Dr Tom Manly University positionMRC Scientist Dr Tom Manly is pleased to consider applications from prospective PhD students. InstitutesMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit Home pagehttp://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/... Research ThemesInterestsOur research relates to understanding impairment and rehabilitation in attentional and executive function. Our work with stroke patients mainly focuses on spatial neglect and its relationship to executive/frontal impairment. Our work with patients with focal frontal or traumatic brain injuries focuses on executive impairment, planning/prospective memory failure etc and is again addressed both at improving our understanding of the basis of these difficulties and their remediation. We have also undertaken some research on children's attention and spatial function. Research Focus
EquipmentBehavioural analysis Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) Neuropsychological testing Collaborators
Associated News ItemsKey publicationsManly T, Dobler VB, Dodds CM, George MA (2005), “Rightward shift in spatial awareness with declining alertness” Neuropsychologia 43(12):1721-1728 Details Manly T, Hawkins K, Evans JJ, Woldt K, Robertson IH (2002), “Rehabilitation of Executive Function: Facilitation of effective goal management on complex tasks using periodic auditory alerts” Neuropsychologia 40(3):271-281 Manly T, Woldt K, Watson P, Warburton E (2002), “Is motor perseveration in unilateral neglect 'driven' by the presence of neglected left-sided stimuli?” Neuropsychologia 40(11):1794-1803 Publications2014Bareham CA, Manly T, Pustovaya OV, Scott SK, Bekinschtein TA (2014), “Losing the left side of the world: Rightward shift in human spatial attention with sleep onset.” Sci Rep 4:5092 Details Fish JE, Manly T, Kopelman MD, Morris RG (2014), “Errorless learning of prospective memory tasks: An experimental investigation in people with memory disorders.” Neuropsychol Rehabil :1-30 Details Manly T, Fish JE, Griffiths S, Molenveld M, Zhou FA, Davis GJ (2014), “Unconscious priming of task-switching generalizes to an untrained task.” PLoS One 9(2):e88416 Details 2013Kapur N, Cole J, Manly T, Viskontas I, Ninteman A, Hasher L, Pascual-Leone A (2013), “Positive clinical neuroscience: explorations in positive neurology.” Neuroscientist 19(4):354-69 Details McGettigan C, Eisner F, Agnew ZK, Manly T, Wisbey D, Scott SK (2013), “T'ain't what you say, it's the way that you say it--left insula and inferior frontal cortex work in interaction with superior temporal regions to control the performance of vocal impersonations.” J Cogn Neurosci 25(11):1875-86 Details Murphy F, Macpherson K, Jeyabalasingham T, Manly T, Dunn B (2013), “Modulating mind-wandering in dysphoria.” Front Psychol 4:888 Details Underbjerg M, George MS, Thorsen P, Kesmodel US, Mortensen EL, Manly T (2013), “Separable sustained and selective attention factors are apparent in 5-year-old children.” PLoS One 8(12):e82843 Details Urner M, Sarri M, Grahn J, Manly T, Rees G, Friston K (2013), “The role of prestimulus activity in visual extinction.” Neuropsychologia 51(8):1630-7 Details 2012Grahn JA, Manly T (2012), “Common neural recruitment across diverse sustained attention tasks.” PLoS One 7(11):e49556 Details Manly T, Murphy FC (2012), “Rehabilitation of executive function and social cognition impairments after brain injury.” Curr Opin Neurol 25(6):656-61 Details 2011Levine B, Schweizer TA, O'Connor C, Turner G, Gillingham S, Stuss DT, Manly T, Robertson IH (2011), “Rehabilitation of executive functioning in patients with frontal lobe brain damage with goal management training.” Front Hum Neurosci 5:9 Details 2010Finke K, Dodds CM, Bublak P, Regenthal R, Baumann F, Manly T, Müller U (2010), “Effects of modafinil and methylphenidate on visual attention capacity: a TVA-based study.” Psychopharmacology (Berl) 210(3):317-29 Details Fish J, Wilson BA, Manly T (2010), “The assessment and rehabilitation of prospective memory problems in people with neurological disorders: a review.” Neuropsychol Rehabil 20(2):161-79 Details Sweeney S, Kersel D, Morris RG, Manly T, Evans JJ (2010), “The sensitivity of a virtual reality task to planning and prospective memory impairments: group differences and the efficacy of periodic alerts on performance.” Neuropsychol Rehabil 20(2):239-63 Details 2009Dodds C, Müller U, Manly T (2009), “Effects of psychostimulants on alertness and spatial bias in healthy participants.” J Cogn Neurosci 21(3):529-37 Details Manly T, Dove A, Blows S, George M, Noonan MP, Teasdale TW, Dodds CM, Fish J, Warburton E (2009), “Assessment of unilateral spatial neglect: scoring star cancellation performance from video recordings--method, reliability, benefits, and normative data.” Neuropsychology 23(4):519-28 Details 2008Dodds CM, van Belle J, Peers PV, Dove A, Cusack R, Duncan J, Manly T (2008), “The effects of time-on-task and concurrent cognitive load on normal visuospatial bias.” Neuropsychology 22(4):545-52 Details Dove A, Manly T, Epstein R, Owen AM (2008), “The engagement of mid-ventrolateral prefrontal cortex and posterior brain regions in intentional cognitive activity.” Hum Brain Mapp 29(1):107-19 Details Fish J, Manly T, Emslie H, Evans JJ, Wilson BA (2008), “Compensatory strategies for acquired disorders of memory and planning: differential effects of a paging system for patients with brain injury of traumatic versus cerebrovascular aetiology.” J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 79(8):930-5 Details Fish J, Manly T, Wilson BA (2008), “Long-term compensatory treatment of organizational deficits in a patient with bilateral frontal lobe damage.” J Int Neuropsychol Soc 14(1):154-63 Details George MS, Mercer JS, Walker R, Manly T (2008), “A demonstration of endogenous modulation of unilateral spatial neglect: the impact of apparent time-pressure on spatial bias.” J Int Neuropsychol Soc 14(1):33-41 Details Schweizer TA, Levine B, Rewilak D, O'Connor C, Turner G, Alexander MP, Cusimano M, Manly T, Robertson IH, Stuss DT (2008), “Rehabilitation of executive functioning after focal damage to the cerebellum.” Neurorehabil Neural Repair 22(1):72-7 Details 2007Datta A, Cusack R, Hawkins K, Heutink J, Rorden C, Robertson IH, Manly T (2007), “The p300 as a marker of waning attention and error propensity.” Comput Intell Neurosci :93968 Details Fish J, Evans JJ, Nimmo M, Martin E, Kersel D, Bateman A, Wilson BA, Manly T (2007), “Rehabilitation of executive dysfunction following brain injury: "content-free" cueing improves everyday prospective memory performance.” Neuropsychologia 45(6):1318-30 Details 2006Savage R, Cornish K, Manly T, Hollis C (2006), “Cognitive processes in children's reading and attention: the role of working memory, divided attention, and response inhibition.” Br J Psychol 97(Pt 3):365-85 Details 2005Cornish K, Kogan C, Turk J, Manly T, James N, Mills A, Dalton A (2005), “The emerging fragile X premutation phenotype: evidence from the domain of social cognition.” Brain Cogn 57(1):53-60 Details Cornish KM, Manly T, Savage R, Swanson J, Morisano D, Butler N, Grant C, Cross G, Bentley L, Hollis CP (2005), “Association of the dopamine transporter (DAT1) 10/10-repeat genotype with ADHD symptoms and response inhibition in a general population sample.” Mol Psychiatry 10(7):686-98 Details Dobler VB, Anker S, Gilmore J, Robertson IH, Atkinson J, Manly T (2005), “Asymmetric deterioration of spatial awareness with diminishing levels of alertness in normal children and children with ADHD.” J Child Psychol Psychiatry 46(11):1230-48 Details George M, Dobler V, Nicholls E, Manly T (2005), “Spatial awareness, alertness, and ADHD: the re-emergence of unilateral neglect with time-on-task.” Brain Cogn 57(3):264-75 Details Manly T (2005), “Is there any value in the differential assessment of attention?” Br J Dev Psychol 23(4):507-12 Details Manly T, Cornish K, Grant C, Dobler V, Hollis C (2005), “Examining the relationship between rightward visuo-spatial bias and poor attention within the normal child population using a brief screening task.” J Child Psychol Psychiatry 46(12):1337-44 Details 2004O'Connor C, Manly T, Robertson IH, Hevenor SJ, Levine B (2004), “An fMRI of sustained attention with endogenous and exogenous engagement.” Brain Cogn 54(2):133-5 Details 2003Calder AJ, Keane J, Manly T, Sprengelmeyer R, Scott S, Nimmo-Smith I, Young AW (2003), “Facial expression recognition across the adult life span.” Neuropsychologia 41(2):195-202 Details Dobler VB, Manly T, Verity C, Woolrych J, Robertson IH (2003), “Modulation of spatial attention in a child with developmental unilateral neglect.” Dev Med Child Neurol 45(4):282-8 Details Ho AK, Manly T, Nestor PJ, Sahakian BJ, Bak TH, Robbins TW, Rosser AE, Barker RA (2003), “A case of unilateral neglect in Huntington's disease.” Neurocase 9(3):261-73 Details Manly T, Owen AM, McAvinue L, Datta A, Lewis GH, Scott SK, Rorden C, Pickard J, Robertson IH (2003), “Enhancing the sensitivity of a sustained attention task to frontal damage: convergent clinical and functional imaging evidence.” Neurocase 9(4):340-9 Details 2002Chan RC, Manly T (2002), “The application of "dysexecutive syndrome" measures across cultures: performance and checklist assessment in neurologically healthy and traumatically brain-injured Hong Kong Chinese volunteers.” J Int Neuropsychol Soc 8(6):771-80 Details Manly T, Hawkins K, Evans J, Woldt K, Robertson IH (2002), “Rehabilitation of executive function: facilitation of effective goal management on complex tasks using periodic auditory alerts.” Neuropsychologia 40(3):271-81 Details Manly T, Lewis GH, Robertson IH, Watson PC, Datta AK (2002), “Coffee in the cornflakes: time-of-day as a modulator of executive response control.” Neuropsychologia 40(1):1-6 Details Manly T, Woldt K, Watson P, Warburton E (2002), “Is motor perseveration in unilateral neglect 'driven' by the presence of neglected left-sided stimuli?” Neuropsychologia 40(11):1794-803 Details Owen AM, Menon DK, Johnsrude IS, Bor D, Scott SK, Manly T, Williams EJ, Mummery C, Pickard JD (2002), “Detecting residual cognitive function in persistent vegetative state.” Neurocase 8(5):394-403 Details 2001Dobler V, Manly T, Atkinson J, Wilson BA, Ioannou K, Robertson IH (2001), “Interaction of hand use and spatial selective attention in children.” Neuropsychologia 39(10):1055-64 Details Manly T, Anderson V, Nimmo-Smith I, Turner A, Watson P, Robertson IH (2001), “The differential assessment of children's attention: the Test of Everyday Attention for Children (TEA-Ch), normative sample and ADHD performance.” J Child Psychol Psychiatry 42(8):1065-81 Details 2000Wilson FC, Manly T, Coyle D, Robertson IH (2000), “The effect of contralesional limb activation training and sustained attention training for self-care programmes in unilateral spatial neglect.” Restor Neurol Neurosci 16(1):1-4 Details 1999Manly T, Robertson IH, Galloway M, Hawkins K (1999), “The absent mind: further investigations of sustained attention to response.” Neuropsychologia 37(6):661-70 Details 1998Anderson V, Fenwick T, Manly T, Robertson I (1998), “Attentional skills following traumatic brain injury in childhood: a componential analysis.” Brain Inj 12(11):937-49 Details 1997Robertson IH, Manly T, Andrade J, Baddeley BT, Yiend J (1997), “'Oops!': performance correlates of everyday attentional failures in traumatic brain injured and normal subjects.” Neuropsychologia 35(6):747-58 Details Robertson IH, Manly T, Beschin N, Daini R, Haeske-Dewick H, Hömberg V, Jehkonen M, Pizzamiglio G, Shiel A, Weber E (1997), “Auditory sustained attention is a marker of unilateral spatial neglect.” Neuropsychologia 35(12):1527-32 Details |