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Overview

Paul E. Downing is a researcher affiliated with Bangor University in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily focuses on neuroscience and psychology, with particular emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and social psychology. The subfields covered in their research include experimental and cognitive psychology, biomedical engineering, and pollution. The main themes of their scientific investigations address face recognition and perception, action observation and synchronization, neural and behavioral psychology studies, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, visual perception and processing mechanisms, as well as neural dynamics and brain function.

Recent scholarly contributions by Paul E. Downing encompass a range of topics published in various academic journals and book formats. The papers include:

  • Converging evidence that left extrastriate body area supports visual sensitivity to social interactions, 2024, Current Biology
  • Testing cognitive theories with multivariate pattern analysis of neuroimaging data, 2023, Nature Human Behaviour
  • The role of motion in the neural representation of social interactions in the posterior temporal cortex, 2022, NeuroImage
  • Asymmetric visual representation of sex from human body shape, 2020, Cognition
  • Examining the value of body gestures in social reward contexts, 2020, NeuroImage

Paul E. Downing has also authored a book titled Action Understanding, published by Cambridge University Press in 2024.

In terms of collaboration, their frequent co-authors include Kami Koldewyn, Marco Gandolfo, Julia Landsiedel, Katie Daughters, and Etienne Abassi.

Their research has been disseminated widely in several publication venues, with multiple papers appearing in:

  • NeuroImage
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Neurophysiology
  • Nature Human Behaviour
  • Current Biology

Best Publications

  • A cortical area selective for visual processing of the human body

    Paul E. Downing;Yuhong Jiang;Miles Shuman;Nancy Kanwisher;Nancy Kanwisher

  • fMRI evidence for objects as the units of attentional selection.

    Kathleen M. O'Craven;Paul E. Downing;Paul E. Downing;Nancy Kanwisher;Nancy Kanwisher

  • Interactions Between Visual Working Memory and Selective Attention

    Paul E. Downing

  • Selectivity for the Human Body in the Fusiform Gyrus

    Marius V. Peelen;Paul E. Downing

  • The neural basis of visual body perception.

    Marius V. Peelen;Paul E. Downing

  • Domain Specificity in Visual Cortex

    P. E. Downing;A. W.-Y. Chan;M. V. Peelen;C. M. Dodds

  • Viewpoint-specific scene representations in human parahippocampal cortex

    Russell Epstein;Russell Epstein;Kim Samantha Graham;Paul E. Downing

  • Patterns of fMRI Activity Dissociate Overlapping Functional Brain Areas that Respond to Biological Motion

    Marius V. Peelen;Alison J. Wiggett;Paul E. Downing

  • Functional MRI Analysis of Body and Body Part Representations in the Extrastriate and Fusiform Body Areas

    John Charles Taylor;Alison Joyce Wiggett;Paul E Downing

  • The lateral occipitotemporal cortex in action

    Angelika Lingnau;Paul E. Downing

  • Competition in visual working memory for control of search.

    Paul E. Downing;Chris M. Dodds

  • Controlling for interstimulus perceptual variance abolishes N170 face selectivity.

    Guillaume Thierry;Clara D Martin;Clara D Martin;Paul Downing;Alan J Pegna

  • The role of occipitotemporal body-selective regions in person perception.

    Paul E. Downing;Marius V. Peelen

  • An event-related potential component sensitive to images of the human body

    Guillaume Thierry;Alan J. Pegna;Alan J. Pegna;Chris Dodds;Chris Dodds;Mark Roberts

  • Surface-based information mapping reveals crossmodal vision-action representations in human parietal and occipitotemporal cortex.

    Nikolaas N. Oosterhof;Alison J. Wiggett;Jörn Diedrichsen;Jörn Diedrichsen;Steven P. Tipper

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation of overlapping lateral occipitotemporal activations using multi-voxel pattern analysis.

    Paul E. Downing;Alison J. Wiggett;Marius V. Peelen

  • Bodies capture attention when nothing is expected.

    Paul E Downing;David Bray;Jack Rogers;Claire Childs

  • A comparison of volume-based and surface-based multi-voxel pattern analysis

    Nikolaas N. Oosterhof;Tobias Wiestler;Tobias Wiestler;Paul E. Downing;Jörn Diedrichsen;Jörn Diedrichsen

  • The Sight of Others' Pain Modulates Motor Processing in Human Cingulate Cortex

    India Morrison;Marius V. Peelen;Paul E. Downing

  • The role of the extrastriate body area in action perception

    Paul E. Downing;Marius V. Peelen;Alison J. Wiggett;Bryn D. Tew

  • Below the Surface: Analogical Similarity and Retrieval Competition in Reminding

    C.M. Wharton;K.J. Holyoak;P.E. Downing;T.E. Lange

Frequent Co-Authors

Marius V. Peelen
Marius V. Peelen Radboud University
Steven P. Tipper
Steven P. Tipper University of York
Kim S. Graham
Kim S. Graham Cardiff University
Guillaume Thierry
Guillaume Thierry Bangor University
Alan J. Pegna
Alan J. Pegna University of Queensland
Russell A. Epstein
Russell A. Epstein University of Pennsylvania
Jörn Diedrichsen
Jörn Diedrichsen University of Western Ontario
Robert D. Rafal
Robert D. Rafal University of Delaware
Robert Colin Honey
Robert Colin Honey Cardiff University

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