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Overview

Geoffrey Bird is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields, including psychology, neuroscience, and medicine. Within these broad areas, Bird has focused extensively on cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, and social psychology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, with notable focus areas including psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, autism spectrum disorder research, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, face recognition and perception, action observation and synchronization, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, and mental health research topics.

Bird's recurring collaborators include Caroline Catmur, Jennifer Murphy, Mirta Stantić, David Plans, and Rebecca Brewer, with varying numbers of coauthored publications indicating ongoing partnership and research synergy.

Frequent publication venues for Bird's research include:

  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Biological Psychology
  • Cognition
  • Autism
  • Cortex

Significant recent papers authored or coauthored by Bird are:

  • "Systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between the heartbeat-evoked potential and interoception," 2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "Contribution of Time Estimation and Knowledge to Heartbeat Counting Task Performance under Original and Adapted Instructions," 2020, Biological Psychology
  • "Atypical interoception as a common risk factor for psychopathology: A review," 2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "Efficacy of the Digital Therapeutic Mobile App BioBase to Reduce Stress and Improve Mental Well-Being Among University Students: Randomized Controlled Trial," 2020, JMIR mhealth and uhealth
  • "The relationship between heartbeat counting and heartbeat discrimination: A meta-analysis," 2020, Biological Psychology

The volume and diversity of publications suggest a sustained research output across experimental studies, meta-analyses, and clinical applications. Bird's interest in the mechanisms underlying interoception, stress, mental well-being, and their relationships to cognitive and clinical psychology is evident.

Best Publications

  • Empathic brain responses in insula are modulated by levels of alexithymia but not autism

    Geoffrey Bird;Giorgia Silani;Rachel Brindley;Sarah White

  • Somatosensory activations during the observation of touch and a case of vision-touch synaesthesia

    SJ Blakemore;D Bristow;G Bird;C Frith

  • Mirror neurons: from origin to function

    Richard Cook;Geoffrey Bird;Caroline Catmur;Clare Press

  • Mixed emotions: the contribution of alexithymia to the emotional symptoms of autism.

    Geoffrey Bird;Richard Cook

  • Levels of emotional awareness and autism: An fMRI study

    Giorgia Silani;Geoffrey Bird;Rachel Brindley;Tania Singer

  • Neural processing associated with cognitive and affective Theory of Mind in adolescents and adults

    Catherine L. Sebastian;Nathalie M. G. Fontaine;Geoffrey Bird;Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

  • The self to other model of empathy: Providing a new framework for understanding empathy impairments in psychopathy, autism, and alexithymia

    Geoffrey Bird;Geoffrey Bird;Essi Viding

  • 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

  • Alexithymia, Not Autism, Predicts Poor Recognition of Emotional Facial Expressions

    Richard Cook;Rebecca Brewer;Punit Shah;Geoffrey Bird;Geoffrey Bird

  • The Structure of Social Cognition: In(ter)dependence of Sociocognitive Processes

    Francesca Gabrielle Elizabeth Happe;Jennifer Cook;Geoffrey Bird

  • Heightened neural reactivity to threat in child victims of family violence.

    Eamon J. McCrory;Eamon J. McCrory;Stéphane A. De Brito;Stéphane A. De Brito;Catherine L. Sebastian;Andrea Mechelli

  • Alexithymia: a general deficit of interoception.

    Rebecca Brewer;Richard Cook;Geoffrey Bird

  • Enhancing Social Ability by Stimulating Right Temporoparietal Junction

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

  • Interoception and psychopathology: A developmental neuroscience perspective

    Jennifer Murphy;Rebecca Brewer;Caroline Catmur;Geoffrey Bird

  • Experience modulates automatic imitation

    Cecilia Heyes;Geoffrey Bird;Helen Johnson;Patrick Haggard

  • Development during adolescence of the neural processing of social emotion

    Stephanie Burnett;Geoffrey Bird;Jorge Moll;Chris Frith

  • Intact automatic imitation of human and robot actions in autism spectrum disorders.

    Geoffrey Bird;Jane Leighton;Clare Press;Cecilia Heyes

  • Alexithymia, not autism, is associated with impaired interoception

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

  • Effects of Oxytocin and Prosocial Behavior on Brain Responses to Direct and Vicariously Experienced Pain

    Tania Singer;Romana Snozzi;Geoffrey Bird;Predrag Petrovic

  • Explaining enhanced logical consistency during decision making in autism.

    Benedetto De Martino;Neil A Harrison;Steven Knafo;Geoffrey Bird

Frequent Co-Authors

Caroline Catmur
Caroline Catmur King's College London
Cecilia Heyes
Cecilia Heyes University of Oxford
Michael J. Banissy
Michael J. Banissy Goldsmiths University of London
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore University of Cambridge
Essi Viding
Essi Viding University College London
Giorgia Silani
Giorgia Silani University of Vienna
Francesca Happé
Francesca Happé King's College London
Chris D. Frith
Chris D. Frith University College London
Eamon McCrory
Eamon McCrory University College London
Tania Singer
Tania Singer Max Planck Society

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