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Professor Constanze Hesse

Professor Constanze Hesse
Professor Constanze Hesse
Professor Constanze Hesse

Dipl.-Psych, Dr. rer. nat., FHEA

Personal Chair

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Email Address
c.hesse@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 273215
Office Address
S16 William Guild Building
Old Aberdeen Campus
110 St. Machar Drive
AB24 2UB

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School/Department
School of Psychology



Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships
  • Elected Member of Senate
  • Course Coordinator for PS4050
External Memberships
  • 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

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 , published under the 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

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

    Utz, K. S., Hesse, C., Hintz, A., Grüneberger, D., Kulke, H., Roth, I., Klos, T., Kromichal, V., Melms, A., Schupp, W., Khol, D., Schenk, T.
    Cortex, vol. 98, pp. 114-127
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  • Violations of Weber's law tell us more about methodological challenges in sensorimotor research than about the neural correlates of visual behaviour

    Schenk, T., Utz, K. S., Hesse, C.
    Vision Research, vol. 140, pp. 140-143
    Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates
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  • Increased cognitive demands boost the spatial interference effect in bimanual pointing

    Stanciu, I., Biehl, S. C., Hesse, C.
    Psychological Research, vol. 81, no. 3, pp. 582–595
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  • Do visual illusions affect grasping? Considerable progress in a scientific debate

    Kopiske, K. K., Bruno, N., Hesse, C., Schenk, T., Franz, V. H.
    Cortex, vol. 88, pp. 210–215
    Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates
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  • Keeping Safe: Intra-individual Consistency in Obstacle Avoidance Behaviour Across Grasping and Locomotion Tasks

    Kangur, K., Billino, J., Hesse, C.
    i-Perception, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 1-10
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Visual information about object size and object position are retained differently in the visual brain: Evidence from grasping studies

    Hesse, C., Miller, L., Buckingham, G.
    Neuropsychologia, vol. 91, pp. 531-543
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  • The functional subdivision of the visual brain: Is there a real illusion effect on action? A multi-lab replication study

    Kopiske, K. K., Bruno, N., Hesse, C., Schenk, T., Franz, V. H.
    Cortex, vol. 79, pp. 130-152
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  • Pointing and antipointing in Müller-Lyer figures: Why illusion effects need to be scaled

    Hesse, C., Franz, V. H., Schenk, T.
    Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 90-102
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  • The effect of gaze position on reaching movements in an obstacle avoidance task

    Ross, A. I., Schenk, T., Hesse, C.
    PloS ONE, vol. 10, no. 12, e0144193
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  • Biomechanical factors may explain why grasping violates Weber's law

    Utz, K. S., Hesse, C., Aschenneller, N., Schenk, T.
    Vision Research, vol. 111, no. Part A, pp. 22-30
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  • Line-bisectioning and obstacle avoidance: evidence for separate strategies

    Ross, A. I., Schenk, T., Hesse, C.
    Acta Psychologica, vol. 151, pp. 74-82
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  • Delayed action does not always require the ventral stream: A study on a patient with visual form agnosia

    Hesse, C., Schenk, T.
    Cortex, vol. 54, pp. 77-91
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  • Pointing in visual periphery: is DF’s dorsal stream intact?

    Hesse, C., Ball, K., Schenk, T.
    PloS ONE, vol. 9, no. 3, e91420
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  • Why do the eyes prefer the index finger?: Simultaneous recording of eye and hand movements during precision grasping

    Cavina-Pratesi, C., Hesse, C.
    Journal of Vision, vol. 13, no. 5, 15
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  • Findings from the Garner-paradigm do not support the "how" versus "what" distinction in the visual brain

    Hesse, C., Schenk, T.
    Behavioural Brain Research, vol. 239, pp. 164-171
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  • Attention is needed for action control: Further evidence from grasping

    Hesse, C., Schenk, T., Deubel, H.
    Vision Research, vol. 71, pp. 37-43
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  • Pathways involved in human conscious vision contribute to obstacle-avoidance behaviour

    Hesse, C., Lane, A. R., Aimola, L., Schenk, T.
    European Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 2383–2390
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  • Contact points during mutidigit grasping of geometric objects

    Gilster, R., Hesse, C., Deubel, H.
    Experimental Brain Research, vol. 217, no. 1, pp. 137-151
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Visuomotor performance based on peripheral vision is impaired in visual form agnosic patient DF

    Hesse, C., Ball, K., Schenk, T.
    Neuropsychologia, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 90-97
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  • Efficient grasping requires attentional resources

    Hesse, C., Deubel, H.
    Vision Research, vol. 51, no. 11, pp. 1223-1231
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  • Letter posting and orientation matching: Two equivalent tasks in action and perception?

    Hesse, C., Franz, V. H., Schenk, T.
    Seeing and Perceiving, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 151-172
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  • Grasping remembered objects: exponential decay of visual memory

    Hesse, C., Franz, V. H.
    Vision Research, vol. 50, no. 24, pp. 2642-2650
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  • Advance planning in sequential pick-and-place tasks

    Hesse, C., Deubel, H.
    Journal of Neurophysiology, vol. 104, no. 1, pp. 508-516
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  • Bimanual movement control is moderated by fixation strategies

    Hesse, C., Deubel, H.
    Experimental Brain Research, vol. 202, no. 4, pp. 837-850
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  • Effects of altered transport paths and intermediate movement goals on human grasp kinematics

    Hesse, C., Deubel, H.
    Experimental Brain Research, vol. 201, no. 1, pp. 93-109
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