Lawrence Ward

Lawrence M. Ward is a neuroscientist and psychophysicist at the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. His interests are 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.

Recent publications

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

*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.

*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. (2004). Spatial attention modulates activity in a posterior “where” auditory pathway. Neuropsychologia, 43, 509-516.

*Roggeveen, A.B., Prime, D.J., & Ward, L.M. (2005). Inhibition of return and response repetition within and between modalities. Experimental Brain Research., Vol 167 (1), p 86 – 94.

*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.

*Tata, M.S. & Ward, L.M. (Accepted). Early phase of spatial mismatch negativity is localized to a. posterior “where” auditory pathway. Experimental Brain Research.

*Prime, D.J. & Ward, L.M. (In press). Cortical expressions of inhibition of return. Brain Research.

External links

* [http://www.psych.ubc.ca/~lward/ Psychophysics lab at University of British Columbia]