Robert McIntosh

Robert McIntosh is a Professor (Personal Chair of Experimental Neuropsychology) at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. His roles include teaching perception, action, and neuropsychology at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as supervising PhD students and leading administrative roles such as Head of Psychology (2013-2016). He holds affiliations with Edinburgh Neuroscience and has an ORCID identifier (0000-0002-7615-6699).

McIntosh’s research focuses on neural control of visual perception and action in healthy and brain-damaged populations. Key interests include unilateral neglect rehabilitation, visually-guided reaching in Alzheimer’s disease, and mirror-writing phenomena. He has supervised 9 PhD students since 2006, with topics ranging from motor control to neuropsychological deficits. His work integrates experimental psychology, clinical neuroscience, and neurorehabilitation.

He has secured over 13 research grants, including projects on Alzheimer’s motor deficits, prism adaptation effects, and public engagement initiatives. Notable awards include the Addison Wheeler Fellowship (2005–2010). His teaching spans lectures on perception, neuropsychology, and advanced statistics, with administrative leadership roles in program direction and ethics committees.

McIntosh’s lab explores action-perception interactions and cognitive decline. Collaborations include studies on motor deficits in neurodegenerative diseases and registered replications of cognitive paradigms. Recent work addresses methodological rigor in neuroscience through preregistration and open science advocacy.