Selected Publications

  • Emrich S.M., Burianova H., Ferber S. (2011) Transient Perceptual Neglect: Visual Working Memory Load Affects Conscious Object Processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23:2968-82.
  • West G.L., Anderson A.A., Ferber S., Pratt J.(2011) Electrophysiological Evidence for Biased Competition in V1 for Fear Expressions, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, In Press.
  • Adamo M., Wozny S., Pratt J., Ferber S. (2010) Parallel, independent attentional control settings for colors and shapes. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 72:1730-1735.
  • Pun C., Adamo M., Weger, U.W., Black S.E., Ferber S. (2010) The right time and the left time: Spatial associations of temporal cues affect target detection in right brain-damaged patients. Cognitive Neuroscience.
  • Emrich S.M., Al-Aidroos N., Pratt J., Ferber S. (2010) Finding Memory in Search: The Effect of Visual Working Memory Load on Visual Search. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63:1457-1466.
  • Adamo M., Pun C., Ferber S. (2010) Multiple attentional control settings influence late attentional selection but do not provide an early attentional filter. Cognitive Neuroscience, 2:102-110.
  • West G.L., Pun C., Pratt J., Ferber S. (2010) Capacity limits during perceptual encoding. Journal of Vision 10: 14.1-12.
  • Emrich, S.M., Al-Aidroos, N., Pratt, J., & Ferber, S. (2009) Visual search elicits the neural marker of visual working memory. PLoS ONE, 4(11): e8042. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008042 [pdf]
  • Adamo M., Ferber S. (2009) A picture says more than a thousand words: Behavioural and ERP evidence for attentional enhancements due to action affordances. Neuropsychologia, 47:1600-1608.
  • Danckert J., Ferber S., Goodale M.A. (2008) Direct effects of prismatic lenses on visuomotor control: an event-related fMRI study. European Journal of Neuroscience, 28: 1696-1704.
  • Emrich S.M., Ruppel J.D.N., Al-Aidroos N., Pratt J., Ferber S. (2008) Out With the Old: Inhibition of Old Items in a Preview Search is Limited. Perception and Psychophysics, 70:1552-1557.
  • Adamo M., Pun C., Pratt J., Ferber S. (2008) Your divided attention, please! The maintenance of multiple attentional control sets over distinct regions in space. Cognition, 107:295-303.
  • Emrich S.M., Ruppel J.D., Ferber S. (2008) The Role of Elaboration in the Persistence of Awareness for Degraded Objects. Consciousness and Cognition, 17: 319-329.
  • Vingilis-Jaremko L., Ferber S., Pratt J. (2008) Better late than never: How onsets and offsets influence prior entry and exit. Psychological Research, 72:443-450.
  • Danckert J., Ferber S., Pun C., Broderick C., Striemer C., Rock S., Stewart D. (2007) Neglected time: Impaired temporal perception of multisecond intervals in unilateral neglect. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19:1706-1720.
  • Ferber S., Mraz R., Baker N., Graham S.J. (2007) Shared and Differential Neural Substrates of Copying versus Drawing: a Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study. NeuroReport, 18: 1089-1093.
  • Ferber S., Emrich S.M. (2007) Maintaining the Ties that Bind: The Role of an Intermediate Visual Memory Store. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 24:187-210.
  • Risko E. F., Dixon M. J., Besner D., Ferber S. (2006) The Ties that Keep Us Bound: Top-Down Influences on the Persistence of Shape from Motion. Consciousness and Cognition, 15:475-483.
  • Danckert J., Ferber S. (2006) Revisiting unilateral neglect. Neuropsychologia, 44: 987-1006.
  • Ferber S., Danckert J. (2006) Lost in space - The fate of memory representations for non-neglected stimuli. Neuropsychologia, 44: 320-325.
  • Bowles B., Ferber S., Pratt J. (2005) Letter processing interferes with inhibition of return: Evidence for cortical involvement. Cognitive Brain Research, 25: 1-7.
  • Ferber S., Murray, L.J. (2005) Are perceptual judgments dissociated from motor processes? - A prism adaptation study. Cognitive Brain Research, 23: 453-456
  • Ferber S., Humphrey G.K., Vilis T. (2005) Segregation and persistence of form in the lateral occipital complex. Neuropsychologia, 43:41-51.
  • Ferber S., Humphrey G.K., Vilis T. (2003) The lateral occipital cortex subserves the perceptual persistence of motion-defined groupings. Cerebral Cortex, 13:716-721. - Rafi Malach recommended this paper on the Faculty of 1000 -
  • Ferber S., Danckert J., Joanisse M., Goltz H., Goodale M.A. (2003) Eye movements tell only half the story. Neurology, 60:1826-1829. - David Beversdorf and Ken Heilman wrote an Editorial on this paper in Neurology -
  • Karnath H.O, Johannsen L., Broetz D, Ferber S., Dichgans J. (2002) Prognosis of contraversive pushing. Journal of Neurology, 249:1250-1253.
  • Danckert J., Ferber S., Doherty T., Steinmetz H., Nicolle D., Goodale MA. (2002) Selective, non-lateralized impairment of motor imagery following right parietal damage. Neurocase, 8: 194-204.
  • Ferber S., Karnath H.O. (2002) Neglect-Tests im Vergleich - welche sind geeignet? Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie, 13:39-44.
  • Ferber S., Karnath H.O. (2001) How to assess spatial neglect - Line bisection or cancellation tasks? Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 23:599-607.
  • Karnath H.O., Ferber S., Himmelbach M. (2001) Spatial awareness is a function of the temporal not the posterior parietal lobe. Nature, 411(6840):950-3.
  • Ferber S., Karnath H.O. (2001) Size perception in hemianopia and neglect. Brain, 124: 527-536.
  • Bürk K., Bosch S., Müller C.A., Melms A., Zühlke C., Stern M., Besenthal I., Skalej M., Ruck P., Ferber S., Klockgether T., Dichgans J. (2001) Sporadic cerebellar ataxia associated with gluten sensitivity. Brain, 124:1013-9.
  • Karnath H.O., Ferber S., Dichgans J. (2000) The neural representation of postural control in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 97:13931-13936.
  • Karnath H.O., Ferber S., Rorden C., Driver J. (2000) The fate of global information in dorsal simultanagnosia. Neurocase, 6:295-306.
  • Karnath H.O, Ferber S., Dichgans J. (2000) The origin of contraversive pushing - Evidence for a second graviceptive system in humans. Neurology, 55:1298-1304
  • Karnath H.O, Ferber S., Bülthoff H.H. (2000) Neuronal representation of object orientation. Neuropsychologia, 38:1235-1241.
  • Ferber S., Karnath H.O. (1999) Parietal and occipital lobe contributions to perception of straight ahead orientation. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 67:572-578.
  • Karnath H.O., Ferber S. (1999) Is space representation distorted in neglect? Neuropsychologia 37:7-15.
  • Ferber S., Bahlo S., Ackermann H., Karnath H.O. (1998) Vibration der Nackenmuskulatur als Therapie bei Neglectsymptomatik? - Eine Fallstudie. (Treatment of neglect with vibration of neck muscles - A case study) Neurologie und Rehabilitati on 4:21-24.
Susanne Ferber, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
University of Toronto
Department of Psychology
100 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario
M5S 3G3
Canada

ferber@psych.utoronto.ca

Phone: 416 978 1537
Fax: 416 978 4811

Links:

 

 

 

  Department of Psychology, University of Toronto.