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James M. Kilner is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple domains within neuroscience, medicine, and psychology, with a notable focus on cognitive neuroscience and social psychology.

The scientist's work has concentrated on understanding the interaction between bodily processes and cognitive functions, particularly in areas such as action observation and synchronization, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, and neural and behavioral psychology studies. Additional topics of research include embodied and extended cognition, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, neural dynamics and brain function, and autism spectrum disorder research.

James M. Kilner has published in a range of scientific venues, including:

  • Physics of Life Reviews
  • Heart Lung and Circulation
  • eLife
  • Autism
  • Cognition

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Kilner include Alejandro Galvez-Pol, Pavandeep Virdee, Javier Villacampa, Eleanor R. Palser, and Aikaterini Fotopoulou.

Selected recent papers demonstrate the breadth of their research interests:

  • Active tactile discrimination is coupled with and modulated by the cardiac cycle (2022, eLife)
  • Reduced differentiation of emotion-associated bodily sensations in autism (2021, Autism)
  • Relationship between cardiac cycle and the timing of actions during action execution and observation (2021, Cognition)
  • Emotional representations of space vary as a function of peoples' affect and interoceptive sensibility (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • People can identify the likely owner of heartbeats by looking at individuals' faces (2022, Cortex)

Their research integrates physiological signals such as cardiac activity with perceptual and cognitive processes, especially relating to the timing and synchronization of actions in social contexts. This is reflected in their focus on the cardiac cycle's influence on sensory discrimination and the emotional representation of bodily sensations.

James M. Kilner's academic pursuits contribute to understanding the neural underpinnings of cognition and behavior, merging perspectives from neuroscience and psychology to investigate how internal bodily states interact with external social and environmental stimuli.

Best Publications

  • The mismatch negativity: a review of underlying mechanisms.

    Marta I. Garrido;James M. Kilner;Klaas E. Stephan;Karl J. Friston

  • A free energy principle for the brain.

    Karl Friston;James Kilner;Lee Harrison

  • Predictive coding: an account of the mirror neuron system.

    James Kilner;Karl J. Friston;Christopher D. Frith

  • An interference effect of observed biological movement on action.

    J.M Kilner;Y Paulignan;S.J Blakemore

  • Action and behavior: a free-energy formulation

    Karl J. Friston;Jean Daunizeau;James Kilner;Stefan J. Kiebel

  • Action understanding and active inference

    Karl Friston;Jérémie Mattout;James Kilner

  • Dynamic causal modeling of evoked responses in EEG and MEG

    Olivier David;Stefan J. Kiebel;Lee M. Harrison;Jérémie Mattout

  • Evidence of Mirror Neurons in Human Inferior Frontal Gyrus

    James M. Kilner;Alice Neal;Nikolaus Weiskopf;Karl J. Friston

  • EEG and MEG data analysis in SPM8.

    Vladimir Litvak;Jérémie Mattout;Stefan J. Kiebel;Christophe Phillips

  • Brain systems for assessing facial attractiveness

    Joel S. Winston;John O'Doherty;James M. Kilner;David I. Perrett

  • The functional anatomy of the MMN: A DCM study of the roving paradigm

    Marta I. Garrido;Karl J. Friston;Stefan J. Kiebel;Klaas E. Stephan

  • Human Cortical Muscle Coherence Is Directly Related to Specific Motor Parameters

    James M. Kilner;Stuart N. Baker;Stephan Salenius;Riitta Hari

  • Motor activation prior to observation of a predicted movement.

    James M Kilner;Claudia Vargas;Claudia Vargas;Sylvie Duval;Sylvie Duval;Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

  • The role of synchrony and oscillations in the motor output.

    S. N. Baker;J. M. Kilner;E. M. Pinches;R. N. Lemon

  • More than one pathway to action understanding

    James M. Kilner

  • What We Know Currently about Mirror Neurons

    J.M. Kilner;R.N. Lemon

  • Mechanisms of evoked and induced responses in MEG/EEG

    Olivier David;James M. Kilner;Karl J. Friston

  • Task-dependent modulation of 15-30 Hz coherence between rectified EMGs from human hand and forearm muscles

    J. M. Kilner;S. N. Baker;S. Salenius;V. Jousmäki

  • Integrated neural representations of odor intensity and affective valence in human amygdala

    Joel S. Winston;Jay A. Gottfried;James M. Kilner;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Evoked brain responses are generated by feedback loops

    Marta I. Garrido;James M. Kilner;Stefan J. Kiebel;Karl J. Friston

Frequent Co-Authors

Karl J. Friston
Karl J. Friston University College London
Chris D. Frith
Chris D. Frith University College London
Klaas E. Stephan
Klaas E. Stephan University of Zurich
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore University of Cambridge
Angela Sirigu
Angela Sirigu Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Thomas Foltynie
Thomas Foltynie University College London
Elizabeth Pellicano
Elizabeth Pellicano University College London
Aikaterini Fotopoulou
Aikaterini Fotopoulou University College London
Jason D. Warren
Jason D. Warren University College London

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