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
- Article › Research › Peer-reviewed
- 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
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Body selectivity in occipitotemporal cortex: Causal evidence
Downing, P. E. & Peelen, M. V., 1 Jun 2015, In: Neuropsychologia. 83, p. 138-148Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Boosting forward connectivity between primary visual and body selective cortex reduces interference between sex and emotion judgements of bodies
Gandolfo, M., D'Argenio, G., Downing, P. & Urgesi, C., 15 Apr 2025, In: Neuroimage. 310, p. 121102Research 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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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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Causal Evidence for Expression of Perceptual Expectations in Category-Selective Extrastriate Regions
Gandolfo, M. & Downing, P., 5 Aug 2019, In: Current Biology. 29, 15, p. 2496-2500Research 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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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
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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
- E-pub ahead of print
Converging evidence that left extrastriate body area supports visual sensitivity to social interactions
Gandolfo, M., Abassi, E., Balgova, E., Papeo, L., Downing, P. & Koldewyn, K., 4 Jan 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Current Biology. 34, 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review