Dr Nick Holmes PhD

Dr Nick Holmes

School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
Associate Professor in Motor Control and Rehabilitation

Contact details

Email
n.p.holmes@bham.ac.uk
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Dr Nick Holmes runs The Hand Laboratory which studies the coordination and control of hand and body movements and the human somatosensory system, particularly the perception of touch on the hands. His main methods are transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), electromyography (EMG), motion tracking and psychophysics. He enjoys doing statistics and produces a science news podcast called the error bar.

Qualifications

BSc Psychology & Neuroscience

MSc Neuroscience

D.Phil Neuroscience

Biography

After a PhD in the experimental psychology of multisensory perception in Oxford, Dr Nick Holmes spent four years as a postdoctoral researcher in Lyon, France and Jerusalem, Israel. He then returned to the UK in 2009 for a lectureship in psychology at the University of Reading, then moved to an Assistant Professorship in Nottingham in 2015, and an Associate Professorship in Birmingham in 2023.

Teaching

Clinical Neuroscience & Rehabilitation

Postgraduate supervision

Currently supervising one PhD student in their final year.

Available to supervise PhDs in motor control, lifespan development, and somatosensation, particular those using brain stimulation (TMS), electromyography and behavioural methods.

Research

Coordination and control of hand and body movements

Human somatosensory system, particularly the perception of touch on the hands

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), electromyography (EMG), motion tracking and psychophysics

Statistical methods in psychology and neuroscience

Other activities

Member of the Experimental Psychology Society

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Holmes, N (ed.) 2023, . Neuromethods, vol. 196, 1 edn, Humana Press, New York.

Article

Di Chiaro, NV & Holmes, NP 2024, '', Experimental Brain Research.

Holmes, NP, Di chiaro, NV, Crowe, EM, Marson, B, G枚bel, K, Gaigalas, D, Jay, T, Lockett, AV, Powell, ES, Zeni, S & Reader, AT 2024, '', Journal of Neurophysiology.

French, B, Chiaro, NVD & Holmes, NP 2022, '', Experimental Brain Research, vol. 240, no. 10, pp. 2715-2723.

Holmes, NP, Spence, C & Rossetti, Y 2022, '', Experimental Brain Research, vol. 240, no. 9, pp. 2221-2233.

Holmes, NP, Tam猫, L, Beeching, P, Medford, M, Rakova, M, Stuart, A & Zeni, S 2019, '', Journal of Neurophysiology, vol. 121, no. 1, pp. 366-344.

Holmes, NP & Tam猫, L 2019, '', Journal of Neurophysiology, vol. 121, no. 1, pp. 152-162.

Daly, I, Blanchard, C & Holmes, NP 2018, '', Journal of Neural Engineering, vol. 15, pp. 26022.

Chapter

Holmes, N & Tam猫, L 2023, . in N Holmes (ed.), Somatosensory Research Methods. 1 edn, Neuromethods, vol. 196, Humana Press, New York, pp. 3-33.

Tam猫, L & Holmes, N 2023, . in N Holmes (ed.), Somatosensory Research Methods. 1 edn, Neuromethods, vol. 196, Humana Press, New York, pp. 451-482.

Comment/debate

Corneille, O, Havemann, J, Henderson, EL, IJzerman, H, Hussey, I, Orban de Xivry, J-J, Jussim, L, Holmes, NP, Pilacinski, A, Beffara, B, Carroll, H, Outa, NO, Lush, P & Lotter, LD 2023, '', eLife, vol. 12, :e88654.

Dyke, K & Holmes, N 2023, '', Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology.

Holmes, NP 2022, '', Experimental Brain Research, vol. 240, no. 9, pp. 2239鈥�2240.

Editorial

Scheel, AM, Allen, C, Chechlacz, M, Deserno, MK, Gillebert, CR & Holmes, NP 2025, '', Cortex, vol. 185, pp. 336-339.

Preprint

Corneille, O, Beffara, B, Carroll, H, Havemann, J, Henderson, EL, Holmes, NP, Hussey, I, IJzerman, H, Jussim, L, Lotter, LD, Lush, P, Xivry, J-JOD, Outa, NO & Pilacinski, A 2023 '' PsyArXiv.