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Overview

Iain D. Gilchrist is a researcher affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their primary field of study is Neuroscience, with a particular concentration in Cognitive Neuroscience and related subfields. Gilchrist's work spans a range of topics that intersect with both fundamental brain research and applied human-computer interaction domains.

The scientist has contributed extensively to several specialized areas, including:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Media Influence and Health
  • Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology
  • Motor Control and Adaptation
  • Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
  • Image and Video Quality Assessment

Gilchrist has published research in multiple venues, frequently appearing in:

  • Journal of Vision
  • Scientific Reports
  • Behavior Research Methods
  • Cognitive Research Principles and Implications
  • ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Notable papers include:

  • "Minimal reporting guideline for research involving eye tracking (2023 edition)" (2023) in Behavior Research Methods
  • "Look-ahead fixations during visuomotor behavior: Evidence from assembling a camping tent" (2021) in Journal of Vision
  • "Pre-movement changes in sensorimotor beta oscillations predict motor adaptation drive" (2020) in Scientific Reports
  • "Tonic and phasic effects of reward on the pupil: implications for locus coeruleus function" (2022) in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Dissecting the links between reward and loss, decision-making, and self-reported affect using a computational approach" (2021) in PLoS Computational Biology

Frequent collaborators in Gilchrist's work include Danaë Stanton Fraser, Hugo Hammond, Michael Armstrong, Graham A. Thomas, and Ana Levordashka. These ongoing research partnerships reflect interdisciplinary efforts across neuroscience, psychology, and human-computer interaction.

Best Publications

  • Active Vision: The Psychology of Looking and Seeing

    John M. Findlay;Iain D. Gilchrist

  • Visual correlates of fixation selection: effects of scale and time

    Benjamin W. Tatler;Roland J. Baddeley;Iain D. Gilchrist

  • The Oxford Handbook of Eye Movements

    Simon Paul Liversedge;Iain Gilchrist;Iain Gilchrist;Stefan Everling

  • Acute stress, memory, attention and cortisol.

    K Vedhara;J Hyde;I.D Gilchrist;M Tytherleigh

  • ScanMatch: A novel method for comparing fixation sequences

    Filipe Cristino;Sebastiaan Mathot;Jan Theeuwes;Iain D. Gilchrist

  • Effort during visual search and counting: insights from pupillometry.

    Gillian Porter;Tom Troscianko;Iain D. Gilchrist

  • Refixation frequency and memory mechanisms in visual search

    Iain D Gilchrist;Monika Harvey

  • Testing a simplified method for measuring velocity integration in saccades using a manipulation of target contrast

    Peter J. Etchells;Christopher P. Benton;Christopher P. Benton;Casimir J. H. Ludwig;Casimir J. H. Ludwig;Iain D. Gilchrist;Iain D. Gilchrist

  • Grouping and Extinction: Evidence for Low-level Modulation of Visual Selection

    Iain D Gilchrist;GW Humphreys;MJ Riddoch

  • An internationally standardised antisaccade protocol

    Chrystalina Antoniades;Ulrich Ettinger;Bertrand Gaymard;Iain Gilchrist

  • Stimulus-driven and goal-driven control over visual selection

    Casimir J. H. Ludwig;Iain D. Gilchrist

  • Are the perceptual biases found in chimeric face processing reflected in eye-movement patterns?

    S Butler;Iain D Gilchrist;DM Burt;DI Perrett

  • Working Memory and the Suppression of Reflexive Saccades

    Jason P. Mitchell;C. Neil MacRae;Iain D. Gilchrist

  • A single blinded randomised controlled pilot trial of prism adaptation for improving self-care in stroke patients with neglect.

    Ailie J Turton;Kelly O'Leary;Judith Gabb;Rebecca Woodward

  • Saccade target selection in visual search: the effect of information from the previous fixation

    John M Findlay;Valerie Brown;Iain D Gilchrist

  • Eye guidance and visual search

    John M. Findlay;Iain D. Gilchrist

  • Target location probability effects in visual search: an effect of sequential dependencies

    Carol Walthew;Iain D. Gilchrist

  • Embedded figures detection in autism and typical development: Preliminary evidence of a double dissociation in relationships with visual search

    Christopher Jarrold;Iain D. Gilchrist;Alison Bender

  • Coherent motion detection and letter position encoding

    PL Cornelissen;PC Hansen;ID Gilchrist;F Cormack

  • Evidence for a systematic component within scan paths in visual search

    Iain D. Gilchrist;Monika Harvey

  • The rhythm of the eyes: Overt and covert attentional pointing

    John M. Findlay;Valerie Brown;Iain D. Gilchrist

Frequent Co-Authors

Monika Harvey
Monika Harvey University of Glasgow
John M. Findlay
John M. Findlay Durham University
Bruce M. Hood
Bruce M. Hood University of Bristol
David J. Tolhurst
David J. Tolhurst University of Cambridge
Charles A. Heywood
Charles A. Heywood Durham University
Glyn W. Humphreys
Glyn W. Humphreys University of Oxford
Benjamin W. Tatler
Benjamin W. Tatler University of Aberdeen
Simon Farrell
Simon Farrell University of Western Australia
Simon Paul Liversedge
Simon Paul Liversedge University of Central Lancashire
Jan Theeuwes
Jan Theeuwes Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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