BIOGRAPHY

He studied Natural Sciences at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and was awarded the Passingham prize in Experimental Psychology in 1989. His postgraduate studies were at Balliol College, Oxford, where he wrote his doctoral dissertation on investigating the role of memory and attention in planning and problem solving.

RESEARCH OVERVIEW

His research interests now include memory structures and processes, and the study of executive control.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Grenfell-Essam, R., Ward, G., & Tan, L. (in press). The role of rehearsal on the output order of immediate free recall of short and long lists. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Grenfell-Essam, R., & Ward, G., (2012). Examining the relationship between free recall and immediate serial recall: The role of list length, strategy use, and test expectancy. Journal of Memory and Language, 67, 106-148.

Ward, G., Tan, L., & Grenfell-Essam, R. (2010). Examining the relationship between free recall and immediate serial recall: the effects of list length and output order. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 36,1207-1241.

Moreton, B., & Ward, G. (2010). Time Scale Similarity and Long-Term Memory for Autobiographical Events. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17, 510-515.

Bhatarah, P., Ward, G., Smith, J., & Hayes. L. (2009). Examining the relationship between free recall and immediate serial recall: Similar patterns of rehearsal and similar effects of word length, presentation rate, and articulatory suppression. Memory & Cognition, 37 (5), 689-713.

Ward, G., Tan, L., & Bhatarah, P. (2009). The roles of short-term verbal memory in free and serial recall: Towards a recency-based perspective. In A. S. C. Thorn & M. P. A. Page (Eds.), Interactions between short-term and long-term memory in the verbal domain. pp. 44-62. Hove, UK: Psychology Press.

Tan, L. & Ward, G. (2008). Rehearsal in Immediate Serial Recall. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 535-542. 

Bhatarah, P., Ward, G., & Tan, L. (2008). Examining the relationship between free recall and immediate serial recall: The serial nature of recall and the effect of test expectancy. Memory and Cognition, 36, 20-34.

Tan, L. & Ward, G. (2007). Output order in immediate serial recall. Memory & Cognition, 35, 1093–1106.

Bhatarah, P., Ward, G. & Tan, L. (2006). Examining the relationship between free recall and immediate serial recall: The effect of concurrent task performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 32, 215-229.

Morris, R. & Ward, G. (Eds., 2005). The Cognitive Psychology of Planning. Hove: Psychology Press.

Ward, G. & Maylor, E. A. (2005). Age-related Deficits in Free Recall: The Role of Rehearsal. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 58A, 98-119.

Ward, G. & Morris, R. (2005). Introduction to the psychology of planning. In Morris, R. & Ward, G. (Eds., 2005). The Cognitive Psychology of Planning (pp.1-34). Hove: Psychology Press.

Ward, G., Avons, S.E., & Melling, L. (2005) Serial position curves in short-term memory: functional equivalence across modalities. Memory, 13, 308-17.

Ward, G. (2005). Planning and the executive control of thought and action. In Morris, R. & Ward, G. (Eds., 2005). The Cognitive Psychology of Planning (pp.89-110). Hove: Psychology Press.

Ward, G. & Tan, L. (2004). The effect of the length of to-be-remembered lists and intervening lists on free recall: A re-examination using overt rehearsal. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 30, 1196-1210.

Avons, S.E., Ward, G. & Melling, L. (2004) Item and order memory for novel visual patterns assessed by two choice recognition. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 57, 865-891.

Ward, G., Woodward, G., Stevens, A., & Stinson, C. (2003). Using overt rehearsals to explain word frequency effects in free recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 29, 186-210.

Ward, G. (2002). A recency-based account of the list length effect in free recall. Memory and Cognition, 30, 885-892.

Ward, G. (2001). A critique of the working memory model. In J. Andrade, (Ed.), Working Memory in Perspective, 219-239. Psychology Press.

Avons, S. E., Ward, G. D., & Russo, R. (2001). The dangers of taking capacity limits too literally. Commentary on Cowan, N. The magical number four in short-term memory: A reconsideration of mental storage capacity. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 114-115.

Ward, G., Roberts, M. J., & Phillips, L. H.(2001). Task-switching costs, Stroop costs and Executive Control: A Correlational Study. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 54A, 491-511.

Tan, L. & Ward, G. (2000). A recency-based account of primacy effects in free recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 26,1589-1625.

Avons, S.E., Kerr, J.R. & Ward, G. (1999). The effect of retention interval on serial position curves for item recognition of visual patterns and faces. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 25, 1475-1494.

Russo, R.,Ward, G., Guerts, H., Scheres, A. (1999). Context effects in recognition memory for unfamiliar faces. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 25, 488-499.

Ward, G. & Churchill, E.F. (1998). Two tests of instance-based and abstract-rule based accounts of invariant learning. Acta Psychologica, 99, 235-253.

Kerr, J., Ward, G. & Avons, S.E. (1998). Response bias in visual memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology:Learning, Memory & Cognition, 24, 1316-1323.

Ward, G. & Allport, D.A. (1997). Planning and problem-solving using the 5-disc Tower of London task. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 50A, 49-78.

Ward, G., Churchill, E.F. & Musgrave, P. (1997). An investigation of cued recall of multi-attribute stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 23, 1247-1260.