Contact Details

Telephone

work +44 (0)1224 273215

work +44 (0)1224 274241

Email

c.hesse@abdn.ac.uk

Address

The University of Aberdeen School of Psychology William Guild Building Room T11 Kings College Old Aberdeen AB24 3FX

Web Links

• ResearcherID
• Google Scholar

Research Interests

• Neuroscience of perception and action
• Reaching and Grasping
• Clinical neuropsychology
• Attention & Motor Control

Research Grants

• 2018-2021 Leverhulme Trust: Research Grant: "Handle with Care: Material Properties in Vision and Action Control" (PI; in collaboration with Prof Julie Harris)
• 2014-2016 Carnegie Trust: Larger Collaborative Grant: "Memory and motor performance: Studying human grasping movements" (PI; in collaboration with Dr Gavin Buckingham)
• 2013-2015 RS Macdonald Charitable Trust: 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): "Paralysed perception: Is the ventral stream involved in visuomotor control of hand movements"

Teaching Responsibilities

Lectures:

• Level 1: Methods (Research Ethics)
• Level 2: Methods and Applications (Measuring Movements, Brain stimulation techniques)
• Level 3: Methods (Research Ethics)
• Level 3/4: Music and the Brain
• Level 4: Neuropsychology of Vision & Action
• MRes, FCP, MsC: Research Ethics

Small Group teaching:

• Level 3: Perception Tutorials
• Level 3: Research practicals
• Level 4: Critical Reviews

External Responsibilities

• Associate Editor: British Journal of Psychology (since 2017)
• Peer-reviewer for the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland

Admin Responsibilities

• Undergraduate Theses Coordinator
• Head of Ethics Committee
• Member of Research Committee
• Member of Teaching and Learning Committee

Publications