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The lateral occipitotemporal cortex in action by Lingnau, Angelika, Downing, Paul E

“…Highlights • Human lateral occipitotemporal cortex (LOTC) supports action perception and knowledge. • Support comes from studies of motion, tools, bodies,…”
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Category selectivity in human visual cortex: Beyond visual object recognition by Peelen, Marius V., Downing, Paul E.

“…Human ventral temporal cortex shows a categorical organization, with regions responding selectively to faces, bodies, tools, scenes, words, and other…”
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The role of motion in the neural representation of social interactions in the posterior temporal cortex by Landsiedel, Julia, Daughters, Katie, Downing, Paul E., Koldewyn, Kami

“…•The importance of motion in social interaction perception is not fully understood.•Using naturalistic social scenes, we examined the role of motion in the…”
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Selectivity for the Human Body in the Fusiform Gyrus by Peelen, Marius V, Downing, Paul E

“…School of Psychology, University of Wales, Bangor, United Kingdom Submitted 17 May 2004; accepted in final form 3 August 2004 Functional neuroimaging studies…”
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Viewpoint (in)dependence of action representations: an MVPA study by Oosterhof, Nikolaas N, Tipper, Steven P, Downing, Paul E

“…The discovery of mirror neurons-neurons that code specific actions both when executed and observed-in area F5 of the macaque provides a potential neural…”
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A comparison of volume-based and surface-based multi-voxel pattern analysis by Oosterhof, Nikolaas N., Wiestler, Tobias, Downing, Paul E., Diedrichsen, Jörn

“…For functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA) has been shown to be a sensitive method to detect areas that encode…”
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Functional MRI Analysis of Body and Body Part Representations in the Extrastriate and Fusiform Body Areas by Taylor, John C, Wiggett, Alison J, Downing, Paul E

“…School of Psychology, University of Wales, Bangor, United Kingdom Submitted 5 January 2007; accepted in final form 26 June 2007 This study examined the…”
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Crossmodal and action-specific: neuroimaging the human mirror neuron system by Oosterhof, Nikolaas N, Tipper, Steven P, Downing, Paul E

“…Highlights • A human mirror neuron system (HMNS) is thought to underpin complex social phenomena. • Key criteria for HMNS regions are crossmodal and…”
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Examining the value of body gestures in social reward contexts by Williams, Elin H., Bilbao-Broch, Laura, Downing, Paul E., Cross, Emily S.

“…Brain regions associated with the processing of tangible rewards (such as money, food, or sex) are also involved in anticipating social rewards and avoiding…”
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Division of labor between lateral and ventral extrastriate representations of faces, bodies, and objects by Taylor, John C, Downing, Paul E

“…The occipito-temporal cortex is strongly implicated in carrying out the high-level computations associated with vision. In human neuroimaging studies, focal…”
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Surface-based information mapping reveals crossmodal vision-action representations in human parietal and occipitotemporal cortex by Oosterhof, Nikolaas N, Wiggett, Alison J, Diedrichsen, Jörn, Tipper, Steven P, Downing, Paul E

“…Many lines of evidence point to a tight linkage between the perceptual and motoric representations of actions. Numerous demonstrations show how the visual…”
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Organization of felt and seen pain responses in anterior cingulate cortex by Morrison, India, Downing, Paul E.

“…Previous neuroimaging studies comparing pain observation with directly-experienced pain have shown conjoint activations in the cingulate cortex between felt…”
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Interactions between Visual Working Memory and Selective Attention by Downing, Paul E.

“…The relationship between working memory and selective attention has traditionally been discussed as operating in one direction: Attention filters incoming…”
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Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Investigation of Overlapping Lateral Occipitotemporal Activations Using Multi-Voxel Pattern Analysis by Downing, Paul E, Wiggett, Alison J, Peelen, Marius V

“…Several functional areas are proposed to reside in human lateral occipitotemporal cortex, including the motion-selective human homolog of macaque area MT…”
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Visuo-motor imagery of specific manual actions: A multi-variate pattern analysis fMRI study by Oosterhof, Nikolaas N., Tipper, Steven P., Downing, Paul E.

“…An important human capacity is the ability to imagine performing an action, and its consequences, without actually executing it. Here we seek neural…”
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A Cortical Area Selective for Visual Processing of the Human Body by Downing, Paul E., Jiang, Yuhong, Shuman, Miles, Kanwisher, Nancy

“…Despite extensive evidence for regions of human visual cortex that respond selectively to faces, few studies have considered the cortical representation of the…”
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fMRI repetition suppression reveals no sensitivity to trait judgments from faces in face perception or theory-of-mind networks by Butler, Emily E, Ward, Rob, Downing, Paul E, Ramsey, Richard

“…The human face cues a wealth of social information, but the neural mechanisms that underpin social attributions from faces are not well known. In the current…”
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Using multi-voxel pattern analysis of fMRI data to interpret overlapping functional activations by Peelen, Marius V, Downing, Paul E

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Viewpoint-Specific Scene Representations in Human Parahippocampal Cortex by Epstein, Russell, Graham, Kim S., Downing, Paul E.

“…The “parahippocampal place area” (PPA) responds more strongly in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scenes than to faces, objects, or other visual…”
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Representation of action in occipito-temporal cortex by Wiggett, Alison J, Downing, Paul E

“…A fundamental question for social cognitive neuroscience is how and where in the brain the identities and actions of others are represented. Here we present a…”
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