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463

Psychology

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Overview

Caroline Catmur is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans neuroscience and psychology, with a primary focus on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. Catmur's work also touches on social psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and clinical psychology.

The main topics explored in their research include:

  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes

Catmur has contributed to numerous peer-reviewed journals, with frequent publications in the following venues:

  • Cognition
  • Cortex
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Behavior Research Methods
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Defining key concepts for mental state attribution," 2024, Communications Psychology
  • "What Happened to Mirror Neurons?", 2021, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "Measuring interoception: The phase adjustment task," 2021, Biological Psychology
  • "The role of alexithymia in social cognition: Evidence from a non-clinical population," 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • "The relationship between alexithymia and theory of mind: A systematic review," 2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Catmur frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Geoffrey Bird, Mirta Stantić, Jennifer Murphy, Jane Conway, and Hélio Clemente Cuve.

Best Publications

  • Sensorimotor learning configures the human mirror system.

    Caroline Catmur;Vincent Walsh;Cecilia Heyes

  • Mirror neurons: from origin to function

    Richard Cook;Geoffrey Bird;Caroline Catmur;Clare Press

  • Theory of Mind Is Not Theory of Emotion: A Cautionary Note on the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test

    Beth Oakley;Rebecca Jane Brewer;Geoffrey Bird;Caroline Catmur

  • Tactile sensitivity in Asperger syndrome.

    Sarah-Jayne Blakemore;Teresa Tavassoli;Susana Calò;Richard M. Thomas

  • Enhancing Social Ability by Stimulating Right Temporoparietal Junction

    Idalmis Santiesteban;Michael J. Banissy;Michael J. Banissy;Caroline Catmur;Geoffrey Bird;Geoffrey Bird

  • Audiotactile interactions in roughness perception.

    Steve Guest;Caroline Catmur;Donna Lloyd;Charles Spence

  • Interoception and psychopathology: A developmental neuroscience perspective

    Jennifer Murphy;Rebecca Brewer;Caroline Catmur;Geoffrey Bird

  • Associative sequence learning: the role of experience in the development of imitation and the mirror system.

    Caroline Catmur;Vincent Walsh;Cecilia Heyes

  • Alexithymia, not autism, is associated with impaired interoception

    Punit Shah;Richard Hall;Caroline Catmur;Geoffrey Bird;Geoffrey Bird

  • Avatars and arrows: implicit mentalizing or domain-general processing?

    Idalmis Santiesteban;Caroline Catmur;Senan Coughlan Hopkins;Geoffrey Bird

  • Alexithymia is associated with a multidomain, multidimensional failure of interoception: Evidence from novel tests.

    Jennifer Murphy;Caroline Catmur;Geoffrey Bird

  • Can neurotypical individuals read autistic facial expressions? atypical production of emotional facial expressions in Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Rebecca Brewer;Federica Biotti;Caroline Catmur;Clare Press

  • Attention does not modulate neural responses to social stimuli in autism spectrum disorders.

    Geoffrey Bird;Caroline Catmur;Giorgia Silani;Giorgia Silani;Christopher D. Frith

  • What Happened to Mirror Neurons

    Cecilia Heyes;Caroline Catmur

  • Through the looking glass: counter‐mirror activation following incompatible sensorimotor learning

    Caroline Catmur;Helge Gillmeister;Helge Gillmeister;Geoffrey Bird;Roman Liepelt

  • Testing the independence of self-reported interoceptive accuracy and attention.

    Jennifer Joanne Murphy;Rebecca Jane Brewer;David Plans;Sahib Khalsa;Sahib Khalsa

  • Classifying individual differences in interoception: Implications for the measurement of interoceptive awareness.

    Jennifer Murphy;Caroline Catmur;Geoffrey Bird;Geoffrey Bird

  • Is alexithymia characterised by impaired interoception? Further evidence, the importance of control variables, and the problems with the Heartbeat Counting Task

    Jennifer Murphy;Rebecca Brewer;Hannah Hobson;Caroline Catmur

  • Time course analyses confirm independence of imitative and spatial compatibility.

    Caroline Catmur;Cecilia Heyes

  • Are we really measuring empathy? Proposal for a new measurement framework.

    Michel-Pierre Coll;Michel-Pierre Coll;Essi Viding;Markus Rütgen;Giorgia Silani

  • Making mirrors: Premotor cortex stimulation enhances mirror and counter-mirror motor facilitation

    Caroline Catmur;Rogier B. Mars;Matthew F. Rushworth;Cecilia Heyes;Cecilia Heyes

  • The Role of the Right Temporoparietal Junction in the Control of Imitation

    Sophie Sowden;Caroline Catmur

  • The 20 item prosopagnosia index (PI20): relationship with the Glasgow face-matching test.

    Punit Shah;Sophie Sowden;Anne Gaule;Caroline Catmur

Frequent Co-Authors

Geoffrey Bird
Geoffrey Bird University of Oxford
Cecilia Heyes
Cecilia Heyes University of Oxford
Michael J. Banissy
Michael J. Banissy Goldsmiths University of London
Clare Press
Clare Press Birkbeck, University of London
Francesca Happé
Francesca Happé King's College London
Jennifer Y. F. Lau
Jennifer Y. F. Lau Queen Mary University of London
Cristina Becchio
Cristina Becchio Italian Institute of Technology
Sahib S. Khalsa
Sahib S. Khalsa Laureate Institute for Brain Research
Giorgia Silani
Giorgia Silani University of Vienna
Vincent Walsh
Vincent Walsh University College London

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