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
