Ori Ossmy
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Ori Ossmy is a professor of developmental cognitive neuroscience at Birkbeck, University of London, known for research on physical cognition and problem solving across the lifespan.
Career
Ossmy joined Birkbeck in 2021 and leads the Physical Cognition Lab, as part of the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development (CBCD) at Birkbeck, University of London. The lab studies how humans' physical and embodied experiences shape their cognition and behaviour across the lifespan. Ossmy takes an integrative, interdisciplinary approach by combining perspectives (human behaviour, child development, cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and motor control), recording methods (virtual reality, eye tracking, motion tracking, EEG, fMRI, fNIRS, EMG, and video), analytic techniques (time-series analyses, computational modeling, machine learning, robotics), populations (newborns to older adults, patients, and neurodiverse populations), settings (lab, home, school), and tasks (manual or locomotor).
Research and contributions
Ossmy's research is based on the working assumption that macro behavioural changes occurring over relatively long time periods—changes due to learning, development, injury, and rehabilitation—emerge from micro, real-time experiences. These real-time experiences, in turn, play out in an interactive system of perceptual, neural, cognitive, and motor processes. The efficiency of these processes and their interactions differ widely among individuals. Thus, he developed an innovative approach to understanding macro behavioural change by testing micro-interactions among components of a real-time "planning cascade" from gathering perceptual information, to processing it, and finally acting on it. Independent sources have described his work on embodied strategies in learning and tool use, including novel and unique experiments that adapt tasks in real time to learners' actions.[1]
Awards and honours
- Distinguished Early Career Contribution Award, International Congress of Infant Studies (2022).[2]
- David Kucharski Young Investigator Award, International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (2022).[3]
- Best Dissertation/Project Supervisor, Birkbeck Students' Union (2023).[4]
- Innovative Methods Award, British Psychological Society (BPS) – Developmental Section (2022).[5]
Funding
- Principal Investigator, ESRC New Investigator Award, 2022–2026 (ES/W009242/1).[1]
- Principal Investigator, Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant, 2023–2027 (RPG-2022-327), "The effects of multi-modal information on the development of action planning."[6]
- Principal Investigator, The Waterloo Foundation, 2023–2025, "Real-time mechanisms underlying effects of physical activity on problem-solving in children with ADHD."[6]
- Principal Investigator, Simons Foundation (Human Cognitive and Behavioral Science), 2023–2025.[7]
Selected works
- Ossmy, O.; Han, D.; MacAlpine, P.; Hoch, J.; Stone, P.; Adolph, K. E. (2024). "Walking and falling: using robot simulations to model the role of errors in infant walking". Developmental Science. 27 (2): e13449. doi:10.1111/desc.13449. PMC 10922068 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 37750490 Check|pmid=value (help). - Ossmy, O.; Adolph, K. E. (2020). "Real-time assembly of coordination patterns in human infants". Current Biology. 30 (23): 1–10. Bibcode:2020CBio...30E4553O. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.08.073. PMC 8722405 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 32976812 Check|pmid=value (help). - Ossmy, O.; Mukamel, R. (2016). "Neural network underlying intermanual skill transfer in humans". Cell Reports. 17 (11): 2891–2900. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2016.11.009. PMID 27974204.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "An Integrated Real-Time Approach to the Development of Human Problem Solving (ES/W009242/1)". UKRI Gateway to Research. Retrieved 14 November 2025.
- ↑ "Award Recipients — Distinguished Early Career Contribution Award". International Congress of Infant Studies. Retrieved 14 November 2025.
- ↑ "2022 David Kucharski Young Investigator Award". ISDP. 12 August 2022. Retrieved 14 November 2025.
- ↑ "Students' Union Awards Evening 2023". Birkbeck Students' Union. 7 July 2023. Retrieved 14 November 2025.
- ↑ "Honours and awards — Prof Ori Ossmy". Birkbeck, University of London. Retrieved 14 November 2025.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Related funding listed on UKRI project page". UKRI Gateway to Research. Retrieved 14 November 2025.
- ↑ "Current and confirmed research grants (Birkbeck)". Birkbeck, University of London. Retrieved 14 November 2025.
External links
Category:Developmental psychologists Category:British psychologists Category:Academics of Birkbeck, University of London
Source tracker (to be removed before acceptance)
| # | Type | Outlet/Publisher | Date | What it supports |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Award recipients page | ICIS | 2022 | Major field-wide award (notability, awards) |
| 2 | Award page | ISDP | 2022 | Major field-wide award |
| 3 | Grant database | UKRI Gateway to Research | 2022 | Competitive national funding (PI) |
| 4 | Prize/press profile or interview | Reputable outlet | YYYY | Independent coverage of work |
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