Papers
2024 and in press
Adams, K., Mandy, W., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (in press) Potential Mechanisms Underlying the Association Between Feeding and Eating Disorders and Autism. Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews.
Lee, K.S., Catmur, C. & Bird, G. (in press). Childhood Language Development and Alexithymia in Adolescence: An Eight-Year Longitudinal Study. Development and Psychopathology.
Lee, K.S., Long, E.L., Catmur, C., Hauser, T.U., & Bird, G. (in press). Information Gathering: Dissociable Effects of Autistic and Alexithymic Traits in Youths Aged 6 to 25 Years. Emotion.
Quesque, F.,....Bird, G.,...& Brass, M. (in press). Defining key concepts for mental state attribution. Commmunications Psychology.
Todd, J., Plans, D. Lee, M.C., Bird, J.M., Morelli, D., Cunningham, A., Ponzo, S., Murphy, J., Bird, G. & Aspell, J.E. (2024). Heightened Interoception in Adults with Fibromyalgia. Biological Psychology, 186:108761.
Poerio, G.L., Klabunde, M., Bird, G., & Murphy, J. (in press) Interoceptive attention and mood in daily life: an experience-sampling study. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
Viding, E., Lloyd, A., Law, R, Martin, P., Lucas, L., Wu, T., Steinbeis, N., Midgley, N., Veenstra, R., Smith, J., Ly, L., Bird, G., Murphy, J., Plans, D., Munafo, M., Penton-Voak, I., Deighton, J., Richards, K., Richards, M., & Fearon, P. (2024). Trial protocol for the Building Resilience through Socio-Emotional Training (ReSET) programme: a cluster randomized controlled trial of a new transdiagnostic preventative intervention for adolescents, Trials, 25: 143.
Murphy, J. & Bird, G. (2024). Auditing measures of interoceptive accuracy: important clarifications. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 158:105557.
Nijhof, A. D., Catmur, C., Brewer, R., Coll, M-P., Wiersema, R.J., & Bird, G. (2024) Differences in Own-Face but not Own-Name Discrimination between Autistic and Neurotypical Adults: A Fast Periodic Visual Stimulation-EEG Study. Cortex, 171, 308-318
Stantic. M., Knyspek, J., Gaches, A., Liu, Y., Bird, G., & Catmur, C. (2024) The Oxford Face Matching Test: Short Form Alternative. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77(4):893-897.
2023
Stantic, M., Brown, K., Ichijo, E., Pounder, Z., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2023). Independent Measurement of Face Perception, Face Matching, and Face Memory Reveals Impairments in Face Perception and Memory, but Not Matching, in Autism. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 30(6):2240-2249.
Lampi, A.J., Brewer, R., Bird, G., & Jaswal, V.K. (2023) Non-Autistic Adults Can Recognize Posed Autistic Facial Expressions: Implications for Internal Representations of Emotion. Autism Research, 16(7):1321-1334.
Cuve, H.C., Catmur, C., Harper, J., & Bird, G. (2023). Coherence and divergence in Autonomic-Subjective Affective Space. Psychophysiology, 60, 6, e14262.
Contreras-Huerta, L.S., Coll, M-P., Bird, G., Yu, H., Prosser, A., Lockwood, P.L., Murphy, J., Crockett, M.J., & Apps, M.A.J. (2023). Neural representations of vicarious rewards are linked to interoception and prosocial behaviour. Neuroimage, 269, 119881.
Thompson, E.L., Long, E.L., Bird, G. & Catmur, C. (2023). Is action understanding an automatic process? Both cognitive and perceptual processing are required for the identification of actions and intentions. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76(1):70-83.
2022
Long, M., Cuve, H.C., Conway, J.R., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2022). The Interview Task: Novel Theory of Mind Task Demonstrates Representation of Minds in Mental State Inference. Scientific Reports, Sci Rep 12, 21133.
Stantić, M., Pounder, Z., Bate, S., Susilo, T., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2022). Individuals with prosopagnosia show independent impairments in face perception, face memory, and face matching. Cortex, 157, 266-273.
Lee, K.S., Murphy, J.L., Catmur, C., Bird, G., & Hobson, H. (2022). Furthering the language hypothesis of alexithymia: An integrated review and meta-analysis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 141, 104864.
Penton, T., Bowling, N., Vafeiadoua, A., Hammond, C., Bird, G., & Banissy, M. (2022). Attitudes to Interpersonal Touch in the Workplace in Autistic and non-Autistic Groups. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05710-z.
Thompson, E.L., Bird, G., & Catmur, C. (2022). Mirror neuron brain regions contribute to identifying actions, but not intentions. Human Brain Mapping, 43, 16, 4901.
Adams, K.L., Edwards, A., Peart, C., Ellet, L., Mendes, I.R.S., Bird, G., & Murphy, J. (2022). The association between anxiety and cardiac interoceptive accuracy: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioural Reviews, 140:104754..
Sevi, L., Stantic, M., Murphy, J., Coll, M-P, Catmur, C., Bird, G. (2022). Egocentric Biases are Predicted by the Precision of Self-related Predictions. Cortex, 154, 322-332.
Adams, K.L., Murphy, J., Catmur, C. & Bird, G. (2022). The role of interoception in the overlap between eating disorders and autism: methodological considerations. European Eating Disorders Review, 30 (5), 501-509.
Penton, T., Wang, X., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2022) Investigating the Sense of Agency and its Relation to Subclinical Traits Using a Novel Task. Experimental Brain Research, 240, 1399–1410.
Liu, R., Bögels, S., Bird, G., Medendorp, W.P., Toni, I. (2022). Hierarchical integration of communicative and visuospatial perspective-taking demands in sensorimotor control of referential pointing. Cognitive Science, 46(1), e13084.
Stantic, M., Brewer, R., Duchaine, B., Banissy, M.J., Bate, S., Susilo, T., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2022). The Oxford Face Matching Test:A Non-Biased Test of The Full Range of Individual Differences in Face Perception. Behavior Research Methods, 54, 158–173.
Stantić, M., Ichijo, E., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2022). Short Report: Face Memory and Face Perception in Autism. Autism, 26(1), 276-280.
2021
Nijhof, A.D., von Trott zu Solz, J., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2021). Equivalent own name bias in autism: An EEG study of the Attentional Blink. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-021-00967-w
Pisani, S., Murphy, J., Conway, C., Millgate, E., Catmur, C. & Bird, G. (2021). The relationship between Alexithymia and Theory of Mind: A systematic review. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 131, 497–524.
Stantić, M., Hearne, B., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2021). Use of the Oxford Face Matching Test Reveals an Effect of Ageing On Face Perception But Not Face Memory. Cortex, 145, 226-235.
Plans, D., Ponzo, S., Morelli, D., Cairo, M., Ring, C., Keating, C.T., Cunningham, A.C., Catmur, C., Murphy, J., & Bird, G. (2021). Measuring Interoception:The Phase Adjustment Task. Biological Psychology, 165, 108171.
Brewer, R., Murphy, J., & Bird, G. (2021). Atypical interoception as a common risk factor for psychopathology: A review. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 130, 470-508.
Cuve, H.C., Stojanov, J., Roberts-Gaal., M., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2021) Validation of Gazepoint low-cost eye-tracking and psychophysiology bundle. Behavior Research Methods, https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01654-x.
Cuve, H.C., Murphy, J., Hobson, H., Ichijo, E., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2021) Are Autistic and Alexithymic Traits Distinct:A Factor-analytic and Network Approach. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-05094-6.
Corsi, E., Cardi, V., Sowden, S., Coll, M-P., Cascino, G., Ricca, V., Treasure, J., Bird, G., & Monteleone, A.M. (2021). Socio-cognitive processing in people with eating disorders:computerized tests of mentalizing, empathy and imitation skills. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 54(8), 1509-1518.
Contreras-Huerta, L.S., Lockwood, P.L., Bird, G., Apps, M.A.J. & Crockett, M. (2021). Prosocial behaviour is associated with transdiagnostic markers of affective sensitivity in multiple domains. Emotion. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0000813
Cuve, H.C., Castiello, S., Shiferaw, B., Ichijo, E., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2021). Alexithymia explains atypical spatio-temporal dynamics of eye gaze in autism. Cognition, 212, 104710.
Hemmings NR, Kawadler JM, Whatmough R, Ponzo S, Rossi A, Morelli D, Bird G, Plans D. (2021) Development and Feasibility of a Digital Acceptance and Commitment Therapy–Based Intervention for Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Pilot Acceptability Study. JMIR Formative Research, 5(2):e21737
Hemmings, N., Kawadler, J., Whatmough, R., Ponzo., S., Rossi, A., Moreeli, D., Bird, G., & Plans, D. (2021). Development and feasibility of a digital Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-based Intervention for Generalised Anxiety Disorder: Pilot study. JMIR Formative Research, 5, 2, e21737.
Santiesteban, I., Gibbard, C., Drucks, H., Clayton, N., Banissy, M.J. & Bird, G. (2021). Individuals with Autism Share Others’ Emotions:Evidence from the Continuous Affective Rating and Empathic Responses (CARER) Task. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 51(2):391-404.
Coll, M-P., Hobson, H., Bird, G., & Murphy, J. (2021). Systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between the heartbeat-evoked potential and interoception. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 122, 190-200.
Carr, E.W., Bird, G., Catmur, C., Winkielman, P. (2021). Dissociable effects of averted “gaze” on the priming of bodily representations and motor actions. Acta Psychologica, 212:103225.
Khemka, D., Ahmadilari, N., Bird, G & Catmur, C. (2021). Imitation in one’s own presence: no specific effect of self-focus on imitation. Acta Psychologica, 212, 103194.
2020
Hickman, L., Sayedsalahi, A., Cook, J.L., Bird, G., & Murphy, J (2020) The relationship between heartbeat counting and heartbeat discrimination: a meta-analysis. Biological Psychology, 156, 107949.
Penton, T., Catmur, C., Banissy, M.J., Bird, G., & Walsh, V. (2002). Non-invasive stimulation of the social brain:the methodological challenges. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, nsaa102.
Monteleone, A.M., Corsi, E., Cascino, G., Ruzzi, V., Ricca, V., Ashworth, R., Bird, G., Cardi, V. (2020). The Interaction Between Mentalizing, Empathy and Symptoms in People with Eating Disorders: A Network Analysis Integrating Experimentally Induced and Self-report Measures. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 44, 1140–1149.
Roberts, R., McCrory, E., Bird, G., Sharp, M, Roberts, L., Viding, E. (2020). Thinking about others' minds:mental state inference in boys with conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 48, pages1279–1290.
Desmedt, O., Corneille, O., Luminet, O., Murphy, J., Bird, G., & Maurage, P. (2020). Contribution of Time Estimation and Knowledge to Heartbeat Counting Task Performance under Original and Adapted Instructions. Biological Psychology, 154, 107904.
Hobson, H., Chiu, E.G., Ravenscroft, C., Partridge, K., Bird, G. & Demeyere, N. (2020). The association between communication impairments and acquired alexithymia in chronic stroke patients. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 42, 495-504.
Ponzo, S., Morelli, D., Kawadler, J., Hemmings, N., Bird, G., & Plans, D. (2020). Efficacy of the Digital Therapeutic Mobile App “BioBase” to Reduce Stress and Improve Mental Wellbeing Among University Students: a Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 8, 4, e17767.
Ponzo, S., Morelli, D., Kawadler, J., Hemmings, N., Bird, G., & Plans, D. (2020). Effectiveness of a Smartphone Application “BioBase” for reducing anxiety and increasing mental wellbeing: a pilot feasibility and acceptability study. Journal of Medical Internet Research: Formative Research, 4, 11, e18067.
Hobson, H., Westwood, H., Conway, J., McEwan, F., Colvert, E., Catmur, C., Bird, G., & Happé, F. (2020) The impact of alexithymia on autism diagnostic assessments.Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 73, 101531.
Coll, M-P., Whelan, E., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2020). Autistic traits are associated with atypical precision-weighted integration of top-down and bottom-up neural signals. Cognition, 199, 104236.
Nijhof, A.D., Shapiro, K.L., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2020). No evidence for a common self-bias across cognitive domains. Cognition, 197, 104186
N. C. Foster, S. J. Bennett, J. Causer, D. Elliott, G. Bird, & S. J. Hayes. (2020). Facilitating sensorimotor integration via blocked practice underpins imitation learning of atypical biological kinematics in autism spectrum disorder. Autism: International Journal of Research and Practice, 24 (6),1494-1505.
Foster, N.C., Bennett, S.J., Causer, J., Elliott, D., & Bird, G. (2020). Getting off to a shaky start:specificity in planning and feedforward control during sensorimotor learning in autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research, 13 (3), 423-435.
Murphy, J., Prentice, F., Walsh, R., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2020). Autism and Transgender identity:implications for depression and anxiety. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 69, 101466.
Murphy, J., Brewer, R., Plans, D., Khalsa, S. S., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2020). Testing the independence of self-reported interoceptive accuracy and attention. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73(1) 115–133.
2019
Fletcher-Watson, S., & Bird, G. (2019). Autism and empathy:what are the real links? Autism, 24(1), 3-6.
Conway, J.R., Coll, M-P., Clemente Cuve, H., Koletsi, S., Bronitt, N., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2019) Understanding How Minds Vary Relates to Skill in Inferring Mental States, Personality, and Intelligence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, doi: 10.1037/xge0000704.
Murphy, J., Brewer, R., Coll, M-P., Plans, D., Hall, M., Shui, S.S., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2019). I feel it in my finger:measurement device affects cardiac interoceptive accuracy. Biological Psychology, 148, 107765.
Murphy, J., Cheesman, R., Gregory, A.M., Lau, J., Ehlers, A., Catmur, C., Bird, G., & Eley, T.C. (2019). Estimating the stability of heartbeat counting in middle childhood:a twin study. Biological Psychology, 148, 107764.
Nijhof, A., & Bird, G. (2019). Self-processing in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Autism Research, 12(11):1580-1584.
Thompson, E., Bird, G., & Catmur, C. (2019). Conceptualizing and Testing Action Understanding. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 105, 106-114.
Brewer, R., Bird, G., Gray, K.L.H., Cook, R. (2019). Face perception in autism spectrum disorder:Modulation of holistic processing by facial emotion. Cognition, 193, 104016.
Oakley, B.F.M., Brewer, R., Bird, G., & Catmur, C. (2019). No Evidence for an Opposite Pattern of Cognitive Performance in Autistic Individuals with and without Alexithymia:a response to Rødgaard et al. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 128(7):738-739.
Murphy, J., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2019). Classifying individual differences in interoception:implications for the measurement of interoceptive awareness. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 26(5):1467-1471.
Murphy, J., Millgate, E., Geary, H., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2019). No effect of age on emotion recognition after accounting for cognitive factors and depression. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(11):2690-2704.
Murphy, J., Viding, E., & Bird, G. (2019). Does atypical interoception following physical change contribute to sex differences in mental illness? Psychological Review, 126(5):787-789.
Coll, M-P., Murphy, J., Catmur, C., Bird, G, & Brewer, R. (2019). The importance of stimulus variability when studying face processing using Fast Periodic Visual Stimulation: A novel ‘Mixed-Emotions’ paradigm. Cortex, 117:182-195.
Hobson, H., Brewer, R., Catmur, C., and Bird, G. (2019). The role of language in alexithymia:moving towards a multi-route model of alexithymia. Emotion Review, 11(3) 247–261.
Chard, J., Edey, R., Yon, D., Murphy, J., Bird, G., & Press, C (2019). Atypical emotion recognition from bodies is associated with perceptual difficulties in healthy ageing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 45(6):803-811.
Wadge, H., Brewer, R., Bird, G., Toni, I., & Stolk, A. (2019) Communicative Misalignment in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Cortex, 115:15-26. DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/7NBMS
van der Cruijsen, R., Murphy, J., & Bird, G. (2019). Alexithymic traits can explain the association between puberty and symptoms of depression and anxiety in adolescent females. PLoS One, 14(1):e0210519.
Conway, J., Catmur, C. & Bird, G. (2019). Understanding Individual Differences in Theory of Mind via Representation of Minds, Not Mental States. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 26(3), 798-812. DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/DXPVQ
Edey, R., Cook., J.L., Brewer, R., Bird, G., & Press, C. (2019). Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder are sensitive to the kinematic features defining natural human motion. Autism Research, 12(2):284-294.
Brewer, R., Cook, R., Cardi, V., Treasure, J., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2019). Alexithymia explains increased empathic personal distress in individuals with and without Eating Disorders. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(7):1827-1836.
Edey, R., Brewer, R., Bird, G., & Press, C. (2019). Typical auditory-motor and enhanced visual-motor temporal synchronization in adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49(2), 788.
2018
Penton, T., Wang, X., Coll, M-P., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2018). The influence of action-outcome contingency on motivation from control. Experimental Brain Research, 236(12):3239-3249.
Sowden, S., Koletsi, S., Lymberopoulos, E., Militaru, E., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2018). Quantifying compliance and acceptance through public and private social conformity. Consciousness and Cognition, 65, 359-367.
Murphy, J., Brewer, R., Hobson, H., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2018). Is alexithymia characterised by impaired interoception? Further evidence, the importance of control variables, and the problems with the Heartbeat Counting Task. Biological Psychology, 136, 189-197.
Murphy, J., Wulff, K., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2018). Alexithymic traits, independent of depression and anxiety, are associated with reduced sleep quality. Personality and Individual Differences, 129, 175-178.
Sethi, A., O'Nions, L., McCrory, E., Bird, G., & Viding, E. (2018). An fMRI investigation of empathic processing in boys with conduct problems and varying levels of callous-unemotional traits. Neuroimage Clinical, 18, 298-304.
Murphy, J., MIllgate, E., Geary, H., Ichijo, E., Coll, M-P., Brewer, R., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2018). Knowledge of resting heart rate mediates the relationship between intelligence and the heartbeat counting task. Biological Psychology, 133, 1-3.
Conway, J.R., & Bird, G. (2018). Conceptualizing degrees of theory of mind. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 115 (7) 1408-1410.
Hobson, H., Hogeveen, J., Brewer, R., Catmur, C., Gordon, B., Krueger, F., Chau, A., Bird, G., & Grafman, J. (2018). Language and alexithymia:Evidence for the role of the inferior frontal gyrus in acquired alexithymia. Neuropsychologia,111, 229-240.
Foster, N.C., Bennett, S.J., Causer, J., Bird, G., Andrew, M.,, & Heyes, S.J. (2018). Atypical biological kinematics are represented during observational practice. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44(6):842-847.
Murphy, J., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2018). Alexithymia is associated with a multi-domain, multi-dimensional failure of interoception:evidence from novel tests. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 147 (3), 398-408.
2017
Catmur, C., Thompson, E.L., Bairaktari, O., Lind, F., & Bird, G. (2017). Sensorimotor Training Alters Action Understanding. Cognition, 171, 10-14.
Coll, M-P., Viding, E., Rütgen, M., Silani, G., Lamm, C., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2017). Are we Really Measuring Empathy?Proposal for a New Measurement Framework. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 83, 132-139.
Murphy, J., Geary, H., Millgate, E., Catmur, C., & Bird., G (2017). Direct and indirect effects of age on interoceptive accuracy and awareness across the adult lifespan. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. doi:10.3758/s13423-017-1339-z
Coll, M.P., Press, C., Hobson, H., Catmur, C., Bird, G. (2017). Crossmodal classification of mu rhythm activity during action observation and execution suggests specificity to somatosensory features of actions. Journal of Neuroscience, 37(24):5936-5947.
Brewer, R., Biotti, F, & Bird, G. (2017). Typical integration of emotion cues from bodies and faces in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Cognition, 165:82-87.
Santiesteban, I., Kaur, S., Bird, G., & Catmur, C. (2017). Attentional processes, not implicit mentalizing, mediate performance in a perspective-taking task:Evidence from stimulation of the temporoparietal junction. Neuroimage, 155, 305-311.
Shah, P., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2017). From Heart to Mind:Linking Interoception, Emotion, and Theory of Mind. Cortex. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2017.02.010
Gray, K.L.H., Bird, G., & Cook, R. (2017). Robust associations between the 20-Item Prosopagnosia Index and the Cambridge Face Memory Test in the general population. Royal Society Open Science, 4(3), 160923.
Murphy, J., Brewer, R., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2017). Interoception and psychopathology:A developmental neuroscience perspective. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 45–56.
Conway, J.R., Lee, D., Ojaghi, M., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2017). Submentalizing or mentalizing in a Level 1 perspective-taking task:A cloak and goggles test. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43(3): 454–465.
Gaigg, S.B., Cornell, A.S.F., & Bird, G. (2017). The Psychophysiological Mechanisms of Alexithymia in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Autism, https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361316667062.
Happé, F., Cook, J.L., & Bird, G. (2017). The Structure of Social Cognition: In(ter)dependence of Sociocognitive Processes. Annual Review of Psychology, 68, 243–67.
2016
Brewer, R., Cook, R., & Bird, G. (2016). Alexithymia:A general deficit of interoception. Royal Society Open Science, DOI: 10.1098/rsos.150664.
Shah, P., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2016). Emotional decision-making in Autism Spectrum Disorder:The roles of interoception and alexithymia. Molecular Autism, 7:43, DOI: 10.1186/s13229-016-0104-x
Cage, E., Bird, G., & Pellicano, E. (2016). Reputation management in children on the autism spectrum. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46, 3798–3811.
Cook, J.L., Murphy, J.J., & Bird, G. (2016). Judging the Ability of Friends and Foes. Trends in Cognitive Science, 20(10), 717–719.
Sowden, S., Brewer, R., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2016). The specificity of the link between alexithymia, interoception and imitation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42(11):1687-1692.
Edey, R., Cook. J.L., Brewer, R., Johnson, M., Bird, G., Press. C. (2016). Interaction takes two. Typical adults exhibit mind-blindness towards those with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 125(7):879-885.
Marsh, L., Bird, G. & Catmur, C. (2016). The imitation game. Effects of social cues on 'imitation' are domain-general in nature. NeuroImage, 139:368-375.
Shah, P., Harris, A. J. L., Bird, G., Catmur, C. & Hahn, U. (2016). A Pessimistic View of Optimistic Belief Updating. Cognitive Psychology, 90, 71-127.
Oakley, B.F.M., Brewer, R., Bird, G., & Catmur, C. (2016). ‘Theory of Mind’ is not Theory of Emotion. A cautionary note on the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 125(6), 818-823.
Shah, P., Hall, R., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2016). Alexithymia, not autism, is associated with impaired interoception. Cortex, 81, 215-220.
Cage, E., Bird, G., & Pellicano, L. (2016) ‘I am who I am’: Reputation concerns in adolescents on the autism spectrum. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 25, 12-23.
Hogeveen, J., Bird, G., Chau, A., Krueger, F., & Grafman, J. (2016) Acquired alexithymia following damage to the anterior insula. Neuropsychologia, 82, 142-148.
Sowden, S., Koehne, S., Catmur, C., Dziobek, I., & Bird, G. (2016) Intact Automatic Imitation and Typical Spatial Compatibility in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Challenging the Broken Mirror Theory. Autism Research, 9, 2, 292-300.
Brewer, R., Biotti, F., Catmur, C., Press, C., Happé, F., Cook, R., & Bird, G. (2016). Can neurotypical individuals read autistic facial expressions? Atypical production of emotional facial expressions in Autism Spectrum Disorders. Autism Research, 9, 2, 262-271.
Catmur, C., Santiesteban, I., Conway, J.C., Heyes, C., & Bird, G. (2016) Avatars and Arrows in the Brain. Neuroimage, 132, 8-10.
de Guzman, M., Bird, G., Banissy, M.J., & Catmur C. (2016) Self-other control processes in social cognition:from imitation to empathy. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: B, 371(1686)
Shah, P., Bird, G., & Cook, R. (2016).Face processing in autism:Reduced integration of cross-feature dynamics. Cortex, 75, 133-119.
2015
Shah, P., Sowden, S., Gaule, A., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2015) The Twenty-item Prosopagnosia Index (PI20): Relationship with the Glasgow Face Matching Test. Royal Society Open Science, DOI: 10.1098/rsos.150305.
Sowden, S., Wright, G.R.T., Banissy, M.J., Catmur C., & Bird. G. (2015) Transcranial current stimulation of temporoparietal junction improves lie detection. Current Biology, 25(18):2447-51.
Cardi, V., Esposito, M., Bird, G., Rind, C., Yiend, J., Schifano, S., Hirsch, C. & Treasure, J. (2015) A preliminary investigation of a novel training to target cognitive biases towards negative social stimuli in Anorexia Nervosa. Journal of Affective Disorders, 188, 188-193.
Santiesteban, I., Banissy M.J., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2015) Functional Lateralization of Temporoparietal Junction - Imitation Inhibition, Visual Perspective Taking and Theory of Mind. European Journal of Neuroscience, 42(8), 2527-2533.
Brewer, R., Happé, F., Cook, R. & Bird, G. (2015) Commentary on “Autism, oxytocin and interoception.” : Alexithymia, not Autism Spectrum Disorders, is the consequence of interoceptive failure. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 56, 348-353.
Santiesteban, I., Bird, G., Tew, O., Cioffi, M.C., & Banissy, M.J. (2015) Mirror-touch Synaesthesia: Difficulties Inhibiting the Other. Cortex, 71, 116.
Brewer, R., Marsh, A., Catmur, C., Cardinale, E.M., Stoycos, S., Cook, R. & Bird, G. (2015) The impact of Autism Spectrum Disorder and alexithymia on judgments of moral acceptability. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 124(3), 589-595.
Shah, P., Gaule, A., Sowden, S., Bird, G. & Cook, R. (2015) The twenty-item prosopagnosia index (PI20): A self-report instrument for identifying developmental prosopagnosia. Royal Society Open Science, DOI: 10.1098/rsos.140343.
Shah, P., Happé, F., Sowden, S., Cook, R., & Bird, G. (2015). Orienting toward face-like stimuli in early childhood. Child Development, 86(6), 1693-700.
Wright, G., Berry, C.J., Catmur, C., & Bird. G. (2015). Good liars are neither ‘dark’ nor self-Deceptive. PLoS One, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.012731
Brewer, R., Collins, F., Cook, R., & Bird, G. (2015). Atypical trait inferences from facial cues in alexithymia. Emotion, 15(5), 637-643.
Foulkes, L., Bird, G., Gokcen, E., McCrory, E.J., & Viding, E. (2015). Common and distinct impacts of alexithymia and autistic traits on social reward. PLoS One, 10(4): e0121018. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0121018.
Brewer, R., Cook, R., Cardi, V., Treasure, J., & Bird, G. (2015). Emotion recognition deficits in patients with eating disorders are explained by co-occurring alexithymia. Royal Society Open Science, 2, 140382.
Hogeveen, J., Obhi, S.S., Banissy, M.J., Santiesteban, I., Press, C., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2015). Task-dependent and distinct roles of the temporoparietal junction and inferior frontal cortex in the control of Imitation. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10(7), 1003-1009.
Shah, P., Gaule, A., Gaigg, S., Bird, G., & Cook, R. (2015). Probing short-term face memory in developmental prosopagnosia. Cortex, 64, 115-122.
Santiesteban, I., Shah, P., White, S., Bird, G., & Heyes, C. (2015). Mentalizing or submentalizing in a communication task? Evidence from autism and a camera control. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 22(3), 844-849.
Coll, M-P., Bird, G., Catmur, C., & Press, C. (2014) Crossmodal repetition effects in the mu rhythm indicate tactile mirroring during action observation. Cortex, 63, 121-131.
2014
Bird, G., & Viding, E. (2014).The self to other model of empathy: Providing a new framework for understanding empathy impairments in psychopathy, autism, and alexithymia. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 47, 520-532.
Brewer, R., Cook., R., & Bird, G. (2014). Alexithymia explains impaired emotion recognition in eating disorders and schizophrenia. Journal of Vision, 14(10), 1439-1439
Catmur, C., Press, C., Cook, R., Bird, G., & Heyes, C. (2014) Mirror Neurons: Tests and testability [Response to Commentaries] Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37, 221-241.
Cook, R., Bird, G., Catmur, C., Press, C., & Heyes, C. (2014). Mirror neurons: From origin to function. [Target Article] Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37, 177-192.
Cook, R., Brewer, R., Shah, P., & Bird, G. (2014). Intact facial adaptation in autistic adults. Autism Research, 7(4):481-90.
Press, C., Berlot, E., Bird, G., Ivry, R., Cook, R. (2014). Moving time: The influence of action on duration perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. doi: 10.1037/a0037650
Santiesteban, I., Catmur, C., Coughlan Hopkins, S., Bird, G., & Heyes, C. (2014). Avatars and arrows: Implicit mentalizing or domain-general processing? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 40(3):929-37.
2013
Shah, P., Gaule, A., Bird, G., & Cook, R. (2013). Robust orienting to protofacial stimuli in autism. Current Biology. Comment by Johnson (2014)
Lockwood PL, Bird G, Bridge M and Viding E (2013). Dissecting empathy: high levels of psychopathic and autistic traits are characterised by difficulties in different social information processing domains. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 7:760. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00760
Bernhardt, B. C., Valk, S., Silani, G., Bird, G., Frith, U., & Singer, T. (2013). Selective disruption of socio-cognitive brain networks in autism and alexithymia. Cerebral Cortex,doi: 10.1093/cercor/bht182.
Wright, G.R., Berry, C.J. & Bird, G. (2013). Deceptively simple… The “deception-general” ability and the need to put the liar under the spotlight. Front. Neurosci. 7:152. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2013.00152
Bird, G., & Cook, R. (2013). Mixed emotions: The contribution of alexithymia to the emotional symptoms of autism. Translational Psychiatry, 3, e285; doi:10.1038/tp.2013.61.
Cage, E., Pellicano, E., Shah, P., & Bird, G. (2013). Reputation management: Evidence for ability but reduced propensity in autism. Autism Research, DOI: 10.1002/aur.1313.
Cook, R. & Bird, G. (2013). Do mirror neurons really mirror and do they really code for action goals?. Cortex, 49, 2944-2945.
Cavallo, A., Heyes, C., Becchio, C., Bird., G. & Catmur, C. (2013). Timecourse of mirror and counter-mirror effects measured with transcranial magnetic stimulation. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, doi: 10.1093/scan/nst085.
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 and Behavior, 64, 314-322.
Cook, R., Brewer, R., Shah, P., & Bird, G. (2013). Alexithymia, not autism, predicts poor recognition of emotional facial expressions. Psychological Science, 24, 723-732.
McCrory, E.J., de Brito, S.A., Kelly, P.A., Bird, G., Sebastien, C.L., Mechelli, A., Samuel, S., & Viding, E. (2013). Heightened amygdala activation in maltreated children during pre-attentive processing. British Journal of Psychiatry, 202, 269-276.
Harris, A.J., Shah, P., Catmur, C., Bird, G., & Hahn, U. (2013). Autism, optimism and positive events: Evidence against a general optimism bias. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
2012
Cook, J., & Bird, G. (2012). Atypical Social Modulation of Imitation in Autism Spectrum Conditions. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42, 1045-1051.
Cook, R., Bird, G., Lunser, G., Huck, S., & Heyes, C. (2012). Automatic imitation in a strategic context: Players of Rock-Paper-Scissors imitate opponents’ gestures. Proceedings of the Royal Society:B, 279, 780-786.
Gilbert S.J., Bird G., Frith C.D., & Burgess P.W. (2012) Does “task difficulty” explain “task-induced deactivation?” Front. Psychology 3:125. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00125.
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, 731-894.
Press, C., Catmur, C., Cook, R., Widmann, H., Heyes, C.M., & Bird, G. (2012). fMRI Evidence of 'Mirror' Responses to Geometric Shapes. PLoS One, 7, e51934.
Santiesteban, I., Banissy, M.J., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2012). Enhancing social ability by stimulating right temporoparietal junction. Current Biology, 22, 2274-2277. Comment here
Santiesteban, I., White, S., Cook, J., Gilbert, S., Heyes, C., & Bird, G. (2012) Training Social Cognition: From Imitation to Theory of Mind. Cognition, 122, 228-235.
Wright, G.R.T., Berry, C.J., & Bird, G. (2012). "You can't kid a kidder": Interaction between production and detection of deception in an interactive deception task. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6:87
2011
Bird, G., Press, C., & Richardson, D.C. (2011). The role of alexithymia in reduced eye-fixation in Autism Spectrum Conditions. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 41, 1556-1564.
Burnett, S., Thompson, S., Bird, G., & Blakemore, S. (2011) Pubertal development of the understanding of social emotions: implications for education. Learning and Individual Differences, 21, 681-689.
Cook, J., & Bird, G. (2011) Social attitudes differentially modulate imitation in adolescents and adults. Experimental Brain Research, 211, 601-612.
McCrory E.J., De Brito, S.A., Sebastian, C.L., Mechelli, A., Bird, G., Kelly, P.A., & Viding, E. (2011) Heightened neural reactivity to threat in child victims of family violence. Current Biology, 21, R947-R948.
Sebastian, C., Fontaine, N., Bird, G., Blakemore, S-J., de Brito, S., McCrory, E., & Viding, E. (2011). Neural processing associated with cognitive and affective Theory of Mind in adolescents and adults. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, 7, 53-63.
2010
Spengler, S., Bird, G., & Brass, M. (2010) Hyper-imitation of actions is related to reduced understanding of others’ minds in autism spectrum conditions. Biological Psychiatry, 68, 1148-1155. Supp Mat here
Leighton, J., Bird, G., Orsini, C., & Heyes, C.M. (2010) Social attitudes modulate automatic imitation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 905-910.
Press, C., Richardson, D.C., & Bird, G. (2010) Intact imitation of emotional facial expressions in autism spectrum conditions. Neuropsychologia, 48, 3291-3297.
Bird, G., Silani, G., Brindley, R., White, S., Frith, U., & Singer, T. (2010) Empathic brain responses in insula are modulated by levels of alexithymia but not autism. Brain, 133, 1515-1525 [free access online].
Leighton, J., Bird, G., & Heyes, C.M. (2010) Goals are not an integral component of imitation. Cognition, 114, 3, 423-435.
2009
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, 1736-1750.
2008
Catmur, C., Gillmeister, H., Bird, G.P., Liepelt, R., Brass, M., & Heyes, C.M. (2008). Through the looking glass: counter-mirror activation following incompatible sensorimotor learning. European Journal of Neuroscience, 28, 1208-1215.
De Martino, B., Harrison, N., Knafo, S., Bird, G., & Dolan, R. (2008). Explaining enhanced logical consistency during decision making in autism. Journal of Neuroscience, 28, 10746-10750.
Singer, T., Bird, G., Petrovic, P., Silani, G, Heinrichs, M., & Dolan, R. (2008) Effects of oxytocin and prosocial behavior on brain responses to directly and vicariously experienced pain. Emotion, 8, 781-791.
Gilbert, S.J., Bird, G., Brindley, R., Frith, C.D., & Burgess, P.W. (2008). Atypical recruitment of medial prefrontal cortex in autism spectrum disorders: An fMRI study of two executive function tasks. Neuropsychologia, 46, 2281-2291.
Leighton, J., Bird, G., Charman, T., & Heyes, C. (2008) Weak imitative performance is not due to a functional ‘mirroring’ deficit in adults with autism spectrum disorders. Neuropsychologia, 46, 1041-1049.
Press, C., Bird, G., Walsh, E., & Heyes, C. (2008) Automatic imitation of intransitive actions. Brain and Cognition, 67, 44-50.
Silani, G., Bird, G., Brindley, R., Singer, T., Frith, C., & Frith, U. (2008) Levels of emotional awareness in autism: An fMRI study. Social Neuroscience, 3, 97-112.
2007
Bird, G., Brindley, R., Leighton, J., & Heyes, C.M. (2007) General processes rather than ‘goals’ explain imitation errors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33, 1158-1169.
Bird, G., Leighton, J., Press, C., & Heyes, C.M. (2007) Intact automatic imitation of human and robot actions in Autism Spectrum Disorders. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, 274, 3027-31.
2006
Bird, G., Catmur, C., Silani, G, Frith, C., & Frith, U. (2006). Attention does not modulate neural responses to social stimuli in autism. NeuroImage, 31, 1614-1624.
2005
Bird, G., & Heyes, C.M. (2005) Effector-dependent learning by observation of a finger movement sequence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31, 262-275.
Bird, G., Osman, M.., Saggerson, A., & Heyes, C.M. (2005) Sequence learning by action, observation, and action observation. British Journal of Psychology, 96, 371-388.
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 synaesthesia. Brain, 128, 1571-1583.
Heyes, C. M., Bird, G., Johnson, H., & Haggard, P. (2005) Experience modulates automatic imitation. Cognitive Brain Research, 22, 233-240.
Osman, M., Bird, G., & Heyes, C.M. (2005) Action observation supports effector-dependent learning of finger movement sequences. Experimental Brain Research, 165, 19-27.
Press, C., Bird, G., Flach, R., & Heyes, C.M. (2005). Robotic movement elicits automatic imitation. Cognitive Brain Research, 25, 632-640.
Publications: Book Chapters
Grynberg, D., Berthoz, S., & Bird, G. (2018). Social and Interpersonal Implications of Alexithymia. In O. Luminet, R. Bagby, & G. Taylor (Eds.), Alexithymia: Advances in Research, Theory, and Clinical Practice (pp. 174-189). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108241595.013
Bird, G & Brewer, R. (in press). Disordered Social Cognition: Alexithymia and Interoception. In Workman, L., Barkow, J., & Reader, W. Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behavior.
Brewer, R., Cook, R., & Bird, G. (2016). Shared Interoceptive Representations: The Case of Alexithymia. In S.S. Obhi & E.S.Cross (Eds) Shared Representations. Cambridge Social Neuroscience Series, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
Wright, G. & Bird, G. "Brain" and "fMRI" in "Encyclopedia of Lying and Deception," Levin, Timothy R., ed. Thousand Oaks, CA; Sage, 2014
Bird, G., & Heyes, C.M. (2007). Tackling the Correspondence Problem: A Review of Recent Theory and Experiments. In K. Dautenhahn and C. Nehaniv (Eds), Models and Mechanisms of Imitation and Social Learning in Robots, Humans and Animals: Behavioural, Social and Communicative Dimensions.
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