Dr. Todd Handy and research team receive inaugural Wall Research Award
This funding supports scholarly programs that will generate meaningful solutions to major sustainability challenges in BC and around the world.
Nature versus urban: What we look at impacts how we think and walk
Dr. Todd Handy and collaborators studied the moment-to-moment impact of environment type on cognitive processing using gait or walking dynamics as measures.
UBC Psychology professors receive NSERC funding
Six psychology researchers were awarded funding to support their research discoveries.
New study investigates influence of Tylenol on mind wandering
The study, by Sumeet Mutti Jaswal and Dr. Todd Handy, claims that Tylenol can affect a person’s ability to concentrate.
The neuroscience of effective studying
Dr. Todd Handy is a professor in the Department of Psychology who specializes in cognitive neuroscience. He’s also the kind of prof you’d like to have a coffee with. We discussed how the “savvy student”, in his terms, can use neuroscience research to optimize their academic performance. According to Dr. Handy, “Bringing neuroscience into learning has really expanded […]
September Lab of the Month: Dr. Todd Handy's Attentional Neuroscience Lab
A place of collaboration, comfort and contribution Up on the third floor of UBC Psychology’s Kenny building, Dr. Todd Handy sits in a big computer chair on wheels in the middle of his main lab room, enthusiastically tossing ideas back-and-forth with Ph.D. students Jennifer Yip and Simon Ho and senior undergraduate student Kyle Gooderham. The four […]
‘Chemo brain’ is real: New study co-authored by UBC Psychology and UBC Medicine scientists
UBC research shows that chemotherapy can lead to excessive mind wandering and an inability to concentrate. Dubbed ‘chemo-brain,’ the negative cognitive effects of the cancer treatment have long been suspected, but the UBC study is the first to explain why patients have difficulty paying attention. Breast cancer survivors were asked to complete a set of […]