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
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The effect of personal grooming on self-perceived body image
van Paasschen, J., Walker, S. C., Phillips, N., Downing, P. E. & Tipper, S. P., 12 Dec 2014, In: International Journal of Cosmetic Science. 37, 1, p. 108-115Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A Causal Role for the Extrastriate Body Area in Detecting People in Real-World Scenes
van Koningsbruggen, M. G., Peelen, M. V. & Downing, P. E., 17 Apr 2013, In: Journal of Neuroscience. 33, 16, p. 7003-7010Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Examining the value of body gestures in social reward contexts
Williams, E., Bilbao-Broch, L., Downing, P. & Cross, E., 15 Nov 2020, In: Neuroimage. 222, 117276.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Pattern analysis of biological motion selectivity.
Wiggett, A. J., Peelen, M. V. & Downing, P. E., 1 Jan 2006.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Representations of action in occipito-temporal cortex.
Wiggett, A. J. & Downing, P. E., 1 Jul 2011, In: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 23, 7, p. 1765-1780Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Learning associations between action and perception: Effects of incompatible training on body part and spatial priming
Wiggett, A. J., Hudson, M., Tipper, S. P. & Downing, P. E., 1 Jun 2011, In: Brain and Cognition. 76, 1, p. 87-96Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 3111-3117Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 420-422Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Separate neural representations of visual and haptic object size
Watt, S. J., Perini, F., Watt, S. & Downing, P. E., 1 Aug 2015, In: Perception. 44, 1, p. 340-341Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 376-394Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Characterizing the discriminability of visual categorical information in strongly connected voxels
Walbrin, J., Downing, P., Sotero, F. D. & Almeida, J., 12 Mar 2024, In: Neuropsychologia. 195, 108815.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Neural Responses to Visually Observed Social Interactions
Walbrin, J., Downing, P. & Koldewyn, K., Apr 2018, In: Neuropsychologia. 112, April, p. 31-39Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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 conference › Paper
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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. 802-803Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 871-879Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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 conference › Paper
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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. 505-511Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 153-159Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 1626-1633Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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fMRI-adaptation studies of viewpoint tuning in the extrastriate and fusiform body areas.
Taylor, J. C., Wiggett, A. J. & Downing, P. E., 1 Mar 2010, In: Journal of Neurophysiology. 103, 3, p. 1467-1477Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Division of labor between lateral and ventral extrastriate representations of faces, bodies, and objects
Taylor, J. C. & Downing, P. E., 1 Dec 2011, In: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 23, 12, p. 4122-4137Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 601-615Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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 conference › Paper
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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. 218-231Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Category selectivity in human visual cortex: beyond visual object recognition
Peelen, M. V. & Downing, P., Oct 2017, In: Neuropsychologia. 105, p. 177-183Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Testing cognitive theories with multivariate pattern analysis of neuroimaging data
Peelen, M. V. & Downing, P., Sept 2023, In: Nature Human Behaviour. 7, p. 1430-1441Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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 journal › Article › peer-review
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The neural basis of visual body perception.
Peelen, M. V. & Downing, P. E., 1 Aug 2007, In: Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 8, 8, p. 636-648Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Is the extrastriate body area involved in motor actions?
Peelen, M. V. & Downing, P. E., 1 Feb 2005, In: Nature Neuroscience. 8, 2, p. 125Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 457-464Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 603-608Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 4-5Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 815-822Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 402-408Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Bold latency in FFA and EBA depends on object category.
Peelen, M. & Downing, P. E., 1 Jan 2005.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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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. 282-288Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. e6581Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 1077-1089Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 975-989Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 593-600Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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, 6Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 1397-1401Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 10490-10502Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Organization of felt and seen pain responses in anterior cingulate cortex.
Morrison, I. & Downing, P. E., 15 Aug 2007, In: Neuroimage. 37, 2, p. 642-651Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 2214-2222Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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 conference › Paper
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Representation of Sex from the Face and Body: Evidence from a Visual Adaptation Task
Mitev, D., Koldewyn, K. & Downing, P., Aug 2024.Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster
- E-pub ahead of print
Are there cortical somatotopic motor maps outside of the human precentral gyrus?
Mitev, D., Koldewyn, K. & Downing, P., 3 Dec 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Neurophysiology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Action Understanding
Lingnau, A. & Downing, P., 9 May 2024, Cambridge Elements : Elements in Perception. Cambridge University Press, 76 p. (Elements in Perception).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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The lateral occipitotemporal cortex in action
Lingnau, A. & Downing, P. E., 3 Apr 2015, In: Trends in Cognitive Science. 19, 5, p. 268-277Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review