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

    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. 108-115

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  2. Published

    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. 7003-7010

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    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 journalArticlepeer-review

  4. Published

    Pattern analysis of biological motion selectivity.

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

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  5. Published

    Representations of action in occipito-temporal cortex.

    Wiggett, A. J. & Downing, P. E., 1 Jul 2011, In: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 23, 7, p. 1765-1780

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  6. Published

    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. 87-96

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. Published

    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. 340-341

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  10. 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

  11. Published

    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 journalArticlepeer-review

  12. Published

    Neural Responses to Visually Observed Social Interactions

    Walbrin, J., Downing, P. & Koldewyn, K., Apr 2018, In: Neuropsychologia. 112, April, p. 31-39

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. Published

    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. 1467-1477

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  21. Published

    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. 4122-4137

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. Published

    Testing cognitive theories with multivariate pattern analysis of neuroimaging data

    Peelen, M. V. & Downing, P., Sept 2023, In: Nature Human Behaviour. 7, p. 1430-1441

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. 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

  31. 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

  32. 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

  33. 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

  34. 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

  35. Published

    Bold latency in FFA and EBA depends on object category.

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

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  36. 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

  37. 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

  38. 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

  39. 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

  40. 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

  41. 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

  42. 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

  43. 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

  44. 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

  45. 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

  46. 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

  47. Published
  48. 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 journalArticlepeer-review

  49. Published

    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 proceedingChapterpeer-review

  50. Published

    The lateral occipitotemporal cortex in action

    Lingnau, A. & Downing, P. E., 3 Apr 2015, In: Trends in Cognitive Science. 19, 5, p. 268-277

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

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