Summary

Research interests

My research is focused on how humans gather information about their visual environment. Vision provides information so that we can interact with the world but that information is often not immediately available. As a result we have to sample the world to find the goal relevant information. This sampling involves a range of motor systems including eye, arm, head, and whole body movements and is a decision making process. One major focus of our work has been to understand how and why we move our eyes to sample the world, another is the mechanisms that support human foraging.

Current larger grants

GLANCE: GLAnceable Nuances for Contextual Events (2016-2020). EPSRC Awarded to Mayol-Cuevas, Gilchrist, Damen and Ludwig; £807,000

Vision for the Future (2015-2020) EPSRC Platform Grant, Awarded to Bull, Burn, Canagararjah, Cuthill, Gilchrist, Ludwig and Roberts, £1,363,000

Glucocorticoid dynamics in health and disease (2018-2023) MRC Awarded to Lightman, Harmer, Robinson, Conway-Campbell, Gilchrist and Rivers, £1,847,579

Recent larger grants

Making decisions in an unstable world (2011-2016).EPSRC, Awarded to Gilchrist, Baddeley, Bogacz, Farrell, Leslie, Ludwig & McNamara; £1,646,000

Sensor Platform for HEalthcare in a Residential Environment [SPHERE] (2013-2017). EPSRC, Awarded to Craddock, Tavare, Flach, Coyle, Campbell, Mirmehid, Munafo, Gilchrist and other; £11,683,000

Biography

I took my first degree in Psychology (BSc) at the University of Durham (1989-1992) and then studied for a PhD at the University of Birmingham (1992-1995). I then worked as a Research Associate at the University of Durham (1995-1998). I joined the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol as Lecturer in Neuropsychology in 1998, became Reader in 2002 and Professor in 2007.  I am also Co-Director of Bristol's Clincial Reseaarch and Imaging Centre (CRICBristol). I have been Head of School (2005-2008); Director of Bristol Neuroscience (2009-2011) and a BBSRC Research Fellow (2010-2014). 

I am a member of the: Experimental Psychology Society, Applied Vision Association and British Ocular Motor Group.  I am a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and an Associate Member of The Centre for Vision and Visual Cognition, University of Durham.

Teaching

I supervise a number of really bright and talented graduate students.

I teach a year 3 course on The Stable World Illusion. This course asks the question: how is it the we percieve a stable world when our eyes are constantly moving?

Keywords

• Active Vision
• Decision making
• Eye-movements
• Eye-tracker
• Neuropsychology
• Visual cognition
• Visual spatial neglect
• fMRI
• MEG
• Cognition

Expertise

I am interested in human visual perception and cognition. My research combines what we see, how we see and the process of looking.

Memberships

Organisations

School of Experimental Psychology

Other sites

• Neuroscience

Psychological Science staff

• Psychological Science academic staff

Research themes

• Cognitive Processes
• Decision-making and Rationality

Research groups

• Perception Group
• Decision-making in an Unstable World

Recent publications

• Crowe, E, Gilchrist, I & Kent, C, 2018, ‘New approaches to the analysis of eye movement behaviour across expertise while viewing brain MRIs’. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, vol 3.
• Darch, H, Cerminara, N, Gilchrist, I & Apps, R, 2018, ‘Non-invasive Stimulation of the Cerebellum in Health and Disease’. in: Libor Ustohal (eds) Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Neuropsychiatry. InTechPublication
• Schofield, AJ, Gilchrist, ID, Bloj, M, Leonardis, A & Bellotto, N, 2018, ‘Understanding images in biological and computer vision’. Interface Focus, vol 8.
• Dobson, B, Miles-Wilson, JJ, Gilchrist, I, Leslie, D & Wagener, T, 2018, ‘Effects of flood risk visualization format on house purchasing decisions’. Urban Water Journal.
• Clark, R & Gilchrist, ID, 2018, ‘The Relationship Between Reward and Probability: Evidence that Exploration may be Intrinsically Rewarding’. Visual Cognition.
• Hinde, S, Smith, T & Gilchrist, I, 2018, ‘Does Narrative drive Dynamic Attention to a Prolonged Stimulus?’.
• Turton, AJ, Angilley, J, Longley, V, Clatworthy, P & Gilchrist, ID, 2018, ‘Search training for people with visual field loss after stroke: A cohort study’. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, vol 81., pp. 255-265
• Korner, C, Hofler, M, Ischebeck, A & Gilchrist, I, 2018, ‘The consequence of a limited-capacity short-term memory on repeated visual search’. Visual Cognition.
• Gray, S, Campbell, S, Cater, K, Bevan, C & Gilchrist, I, 2018, ‘Designing Games for Vision Screening: Lessons Learned from Observing Preschool Video Game Play’., pp. 1-7
• Anantrasirichai, P, Daniels, K, Burn, J, Gilchrist, I & Bull, D, 2018, ‘Fixation Prediction and Visual Priority Maps for Biped Locomotion’. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, vol 48., pp. 2294-2306

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