About Tim
Ph.D. Human Biodynamics - McMaster University, 2002
M.Sc. Human Biodynamics - McMaster University, 1999
B.P.H.E. Physical and Health Education – University of Toronto, 1997
Planning and Control of Goal-directed Limb and Eye Movements
Selective Attention
Movement in Social Contexts
Perception of Nonhuman Animal Bodies and Actions
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Cognitive and Motor Disorders such as Down Syndrome and Autism
Wang, X. M., Nitsche, M., Resch, G., Mazalek, A., & Welsh, T. N. (2024) Mixed reality alters motor planning and control. Behavioral Brain Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2024.115373
Bek, J., Sabiston, C.M., Thibodeau, D., & Welsh, T.N. (2024). Gender-specific effects of self-objectification on visuomotor adaptation and learning. Body Image. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2024.101795
Pranjić, M., Leung, J., Tam, K. L., Polatajko, H., Welsh, T.N, Chau, T., & Thaut, M. (2024). Children with developmental coordination disorder display atypical interhemispheric connectivity during conscious and subconscious rhythmic auditory-motor synchronization. Scientific Reports, 14, 19954. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-69807-4
Wang, X. M., Southwick, D., Robinson, I., Nitsche, M., Resch, G., Mazalek, A., & Welsh, T. N. (2024). Prolonged exposure to mixed reality alters task performance in the unmediated environment. Scientific Reports, 14, 18938. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-69116-w
van der Wel, R.P.R.D., Prodanova, Y., Snyder, J., Welsh, T.N., & Böckler, A. (2024). Is emotion perception altered by gaze direction, gender appearance and gender identity of the perceived face? Emotions. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/emo0001406
Wang, X.M., Southwick, D., Robinson, I., Nitsche, M., Resch, G., Mazalek, A., & Welsh, T.N. (2024). The geometry of the vergence-accommodation conflict in mixed reality systems. Virtual Reality. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10055-024-00991-4
Pathak, A., Chang, J. S. K., Resch, G., Doucette, A., Yeboah, G., Welsh, T. N., … Mazalek, A. (2020). Thinking Through the Box: Evaluating a 3D Game to Engage Penetrative Thinking. Frontiers in Virtual Reality.
Welsh, T.N, Reid, C., Manson, G., Constable, M., Tremblay, L. (2020). Susceptibility to the fusion illusion is modulated during both action execution and action observation. Acta psychologica.
Cox, E., Sabiston, C., Karlinsky, A., Manzone, J., Neyedli, H., Welsh, T.N. (2020). The impact of athletic clothing style and body awareness on motor performance in women. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
Manzone, J., Taravati, S., Neyedli, H., Welsh, T.N. (2020). Choices in a key press decision-making task are more optimal after gaining both aiming and reward experience. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Chen, M., Karlinsky, A., Welsh, T.N. (2020). Hand, but not foot, cues generate increases in salience at the pointed-at location. Acta Psychologica.
Hommel, B., Chapman, C., Cisek, P., Neyedli, H., Song, J., Welsh, T.N. (2019). No one knows what attention is. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 81.
Yoxon, E., & Welsh, T. N. (2019). Rapid motor cortical plasticity can be induced by motor imagery training. Neuropsychologia, 134, 107206.
Are two better than one? Assessing the learning and motivational benefits of practicing in pairs. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Insight Grant Principal Applicant with 4 co-investigators (April Karlinsky, Nicola Hodges, Katherine Tamminen, Luc Tremblay)
Interconnected action execution-imagination-perception in adults with and without autism University of Manchester-University of Toronto Call for Joint Research Proposal. Co-Principal Applicant with Emma Gowen plus 2 co-investigators (April Karlinsky, Ellen Poliakoff)
The processing of nonhuman animal bodies and point of gaze Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Discovery Grant Primary Investigator.
Association for Psychological Science (APS)
Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sport Psychology (SCAPPS)
Down Syndrome Research Foundation
Psychonomic Society