Peer review publications

Preprints/In Press

Grunewald, K., Andrews, J., Minihan, S., Songco, A., Werner-Seidler, A., Blakemore, S-J., Fox, E., Goodyer, I. M., Raffe, W. & Schweizer, S. Protocol for a proof-of-principle study comparing engagement with a gamified versus standard affective control training app targeting emotional wellbeing in adolescents. Protocol: doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/rpvh9. PDF

Khan, Y. T., Seidlitz, J., Dorfschmidt, L., Tsompanidis, A., Allison, C., Lifespan Brain Chart Consortium, Barzilay, R., Alexander-Bloch, A., Baron-Cohen, S., Blakemore, S.-J., & Bethlehem, R. A. I. Associations between the environment, brain, mental health, and cognition across adolescence. Preprint: doi.org/10.64898/2026.04.27.721046

Jones, B., Ball, S., Aukland, L., Beckley, A., Blakemore, S.-J., Byford, S., Casey, T., Crane, C., Dalgleish, T., Dalrymple, N., Dunning, D., Farley, E.-R., Ford, T., Ganguli, P., Greenberg, M. T., Kempnich, M., Lord, L., Medlicott, E., Montero-Marin, J., ... Kuyken, W. (in press). Longer-term impact of universal school-based mindfulness training compared with normal school provision on adolescent mental health and well-being, teacher mental health, and school climate: Results from the two-year follow-up in the MYRIAD cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ Mental Health.

2026

Blakemore, S-J. (2026). The developing adolescent brain: implications for youth justice and children in criminal proceedings. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 81, 101807. doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2026.101807. PDF.

Kilford, E. J.* Fielmann, S. L.*, Baloyi, T., Chierchia, G., Conley, M. I., Kahn, K., Moffett, B. D., Pozuelo, J. R., Sodi, T., Stein, A., Tollman, S., Blakemore, S.-J., & DoBAt & Ebikolwa Consortium (2026). The Limpopo facial emotion stimulus set: Locally validated stimuli for emotion research in sub-Saharan Africa.  Emotion. Advance online publication. doi.org/10.1037/emo0001698. *Joint first authors. 

Hinze, V., Blakemore, S.-J., Dalgleish, T., Ford, T., Mansfield, K. L., Ukoumunne, O. C., Kuyken, W., & Montero-Marin, J. (2025). The longitudinal relationship between self-reported executive function and mental health in early adolescence. JAACAP Open, 4(1), 53–67. doi.org/10.1016/j.jaacop.2025.07.003. PDF

Chierchia, G., B.Piera Pi-Sunyer, M. E.Zein, B.De Martino & S.-J.Blakemore (2026). Collective Risk Taking in Adolescents and Young Adults: Adolescents Take More Risks When Deciding Collectively Than Alone. Journal of Adolescence,98, 1383–1395.doi.org/10.1002/jad.70150. PDF. 

Knight, R., Clegg, H., Dalmaijer, E. S., Dunning, D., Franckel, G., Lenaert, B., Sakol, A., Sandhu, T. R., Vainre, M., Watson, P., Wright, G., Ahmed, S., Ball, S., Dalrymple, N., Fletcher, K., Foulkes, L., Ganguli, P., Griffin, C., Griffiths, K., Komninidou, K., Laws, S., Leung, J., Parker, J., Pi-Sunyer, B. P., Sakhardande, J. A., Shackleford, J., Tudor, K., Wainman, B., Ford, T., Kuyken, W., Blakemore, S.-J., Dalgleish, T., & Bennett, M. (2026). A digitally embedded intervention to enhance psychological decentering and reduce depression severity in at-risk adolescents: A randomised controlled trial of the “One Step Back” programme. eClinicalMedicine, 96, 103971. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2026.103971

Piera Pi-Sunyer, B, Subiza-Pérez, M & Blakemore, S-J. (2026) The link between neighbourhood characteristics and social support: a pathway to adolescent wellbeing. AMPS Proceedings Series, 46(2). doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/3ez5h_v2. PDF

2025

Grunewald, K, Minihan, S, Andrews, JA, Songco, A, Blakemore, S-J, Chau, ACK, Fischer, J, Fox, E, Goodyer, IM, Nelissen, AB, Raffe, W, Richards, W, Werner-Seidler, A & Schweizer, S (2025). Investigating the effects of a novel gamified cognitive training on adolescent mental health. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 19(1):72. doi 10.1186/s13034-025-00917-1. PDF

Thomas, K., Towner, E., Tomova, L., Chierchia, G. & Blakemore, S-J. (2025). Social isolation impacts risk perception but not peer influence in mid-adolescence. Acta Psychologica, 261, 105886, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105886. PDF.

Piera Pi-Sunyer, B, Bignardi, G, García-Baquero, G, Dadvand, P, Vrijheid, M, Guxens, M, Esplugues, A,  Delgado-Saborit, JM, Ibarluzea, J, Blakemore, S-J & Subiza-Pérez, M (2025). Investigating the relationship between neighbourhood characteristics, perceived social support and psychological wellbeing in Spanish adolescents. Scientific Reports, 15 (38845). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-22753-1. PDF.

Bignardi, G, Fazel, M & Blakemore, S-J. (2025). The prevalence of food insecurity and its relationship with wellbeing in a large, cross-sectional study of children and young people in England. JCPP Advances 6,2 e70049.  https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.70049. PDF

Tomova, L, Towner, E, Thomas, K, Zhang, L, Palminteri, S & Blakemore, S-J. (2025). Acute isolation is associated with increased reward seeking and reward learning in human adolescents. Communications Psychology 3, 135. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-025-00306-6. PDF.

Zasiekina, L, Griffin, A, Blakemore, S-J, Hlova, I & Bignardi, G. Prevalence of war-related posttraumatic stress disorder in adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis. In press in Journal of Psychotraumatology 16(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/20008066.2025.2497167. PDF

Moffett, B., Ruiz Pozuelo, J. et al. (2025). A Behavioral Activation Digital Intervention Incorporating Gamification and Peer Support for Adolescent Depression in Rural South Africa: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial (the DoBAt Study). In press in JAACAP Open.  https://www.jaacapopen.org/article/S2949-7329(25)00073-0/fulltext. PDF.

Bignardi, G., Ahmed, S. P., Bennet, M., Dunning, D., Griffiths, K., Leung, J. T., Sakhardande, A., Piera Pi-Sunyer, B., Kuyken, W., Dalgleish, T., & Blakemore, S.-J. (2025). Mental health and socio-cognitive predictors of adherence to COVID-19 social distancing rules in adolescents in England. Heliyon, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e41403. PDF

Griffiths, K., Dunning, D. L., Parker, J., Bennett, M., Schweizer, S., Foulkes, L., Ahmed, S., Leung, J. T., Griffin, C., Sakhardande, A., Kuyken, W., Williams, J. M. G., the MYRIAD team, Blakemore, S-J., Dalgleish, T. & Stretton, J. (2025). Affective control in adolescence: The influence of age and depressive symptomatology on working memory. Emotion, 25(1), 70-78. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0001390. PDF

2024

Knight, R. C., Dunning, D. L., Cotton, J., Franckel, G., Ahmed, S. P., Blakemore, S.-J., Ford, T., Kuyken, W., Dalgleish, T., & Bennett, M. P. (2025). Investigation of the mental health and cognitive correlates of psychological decentering in adolescence. Cognition and Emotion, 39(2), 465–475. 10.1080/02699931.2024.2402947 

Towner, EA, Thomas, K, Tomova, L & Blakemore, S-J. (2024). Increased Threat Learning After Social Isolation in Human Adolescents. Royal Society Open Science.  11: 240101. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsos.240101. PDF

Dunning, D., Parker, J., Griffiths, K., Bennett, M., Archer-Boyd, A., Bevan, A., Ahmed, S., Griffin, C., Foulkes, L., Leung, J., Sakhardande, A., Manly, T., Kuyken, W., Williams, J. M., Blakemore, S-J. & Dalgleish, T. (2024). Sustaining attention in affective contexts during adolescence: Age-related differences and association with elevated symptoms of depression and anxiety. Cognition and Emotion, 38(7), 1122-1134. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2024.2348730. PDF

McGorry, PD, Mei, C Dalal, N, Alvarez-Jimenez, M, Blakemore, S-J et al. (2024). The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on youth mental health. The Lancet Psychiatry 11(9) 731-774. https://www.thelancet.com/commissions/youth-mental-health. PDF

Piera Pi-Sunyer, B., Evans, J., Ratcliffe, K., Janaarthanan, K., Ahmed, S., Kuyken, W., Dalgleish, T., & Blakemore, S-J. (2024). The relationship between perceived friendship quality and self-judgements in adolescent girls from London. The Journal of Early Adolescence, 45(9), 1183-1211. https://doi.org/10.1177/02724316241271327. PDF

Andrews, J. L., Astle, D. E., Jones, J. S. & Blakemore, S-J. (2024). Mapping the role of sexuality in adolescent mental health. Royal Society Open Science 11: 230955 https://doi/epdf/10.1098/rsos.230955. PDF

Orben, A., Meier, A., Dalgleish, T. & Blakemore, S-J. (2024). Mechanisms linking social media use to adolescent mental health vulnerability. Nature Reviews Psychology 3, 407–423.  https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-024-00307-y. PDF

Ahmed, S. P.*, Piera Pi-Sunyer, B.*, Moses-Payne, M. E., Goddings, A. L., Speyer, L. G., Kuyken, W., Dalgleish, T. & Blakemore, S.J. (2024). The role of self-referential and social processing in the relationship between pubertal status and difficulties in mental health and emotion regulation in adolescent girls in the UK. Developmental Science, e13503. *Joint first authors. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13503. PDF

Hinze, V., Montero-Marin, J., Blakemore, S-J., Byford, S., Dalgleish, T., Degli Esposti, M., Greenberg, M., Jones, B., Slaghekke, Y., Ukoumunne, O. C., Viner, R. M., Williams, J. M. G., Ford, T., & Kuyken, W. (2024). Student- and school-level factors associated with mental health and well-being in early adolescence.  Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 63(2), 266-282. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2023.10.004. PDF

Kilford, E. J., Foulkes, L. & Blakemore, S-J. (2024). Association between age, social reward processing and social anxiety symptoms. Current Psychology 43, 4305–4322. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04551-y.  PDF

2023

Schweizer, S., Lawson, R. & Blakemore, S-J. (2023) Uncertainty as a driver of the youth mental health crisis. Current Opinion in Psychology, 53, 101657. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2023.101657. PDF

Schweizer, S., Leung, J. T., Trender, W., Kievit, R., Hampshire, A., & Blakemore, S-J. (2023) Changes in Affective Control Covary with Changes in Mental Health Difficulties Following Affective Control Training (AffeCT) in Adolescents. Psychological Medicine, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291723002167. PDF

Towner, E. A., Chierchia, G. & Blakemore, S-J. (2023). Sensitivity and specificity in affective and social learning in adolescence. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 27(7), 642-655. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2023.04.002. PDF

Goddings, A-L., Dumontheil, I, Viner, R.M. & Blakemore, S-J. (2023) Puberty and risky decision-making in male adolescents. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 60, 101230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101230. PDF

Montero-Marin,  J., Hinze, V., Mansfield, K., Slaghekke, Y., Blakemore, S-J., Byford, S., Dalgleish, T., Greenberg, M. T., Viner, R. M., Ukoumunne, O. C., Ford, T., Kuyken, W. & the MYRIAD Team. (2023). Young People’s Mental Health Changes, Risk, and Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Network Open, 6(9), e2335016.  https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2809780. PDF

Choudhury, S., Piera Pi-Sunyer, B. & Blakemore, S-J. (2023) A neuroecosocial perspective on adolescent development. Annual Review in Developmental Psychology, 5, 285-307. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-devpsych-120321-011511. PDF

Scheuplein, M., Ahmed, S. P., Foulkes, L., Griffin, C., Chierchia, G. & Blakemore, S-J. (2023). Perspective taking and memory for self- and town-related information in male adolescents and young adults. Cognitive Development, 67, 101356. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2023.101356. PDF

Mansfield, K. L., Ukoumunne, O. C., Blakemore, S-J., Montero-Marin, J., Byford, S., Ford, T. & Kuyken, W. (2023). Missing the context: The challenge of social inequalities to school-based mental health interventions. JCPP Advances, 3(2), e12165. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12165. PDF

Kuyken, W., Blakemore, S-J., Byford, S., Dalgleish, T., Ford, T., Hinze, V., Mansfield, K., Montero-Marin, J., Ukoumunne O. C. & Viner, R. M. (2023). Mental health in adolescence: The role of schools-based social emotional teaching. Mental Health, 32(3), 537-540. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2023.2210668. PDF

Zorowitz, S., Chierchia, G., Blakemore, S-J. & Daw, N. D. (2023). An item response theory analysis of the Matrix Reasoning Item Bank (MaRs-IB). Behavior Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02067-8. PDF

Chierchia, G., Soukupová, M., Kilford, E.J., Griffin, C., Leung, J., Palminteri, S. & Blakemore, S-J. (2023). Confirmatory reinforcement learning changes with age during adolescence. Developmental Science, 26(3), e13330. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13330. PDF

Speyer, L. G., Ushakova, A., Blakemore, S-J., Murray, A. L. & Kievit, R. (2023).  Testing for Within x Within and Between x Within Moderation using Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Models. Structural Equation Modelling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 30(2), 315-327. https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2022.2096613. PDF

Orben, A. & Blakemore, S-J. (2023). How social media affects teen mental health: a missing link. Nature, 614(7948), 410-412.  https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00402-9. PDF

Leung, J. T.*, Piera Pi-Sunyer, B.*, Ahmed, S. P.*, Foulkes, L., Griffin, C., Sakhardande, A., Bennett, M. P., Dunning, D. L., Griffiths, K., Parker, J., Kuyken, W., Williams, J. M. G., Dalgleish, T. & Blakemore, S-J. (2023). Susceptibility to prosocial and antisocial influence in adolescence following mindfulness training.  Infant and Child Development, 32, e2386. *Joint first authors. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2386. PDF

Piera Pi-Sunyer, B.*,  Andrews, J. L.*, Orben, A., Speyer, L. G. & Blakemore, S-J. (2023). The relationship between perceived income inequality, adverse mental health and interpersonal difficulties in UK adolescents.  Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 64(3), 417-425. *Joint first authors. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13719. PDF

Genc, S., Raven, E. P., Drakesmith, M., Blakemore, S-J. & Jones, D. K. (2023). Novel insights into axon diameter and myelin content in late childhood and adolescence. Cerebral Cortex 10, 1, 6435–48. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhac515. PDF

2022

Moffett., B. D., Pozuelo, J. R., van Heerden, A., O'Mahen, H. A., Craske, M., Sodi, T., Lund, C., Orkin, K., Kilford, E. J., Blakemore, S-J., Mahmud, M., Musenge, E., Davis, M., Makhanya, Z., Baloui, T., Mahlangu, D., Chierchia, G., Fielmann, S. L., Gómez-Olivé, F. X., Valodia, I. ... Stein, A. (2022). Digital delivery of behavioural activation therapy to overcome depression and facilitate social and economic transitions of adolescents in South Africa (the DoBAt study): protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open, 12, e065977. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-065977.  PDF

Dunning, D.,  Ahmed, S., Foulkes, L., Griffin, C., Griffiths, K., Leung, J. T., Piera Pi-Sunyer, B., Sakhardande, A., Bennett, M., Haag, C., Montero-Marin, J., Packman, D., Vainre, M., Watson, P., The MYRIAD Team, Kuyken, W., Williams, J. M. G., Ukoumunne, O. C., Blakemore, S-J.* & Dalgleish, T.*. (2022). The impact of mindfulness training in early adolescence on affective executive control, and on later mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A randomised controlled trial. BMJ Mental Health, 25, 110-116. https://mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/25/3/110. PDF

Montero-Marin, J., Allwood, M., Ball, S., Crane, C., De Wilde, K., Hinze, V., Jones, B., Lord, L., Nuthall, E., Raja, A., Taylor, L., Tudor, K., MYRIAD Team,  Blakemore, S-J., Dalgleish, T., Byford, S., Ford, T., Greenberg, M. T., Ukoumunne, O. C., Williams, M. G. & Kuyken, W. (2022). School-based mindfulness training in early adolescence: What works, for whom, and how in the MYRIAD Trial? BMJ Mental Health, 25(3), 117-124. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ebmental-2022-300439. PDF

Kuyken, W., Ball, S., Crane, C., Ganguli, P., Jones, B., Montero-Marin, J., Nuthall, E., Raja, A., Taylor, L., Tudor, K., Viner, R. M., Allwood, M.  […] Blakemore, S-J., The MYRIAD Team, Ukoumunne, O. C., Greenberg, M. T., Ford, T., Dalgleish, T., Byford, S. & Williams, M. G. (2022). Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of universal school-based mindfulness training compared with normal school provision in reducing risk of mental health problems and promoting well-being in adolescence: the MYRIAD cluster randomised controlled trial.  BMJ Mental Health, 25, 99-109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ebmental-2021-300396. PDF

Kuyken, W., Ball, S., Crane, C., Ganguli, P., Jones, B., Montero-Marin, J., Nuthall, E., Raja, A., Taylor, L., Tudor, K., Viner, R. M., Allwood, M. Aukland, L. […] Blakemore, S-J., Ukoumunne, O. C., Greenberg, M. T., Ford, T., Dalgleish, T., Byford, S. & Williams, M. G. (2022). Effectiveness of universal school-based mindfulness training compared with normal school provision on teacher mental health and school climate: results of the MYRIAD cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ Mental Health, 25, 125-134. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ebmental-2022-300424. PDF

Tudor, K., Maloney, S., Raja, A., Baer, R., Blakemore, S-J., Byford, S., Crane, C., Dalgleish, T., De Wilde, K., Ford, T., Greenberg, M., Hinze, V., Lord, L., Radley, L., Opaleye, E. S., Taylor, L., Ukoumunne, O. C., Viner, R., MYRIAD Team, Kuyken, W. & Montero-Marin, J. (2022). Universal Mindfulness Training in Schools for Adolescents: A Scoping Review and Conceptual Model of Moderators, Mediators, and Implementation Factors. Prevention Science, 23, 934-953. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-022-01361-9. PDF 

Orben, A., Przybylski, A. K., Blakemore, S-J. & Kievit, R. A. (2022). Windows of developmental sensitivity to social media. Nature Communications, 13(1649). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29296-3. PDF

Towner, E., Grint, J., Levy, T., Blakemore, S-J. & Tomova, L. (2022). Revealing the self in a digital world: A systematic review of adolescent online and offline self-disclosure. Current Opinion in Psychology, 45. 101309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101309. PDF

Minihan, S.*, Songco, A.*, Andrews, J. L., Grunewald, K., Werner-Seidler, A., Blakemore, S-J., Christensen, H., Fox, E., Goodyer, I. M., Raffe, W. & Schweizer, S. (2022). Development of a gamified cognitive training app "Social Brain Train" to enhance adolescent mental health: A participatory design study protocol [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review].  Wellcome Open Research, 7(21). https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17441.1. PDF

Viner, R., Bonell, C., Blakemore, S-J., Hargreaves, J. & Panovska-Griffiths, J. (2022). Schools should still be the last to close and first to open if there were any future lockdown. British Medical Journal, 376(21). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o21. PDF

Moses-Payne, M. E., Chierchia, G. & Blakemore, S-J. (2022). Age-related changes in the impact of valence on self-referential processing in female adolescents and young adults. Cognitive Development, 61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2021.101128. PDF

2021

Ford, T., Degli Esposti, M., Crane, C., Taylor, L., Montero-Marin, J., Blakemore, S-J., Bowes, L., Byford, S., Dalgleish, T., Greenberg, M., Nuthall, E., Phillips, A., Raja, A., Ukoumunne, O., Viner, R., Williams, M., Allwood, M., Aukland, L., Casey, T., De Wilde, K., Farley, E-R., Kappelmann, N., Lord, L., Medlicott, E., Palmer, L., Petit, A., Pryor-Nitsch, I., Sonley, A., Warriner, L., The MYRIAD Team & Kuyken, W. (2021). The Role of Schools in Early Adolescents' Mental Health: Findings from the MYRIAD Study. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 60(12), 1467-1478. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2021.02.016. PDF

Montero-Marin, J., Taylor, L., Crane, C., Greenberg, M., Ford, T., Williams, JM., Garcia-Campayo, J., Sonley, A., Lord, L., Dalgleish, T., Blakemore, S-J., The Myriad Team & Kuyken, W. (2021). Teachers ‘Finding Peace in a Frantic World’: An experimental study of self-taught and instructor-led mindfulness program formats on acceptability, effectiveness and mechanisms. Journal of Educational Psychology, 113(8), 1689-1708.  https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000542. PDF

Harju-Seppänen, J., Irizar, H., Bramon, E., Blakemore, S-J., Mason, L. & Bell, V. (2021). Reward Processing in Children with Psychotic-like Experiences, Schizophrenia Bulletin Open, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/schizbullopen/sgab054. PDF

Foulkes, L. & Blakemore, S-J. (2021). Individual differences in adolescent mental health during COVID-19: The importance of peer relationship quality. Neuron, 109(1-3).  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2021.07.027. PDF 

Tomova, L., Andrews, J. & Blakemore, S-J. (2021). The importance of belonging and the avoidance of social risk taking in adolescence. Developmental Review, 61 100981. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2021.100981. PDF

Lewis, G., Srinivasan, R., Roiser, J., Blakemore, S-J., Flouri, E. & Lewis, G. (2021). Risk-taking to obtain reward: sex differences and associations with emotional and depressive symptoms in a nationally representative cohort of UK adolescents. Psychological Medicine, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291720005000. PDF

Bone, K.J., Lewis, G., Roiser, J.P., Blakemore, S-J. & Lewis, G. (2021). Recall bias during adolescence: Gender differences and associations with depressive symptoms. Journal of Affective Disorders,  282, 299-307. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.12.133. PDF

Becht, A.I., Wierenga, L.M., Mills, K., Meuwese, R., van Duijvenvoorde, A., Blakemore, S-J., Güroğlu, B., & Crone, E.A. (2021). Beyond the average brain: Individual differences in social brain development are associated with friendship quality. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 16(3), 292-301. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaa166. PDF

2020

Crane, C., Ganguli, P., Ball, S., Taylor, L., Blakemore, S-J., Byford, S., Dalgleish, T., Ford, T., Greenberg, M., Kuyken, W., Lord, L., Montero-Marin, J., Sonley, A., Ukoumunne, O. & Williams, M. (2020). Training School Teachers to Deliver a Mindfulness Program: Exploring Scalability, Acceptability, Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness. Global Advances in Health and Medicine, 9, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1177/2164956120964738. PDF

Chierchia, G., Piera Pi-Sunyer, B. & Blakemore, S-J. (2020). Prosocial influence and opportunistic conformity in adolescents and young adults. Psychological Science, 31(12), 1585-1601. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797620957625. PDF

Andrews, J.L.*, Ahmed, S.* & Blakemore, S-J. (2020). Navigating the social environment in adolescence: The role of social brain development. Biological Psychiatry, 89(2), 109-118. *Joint first authors  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2020.09.012. PDF

van Harmelen, A-L., Blakemore, S-J., Goodyer, I.M. & Kievit, R.A. (2020). The interplay between adolescent friendship quality and resilient functioning following childhood and adolescent adversity. Adversity and Resilience Science, 2, 37-50. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42844-020-00027-1. PDF

Ahmed, S.*, Foulkes, L.*, Leung, J.T.*, Griffin, C., Sakhardande, A., Bennett, M., Dunning, D. L., Griffiths, K., Parker, J., Kuyken, W., Williams, J.M.G., Dalgleish, T. & Blakemore, S.-J. (2020). Susceptibility to prosocial and antisocial influence in adolescence. Journal of Adolescence, 84, 56-68. *Joint first authors. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2020.07.012. PDF

Andrews, J.L., Foulkes, L., Bone, J. K. & Blakemore, S-J. (2020). Amplified concern for social risk in adolescence: Development and validation of a new measure. Brain Sciences, 10(6), 397. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci10060397. PDF

Orben, A*, Tomova, L* & Blakemore, S-J. (2020). The effects of social deprivation on adolescent development and mental health. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, 4(8), 634-640.  *Joint first authors. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(20)30186-3. PDF

Andrews, J.L., Foulkes, L. & Blakemore, S-J. (2020). Peer influence in adolescence: Public-health implications for COVID-19. Trends in Cognitive Science, 24(8), 585-587. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2020.05.001. PDF

Knoll, L., Gaule, A., Lazari, A., Jacobs, E. &  Blakemore, S-J. (2020). Neural correlates of social influence on risk perception during development.  Social Neuroscience, 15(3), 355-367. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2020.1726450. PDF

Ruiz Pozuelo, J.,  Stein, A., Blakemore, S-J.,  Kahn, K.,  Dercon, S. &  Pettifor, A. (2020). Cash Transfers, Adolescents and the Adolescent Brain: a developmental perspective. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, 4(3), 177-178.  https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(19)30432-8. PDF

Schweizer, S., Gotlib, I. H., & Blakemore, S.-J.  (2020), The role of affective control in emotion regulation in adolescence. Emotion, 20(1), 80-86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0000695. PDF

2019

Fuhrmann, D., Casey, C.S., Speekenbrink, M. & Blakemore, S.-J. (2019). Social Exclusion Affects Working Memory Performance in Young Adolescent Girls. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 40:100718. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100718. PDF

Schweizer, S., Leung, J.T., Kievit, R., Speekenbrink, M., Tender, W., Hampshire, A., & Blakemore, S.-J. (2019). Protocol for an app-based affective control training for adolescents. Wellcome Open Research, 4(91). https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15229.1. PDF

Chierchia, G.*, Fuhrmann, D.*, Knoll, L.J., Piera Pi-Sunyer, B., Sakhardande, A. L. & Blakemore,S.-J. (2019). The Matrix Reasoning Item Bank (MaRs-IB): Novel, Open-Access Abstract Reasoning Items for Adolescents and Adults. Royal Society Open Science, 6(10). *Joint first authors. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.190232. PDF

Andrews, J.L., Foulkes, L., Griffin, C. & Blakemore, S.J. (2019). The effect of social preference on academic diligence in adolescence. Royal Society Open Science, 6(9), 190165. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.190165. PDF

Bonell, C, Blakemore, S-J, Fletcher, A, & Patton, G. (2019). Role theory of schools and adolescent health. The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, 3(10), 742-748. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(19)30183-X. PDF

Dumontheil, I., Kilford, E. J., & Blakemore, S. J. (2019). Development of dopaminergic genetic associations with visuospatial, verbal and social working memory. Developmental science, 23(2), e12889. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12889. PDF

Blakemore, SJ. (2019). Adolescence and mental health. The Lancet 393(10185), 2030-2031. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(19)31013-X. PDF

Schweizer, S., Parker, J., Leung, J.T., Griffin, C. & Blakemore, S.J. (2019). Age-Related Differences in Affective Control and its Association with Mental Health Difficulties. Development and Psychopathology, 32(1), 329-341. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579419000099. PDF

Blakemore, S-J. (2019). Editorial. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 36, 100617. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100617. PDF

2018

Fuhrmann, D., Schweizer, S., Leung, J. T., Griffin, C. & Blakemore, S-J. (2018). The Neurocognitive Correlates of Academic Diligence in Adolescent Girls. Cognitive Neuroscience, 10(2), 88-99. https://doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2018.1504762. PDF

Pandey, A., Hale, D., Das, S., Goddings, A-L., Blakemore, S-J & Viner, R. (2018). Systematic review and Metaanalysis of effectiveness of universal self-regulation based interventions in children and adolescents. JAMA Pediatrics, 172(6), 566-575. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2018.0232. PDF

Foulkes, L., Leung, J., Fuhrmann, D., Knoll, L. & Blakemore, S-J. (2018). Age differences in the prosocial influence effect. Developmental Science, 21(6), e12666. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12666. PDF

Tamnes, C. K., Overbye, K., Ferschmann, L., Fjell, A. M., Walhovd, K. B., Blakemore, S-J. & Dumontheil, I. ​(2018). Social perspective taking is associated with self-reported prosocial behavior and regional cortical thickness across adolescence. Developmental Psychology, 54(9), 1745-1757. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0000541. PDF

Foulkes, L. & Blakemore, S-J. (2018). Studying individual differences in human adolescent brain development. Nature Neuroscience, 21, 315-323. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-018-0078-4. PDF

Blakemore, S-J. (2018). Avoiding social risk in adolescence. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 27(2), 116-122. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721417738144. PDF

2017

Knoll, L.J., Leung, J.T., Foulkes, L. & Blakemore, S-J. (2017) Age-related differences in social influence on risk perception depend on the direction of influence. Journal of Adolescence, 60, 53-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2017.07.002. PDF

Palminteri, S., Levebvre, G., Kilford, E.J. & Blakemore, S-J. (2017). Confirmation bias in human reinforcement learning: evidence from counterfactual feedback processing. PLOS Computational Biology, 13(8), e1005684. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005684. PDF

Tamnes, C., Herting, M., Goddings, A-L., Meuwese, R., Blakemore, S-J., Dahl, R., Guroglu, B., Raznahan, A., Sowell, E., Crone, E., ​& Mills, K​.​ (2017). ​Development of the cerebral cortex across adolescence: A multisample study of interrelated longitudinal changes in cortical volume, surface area and thickness​. Journal of Neuroscience,​ 37(12), 3402-3412. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3302-16.2017. PDF

Magis-Weinberg, L., Blakemore, S-J. & Dumontheil, I. (2017). Social and non-social relational reasoning in adolescence and adulthood. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 29(10), 1739-1754. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01153. PDF

Ziegler, G., Ridgway, G., Blakemore, S-J., Ashburner, J. & Penny, W.D. (2017). Multivariate Dynamic Modelling of Structural Change during Development, Neuroimage, 147, 746-762. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.12.017. PDF

2016

Knoll, L.J.*, Fuhrmann, D.*, Sakhardande, A., Stamp, F., Speekenbrink, M. & Blakemore, S-J. (2016). A window of opportunity for cognitive training in adolescence. Psychological Science, 27(12),1620-1631. *Joint first authors https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797616671327. PDF

Fuhrmann, D., Knoll, L. J., Sakhardande, A., Speekenbrink, M., Cohen Kadosh, K. & Blakemore, S-J. (2016). Perception and recognition of faces in adolescence. Scientific Reports, 6, 33497. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep33497. PDF

Kilford, E. J., Garrett, E. & Blakemore, S-J. (2016). The Development of Social Cognition in Adolescence: An Integrated Perspective. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 70, 106-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.08.016. PDF

Mills, K. L., Goddings, A-L., Herting, M. M., Meuwese, R., Blakemore, S-J., Crone, E. A., Dahl, R. E., Güroglu, B., Raznahan, A., Sowell, E. R. & Tamnes, C. K. (2016). Structural brain development between childhood and adulthood: Convergence across four longitudinal samples. Neuroimage, 141, 273-281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.07.044. PDF

Palminteri, S, Kilford, E. J., Coricelli, G. & Blakemore, S-J. (2016). The computational development of reinforcement learning during adolescence. PLOS Computational Biology, 12(6), e1004953. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004953. PDF

Foulkes, L. & Blakemore, S-J. (2016). Is there heightened sensitivity to social reward in adolescence? Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 40, 81-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2016.06.016. PDF

Dumontheil, I., Wolf, L. K. & Blakemore, S-J. (2016). Audience effects on the neural correlates of relational reasoning in adolescence. Neuropsychologia, 87, 85-95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.05.001. PDF

2015

Mills, K. L., Dumontheil, I., Speekenbrink, M. & Blakemore, S-J. (2015). Multitasking during social interactions in adolescence and early adulthood. Royal Society Open Science, 2(11), 150117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150117. PDF

Fuhrmann, D., Knoll, L. J. & Blakemore, S-J. (2015). Adolescence as a sensitive period of brain development. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 19(10), 558-566. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2015.07.008. PDF

Wolf, L. K., Bazargani, N., Kilford, E. J., Dumontheil. I. & Blakemore, S-J. (2015). The audience effect in adolescence depends on who's looking over your shoulder. Journal of Adolescence, 43, 5-14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2015.05.003. PDF

Knoll, L. J., Magis-Weinberg, L., Speekenbrink, M. & Blakemore, S-J. (2015). Social influence of risk perception during adolescence. Psychological Science, 26(5), 583-592. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797615569578. PDF

Menzies, L.,* Goddings, A-L.,* Whitaker, K. J., Blakemore, S-J. & Viner, R. M. (2015). The effects of puberty on white matter development in boys. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 11, 116-128. *Joint first authors. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2014.10.002. PDF

2014

Dumontheil, I.,* Jensen, S. K. G.,* Wood, N. W., Meyer, M. L., Lieberman, M. D. & Blakemore, S-J. (2014). Preliminary investigation of the influence of dopamine regulating genes on social working memory. Social Neuroscience, 9(5), 437-451. *Joint first authors. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2014.925503. PDF

Kilford, E. J.,* Dumontheil, I.,* Wood, N. W. & Blakemore, S-J. (2015). Influence of COMT genotype and affective distractors on the processing of self-generated thought. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10(6), 777-782. *Joint first authors. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsu118. PDF

Feldstein Ewing, S. W., Sakhardande, A. & Blakemore, S-J. (2014). The effect of alcohol consumption on the adolescent brain: a systematic review of MRI and fMRI studies of alcohol-using youth. NeuroImage: Clinical, 5, 420-437. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2014.06.011. PDF

Hillebrandt, H., Friston, K. J. & Blakemore, S-J. (2014). Effective connectivity during animacy perception - dynamic causal modelling of Human Connectome Project data. Nature Scientific Reports, 4(6240), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep06240. PDF

Mills, K. L., Goddings, A-L. & Blakemore, S-J. (2014). Drama in the teenage brain. Frontiers for Young Minds, 2(16), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2014.00016. PDF

Mills, K. L.,* Goddings, A-L.,* Clasen, L. S., Giedd, J. N. & Blakemore, S-J. (2014). The developmental mismatch in structural brain maturation during adolescence. Developmental Neuroscience, 36(3-4), 147-160. *Joint first authors. https://doi.org/10.1159/000362328. PDF

Fett, A. K., Shergill, S. S., Gromann, P. M., Dumontheil, I., Blakemore, S-J., Yakub, F. & Krabbendam, L. (2014). Trust and social reciprocity in adolescence - a matter of perspective-taking. Journal of Adolescence, 37(2), 175-184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2013.11.011. PDF

Blakemore, S-J. & Mills, K. L. (2014). Is adolescence a sensitive period for sociocultural processing? Annual Review of Psychology, 65(1), 187-207. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-010213-115202. PDF

Goddings, A-L., Mills, K. L., Clasen, L. S., Giedd, J. N., Viner, R. M. & Blakemore, S-J. (2014). The influence of puberty on subcortical brain development. Neuroimage, 88, 242-251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.09.073. PDF

Mills, K. L., Lalonde, F., Clasen, L. Giedd, J. N. & Blakemore, S-J. (2014). Developmental changes in the structure of the social brain in late childhood and adolescence. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9(1), 123-131. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nss113. PDF

Cook, J., Swapp, D., Pan, X., Bianchi-Berthouze, N. & Blakemore, S-J. (2014). Atypical interference effect of action observation in autism spectrum conditions. Psychological Medicine, 44(4), 731-40. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291713001335. PDF

2013

Moutsiana, C., Garrett, N., Clarke, R. C., Lotto, B., Blakemore, S-J. & Sharot, T. (2013). Human development of the ability to learn from bad news. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 110(41), 16396-16401. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1305631110. PDF  

Klapwijk, E. T., Goddings, A-L., Burnett Heyes, S., Bird, G., Viner, R. M. & Blakemore, S-J. (2013). Increased functional connectivity with puberty in the mentalising network involved in social emotion processing. Hormones & Behavior, 64(2), 314-322. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2013.03.012. PDF

Wolf, L. K., Wright, N. D., Kilford, E. J., Dolan, R. J. & Blakemore, S-J. (2013). Developmental changes in effects of risk and valence on adolescent decision-making. Cognitive Development, 28(3), 290-299. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2013.04.001. PDF

Cook, J., Blakemore, S-J. & Press, C. (2013). Atypical basic movement kinematics in autism spectrum conditions. Brain, 136(9), 2816-2824. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awt208. PDF

Hillebrandt, H., Dumontheil, I., Blakemore, S-J. & Roiser, J. P. (2013). Dynamic Causal Modelling of effective connectivity during perspective taking in a communicative task. Neuroimage, 76, 116-124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.02.072. PDF

Cohen Kadosh, K., Johnson, M. H., Dick, F., Cohen Kadosh, R. & Blakemore, S-J. (2013). Effects of age, task performance, and structural brain development on face processing. Cerebral Cortex, 23(7), 1630-1642. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhs150. PDF

Blakemore, S-J. (2013). Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: rethinking the adolescent brain. The Lancet, 382(9902), 1395.  https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62201-1. PDF

Barbalat, G., Bazargani, N. & Blakemore, S-J. (2013). The Influence of Prior Expectations on Emotional Face Perception in Adolescence. Cerebral Cortex, 23(7), 1542-1551. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhs140. PDF

Weil, L. G., Fleming, S. M., Dumontheil, I., Kilford, E. J., Weil, R. S., Rees, G., Dolan, R. J. & Blakemore, S-J. (2013). The development of metacognitive ability in adolescence. Consciousness & Cognition, 22(1), 264-271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2013.01.004. PDF

Cohen Kadosh, K. C., Johnson, M. H., Henson, R. N. A., Dick, F. & Blakemore, S-J. (2013). Differential face-network adaptation in children, adolescents and adults. Neuroimage, 69, 11-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.11.060. PDF

Blakemore, S-J. (2013). Teenage kicks: cannabis and the teenage brain. The Lancet, 381(9870), 888-889.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61578-5. PDF 

2012

Blakemore, S-J. & Robbins, T. W. (2012). Decision-making in the adolescent brain. Nature Neuroscience, 15, 1184-1191. https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3177. PDF 

Cook, J. L., Barbalat, G. & Blakemore, S-J. (2012). Top-down modulation of the perception of other people in schizophrenia and autism. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6(175), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00175. PDF

Sebastian, C. L., Fontaine, N. M. G., Bird, G., Blakemore, S-J., De Brito, S. A., McCrory, E. J. P. & Viding, E. (2012) Neural processing associated with cognitive and affective Theory of Mind in adolescents and adults. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 7(1), 53-63. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsr023. PDF 

Dumontheil, I., Hillebrandt, H., Apperly, I. A. & Blakemore, S-J. (2012). Developmental differences in the control of action selection by  social information. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(10), 2080-2095. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00268. PDF

Blakemore, S-J. (2012). Development of the social brain in adolescence. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 105(3), 111–116. https://doi.org/10.1258/jrsm.2011.110221. PDF

Sawyer, S. M., Afifi, R. A., Bearinger, L. H., Blakemore, S-J., Dick, B., Ezeh, A. C. & Patton, G. C. (2012). Adolescence: a foundation for future health. Lancet, 379(9826), 1630-1640. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60072-5. PDF

Goddings, A-L., Burnett Heyes, S., Bird, G., Viner, R. M. & Blakemore, S-J. (2012). The relationship between puberty and social emotion processing. Developmental Science, 15(6), 801-811. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2012.01174.x. PDF

Pfeifer, J.H. & Blakemore, S-J. (2012). Adolescent social cognitive and affective neuroscience: past, present, and future. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 7(1), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsr099. PDF

Blakemore, S-J. & Bunge, S. (2012). At the Nexus of Neuroscience and Education. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2012.01.001. PDF

Barbalat, G., Rouault, M., Bazargani, N., Shergill, S. & Blakemore, S-J. (2012) The influence of prior expectations on facial expression discrimination in schizophrenia. Psychological Medicine, 42(11), 2301-2311. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291712000384. PDF

Blakemore S-J. (2012). Imaging brain development: The adolescent brain. Neuroimage, 61(2), 397-406. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.11.080. PDF

Dumontheil, I. & Blakemore, S-J. (2012). Social cognition and abstract thought in adolescence: The role of structural and functional development in rostral prefrontal cortex. British Journal of Educational Psychology Monograph Series II, 8, 99-113. DOI: 10.1348/97818543371712X13219598392372. PDF

2011

Burnett, S., Thompson, S. S., Bird, G. & Blakemore, S-J. (2011) Pubertal development of the understanding of social emotions: implications for education. Learning and Individual Differences, 21(6), 681-689. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2010.05.007. PDF

Sebastian, C. & Blakemore, S-J. (2011). Understanding the neural response to social rejection in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders: A commentary on Masten et al., McPartland et al. and Bolling et al. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 1(3), 256-259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2011.03.006. PDF

Viding, E., McCrory, E. J., Blakemore, S-J. & Frederickson, N. (2011). Behavioural problems and bullying at school: can cognitive neuroscience shed new light on an old problem? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 15(7), 289-291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2011.05.001. PDF

Sebastian, C. L., Tan, G. C. Y., Roiser, J. P., Viding, E., Dumontheil, I. & Blakemore, S-J. (2011). Developmental influences on the neural bases of responses to social rejection: implications of social neuroscience for education. NeuroImage, 57(3), 686-694. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.09.063. PDF

Blakemore, S-J., Dahl, R. D., Frith, U. & Pine, D. S. (2011). Editorial. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 1(1), 3-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2010.08.003. PDF

Burnett, S., Sebastian, C., Cohen-Kadosh, K. & Blakemore, S-J. (2011). The social brain in adolescence: Evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging and behavioural studies. Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews, 35(8), 1654–1664. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2010.10.011. PDF

Press, C., Cook, J., Blakemore, S-J. & Kilner, J. (2011). Dynamic Modulation of Human Motor Activity When Observing Actions. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(8), 2792-2800. https://dx.doi.org/10.1523%2FJNEUROSCI.1595-10.2011. PDF

2010

Hillebrandt, H., Sebastian, C., & Blakemore, S-J. (2010). Experimentally induced social inclusion influences behavior on trust games. Cognitive Neuroscience, 2(1), 27-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2010.515020. PDF

Blakemore, S-J. (2010). The developing social brain: implications for education. Neuron, 65(6), 744-747. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2010.03.004. PDF

Burnett, S., Bault, N., Coricelli, G. & Blakemore, S-J. (2010). Adolescents’ heightened risk-seeking in a probabilistic gambling task. Cognitive Development, 25(2), 183-196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2009.11.003. PDF

Dumontheil, I., Küster, O., Apperly, I. A. & Blakemore, S-J. (2010). Taking perspective into account in a communicative task. Neuroimage, 52(4), 1574-1583. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.05.056. PDF 

Dumontheil, I., Hassan, B., Gilbert, S. & Blakemore, S-J. (2010). Development of the selection and manipulation of self-generated thoughts in adolescence. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(22), 7664-7671. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1375-10.2010. PDF 

Sebastian, C., Roiser, J., Tan, G., Viding, E., Wood, N. & Blakemore, S-J. (2010). Effects of age and MAOA genotype on the neural processing of social rejection. Genes, Brain and Behavior, 9(6), 628-637. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1601-183X.2010.00596.x. PDF

Chaminade, T., Zecca, M., Blakemore, S-J., Takanishi, A., Frith, C. D., Micera, S., Dario, P., Rizzolatti, G. ,Gallese, V. & Umiltà, M. A. (2010). Brain response to a humanoid robot in areas implicated in the perception of human emotional gestures. PLoS ONE, 5(7), e11577, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0011577. PDF 

Blakemore, S-J., Burnett, S. & Dahl, R. (2010). The role of puberty in the developing adolescent brain. Human Brain Mapping, 31(6), 926-933. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.21052. PDF

Dumontheil, I., Houlton, R. ,Christoff, K. & Blakemore, S-J. (2010). Development of relational reasoning during adolescence. Developmental Science, 13(6), F15-F24. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2010.01014.x. PDF

Saygin, A.P., Cook, J. & Blakemore, S-J. (2010). Unaffected perceptual thresholds for biological and non-biological form-from-motion perception in autism spectrum conditions. PLoS One, 5(10), e13491, 1-10.  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0013491. PDF

Sebastian, C., Viding, E., Williams, K. & Blakemore, S-J. (2010). Social brain development and the affective consequences of ostracism in adolescence. Brain & Cognition, 72(1), 134-145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2009.06.008. PDF

Dumontheil, I., Apperly, I. A. & Blakemore, S-J. (2010). Online usage of theory of mind continues to develop in late adolescence. Developmental Science, 13(2), 331-338. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00888.x. PDF

2009

Burnett, S. & Blakemore, S-J. (2009). The development of adolescent social cognition. Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1167(1), 51-56. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1749-6632.2009.04509.x. PDF

Choudhury, S., Charman, T. & Blakemore, S-J. (2008). Development of the teenage brain. Mind, Brain & Education, 2(3), 142-147. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-228X.2008.00045.x. PDF

Boraston, Z. L., Corden, B., Miles, L. K., Skuse, D. H. & Blakemore S-J. (2008). Perception of genuine and posed smiles by individuals with autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 38, 574-580. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-007-0421-1. PDF

Burnett, S., Bird, G., Moll, J., Frith, C. & Blakemore, S-J. (2009). Development during adolescence of the neural processing of social emotion. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(9), 1736-1750. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2009.21121. PDF

Cook, J., Saygin, A. P., Swain, R. & Blakemore, S-J. (2009). Reduced sensitivity to minimum-jerk biological motion in autism spectrum conditions. Neuropsychologia, 47(14), 3275-3278. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.07.010. PDF

Burnett, S. & Blakemore, S-J. (2009). Functional connectivity during a social emotion task in adolescents and adults. European Journal of Neuroscience, 29(6), 1294-1301. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1460-9568.2009.06674.x. PDF

Sebastian, C., Blakemore, S-J. & Charman, T. (2009). Reactions to ostracism in adolescents with autism spectrum conditions. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 39, 1122-1130. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-009-0725-4. PDF 

2008

Sebastian, C., Burnett, S. & Blakemore, S-J. (2008). Development of the self concept during adolescence. Trends in Cognitive Science, 12(11), 441-446. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2008.07.008. PDF

Blakemore, S-J. (2008). The social brain in adolescence. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 9, 267-277. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn2353. PDF

Dumontheil, I., Burgess, P. & Blakemore, S-J. (2008). Development of rostral prefrontal cortex and cognitive and behavioural disorders. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 50(3), 168-181. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1469-8749.2008.02026.x. PDF

Blakemore, S-J. (2008). Development of the social brain during adolescence. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61(1), 40-49. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470210701508715. PDF

2007 

Kilner, J. M., Hamilton, A. F. & Blakemore, S-J. (2007). Interference effect of observed human movement on action is due to velocity profile of biological motion. Social Neuroscience, 2(3-4), 158–166.  https://doi.org/10.1080/17470910701428190. PDF

Blakemore, S-J., den Ouden, H., Choudhury, S. & Frith, C. (2007). Adolescent development of the neural circuitry for thinking about intentions. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2(2), 130-139. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093%2Fscan%2Fnsm009. PDF

Boraston, Z. & Blakemore, S-J. (2007). The application of eye-tracking technology in the study of autism. Journal of Physiology, 581(3), 893-898. https://dx.doi.org/10.1113%2Fjphysiol.2007.133587. PDF

Choudhury, S., Charman, T., Bird, V. & Blakemore, S-J. (2007). Adolescent development of motor imagery in a visually guided pointing task. Consciousness and Cognition, 16(4), 886-896. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2006.11.001. PDF

Choudhury, S., Bird, V., Charman, T. & Blakemore, S-J. (2007). Development of action representation during adolescence. Neuropsychologia, 45(2), 255-262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.07.010. PDF

2006

Boraston, Z., Blakemore, S-J., Chilvers, R. & Skuse, D. (2006). Impaired sadness recognition is linked to social interaction deficit in autism. Neuropsychologia, 45(7), 1501-1510. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.11.010. PDF

Viding, E. & Blakemore, S-J. (2006). Endophenotype approach to the study of developmental psychopathology: implications for autism. Behavior Genetics, 37, 51-60. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10519-006-9105-4. PDF

Choudhury, S., Blakemore, S-J. & Charman, T. (2006). Social cognitive development during adolescence. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 1(3), 165–174. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsl024. PDF

Blakemore, S-J. & Choudhury, S. (2006). Development of the adolescent brain: implications for executive function and social cognition. Journal of Child Psychiatry and Psychology, 47(3-4), 296-312. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2006.01611.x. PDF

Blagrove, M., Blakemore, S-J. & Thayer, B. R. J. (2006). The ability to self-tickle following Rapid Eye Movement sleep dreaming. Consciousness and Cognition, 15(2), 285-294. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2005.06.007. PDF

Blakemore, S-J., Tavassoli, T., Calò, S., Thomas, R. M., Catmur, C. ,Frith, U. & Haggard, P. (2006). Tactile sensitivity in Asperger syndrome. Brain and Cognition, 61(1), 5-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2005.12.013. PDF

2005

den Ouden, H. E. M., Frith, U., Frith, C. & Blakemore, S-J. (2005). Thinking about intentions. Neuroimage, 28(4), 787-796. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.05.001. PDF 

Howard-Jones, P. A., Blakemore, S-J., Samuel, E. A., Summers, I. R. & Claxton, G. (2005). Semantic divergence and creative story generation: an fMRI investigation. Cognitive Brain Research, 25(1), 240-250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.05.013. PDF

Blakemore, S-J. & Frith, U. (2005). The Learning Brain: Lessons for Education: a précis. Developmental Science, 8(6), 459-471. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2005.00434.x. PDF

Blakemore, S-J., Bristow, D., Bird, G., Frith, C. & Ward, J. (2005). Somatosensory activations during the observation of touch and a case of vision-touch synesthesia. Brain, 128(7), 1571-1583. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awh500. PDF

Blakemore, S-J. & Frith, C. D. (2005). The role of motor contagion in the prediction of action. Neuropsychologia, 43(2), 260-267. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.11.012. PDF

2004

Kilner, J. M., Vargas, C., Duval, S., Blakemore S-J. & Sirigu, A. (2004). Motor activation prior to observation of a predicted movement. Nature Neuroscience, 7, 1299–1301. https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1355. PDF

Blakemore, S-J., Winston, J. & Frith, U. (2004). Social Cognitive Neuroscience: where are we heading? Trends in Cognitive Science, 8(5), 216-222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2004.03.012. PDF

Blakemore, S-J. & Frith, U. (2004). How does the brain deal with the social world? NeuroReport, 15(1), 119-128. https://doi.org/10.1097/00001756-200401190-00024. PDF

2003

Blakemore, S-J. (2003). Deluding the motor system. Consciousness and Cognition, 12(4), 647-655. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2003.07.001. PDF

Blakemore, S-J., Sarfati, Y., Bazin, N. & Decety, J. (2003). The detection of intentional contingencies in simple animations in patients with delusions of persecution. Psychological Medicine, 33(8), 1433-1441. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291703008341. PDF

Blakemore, S-J. & Sirigu, A. (2003). Action prediction in the cerebellum and in the parietal cortex. Experimental Brain Research, 153, 239-245. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-003-1597-z. PDF

Blakemore, S-J., Boyer, P., Pachot-Clouard, M., Meltzoff, A., Segebarth, C. & Decety, J. (2003). The detection of contingency and animacy from simple animations in the human brain. Cerebral Cortex, 13(8), 837-844. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/13.8.837. PDF

Blakemore S-J. & Frith, C.D. (2003). Self-awareness and action. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 13(2), 219-224. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0959-4388(03)00043-6. PDF

Kilner, J. M., Paulignan, Y. & Blakemore S-J. (2003). An interference effect of observed biological movement on action. Current Biology, 13(6), 522-525. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0960-9822(03)00165-9. PDF

Blakemore, S-J., Oakley, D. A. & Frith, C. D. (2003). Delusions of alien control in the normal brain. Neuropsychologia, 41(8), 1058-1067. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0028-3932(02)00313-5. PDF

2002

Blakemore, S-J., Wolpert, D. M. & Frith, C. D. (2002). Abnormalities in the awareness of action. Opinion in Trends in Cognitive Science, 6(6), 237-242. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1364-6613(02)01907-1. PDF

2001

Blakemore, S-J., Fonlupt, P., Pachot, M., Darmon, C., Boyer, P., Meltzoff, A. N., Segebarth, C. & Decety, J. (2001). How the brain perceives causality: an event-related fMRI study. NeuroReport, 12(17), 3741-3746. https://doi.org/10.1097/00001756-200112040-00027. PDF

Blakemore, S-J. & Decety, J. (2001). From the perception of action to the understanding of intention. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2, 561-567. https://doi.org/10.1038/35086023. PDF

Blakemore, S-J., Frith, C. D. & Wolpert, D. W. (2001). The cerebellum is involved in predicting the sensory consequences of action. NeuroReport, 12(9), 1879-1884. https://doi.org/10.1097/00001756-200107030-00023. PDF

2000 and before

Blakemore, S-J., Smith, J., Steel, R., Johnstone, E. & Frith, C. D. (2000). The perception of self-produced sensory stimuli in patients with auditory hallucinations and passivity experiences: Evidence for a breakdown in self-monitoring. Psychological Medicine, 30(5), 1131-1139. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291799002676. PDF

Frith, C. D., Blakemore, S-J. & Wolpert, D. M. (2000). Abnormalities in the Awareness and Control of Action. Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, 355, 1771-1788. https://dx.doi.org/10.1098%2Frstb.2000.0734. PDF

Blakemore, S-J., Wolpert, D. M. & Frith, C. D. (2000). Why can't you tickle yourself? NeuroReport, 11(11), 11-16. https://doi.org/10.1097/00001756-200008030-00002. PDF

Frith, C. D., Blakemore, S-J. & Wolpert, D. M. (2000). Explaining the symptoms of schizophrenia: Abnormalities in the awareness of action. Brain Research Reviews, 31(2-3), 357-363. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0165-0173(99)00052-1. PDF

Blakemore, S-J., Frith, C. D. Wolpert, D. W. (1999). Spatiotemporal prediction modulates the perception of self-produced stimuli. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 11(5), 551-559. https://doi.org/10.1162/089892999563607. PDF

Blakemore, S-J., Wolpert, D. M. & Frith, C. D. (1999). The cerebellum contributes to somatosensory cortical activity during self-produced tactile stimulation. Neuroimage, 10(4), 448-459. https://doi.org/10.1006/nimg.1999.0478. PDF

Blakemore, S-J., Wolpert, D. M. & Frith, C. D. (1998). Central cancellation of self-produced tickle sensation. Nature Neuroscience, 1, 635-640. https://doi.org/10.1038/2870. PDF

Blakemore, S-J., Goodbody, S. J. & Wolpert, D. W. (1998). Predicting the consequences of our own actions: The role of sensorimotor context estimation. Journal of Neuroscience, 18(18), 7511-7518. https://dx.doi.org/10.1523%2FJNEUROSCI.18-18-07511.1998. PDF

Blakemore, S-J., Rees, G. & Frith, C. D. (1998). How do we predict the consequences of our actions? A functional imaging study. Neuropsychologia, 36(6), 521-529. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0028-3932(97)00145-0. PDF