Lynne J Williams

Scientist and Poet

About Me

About Me

As a little girl, Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden was my inspiration--making small discoveries that turn into life changing insights. I even went so far as to call myself Mary for a summer. Mary taught me much about tenacity, determination, dedication and the willingness to be open to new interpretations. As a scientist, methodologist, statistician, data analyst, and author I strive to embody these ideals. I received my Ph.D. in 2007 in Behavioral and Brain Sciences from the University of Texas at Dallas and my M.Sc. in Speech-Language Pathology in 2000 from the University of Western Ontario (now Western University). My goal is to share new insights, both in my scientific and literary works.

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Years of experience

Awards & Distinctions

Latest Work

Latest Work

The Threshold

A newcomer to the literary scene, Lynne J Williams soars with The Threshold. See it in Resistance Poetry on Medium today.

Scientific Works

Scientific Works

Articles

Prenatal antidepressant exposure and sex differences in neonatal corpus callosum microstructure.

Campbell, K. S. J., Williams, L. J., Bjornson,B. H., Weik, E., Brain, U., Grunau, R. E., Miller, S. & Oberlander, T. F. Developmental Psychobiology 63 e22125 (2021)

Alterations in resting‑state networks following in utero selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor exposure in the neonatal brain.

Rotem‑Kohavi, N., Williams, L. J., Virji‑Babul, N., Bjornson, B. H., Brain, U., Werker, J. F., Grunau, R. E., Miller, S. P. & Oberlander, T. F. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging 4 (2019).

Hub distribution of the brain functional networks of newborns prenatally exposed to maternal depression and SSRI antidepressants.

Rotem‑Kohavi, N., Williams, L. J., Muller, A. M., Abdi, H., Virji‑Babul, N., Bjornson, B. H., Brain, U., Werker, J. F., Grunau, R. E., Miller, S. P. & Oberlander, T. F. Depression and Anxiety 36, 753–765 (2019).

The survey of autobiographical memory (SAM): A novel measure of trait mnemonics in everyday life.

Palombo, D. J., Williams, L. J., Abdi, H. & Levine, B. Cortex 49, 1526–1540. iSSN: 0010‑9452 (2013).

Learning, neural plasticity and sensitive periods: implications for language acquisition, music training and transfer across the lifespan.

White, E. J., Hutka, S. A., Williams, L. J. & Moreno, S. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 7. iSSN: 1662‑5137 (2013).

Multiple Subject Barycentric Discriminant Analysis (MUSUBADA): How to Assign Scans to Categories without Using Spatial Normalization.

Abdi, H., Williams, L. J., Connolly, A. C., Gobbini, M. I., Dunlop, J. P. & Haxby, J. V. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine 2012, 15 (2012).

STATIS and DISTATIS: optimum multitable principal component analysis and three way metric multidimensional scaling.

Abdi, H., Williams, L. J., Valentin, D. & Bennani‑Dosse, M. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics 4, 124–167. iSSN: 1939‑0068 (2012).

Effect of Age on Variability in the Production of Text‑Based Global Inferences.

Williams, L. J., Dunlop, J. P. & Abdi, H. PLoS ONE 7, e36161 (May 2012).

Partial Least Squares (PLS) methods for neuroimaging: A tutorial and review.

Krishnan, A., Williams, L. J., McIntosh, A. R. & Abdi, H. NeuroImage 56, 455–475. iSSN: 1053‑8119 (2011).

Principal component analysis.

Abdi, H. & Williams, L. J. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics 2, 433–459. iSSN: 1939‑0068 (2010).

Tutorial on Multi‑Block Discriminant Correspondence Analysis (MUDICA): A new method for analyzing discourse data from clinical populations.

Williams, L. J., Abdi, H., French, R. & Orange, J. B. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research 54, 1372–1393 (2010).

Toward holistic assessmnt of narrative quality: a social validation study.

Olness, G. S., Ulatowska, H. K., Carpenter, C., Williams, L. J. & Dykes, J. C. Aphasiology 19, 215–220 (2005).

Books

Exercises for Experimental Design and Analysis for Psychology.

Abdi, H., Williams, L. J., Edelman, B., Valentin, D. & Posamentier, M. (Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2010).

R Companion for Experimental Design and Analysis for Psychology.

Williams, L. J., Krishnan, A. & Abdi, H. (Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2009).

SAS Companion for Experimental Design and Analysis for Psychology.

Williams, L. J., Posamentier, M. T., Edelman, B. E. & Abdi, H. (Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2009).

Chapters and Collective Works

Barycentric Discriminant Analysis (BADA)

Abdi, H., Williams, L. J. & Béra, M. Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining, 2nd Edition (eds Alhajj, R. & Rokne, J.) (Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2018).

Partial Least Squares Methods: Partial Least Squares Correlation and Partial Least Squares Regression.

Abdi, H. & Williams, L. J.. In Brad Reisfeld and Arthur N. Mayeno (eds.), Methods in Molecular Biology: Computational Toxicology. Springer Verlag: Berlin, pp. 549–579, 2013

Barycentric discriminant analysis (BADIA).

Abdi, H. & Williams, L. J. In Neil J. Salkind (ed.), Encyclopedia of Research Design. Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 64–75, 2010

Contrast analysis.

Abdi, H. & Williams, L. J. In Neil J. Salkind (ed.), Encyclopedia of Research Design. Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 243–251, 2010

Coefficients of correlation, alienation, and determination.

Abdi, H. & Williams, L. J. In Neil J. Salkind (ed.), Encyclopedia of Research Design. Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 171–180, 2010

Correspondence analysis.

Abdi, H. & Williams, L. J. In Neil J. Salkind (ed.), Encyclopedia of Research Design. Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 267–278, 2010

Honestly significant difference (HSD) test.

Abdi, H. & Williams, L. J. In Neil J. Salkind (ed.), Encyclopedia of Research Design. Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 583–585, 2010

Jackknife.

Abdi, H. & Williams, L. J. In Neil J. Salkind (ed.), Encyclopedia of Research Design. Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 655–660, 2010

Fisher’s least significant difference (LSD) test.

Williams, L. J. & Abdi, H. In Neil J. Salkind (ed.), Encyclopedia of Research Design. Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 491–494, 2010

Matrix algebra.

Abdi, H. & Williams, L.J. In Neil J. Salkind (ed.), Encyclopedia of Research Design. Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 761–776, 2010

Newman-Keuls and Tukey test.

Abdi, H. & Williams, L. J. In Neil J. Salkind (ed.), Encyclopedia of Research Design. Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 897–904, 2010

Normalizing data.

Abdi, H. & Williams, L. J. In Neil J. Salkind (ed.), Encyclopedia of Research Design. Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 935–938, 2010

Post-hoc comparisons.

Abdi, H. & Williams, L.J. In Neil J. Salkind (ed.), Encyclopedia of Research Design. Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 1060–1067, 2010

Dementia and Conversation.

Orange, J. B. & Williams, L.J. In N. Louise Cummings (ed.), Pragmatics Encyclopedia. Routledge: pp. 105–108, 2010

Literary Works

Literary Works

Contact Me

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