EDUCATION

  • Ph.D., University of British Columbia, Psychology, 1999
  • M.A., University of British Columbia, Psychology, 1996
  • B.A., Simon Fraser University, Psychology and Geography, 1993
WORK EXPERIENCE
  • Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University, Psychology, 01/2001-Present
  • NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California San Diego, Neurosciences, 1999-2000
  • Electrophysiology Lab Technician, University of British Columbia, Psychology, 1994-1996
  • Research Assistant, Simon Fraser University, Psychology, 1993-1994
RESEARCH SUPPORT
  • CFI New Opportunities Fund, "Electrophysiological laboratory for investigating human selective attention attention", 2003, $140,000
  • British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund, 2003, $140,000
  • NSERC Individual Research Grant, "Neurological foundations of human selective attention", 2000-2003, $20,000/year
  • President's Research Grant, Simon Fraser University, 2001, $10,000
  • NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (1999)
  • NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship B (1996-98)
  • University Graduate Fellowship, UBC (1996, declined)
  • NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship A (1994-96)
HONOURS AND AWARDS
  • Morris Belkin Prize for Ph.D. Dissertation, University of British Columbia, 1999
  • Teaching Assistant Award of Merit, University of British Columbia, Psychology, 1998
  • Undergraduate Student Award, Canadian Association of Geographers, Simon Fraser University, 1993
  • Dean's Honour Role, Simon Fraser University, 1989, 1991, 1993
  • Open Undergraduate Scholarship, Simon Fraser University, 1993
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

Article Reviewer

  • Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Cognitive Brain Research
  • Experimental Brain Research
  • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
  • NeuroReport
  • Neuroscience Letters
  • Perception & Psychophysics
  • Psychological Science
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Psychophysiology
  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AREAS OF EXPERTISE
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Human Electrophysiology, Event-Related Potentials
  • Visual Attention, Auditory Attention, Crossmodal Attention
  • Multisensory Processing
  • Inhibition of return (IOR)
PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS
  • Green, J. J., & McDonald, J. J. (In press, accepted 03/2006). An event-related potential study of supramodal attentional control and crossmodal attention effects. Psychophysiology.
  • Iarocci, G. & McDonald, J. J. (in press, accepted 09/2005). Sensory Integration and the Perceptual Experience of Persons with Autism. Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders.
  • Hickey, C., McDonald, J. J., & Theeuwes, J. (in press, accepted 08/2005). Electrophysiological evidence of the capture of attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
  • McDonald, J. J., Teder-Sälejärvi, W. A., Di Russo, F., & Hillyard, S. A. (2005). Neural basis of auditory-induced shifts in visual time-order perception. Nature Neuroscience, 8, 1197-1202.
  • Green, J. J., Teder-Sälejärvi, W. A., & McDonald, J. J. (2005). Control mechanisms mediating shifts of attention in visual and auditory space: A spatio-temporal ERP analysis. Experimental Brain Research, 166, 358-369.
  • Teder-Sälejärvi, W. A., Di Russo, F., McDonald, J. J., & Hillyard, S. A. (2005). Audio–visual multimodal integration is affected by spatial congruity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 1396-1409.
  • McDonald, J. J., Teder-Sälejärvi, W. A., Di Russo, F., & Hillyard, S. A. (2003). Neural substrates of perceptual enhancement by crossmodal spatial attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 15, 10-19.
  • Teder-Sälejärvi, W. A., McDonald, J. J., Di Russo, F. & Hillyard, S. A. (2002). An analysis of audio-visual crossmodal integration by means of event-related potential (ERP) recordings. Cognitive Brain Research 14, 106-114.
  • Tata, M. S., Prime, D. J., McDonald, J. J., & Ward, L. M. (2001). Transient spatial attention modulates distinct components of the auditory ERP. NeuroReport 12 3679-3682.
  • McDonald, J. J., Teder-Sälejärvi, W. A., & Ward, L. M. (2001). Multisensory integration and cross-modal attention effects in the human brain. Science 292, 1791.
  • McDonald, J. J., Teder-Sälejärvi, W. A., Heraldez, D., & Hillyard, S. A. (2001). Electrophysiological evidence for the "missing link" in crossmodal attention. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology 55, 143-151.
  • McDonald, J. J., Teder-Sälejärvi, W. A., & Hillyard, S. A. (2000). Involuntary orienting to sound improves visual perception. Nature 407, 906-908.
  • McDonald, J. J., & Ward, L. M. (2000). Involuntary listening aids seeing: Evidence from human electrophysiology. Psychological Science 11, 167-171.
  • Ward, L. M., McDonald, J. J., & Lin, D. (2000). On asymmetries in crossmodal spatial attention orienting. Perception & Psychophysics 62, 1258-1264.
  • McDonald, J. J., & Ward, L. M. (1999). Spatial relevance determines facilitatory and inhibitory effects of auditory covert spatial orienting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 25, 1234-1252.
  • McDonald, J. J., Ward, L. M., & Kiehl, K. A. (1999). An event-related brain potential study of inhibition-of-return. Perception & Psychophysics 61, 1411-1423.
  • Kiehl, K. A., Hare, R. D., Liddle, P. F., & McDonald, J. J. (1999). Reduced P300 responses in criminal psychopaths during a visual oddball task. Biological Psychiatry 45, 1498-1507.
  • Kiehl, K. A., Hare, R. D., McDonald, J. J., & Brink, J. (1999). Semantic and affective processing in psychopaths: An event-related potential (ERP) study. Pschophysiology 36, 765-774.
  • Wright, R. D., & Richard, C. M., McDonald, J. J. (1995). Neutral location cues and cost/benefit analysis of visual attention shifts. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology 49, 540-548.
MANUSCRIPTS SUBMITTED TO REFEREED JOURNALS
  • McDonald, J. J., & Ward, L. M. (2001, under revision). Crossmodal consequences of involuntary spatial attention and inhibition of return. Submitted for publication.
BOOK CHAPTERS
  • Ward, L. M., McDonald, J. J., & Golestani, N. (1998). Cross-modal control of attention shifts. In R.D. Wright (Ed.), Visual Attention (pp. 232-268). New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Spence, C., & McDonald, J. J. (In press). The Crossmodal Consequences of the Exogenous Spatial Orienting of Attention. In G. Calvert, C. Spence, & B. Stein (Eds.), The handbook of multisensory processes. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press.
  • Spence, C., McDonald, J. J., & Driver, J. (In press). Exogenous spatial cuing studies of human crossmodal attention and multisensory integration. In C. Spence & J. Driver (Eds.), Crossmodal Space and Crossmodal Attention. Oxford University Press.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
  • McDonald, J.J., Green, J.J., Whitman, J.C., & Hickey, C.M. (2004, April). Event-related potentials to attention-directing auditory cues. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
  • Whitman, J. C., McDonald, J. J., Teder-Sälejärvi, W. A., & Hillyard, S. A. (2004, April). Neural correlates of attention-induced illusory line motion. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
  • Green, J. J., Fuchs, W., Landry, J. J., & McDonald, J. J. (2003, November). Electrophysiological indices Of spatial attention shifts in auditory space. Poster presented at the annual Auditory Perception Cognition and Action Meeting, Vancouver, Canada.
  • McDonald, J. J., & Whitman, J. C. (2003, November). Neural basis of attention-induced prior entry. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, Canada.
  • McDonald, J. J., Teder-Sälejärvi, W. A., Di Russo, F., & Hillyard, S. A. (2003, June). Involuntary attention to sound modulates visual temporal perception: An electrophysiological study. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Multisensory Research Forum, Hamilton, Canada.
  • McDonald, J. J., Teder-Sälejärvi, W. A., Di Russo, F., & Hillyard, S. A. (2003, June). Neural correlates of motion selection in visual search. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Hamilton, Canada.
  • McDonald, J. J., & Ward, L. M. (2003, April). Crossmodal consequences of involuntary spatial attention and inhibition of return. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York.
  • McDonald, J. J., Visser, T. A. W., Gander, P. E., & Di Lollo, V. (2002, November). Electrophysiological Evidence for Selective Target Processing in Visual Search. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Kansas City, MO.
  • Ward, L. M., Prime, D. J., & McDonald, J. J. (2002, November). Converging operations revisited: The case of attention. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Kansas City, MO.
  • McDonald, J. J., Ward, L. M. (2002, May). Is there audiovisual inhibition of return? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Vancouver, Canada.
  • McDonald, J. J., Teder-Sälejärvi, W. A., & Hillyard, S. A. (2002, June). High-density event-related potential studies of crossmodal spatial attention. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Vancouver, Canada.
  • Prime, D. J., McDonald, J. J., & Ward, L. M. (2002, June). Covert audio-visual attention orienting: Controversies and opportunities. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Vancouver, Canada.
  • Gander, P. E., Visser, T. A. W., McDonald, J. J., & Di Lollo, V. (2002, June). Electrophysiological investigations of target processing during visual search. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Vancouver, Canada.
  • Visser, T. A. W., Gander, P. E., McDonald, J. J., & Di Lollo, V. (2002, May). Electrophysiological investigations of target processing during visual search. Poster presented at the annual meeting of North West Cognition and Memory, Burnaby, Canada.
  • McDonald, J. J., Teder-Sälejärvi, W. A., Heraldez, D., & Hillyard, S. A. (2002, April). Electrophysiological evidence for the missing link in crossmodal spatial attention: Orienting attention to a sudden flash of light modulates auditory evoked potentials. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco.
  • Soto-Faraco, S., McDonald, J. J., & Kingstone, A. (2002, April). Gaze direction: Effects on attentional orienting and crossmodal target responses. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco.
  • Teder-Sälejärvi, W. A., McDonald, J. J., & Hillyard, S. A. (2001). Analysis of audio-visual crossmodal integration with event-related potential (ERP) recordings. Society for Neurosciences Abstracts, XX, XXXX.
  • McDonald, J. J., Teder-Sälejärvi, W. A., Di Russo, F., & Hillyard, S. A. (2001, March). Involuntary attention to sound modulates neural responses to subsequent light. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York.
  • Tata, M. S., Ward, L. M., Prime, D. J., & McDonald, J. J. (2001, March). Parietal cortex implicated in shifting spatial auditory attention. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York.
  • Ward, L. M., Tata, M. S., Prime, D., & McDonald, J. J. (2000, June). Stimulus-driven shifts of spatial attention modulate sensory-cortical processing of sounds. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Miami, Florida.
  • McDonald, J. J. Teder-Sälejärvi, W. A., Di Russo, F., & Hillyard, S. A. (2000). Looking at sound: Involuntary auditory attention modulates neural processing in extrastriate visual cortex. Psychophysiology 37 (Supplement 1), 69.
  • Teder-Sälejärvi, W. A. McDonald, J. J., & Hillyard, S. A. (2000, October). Does involuntary auditory attention affect the speed of visual processing? A high-density ERP study. Psychophysiology 37 (Supplement 1), 97.
  • Prime, D. J., Ward, L. M., Tata, M. S., & McDonald, J. J. (2000, April). Stimulus-driven attention orienting in auditory frequency space: An event-related potential study. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
  • McDonald, J.J., & Ward, L.M. (1999, November). On cross-modal orienting of spatial attention. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles, CA
  • McDonald, J. J., & Ward, L. M. (1999, October). Crossmodal interactions in exogenous spatial attention: Behavioural and ERP measures. Paper presented at the Experimental Psychology Society Crossmodal meeting, Oxford, United Kingdom.
  • McDonald, J.J., & Ward, L.M. (1999, April). Visual evoked potential signs of inhibition of return during a dichoptic viewing experiment. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Washington, D.C.
  • Prime, D.J., McDonald, J.J., & Ward, L.M. (1999, April). Modulations of the auditory evoked potential by transient frequency selection. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Washington, D.C.
  • Kiehl, K.A., Hare, R.D., McDonald, J.J., & Liddle, P.F. (1998, September). An ERP investigation of semantic processing in criminal psychopaths. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Denver, Colorado.
  • McDonald, J.J., & Ward, L.M. (1998, April). Intersensory processes in exogenous spatial attention: An ERP study. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, California.
  • McDonald, J.J., & Ward, L.M. (1997, March). Covert orienting between modalities. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Ward, L.M., & McDonald, J.J. (1996, November). Spatial attention orienting in an auditory implicit localization task. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Chicago, Illinois.
  • McDonald, J.J., Ward, L.M., Kiehl, K.A., & Richard, C.R. (1996, March). Electrocortical analysis of inhibition-of-return. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, California.
  • Wright, R.D., Richard, C.M., & McDonald, J.J. (1996, August). Simultaneous sensory-driven effects of cue onset at multiple locations in visual space. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, Montreal, Quebec.
  • McDonald, J. J., Wright, R.D., & Richard, C. M. (1994). Neutral cueing and stimulus-driven attention shifts. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychology Association, Penticton, B.C.
  • Richard, C.M., & Wright, R.D., & McDonald, J.J. (1994). Practise effects and inhibition-of-return. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychology Association, Penticton, B.C.
  • Wright, R.D., & Richard, C.M., & McDonald, J.J. (1994). Cue validity effects on inhibition-of-return. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychology Association, Penticton, B.C.