Welcome to my website!

I joined the University of Stirling as a Lecturer in Psychology in June 2023, where I run my own research lab. Prior to this, I was a Sir Henry Wellcome Research Fellow at the School of Psychology & Neuroscience at the University of Glasgow, where I also completed my PhD in 2016.

I am an Open Science Champion for Psychology at Stirling, where I support activities around reproducible analysis, code, pre-registrations and registered reports, and a member of the Centre for Neurotechnology at the University of Glasgow. I am also currently the Honorary Secretary of the British Neuropsychological Society, a “Recommender” (action editor) for Peer Community in Registered Reports (PCI-RR) and an action editor of the Neuropsychology section of Cogent Psychology.

My research interests are varied, and include visuospatial attention, pseudoneglect, cognitive aging, laterality, stroke rehabilitation, non-invasive brain stimulation, EEG (mobile and static), eye tracking and neurofeedback. I am working on a few different research strands at present:

Oscillations in patients with visual/attention disturbance after stroke:
I am Chief Investigator of the BRAVAS-2 clinical trial. In this trial I am investigating rhythmic neural activity (oscillations) in people with visual and/or attention disturbance after stroke (hemianopia & hemispatial neglect). We have now finished recruiting across NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde and NHS Lanarkshire.

Neuro-technologies:
I am interested in mobile technologies, such as mobile EEG, mobile eye tracking, and modulating the brain using non-invasive brain stimulation (tDCS/tACS/tRNS) and EEG neurofeedback, including the various experimental problems within these fields (e.g., issues around sham blinding, placebo effects etc).

Laterality:
My research also involves lateralised biases of visuospatial attention (pseudoneglect), particularly developmental and age-related changes in spatial biases, and the “real-world” consequences of spatial attention asymmetries (e.g. in driving behaviour and object avoidance).

I am always happy to discuss collaborations and potential MSc or PhD projects. Please get in touch via Gemma.Learmonth@stir.ac.uk or Twitter @gemma_learmonth.