Rebekah White

Rebekah White serves as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Oxford, currently contributing to the PhysFEM (Physics of Fixational Eye Movements) Project. Her work bridges experimental psychology and neuroscience with interdisciplinary applications in historical and legal studies.

Academic qualifications:

• BA/BSc (Hons)
• MPhil
• DPhil

Her research centers on crossmodal and multisensory processing, visual attention, and body representation, with notable investigations into synaesthesia and perceptual awareness. Recent work examines how sensory mismatches alter body ownership (e.g., rubber hand illusion variants) and how motor coordination adapts to postural constraints like crossed legs, revealing fundamental principles of neural integration.

Publication analysis (2019-2025) shows striking methodological diversity: experimental psychology dominates her empirical work on perception and autism, while historical analysis of Grosseteste’s optics and theological-legal semiotics demonstrates rare cross-disciplinary range. Keywords consistently cluster around sensory integration, body schema, and cognitive embodiment, with subfields spanning motor control, anthropomorphism, and medieval science history.

Scientific recognition:

• No awards or fellowships documented

Advising and funding: No student supervision details are provided, though her PhysFEM role implies participation in externally funded research. The project’s focus on oculomotor physics suggests collaboration with vision science laboratories.

Laboratory context: White operates within Oxford’s perception research ecosystem through the PhysFEM project, which investigates microsaccades and fixational eye movements—critical for understanding visual stability during natural viewing.