Timothy L. Hubbard, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology

I'm an experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and interdisciplinary scholar with expertise in spatial cognition, psychophysics, imagery, music cognition, and consciousness studies.

email: TimothyLeeHubbard@gmail.com
voice: 1-817-995-9355

I'm currently Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University. I previously taught at Grand Canyon University, Texas Christian University, University of Arizona, Eastern Oregon University, and Franklin & Marshall College.

Copies of selected scientific works can be found on the Research Publications page. Please follow any of the other links on this page or scroll down to find other professionally-related information.

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Available from
Cambridge University Press
and other booksellers.

Educational Background

Dartmouth College, Ph.D.
University of Denver, B.A. (summa cum laude)

Representative Recent Publications

Hubbard, T. L. (2025). Setting the scene for boundary extension: Methods, findings, connections, and theories. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 32, 97-138.

Hubbard, T. L. (2023). Immanence, transcendence, and cognition. Journal of Mind and Behavior, 44(1-2), 71-110.

Hubbard, T. L. (2022). The possibility of an impetus heuristic. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 29, 2015-2033.

Hubbard, T. L. (2020). Representational gravity: Empirical findings and theoretical implications. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 27(1), 36-55.

Hubbard, T. L. (2019). Momentum-like effects and the dynamics of perception, cognition, and action. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81, 2155-2170.

Hubbard, T. L. (2019). Neural mechanisms of musical imagery. In M. H. Thaut & D. A. Hodges (Eds.). The Oxford handbook of music and the brain (pp. 521-545). New York: Oxford University Press.

Hubbard, T. L. (Ed.). (2018). Spatial Biases in Perception and Cognition. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Hubbard, T. L. (2018). Some methodological and conceptual considerations in studies of auditory imagery. Auditory Perception & Cognition, 1, 6-41.

Hubbard, T. L. (2015). The varieties of momentum-like Experience. Psychological Bulletin, 141, 1081-1119.

Hubbard, T. L. (2014). The flash-lag effect and related mislocalizations: Findings, properties, and theories. Psychological Bulletin, 140, 308-338.

Current Editorial Positions

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics (Editorial Board)
Auditory Perception & Cognition (Associate Editor)
Cognition (Editorial Board)
Frontiers in Psychology (section Cognition) (Associate Editor)
Imagination, Cognition, and Personality (Editorial Board)
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (Editorial Board)
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance (Editorial Board)

Courses Previously Taught

Cognition (graduate)
Memory & Cognition (undergraduate)
Perception (graduate)
Sensation & Perception (graduate)
Consciousness Studies (undergraduate)
Psychology of Music (undergraduate)
Human Neuropsychology (undergraduate)
Lifespan Development (undergraduate)

Professional Memberships

American Indian Science and Engineering Society (Sequoyah Fellow)
Association for Psychological Science (Fellow)
Auditory Perception and Cognition Society
Institute of Noetic Science
International Society for Psychophysics
Phi Beta Kappa
Psychonomic Society (Fellow)
Society for Music Perception and Cognition
Union of Concerned Scientists
Vision Sciences Society