
Emily Crowe
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, Faculty of Science
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Biography
I did my BSc in Experimental Psychology at the University of Bristol followed by an MSc at the University of Exeter. I returned to Bristol for my PhD and studied visual attention using the multiple object tracking paradigm. I then moved to the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam for a post-doc in motor control and learning. I started at the University of Nottingham in October 2022 as the School's Independent Research Fellow. I was then awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career fellowship which I started in October 2023.
Research Summary
My research investigates how we use visual information to guide our actions. It is known that movements can be quickly adjusted to account for sudden changes in visual information. Using perturbation… read more
Current Research
My research investigates how we use visual information to guide our actions. It is known that movements can be quickly adjusted to account for sudden changes in visual information. Using perturbation paradigms and motion capture, we examine the mechanisms underlying these online corrections. I am also interested in how the brain represents spatial visual information. To assess this, we modify the mappings between participant's own movements and that of a tool they are controlling to examine what spatial reference frames (i.e., egocentric or allocentric) are used to organise the incoming visual information.
My fellowship focuses on understanding how interacting with the world using remote tools (e.g., mobile robots) influences fundamental aspects of motor learning and control. When using such tools, the direct physical interaction we typically have with the world is broken. We move in a different workspace to the tool, we do not use our own limbs to interact with relevant surroundings, and thus we cannot feel and experience the properties of the objects that we interact with. My project aims to understand the implications of this for perception and action.