Dr Constanze Hesse
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Dr Constanze Hesse
Dipl.-Psych, Dr. rer. nat., FHEA
Senior Lecturer
- About
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School of Psychology William Guild Building Room T11 Kings College Old Aberdeen AB24 3FX
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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- MSc Psychological Studies Programme Coordinator
- Member of the Education Committee
- Member of Marketing Team
- Elected Member of Senate
- External Memberships
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- Associate Editor: British Journal of Psychology (since 2017)
- 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
- Clinical neuropsychology
- Attention & Motor Control
- Multisensory Perception
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 4/5: Current Topics in Psychology
- Level 4: Neuropsychology of Vision & Action
Small Group teaching:
- Level 3: Perception Tutorials
- Level 3: Research practicals
- Publications
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Crossmodal 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: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2022.104782
Resource limitations in bimanual pointing
Human Movement Science, vol. 83, 102939Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.humov.2022.102939
Bimanual 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
Decision making in slow and rapid reaching: Sacrificing success to minimize effort
Cognition, vol. 205, 104426Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTemporal-order judgement task suggests chronological action representations in motor experts and non-experts
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 73, no. 11, pp. 1879-1890Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820936982
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/15247/2/Harrison_et_al_QJEP_TemporalOrderJudgement_AAM.pdf
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/15247/1/Harrison_et_al_QJEP_TemporalOrderJudgementTask_VoR.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Grasping and perception are both affected by irrelevant information and secondary tasks: New evidence from the Garner paradigm
Psychological Research, vol. 84, pp. 1269-1283Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-019-01151-z
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/13697/1/Loehr_Limpens_etal_2019_accepted.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Mendeley
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Fearing the wurst: Robust approach bias towards non-vegetarian food images in a sample of young female vegetarian eaters
Appetite, vol. 149, 104617Contributions to Journals: Articles