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Overview

Matthew R. Longo is affiliated with Birkbeck, University of London in the United Kingdom. Their primary research focus spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with significant contributions in cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology. Their work addresses how humans perceive and process sensory information and body representations.

Their research prominently covers topics including tactile and sensory interactions, visual perception and processing mechanisms, action observation and synchronization, motor control and adaptation, face recognition and perception, multisensory perception and integration, and virtual reality applications and impacts.

Matthew R. Longo's frequent co-authors include Denise Cadete, Elena Azañón, Luigi Tamè, Elisa Raffaella Ferrè, and Raffaele Tucciarelli, indicating active collaboration within the cognitive neuroscience community.

Their publications often appear in specialized journals where they have a consistent presence. Key publication venues for their work are:

  • Cognition
  • Perception
  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Current Biology
  • Cortex

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Matthew R. Longo span important contributions in the understanding of body perception and sensory processing. Notable recent works include:

  • "Distortion of mental body representations," 2021, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • "Explicit and Implicit Own's Body and Space Perception in Painful Musculoskeletal Disorders and Rheumatic Diseases: A Systematic Scoping Review," 2020, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • "No specific relationship between hypnotic suggestibility and the rubber hand illusion," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "The Self in the Mind's Eye: Revealing How We Truly See Ourselves Through Reverse Correlation," 2021, Psychological Science
  • "Reconstructing neural representations of tactile space," 2021, NeuroImage

The scientist's work reflects a detailed inquiry into the nuances of body representation, multisensory integration, and perceptual processes. Their research employs experimental methods to explore how the mind constructs and adapts sensory and motor experiences, often utilizing advanced neuroimaging and psychophysical techniques.

Matthew R. Longo's sustained contributions over numerous publications indicate a focus on both fundamental mechanisms in neuroscience and applied perspectives in related fields such as human-computer interaction and virtual reality.

Best Publications

  • What is embodiment? A psychometric approach

    Matthew R. Longo;Friederike Schüür;Friederike Schüür;Marjolein P.M. Kammers;Marjolein P.M. Kammers;Manos Tsakiris;Manos Tsakiris

  • More than skin deep: Body representation beyond primary somatosensory cortex

    Matthew R. Longo;Elena Azañón;Elena Azañón;Patrick Haggard

  • An implicit body representation underlying human position sense

    Matthew R. Longo;Patrick Haggard

  • Having a body versus moving your body: neural signatures of agency and body-ownership.

    Manos Tsakiris;Matthew R. Longo;Patrick Haggard

  • General Magnitude Representation in Human Infants

    Stella F. Lourenco;Matthew R. Longo

  • On the nature of near space: effects of tool use and the transition to far space.

    Matthew R. Longo;Stella F. Lourenco

  • Increased plasticity of the bodily self in eating disorders.

    Ertimiss Eshkevari;Elizabeth Rieger;M R Longo;P Haggard

  • Visually induced analgesia: seeing the body reduces pain

    Matthew R. Longo;Viviana Betti;Salvatore M. Aglioti;Patrick Haggard

  • Imitative response tendencies following observation of intransitive actions.

    Bennett I. Bertenthal;Matthew R. Longo;Adam Kosobud

  • Spatial sensory organization and body representation in pain perception.

    Patrick Haggard;Gian Domenico Iannetti;Matthew R. Longo

  • Visual Distortion of Body Size Modulates Pain Perception

    Flavia Mancini;Flavia Mancini;Matthew R. Longo;Matthew R. Longo;Marjolein P.M. Kammers;Patrick Haggard

  • Spatial attention and the mental number line: Evidence for characteristic biases and compression

    Matthew R. Longo;Stella F. Lourenco;Stella F. Lourenco

  • The Posterior Parietal Cortex Remaps Touch into External Space

    Elena Azañón;Matthew R. Longo;Salvador Soto-Faraco;Salvador Soto-Faraco;Patrick Haggard

  • Owning an overweight or underweight body: distinguishing the physical, experienced and virtual body.

    Ivelina V. Piryankova;Hong Yu Wong;Sally A. Linkenauger;Catherine Stinson

  • Implicit body representations and the conscious body image

    Matthew R. Longo;Patrick Haggard

  • Persistent body image disturbance following recovery from eating disorders

    Ertimiss Eshkevari;Elizabeth Rieger;Matthew R. Longo;Patrick Haggard

  • Space perception and body morphology: extent of near space scales with arm length.

    Matthew R. Longo;Matthew R. Longo;Stella F. Lourenco;Stella F. Lourenco

  • Self awareness and the body image

    Matthew R. Longo;Friederike Schüür;Friederike Schüür;Marjolein P.M. Kammers;Marjolein P.M. Kammers;Manos Tsakiris;Manos Tsakiris

  • Weber's Illusion and Body Shape: Anisotropy of Tactile Size Perception on the Hand

    Matthew R. Longo;Patrick Haggard

  • Threat modulates perception of looming visual stimuli

    Eleonora Vagnoni;Stella Lourenco;Matthew Longo

  • Linking pain and the body: neural correlates of visually induced analgesia.

    Matthew R. Longo;Gian Domenico Iannetti;Flavia Mancini;Jon Driver

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Haggard
Patrick Haggard University College London
Stella F. Lourenco
Stella F. Lourenco Emory University
Bennett I. Bertenthal
Bennett I. Bertenthal Indiana University
Manos Tsakiris
Manos Tsakiris Royal Holloway University of London
Martin I. Sereno
Martin I. Sereno San Diego State University
Ayse Pinar Saygin
Ayse Pinar Saygin University of California, San Diego
Gian Domenico Iannetti
Gian Domenico Iannetti University College London
Salvador Soto-Faraco
Salvador Soto-Faraco Pompeu Fabra University
Heinrich H. Bülthoff
Heinrich H. Bülthoff Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Janet Treasure
Janet Treasure King's College London

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