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. Article › Research › Peer-reviewed
  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

    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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  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

    Asymmetric visual representation of sex from facial appearance

    Gandolfo, M. & Downing, P., Apr 2023, In: Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. 30, 2, p. 585-595 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Asymmetric visual representation of sex from human body shape

    Gandolfo, M. & Downing, P., Dec 2020, In: Cognition. 205, 104436.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. Published

    Body selectivity in occipitotemporal cortex: Causal evidence

    Downing, P. E. & Peelen, M. V., 1 Jun 2015, In: Neuropsychologia. 83, p. 138-148

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. Published

    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. 2496-2500

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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 journalArticlepeer-review

  20. Published

    Dissecting the visual perception of body shape with the Garner selective attention paradigm

    Johnstone, L. & Downing, P., Jul 2017, In: Visual Cognition. 25, 4-6, p. 507-523

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. Published

    Evidence for integrated visual face and body representations in the anterior temporal lobes

    Harry, B. B., Umla-Runge, K., Lawrence, A. D., Graham, K. S. & Downing, P. E., Aug 2016, In: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 28, 8, p. 1178-1193

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  25. Published

    Evidencing a place for the hippocampus within the core scene processing network

    Hodgetts, C., Shine, J., Lawrence, A., Downing, P. & Graham, K., Nov 2016, In: Human Brain Mapping. 37, p. 3779–3794

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  26. 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

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