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| Matthew R LongoSummaryAffiliation: University College London Country: UK Publications
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More than skin deep: body representation beyond primary somatosensory cortexMatthew R Longo
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK
Neuropsychologia 48:655-68. 2010..We review a wide range of neuropsychological, neuroimaging and neurophysiological data to explore the dissociation between these different aspects of higher somatosensory function...- Sense of agency primes manual motor responsesMatthew R Longo
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK
Perception 38:69-78. 2009..These results suggest that vision of one's own hand-and, specifically, the sense of agency over that hand-primes manual motor responses... - Self awareness and the body imageMatthew R Longo
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 17 Queen Square, London, United Kingdom
Acta Psychol (Amst) 132:166-72. 2009..These results suggest an important role of a mental body image in the perception of the relation between the self and others... - Visually induced analgesia: seeing the body reduces painMatthew R Longo
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London WC1N 3AR, United Kingdom
J Neurosci 29:12125-30. 2009..Furthermore, these effects were specific to vision of one's own hand and were absent when viewing another person's hand. These results demonstrate a novel analgesic effect of non-informative vision of the body... - Attention modulates the specificity of automatic imitation to human actorsMatthew R Longo
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR, UK
Exp Brain Res 192:739-44. 2009..These results demonstrate that attention modulates the "human bias" of automatic imitation to non-human actors... - Automatic imitation of biomechanically possible and impossible actions: effects of priming movements versus goalsMatthew R Longo
Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 34:489-501. 2008..These results suggest that automatic imitation is modulated by top-down influences, coding actions in terms of both movements and goals depending on the focus of attention... - Visual enhancement of touch and the bodily selfMatthew R Longo
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK
Conscious Cogn 17:1181-91. 2008..These results demonstrate a clear functional relation between the bodily self and basic tactile perception... - What is embodiment? A psychometric approachMatthew R Longo
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, United Kingdom
Cognition 107:978-98. 2008..These results suggest that psychometric tools may provide a rich method for studying the structure of conscious experience, and point the way towards an empirically rigorous phenomenology... - Bisecting the mental number line in near and far spaceMatthew R Longo
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, United Kingdom
Brain Cogn 72:362-7. 2010..These results demonstrate a tight coupling between number and physical space, and show that even such prototypically abstract concepts as number are modulated by our on-line interactions with the world... - Space perception and body morphology: extent of near space scales with arm lengthMatthew R Longo
Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Exp Brain Res 177:285-90. 2007..Arm length may constitute an intrinsic metric for the representation of near space... - Spatial attention and the mental number line: evidence for characteristic biases and compressionMatthew R Longo
Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Neuropsychologia 45:1400-7. 2007.... - An implicit body representation underlying human position senseMatthew R Longo
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London WC1N 3AR, United Kingdom
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:11727-32. 2010..Intriguingly, these distortions appear to retain several characteristics of primary somatosensory representations, such as the Penfield homunculus... - Linking pain and the body: neural correlates of visually induced analgesiaMatthew R Longo
Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, London WC1E 7 HX, United Kingdom, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London WC1N 3AR, United Kingdom, Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom, and Department of Psychology, University of Milano Bicocca, 20126, Milan, Italy
J Neurosci 32:2601-7. 2012.... - Imitative response tendencies following observation of intransitive actionsBennett I Bertenthal
Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 32:210-25. 2006..These differential effects suggest that priming associated with automatic imitation is mediated by a different regime than priming associated with spatial compatibility... - Weber's illusion and body shape: anisotropy of tactile size perception on the handMatthew R Longo
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 37:720-6. 2011..We suggest that the dorsum of the hand is implicitly represented as wider than it actually is and that the shape of tactile RFs may partly explain distortions of mental body representations... - Having a body versus moving your body: neural signatures of agency and body-ownershipManos Tsakiris
Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, UK
Neuropsychologia 48:2740-9. 2010..Body-ownership involves a psychophysiological baseline, linked to activation of the brain's default mode network. Agency is linked to premotor and parietal areas involved in generating motor intentions and subsequent action monitoring... - Visual distortion of body size modulates pain perceptionFlavia Mancini
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London WC1N 3AR, United Kingdom
Psychol Sci 22:325-30. 2011..These results demonstrate that pain perception depends on multisensory representations of the body and that visual distortions of body size modulate sensory components of pain... - A supramodal representation of the body surfaceFlavia Mancini
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London WC1N 3AR, UK
Neuropsychologia 49:1194-201. 2011..We argue that these biases are likely to have a central origin, and result from a supramodal representation of the body surface... - The plasticity of near space: evidence for contractionStella F Lourenco
Department of Psychology, Emory University, 36 Eagle Row, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Cognition 112:451-6. 2009..These results suggest that increased effort, when specifically related to the arm, can serve to reduce the size of near space, providing support for the generally symmetrical plasticity of near space representations... - Phenomenal permanence and the development of predictive tracking in infancyBennett I Bertenthal
The University of Chicago, Department of Psychology, 5848 South, University Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Child Dev 78:350-63. 2007..These results suggest that infants' knowledge of the permanence and nonpermanence of objects is embodied in their predictive tracking... - General magnitude representation in human infantsStella F Lourenco
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Psychol Sci 21:873-81. 2010..These results provide support for the existence of an early-developing and prelinguistic general magnitude system, whereby representations of magnitude information are (at least partially) abstracted from the specific dimensions... - Vision of the body modulates processing in primary somatosensory cortexMatthew R Longo
Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, United Kingdom
Neurosci Lett 489:159-63. 2011..These results provide the first direct evidence that seeing the body modulates processing in SI and demonstrate that vision can affect even the earliest stages of cortical somatosensory processing... - Specificity and coherence of body representationsMarjolein P M Kammers
Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 2, 3584 Utrecht, The Netherlands
Perception 38:1804-20. 2009.... - Multiple spatial representations of number: evidence for co-existing compressive and linear scalesStella F Lourenco
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Exp Brain Res 193:151-6. 2009..However, when they remembered large primes, responses were more consistent with linear scaling. These results show that compressive and linear representations may be accessed flexibly on the same task, depending on the numerical context... - On the nature of near space: effects of tool use and the transition to far spaceMatthew R Longo
Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, 5848 S University Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Neuropsychologia 44:977-81. 2006..In contrast to theories describing near space as that within arm's reach, these findings suggest that the representation of near space is less rigid, extending with tool use and gradually transitioning into far space... - A 2.5-D representation of the human handMatthew R Longo
Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 38:9-13. 2012..The implicit representation of the human hand may be a hybrid, intermediate between a 2-D representation of individual skin surfaces and a 3-D representation of the hand as a volumetric object...