Selected publications

Biomedical signal processing: (speech processing, evoked potentials)
F. Farzan, M.S. Barr, W. Wong, R. Chen, P.B. Fitzgerald, and Z.J. Daskalakis. Inhibition of gamma oscillations in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex: a TMS-EEG study. Neuropharmacology, in press.

M. Craig, P. van Lieshout, and W. Wong. A linear model of acoustic-to-facial mapping: model parameters, data set size and generalization across speakers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, in press. pdf

J. Cui and W. Wong. Investigation of short-term changes in visual evoked potentials with windowed adaptive chirplet transform. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 55(4):1449-1454, 2008. pdf

M. Craig, P. van Lieshout, and W. Wong. Suitability of a UV-based video recording system for the analysis of small facial motions during speech. Speech Communication, 49(9):679-686, 2007. pdf

J. Cui and W. Wong. The adaptive chirplet transform and visual evoked potentials. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 53(7):1378-1384, 2006. pdf

H.R. Dajani, D. Purcell, W. Wong, H. Kunov, and T.W. Picton. Recording human evoked potentials that follow the pitch contour of a natural vowel. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 52(9):1614-18, Sept. 2005. pdf

H.R. Dajani, W. Wong, and H. Kunov. Fine structure spectrography and its application in speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 117(6):3902-3918, 2005. pdf

G. Greenland, W. Wong, and H. Kunov. Improving utterance verification using additional confidence measures in isolated speech recognition interfaces. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2005. Proceedings. (ICASSP '05)., 1:81-84, 18-23, 2005. pdf

J. Cui, W. Wong, and S. Mann. Time-frequency analysis of visual evoked potentials using chirplet transform. Electronics Letters, 41(4):217-218, 2005. pdf

Acoustic engineering: (noise exposure, acoustic testing)
E. Macdonald, A. Behar, W. Wong, and H. Kunov. Noise exposure of opera musicians. Canadian Acoustics, in press.

A. Behar, W. Wong, and H. Kunov. Risk of hearing loss in orchestra musicians: Review of the literature. Medical Problems of Performing Artists, 21(4):164, 2006. pdf

J. Lee, A. Behar, H. Kunov, and W. Wong. Musicians noise exposure in orchestra pit. Applied Acoustics, 66(8):919-931, 2005. pdf

A. Behar, E. MacDonald, J. Lee, J. Cui, H. Kunov, and W. Wong. Noise exposure of music teachers. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, 1(4):243-247, 2004. pdf

J. Cui, A. Behar, W. Wong, and H. Kunov. Insertion loss testing of active noise reduction headsets using acoustic fixture. Applied Acoustics, 64(10):1011-1031, 2003. pdf

T.S.A. Jaffer, H. Kunov, and W. Wong. A model cochlear partition involving longitudinal elasticity. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 112:576, 2002. pdf

Psychophysics: (audiovisual perception, pattern recognition, mathematical basis of perception)
S. Luu, W. Wong, and H. Noordin. Low-level audiovisual synchrony: experiments and model. Japanese Psychological Research, in press.

W. Wong. Recognition of temporal patterns: From engineering to psychology and back again. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61(2):159-167, 2007. pdf

J. Lee and W. Wong. A stochastic model for the detection of coherent motion. Biological Cybernetics, 91(5):306-314, 2004. pdf

S. Mori and W. Wong. Quantifying frequency dependence of auditory search. Journal of Physiological Anthropology and Applied Human Science, 23(6):303-306, 2004. pdf

W. Wong and S. Figueiredo. On the role of information and uncertainty in auditory thresholds. In Proceedings of International Conference on Auditory Displays (ICAD), Kyoto, Japan, July 2-5, 2002, pages 263-268, 2002. pdf

E. Sagi, W. Wong, and K.H. Norwich. Mathematical studies of the information in the stimulus-response matrix. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 45(1):99-114, 2001. pdf

W. Wong and H. Barlow. Tunes and templates. Nature, 404(6781):952-3, 2000. pdf

W. Wong and S. Mori. A conceptual approach to the magical number 7. Biological Cybernetics, 78(5):377-387, 1998. pdf

W. Wong and S. Mori. The magical 'wave' seven, plus or minus two? The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 104:390, 1998. pdf

K.H. Norwich, W. Wong, and E. Sagi. Range as a factor determining the information of loudness judgments: Overcoming small sample bias. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 52(2):63-70, 1998. pdf

K.H. Norwich and W. Wong. Unification of psychophysical phenomena: The complete form of Fechners law. Perception & Psychophysics, 59(6):929-940, 1997. pdf

W. Wong and K.H. Norwich. Simulation of human sensory performance. BioSystems, 43(3):189- 197, 1997. pdf

W. Wong and K.H. Norwich. Obtaining equal loudness contours from Weber fractions. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 97(6):3761-3767, 1995. pdf

Neuroscience: (modelling peripheral activity)
Liz C. Chang and Willy Wong. On the stochastic properties of the neural encoding mechanism of sound intensity. volume 32, pages 150-151. Canadian Acoustical Association, 2004. pdf

W. Wong. On the Fano factor in peripheral auditory neurons. In Transactions of the Technical Committee on Physiological and Psychological Acoustics, Acoustical Society of Japan, Kofu, Japan, Jul 18, 2003, volume 33. 2003. pdf

K.H. Norwich and W. Wong. A universal model of single-unit sensory receptor action. Mathematical Biosciences, 125(1):83-108, 1995.pdf

B. Aebersold, KH Norwich, and W. Wong. Density fluctuation in Brownian motion and its significance in olfaction. Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 18:19-30, 1993. pdf

Thesis:
Willy Wong. On the physics of perception. PhD thesis, University of Toronto, 1997. pdf