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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Visual 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: Articles