Prof Jamie Ward

BOOKS 

Ward, J. (2012). The Students Guide to Social Neuroscience. Hove: Psychology Press.

Ward, J. (2010, 2nd Edition). The Students Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience. Hove: Psychology Press.[single authored undergraduate textbook; reviewed in Nature Neuroscience, 2006, 9(9), 1079: "unique...does an excellent job of providing a solid grounding in this broad field"]

Ward, J. (2009). Cognitive Neuroscience: Critical Concepts. Routledge/Psychology Press [A collection of published papers reproduced in four volumes]

Ward, J. (2008). The Frog Who Croaked Blue. Oxford: Routledge. [Popular science book aimed at general public about synaesthesia and multi-sensory perception; http://www.thefrogwhocroakedblue.com/]

Mattingley, J., & Ward, J. (2006). Cognitive Neuroscience Perspectives on Synaesthesia. Special Issue of 'Cortex' (Volume 42, February). [edited volume]

PAPERS/CHAPTERS

Alrajih, S. & Ward, J. (in press). Increased facial width-to-height ratio and perceived dominance in the faces of the UK's leading business leaders.  British Journal of Psychology

Banissy, M.J. & Ward, J. (2013).  Mechanisms of self-other representations and vicarious experiences of touch in mirror-touch synaesthesia.  Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7

Ward, J., Burckhardt, V., & Holle, H. (2013).  Contagious scratching: shared feelings but not shared body locations.  Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7

Wright, T.D., & Ward, J. (in press).  The Evolution of a Visual-to-Auditory Sensory Substitution Device using Interactive Genetic Algorithms.  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Rothen, N., Seth, A.K., Witzel, C., & Ward J. (2013).  Diagnosing synaesthesia with online colour pickers: maximising sensitivity and specificity.  Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 215, 156-60.

Pritchard, J., Rothen,, N., Coolbear, D., & Ward, J. (2013). Enhanced Associative Memory for Colour (but not Shape or Location) in Synaesthesia.  Cognition, 127, 230-234

Banissy, M.J., Holle, H., Cassell, J., Annett, L., Tsakanikos, E., Walsh, V., Spiller, M.J., & Ward. J. (2013).  Personality traits in people with synaesthesia: Do synaesthetes have an atypical personality profile?  Personality and Individual Differences, 54, 828–831

Goller, A.I., Richards, K., Novak, S. & Ward, J. (2013).  Mirror-touch Synaesthesia in the Phantom Limbs of Amputees.  Cortex.49, 243-251

Ward, J. (2013).  Synesthesia.  Annual Review of Psychology, 64, 49-75

Maus, G.W., Ward, J., Nijhawan, R., & David Whitney, D. (2013).  The perceived position of moving objects: Transcranial magnetic stimulation of area MT+ reduces the flash-lag effect.  Cerebral Cortex, 23, 241-7

Holle, H., Warne, K., Seth, A. K., Critchley, H. D., & Ward, J. (2012). The neural basis of contagious itch and why some people are more prone to it. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA, 109, 19816–1982

Banissy, M.J., Cassell, J.E., Fitzpatrick, S., Ward, J., Walsh, V., & Muggleton, N.G. (2012).  Increased positive and disorganised schizotypy in synaesthete’s who experience colour from letters and tones.  Cortex, 48, 1085-1087.

Rothen, N., Meier, B., & Ward, J. (2012).  Enhanced memory ability: Insights from synaesthesia.  Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 36, 1952–1963.

Holle, H., Obermeier, C., Schmidt-Kassow, M., Friederici, A.D., Ward, J., & Gunter, T.C. (2012).  Gesture facilitates the syntactic analysis of speech.  Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 29-35

Fernay, L., Reby, D., & Ward, J. (2012).  Visualised voices: A case study of audio-visual synaesthesia.  Neurocase, 18, 50-56.

Banissy, M.J., Stewart, L., Muggleton, N.G., Griffiths, T., Walsh, V., Ward, J., & Kanai, R. (2012). Grapheme-colour and tone-colour synaesthesia is associated with structural brain changes in visual regions implicated in colour, form and motion.  Cognitive Neuroscience, 3, 29-35

Holle, H., McLatchie, N., Maurer, S., & Ward, J. (2011).  Proprioceptive drift without illusions of ownership for rotated hands in the “rubber hand illusion” paradigm.  Cognitive Neuroscience, 2, 171-178.

Brown, D.J., Macpherson, T., & Ward, J. (2011).  Seeing with sound?  Exploring different characteristics of a visual-to-auditory sensory substitution device.  Perception, 40, 1120-1135.

Amin, M., Olu-Lafe, O., Claessen, L.E., Sobczak, M.E., Ward, J., Williams, A.L., Sagiv, N. (2011).  Understanding Grapheme Personification: A Social Synaesthesia?  Journal of Neuropsychology, 5, 255-282.

Jones, C.L., Minati, L., Harrison, N.A., Ward, J. & Critchley, H.D. (2011). Under pressure: Response urgency modulates striatal and insula activity during risky decision-making.  PLoS ONE, 6, e20942.

Goller, A.I., Richards, K., Novak, S. & Ward, J. (in press).  Mirror-touch Synaesthesia in the Phantom Limbs of Amputees.  Cortex.

Fernay, L., Reby, D., & Ward, J. (in press).  Visualised voices: A case study of audio-visual synaesthesia.  Neurocase.

Jonas, C.N., Taylor, A.J., Hutton, S., Weiss, P.H., and Ward, J. (2011). Visuo-spatial representations of the alphabet in synaesthesia and non-synaesthetes.  Journal of Neuropsychology, 5, 302-322.

Jones, C., Gray, M.A., Minati, L., Simner, J., Critchley, H.D. & Ward, J. (2011).  The neural basis of illusory gustatory sensations:  Two rare cases of lexical-gustatory synaesthesia.  Journal of Neuropsychology, 5, 243-254

Jewanski, J., Simner, J., Day, S. & Ward, J. (in press).  The development of a scientific understanding of synesthesia from early case studies (1849–1873).  Journal of the History of Neuroscience

Banissy, M., Garido, L., Kusnir, F., Duchaine, B., Walsh, V., & Ward, J. (2011).  Superior facial expression, but not identity recognition, in mirror-touch synaesthesia.  Journal of Neuroscience, 31, 1820-1824.

Bird, C.M., Davies, R.A., Ward, J., & Burgess, N. (2011).  Effects of pre-experimental knowledge on recognition memory.  Learning and Memory, 18, 11-14.

Holle, H., Banissy, M., Wright, T.D., Bowling, N. & Ward, J. (2011).  “That’s not a real body”: Identifying stimulus qualities that modulate synaesthetic experiences of touch.  Consciousness and Cognition, 20, 720-726

Banissy, M.J., Sauter, D., Ward, J., Warren, J., Walsh, V., & Scott, S.K. (2010) Suppressing sensorimotor activity modulates the discrimination of auditory emotions but not speaker identity.  Journal of Neuroscience, 30, 13552–13557.

Ward, J., & Meijer, P. (2010).  Visual experiences in the blind induced by an auditory sensory substitution device.  Consciousness and Cognition, 19, 492-500.

Jones, C.L., Ward, J., & Critchley, H.D. (2010).  The neuropsychological impact of insular cortex lesions.  Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 81, 611-618

Ward, J., Jonas, C.N., Dienes, Z., & Seth, A.K. (2009).  Grapheme-colour synaesthesia improves detection of embedded shapes, but without pre-attentive “pop-out” of synaesthetic colour. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 277, 1021-1026

Banissy, M.J., Walsh, V., & Ward.J. (2009).  Enhanced sensory perception in synaesthesia.  Experimental Brain Research, 196, 565-571 

Ward, J., Sagiv, N., & Butterworth, B. (2009).  The impact of visuo-spatial number forms on simple arithmetic.  Cortex, 45, 1261-1265.

Goller, A.I., Otten, L.J., & Ward, J. (2009).  Seeing sounds and hearing colors: An event-related potential study of auditory-visual synaesthesia.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, 1869-1881.

Banissy, M.J., Cohen Kadosh, R., Maus, G., Walsh, V., & Ward, J. (2009).  Prevalence, characteristics and a neurocognitive model of mirror-touch synaesthesia.  Experimental Brain Research, 198, 261-272

Jewanski, J., Day, S. & Ward, J. (2009).  A colourful albino: The first documented case of synaesthesia, by Georg Tobias Ludwig Sachs in 1812.  Journal of the History of Neuroscience, 18, 293-303 

Ward, J., Banissy, M.J., & Jonas, C.N. (2008).  Haptic perception and synaesthesia.  In M. Grunewald (Ed.) Human Haptic Perception, Springer Publishers

Ward, J., Moore, S., Beck, B., Thompson-Lake, D., Salih, S. (2008).  The Aesthetic appeal of auditory-visual synaesthetic perceptions in people without synaesthesia.  Perception. 37, 1285-1296.

 Simner, J., & Ward, J. (2008).  Synaesthesia, color terms, and color space: Color claims came from color names in Beeli, Esslen, and Jancke (2007).  Psychological Science, 19, 412-414. 

Tang, J., Ward, J. & Butterworth, B. (2008).  Number forms in the brain.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 1547-1556.

Ward, J., Thompson-Lake, D., Ely, R., & Kaminski, F. (2008). Synaesthesia, creativity and art: What is the link?  British Journal of Psychology, 99, 127-141

Ward, J. (2007).  Acquired auditory-tactile synaesthesia.  Annals of Neurology, 62, 429-430

Ward, J., Li, R., Salih, S. & Sagiv, N. (2007). Varieties of grapheme-colour synaesthesia: A new theory of phenomenological and behavioural differences. Consciousness and Cognition, 16, 913-931

Banissy, M.J., & Ward, J. (2007).  Mirror-touch synaesthesia is linked with empathy.  Nature Neuroscience, 10, 815-816

Ward, J., & Sagiv, N. (2007) Synaesthesia for Finger Counting and Dice Patterns: A Case of Higher Synaesthesia? Neurocase, 13, 86-93

McKissock, S., & Ward, J. (2007). Do errors matter? Errorless and errorful learning in the treatment of picture naming in anomia. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 17, 355-373.

Yaro, C., & Ward, J. (2007). Searching for Shereshevski: What is superior about the memory of synaesthetes? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60, 682-696

Muggleton, N., Tsakanikos, E., Walsh, V., & Ward, J. (2007). Disruption of synaesthesia following TMS of the right posterior parietal cortex. Neuropsychologia, 45, 1582-1585

Simner, J., & Ward, J. (2006). The taste of words on the tip of the tongue. Nature, 444, 438-438

Fradera, A., & Ward, J. (2006) Placing events in time: The role of autobiographical recollection. Memory, 14, 834-845

Simner, J., Sagiv, N., Mulvenna, C., Tsakanikos, E., Witherby, S.A., Fraser, C., Scott, K., & Ward, J. (2006). Synaesthesia: The prevalence of atypical cross-modal experiences. Perception, 35, 1024-1033

Sagiv, N., Simner, J., Collins, J., & Butterworth, B., & Ward, J. (2006). What is the relationship between synaesthesia and visuo-spatial number forms? Cognition, 101, 114-128

Sagiv, N. & Ward, J. (2006). Cross-modal interactions: Lessons from synesthesia. Progress in Brain Research, 155, 263-275. http://eprints.assc.caltech.edu/224/

Ward, J., Bray, A., & Tsakanikos, E. (2006). Synaesthesia for reading and playing music. Neurocase, 12, 1-8.

Ward, J., & Mattingley, J.B. (2006). Synaesthesia: An Overview of Contemporary Findings and Controversies. Cortex, 42, 129-136

Ward, J., Huckstep, B., & Tsakanikos, E. (2006). Sound-colour synaesthesia: To what extent does it use cross-modal mechanisms common to us all? Cortex, 42, 264-280.

Simner, J., Ward, J., Lanz, M., Jansari, A., Noonan, K., Glover, L., Oakley, & D. (2005). Non-random associations of graphemes and colour in the synaesthetic and normal populations. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 22, 1069-1085

Blakemore, S.J., Bristow, D., Bird, G., Frith, C., & Ward, J. (2005). Somatosensory activations following the observation of touch and a case of vision-touch synaesthesia. Brain, 128, 1571-1583

Ward, J. & Simner, J. (2005). Is synaesthesia an X-linked trait with lethality in males? Perception, 34, 611-623

Ward, J., & Cytowic, R. (2005). Synesthesia and language. In K. Brown (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Linguistics and Language. Oxford: Elsevier.

Ward, J., Simner, J. & Auyeung, V. (2005). A comparison of lexical-gustatory and grapheme-colour synaesthesia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 22, 28-41

Ward, J. (2004). Emotionally-mediated synaesthesia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 21, 761-772

Ward, J., & Simner, J. (2003) Lexical-gustatory synaesthesia: Linguistic and conceptual factors, Cognition, 89, 237-261.

Ward, J. (2003). Understanding oral spelling: A review and synthesis. Neurocase, 9, 1-14.

Ward, J. (2003). State of the art: Synaesthesia. The Psychologist, 16, 196-199.

Ward, J. (2003). Encoding and the frontal lobes: A dissociation between retrograde and anterograde memories. Cortex, 39, 791-812.

Ward, J., & Jones, L. (2003). Inappropriate association of semantics and context to novel stimuli can give rise to the false recognition of unfamiliar people. Neuropsychologia, 41, 538-549.

Senior C, Ward J. & David A.S. (2002). Representational momentum and the brain: An investigation of the functional necessity of V5/MT. Visual Cognition, 9, 81-92.

Romani, C., Olson, A., Ward, J., & Ercolani, M.G. (2002). Formal lexical paragraphias in a single case study: How 'masterpiece' can become 'misterpieman' and 'curiosity' 'suretoy'. Brain and Language, 83, 300-334

Parkin, A.J., Ward, J., Squires, E., Furbear, H., Clarke, A. & Townshend, J. (2001). Data-driven recognition memory: A new technique and some data on age differences. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 8, 812-819.

Ward, J., & Parkin, A.J. (2000). Pathological false recognition and source memory deficits following frontal lobe damage. Neurocase, 6, 333-345.

Ward, J. & Romani, C. (2000). Ortho-syllables and consonant-vowel encoding in acquired dysgraphia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 17, 641-663.

Ward, J., Stott, R., & Parkin, A.J. (2000). The role of semantics in reading and spelling: Evidence for the 'Summation Hypothesis'. Neuropsychologia, 38, 1643-1653.

Romani, C., Ward, J., & Olson, A. (1999). Developmental surface dysgraphia : What is the underlying cognitive impairment? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 52A, 97-128.

Parkin, A.J., Ward, J., Bindschaedler, C., Squires, E. & Powell, G. (1999). False recognition after frontal lobe damage: The role of encoding factors. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 16, 243-265.

Ward, J., Parkin, A.J., Powell, G., Squires, E., Townshend, J., & Bradley, V. (1999). False recognition of unfamiliar people: "Seeing film stars everywhere". Cognitive Neuropsychology, 16, 293-315.

Ward, J., & Romani, C. (1998). Lexical activation and serial position effects in spelling: Evidence from a single case study. Neurocase, 4, 189-206. 

Ward, J., Olson, A., Romani C. (1998).  Competitive queuing: Modelling acquired dysgraphia.  In D. Heinke, A. Olson & G.W. Humphreys (Eds.), Connectionist Models of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25-39.  London: Springer-Verlag.