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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Line-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