Lab Director
Todd C. Handy, PhD
Graduate Students
Alannah Wallace, BA, MA
PhD Student
Alannah studies the electrophysiology of the visual attention network and the use of behavioural strategies to optimize control of attention and/or compensate for stress on an executive system due to environmental and neurobiological factors.
Sumeet Mutti Jaswal, BSc, MA
PhD Candidate
Lab Manager
I am interested in researching human visual attention, with a specific interest in how we interact with the outside world, and our social sensitivity to other’s actions. Specifically, I study misokinesia (‘hatred of movements’) which is a psychological phenomenon currently absent from scientific research. I created the www.misokinesia.ca website to help raise awareness, and study misokinesia.
I love learning how to code! I taught myself MATLAB when I joined this lab about 5 years ago, and have now successfully completed the ‘Creating Experiments in PsychoPy’ workshop hosted by Open Science Tolls, which was a three (3) days of full-time intensive training in research methods and programming in PsychoPy, Python, and Pavlovia. I’m eager to see what more I can learn in the future!
Kyle Gooderham, BA, MA
His research focuses on how the acute effects of physical activity on cognitive functioning are translated to long-term neurocognitive benefits.
Jennifer Yip, BSc Hons, MA
Her research focuses on perceptual decoupling (i.e., whether we are engaged or disengaged from our environments) in mind wandering and other states in psychological disorders.