2026 Jamie Ward: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	60	3838	3512	340	310	242	13170

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Overview

Jamie Ward is a researcher primarily affiliated with the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. Their work spans a range of areas in neuroscience and psychology, with a focus on cognitive and sensory processes.

The main fields of their study include:

Neuroscience
Psychology

Within these broad fields, their subfields of research encompass:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Sensory Systems
Social Psychology
Psychiatry and Mental Health

Their research topics address various aspects of sensory perception and brain function, such as:

Multisensory perception and integration
Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics
Action Observation and Synchronization
Face Recognition and Perception
Neural dynamics and brain function

Jamie Ward has contributed to several publication venues with multiple papers, notably including:

Perception
PsycTESTS Dataset
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Frontiers in Psychology
Cognitive Neuropsychology

Their recent research publications include:

"Trait phenomenological control predicts experience of mirror synaesthesia and the rubber hand illusion" (2020, Nature Communications)
"What is the Link Between Mental Imagery and Sensory Sensitivity? Insights from Aphantasia" (2021, Perception)
"Autistic traits, emotion regulation, and sensory sensitivities in children and adults with Misophonia" (2022, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders)
"Poorer Well-Being in Children With Misophonia: Evidence From the Sussex Misophonia Scale for Adolescents" (2022, Frontiers in Psychology)
"Synaesthesia and autism: Different developmental outcomes from overlapping mechanisms?" (2020, Cognitive Neuropsychology)

Frequent collaborators in Jamie Ward's research include:

Julia Simner
Louisa J. Rinaldi
Hugo Critchley
Vanessa Botan

In addition to research articles, Jamie Ward has contributed to book publications. One notable title is "The Student's Guide to Social Neuroscience," published in 2022 by Psychology Press eBooks.

Best Publications

Somatosensory activations during the observation of touch and a case of vision-touch synaesthesia

SJ Blakemore;D Bristow;G Bird;C Frith

842
Citations
Synaesthesia: The prevalence of atypical cross-modal experiences

Julia Simner;Catherine Mulvenna;Noam Sagiv;Elias Tsakanikos

790
Citations
Sound-colour synaesthesia: to what extent does it use cross-modal mechanisms common to us all?

Jamie Ward;Brett Huckstep;Elias Tsakanikos

610
Citations
Mirror-touch synesthesia is linked with empathy

Michael J Banissy;Jamie Ward

371
Citations
Non-random associations of graphemes to colours in synaesthetic and non-synaesthetic populations.

Julia Simner;Jamie Ward;Monika Lanz;Ashok Jansari

361
Citations
Lexical-gustatory synaesthesia: linguistic and conceptual factors

Jamie Ward;Julia Simner

350
Citations
Visual experiences in the blind induced by an auditory sensory substitution device.

Jamie Ward;Peter Meijer

301
Citations
The Student's Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience

Jamie Ward

296
Citations
The neural underpinnings of vicarious experience

Bernadette M. Fitzgibbon;Jamie Ward;Peter G. Enticott

246
Citations
Varieties of grapheme-colour synaesthesia: a new theory of phenomenological and behavioural differences.

Jamie Ward;Ryan Li;Shireen Salih;Noam Sagiv

241
Citations
Synaesthesia, creativity and art: what is the link?

Jamie Ward;Daisy Thompson-Lake;Roxanne Ely;Flora Kaminski

235
Citations
What is the relationship between synaesthesia and visuo-spatial number forms?

Noam Sagiv;Julia Simner;James Collins;Brian Butterworth

231
Citations
Synaesthesia: an overview of contemporary findings and controversies.

Jamie Ward;Jason B. Mattingley

219
Citations
Searching for Shereshevskii: What is superior about the memory of synaesthetes?

Caroline Yaro;Jamie Ward

207
Citations
The neuropsychological impact of insular cortex lesions

Catherine Louise Jones;Jamie Ward;Hugo D Critchley

204
Citations
Cross-modal interactions : lessons from synesthesia

Noam Sagiv;Jamie Ward

201
Citations
Prevalence, characteristics and a neurocognitive model of mirror-touch synaesthesia

Michael J. Banissy;Roi Cohen Kadosh;Gerrit W. Maus;Gerrit W. Maus;Vincent Walsh

198
Citations
Is synaesthesia an X-linked dominant trait with lethality in males?

Jamie Ward;Julia Simner

192
Citations
Enhanced memory ability: Insights from synaesthesia

Nicolas Rothen;Beat Meier;Jamie Ward

171
Citations
Enhanced sensory perception in synaesthesia

Michael J. Banissy;Vincent Walsh;Jamie Ward

167
Citations
A comparison of lexical-gustatory and grapheme-colour synaesthesia

Jamie Ward;Julia Simner;Vivian Auyeung

163
Citations
Synesthesia.

Unknown

105
Citations