Welcome to my website!

I joined the University of Stirling as a Lecturer in Psychology in June 2023 and lead my own research lab in the field of mobile cognition. Before this, I held a Sir Henry Wellcome Research Fellowship in the School of Psychology & Neuroscience at the University of Glasgow, where I also completed my PhD (2012-2016).

I lead the Stirling Open Research & Scholarship Network (SORS) and act as the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) Local Network Lead at the University of Stirling, where I support initiatives promoting reproducible analysis, open code, pre-registrations, and registered reports. Alongside this, I serve as a Recommender (Action Editor) for Peer Community in Registered Reports (PCI-RR) and PCI Psychology, a Consulting Editor for Cortex, and an Action Editor for 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:

Mobile neuro-technologies:
I am interested in mobile cognition, 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).

Oscillations in patients with visual/attention disturbance after stroke:
I was the Chief Investigator of the BRAVAS-2 clinical trial. In this trial I investigated 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.

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