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Lawrence Ward is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. He holds a PhD from Duke University, earned in 1971. He has been a founding member and has occupied executive positions in the International Society for Psychophysics, serving as President from 2005 to 2006 and currently acting as a permanent advisor to the executive. He is a member of the Board of Consulting Editors for the journal Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. His research focuses on behavioral, electrophysiological, and neuromagnetic indices of human perception and cognition. His lab investigates a wide variety of visual and auditory processes using event-related potentials, neural phase synchronization measures, psychophysical scaling, and mathematical modeling to localize electrical and magnetic activity underlying mental processes. Ward is currently working on cognitive neuroscience projects related to attention and consciousness, with a special emphasis on EEG and MEG studies of neuronal synchronization, as well as biophysics, psychophysics, and nonlinear dynamical systems theory applied to cognitive neuroscience. His secondary research areas include Behavioral Science and Quantitative Methods.
Offers course-only and thesis routes. Focus areas include philosophy of science, mind, ethics, and Asian philosophy.