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.

For further details see: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2070-6679

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

• McSorley, E, Gilchrist, ID & McCloy, R, 2019, ‘The programming of sequences of saccades’. Experimental Brain Research.
• Clark, R, Blundell, J, Dunn, MJ, Erichsen, JT, Giardini, M, Gottlob, I, Harris, C, Lee, H, Mcilreavy, L, Olson, A, Self, J, Vinuela-Nav, V, Waddington, J, Woodhouse, J, Gilchrist, I & Williams, CEM, 2019, ‘The potential and value of objective eye tracking in the ophthalmology clinic’. Eye.
• Schofield, AJ, Gilchrist, ID, Bloj, M, Leonardis, A & Bellotto, N, 2018, ‘Understanding images in biological and computer vision’. Interface Focus, vol 8.
• McWilliams, C, Lawson, D, Santos-Rodriguez, R, Gilchrist, I, Champneys, A, Gould, T, Thomas, M & Bourdeaux, C, 2018, ‘Towards a decision support tool for intensive care discharge: machine learning algorithm development using electronic health care data from MIMIC-III and Bristol, UK’. BMJ Open.
• Clark, R & Gilchrist, ID, 2018, ‘The relationship between reward and probability: Evidence that exploration may be intrinsically rewarding’. Visual Cognition, vol 26., pp. 672-694
• Hinde, S, Smith, T & Gilchrist, I, 2018, ‘Does Narrative drive Dynamic Attention to a Prolonged Stimulus?’. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, vol 3.
• Jarvstad, A & Gilchrist, I, 2018, ‘Cognitive control of saccadic selection and inhibition from within the core cortical saccadic network’. Journal of Neuroscience.
• Tyrer, A, Gilbert, J, Adams, S, Bankole, A, Gilchrist, I & Moran, R, 2018, ‘NMDA Receptor Function during Mnemonic Processing in Patient’s with AD: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly’.
• 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
• 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.

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