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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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
Fixation locations when grasping partly occluded objects
Journal of Vision, vol. 8, no. 7, 5Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1167/8.7.5
