Dr. Tony Herdman’s research program focuses on understanding the brain dynamics that underlie many psychological phenomena involved in auditory and visual perceptions, attention, language and memory. He uses behavioural, eye-tracking, and electrophysiological (EEG & MEG) measures to study fundamental principles of these systems and how they develop. One main line of investigation is providing insights into how experience with visual objects (such as letters and words) alters brain dynamics and neural-network communications in typically-developing readers and dyslexics. Another research stream is looking at how auditory selective attention and visual novelty detection in children are affected by socioeconomic disparities. Dr. Herdman is also conducting research in the fields of cognition & memory and neuroimaging methodology. Dr. Herdman is particularly fascinated by how a brain functions and communicates across multiple dimensions (space, time, and frequency) and how such communication is altered by experience as a brain develops its abundant abilities.

Dr. Herdman is currently a faculty member of the UBC School of Audiology and Speech Sciences.

Publications

• Altered long-range alpha-band synchronization during visual short-term memory retention in children born very preterm

  • 2011 NeuroImage
  • Doesburg S. M. , Ribary U. , Herdman A. T. , Miller S. P. , Poskitt K. J. , Moiseev A.

• Functional communication within a perceptual network processing letters and pseudoletters

  • 2011 Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Herdman A. T.

• Magnetoencephalography reveals slowing of resting peak oscillatory frequency in children born very preterm

  • 2011 Pediatric Research
  • Doesburg S. M. , Ribary U. , Herdman A. T. , Moiseev A. , Cheung T. , Miller S. P.

• Application of multi-source minimum variance beamformers for reconstruction of correlated neural activity

  • 2011 NeuroImage
  • Moiseev A. , Gaspar J. M. , Schneider J. A. , Herdman A. T.

• Neuroimaging evidence for top-down maturation of selective auditory attention

  • 2011 Brain Topography
  • Herdman A. T.

• Long-range synchronization and local desynchronization of alpha oscillations during visual short-term memory retention in children

  • 2010 Experimental Brain Research
  • Doesburg S. M. , Herdman A. T. , Ribary U. , Cheung T. , Moiseev A. , Weinberg H.