| Post: | Reader in Psychology |
| Location: | Pevensey 1 C13 |
| Email: | jamiew@sussex.ac.uk |
| Telephone numbers | |
| Internal: | 6598 |
| UK: | (01273) 876598 |
| International: | +44 1273 876598 |
Biography
2008-onwards Reader in Psychology, University of Sussex
1999-2007 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Psychology, UCL
1997-1999 Research Fellow, University of Sussex
1994-1997 PhD in Psychology, University of Birmingham
1991-1994 BA Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge
Role
Editor-in-Chief, 'Cognitive Neuroscience' (www.psypress.com/cognitiveneuroscience/)
Programme Director, MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience (School of Psychology, University of Sussex)
Deputy Chair, Psychology Teaching Committee
Research
My research group website is located at www.syn.sussex.ac.uk
I conduct research in human cognitive neuroscience using methods such as neuropsychology, fMRI, TMS and EEG. I have a particular interest in synaesthesia and how perception affects 'higher' cognition such as memory and language.
Publications
BOOKS
Ward, J. (2010, 2nd Edition). The Students Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience. Hove: Psychology Press.
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/]
Ward, J. (2006). 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"]
Mattingley, J., & Ward, J. (2006). Cognitive Neuroscience Perspectives on Synaesthesia. Special Issue of 'Cortex' (Volume 42, February). [edited volume]
PAPERS/CHAPTERS
Jones, C.L., Ward, J., & Critchley, H.D. (in press). The neuropsychological impact of insular cortex lesions. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry,
Ward, J., Jonas, C.N., Dienes, Z., & Seth, A.K. (in press). 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
Ward, J., & Meijer, P. (in press). Visual experiences in the blind induced by an auditory sensory substitution device. Consciousness and Cognition
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.