Grace Truong
About
Dr. Grace Truong completed her PhD in Psychology from the University of British Columbia under the supervision of Dr. Todd Handy and is currently a UBC lecturer and affiliated researcher. Her research focuses on the attentional, perceptual, and memorial changes caused by self-relevance and mere ownership. Grace also collaborates with Dr. Sheila Woody (UBC Centre for Collaborative Research on Hoarding) and Dr. Wil Cunningham (University of Toronto).
Teaching
Research
Research interests include attention, self-relevance, ownership, cognitive psychology, scholarship of teaching and learning.
Publications
Roberts, K. H., Truong, G., Kingstone, A., & Todd, R. M. (Accepted). The blur of pleasure: Appetitively appealing stimuli decrease subjective perceptual acuity. Psychological Science.
Wispinski, N., Truong, G., Handy, T. C., & Chapman, C. S. (2017). Reaching decisions reveal that best-versus-rest processing contributes to the extreme-outcome rule. Acta Psychologica, 176, 32-38.
Truong, G., Roberts, K. H., & Todd, R. M. (2017). I saw mine first: A prior-entry effect for objects with newly acquired ownership. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43(1), 192.
Truong, G., & Todd, R. M. (2016). SOAP opera: Self as object and agent in prioritizing attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
Truong, G., Chapman, C. S., Chisholm, J. D., Enns, J. T., & Handy, T. C. (2015). Mine in motion: how physical actions impact the psychological sense of ownership. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42(3), 375-385.
Mickleborough, M. J. S., Chapman, C. M., Toma, A. S., Chan, J. H. M., Truong, G., & Handy, T. C. (2013). Interictal neurocognitive processing of visual stimuli in migraine: evidence from event-related potentials. PLoS ONE 8(11):
e80920. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0080920
Truong, G., Turk, D. J., & Handy, T. C. (2013). An unforgettable apple: memory and
attention for forbidden objects. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 13(4), 803-813
Hayward, J., Truong, G., Partanen, M., & Giaschi, D. (2011). Effects of speed, age, and amblyopia on the perception of motion-defined form. Vision Research, 51(20), 2216-2223.
Mickleborough, M. J. S., Truong, G., & Handy, T. C. (2011). Top-down control of visual cortex in migraine populations. Neuropsychologia, 49(5), 1006-1015.