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Mark A. Williams

Mark A. Williams

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Psychology

D-Index
36
Citations
5410
World Ranking
9531
National Ranking
551

Overview

Mark A. Williams is affiliated with Macquarie University in Australia and has focused research interests spanning medicine, neuroscience, and psychology. Their work encompasses multiple subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, social psychology, infectious diseases, and epidemiology.

The scientist's research explores a range of topics such as neural dynamics and brain function, visual perception and processing mechanisms, eating disorders and behaviors, HIV/AIDS research and interventions, face recognition and perception, as well as EEG and brain-computer interfaces.

Recent published papers by Mark A. Williams include the following:

  • A humanness dimension to visual object coding in the brain, 2020, NeuroImage
  • Motor neuroplasticity: A MEG-fMRI study of motor imagery and execution in healthy ageing, 2020, Neuropsychologia
  • Late disruption of central visual field disrupts peripheral perception of form and color, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Neural Response to Low Energy and High Energy Foods in Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder: A Functional MRI Study, 2022, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Geographic Accessibility of HIV Preventive Services for Young Latino Men in Miami, Florida: A Cross-Sectional Study, 2020, Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Mark A. Williams include:

  • Mariano Kanamori
  • Cho-Hee Shrader
  • Anina N. Rich
  • Brooke Donnelly
  • Nasim Foroughi

The scientist's work has appeared repeatedly in notable publication venues such as:

  • NeuroImage
  • Neuropsychologia
  • PLoS ONE
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care

Best Publications

  • Human face recognition ability is specific and highly heritable

    Jeremy B. Wilmer;Laura Germine;Christopher F. Chabris;Garga Chatterjee

  • Amygdala Responses to Fearful and Happy Facial Expressions under Conditions of Binocular Suppression

    Mark A. Williams;Adam P. Morris;Adam P. Morris;Francis McGlone;David F. Abbott

  • fMRI Adaptation Reveals Mirror Neurons in Human Inferior Parietal Cortex

    Trevor T.-J. Chong;Ross Cunnington;Mark A. Williams;Nancy Kanwisher

  • Feedback of visual object information to foveal retinotopic cortex.

    Mark A Williams;Mark A Williams;Chris I Baker;Hans P Op de Beeck;Won Mok Shim;Won Mok Shim

  • Look at me, I'm smiling: Visual search for threatening and nonthreatening facial expressions

    Mark A Williams;Simon Andrew Moss;John L Bradshaw;Jason B Mattingley

  • Only some spatial patterns of fMRI response are read out in task performance

    Mark A Williams;Sabin Dang;Nancy G Kanwisher;Nancy G Kanwisher;Nancy G Kanwisher

  • Differential amygdala responses to happy and fearful facial expressions depend on selective attention.

    Mark A. Williams;Francis McGlone;David F. Abbott;Jason B. Mattingley

  • Neural correlates of imagined and synaesthetic colours

    Anina N. Rich;Mark A. Williams;Mark A. Williams;Aina Puce;Aina Puce;Ari Syngeniotis

  • Selective attention modulates inferior frontal gyrus activity during action observation

    Trevor T.-J. Chong;Mark A. Williams;Ross Cunnington;Jason B. Mattingley

  • Crossmodal congruency measures of lateral distance effects on the rubber hand illusion.

    Regine Zopf;Greg Savage;Mark A. Williams

  • Aging and large-scale functional networks: white matter integrity, gray matter volume, and functional connectivity in the resting state.

    Lars Marstaller;M. Williams;A. Rich;G. Savage

  • Multimodal functional imaging of motor imagery using a novel paradigm

    Hana Burianova;Lars Marstaller;Paul F. Sowman;Graciela Tesan

  • The role of selective attention in matching observed and executed actions.

    Trevor T.-J. Chong;Ross Cunnington;Mark A. Williams;Jason B. Mattingley

  • Emotional expressions evoke a differential response in the fusiform face area.

    Bronson Blake Harry;Mark Williams;Chris Davis;Jeesun Kim

  • Do angry men get noticed

    Mark A. Williams;Mark A. Williams;Jason B. Mattingley

  • Flexible coding of task rules in frontoparietal cortex: An adaptive system for flexible cognitive control

    Alexandra Woolgar;Soheil Afshar;Mark A. Williams;Anina N. Rich

  • Feature-selective attention in frontoparietal cortex: Multivoxel codes adjust to prioritize task-relevant information

    Jade Jackson;Anina N. Rich;Mark A. Williams;Alexandra Woolgar

  • Attention enhances multi-voxel representation of novel objects in frontal, parietal and visual cortices.

    Alexandra Woolgar;Mark A. Williams;Anina N. Rich

  • Is delayed foveal feedback critical for extra-foveal perception?

    Christopher D. Chambers;Christopher P.G. Allen;Leah Maizey;Mark A. Williams

  • Viewing and feeling touch modulates hand position for reaching

    Regine Zopf;Sandra Truong;Matthew Finkbeiner;Jason Friedman

  • The brain effects of laser acupuncture in healthy individuals: An fMRI investigation

    Im Quah-Smith;Perminder S. Sachdev;Wei Wen;Xiaohua Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Anina N. Rich
Anina N. Rich Macquarie University
Jason B. Mattingley
Jason B. Mattingley University of Queensland
Ross Cunnington
Ross Cunnington University of Queensland
Greg Savage
Greg Savage Macquarie University
Romina Palermo
Romina Palermo University of Western Australia
Thomas A. Carlson
Thomas A. Carlson University of Sydney
Christopher F. Chabris
Christopher F. Chabris Geisinger Health System
Ken Nakayama
Ken Nakayama Harvard University
John L. Bradshaw
John L. Bradshaw Monash University

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