Search Results - "WIGGETT, Alison"

Unconscious effects of language-specific terminology on preattentive color perception by Thierry, Guillaume, Athanasopoulos, Panos, Wiggett, Alison, Dering, Benjamin, Kuipers, Jan-Rouke

“…It is now established that native language affects one's perception of the world. However, it is unknown whether this effect is merely driven by conscious,…”
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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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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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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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Patterns of fMRI Activity Dissociate Overlapping Functional Brain Areas that Respond to Biological Motion by Peelen, Marius V., Wiggett, Alison J., Downing, Paul E.

“…Accurate perception of the actions and intentions of other people is essential for successful interactions in a social environment. Several cortical areas that…”
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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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Dissociation of extrastriate body and biological-motion selective areas by manipulation of visual-motor congruency by Kontaris, Ioannis, Wiggett, Alison J., Downing, Paul E.

“…To date, several posterior brain regions have been identified that play a role in the visual perception of other people and their movements. The aim of the…”
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Priming of hand and foot response: is spatial attention to the body site enough? by Wiggett, Alison J., Tipper, Steven P.

“…The purpose of the present study was to test whether we see evidence for body compatibility effects when viewing both familiar and unusual body postures…”
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Learning associations between action and perception: Effects of incompatible training on body part and spatial priming by Wiggett, Alison J., Hudson, Matt, Tipper, Steve P., Downing, Paul E.

“…► We measured body part and spatial priming effects before and after a training phase. ► Associations between actions and visual effects were implicitly…”
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Facilitation and interference in spatial and body reference frames by Wiggett, Alison J., Downing, Paul E., Tipper, Steven P.

“…The observation of someone else’s action facilitates similar actions in the observer. Such priming effects can be driven by alignment between the observer and…”
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Animate and inanimate objects in human visual cortex: Evidence for task-independent category effects by Wiggett, Alison J., Pritchard, Iwan C., Downing, Paul E.

“…Evidence from neuropsychology suggests that the distinction between animate and inanimate kinds is fundamental to human cognition. Previous neuroimaging…”
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The Face Network: Overextended? (Comment on: “Let's face it: It's a cortical network” by Alumit Ishai) by Wiggett, Alison J., Downing, Paul E.

“…We offer a critique of Ishai's [Ishai, A., 2008. Let's face it: it's a cortical network. NeuroImage. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.10.040] comment on the value…”
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fMRI-adaptation studies of viewpoint tuning in the extrastriate and fusiform body areas by Taylor, John C, Wiggett, Alison J, Downing, Paul E

“…People are easily able to perceive the human body across different viewpoints, but the neural mechanisms underpinning this ability are currently unclear. In…”
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Testing key predictions of the associative account of mirror neurons in humans using multivariate pattern analysis by Oosterhof, Nikolaas N, Wiggett, Alison J, Cross, Emily S

“…Cook et al. overstate the evidence supporting their associative account of mirror neurons in humans: most studies do not address a key property,…”
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The role of the extrastriate body area in action perception by Downing, Paul E., Peelen, Marius V., Wiggett, Alison J., Tew, Bryn D.

“…Numerous cortical regions respond to aspects of the human form and its actions. What is the contribution of the extrastriate body area (EBA) to this network?…”
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Doing, seeing, or both: Effects of learning condition on subsequent action perception by Wiggett, Alison J., Hudson, Matthew, Clifford, Angela, Tipper, Steven P., Downing, Paul E.

“…It has been proposed that common codes for vision and action emerge from associations between an individual's production and simultaneous observation of…”
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The effect of Stroop interference on the categorical perception of color by Wiggett, Alison J., Davies, Ian R. L.

“…In two experiments, we examined the effects of Stroop interference on the categorical perception (CP; better cross-category than within-category…”
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The Whorfian mind: Electrophysiological evidence that language shapes perception by Athanasopoulos, Panos, Wiggett, Alison, Dering, Benjamin, Kuipers, Jan-Rouke, Thierry, Guillaume

“…Color perception has been a traditional test-case of the idea that the language we speak affects our perception of the world.1 It is now established that…”
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Perceptual shift in bilingualism: Brain potentials reveal plasticity in pre-attentive colour perception by Athanasopoulos, Panos, Dering, Benjamin, Wiggett, Alison, Kuipers, Jan-Rouke, Thierry, Guillaume

“…The validity of the linguistic relativity principle continues to stimulate vigorous debate and research. The debate has recently shifted from the behavioural…”
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Differentiating heavy from light drinkers by neural responses to visual alcohol cues and other motivational stimuli by Ihssen, Niklas, Cox, W Miles, Wiggett, Alison, Fadardi, Javad Salehi, Linden, David E J

“…The course to alcohol dependence often starts with a preclinical period of heavy drinking. The present article reports functional magnetic resonance imaging…”
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