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
- 2009
- 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. 1397-1401Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 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. e6581Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2008
- 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. 420-422Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2007
- Published
Face perception: broken into parts.
Downing, P. E., 23 Oct 2007, In: Current Biology. 17, 20, p. R888-R889Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 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. 1626-1633Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 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. 2214-2222Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 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. 642-651Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 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. 407-416Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
The neural basis of visual body perception.
Peelen, M. V. & Downing, P. E., 1 Aug 2007, In: Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 8, 8, p. 636-648Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 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. 802-803Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 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. 505-511Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 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. 226-233Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 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 conference › Paper
- 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. 4-5Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 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 conference › Paper
- 2006
- 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. 1453-1461Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 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. 871-879Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 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. 815-822Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 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. 52-62Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 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 conference › Paper
- 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 conference › Paper
- 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 conference › Paper
- Published
Pattern analysis of biological motion selectivity.
Wiggett, A. J., Peelen, M. V. & Downing, P. E., 1 Jan 2006.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
- 2005
- 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. 402-408Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 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. 125Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 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. 376-394Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Bold latency in FFA and EBA depends on object category.
Peelen, M. & Downing, P. E., 1 Jan 2005.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
- Published
Cortical Representation of Faces, Bodies and their Parts.
Downing, P. E. & Peelen, M., 1 Jan 2005.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
- 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. 603-608Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2004
- 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. 2407-2410Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 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-B38Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 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. 689-703Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 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 conference › Paper
- Published
Selectivity for the human body in the fusiform gyrus.
Downing, P. E. & Peelen, M., 1 Jan 2004.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
- 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. 71-79Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2003
- 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. 865-876Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Competition in Visual Working Memory for Control of Search.
Downing, P. E. & Dodds, C. M., 1 Jan 2003.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
- 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 conference › Paper
- 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 conference › Paper
- 2002
- 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 conference › Paper
- 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 conference › Paper
- 2001
- 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. 2470-2473Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 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 conference › Paper
- 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 conference › Paper
- Published
Functional Neuroimaging of Human Visual Recognition.
Downing, P. E., Kanwisher, N., Downing, P., Epstein, R., Kourtzi, Z., Cabeza, R. (Editor) & Kingstone, A. (Editor), 1 Jan 2001, Handbook of functional neuroimaging of cognition. 2001 ed. MIT Press, p. 109-152Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
- 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. 1329-1342Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- 2000
- Published
Interactions between visual working memory and selective attention
Downing, P. E., 1 Nov 2000, In: Psychological Science. 11, 6, p. 467-473Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review