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Dr. Martin Fischer

Professor of Psychology

 

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Contact Details:
Telephone: (+44)(1382) 384612
Email: Martin Fischer

Postal Address:
School of Psychology
The University of Dundee
Dundee
DD1 4HN
Scotland, UK

 

Biography

After obtaining my first degree in Aachen/Germany I spent 5 years in Amherst/Massachusetts, working on motor control and reading research. Then I was at the University of Munich/Germany for 3 years before taking up the post here in Dundee in 1999.

 

 

Research Grouping

Language, Cognition and Perception

 

Research Interests

I study numerical cognition (in particular the "SNARC effect"), spatial memory in reading, joint attention (with posture cues and gaze cues), and various aspects of motor cognition (e.g., reachability estimation, perception-action coupling), including "embodied reading" (the idea that we must mentally simulate actions to comprehend words). I am also interested in design principles for user-friendly graphs and in computerized neuropsychological testing (line bisection, Corsi blocks). My various research interests are driven by the idea that there are spatially mediated links between perception and action.

A typical experimental set-up from one of my two labs is shown in this photograph. In addition to an EyeLink 1000 eye tracker, three touch screens and several PCs and laptops, I have an A3 WACOM digitizing tablet and a Polhemus FASTRAK for on-line kinematic recordings. Experiments are controlled with Superlab or E-Prime software.

Among others, I currently collaborate with these researchers:

with Prof. J. Adam (Maastricht, Netherlands) on visual perception and action
with Prof. J. Pratt (Toronto, Canada) on visual attention
with Professor H. C. Nuerk (Salzburg, Austria) on numerical cognition
with Prof. Rob Ellis and Prof. Angelo Cangelosi (both in Plymouth, UK) embodied cognition and robotics

I regularly supervise research internships from visiting students ("Forschungspraktikum") for periods of 6-10 weeks, and you are welcome to contact me for further details.

I am also interested in your finger counting habits. See: http://www.counting.cognitive-psychology.eu/welcome_en.html

I co-supervise the PhD students Lisa Mayberry and Gavin Revie and also work with the post-doc's Lisa Otty and Jens Apel.

I am co-organizing a workshop on Embodied Cognition

 

Funding

(i) Grants over £5,000

Fischer, M. H., Cuschieri, A., Keehner, M., & Tang, B. (5/2010): The imaging problem in surgery: Indirect perception by trained and trainee surgeons. EPSRC Doctoral Training Award. £24,000
Fischer, M. H. (7/2000): Estimates of reachability; Royal Society Equipment Grant, £8,920
Fischer, M.H. (2/2001): Investigating eye cues - Do naturalistic attention cues work? British Academy; £8,710
Fischer, M. H. (7/2001): Development of a visual memory aid; NCR Dundee; £9,500
Roberts, A., Stabler, J., & Fischer, M. H. (12/2001): The effects of poetic form and technique on cognition, aesthetic response and evaluation in reading poetry. Arts and Humanities Research Board: £50,715
Fischer, M. H. (11/2003): Interpersonal space and motor control. Nuffield Foundation; £5,400
Fischer, M. H. (5/2004): A place for space in reading. Part of a multi-center application to the European Union for a Research Training Network on "Language and Brain"; € 99,019.
Fischer, M. H. (12/2004): Psychophysical and neuroimaging studies of motor imagery for others. British Academy; £7,020.
Kennedy, A., Murray, W., & Fischer, M. H., (02/2006). Sources of linguistic control over eye movements. ESRC; £372.013.
Fischer, M. H. (6/2007): Measuring spatial representations in mental arithmetic. British Academy; £5,310.
Linnell, K. J., & Fischer, M. H. (7/2007): Attention and eye movement control in reading“. Leverhulme Trust; £69,178.
Fischer, M. H. (3/2008): Vision, action, and language unified by embodiment (VALUE); EPSRC/Cognitive Foresight; £301,000.
Roberts, A., Fischer, M.H., Modeen, M., Schaffner, A., & Weger, U. (11/2008). Poetry beyond text: Vision, text and cognition. AHRC: £439,520.



(ii) Grants up to £5,000 and Awards

Collaboration visit to Valencia, Spain. British Council, 3/2000, £300
Collaboration visit to Turku, Finland. Royal Society, 10/2000, £1,130
Collaboration visit to Boston, USA. Carnegie Trust, 11/2000, £350
Conference travel to Bressanone, Italy. Royal Society, 01/2001, £567
Funding for 4 UK-wide workshops on "Action in Perception". British Psychological Society, 2/2002; £3,000
Effect of cultural skills on number representations. Japanese Society for Promoting Science, 9/2002; £5,000
Motion perception and action. Vacation scholarship, Wellcome Trust, 05/2003; £1,240.
Ambiguity, meaning and poetic form. Arts & Social Science Faculty Interdisciplinary Research Fund, 04/2003; £2,000 (With L. Duncan, A. Roberts, M.N. Carminati, C. Scheepers, J. Stabler, & M. Wheeler, Dundee).
Conference travel to Granada, Spain. Royal Society, 07/2003, £760
Conference travel to Sarasota, Florida. Royal Society, 05/2005, £1,300
Collaboration visit to Toronto, Canada. Carnegie Trust, 06/2005, £810
Collaboration Visit to Beer Sheva/Israel. Academic Study Group, 02/2006, £300.
Conference travel to Sarasota, Florida. British Academy, 03/2006, £400
Funding for workshop on "Cultural effects on the mental number line". Experimental Psychology Society (£3,500) and European Society for Cognitive Psychology (€2,000)
Collaboration visit to Zurich, Switzerland for "The role of body representation in embodied cognition". Carnegie Trust, 10/2009: £800
Digital poetry and virtual reality. School of Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Fund (with A. M. Roberts, Dundee), 10/2009: £2,000
Development of spatial associations in counting. Research Bursary from the Experimental Psychology Society, 2008/2009: £2,000

 

 

Publications

 
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Publications
 

(i) Books
  Van Gompel, R.P.G., Fischer, M. H., Murray, W., & Hill, R. L. (2007): Eye movements: A window on mind and brain. Oxford: Elsevier. ISBN: 978-0-08-044980-7.
  Fischer, M. H., & Zwaan, R. A. (2008). Grounding cognition in perception and action. Hove: Psychology Press. ISBN: 978-1-84169-843-4.
  Wood, G., & Fischer, M. H. (2008). Numbers, space, and action. Elsevier: Masson. ISSN 0010-9452.
   
 

(i) Book Chapters
  Stabler, J., Fischer, M. H., Roberts, A. M., & Carminati, M. N. (2007). “What constitutes a reader?” Don Juan and the changing reception of romantic form. In A. Rawes (ed.), Romanticism and form (pp. 192-212). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  Van Gompel, R.P.G., Fischer, M. H., Murray, W., & Hill, R. L. (2007). Eye movement research: An overview of current and past developments. In Van Gompel, R.P.G., Fischer, M. H., Murray, W., & Hill, R. L. (eds.): Eye movements: A window on mind and brain (pp. 1-28). Oxford: Elsevier.
  Fias, W., & Fischer, M. H. (2005). Spatial representation of numbers. In J. I. D. Campbell (ed.), Handbook of mathematical cognition (pp. 43-54). New York: Psychology Press.
  Fischer, M. H., Stewart, C., & Wood, A. R. (2004). Influence de l’experience motrice sur la perception de l’etendue de l’espace d’action. In Y. Coello, S. Casalis, & C. Moroni (eds.), Vision, espace et cognition: Fonctionnement normal et pathologique (pp. 97-104). Lille: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion.
  Fischer, M. H., & Hecht, H. (2004). The event structure of motion perception. In Lucia M. Vaina, Scott A. Beardsley, & Simon Rushton (eds.), Optic Flow and beyond (pp. 139-156). Kluwer Academic Press.
  Fischer, M. H. (2000). Perceiving spatial attributes of print. In: A. Kennedy, R. Radach, D. Heller, & J. Pynte (Eds.), Reading as a perceptual process (pp. 89-117). North Holland: Elsevier.
  Pollatsek, A., Rayner, K., Fischer, M.H., & Reichle, E. D. (1999). Attention and eye movements in reading. In J. Everatt (Ed.), Reading and dyslexia: Visual and attentional processes (pp 179-209). London: Routledge
   
 

(iii) Refereed Journal Papers

  Lindemann, O., Alipour, A., & Fischer, M. H. (2011). Finger Counting Habits in Middle-Eastern and Western Individuals: An Online Survey. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (in press).
  Göbel, S. M., Shaki, S., & Fischer, M. H. (2011). The Cultural Number Line: A Review of Cultural and Linguistic Influences on the Development of Number Processing. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (in press).
  Bachmann, V., Landolt, H.-P., Fischer, M. H., & Brugger, P. (2010). Asymmetric prefrontal cortex functions predict asymmetries in number space in healthy adults. Brain and Cognition (in press).
  Fischer, M. H., & Mills, R. A., & Shaki, S. (2010). How to cook a SNARC: Number placement in text rapidly changes spatial-numerical associations. Brain and Cognition, 72, 333-336.
  Radulescu, P. V., Adam, J. J., Fischer, M. H., & Pratt, J. (2010). Fitts's Law Violation and motor imagery: Are imagined movements truthful or lawful? Experimental Brain Research, 201, 607-611.
  Adam, J., Müskens, R., Hoonhorst, S., Pratt, J., & Fischer, M. H. (2010). Left hand, but not right hand, reaching is sensitive to visual context. Experimental Brain Research 203, 227-232.
  Moeller, K., Fischer, M. H., Nuerk, H. C., & Willmes, K. (2009). Eye fixation behaviour in the number bisection task: Evidence for temporal specificity. Acta Psychologica, 131, 209-220.
  Bradi, A. C., Adam, J. J., Fischer, M. H., & Pratt, J. (2009). Modulating Fitts's Law: The effect of disappearing allocentric information. Experimental Brain Research, 194, 571-576.
  Fischer, M. H., & Shaki, S., (2009). It takes only one word to quash the SNARC. Experimental Psychology, 56(5), 361-366.
  Shaki, S., Fischer, M. H., & Petrusic, W. M. (2009). Reading habits for both words and numbers contribute to the SNARC effect. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 16(2), 328-331.
  Moeller, K., Fischer, M. H., Nuerk, H.-C., & Willmes, K. (2009). Sequential or parallel processing of two-digit numbers? Evidence from eye-tracking. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62(2), 323-334.
  Pinhas, M., & Fischer, M. H. (2008). Mental movements without magnitude? A study of spatial biases in symbolic arithmetic. Cognition, 109, 408-415.
  Wood, G., Nuerk, H.-C., Willmes, K., & Fischer, M. H. (2008). On the cognitive link between space and number: A meta-analysis of the SNARC effect. Psychology Science Quarterly, 50(4), 489-525.
  Fischer, M. H., & Campens, H. (2008). Pointing to numbers and grasping magnitudes. Experimental Brain Research, 192(1), 149-153.
  Tschentscher, N., & Fischer, M. H. (2008). Grasp cueing and joint attention. Experimental Brain Research, 190(4), 493-498.
 

Shaki, S., Fischer, M. H. (2008).  Reading space into numbers – A cross-linguistic comparison of the SNARC effect. Cognition, 108(2), 590-599.
 

Fischer, M. H., & Prinz, J., & Lotz, K. (2008).  Obligatory attention to action goals.  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61(6), 860-868.
 

Fischer, M. H., & Zwaan, R. A. (2008). Embodied language – A review of the role of the motor system in language comprehension.  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61(6), 825 – 850.
  Al-Aidroos, N., Fischer, M. H., Adam, J. J., & Pratt, J. (2008).  Structured perceptual arrays and the modulation of Fitts's law: Examining saccadic eye movements. Journal of Motor Behavior, 40(2), 155-164.
 

Fischer, M.H. (2008).  Finger counting habits modulate spatial-numerical associations.  Cortex, 44, 386-392.
  Wood, G., & Fischer, M. H. (2008).  Numbers, space, and action – from finger counting to the mental number line and beyond.  Cortex , 44, 353-358.
  Fischer, M. H., Pratt, J., & Adam, J. J. (2007).  On the timing of reference frames for action control. Experimental Brain Research, 183(1), 127-132.
  Pratt, J., Adam, J., & Fischer, M. H. (2007).  Visual layout modulates Fitts's Law: The importance of first and last positions. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 14(2),350-355.
 

Lamm, C., Fischer, M. H., & Decety, J. (2007).  Predicting the actions of others taps into one’s own somatosensory representations - a functional MRI study. Neuropsychologia,45, 2480-2491.
 

Keulen, R.F., Adam, J.J., Fischer, M.H., Kuipers, H., & Jolles, J. (2007).  Distractor interference in selective reaching: Effects of hemispace, movement direction, and type of movement. Cortex, 43, 531-541.
 

Fischer, M. H., & Dahl, C. (2007).  The time course of visuo-motor affordances.  Experimental Brain Research, 176(3), 519-524.

 

Fischer, M. H. (2006).  The future for SNARC could be stark.  Cortex, 42(8), 1066-1068.
 

Carminati, M. N., Stabler, J., Roberts, A. M., & Fischer, M. H. (2006).  Readers' responses to sub-genre and rhyme scheme in poetry. Poetics, 34(3),  204-218.
 

Adam, J., Mol, R., Pratt, J., & Fischer, M. H. (2006).  Moving farther but faster:  An exception to Fitts’s Law.  Psychological Science, 17(9), 794-798.
 

Keulen, R. F., Adam, J. J., Fischer, M. H., Kuipers, H., & Jolles, J. (2006).  Distractor interference in selective reaching: A developmental study. Journal of Human Movement Studies, 50(5), 339-353.
 

Lobmaier, J., Fischer, M., & Schwaninger, A. (2006). Objects influence perceived gaze direction. Experimental Psychology, 53(2), 117-122.
 

Masharov, M., & Fischer, M. H. (2006).  Linguistic relativity: Does language help or hinder perception?  Current Biology,16(8), R289-R291.
 

Fischer, M. H., Dewulf, N., & Hill, R. L. (2005). Designing bar graphs: Orientation matters. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 19(7), 953-962.
 

Schwaninger, A., Lobmaier, J., & Fischer, M. H. (2005).  The inversion effect on gaze perception reflects processing of component information. Experimental Brain Research, 167(1), 49-55.
 

Fischer, M. H. (2005).  Action simulation is not constrained by one’s own postures.  Neuropsychologia, 43, 28-34. 

 

Fischer, M. H. (2005).  Perceived reachability:  Roles of hemifield and handedness.  Experimental Brain Research, 160(3), 283-289.
 

Fischer, M. H., & Rottmann, J. (2005).  Do negative numbers have a place on the mental number line? Psychology Science, 47(1), 22-32.
 

Fischer, M. H. (2004).  Orthographic contributions to perceived word centre.  Brain and Language, 88, 321-330.
  Fischer, M. H., & Szymkowiak, A. (2004).  Joint attention for pointing but not grasping postures.  Cortex, 40, 168-170.
 

Keulen, R., Adam, J., Fischer, M. H., Kuipers, H., & Jolles, J.  (2004).  Selective reaching:  Distractor effects on movement kinematics as a function of target-distractor separation. Journal of General Psychology, 131(4), 345-363.
 

Fischer, M. H., Warlop, N., Hill, R. L., & Fias, W. (2004).  Oculomotor bias induced by number perception.  Experimental Psychology, 51(2), 91-97.
  Carminati, M. N., Fischer, M. H., Roberts, A., & Stabler, J. (2004).  The visual impact of ottava rima.  Byron Journal, 32(1), 39-44.
 

Fischer, M. H, & Hoellen, N. (2004).  Space-based and object-based attention depend on motor intention.  Journal of General Psychology, 131(4), 365-377.
 

Fischer, M. H. (2003).   Spatial representations in number processing – Evidence from a pointing task.  Visual Cognition, 10(4), 493-508. 

further information

Fischer, M. H., Pratt, J., & Neggers, S. F. W. (2003).  Inhibition of return and manual pointing movements.  Perception and Psychophysics, 65(3), 379-387. 

 

Fischer, M. H. (2003).  Cognitive representation of negative numbers.  Psychological Science, 14(3), 278-282.
  Keulen, R., Adam, J. J., Fischer, M. H., Kuipers, H., & Jolles, J (2003).  Distractor interference in selective reaching:  Dissociating distance and grouping effects.  Journal of Motor Behaviour, 35(2), 119-126.
 

Fischer, M. H., Castel, A. D., Dodd, M. D., & Pratt, J. (2003).  Perceiving numbers causes spatial shifts of attention.  Nature Neuroscience, 6(6), 555-556.
 

Fischer, M. H. (2003).  Can we correctly perceive the reaching range of others?  British Journal of Psychology, 94, 487-500.
 

Keulen, R., Adam, J. J., Fischer, M. H., Kuipers, H., & Jolles, J. (2002).  Selective reaching:  Evidence for environment-centered attention.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Human Perception and Performance, 28(3), 515-526. 

 

Pratt, J., & Fischer, M. H. (2002).  Examining the role of fixation cues in inhibition of return.  Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 56, 294-301.
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Fischer, M. H. (2001).  How sensitive is hand transport to illusory context effects?  Experimental Brain Research, 136(2), 224-230.
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Fischer, M. H. (2001). Probing spatial working memory with the Corsi Blocks task. Brain and Cognition, 45, 143-154.
  Fischer, M. H. (2001).  Number processing induces spatial performance biases.  Neurology, 57(5), 822-826.
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Fischer, M. H. (2001).  Cognition in the bisection task.  Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5(11), 460-462.
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Fischer, M. H. & Adam, J. J. (2001).  Distractor effects in pointing:  The role of spatial layout.  Experimental Brain Research, 136,(4), 507-513.
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Fischer, M. H., & Stumpp, T. (2001).  An investigation of the time course of flanker effects in the Landmark task.  Neuropsychologia, 39(6), 586-596.
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Fischer, M. H. (2000). Do irrelevant depth cues affect the comprehension of bar graphs? Applied Cognitive Psychology, 14, 151-162.

Read this paper (RESTRICTED ACCESS) Fischer, M. H. (2000). Word centre is misperceived. Perception, 29(3), 337-354.
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Fischer, M. H. (2000).  Estimating reachability:  Whole body engagement or postural stability?  Human Movement Science, 19(3), 297-318. 

further information

Fischer, M. H., Ziegler, W., Kerkhoff, G., & Weger, U. (2000).  Does word bisection reveal spared phonological processing in aphasic patients?  Journal of Neurolinguistics, 13(4), 241-244.
 

Fischer, M. H. (1999). Memory for word locations in reading. Memory, 7, 79-116.

 

Fischer, M. H. (1999). An investigation of attention allocation during sequential eye movement tasks. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 52A, 649-677.

 

Fischer, M. H., Deubel, H., Wohlschläger, A., & Schneider, W. X. (1999). Visuomotor mental rotation of saccade direction. Experimental Brain Research, 127(2), 224-232.
 

Rayner, K., Fischer, M. H., & Pollatsek, A. (1998). Unspaced text interferes with both word identification and eye movement control. Vision Research, 38, 1129-1144.
 

Fischer, M. H. (1997). Attention allocation during manual movement preparation and execution. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 9, 17-51.
 

Fischer, M. H., Rosenbaum, D. A., & Vaughan, J. (1997). Speed and sequential effects in reaching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 23, 404-428.
 

Fischer, M. H. (1996). Bisection performance indicates spatial word representation. Cognitive Brain Research, 4, 163-170.
  Rayner, K., & Fischer, M. H. (1996). Mindless reading revisited: Eye movements during reading and scanning are different. Perception and Psychophysics, 58, 734-747.
 

Fischer, M. H. (1994). Less attention and more perception in cued line bisection. Brain and Cognition, 25, 24-33.
 

Spijkers, W. A. C., Tachmatzidis, K., Debus, G., Fischer, M. H., & Kausche, I. (1994). Temporal coordination of alternative and simultaneous aiming movements of constrained timing structure. Psychological Research, 57, 20-29.
   
 

(iv)       Other Publications:
  Fischer, M. H., & Brugger, P. (2010). Origins of spatial-numerical bias. In: A. Pease, M. Guhe, & Al. Smaill (eds.), Proceedings of the International Symposium on Mathematical Practice and Cognition, AISB Convention (pp. 14-15). De Montfort University, Leicester/UK, 29 March - 1 April.
  Fischer, M. H., Riello, M., Giordano, B. L., & Rusconi, E. (2010. Singing numbers ... in cognitive space. In: A. Pease, M. Guhe, & Al. Smaill (eds.), Proceedings of the International Symposium on Mathematical Practice and Cognition, AISB Convention (pp. 16-17). De Montfort University, Leicester/UK, 29 March - 1 April.
  Lobmaier, J. S., & Fischer, M. H. (2010). Motivational aspects of recognizing a smile. Commentary in Behavioural and Brain Sciences, (in press).
  Myachykov, A., Platenburg, W., & Fischer, M. H. (2009). Non-abstractness as mental simulation in the representation of number. Commentary in Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 32, 343-344
  Fischer, M. H., & Mills, R. A. (2008). A spatial perspective on numerical concepts. Commentary in Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 31(6), 651-652
 

Fischer, M. H. (2008). Talking neurons but lost in translation. Book review of "From action to language via the mirror neuron system". Cortex, 44(9), 1288-1290.
  Fischer, M. H. (2004).  The mind and eye.  Book review of “The mind’s eye”.  Cortex, 40, 750-751.
 

Fischer, M. H. (2004).  The brain and eye.  Book review of “The brain’s eye”.  Cortex, 40, 747-749.
 

De Angeli, A., Coutts, M., Coventry, L., Johnson, G. I., Cameron, D., & Fischer, M. H., (2002).  VIP - A visual approach to user authentication.  Proceedings of the Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) Conference of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Trento (Italy), 22-24 May.
 

Fischer, M. H. (1999). Splitting words shows they are 'spacial'. Perception, 28 (Supplement), 144.

 

Fischer, M. H. (1997). A reader's point of view on looking. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 20, 748.
 

Fischer, M. H. (1997). The cognitive representation of time investigated with sequential movements. Experimental Brain Research, 117 (Supplement), 61-62.
 

Fischer, M. H., Pollatsek, A., & Rayner, K. (1997). Advance in attention allocation in visual search. Perception, 26 (Supplement), 73.

 

Fischer, M. H. (1994). Attention allocation during movement preparation. In A. Ram & K. Eiselt (Eds.), Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 307-312), Atlanta (GA). Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.
 

Szymkowiak, A., & Fischer, M. H. (1994). Evaluation of two landmark tracing methods for human motion analysis. Proceedings of the 12th Triennial Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, 15-19 August 1994, Toronto, Canada, Vol. 6, 399
 

DuFour, R., Fischer, M. H., & Rosenbaum, D. A. (1994). Moving beyond imagination. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 17, 206-207.
 

Fischer, M. H., & Rayner, K. (1993). On the functional significance of express saccades. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16, 3, 577.
   
 

(v)        Conference Papers:
  28th Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology (Bressanone, Italy; 25 January - 29 January 2010): Out of space for numbers? The mental number line has limited width.
  EUCog II Meeting (Hamburg, Germany, 12. October 2009). Sensori-motor grounding of numerical cognition.
 

XXIX International Congress of Psychology (Berlin, Germany, 20 -25 July 2008).  “How to cook a SNARC: Number placement in text changes spatial-numerical associations”.
 

Experimental Psychology Society (Cambridge, UK, 2-4 April 2008):  “The operational momentum effect in symbolic arithmetic”. 

 

European Summer School on “Numeracy and Brain Development” (Santorini, Greece, 15-22 September 2007): “Reading habits for both words and numbers contribute to the SNARC effect”

 

Workshop of the European Collaborative Research Project on”Eye Movements in Reading: Computational Models & Corpus Analyses” (Potsdam/Germany, 1-3 June 2006): “Dundee Corpus Insights”.
 

6th Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society (Sarasota, Florida, 5-10 May 2006):  “Semantically induced biases in perception and action”
 

14th European Conference on Cognitive Psychology (Leiden, Netherlands, 31 August-3 September 2005): “Joint attention from grasp prediction”
 

European Summer School on “Neuroscience of number processing” (Erice, Italy, 3-10 July 2005): “Moving the mental number line – Rapid effects of training”
 

10th European Workshop on Imagery and Cognition (St. Andrews, Scotland, 28-30 June 2005):  “Joint attention from grasp prediction”
 

5th Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society (Sarasota, Florida, 6-11 May 2005):  “Obligatory attention to action goals”
 

23st Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology (Bressanone, Italy; 23 January – 28 January 2005): “Show me with your hand and I know your mental number line”
 

22st Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology (Bressanone, Italy; 25 January – 30 January 2004): “A SNARC in the dark”
 

Workshop on “Visual space for language and movement” in Lille/France, 16-17 January 2004:  “Motor imagery for self and others:  Evidence from perceived reachability”
 

44st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Vancouver, Canada, 6-9 November 2003): “Comparison of eye movements during poetry and prose reading”.  
 

26th Conference on Visual Perception (Paris, France; 1-5 September 2003): “Space-based and object-based attention depend on action intention”.
 

13th European Conference on Eye Movements (Dundee, Scotland; 20-24 August 2003): “Comparison of eye movements during poetry and prose reading”.
  Workshop on “Two hemispheres, one reading system” (Lyon, France; 24-28 April 2003):  “A place for spatial cognition in reading”
 

21st Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology (Bressanone, Italy; 25 January – 1 February 2003): “Joint attention for pointing but not for grasping postures”
 

Max-Planck Workshop on Space Perception and Action (Ohlstadt, Germany; 20-23 September 2002): “Explorations of the mental number line”
 

International Congress on Movement, Attention and Perception (Poitiers, France; 19-21 June 2002): “Inhibition of return and manual pointing movements”
 

20th Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology (Bressanone, Italy; 20-25 January 2002): “Attention allocation after gaze cueing: A second look”

 

12th European Confererence on Cognitive Psychology (Edinburgh, UK 5-8 September 2001): “Number processing modulates the speed and accuracy of spatial behaviour” and “Distractor interference: Proximity-to-hand effect restricted to large target-distractor separations”
 

11th European Conference on Eye Movements (Turku, Finland, 22-25 August 2001):  “On the precision of midpoint localization in lexical and non-lexical visual stimuli”
 

19th Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology (Bressanone, Italy; 19-24 Janaury 2001): “Cognitive factors in the bisection task” 

 

 

Teaching

I teach "Visual Perception" in Level 2 and "Cognition" in Level 3. I teach a Level 4 option on "Working with Cognitive Psychology" and contribute to the MSc methods training.

 

 

Administration

I am the Research Director of the School of Psychology and the Module Leader for Cognition. My office hours are usually on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10-11 but you can email me for other arrangements.

 

 

Additional Information

I am Consulting Editor for Cognition and the Journal of General Psychology and a Review Editor for Frontiers in Cognition.

I am a member of the Psychonomic Society, the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, the Cognitive Science Society, and the Experimental Psychology Society.

I am a member of the European Research Training Network "Language and Brain" (see http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/rtn-lab) and an associate of the European Research Training Network on "Numeracy and Brain Development" (see http://math.nmi.jyu.fi/numbra/).