John William Vaughan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina-Greensboro (1992)

The nervous system is faced with the daunting task of integrating the different sensory cues into a coherent representation of the external world. I, in conjunction with a number of other faculty members here at Wake Forrest, study the neural mechanisms responsible for providing this integrated representation. We use a variety of techniques ranging from single cell electrophysiology in awake behaving animals, to traditional psychophysical tasks involving humans.

Selected Publications:

Stein, B.E., Wallace, M.T., Jiang, W., Jiang, H., Vaughan, J. W. (1999) Cross-Modal Integration: Bringing Coherence to the Sensory World. Proceedings of the Audio-Visual Speech Processing Symposium, pp. 23-28.

Kadunce DC, J.W. Vaughan, M.T. Wallace, G. Benedek and B.E. Stein (1997) Mechanisms of within- and cross-modality suppression in the superior colliculus. J Neurophysiol 78:2834-2847

Kadunce, D.C., J.W. Vaughan, M.T. Wallace and B.E. Stein (2000) The influences of visual and auditory receptive field organization on multisensory integration in the superior colliculus. Exp. Brain Res., (Accepted contingent on appropriate revisions.).

Quessy, S., Sweatt, A., Stein, B.E. and Stanford, T.R. (2000) The influence of stimulus intensity and timing on multisensory responses of superior colliculus (SC) neurons. Soc. Neurosci Abst. 27

Jiang, W., M.T. Wallace, J.W. Vaughan and B.E. Stein (2001) Two cortical areas mediate multisensory integration in superior colliculus neurons. J. Neurophysiol., 85, 506-522.

E-mail: jvaughan@wfubmc.edu