Professor Paul Downing

Professor in Psychology / Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor

Contact info

Department of Psychology
Adeilad Brigantia
Penrallt Road
Gwynedd LL57 2AS
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0) 1248 382159
Fax: +44 (0) 1248 382599
Email: p.downing@bangor.ac.uk
Web: https://sites.google.com/view/downinglab/home

  1. Published

    Organization of felt and seen pain responses in anterior cingulate cortex.

    Morrison, I. & Downing, P. E., 15 Aug 2007, In: Neuroimage. 37, 2, p. 642-651

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  2. Published

    A Critical Role for the Hippocampus and Perirhinal Cortex in Perceptual Learning of Scenes and Faces: Complementary Findings from Amnesia and fMRI

    Mundy, M. E., Downing, P. E., Dwyer, D. M., Honey, R. C. & Graham, K. S., 19 Jun 2013, In: Journal of Neuroscience. 33, 25, p. 10490-10502

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Material-independent and material-specific activation in functional MRI after perceptual learning.

    Mundy, M. E., Honey, R. C., Downing, P. E., Wise, R. G., Graham, K. S. & Dwyer, D. M., 28 Oct 2009, In: Neuroreport. 20, 16, p. 1397-1401

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  4. Published

    Brain Correlates of Experience-Dependent Changes in Stimulus Discrimination Based on the Amount and Schedule of Exposure

    Mundy, M. E., Downing, P. E., Honey, R. C., Singh, K. D., Graham, K. S. & Dwyer, D. M., 26 Jun 2014, In: PLoS ONE. 9, 6

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  5. Published

    Viewpoint (In)dependence of Action Representations: An MVPA Study

    Oosterhof, N. N., Tipper, S. P. & Downing, P. E., 1 Apr 2012, In: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 24, 4, p. 975-989

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Surface-based information mapping reveals crossmodal vision-action representations in human parietal and occipitotemporal cortex.

    Oosterhof, N. N., Wiggett, A. J., Diedrichsen, J., Tipper, S. P. & Downing, P. E., 1 Aug 2010, In: Journal of Neurophysiology. 104, 2, p. 1077-1089

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  7. Published

    A comparison of volume-based and surface-based multi-voxel pattern analysis.

    Oosterhof, N. N., Wiestler, T., Downing, P. E. & Diedrichsen, J., 15 May 2011, In: Neuroimage. 56, 2, p. 593-600

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Neural correlates of affective influence on choice.

    Parkinson, C., Piech, R. M., Lewis, J., Parkinson, C. H., Owen, A. M., Roberts, A. C., Downing, P. E. & Parkinson, J. A., 1 Mar 2010, In: Brain and Cognition. 72, 2, p. 282-288

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Neural Correlates of Appetite and Hunger-Related Evaluative Judgments.

    Parkinson, C., Piech, R. M., Lewis, J., Parkinson, C. H., Owen, A. M., Roberts, A. C., Downing, P. E. & Parkinson, J. A., 12 Aug 2009, In: PLoS ONE. 4, 8, p. e6581

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  10. Published

    Unitary haptic perception: integrating moving tactile inputs from anatomically adjacent and non-adjacent digits.

    Peelen, M. V., Rogers, J., Wing, A. M., Downing, P. E. & Bracewell, R. M., 1 Jul 2010, In: Experimental Brain Research. 204, 3, p. 457-464

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  11. E-pub ahead of print

    Testing cognitive theories with multivariate pattern analysis of neuroimaging data

    Peelen, M. V. & Downing, P., 17 Aug 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Nature Human Behaviour.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  12. Published

    Using multi-voxel pattern analysis of fMRI data to interpret overlapping functional activations.

    Peelen, M. V. & Downing, P. E., 1 Jan 2007, In: Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 11, 1, p. 4-5

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  13. Published

    Testing cognitive theories with multivariate pattern analysis of neuroimaging data

    Peelen, M. V. & Downing, P., 3 Jun 2023, In: PsyArXiv Preprints.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  14. Published

    The neural basis of visual body perception.

    Peelen, M. V. & Downing, P. E., 1 Aug 2007, In: Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 8, 8, p. 636-648

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  15. Published

    Within-subject reproducibility of category-specific visual activation with functional MRI.

    Peelen, M. V. & Downing, P. E., 1 Aug 2005, In: Human Brain Mapping. 25, 4, p. 402-408

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  16. Published

    Selectivity for the human body in the fusiform gyrus.

    Peelen, M. V. & Downing, P. E., 1 Jan 2005, In: Journal of Neurophysiology. 93, 1, p. 603-608

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  17. Published

    Patterns of fMRI activity dissociate overlapping functional brain areas that respond to biological motion.

    Peelen, M. V., Wiggett, A. J. & Downing, P. E., 16 Mar 2006, In: Neuron. 49, 6, p. 815-822

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  18. Published

    Bold latency in FFA and EBA depends on object category.

    Peelen, M. & Downing, P. E., 1 Jan 2005.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  19. Published

    Is the extrastriate body area involved in motor actions?

    Peelen, M. V. & Downing, P. E., 1 Feb 2005, In: Nature Neuroscience. 8, 2, p. 125

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  20. Published

    Category selectivity in human visual cortex: beyond visual object recognition

    Peelen, M. V. & Downing, P., Oct 2017, In: Neuropsychologia. 105, p. 177-183

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  21. Published

    Neural representations of haptic object size in the human brain revealed by multivoxel fMRI patterns

    Perini, F., Powell, T., Watt, S. & Downing, P., 1 Jul 2020, In: Journal of Neurophysiology. 124, 1, p. 218-231

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  22. Published

    Wolf down a bucket of lettuce? Behavioral and neural interactions between hunger and food preference.

    Piech, R. M., Lewis, J., Owen, A. M., Roberts, A. C., Downing, P. E., Parkinson, C. H. & Parkinson, J. A., 1 Jan 2007.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  23. Published

    Automatic imitation remains unaffected under cognitive load

    Ramsey, R., Darda, K. M. & Downing, P., May 2019, In: Journal of Experimental Psychology - Human Perception and Performance. 45, 5, p. 601-615

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  24. Published

    Functional MRI analysis of body and body part representations in the extrastriate and fusiform body areas.

    Taylor, J. C., Wiggett, A. J. & Downing, P. E., 1 Sept 2007, In: Journal of Neurophysiology. 98, 3, p. 1626-1633

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  25. Published

    Functional characterisation of the extrastriate body area based on the N1 ERP component.

    Taylor, J. C., Roberts, M. V., Downing, P. E. & Thierry, G., 1 Aug 2010, In: Brain and Cognition. 73, 3, p. 153-159

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review