Dr Roberta Roberts

Dr Roberta Roberts

School of Psychology
Research Fellow

Contact details

Telephone
0121 414 2780
Email
r.roberts@bham.ac.uk
Address
Ths School of Psychology
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Roberts is a research fellow whose interests are in studying touch perception in the hand. The sense of touch provides information about the shape, temperatures, textures, and materials of our environment. Touching is an active process, involving control of the movements and forces of the hands. Dr Roberts uses behavioural and psychophysical techniques to investigate the interactions between skin mechanics, exploration dynamics and the sense of touch in both young and older adults.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Psychology (2005)
  • Msc Cognitive Science (2001)
  • BSc Psychology and Artificial Intelligence (1997)

Research

Research interests 

Tactile and Haptic perception, within and across the hands

Multisensory perception of material properties of objects

Psychophysics, motion and force measurement

Other activities

Member of the Experimental Psychology Society

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Roberts, RD 2024, '', Scientific Reports, vol. 14, no. 1, 31889.

Roberts, RD, Li, M & Allen, HA 2024, '', Scientific Reports, vol. 14, no. 1, 632.

Roberts, RD, Loomes, AR, Kwok, HF, Wing, AM & Allen, HA 2023, '', Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol. 17, 1282566.

Roberts, R, Loomes, A, Allen, H, Di Luca, M & Wing, A 2020, '', Scientific Reports, vol. 10, no. 1, 5108 .

Roberts, RD 2013, '', Attention, perception & psychophysics, vol. 75, no. 6, pp. 1306-17.

Roberts, R & Humphreys, G 2010, '', Psychological Science, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 476-483.

Roberts, R & Humphreys, G 2010, '', Brain Research, vol. 1351, pp. 185-97.

Roberts, R & Humphreys, G 2009, '', Acta Psychologia, vol. in preparation.

Roberts, R & Humphreys, G 2008, '', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 592-604.

Jackson, C, Albert, N, Roberts, R, Galea, J & Swait, G 2007, '', The Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 27, no. 23, pp. 6079-80.

Roberts, R & Humphreys, G 2006, '', Perception & Psychophysics.

Roberts, R, Humphreys, G & Wing, A 2005, '', Experimental Brain Research, vol. 164, pp. 529-540.

Chapter

Loomes, AR, Roberts, R & Allen, HA 2023, . in NP Holmes (ed.), Somatosensory Research Methods. 1 edn, Neuromethods, vol. 196, Humana Press, pp. 251-265.

Wing, A, Giachritsis, C, Roberts, R & Pye, E 2007, . in The Power of Touch: Handling Objects in Museum and Heritage Contexts.

Paper

Roberts, R, Wing, A, Durkin, J & Humphreys, GW 2003, '', Paper presented at Europhatics, Dublin, Ireland, 6/07/03 - 9/07/03.