Research Interests:

Behavioral and neurophysiological aspects of multisensory processes in motion and speech perception

Academic Background:

PhD Candidate, Doctoral program in Cognitive Neuroscience,
City College of the City University of New York

MSc (Dipl. Psych.) in Psychology from Humboldt University Berlin

 

Lars Ross, MSc
Graduate Student
Phone : (845) 398-6551
email : lross@nki.rfmh.org

Current Projects

 

 

Publications

Ross, L., Saint-Amour, D., Leavitt, V., Jeavitt, D.C. and Foxe J.J. (2005). “Do you see what I’m saying? Optimal Visual Enhancement of Speech Comprehension in noisy environments”. In preparation.

  
Sangals, J., Ross, L. & Sommer, W. (2004). Time pressure effects on information processing in overlapping tasks: evidence from the lateralized readiness potential. Acta Psychologica (Amst.), 117, 275-294.
Smith, M.R., Antrobus, J.S., Gordon, E., Tucker, M.A., Hirota, Y., Wamsley, E.J., Ross, L., Doan, T., Chaklader, A., Emery, R.N. (2004). Motivation and affect in REM sleep and the mentation reporting process. Conscious Cogn.,Sep;13(3):501-11.

Conference abstracts
Ross, L., Molholm, S., Lewkowicz, D., Javitt, D. C., Foxe, J.J. (2004). “Swoosh”: How the Quality of Sounds Affect the Perception of a Visual Motion Illusion. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 18, San Francisco, USA.
Ross, L., Saint-Amour, D., Leavitt, V., Javitt, D.C. and Foxe J.J. (2005). Multisensory speech intelligibility in noisy environments: a behavioral study in healthy controls and patients with schizophrenia. Poster will be presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York City, USA.
Ross, L., Saint-Amour, D., Leavitt, V., Javitt, D.C. and Foxe J.J. (2005). Do you see what I’m saying? Optimal Visual Enhancement of Speech Comprehension in Noisy Environments. Poster will be presented at the annual meeting International Multisensory Research Forum, Rovereto, Italy.
Saint-Amour, D., Molholm, S., Sehatpour P., Ross, L., Mehta A., Schwartz T., Ritter W. and John J. Foxe (2005). Multisensory mismatch negativity processes in temporal cortex: A human intracranial investigation of the McGurk illusion. Poster will be presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in New York City, USA.
Tucker, M.A., Hirota, Y., Ross, L., Doan, T., Smith, M., Wamsley, E., Antrobus, J. (2003). Limbic activation during REM sleep influences motivational content of mentation report. Poster presented on the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, June 6, Chicago, USA..

Invited Lectures
Ross, L. (2005). Multisensory integration in auditory-visual speech and motion perception. Invited lecture at the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, March 9th, 2005.

 
Ross, L., Lewkowicz, D., Molholm, S., Foxe, J.J. (2003). How the quality of sounds can affect the perception of a bistable motion event. Single paper presentation at the annual meeting of the International Multisensory Research Society in Hamilton, June 16, Ontario, Canada.