The University of British Columbia

Core Area(s): Cognitive Science, Health

Research Interests
Cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging, attention and its impairment in clinical populations, mind wandering, and real-world human behavior.

Representative Publications
Handy, T. C., Smilek, D., Geiger, L., Liu, C., & Schooler, J. W. (in press). ERP evidence for rapid hedonic evaluation of logos. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Corbett, J. E., Handy, T. C., & Enns, J. T. (in press). When do we know which way is up? The time course of orientation perception. Vision Research.

Liu-Ambrose, T. Y. L., Nagamatsu, L, Leghari, M. A., & Handy, T. C. (in press). Does impaired cerebellar function contribute to risk of falls in seniors? A pilot study using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Journal of the American Geriatric Society.

Tipper, C. M., Handy, T.C., Giesbrect, B., & Kingstone, A. (2008). Brain responses to biological relevance. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 879-891.

Smallwood, J., Beach, E., Schooler, J. W., & Handy, T. C. (2008). Going AWOL in the brain: Mind wandering reduces cortical analysis of external events. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 458-469.

Handy, T. C., Tipper, C. M., Schaich Borg, J., Grafton, S. T., & Gazzaniga, M. S. (2006). Motor experience with graspable objects reduces their implicit analysis in visual and motor-related cortex. Brain Research, 1097, 156-166.