Emma E.M. Stewart

Dr. Emma E.M. Stewart is a Lecturer in Psychology at Queen Mary University of London's School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, affiliated with the Centre for Brain and Behaviour. She holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Adelaide and has conducted postdoctoral research in Germany, including a DFG-funded project at JLU Giessen. Her research explores visual perception, eye movements, and oculomotor control, combining behavioral experiments, eye-tracking, computational modeling, and statistical analysis.

Education:

• Bachelor's degrees in Psychology, Law, and French
• PhD in Psychology (University of Adelaide, Australia)
• Postdoctoral research at the University of Marburg and JLU Giessen (Germany)

Research Interests:

• Oculomotor planning and eye movement dynamics
• Peripheral vs. central vision interactions
• Perceptual inference from object properties
• Role of prior experience in perception and action
• Object viewpoint perception and mental rotation

Grants:

• German Research Foundation (DFG) Grant (2021–2025): £32,659 for investigating object property inferences on saccade planning.

Labs/Teams: Active member of the Centre for Brain and Behaviour, collaborating on interdisciplinary projects in vision science and cognitive neuroscience.