Welcome to the Lawrence Lab in the Department of Psychology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. Our research broadly centers on the transformation of sensory signals into motor commands, and the role of attention, response selection, and working memory in this transformation. We are currently exploring these processes using both psychophysical and neuroimaging (fMRI) techniques.

Journal Articles

Lawrence, BM & Snyder, LH (2009). The responses of visual neurons in the frontal eye field are biased for saccades. Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 13815-22.

Lawrence, BM & Gardella, AL (2009). Saccades and reaches, behaving differently. Experimental Brain Research, 195, 413-8.

Lawrence, BM, St. John, A, Abrams, RA, Snyder, LH (2008).  An anti-Hick's effect in monkey and human saccade reaction times.  Journal of Vision, 8, 26:1-7.  

Lawrence, BM & Snyder, LH (2006). Comparison of effector-specific signals in frontal and parietal cortices. Journal of Neurophysiology, 96, 1393-1400.

Lawrence, BM, White, RL & Snyder, LH (2005). Delay period activity in visual, visuomovement, and movement neurons in the frontal eye field. Journal of Neurophysiology, 94, 1498-1508.

Lawrence, BM, Myerson, J & Abrams, RA (2004). Interference with spatial working memory: An eye movement is more than a shift of attention. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 488-494.

Snyder, LH & Lawrence, BM (2004). Don't go there. Neuron, 43, 297-299.

Snyder, LH, Calton, JL, Dickinson, AR, & Lawrence, BM (2002). Eye-hand coordination: Saccades are faster when accompanied by coordinated arm movement. Journal of Neurophysiology, 87, 2279-2286.

Lawrence, BM, Myerson, J, Oonk, HM, & Abrams, RA (2001). The effects of eye and limb movements on working memory. Memory, 9, 433-444.

Myerson, J, Lawrence, B, Hale, S, Jenkins, L, & Chen, J (1998). General slowing of lexical and nonlexical information processing in dementia of the Alzheimer type. Aging, Neuropsychology, & Cognition, 5, 182-193.

Lawrence, B, Myerson, J, & Hale, S (1998). Differential decline of verbal and visuospatial processing speed across the adult life span. Aging, Neuropsychology, & Cognition, 5, 129-146.

Myerson, J, Hale, S, Chen, J, & Lawrence, B (1997). General lexical slowing and the semantic priming effect: The roles of age and ability. Acta Psychologica, 96, 83-101.

Book Chapters

Hale, S, Myerson, J, Emery, L, Lawrence, B, & DuFault, C (2007). Variations in working memory across the adult lifespan. Variations in Working Memory. Oxford University Press.

Present

                    Bonnie Lawrence

Joseph Weaver

Ching-Yi Wu

Sarah Matilla

Lee Friedman, Ph.D.

Past

Jeremy Safran

Andrew Gardella

Ramya Keshavaram

Timmy Hillman

Congratulations to Andrew and Jeremy for their second place finish in the Social Sciences Poster Competition of the 2009 SOURCE Symposium & Poster Session held here at CWRU for their poster entitled:  "A characterization of the boundaries of the anti-Hick's effect.

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Resources

In addition to multiple testing computers, the Lawrence Lab is equipped with ISCAN and Viewpoint eye trackers for measuring saccadic eye movements, touchscreens for measuring hand position, and an Acsension "Flock of Birds" Magnetic Tracking System for measuring movements of the head and arms. As a part of the Cognitive Neuroscience Initiative here at Case, we also utilize the Bruker/Siemens 4T magnet which is housed nearby at the Case Center for Imaging Research in University Hospitals Case Medical Center.

The Lawrence Lab is located in Mather Memorial, Room 123, at the corner of Bellflower and Ford, across from the Frank Gehry designed, Peter B. Lewis Building.  The Center for Imaging Research is located in the basement of Mather Pavilion, near the corner of Cornell and East 115th.