Professor Iain Gilchrist
B.Sc.(Dunelm.), Ph.D.(Birm.)
Expertise
Current positions
Professor 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 grantsMyWorld (2021-2026) UKRI Strength in Places Fund. Workpackage lead for Understanding Audiences, Total award £46,000,000
Glucocorticoid dynamics in health and disease (2018-2023) MRC Awarded to Lightman, Harmer, Robinson, Conway-Campbell, Gilchrist and Rivers, £1,847,579
Recent larger 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
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
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
8104 WP1.3 Pathfinder 3 MyWorld
Principal Investigator
Description
This project is funded within MyWorld, which is a five-year programme funded by the UKRI Strength in Places fund. The £46m programme brings together 30 partners from Bristol and…Managing organisational unit
School of Psychological ScienceDates
01/04/2021 to 31/03/2026
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
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
SPHERE (EPSRC IRC)
Principal Investigator
Role
Principal Investigator
Description
This project aims to develop a platform of sensors to be deployed in people's homes to monitor the health and wellbeingManaging organisational unit
Department of Electrical & Electronic EngineeringDates
01/10/2013 to 31/03/2019
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
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
Modelling of Behaviour and Neuroimaging in Decision Making and Memory Through Application of Variational Bayesian Methods, In Health and Disease
Supervisors
Cortisol effects on pupil size and locus coeruleus activity
Supervisors
Developing continuous measures of audience immersion
Supervisors
Parvocellular and magnocellular responses in peripheral vision
Supervisors
Investigating the Role of Context in the Perception of Basic vs. Social Emotions
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
13/02/2024Witnessing meaningful interpersonal encounters facilitates the perception of social emotions
Social Cognition
Recommendations for improving on-demand content, post-broadcast derived from an analysis of minute by minute consumption patterns.
International Broadcasting Convention 2023
Audience immersion
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications
Measuring real-time cognitive engagement in remote audiences
Scientific Reports
Minimal reporting guideline for research involving eye tracking (2023 edition)
Behavior Research Methods
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