Dr. John Butler

• Molloy A, Kimmich O, Williams L, Butler JS, Byrne N, Molloy F, Moore H, Healy DG, Lynch T, Edwards MJ, Walsh C, Reilly RB, O'Riordan S, Hutchinson M, An evaluation of the role of environmental factors in the disease penetrance of cervical dystonia., Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry, 86, (3), 2015, p331-335Journal Article, 2015, DOI
• Hutchinson M, Isa T, Molloy A, Kimmich O, Williams L, Molloy F, Moore H, Healy DG, Lynch T, Walsh C, Butler J, Reilly RB, Walsh R, O'Riordan S, Cervical dystonia: a disorder of the midbrain network for covert attentional orienting., Frontiers in neurology, 5, 2014, p54Journal Article, 2014, DOI , TARA - Full Text
• Butler JS, Campos JL, Bülthoff HH, Optimal visual-vestibular integration under conditions of conflicting intersensory motion profiles., Experimental brain research, 2014Journal Article, 2014
• Brandwein AB, Foxe JJ, Butler JS, Frey HP, Bates JC, Shulman LH, Molholm S, Neurophysiological Indices of Atypical Auditory Processing and Multisensory Integration are Associated with Symptom Severity in Autism., Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2014Journal Article, 2014
• Andrade GN, Molholm S, Butler JS, Brandwein AB, Walkley SU, Foxe JJ, Atypical multisensory integration in Niemann-Pick type C disease - towards potential biomarkers., Orphanet journal of rare diseases, 9, 2014, p149Journal Article, 2014, TARA - Full Text
• Molloy A, Kimmich O, Williams L, Quinlivan B, Dabacan A, Fanning A, Butler JS, O'Riordan S, Reilly RB, Hutchinson M, A headset method for measuring the visual temporal discrimination threshold in cervical dystonia., Tremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.), 4, 2014, p249Journal Article, 2014, DOI , TARA - Full Text
• De Sanctis P, Butler JS, Malcolm BR, Foxe JJ, Recalibration of inhibitory control systems during walking-related dual-task interference: a mobile brain-body imaging (MOBI) study., NeuroImage, 94, 2014, p55-64Journal Article, 2014
• Butler JS, Foxe JJ, Fiebelkorn IC, Mercier MR, Molholm S, Multisensory representation of frequency across audition and touch: high density electrical mapping reveals early sensory-perceptual coupling., The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 32, (44), 2012, p15338-44Journal Article, 2012
• Mercier MR, Foxe JJ, Fiebelkorn IC, Butler JS, Schwartz TH, Molholm S, Auditory-driven phase reset in visual cortex: human electrocorticography reveals mechanisms of early multisensory integration., NeuroImage, 79, 2013, p19-29Journal Article, 2013

My research is focused on investigating how the brain processes sensory and multisensory cues in clinical and non-clinical populations. To do this I design novel experimental protocols and adapt/build experimental equipment to acquire behavioural and neurophysiological data. I devise advanced signal processing methods to analyze and interpret these rich and complex datasets. I have used this data to develop biologically plausible and computational elegant models that describe the integration of sensory signals. As a Senior Research Fellow I will extend these models to make predictions of abhorrent sensory signal processing that has been observed in clinical populations. These modelsare tested and help bridge the gap between theoretical hypothesis and experimental data which is vital to further our understanding of normal and abnormal sensory processing. This will be conducted in collaboration with my research partners who investigate Dystonia (Prof Michael Hutchison, St. Vincent's University Hospital) and Parkinson's disease (Prof. Tim Lynch, Mater Hospital)

Other Engineering, Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, Mathematics, Mathematical and Computational Biology including Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, Computer science - Theory & Methods, Algorithms, Medical Engineering, Biotechnology and devices (including medical laboratory technologies and informatics), Mathematics, Other Engineering, Computer science - Theory & Methods, Algorithms, Neuroscience and clinical neurology, Neuroscience and clinical neurology, Mathematical and Computational Biology including Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Medical Engineering, Biotechnology and devices (including medical laboratory technologies and informatics),