Dr Constanze Hesse

Research Overview

• Neuroscience of perception and action
• Reaching and Grasping in natural and virtual environments
• Clinical neuropsychology
• Attention & Motor Control
• Multisensory Perception

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 Responsibilities

Lectures:

• Level 3: Perception
• Level 4/5: Current Topics in Psychology
• Level 4: Neuropsychology of Vision & Action

Small Group teaching:

• Level 3: Perception Tutorials
• Level 3: Research practicals