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Overview

Nicholas P. Holmes is affiliated with the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with significant contributions in cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology subfields.

The scientist's work spans various topics within these fields, including:

  • Motor Control and Adaptation
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience
  • Action Observation and Synchronization

Nicholas P. Holmes has published extensively, with a notable presence in Experimental Brain Research, contributing five publications to this venue. Other frequent publication venues include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), eLife, Journal of Neurophysiology, and Nature.

Their recent papers include:

  • "Beware 'persuasive communication devices' when writing and reading scientific articles," 2023, eLife
  • "Do sounds near the hand facilitate tactile reaction times? Four experiments and a meta-analysis provide mixed support and suggest a small effect size," 2020, Experimental Brain Research
  • "No self-advantage in recognizing photographs of one's own hand: experimental and meta-analytic evidence," 2022, Experimental Brain Research
  • "Hand posture, but not vision of the hand, affects tactile spatial resolution in the grating orientation discrimination task," 2022, Experimental Brain Research
  • "Transcranial magnetic stimulation over supramarginal gyrus stimulates primary motor cortex directly and impairs manual dexterity: implications for TMS focality," 2024, Journal of Neurophysiology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nicholas P. Holmes include Olivier Corneille, Jo Havemann, Emma Henderson, Harriet A. Carroll, and Nicholas Outa.

Best Publications

  • Touching a Rubber Hand: Feeling of Body Ownership Is Associated with Activity in Multisensory Brain Areas

    H. Henrik Ehrsson;Nicholas P. Holmes;Richard E. Passingham

  • The body schema and multisensory representation(s) of peripersonal space

    Nicholas P. Holmes;Charles Spence

  • On the other hand: dummy hands and peripersonal space.

    Tamar R. Makin;Nicholas P. Holmes;Nicholas P. Holmes;H. Henrik Ehrsson

  • Justify your alpha

    Daniel Lakens;Federico G. Adolfi;Federico G. Adolfi;Casper J. Albers;Farid Anvari

  • Is That Near My Hand? Multisensory Representation of Peripersonal Space in Human Intraparietal Sulcus

    Tamar R. Makin;Nicholas P. Holmes;Ehud Zohary

  • Multisensory integration: space, time and superadditivity.

    Nicholas P. Holmes;Charles Spence

  • Reaching with alien limbs: Visual exposure to prosthetic hands in a mirror biases proprioception without accompanying illusions of ownership

    Nicholas P. Holmes;Hendrikus J. Snijders;Hendrikus J. Snijders;Charles Spence

  • Effects of action observation on corticospinal excitability: Muscle specificity, direction, and timing of the mirror response.

    Katherine R. Naish;Katherine R. Naish;Carmel Houston-Price;Andrew J. Bremner;Nicholas P. Holmes

  • Extending or projecting peripersonal space with tools? Multisensory interactions highlight only the distal and proximal ends of tools

    Nicholas P. Holmes;Gemma A. Calvert;Charles Spence

  • Multisensory contributions to the 3-D representation of visuotactile peripersonal space in humans: evidence from the crossmodal congruency task

    Charles Spence;Francesco Pavani;Angelo Maravita;Nicholas Holmes

  • When mirrors lie: Visual capture of arm position impairs reaching performance

    Nicholas P. Holmes;Gemma Crozier;Charles Spence

  • Visual bias of unseen hand position with a mirror: spatial and temporal factors.

    Nicholas P. Holmes;Charles Spence

  • Beyond the body schema: Visual, prosthetic, and technological contributions to bodily perception and awareness

    Nicholas P. Holmes;Charles Spence

  • The law of inverse effectiveness in neurons and behaviour: multisensory integration versus normal variability.

    Nicholas P. Holmes

  • The principle of inverse effectiveness in multisensory integration: some statistical considerations

    Nicholas P. Holmes

  • Coding of Visual Space during Motor Preparation: Approaching Objects Rapidly Modulate Corticospinal Excitability in Hand-Centered Coordinates

    Tamar R Makin;Nicholas P Holmes;Claudio Brozzoli;Yves Rossetti

  • Does tool use extend peripersonal space? A review and re-analysis

    Nicholas P. Holmes

  • Mimicry of food intake: The dynamic interplay between eating companions

    Roel C. J. Hermans;Anna Lichtwarck-Aschoff;Kirsten E. Bevelander;C. Peter Herman

  • Infants lost in (peripersonal) space

    Andrew J. Bremner;Nicholas P. Holmes;Charles Spence

  • Peripersonal space : a multisensory interface for body-objects interactions

    Claudio Brozzoli;Tamar R. Makin;Lucilla Cardinali;Nicholas P. Holmes

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles Spence
Charles Spence University of Oxford
Yves Rossetti
Yves Rossetti Lyon Neuroscience Research Center
Flavie Waters
Flavie Waters University of Western Australia
Francesco Pavani
Francesco Pavani University of Trento
Gilles Rode
Gilles Rode Hospices Civils de Lyon
Emily S. Cross
Emily S. Cross University of Glasgow
H. Henrik Ehrsson
H. Henrik Ehrsson Karolinska Institute
Laure Pisella
Laure Pisella Inserm : Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
Clare E. Mackay
Clare E. Mackay University of Oxford

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