Professor Iain Gilchrist
B.Sc.(Dunelm.), Ph.D.(Birm.)
Expertise
Current positions
Head of School
School of Psychological ScienceProfessor of Neuropsychology
School of Psychological Science
Contact
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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 grantsGLANCE: 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 grantsMaking 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
Positions
University of Bristol positions
Head of School
School of Psychological ScienceProfessor of Neuropsychology
School of Psychological Science
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
GLANCE: GLAnceable Nuances for Contextual Events
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Principal Investigator
Description
This project will develop and validate exciting novel ways in which people can interact with the world via cognitive wearables -intelligent on-body computing systems that aim to understand the user,…Managing organisational unit
Department of Computer ScienceDates
01/04/2016 to 01/04/2020
Machine learning for intensive care decision support
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Developing bespoke clinical decision support software for intensive care discharge using machine learning.Managing organisational unit
Department of Engineering MathematicsDates
01/10/2018 to 31/12/2019
SPHERE (EPSRC IRC)
Principal Investigator
Role
Principal Investigator
Description
SPHERE : An EPSRC Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC).
This project aims to develop a platform of sensors to be deployed in people's homes to monitor the health and wellbeing
SPHERE is…Managing organisational unit
Department of Electrical & Electronic EngineeringDates
01/10/2013 to 30/09/2018
Making decisions in an unstable world
Principal Investigator
Description
Decision-making is a central human capacity and a vital component of complex artificial systems. Decisions often need to be made when the environment is changing, where information is limited or…Managing organisational unit
School of Psychological ScienceDates
01/10/2011 to 29/02/2016
The neural basis of response time variability
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Psychological ScienceDates
01/10/2010 to 01/04/2014
Thesis supervisions
The effect of probability and reward on saccadic and manual responses
Supervisors
Neural Network Activity during Visuomotor Adaptation
Supervisors
A preclinical and clinical investigation into quantitative magnetic resonance imaging as a tool for estimating onset time in hyperacute ischaemic stroke
Supervisors
Affect and Decision Making
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
12/03/2021Target processing in overt serial visual search involves the dorsal attention network: A fixation-based event-related fMRI study
Neuropsychologica
Dissecting the links between reward and loss, decision-making, and self-reported affect using a computational approach
PLoS Computational Biology
Pre-movement changes in sensorimotor beta oscillations predict motor adaptation drive
Scientific Reports
Experimental Analysis of a Spatialised Audio Interface for People with Visual Impairments
Proactive and reactive control mechanisms in navigational search
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
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