Professor Constanze Hesse
Dipl.-Psych, Dr. rer. nat., FHEA
Personal Chair
- About
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- Email Address
- c.hesse@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 273215
- Office Address
- School/Department
- School of Psychology
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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- Elected Member of Senate
- Course Coordinator for PS4050
- External Memberships
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- Associate Editor: British Journal of Psychology (since 2017)
- Member of the Experimental Psychology Society (EPS)
- Peer-reviewer for the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
- Research
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Research Overview
- Neuroscience of perception and action
- Reaching and Grasping in natural and virtual environments
- Tactile and Haptic Perception
- Attention & Motor Control
- Multisensory Perception
- Clinical Neuropsychology
Research Specialisms
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Cognitive Psychology
- Neuroscience
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
Funding and Grants
- 2023-2026 Open-Research Area (ORA) (total funding ~£1m with £395,941 from ESRC to Aberdeen): "The need for unpleasant touch: Behavioural and physiological investigations into negative affective touch and how it can be used to shape interactions."
- 2021-2025 ESRC: Research Grant (£598,392): " Adventures in mirror world: Uncovering the cognitive and sensory basis for natural behaviour in virtual reality."
- 2018-2021 Leverhulme Trust: Research Grant (£200,344): "Handle with Care: Material Properties in Vision and Action Control" (PI; in collaboration with Prof Julie Harris)
- 2014-2016 Carnegie Trust: Larger Collaborative Grant (£39,752): "Memory and motor performance: Studying human grasping movements" (PI; in collaboration with Dr Gavin Buckingham)
- 2013-2015 RS Macdonald Charitable Trust (£17,950): funded project: "Residual visual-processing in hemianopia: The role of conscious vision in obstacle avoidance."
- 2009-2012 Postdoctoral research fellowship from the "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft" (DFG, ~€60,000): "Paralysed perception: Is the ventral stream involved in visuomotor control of hand movements"
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
Lectures:
- Level 3: Perception
- Level 4: Neuropsychology of Vision & Action
Small Group teaching:
- Level 3: Perception Tutorials
- Level 3: Research practicals
- Publications
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No evidence for top-down expertise effects on action perception in sprinters using static images
Neuropsychologia, vol. 202, 108945Contributions to Journals: ArticlesGrasping tiny objects
Psychological Research, vol. 88, no. 5, pp. 1678-1690Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe redundant target paradigm and its use as a blindsight-test: A meta-analytic study
Cortex, vol. 169, pp. 326-352Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAction Perception in Athletes: Expertise Facilitates Perceptual Discrimination
Perceptual and Motor Skills, vol. 130, no. 4, pp. 1472-1494Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCrossmodal texture perception is illumination dependent
Multisensory Research, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 75-91Contributions to Journals: ArticlesUnwrapped: Readiness-to-eat in food images affects cravings
Food Quality and Preference, vol. 105, 104782Contributions to Journals: ArticlesResource limitations in bimanual pointing
Human Movement Science, vol. 83, 102939Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBimanual Grasping adheres to Weber’s Law
i-Perception, vol. 16, no. 6Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCard posting does not rely on visual orientation: A challenge to past neuropsychological dissociations
Neuropsychologia, vol. 159, 107920Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPerceptual uncertainty and action consequences independently affect hand movements in a virtual environment
Scientific Reports, vol. 10, 22307Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] https://osf.io/vskxy/
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78378-z
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/15552/1/Giesel_etal_SR_Perceptual_uncertainty_VOR.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Decision making in slow and rapid reaching: Sacrificing success to minimize effort
Cognition, vol. 205, 104426Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTemporal-order judgement task suggests chronological action representations in motor experts and non-experts
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 73, no. 11, pp. 1879-1890Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820936982
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/15247/2/Harrison_et_al_QJEP_TemporalOrderJudgement_AAM.pdf
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/15247/1/Harrison_et_al_QJEP_TemporalOrderJudgementTask_VoR.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Grasping and perception are both affected by irrelevant information and secondary tasks: New evidence from the Garner paradigm
Psychological Research, vol. 84, pp. 1269-1283Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-019-01151-z
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/13697/1/Loehr_Limpens_etal_2019_accepted.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Mendeley
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Fearing the wurst: Robust approach bias towards non-vegetarian food images in a sample of young female vegetarian eaters
Appetite, vol. 149, 104617Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIndividual differences in processing resources modulate bimanual interference in pointing
Psychological Research, vol. 84, no. 2, pp. 440-453Contributions to Journals: ArticlesShared attention for action selection and action monitoring in goal-directed reaching
Psychological Research, vol. 84, pp. 313-326Contributions to Journals: ArticlesGrasping discriminates between object sizes less not more accurately than the perceptual system
Vision, vol. 3, no. 3, 36Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/vision3030036
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/12650/1/vision_03_00036.pdf
- [ONLINE] https://www.mdpi.com/2411-5150/3/3/36
- [ONLINE] View publication in Mendeley
Avoiding unseen obstacles: Subcortical vision is not sufficient to maintain normal obstacle avoidance behaviour during reaching
Cortex, vol. 98, pp. 177-193Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDo we have distinct systems for immediate and delayed actions? A selective review on the role of visual memory in action
Cortex, vol. 98, pp. 228-248Contributions to Journals: ArticlesOn the role of V1 in avoiding obstacles
Cortex, vol. 98, pp. 276-282Contributions to Journals: Comments and DebatesVisual feedback explains why propointing is better than antipointing in spatial neglect
Cortex, vol. 98, pp. 114-127Contributions to Journals: ArticlesViolations of Weber's law tell us more about methodological challenges in sensorimotor research than about the neural correlates of visual behaviour
Vision Research, vol. 140, pp. 140-143Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2017.05.017
Increased cognitive demands boost the spatial interference effect in bimanual pointing
Psychological Research, vol. 81, no. 3, pp. 582–595Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDo visual illusions affect grasping? Considerable progress in a scientific debate
Cortex, vol. 88, pp. 210–215Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2016.10.012
Keeping Safe: Intra-individual Consistency in Obstacle Avoidance Behaviour Across Grasping and Locomotion Tasks
i-Perception, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 1-10Contributions to Journals: ArticlesVisual information about object size and object position are retained differently in the visual brain: Evidence from grasping studies
Neuropsychologia, vol. 91, pp. 531-543Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe functional subdivision of the visual brain: Is there a real illusion effect on action? A multi-lab replication study
Cortex, vol. 79, pp. 130-152Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPointing and antipointing in Müller-Lyer figures: Why illusion effects need to be scaled
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 90-102Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe effect of gaze position on reaching movements in an obstacle avoidance task
PloS ONE, vol. 10, no. 12, e0144193Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBiomechanical factors may explain why grasping violates Weber's law
Vision Research, vol. 111, no. Part A, pp. 22-30Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLine-bisectioning and obstacle avoidance: evidence for separate strategies
Acta Psychologica, vol. 151, pp. 74-82Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.05.019
Delayed action does not always require the ventral stream: A study on a patient with visual form agnosia
Cortex, vol. 54, pp. 77-91Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPointing in visual periphery: is DF’s dorsal stream intact?
PloS ONE, vol. 9, no. 3, e91420Contributions to Journals: ArticlesWhy do the eyes prefer the index finger?: Simultaneous recording of eye and hand movements during precision grasping
Journal of Vision, vol. 13, no. 5, 15Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1167/13.5.15
Findings from the Garner-paradigm do not support the "how" versus "what" distinction in the visual brain
Behavioural Brain Research, vol. 239, pp. 164-171Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2012.11.007
Attention is needed for action control: Further evidence from grasping
Vision Research, vol. 71, pp. 37-43Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2012.08.014
Pathways involved in human conscious vision contribute to obstacle-avoidance behaviour
European Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 2383–2390Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08131.x
Contact points during mutidigit grasping of geometric objects
Experimental Brain Research, vol. 217, no. 1, pp. 137-151Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-011-2980-9
Visuomotor performance based on peripheral vision is impaired in visual form agnosic patient DF
Neuropsychologia, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 90-97Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.11.002
Efficient grasping requires attentional resources
Vision Research, vol. 51, no. 11, pp. 1223-1231Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2011.03.014
Letter posting and orientation matching: Two equivalent tasks in action and perception?
Seeing and Perceiving, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 151-172Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/187847511X570105
Grasping remembered objects: exponential decay of visual memory
Vision Research, vol. 50, no. 24, pp. 2642-2650Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2010.07.026
Advance planning in sequential pick-and-place tasks
Journal of Neurophysiology, vol. 104, no. 1, pp. 508-516Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBimanual movement control is moderated by fixation strategies
Experimental Brain Research, vol. 202, no. 4, pp. 837-850Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-010-2189-3
Effects of altered transport paths and intermediate movement goals on human grasp kinematics
Experimental Brain Research, vol. 201, no. 1, pp. 93-109Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-009-2070-4
Review of 'Sensorimotor control of grasping: physiology and pathophysiology' by D.A. Nowak and J. Hermsdoerfer (Eds.)
Perception, vol. 38, no. 11, pp. 1735-1736Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesChanges in grasping kinematics due to different startpostures of the hand
Human Movement Science, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 415-436Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.humov.2009.03.001
Corrective processes in grasping after perturbations of object size
Journal of Motor Behavior, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 253-273Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3200/JMBR.41.3.253-273
Memory mechanisms in grasping
Neuropsychologia, vol. 47, no. 6, pp. 1532-1545Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.08.012
Visual illusions, delayed grasping, and memory: no shift from dorsal to ventral control
Neuropsychologia, vol. 47, no. 6, pp. 1518-1531Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.08.029