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Cortical and subcortical contributions to the representation of temporal informationTodd C Handy
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
Neuropsychologia 41:1461-73. 2003....
ERP evidence for rapid hedonic evaluation of logosTodd C Handy
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4
J Cogn Neurosci 22:124-38. 2010..Taken together, our results provide direct electrophysiological evidence suggesting that we rapidly and implicitly evaluate commercial branding images at a hedonic level...
Attentional orienting to graspable objects: what triggers the response?Todd C Handy
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada
Neuroreport 18:941-4. 2007..Our ERP data, however, indicated that attention was drawn to the tool's location regardless of hemifield, suggesting that graspable objects can trigger attentional orienting via either an object or hand-specific motor representation...
Placing a tool in the spotlight: spatial attention modulates visuomotor responses in cortexTodd C Handy
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Neuroimage 26:266-76. 2005....
Attention and sensory gain control: a peripheral visual process?Todd C Handy
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
J Cogn Neurosci 17:1936-49. 2005....
Motor experience with graspable objects reduces their implicit analysis in visual- and motor-related cortexTodd C Handy
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4
Brain Res 1097:156-66. 2006..Taken together, these data support the proposal that repeated real-world motor experience with an object category may lead to reduced implicit analysis in both motor- and visual-related regions of cortex...
Age-related changes in the attentional control of visual cortex: a selective problem in the left visual hemifieldLindsay S Nagamatsu
Department of Psychology, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Neuropsychologia 49:1670-8. 2011....
Slow fluctuations in attentional control of sensory cortexJulia W Y Kam
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
J Cogn Neurosci 23:460-70. 2011..Collectively, our findings suggest that sensory gain control in cortex is yoked to the natural ebb and flow in how much attention we pay to the current task over time...
Reflexive attentional orienting in migraineurs: The behavioral implications of hyperexcitable visual cortexMarla J S Mickleborough
University of British Columbia, Canada
Cephalalgia 31:1642-51. 2011..The goal of our study was to examine the behavioral impact of this visuocortical hyperexcitability, in terms of its effect on reflexive visual attentional orienting...
Are impairments in visual-spatial attention a critical factor for increased falls risk in seniors? An event-related potential studyLindsay S Nagamatsu
Department of Psychology, The University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4 Canada
Neuropsychologia 47:2749-55. 2009..Our findings thus suggest that fallers have specific deficits in visuocortical systems associated with attentional enhancement of events on the left side of visual space...
Top-down control of visual cortex in migraine populationsMarla J S Mickleborough
Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Neuropsychologia 49:1006-15. 2011....
Bootstrap analysis of the single subject with event related potentialsIpek Oruc
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Cogn Neuropsychol 28:322-37. 2011....
Functional neural correlates of reduced physiological falls riskLindsay S Nagamatsu
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, Canada
Behav Brain Funct 7:37. 2011..If these are related, it would suggest that the development of interventions targeted at improving executive neurocognitive function would be an effective new approach for reducing physiological falls risk in seniors...
Increased cognitive load leads to impaired mobility decisions in seniors at risk for fallsLindsay S Nagamatsu
Department of Psychology, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4 Canada
Psychol Aging 26:253-9. 2011..We conclude that poor mobility judgments during a dual-task leads to unsafe mobility for those at-risk for falls...
Event-related potential evidence for a dual-locus model of global/local processingKirsten A Dalrymple
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Cogn Neuropsychol 26:456-70. 2009....
The anatomic basis of the right face-selective N170 IN acquired prosopagnosia: a combined ERP/fMRI studyKirsten A Dalrymple
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Neuropsychologia 49:2553-63. 2011..We conclude that the face-selective N170 in prosopagnosia requires residual function of at least two components of the core face-processing network...
Interhemispheric enhancement of somatosensory cortical excitability through contralateral repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulationSean K Meehan
Department of Physical Therapy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Clin Neurophysiol 122:1637-44. 2011..Somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) were used to index somatosensory-somatosensory interhemispheric interactions and highlight potential mechanisms by which TMS alters contralateral somatosensory cortex excitability...
Mind wandering and motor control: off-task thinking disrupts the online adjustment of behaviorJulia W Y Kam
Attentional Neuroscience Lab, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada
Front Hum Neurosci 6:329. 2012..Our findings suggest that the functional consequences of mind wandering are not limited to just the processing of incoming stimulation per se, but extend as well to the control and adjustment of behavior...
Resistance training and functional plasticity of the aging brain: a 12-month randomized controlled trialTeresa Liu-Ambrose
The Brain Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Neurobiol Aging 33:1690-8. 2012....
Observational practice benefits are limited to perceptual improvements in the acquisition of a novel coordination skillDana Maslovat
School of Human Kinetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Exp Brain Res 204:119-30. 2010..These results are discussed in terms of cognitive mediation models of motor skill learning...
Neural systems mediating field and observer memoriesEric Eich
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Neuropsychologia 47:2239-51. 2009..Rather, there is also a significant reduction in one's cortical representations of the physical, embodied self when a third-person--or disembodied--perspective is taken at retrieval...
Increasing the effect size in event-related fMRI studiesMartin J McKeown
Pacific Parkinson's Research Centre, University of British Columbia, University Hospital, Vancouver
IEEE Eng Med Biol Mag 25:91-101. 2006
The association between cognitive function and white matter lesion location in older adults: a systematic reviewNiousha Bolandzadeh
Department of Physical Therapy, University of British Columbia, 212 2177 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada
BMC Neurol 12:126. 2012..abstract:..
Resistance training and executive functions: a 12-month randomized controlled trialTeresa Liu-Ambrose
BrainResearch Centre, Centre for Hip Health and Mobility, Vancouver Coastal Research Institute, Department of Physical Therapy, University of British Columbia 357 2647 Willow St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3P1, Canada
Arch Intern Med 170:170-8. 2010..We compared the effect of once-weekly and twice-weekly resistance training with that of twice-weekly balance and tone exercise training on the performance of executive cognitive functions in senior women...
Brain responses to biological relevanceChristine M Tipper
University of British Columbia
J Cogn Neurosci 20:879-91. 2008....
Going AWOL in the brain: mind wandering reduces cortical analysis of external eventsJonathan Smallwood
School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
J Cogn Neurosci 20:458-69. 2008..Our data suggest that when trying to engage attention in a sustained manner, the mind will naturally ebb and flow in the depth of cognitive analysis it applies to events in the external environment...
Graspable objects grab attention when the potential for action is recognizedTodd C Handy
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, 6162 Moore Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA
Nat Neurosci 6:421-7. 2003..Although it is widely accepted that visual sensory gain aids perception, our results suggest that it may also have consequences for object-directed actions...
From facial cue to dinner for two: the neural substrates of personal choiceDavid J Turk
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
Neuroimage 22:1281-90. 2004..The implications of these findings for current accounts of response selection and social-cognitive functioning are considered...
Hemispheric asymmetries in the parietal lobesMary K Colvin
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Adv Neurol 93:321-34. 2003
Extensive individual differences in brain activations associated with episodic retrieval are reliable over timeMichael B Miller
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara 93106, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 14:1200-14. 2002..We believe that individual analysis in conjunction with group analysis may be critical to fully understanding the relationship between retrieval processes and underlying brain regions...
Research Grants
- Spatial Attention in Visuomotor ProcessingTODD HANDY; Fiscal Year: 2005....
