Jamie Ward
Biographic Data
| ID | 3658831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jamie Ward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jamie |
| FAMILY NAME | Ward |
| SIGNATURE | WARD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7007-1902 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Synaesthesia is linked to differences in music preference and musical sophistication and a distinctive pattern of sound-color associations
Synaesthesia has often been linked to an artistic or creative temperament, but the nature of this link (and, hence, the possible underpinning mechanisms) are poorly understood. This study focusses primarily on people with synaesthesia who have visual experiences, including color, that are induced by music. We determine how this impacts their musical preferences and musical sophistication using previously validated self-report measures and contras…
More empathy for others, more hurt for oneself? Empathy for pain is related to poor mental health and negative emotion regulation
These findings reveal a previously unrecognized link between empathy for pain and mental health, mediated by the increased use of negative emotion regulation strategies among responders. Our findings have particular implications for the mental health of empathic individuals or people who are often exposed to the pain of others (counselor or nurse, etc.)
Individual differences in the tendency to see the expected
Student's Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience
Subjective embodiment during the rubber hand illusion predicts severity of premonitory sensations and tics in Tourette Syndrome
Atypical susceptibility to the rubber hand illusion linked to sensory-localised vicarious pain perception
The prevalence and cognitive profile of sequence-space synaesthesia
Principle component analyses of questionnaires measuring individual differences in synaesthetic phenomenology
The student's guide to cognitive neuroscience
Increased facial width-to-height ratio and perceived dominance in the faces of the UK's leading business leaders
The relative proportion of the internal features of a face (the facial width-to-height ratio, FWH) has been shown to be related to individual differences in behaviour in males, specifically competitiveness and aggressiveness. In this study, we show that the Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of the leading UK businesses have greater FWHs than age- and sex-matched controls. We demonstrate that perceivers, naive as to the nature of the stimuli, rate t…
Coloured Letters and Numbers (CLaN)
Synaesthesia is a heterogeneous phenomenon, even when considering one particular sub-type. The purpose of this study was to design a reliable and valid questionnaire for grapheme-colour synaesthesia that captures this heterogeneity. By the means of a large sample of 628 synaesthetes and a factor analysis, we created the Coloured Letters and Numbers (CLaN) questionnaire with 16 items loading on 4 different factors (i.e., localisation, automaticity…
“That’s not a real body”
Visual experiences in the blind induced by an auditory sensory substitution device
Synaesthesia, creativity and art
It has been suggested that individuals with synaesthesia may show heightened creativity as a result of being able to form meaningful associations between disparate stimuli (e.g. colour, sound). In this study, a large sample (N=82) of people with various kinds of synaesthesia were given two psychometric tests of creativity (Remote Associates Test, Alternate Uses Test) and were also asked about the amount of time engaged in creative arts (visual ar…
Varieties of grapheme-colour synaesthesia
Synaesthesia
Sensory and cognitive mechanisms allow stimuli to be perceived with properties relating to sight, sound, touch, etc, and ensure, for example, that visual properties are perceived as visual experiences, rather than sounds, tastes, smells, etc. Theories of normal development can be informed by cases where this modularity breaks down, in a condition known as synaesthesia. Conventional wisdom has held that this occurs extremely rarely (0.05% of birth…
Increased facial width-to-height ratio and perceived dominance in the faces of the UK's leading business leaders
The relative proportion of the internal features of a face (the facial width-to-height ratio, FWH) has been shown to be related to individual differences in behaviour in males, specifically competitiveness and aggressiveness. In this study, we show that the Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of the leading UK businesses have greater FWHs than age- and sex-matched controls. We demonstrate that perceivers, naive as to the nature of the stimuli, rate t…
Synaesthesia, creativity and art
It has been suggested that individuals with synaesthesia may show heightened creativity as a result of being able to form meaningful associations between disparate stimuli (e.g. colour, sound). In this study, a large sample (N=82) of people with various kinds of synaesthesia were given two psychometric tests of creativity (Remote Associates Test, Alternate Uses Test) and were also asked about the amount of time engaged in creative arts (visual ar…
Synaesthesia
Sensory and cognitive mechanisms allow stimuli to be perceived with properties relating to sight, sound, touch, etc, and ensure, for example, that visual properties are perceived as visual experiences, rather than sounds, tastes, smells, etc. Theories of normal development can be informed by cases where this modularity breaks down, in a condition known as synaesthesia. Conventional wisdom has held that this occurs extremely rarely (0.05% of birth…
Varieties of grapheme-colour synaesthesia
Synaesthesia, creativity and art
It has been suggested that individuals with synaesthesia may show heightened creativity as a result of being able to form meaningful associations between disparate stimuli (e.g. colour, sound). In this study, a large sample (N=82) of people with various kinds of synaesthesia were given two psychometric tests of creativity (Remote Associates Test, Alternate Uses Test) and were also asked about the amount of time engaged in creative arts (visual ar…
Visual experiences in the blind induced by an auditory sensory substitution device
“That’s not a real body”
Coloured Letters and Numbers (CLaN)
Synaesthesia is a heterogeneous phenomenon, even when considering one particular sub-type. The purpose of this study was to design a reliable and valid questionnaire for grapheme-colour synaesthesia that captures this heterogeneity. By the means of a large sample of 628 synaesthetes and a factor analysis, we created the Coloured Letters and Numbers (CLaN) questionnaire with 16 items loading on 4 different factors (i.e., localisation, automaticity…
Increased facial width-to-height ratio and perceived dominance in the faces of the UK's leading business leaders
The relative proportion of the internal features of a face (the facial width-to-height ratio, FWH) has been shown to be related to individual differences in behaviour in males, specifically competitiveness and aggressiveness. In this study, we show that the Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of the leading UK businesses have greater FWHs than age- and sex-matched controls. We demonstrate that perceivers, naive as to the nature of the stimuli, rate t…
Principle component analyses of questionnaires measuring individual differences in synaesthetic phenomenology
The student's guide to cognitive neuroscience
Subjective embodiment during the rubber hand illusion predicts severity of premonitory sensations and tics in Tourette Syndrome
Atypical susceptibility to the rubber hand illusion linked to sensory-localised vicarious pain perception
The prevalence and cognitive profile of sequence-space synaesthesia
Student's Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience
Individual differences in the tendency to see the expected
Synaesthesia is linked to differences in music preference and musical sophistication and a distinctive pattern of sound-color associations
Synaesthesia has often been linked to an artistic or creative temperament, but the nature of this link (and, hence, the possible underpinning mechanisms) are poorly understood. This study focusses primarily on people with synaesthesia who have visual experiences, including color, that are induced by music. We determine how this impacts their musical preferences and musical sophistication using previously validated self-report measures and contras…
More empathy for others, more hurt for oneself? Empathy for pain is related to poor mental health and negative emotion regulation
These findings reveal a previously unrecognized link between empathy for pain and mental health, mediated by the increased use of negative emotion regulation strategies among responders. Our findings have particular implications for the mental health of empathic individuals or people who are often exposed to the pain of others (counselor or nurse, etc.)
Psychology (13 works) · Cognitive psychology (9 works) · Multisensory perception and integration (9 works) · Perception (9 works) · Neuroscience (7 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Color perception and design (4 works) · Communication (4 works) · Audiology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)