FACULTY
Dr. David Westwood
BSc, MA, PhD (Waterloo)
Associate Professor, Kinesiology
Office Location: Dalplex, Kinesiology Suite
Phone: (902) 494-1164
Fax: (902) 494-5120
Email: david.westwood@dal.ca Lab: www.wix.com/dwestwoo/actionlab
RESEARCH
- Cognitive Neuroscience of Action and Perception
- Motor Control
- Vision
- Movement disorders
CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Reynolds, L.F., Short, C., Westwood, D.A., & Cheung, S.S.
(accepted). Head and neck pre-cooling improves symptoms of female, heat-sensitive Multiple Sclerosis patients. Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences.
King, J.P., Christensen, B.A., & Westwood, D.A. (2008). Grasping
behaviour in schizophrenia suggests selective impairment in the dorsal visual pathway. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 117, 799-811.
Cheung, S.S., Reynolds, L.F.*, Macdonald, M.A.B.*, Tweedie, C.L.*,
Urquhart, R.L., & Westwood, D.A. (2008). Effects of local and core body temperature on grip force modulation during movement-induced load force fluctuations. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 103, 59-69.
Flouris, A.D., Westwood, D.A., Mekjavic, I.B., & Cheung, S.S.
(2008). Effect of body temperature on cold-induced vasodilation.
European Journal of Applied Physiology, 104, 491-499.
Flouris, A.D., Westwood, D.A., & Cheung, S.S. (2007). Thermal
balance effects on vigilance during 2-hour exposures to -20 degrees C. Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine, 78, 673-679.
Thompson*, A.A., & Westwood, D.A. (2007). The hand knows something that the eye does not: reaching movements resist the Muller-Lyer illusion whether or not the target is foveated. Neuroscience Letters, 426, 111-116.
Cheung, S.S., Westwood, D.A., & Knox, M.K. (2007). Mild body
cooling impairs attention via distraction from skin cooling.
Ergonomics, 50, 275-288.
Flouris, A.D., Cheung, S.S., Fowles, J., Kruisselbrink, L.D.,
Westwood, D.A., Carrillo, A.E. & Murphy, R.J. (2006). Influence of body heat content on hand function during prolonged cold exposures. Journal of Applied Physiology, 101, 802-808.
Grandy*, M.S., & Westwood, D.A. (2006). Opposite perceptual and
sensorimotor responses to a size-weight illusion. Journal of Neurophysiology, 95, 3887-3892.
Kroliczak, G.P., Westwood, D.A., & Goodale, M.A. (2006).
Differential effects of advance semantic precues on grasping, naming, and manual estimation. Experimental Brain Research, 175, 139-152.
McCarville*, E.M., & Westwood, D.A. (2006). The visual control of
stepping operates in real-time: evidence from a pictorial illusion.
Experimental Brain Research, 171, 405-410.
Valyear, K., Culham, J.C., Sharif, N., Westwood, D.A., & Goodale,
M.A. (2006). A double dissociation between sensitivity to changes in object identity and object orientation in the ventral and dorsal visual streams: a human FMRI study. Neuropsychologia, 44, 218-228.
Cant*, J., Westwood, D.A., Valyear, K., & Goodale, M.A. (2005).
No evidence for visuomotor priming in a visually-guided action task.
Neuropsychologia, 43, 216-226.
Filliter, J.H., McMullen, P.A., & Westwood, D.A. (2005).
Manipulability and living/non-living category effects on object identification. Brain and Cognition, 57, 61-65.
Goodale, M.A., Kroliczak, G., & Westwood, D.A. (2005). Dual
routes to action: contributions of the dorsal and ventral streams to adaptive behavior. Progress in Brain Research, 149, 269-283.
Heath, M., Rival, C., Westwood, D.A. & Neely, K. (2005). Time
course analysis of closed- and open-loop grasping of the Müller-Lyer illusion. Journal of Motor Behavior, 37, 179-185.
Westwood, D.A., Robertson, C., & Heath, M. (2005). Similar
effects of response delay on monocular and binocular reaching
movements: implications for the two-visual systems hypothesis. Brain and Cognition, 57, 257-260.
RECENT PRESENTATIONS
Westwood, D.A. (2010 – invited). Interacting with remembered
targets: a distinct mode of control? Workshop on Perception and Action, Giessen, Germany.
Westwood, D.A. (2010 – invited). Perception and action in human
vision. Faculty of Physical Education Colloquium Series, Faculty of Physical Education, University of Alberta, AB, Canada.
Westwood, D.A. (2009 – invited). Perception and action in human
vision. Atlantic Canada Vision Network Symposium, Department of Psychology, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB, Canada.
Westwood, D.A. (2009 – invited). Cognitive neuroscience of action.
NRC Institute for Biodiagnostics (Atlantic) Seminar Series, Halifax, NS, Canada.
Westwood, D.A. (2007 – invited). Perception and action in object
manipulation. Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology, Montreal, PQ, Canada.
Westwood, D.A. (2006 – invited). Perception and action: where does memory fit? Trieste Workshop on Perception and Action, Trieste, Italy.
Westwood, D.A. (2006 – invited). What perception can’t tell us:
vision for control of action. Form and Function, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Research Forum, Halifax, NS, Canada.
Kirby, R.L., & Westwood, D.A. (2006 – invited). Motor learning for
rehabilitation. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Grand Rounds, Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre, Halifax, NS, Canada.
Westwood, D.A. (2006 – invited). Vision: the importance of action.
Ophthalmology Grand Rounds, QE2 Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, NS, Canada.
Westwood, D.A. (2005 – invited). On the relation between
conscious perception and control of action. Department of Kinesiology, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Westwood, D.A. (2005 – invited). From sensation to action: what’s
perception got to do with it? Department of Psychology, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
Westwood, D.A. (2005). Perception and action in sensory
processing. School of Kinesiology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
Westwood, D.A. (2005). Vision for action. Clinical Vision
Sciences Rounds, IWK Hospital, Halifax, NS, Canada.
