Research Interests
William Ray's research focus lies at the interface of clinical psychology
and psychophysiology (particularly EEG), as related to anxiety dissociation,
emotionality, and individual differences. Part of this work has been basic
in nature as reflected in trying to understand what basic psychophysiological
measures can tell us, as well as how they can be applied. Current work
in the lab is focusing on anxiety, lapse of awareness, dissociation, and
hypnosis as well as the use of nonlinear dynamical techniques referred
to as chaos.
Recent Publications
Bruce, A., Ray, W., & Carlson, R. (in press). Understanding cognitive failures: What's dissociation got to do with it? American Journal of Psychology.
Bruce, A., Ray, W., Bruce, J., Arnett, P., & Carlson, R. (in press). The relationship between executive functioning and dissociation. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology.
Slobounov, S., Ray, W., Cao, C., & Chiang, H. (in press). Modulation of cortical activity as a result of task-specific practice. Neuroscienceletters, 421, 126-131.
Keil, A., Stolarova, M., Moratti, S., & Ray, W. J. (in press). Adaptation in human visual cortex as a mechanism for rapid discrimination of aversive stimuli. NeuroImage, 36, 472-479.
Ray, W., J., (2007). The experience of agency and hypnosis from an evolutionary perspective. In G Jamieson (Ed.) Hypnosis and conscious states: The cognitive-neuroscience perspective. Oxford University Press.
Rosset-Llobet, J., Candia, V., Fabregas, S., Ray, W., Pascual-Leone,
A. (2007). Secondary motor disturbances in 101 patients with musician’s
dystonia. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry,
Published Online First: 19 January 2007. doi:10.1136/jnnp.2006.107953.
Ray, W., Odenwald, M., Neuner, F., Schauer, M., Rug, M., Rockstroh, B., & Elbert, T. (2006). Decoupling neural networks from reality: Dissociative experiences in torture victims are reflected in abnormal brain waves in left frontal cortex. Psychological Science, 17, 825-829.
Keil, A., Blessing, A., Linden, D., Heim, S., & Ray, W. (2006). Acquisition of affective dispositions in dementia patients. Neuropsychologia, 4, 2366-2373.
Oathes, D. J., & Ray, W. J. (2006) Depressed mood, index finger force, and motor cortex stimulation: A transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) study. Biological Psychology, 72, 278-290.
Ray, W.J., & Slobounov, S. (2006) Foundations of brain imaging methodology in behavioral research. In S. Slobounov and W. Sebastianelli (Eds.), Foundations of Sport-related Brain Injury. New York: Springer Publishing.
Ray, W. J. (2006). Methods Toward a Science of Behavior and Experience (8th ed). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing.
