M. (2003). Synchronous neural oscillations and cognitive processes. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 553-55

Room 3014, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver BC, Canada , V6T1Z4 | Wardlab [at] psych.ubc.ca | Phone:(604) 822 5488 Fax:(604) 822-6983