BA, Psychology, University of New Mexico, 2001 Ph.D., Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 2006.
Research Description: My current research interests include network dynamics of motor planning and motor learning and top-down modulation of sensory systems.
Publications:
"Neonatal novelty exposure modulates hippocampal volumetric asymmetry in the rat" Timothy Verstynen, Robert Tierney, Tina Urbanski, and Akaysha Tang. NeuroReport 12(14), p. 3019-22 (2001). PDF
"Early life exposure to a novel environment modulates 'handedness' in rats" Akaysha C. Tang and Timothy Verstynen, Behavioural Brain Research 131, p. 1-7 (2002). PDF
"Anticipatory adjustments in the unloading task: Is an efference copy necessary for learning?"Joern Diedrichsen, Timothy Verstynen, Andrew Hon, Steven Lehman and Richard Ivry, Exp Brain Res 148: 272-276 (2003). PDF
"Ipsilateral motor cortex activity during unimanual hand movements relates to task complexity" Timothy Verstynen*, Joern Diedrichsen*, Neil Albert, Paul Aparicio, and Richard Ivry. J. Neurophysiol 93(3): 1209-22 (2005). *co-first authors PDF
"Cerebellar involvement in anticipating the consequences of self-produced actions during bimanual movement." Joern Diedrichsen, Timothy Verstynen, Steve Lehman, & Richard B. Ivry. J Neurophysiol 93(2): 801-12 (2005). PDF
"Two types of TMS-induced movement variability following stimulation of the primary motor cortex." Timothy Verstynen, Talia Konkle, & Richard B. Ivry. J Neurophysiol 96(3): 1018-29 (2006). PDF
"Coming Unbound: disrupting automatic integration of synesthetic color and graphemes by TMS of the right parietal lobe" Michael Esterman, Timothy Verstynen, Richard B. Ivry & Lynn C. Robertson J. Cog. Neuro. 18(9):1570-6 (2006). PDF
"Ipsilateral corticospinal projections do not predict congenital mirror movements: A case report." Timothy Verstynen, Rebecca Spencer, Cathy Stinear, Talia Konkle, Joern Diedrichsen, Winston Byblow & Richard B. Ivry. Neuropsychologia 45(4):844-852 (2007). PDF
"Attenuating illusory binding with TMS of the right parietal cortex" Michael Esterman, Timothy Verstynen & Lynn C. Robertson. NeuroImage 35(3):1247-1255 (2007). PDF
"Illusions of force perception are caused by cogntive attributions and sensorimotor predictions, but not motor errors." Joern Diedrichsen*, Timothy Verstynen*, Andrew Hon, Yi Zhang & Richard B. Ivry. J Neurophysiol. 97(5):3305-3313 (2007). *co-first authors PDF
"Cerebellar activation during discrete and not continuous timed movements: an fMRI study" Rebecca Spencer, Timothy Verstynen, Matthew Brett & Richard B. Ivry. NeuroImage 36: 378-387 (2007). Winner of the Editors' Choice Award for Systems Neuroscience 2007 PDF
"Distinguishing between frontal and parietal contributions in refreshing a single-thought" Brian Miller, Timothy Verstynen, Mark D'Esposito & Marcia Johnson. NeuroImage (in press).
"Different behavior and neural consequences of voluntary and involuntary spatial attention to faces" Michael Esterman, William Prinzmetal, Joe DeGutis, Ayelet Landau, Eliot Hazeltine, Timothy Verstynen, and Lynn Robertson. Neuropsychologia (in press).
"When two motor cortices are better than one: The suppression of involuntary mirror movements during unimanual actions" Timothy Verstynen and Richard B. Ivry (submitted).
