Some key papers are highlighted below. The full list can be found via the usual search sites.
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Lingnau, A., & Downing, P. (2024). Action understanding. Elements in Perception. Cambridge University Press.
Gandolfo, M., Abassi, E., Balgova, E., Downing, P. E., Papeo, L., & Koldewyn, K. (2024). Converging evidence that left extrastriate body area supports visual sensitivity to social interactions. Current Biology, 34(2), 343-351.
Peelen, M. V., & Downing, P. E. (2023). Testing cognitive theories with multivariate pattern analysis of neuroimaging data. Nature Human Behaviour, 1-12.
Gandolfo, M., & Downing, P. E. (2022). Asymmetric visual representation of sex from facial appearance. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1-11.
Gandolfo, M., & Downing, P. E. (2020). Asymmetric visual representation of sex from human body shape. Cognition, 205, 104436.
Gandolfo M, Downing PE (2019). Causal evidence for expression of perceptual expectations in category-selective extrastriate regions. Current Biology, 29, 2496-2500.
Peelen, M. V., & Downing, P. E. (2017). Category selectivity in human visual cortex: Beyond visual object recognition. Neuropsychologia, 105, 177-183.
Harry, B. B., Umla-Runge, K., Lawrence, A. D., Graham, K. S., & Downing, P. E. (2016). Evidence for integrated visual face and body representations in the anterior temporal lobes. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 28(8), 1178-1193.
Lingnau, A., & Downing, P. E. (2015). The lateral occipitotemporal cortex in action. Trends in cognitive sciences, 19(5), 268-277.
Oosterhof, N. N., Tipper, S. P., & Downing, P. E. (2013). Crossmodal and action-specific: neuroimaging the human mirror neuron system. Trends in cognitive sciences, 17(7), 311-318.
Oosterhof, N. N., Wiggett, A. J., Diedrichsen, J., Tipper, S. P., & Downing, P. E. (2010). Surface-based information mapping reveals crossmodal vision–action representations in human parietal and occipitotemporal cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology, 104(2), 1077-1089.
Peelen, M. V., & Downing, P. E. (2007). The neural basis of visual body perception. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 8(8), 636.
Peelen, M. V., & Downing, P. E. (2005). Selectivity for the human body in the fusiform gyrus. Journal of neurophysiology, 93(1), 603-608.
Downing, P. E., Chan, A. Y., Peelen, M. V., Dodds, C. M., & Kanwisher, N. (2005). Domain specificity in visual cortex. Cerebral cortex, 16(10), 1453-1461.
Downing, P. E., Jiang, Y., Shuman, M., & Kanwisher, N. (2001). A cortical area selective for visual processing of the human body. Science, 293(5539), 2470-2473.
Downing, P. E. (2000). Interactions between visual working memory and selective attention. Psychological science, 11(6), 467-473.