David A Westwood, Ph.D.
David Westwood is an Associate Professor of Kinesiology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He runs the ActionLab, which is dedicated to the scientific study of skilled human movements. David teaches undergraduate courses in Motor Control/Learning, Neural Bases of Sensory and Motor Function, and seminars in Vision and Action.
Contact Dr. Westwood via email, david.westwood_dal.ca
Publications
1.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.
2.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.
3.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.
4.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.
5.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.
6.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.
7.Cheung, S.S., Westwood, D.A., & Knox, M.K. (2007). Mild body cooling impairs attention via distraction from skin cooling. Ergonomics, 50, 275-288.
8.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
9.Grandy*, M.S., & Westwood, D.A. (2006). Opposite perceptual and sensorimotor responses to a size-weight illusion. Journal of Neurophysiology, 95, 3887-3892.
10.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.
11.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.
12.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.
13.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.
14.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.
15.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.
16.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.
17.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.
18.Goodale, M.A. & Westwood, D.A. (2004). An evolving view of duplex vision: separate but interacting pathways for perception and action. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 14, 204-211.
19.Goodale, M.A., Westwood, D.A., & Milner, A.D. (2004). Two distinct modes of control for object-directed action. Progress in Brain Research, 144, 131-144.
20.Heath, M., Westwood, D.A., & Binsted, G. (2004). The control of memory-guided reaching movements in peripersonal space. Motor Control, 8, 76-106.
21.Heath, M., Almeida, Q.J., Roy, E.A., Black, S.E., & Westwood, D. (2003). Selective dysfunction of tool-use: a failure to integrate somatosensation and action. Neurocase, 9, 156-163.
22.Heath, M., & Westwood, D.A. (2003). Can a visual representation support the on-line control of memory-guided reaching? Evidence from a variable spatial mapping paradigm. Motor Control, 7, 346-361.
23.Westwood, D.A., & Goodale, M.A. (2003). A haptic size-contrast illusion affects conscious size perception but not grasping. Experimental Brain Research,153,253-259
24.Westwood, D.A., & Goodale, M.A. (2003). Perceptual illusion and the real-time control of action. Spatial Vision, 16, 243-254.
25.Westwood, D.A., Heath, M., & Roy, E.A. (2003). No evidence for accurate visuomotor memory: systematic and variable error in memory-guided reaching. Journal of Motor Behavior, 35, 127-134.
26.Whitney, D.V., Westwood, D.A., & Goodale, M.A. (2003). The influence of visual motion on fast reaching movements to a stationary object. Nature, 423, 869-873.
27.Heath, M., Westwood, D.A., Roy, E.A., & Young, R. (2002). Manual asymmetries in tool-use: Implications for apraxia. Laterality, 7, 131-143.
28.Westwood, D.A., Danckert, J., Servos, P., & Goodale, M.A. (2002). Grasping 2D images and 3D objects in visual form agnosia. Experimental Brain Research, 144, 262-267.
29.Chapman, C.D., Heath, M., Westwood, D., & Roy, E.A. (2001). Memory for kinesthetically-defined target location: evidence for manual asymmetries. Brain and Cognition, 46, 62-66.
30.Heath, M., Roy, E.A., Black, S.E., & Westwood, D. (2001). Intransitive limb gestures and apraxia following unilateral stroke. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 23, 628-642.
31.Heath, M., Roy, E.A., Westwood, D., & Black, S.E. (2001). Patterns of apraxia associated with the production of intransitive limb gestures following left and right hemisphere stroke. Brain and Cognition, 46, 165-169.
32.Schweizer, T.M., Dixon, M.J., Westwood, D.A., & Piscopos, M.T. (2001). The contribution of visual and semantic proximity to naming deficits in category-specific visual agnosia. Brain and Cognition, 46, 260-264.
33.Westwood, D.A., Heath, M., & Roy, E.A. (2001). The accuracy of reaching movements in brief delay conditions. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 55, 304-310.
34.Westwood, D.A., McEachern, T., & Roy, E.A. (2001). Delayed grasping of a Müller-Lyer figure. Experimental Brain Research, 141, 166-173.
35.Westwood, D.A., Schweizer, T.M., Heath, M., Roy, E.A., Dixon, M.J., & Black, S.E. (2001). Transitive gesture production in apraxia: visual and non-visual sensory contributions. Brain and Cognition, 46, 300-304.
36.Roy, E.A., Heath, M., Westwood, D., Black, S.E., Schweizer, T., Dixon, M.J., Barbour, K., & Kalbfleisch, L. (2000). Task demands and limb apraxia in stroke. Brain and Cognition, 44, 253-279.
37.Westwood, D.A., Chapman, C.D., & Roy, E.A. (2000). Pantomimed actions may be controlled by the ventral visual stream. Experimental Brain Research, 130, 545-548.
38.Westwood, D.A., Dubrowski, A., Carnahan, H., & Roy, E.A. (2000). The effect of illusory size on force production when grasping objects. Experimental Brain Research, 135, 535-545.
39.Westwood, D.A., Heath, M., & Roy, E.A. (2000). The effect of a pictorial illusion on closed-loop and open-loop prehension. Experimental Brain Research, 134, 456-463.
40.Westwood, D.A., Roy, E.A., & Bryden, P.J. (2000). Posture and target location effects on manual preference. Brain and Cognition, 43, 421-425.
41.Westwood, D., Bryden, P.J., Roy, E.A., & Kalbfleisch, L. (1999). Exploring the relationship between manual asymmetries and concurrent postural demands. Brain and Cognition, 40, 272-275.
42.Westwood, D., Roy, E.A., Bryden, P.J., Bryden, M.P., & Roy, P.E. (1998). Increasing postural demands might affect the magnitude of manual asymmetries. Brain and Cognition, 37, 40-43.
Equipment and Research Projects
Visual control of prehension
Control of eye movements and attention
Control of lifting dynamics
Research Students
Prospective Students
Undergraduate students can pursue independent studies or Honours Theses through Kinesiology or Psychology. Master's Theses can be completed through Kinesiology, Psychology, or Clinical Vision Science. Doctoral students can be supervised from the Department of Psychology or the Interdisciplinary Studies Program. Postdoctoral fellows are encouraged to contact Dr. Westwood via email (david.westwood_dal.ca). PhD comprehensive projects can be supervised through the Department of Psychology.
Former Graduate Students
PhD
CD Cowper-Smith (Psychology)
D MacKenzie (Interdisciplinary Studies)
MSc
CD Cowper-Smith (Neuroscience)
J Harris (Kinesiology)
TM Harris (Clinical Vision Science)
MD Harvey (Clinical Vision Science)
SL Macdonald (Clinical Vision Science)
AA Thompson (Kinesiology)
J White (Kinesiology)
Contact Dr. Westwood
Email: david.westwood_dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-1164
Fax: 902-494-5120
Undergraduate programs
Kinesiology: Jane.Conrad_dal.ca
Psychology: B.Earhard_dal.ca
Neuroscience: Nathan.Crowder_dal.ca
Graduate programs
Kinesiology: Tracy.Powell_dal.ca
Psychology: Tracy.Taylor.Helmick_dal.ca
Clinical Vision Science: Karen.McMain_dal.ca
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