Dr. Laurie Sykes Tottenham

Assistant Dean, Professor of Psychology
BA Hons. (University of Regina), PhD (University of Saskatchewan)

laurie.sykestottenham@uregina.ca
Phone: 306.586.4242 ext. 220 | Office: CM 303

Research Interests

• Neuropsychological basis of individual differences in cognitive, emotion, and motor functions, with emphasis on laterality.
• Current work examines whether pseudoneglect-related demographic and cultural factors predict collision biases.

Representative Publications

• Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?hl=en&user=7dgt4VEAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
• Grummisch, J.A, Sykes Tottenham, L., & Gordon, J.L. (2023). Within-person reproductive hormone changes and cognition in the menopause transition. Maturitas, 177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2023.107804
• Ethier, A., Sykes Tottenham, L., Singh, J., Neary, P.J., Piskorski, J., & Gordon, J.L. (2023). Menstrual cycle influences on cue-induced smoking cravings and heart rate variability. Behavioural Pharmacology, 34(5), 287-298.
• Price, H., Sykes Tottenham, L., Hatin, B., Fitzgerald, R., & Rubinova, E. (2022). Effects of stress on eyewitness identification in the laboratory. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 36(1), 191-202. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3910
• Sander, B., Muftah, A., Sykes Tottenham, L., Grummisch, J., & Gordon, J.L. (2021). Testosterone and depressive symptoms during the late menopause transition. Biology of Sex Differences, 12(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13293-021-00388-x
• Ethier, A., McKinney, T., Sykes Tottenham, L., & Gordon, J. (2021). The effect of reproductive hormones on women’s daily smoking across the menstrual cycle. Biology of Sex Differences, 12, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13293-021-00384-1
• Sauer, T., Sykes Tottenham, L., Ethier, A., & Gordon, J.L. (2020). Perimenopausal vasomotor symptoms and the cortisol awakening response: A brief report. Menopause, 27 (11), 1322-1327.
• Gordon, J.L., Sander, B., Eisenlohr-Moul, T.A., & Sykes Tottenham, L. (2020). Mood sensitivity to estradiol predicts depressive symptoms in the menopause transition. Psychological Medicine, 51, 1733-1741. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291720000483
• Gordon, J.L., Peltier, A., Grummisch, J., & Sykes Tottenham, L. (2019). Estradiol fluctuation, sensitivity to stress, and depressive symptoms in the menopause transition: A pilot study. Frontiers in Psychology (Clinical and Health Psychology), 10(1319), 1-10.
• Hatin, B., & Sykes Tottenham, L. (2016). The relationship between line bisection performance and emotion processing: Where do you draw the line? Laterality, 21,709-731.
• Hatin, B., & Sykes Tottenham, L. (2016). What’s in a line? Verbal, facial, and emotional influences on the line bisection task. Laterality, 21, 689-708.
• Hatin, B., Sykes Tottenham, L., & Oriet, C. (2012). The relationship between collisions and pseudoneglect: Is it right? Cortex, 48(8), 997-1008.
• Brand, J., Oriet, C., & Sykes Tottenham, L. (2012). Size and emotion averaging: Costs of dividing attention after all. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66(1), 63-69.
• Sykes Tottenham, L., Saucier, D., Elias, L., & Gutwin, C. (2005). Men are more accurate than women in aiming at targets in both near and extrapersonal space. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 101, 3-12.
• Sykes Tottenham, L., & Saucier, D. (2004). Throwing accuracy during prism adaptation: Male advantage for throwing accuracy is independent of prism adaptation rate. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 98, 1449-1455.
• Sykes Tottenham, L., Saucier, D., Elias, L., & Gutwin, C. (2003). Female advantage for spatial location memory in both static and dynamic environments. Brain and Cognition, 53(2), 381-383.