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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Spearman Medal, British Psychological Society

Overview

Tom Manly is affiliated with the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields including Medicine, Neuroscience, and Psychology, with a focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Epidemiology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Genetics.

Their scholarly work covers a range of main topics such as Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Traumatic Brain Injury Research, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment, Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Meningioma and Schwannoma Management, and Cancer-related Cognitive Impairment Studies.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Tom Manly are:

  • A generative network model of neurodevelopmental diversity in structural brain organization (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Mood, Activity Participation, and Leisure Engagement Satisfaction (MAPLES): a randomised controlled pilot feasibility trial for low mood in acquired brain injury (2020, Pilot and Feasibility Studies)
  • Glioblastoma surgery related emotion recognition deficits are associated with right cerebral hemisphere tract changes (2020, Brain Communications)
  • Mapping neurodevelopmental diversity in executive function (2024, Cortex)
  • A randomized control trial of the effects of home-based online attention training and working memory training on cognition and everyday function in a community stroke sample (2021, Neuropsychological Rehabilitation)

Their most frequent co-authors include:

  • Fionnuala C. Murphy (10 publications)
  • Polly V. Peers (10 publications)
  • Andrea Kusec (6 publications)
  • Peter Watson (6 publications)
  • Andrew Bateman (5 publications)

Tom Manly has published multiple papers in venues such as Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Research Square (Research Square), Nature Communications, and Pilot and Feasibility Studies.

In their scientific career, Tom Manly has focused on topics that intersect clinical and cognitive neuroscience, including brain injury rehabilitation, neurodevelopmental diversity, and cancer-related cognitive issues. Their work contributes to the understanding of brain organization, executive functioning, and cognitive recovery processes.

Tom Manly was awarded the Spearman Medal by the British Psychological Society in 2008.

Best Publications

  • 'Oops!': performance correlates of everyday attentional failures in traumatic brain injured and normal subjects

    Ian H Robertson;Tom Manly;Jackie Andrade;Bart T Baddeley

  • The differential assessment of children's attention: The Test of Everyday Attention for Children (TEA-Ch), normative sample and ADHD performance.

    Tom Manly;Vicki Anderson;Ian Nimmo-Smith;Anna Turner

  • The absent mind: further investigations of sustained attention to response.

    Tom Manly;Ian H Robertson;Maria Galloway;Kari Hawkins

  • Facial expression recognition across the adult life span.

    Andrew J Calder;Jill Keane;Tom Manly;Reiner Sprengelmeyer

  • Rehabilitation of executive function: facilitation of effective goal management on complex tasks using periodic auditory alerts.

    Tom Manly;Kari Hawkins;Kari Hawkins;Jon Evans;Karina Woldt

  • Rehabilitation of executive functioning in patients with frontal lobe brain damage with goal management training.

    Brian Levine;Tom A. Schweizer;Tom A. Schweizer;Charlene O'Connor;Gary Turner;Gary Turner

  • Auditory sustained attention is a marker of unilateral spatial neglect

    Ian H Robertson;Tom Manly;Nicoletta Beschin;Roberta Daini

  • Association of the dopamine transporter (DAT1) 10/10-repeat genotype with ADHD symptoms and response inhibition in a general population sample

    K M Cornish;T Manly;R Savage;J Swanson

  • Rehabilitation of executive dysfunction following brain injury: "content-free" cueing improves everyday prospective memory performance.

    Jessica Fish;Jonathan J. Evans;Morag Nimmo;Emma Martin

  • Rightward shift in spatial awareness with declining alertness.

    Tom Manly;Veronika B. Dobler;Christopher M. Dodds;Melanie A. George

  • Mental imagery as a "motivational amplifier" to promote activities.

    Fritz Renner;Fritz Renner;Fionnuala C. Murphy;Julie L. Ji;Tom Manly

  • Enhancing the Sensitivity of a Sustained Attention Task to Frontal Damage: Convergent Clinical and Functional Imaging Evidence

    Tom Manly;Adrian M. Owen;Laura McAvinue;Avijit Datta

  • Musicians and non-musicians are equally adept at perceiving masked speech

    Dana Boebinger;Samuel Evans;Stuart Rosen;César F. Lima

  • The emerging fragile X premutation phenotype: evidence from the domain of social cognition.

    Kim Cornish;Cary Kogan;Jeremy Turk;Tom Manly

  • Cognitive processes in children's reading and attention: The role of working memory, divided attention, and response inhibition

    Robert Savage;Kim Cornish;Tom Manly;Chris Hollis

  • The assessment and rehabilitation of prospective memory problems in people with neurological disorders: A review

    Jessica Fish;Barbara A Wilson;Tom Manly

  • Coffee in the cornflakes: time-of-day as a modulator of executive response control.

    Tom Manly;Geraint H. Lewis;Ian H. Robertson;Peter C. Watson

  • Effects of modafinil and methylphenidate on visual attention capacity: a TVA-based study

    Kathrin Finke;Chris M. Dodds;Chris M. Dodds;Peter Bublak;Ralf Regenthal

  • Attentional skills following traumatic brain injury in childhood: a componential analysis

    Vicki Anderson;Trudy Fenwick;Tom Manly;Ian Robertson

  • 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

    Jessica Fish;Tom Manly;Hazel Emslie;Jonathan J Evans

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian H. Robertson
Ian H. Robertson Trinity College Dublin
Sophie K. Scott
Sophie K. Scott University College London
Jonathan Evans
Jonathan Evans University of Glasgow
Barbara A. Wilson
Barbara A. Wilson St George's, University of London
Narinder Kapur
Narinder Kapur University College London
Peter Watson
Peter Watson University of Cambridge
Kim Cornish
Kim Cornish Monash University
Adam Hampshire
Adam Hampshire Imperial College London
Emily A. Holmes
Emily A. Holmes Uppsala University
Vicki Anderson
Vicki Anderson Murdoch Children's Research Institute

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