The painkiller acetaminophen may hamper your ability to notice errors
It’s been known for more than a century that acetaminophen is an effective painkiller, but a new study shows it could also be impeding error-detection in the brain. The research, authored by a team including Dan Randles, a University of Toronto postdoctoral fellow, and Todd Handy and Steven Heine from the University of British Columbia, is […]
Lab of the Month Feature: 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 […]
Our research
Visual attention concerns the mental processes and how we shape visual information and prioritize its relevance for thinking and acting. Our lab seeks to understand these processes, how we use them in everyday life, and how they vary in different populations.