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Ian Nimmo-Smith

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Ian Nimmo-Smith

Contact details

E-mail address: ian.nimmo-smith@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)1223 355294 (extension 710)
Direct line: +44 (0)1223 273698
Fax: +44 (0)1223 359062
Address: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit,
15 Chaucer Road,
Cambridge,
CB2 7EF

Research areas

  • Mathematical and statistical modelling.
  • Functional data analysis and neuroimaging.
  • Diffusion weighted imaging and white matter tractography.

CBU publications

Selected publications

  • SIGALA, N., Kusunoki, M., NIMMO-SMITH, I., Gaffan, D. DUNCAN, J. (2008) Hierarchical coding for sequential task events in the monkey prefrontal cortex, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 105(33), 11969-11974 #
  • DUNCAN, J., Parr, A., WOOLGAR, A., THOMPSON, R., Bright, P., Cox, S., BISHOP, S. & NIMMO-SMITH, I. (2008) Goal neglect and Spearman's g: Competing parts of a complex task, JEP: General, 137(1), 131-148 #
  • LONG, C.J., NIMMO-SMITH, I., Baguley, D.M., O'Driscoll, M., Ramsden, R., Otto, S.R., Axon, P.R. & CARLYON, R.P. (2005) Optimizing the Clinical Fit of Auditory Brain Stem Implants, Ear and Hearing, 26(3), 251-262 #
  • NIMMO-SMITH, I., MARCEL, A.J. & Tegner, R. (2005) A diagnostic test of unawareness of bilateral motor task abilities in anosognosia for hemiplegia., Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 76, 1167-1169 #

Complete list of publications

  • ROWE, J.B, HUGHES, L.E., NIMMO-SMITH, I. (2010) Action Selection: A race model for selected and non-selected actions distinguishes the contribution of premotor and prefrontal areas to the selection of action., Neuroimage, 51(2), 888-896 #
  • WOOLGAR, A., Parr, A., CUSACK, R., THOMPSON, R., NIMMO-SMITH, I., Torralva, T., Roca, M., Antoun, N., Manes, F. & DUNCAN, J. (2010) Fluid intelligence loss linked to restricted regions of damage within frontal and parietal cortex, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(33), 14899-14902 #
  • PULVERMULLER, F., Kherif, F, HAUK, O. & NIMMO-SMITH, I. (2009) Distributed Cell Assemblies for General Lexical and Category-Specific Semantic Processing as Revealed by fMRI Cluster Analysis, Human Brain Mapping, 30(12), 3837-3850 #
  • WOOLGAR, A., Parr, A., CUSACK, R., THOMPSON, R., NIMMO-SMITH, I., Torralva, T., Roca, M., Antoun, N., Manes, F. & DUNCAN, J.D. (2009) Specific brain lesions linked to fluid intelligence loss, Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Wenesday PM, 128 #
  • DUNCAN, J., Parr, A., WOOLGAR, A., THOMPSON, R., Bright, P., Cox, S., BISHOP, S. & NIMMO-SMITH, I. (2008) Goal neglect and Spearman's g: Competing parts of a complex task, JEP: General, 137(1), 131-148 #
  • Guadagno, J.V., Jones, P.S., Aigbirhio, F.I., Wang, D., Fryer, T.D., Day, D.J. & Antoun, N., NIMMO-SMITH, I., Warburton, E.A. & Baron, J.C. (2008) Selective Neuronal Loss in rescued penumbra relates to initial hypoperfusion, Brain, 130(10), 2494-2507 #
  • SIGALA, N., Kusunoki, M., NIMMO-SMITH, I., Gaffan, D. DUNCAN, J. (2008) Hierarchical coding for sequential task events in the monkey prefrontal cortex, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 105(33), 11969-11974 #
  • DAVIS, M. H., ROGERS J., Kherif K., NIMMO-SMITH, I., BRETT, M. (2007) Sounds and meaning: an fMRI study of phonological and semantic processing of spoken and written words, Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, B101 #
  • WOOLGAR, A., BOR, D., DUNCAN, J., Parr, A., CUSACK, R., NIMMO-SMITH, I., Antoun, N, Manes, F. & Torralava, T (2007) Fluid intelligence after brain damage: relating brain lesion to behavioural deficit, 13th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, S115 #
  • Delahunta, S., BARNARD, P., NIMMO-SMITH, I., POTTS, J. & RAMPONI, C. (2006) Densities of Agreement: making visible some intangible properties of dance, Dance Theatre Journal, 21(3), 17-23 #
  • MARCEL, A., POSTMA,P., CUSACK, R., MACKINTOSH, B, NIMMO-SMITH, I, VUCKOVICH, J. & COX, S (2006) Is Susceptibility to Perceptual Migration and Fusion Modality-Specific or Multimodal?, Neuropsychologia, 44(5), 693-710 #
  • McCarthy, R., Blackwell, A., deLahunta, S., Wing, A., Hollands, K, BARNARD, P, NIMMO-SMITH, I. & MARCEL, A. (2006) Bodies Meet Minds: Choreography and Cognition, Leonardo, 39(5), 475-477 #
  • Muggleton, N., POSTMA, P., MOUTSOPOULOU, K., NIMMO-SMITH, I., MARCEL, A. & Walsh, V. (2006) TMS over right posterior parietal cortex induces neglect in a scene-based frame of reference, Neuropsychologia, 44(7), 1222-1229 #
  • LONG, C.J., NIMMO-SMITH, I., Baguley, D.M., O'Driscoll, M., Ramsden, R., Otto, S.R., Axon, P.R. & CARLYON, R.P. (2005) Optimizing the Clinical Fit of Auditory Brain Stem Implants, Ear and Hearing, 26(3), 251-262 #
  • NIMMO-SMITH, I., MARCEL, A.J. & Tegner, R. (2005) A diagnostic test of unawareness of bilateral motor task abilities in anosognosia for hemiplegia., Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 76, 1167-1169 #
  • Wilkins, A., Sihra, N. & NIMMO-SMITH, I. (2005) Technical Note: How precise do precision tints have to be?, Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 25(3), 269–276 #
  • Hill, K., Mann, L., Laws, K.R., Stephenson, C.M.E., NIMMO-SMITH, I. & McKenna, P.J. (2004) Hypofrontality in Schizophrenia: A Meta-Analysis of Functional Imaging Studies, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 110(4), 243-256 #
  • MARCEL, A., POSTMA, P., Gillmeister, H., COX, S., Rorden, C., NIMMO-SMITH, I. & MACKINTOSH, B. (2004) Migration and Fusion of Tactile Sensation -- Premorbid Susceptibility to Allochiria, Neglect and Extinction?, Neuropsychologia, 42(13), 1749-1767 #
  • MARCEL, A.J., Tegner, R. & NIMMO-SMITH, I. (2004) Anosognosia for plegia: specificity, extension, partiality and disunity of bodily unawareness., Cortex, 40(1), 19-40 #
  • RAMPONI, C., BARNARD, P.J. & NIMMO-SMITH, I. (2004) Recollection Deficits in Dysphoric Mood: An Effect of Schematic Models and Executive Mode?, Memory, 12(5), 655-670 #
  • Wilson, FC., EMSLIE, H., Burden, V., NIMMO-SMITH, I., WILSON, B (2004) Behavioural Assessment of the Dysexutive Syndrome for Children (BADS-C): Utility in clinical practice?, Unpublished Talk - Symposium on Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, Uluru, Australia Published in Brain Impairment, 5(1), 109 #
  • CALDER, A.J., KEANE, J., MANLY, T., Sprengelmeyer, R., Scott, S.K., NIMMO-SMITH, I. & Young, A.W. (2003) Facial Expression Recognition Across the Adult Life Span, Neuropsychologia, 41(2), 195-202 #
  • EMSLIE, H.C, Wilson, F.C, Burden, V, NIMMO-SMITH, I, Wilson, B.A (2003) Behavioural Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome in Children (BADS-C)., October 2003, Thames Valley Test Company, Bury St Edmunds #
  • LONG, C.J., NIMMO-SMITH, I., Baguely, D.M., O'Driscoll, M., Ramsden, R., Otto, S.R., Axon, P.R. & CARLYON, R.P. (2003) Optimizing the clinical fit of auditory brainstem implants, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Vestibular Schwannoma and Other CPA Lesions. July 13-17, 2003 #
  • MURPHY, F.C., NIMMO-SMITH, I. & LAWRENCE, A.D. (2003) Functional neuroanatomy of emotion: A meta-analysis, Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 3(3), 207-233 #
  • Dietrich, C., Wing, A. M., Gilles, M. & NIMMO-SMITH, I. (2002) Modeling Resistance of a Four-Link Biped to Lateral Push, Journal of Applied Biomechanics, 18(2), 99-109 #
  • MANLY, T., NIMMO-SMITH, I., WATSON, P., Anderson, V., Turner, A. & Robertson, I.H. (2002) The Differential Assessment of Children's Attention: The Test of Everyday Attention for Children (TEA-Ch) , Normative Sample and ADHD performance., Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 42(8), 1065-1081 #
  • NIMMO-SMITH, I., DUNCAN, J (2001) Comparing regional distributions of activation in neuroimaging studies, Neuroimage, 13, S213 #
  • CALDER, A.J., Rowland, D., Young, A.W., NIMMO-SMITH, I., KEANE, J., Moriaty, J. & Perrett, D.I. (2000) Caricaturing facial expressions, Cognition 76(2), 105-146. #
  • Hill, E. L., BISHOP, D. V. M., & NIMMO-SMITH, I. (1998) Representational gestures in Developmental Coordination Disorder and specific language impairment: Error-types and the reliability of ratings., Human Movement Science, 17, 655-678. #
  • MANLY, T., ROBERTSON, I. H., Anderson, V. & NIMMO-SMITH, I. (1998) The Test of Everyday Attention for Children (TEAch)., Bury St Edmunds: Thames Valley Test Company. #
  • Bourke, P.A., Duncan, J. & Nimmo-Smith, I. (1996) A general factor involved in dual task performance decrement, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 49A, 525-545 #
  • Brown, I.D. & Nimmo-Smith, I. (1996) Simulator-based safety assessments of in-vehicle driver-support technology: an exploratory study using autonomous intelligence cruise control., Confidental report on Contract No. DPU 9/81/2 for the Vehicle Safety and Engineering Division of the Department of Transport #
  • Duncan, J. & Nimmo-Smith, I. (1996) Objects and attributes in divided attention: Surface and boundary systems, Perception and Psychophysics, 58, 1076-1084 #
  • Robertson, I.H., Ward, T., Ridgeway, V. & Nimmo-Smith, I. (1996) The Structure of Normal Human Attention: The Test of Everyday Attention, Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 2(6), 525-534 #
  • Robertson, I.H., Tegner, R., Tham, K., Lo, A. & Nimmo-Smith, I. (1995) Sustained attention training for unilateral neglect: Theoretical and rehabilitation implications, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 17, 416-430 #
  • Teasdale, J.D., Dritschel, B.H., Taylor, M.J., Proctor, L., Lloyd, C.A., Nimmo-Smith, I. & Baddeley, A.D. (1995) Stimulus-independent thought depends on central executive resources., Memory and Cognition, 23, 551-559 #
  • Baddeley, A.D., Emslie, H. & Nimmo-Smith, I. (1994) Doors and People: A Test of Visual and Verbal Recall and Recognition., Flempton, Bury St. Edmunds: Thames Valley Test Company. #
  • Robertson, I.H., Ward, T., Ridgeway, V. & Nimmo-Smith, I. (1994) The Test of Everyday Attention., Flempton: Thames Valley Test Company. #
  • Baddeley, A.D., Emslie, H. & Nimmo-Smith, I. (1993) The Spot-the-Word test: A robust estimate of verbal intelligence based on lexical decision., British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 32, 55-65. #
  • Duncan, J., Williams, P., Nimmo-Smith, I. & Brown, I. (1993) The control of skilled behavior: Learning, intelligence, and distraction., In D.E. Meyer & S. Kornblum (Eds.), Attention & Performance XIV: Synergies in Experimental Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, and Cognitive Neuroscience (pp. 323-341). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. #
  • Ellis, J.A. & Nimmo-Smith, I. (1993) Recollecting naturally-occurring intentions: A study of cognitive and affective factors., Memory, 1, 107-126. #
  • Baddeley, A.D., Emslie, H. & Nimmo-Smith, I. (1992) The Speed and Capacity of Language Processing (SCOLP) Test., Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk: Thames Valley Test Company. #
  • Chronicle, E. & Nimmo-Smith, I. (1992) Application of some statistical methods for comparing samples of hue-angle data., Color Research and Application, 17, 375-378. #
  • Dritschel, B.H., Williams, J.M.G., Baddeley, A.D. & Nimmo-Smith, I. (1992) Autobiographical fluency: A method for the study of personal memory., Memory and Cognition, 20, 133-140. #
  • Wilkins, A.J., Milroy, R., Nimmo-Smith, I., Wright, A., Tyrrell, R., Holland, K., Martin, J., Bald, J., Yale, S., Miles, T. & Noakes, T. (1992) Preliminary observations concerning treatment of visual discomfort and associated perceptual distortion., Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 12, 257-262. #
  • Wilkins, A.J., Nimmo-Smith, I. & Jansons, J. (1992) Colorimeter for the intuitive manipulation of hue and saturation and its role in the study of perceptual distortion., Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 12, 381-385. #
  • Wann, J. & Nimmo-Smith, I. (1991) The control of pen pressure in handwriting: A subtle point., Human Movement Science, 10, 223-246. #
  • Wann, J.P. & Nimmo-Smith, I. (1990) Evidence against the relative invariance of timing in handwriting., The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 42A, 105-119. #
  • Sassoon, R., Nimmo-Smith, I. & Wing, A.M. (1989) Developing efficiency in cursive handwriting: An analysis of 't' crossing behaviour in children., In R. Plamondon, C.Y. Suen & M.L. Simner (Eds.), Computer Recognition and Human Production of Handwriting (pp.287-297). Singapore: World Scientific Publishing. #
  • Smith, M.R., Cutler, A., Butterfield, S. & Nimmo-Smith, I. (1989) The perception of rhythm and word boundaries in noise-masked speech., Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 32, 912-920. #
  • Wann, J.P., Nimmo-Smith, I. & Wing, A.M. (1989) Why are "Strategies" "Sensitive"? Smoothing the way for a raison d'etre., Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 12, 235-236. #
  • Watt, R.J. & Nimmo-Smith, I. (1989) Representing the shape of image contours., In J.C. Simon (Ed.), From Pixels to Features (pp. 333-344). Elsevier Science Publishers, B.V. (North-Holland). #
  • Wilkins, A.J., Nimmo-Smith, I., Slater, A.I. & Bedocs, L. (1989) Fluorescent lighting, headaches and eyestrain., Lighting Research and Technology, 21, 11-18. (Revised version of 2279) #
  • Patterson, R., Nimmo-Smith, I., Holdsworth, J. & Rice, P. (1988) Spiral VOS Final Report Part A: The Auditory Filter Bank., CED Contract Report. #
  • Wann, J.P., Nimmo-Smith, I. & Wing, A.M. (1988) Relation between velocity and curvature in movement: Equivalence and divergence between a power law and a minimum-jerk model., Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 14, 622-637. #
  • Wilkins, A.J., Della Sala, S., Somazzi, L. & Nimmo-Smith, I. (1988) Age-related norms for the Cambridge Low Contrast Gratings, including details concerning their design and use., Clinical Vision Sciences, 2, 201-212. #
  • Wilkins, A.J., Nimmo-Smith, I., Slater, A.I. & Bedocs, L. (1988) Fluorescent lighting, headaches and eye-strain., In Proceedings of the National Lighting Conference and Daylighting Colloquium (pp.188-196), (Robinson College, Cambridge). CIBSE. #
  • Wilkins, A.J. & Nimmo-Smith, I. (1987) The clarity and comfort of printed text., Ergonomics, 30, 1705-1720. #
  • Wing, A.M. & Nimmo-Smith, I. (1987) The variability of cursive handwriting measures defined along a continuum: Letter specificity., Journal of the Forensic Science Society, 27, 297-306. #
  • Gulian, E., Hinds, P. & Nimmo-Smith, I. (1986) Modifications in deaf children's vowel production: Perceptual evidence., British Journal of Audiology, 20, 181-194. #
  • Patterson, R.D. & Nimmo-Smith, I. (1986) Thinning periodicity detectors for modulated pulse streams., In B.C.J. Moore & R.D. Patterson (Eds.), Auditory Frequency Selectivity (pp.299-307), NATO ASI Series A: Life Sciences, Vol. 19. New York: Plenum Publishing Corporation. #
  • Sassoon, R., Nimmo-Smith, I. & Wing, A.M. (1986) An analysis of children's penholds., In H.S.R. Kao, G.P. van Galen & R. Hoosain (Eds.), Graphonomics: Contemporary Research in Handwriting (pp.93-106). Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. (North-Holland). #
  • Wastell, D.G. & Nimmo-Smith, I. (1986) The polarity coincidence correlator: Significance testing and other issues., Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 24, 211-212. #
  • Glasberg, B.R ,Moore, B.C.J & Nimmo-Smith, I. (1984) Comparison of auditory filter shapes derived with three different maskers., Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 75, (2), p. 536 - 544 #