Dr Roberta Roberts
Research Fellow
Roberta is interested in studying touch perception in the hand using behavioural and psychophysical techniques
The Active Touch research team
Professor Alan Wing
Professor of Human Movement
Alan is interested in reactive and predictive mechanisms in sensorimotor coordination.
Dr Diar Abdlkarim
Research Fellow
Diar conducts scientific research on human sensory-motor action and perception, developing hardware and software tools.
PhD Students
Aldrin Loomes
Aldrin is interested in the multisensory processing of tactile information and how this changes as one or more of our senses decline. During his PhD research, he investigated the effects of ageing on tactile perception and how information from touch is processed in the brain, and the involvement of brain areas associated with vision and audition in tactile processing. He uses psychophysics methods alongside functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to examine both behavioural and cortical processing aspects of multisensory perception.
Email: arl644@student.bham.ac.uk
Zhuojun Yin
Her PhD research examines the effect of aging on touch perception, with a particular focus on vibration perception. She uses a combination of psychophysical and neuroimaging methods to explore the perceptual and brain mechanisms involved in processing touch.
Email: zxy353@student.bham.ac.uk
Research assistant
Simran Khera
Simran aspires to become a clinical neuropsychologist, assessing and rehabilitating individuals with brain injuries. Currently, she works in the Active Touch Lab, assisting in the testing of touch and balance abilities in older adults and neuropathy patients