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. 2000
  2. Published

    Interactions between visual working memory and selective attention

    Downing, P. E., 1 Nov 2000, In: Psychological Science. 11, 6, p. 467-473

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. 2001
  4. Published

    A cortical area specialized for visual processing of the human body.

    Downing, P. E., Downing, P. & Kanwisher, N., 1 Jan 2001.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  5. Published

    A cortical area specialized for visual processing of the human body.

    Downing, P. E., Downing, P. & Kanwisher, N., 1 Jan 2001.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  6. Published

    Functional Neuroimaging of Human Visual Recognition.

    Downing, P. E., Kanwisher, N., Downing, P., Epstein, R., Kourtzi, Z., Cabeza, R. (ed.) & Kingstone, A. (ed.), 1 Jan 2001, Handbook of functional neuroimaging of cognition. 2001 ed. MIT Press, p. 109-152

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

  7. Published

    Testing cognitive models of visual attention with fMRI and MEG.

    Downing, P. E., Downing, P., Liu, J. & Kanwisher, N., 1 Jan 2001, In: Neuropsychologia. 39, 12, p. 1329-1342

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  8. Published

    A cortical area selective for visual processing of the human body.

    Downing, P. E., Jiang, Y., Shuman, M. & Kanwisher, N., 28 Sept 2001, In: Science. 293, 5539, p. 2470-2473

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  9. 2002
  10. Published

    Facilitation of voluntary saccades by fMRI guided 1Hz rTMS of the frontal eye field.

    Downing, P. E., Rafal, R., Lauder, J., Machado, L., Dodds, C. & Downing, P., 1 Jan 2002.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  11. Published

    Scene representations in the parahippocampal place area are view-point specific.

    Downing, P. E., Epstein, R., Graham, K. S., Kanwisher, N. & Downing, P., 1 Jan 2002.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  12. 2003
  13. Published

    Competition in Visual Working Memory for Control of Search.

    Downing, P. E. & Dodds, C. M., 1 Jan 2003.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  14. Published

    FMRI-derived maps of discrimination utility for high-level vision.

    Downing, P. E., Chan, A. & Dodds, C., 1 Jan 2003.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  15. Published

    Strong category-selectivity is rare in human visual cortex.

    Downing, P. E., Dodds, C. M., Chan, A. W. & Turnbull, O., 1 Jan 2003.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  16. Published

    Viewpoint-specific scene representations in human parahippocampal cortex.

    Epstein, R., Graham, K. S. & Downing, P. E., 6 Mar 2003, In: Neuron. 37, 5, p. 865-876

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  17. 2004
  18. Published

    Effects of Viewpoint and Identity in Face- and Body-Selective Cortical Areas.

    Downing, P. E., Chan, A. W. & Downing, P., 1 Jan 2004.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  19. Published

    Selectivity for the human body in the fusiform gyrus.

    Downing, P. E. & Peelen, M., 1 Jan 2004.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  20. Published

    Why does the gaze of others direct visual attention?

    Downing, P., Dodds, C. M. & Bray, D. M., 1 Jan 2004, In: Visual Cognition. 11, 1, p. 71-79

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  21. Published

    Bodies capture attention when nothing is expected.

    Bray, D. M., Downing, P. E., Bray, D., Rogers, J. & Childs, C., 1 Aug 2004, In: Cognition. 93, 1, p. B27-B38

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  22. Published

    Competition in visual working memory for control of search.

    Downing, P. E. & Dodds, C. M., 1 Aug 2004, In: Visual Cognition. 11, 6, p. 689-703

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  23. Published

    The effect of viewpoint on body representation in the extrastriate body area.

    Chan, A. W., Peelen, M. V. & Downing, P. E., 25 Oct 2004, In: Neuroreport. 15, 15, p. 2407-2410

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  24. 2005
  25. Published

    Bold latency in FFA and EBA depends on object category.

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

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  26. Published

    Cortical Representation of Faces, Bodies and their Parts.

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

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. Published

    Suppression of involuntary spatial response activation requires selective attention

    Ward, R., Danziger, S., Quirk, R. T., Goodson, L. & Downing, P. E., 1 Feb 2005, In: Visual Cognition. 12, 2, p. 376-394

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  30. 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

  31. 2006
  32. Published

    A compensatory network for voluntary eye movements following a Frontal Eye Field lesion: an fMRI case study.

    Van Koningsbruggen, M. G., Peelen, M. V., Downing, P. E. & Rafal, R. D., 1 Jan 2006.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  33. Published

    An Exploration of Face Selectivity in Human Inferior Frontal Cortex.

    Chan, A. W., Peelen, M. V. & Downing, P. E., 1 Jan 2006.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  34. Published

    Midcingulate responses to others' pain are related to motor processing.

    Morrison, I., Peelen, M. V. & Downing, P. E., 1 Jan 2006.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  35. Published

    Pattern analysis of biological motion selectivity.

    Wiggett, A. J., Peelen, M. V. & Downing, P. E., 1 Jan 2006.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  36. Published

    The role of the extrastriate body area in action perception.

    Downing, P. E., Peelen, M. V., Wiggett, A. J. & Tew, B. D., 1 Mar 2006, In: Social Neuroscience. 1, 1, p. 52-62

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  37. 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

  38. Published

    An event-related potential component sensitive to images of the human body

    Thierry, G., Pegna, A. J., Dodds, C., Roberts, M., Basan, S. & Downing, P., 15 Aug 2006, In: Neuroimage. 32, 2, p. 871-879

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  39. Published

    Domain specificity in visual cortex.

    Downing, P. E., Chan, A. W., Peelen, M. V., Dodds, C. M. & Kanwisher, N., 1 Oct 2006, In: Cerebral Cortex. 16, 10, p. 1453-1461

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  40. 2007
  41. Published

    The N170 face-selectivity is an artefact driven by inter-stimulus perceptual variance

    Thierry, G., Martin, C., Downing, P. & Pegna, A., 1 Jan 2007.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  42. 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

  43. 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

  44. Published

    Functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation of overlapping lateral occipitotemporal activations using multi-voxel pattern analysis.

    Downing, P. E., Wiggett, A. J. & Peelen, M. V., 3 Jan 2007, In: Journal of Neuroscience. 27, 1, p. 226-233

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  45. Published

    Controlling for interstimulus perceptual variance abolishes N170 face selectivity

    Thierry, G., Martin, C. D., Downing, P. E. & Pegna, A. J., 4 Mar 2007, In: Nature Neuroscience. 10, 4, p. 505-511

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  46. Published

    Is the N170 sensitive to the human face or to several intertwined perceptual and conceptual factors?

    Thierry, G., Martin, C. D., Downing, P. E. & Pegna, A. J., 1 Jul 2007, In: Nature Neuroscience. 10, 7, p. 802-803

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  47. Published

    Response-specific effects of pain observation on motor behavior.

    Downing, P. E., Morrison, I., Poliakoff, E., Gordon, L. & Downing, P., 1 Aug 2007, In: Cognition. 104, 2, p. 407-416

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  48. 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

  49. 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

  50. 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

  51. Published

    The sight of other's pain modulates motor processing in human cingulate cortex.

    Morrison, I., Peelen, M. V. & Downing, P. E., 1 Sept 2007, In: Cerebral Cortex. 17, 9, p. 2214-2222

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  52. Published

    Face perception: broken into parts.

    Downing, P. E., 23 Oct 2007, In: Current Biology. 17, 20, p. R888-R889

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  53. 2008
  54. Published

    The face network: Overextended? (Comment on 'Let's face it: it's a cortical network' by Alumit Ishai)

    Wiggett, A. J. & Downing, P. E., 1 Apr 2008, In: Neuroimage. 40, 2, p. 420-422

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  55. 2009
  56. 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

  57. 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

  58. Published

    Animate and inanimate objects in human visual cortex: Evidence for task-independent category effects.

    Wiggett, A. J., Pritchard, I. C. & Downing, P. E., 1 Dec 2009, In: Neuropsychologia. 47, 14, p. 3111-3117

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  59. Published

    Dissociation of extrastriate body and biological-motion selective areas by manipulation of visual-motor congruency.

    Kontaris, I., Wiggett, A. J. & Downing, P. E., 1 Dec 2009, In: Neuropsychologia. 47, 14, p. 3118-3124

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  60. 2010
  61. 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

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