Publications

Longhurst, P., Todd, J. Aspell, J.E., & Swami., V. (2024) Psychometric Evaluation of a Revised Version of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 for Autistic Adults (BAS-2A). Body Image 49: 101706

Gwyther, M., Lenggenhager, B., Windt, J., Aspell, J. E.*, & Ciaunica, A.* (2024) Examining the association between depersonalisation traits and the bodily self in waking and dreaming. Scientific Reports 14: 6107  (*contributed equally)

Todd, J., Plans, D., Lee, M., Bird, J., Morelli, D., Cunningham, A., Ponzo, S., Murphy, J., Bird, G., & Aspell, J.E.  (2024) Heightened Interoception in Adults with Fibromyalgia. Biological Psychology 2024: 108761.

Longhurst, P.,  Aspell, J.E., Todd, J. & Swami, V. (2023) “There’s No Separating My View of My Body from My Autism”: A Qualitative Study of Positive Body Image in Autistic Individuals. Body Image 48:101655.

Overgaard, M., Preston, C. & Aspell, J.E. (2023) The self, its body and its brain. Scientific Reports 13, 12761  

Gupta, U., Bright, P., Clarke, A., Zafar, W., Recarte-Perez, P., & Aspell, J. E. (2023). Illusory ownership of one's younger face facilitates access to childhood episodic autobiographical memories. [Preprint]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/7mnkp

Todd, J., Swami, V., Aspell, J.E., Furnham, A., Horne, G., & Stieger, S. (2022) Are Some Interoceptive Sensibility Components More Central than Others? Using Item Pool Visualisation to Understand the Psychometric Representation of Interoception. PlosOne 17(12): e0277894.

Todd, J., Aspell, J.E., Lee, M.C. & Thiruchelvam, N. (2022) How is pain associated with pelvic mesh implants measured? Refinement of the construct and a scoping review of current assessment tools. BMC Women’s Health 22: 396.

Todd, J. & Aspell, J.E. (2022) Mindfulness, Interoception and the Body. (Editorial) Brain Sciences 12(6), 696.

Aspell, J.E., Ortibus, E. & Ionta, S. (2022) Developmental psychology and neuropsychology of perception, action, and cognition. (Editorial) Frontiers in Human Neuroscience: Cognitive Neuroscience 16: 875947.

Todd, J., Cardellicchio, P., Swami, V., Cardini, F. & Aspell, J.E. (2021) Weaker implicit interoception is associated with more negative body image: Evidence from gastric-alpha phase amplitude coupling and the heartbeat evoked potential. Cortex 143: 254-266.

Todd, J., Barron, D., Aspell, J.E., Kheng Lin Toh, E., Syahirah Zahari, H., Azzatunnisak Mohd Khatib, N. & Swami, V. (2021) Examining Relationships between Interoceptive Awareness and Body Image in a non-Western context: A study with Malaysian adults. International Perspectives in Psychology 11(1), 53–63.

Heydrich, L., Walker, F, Blättler, L., Herbelin, B. & Blanke, O. & Aspell, J.E. (2021) Interoception and empathy impact perspective taking. Frontiers in Psychology – Perception Science 11, 4016.

Todd, J., Aspell, J.E., Barron, D., Kheng Lin Toh, E., Syahirah Zahari, H., Azzatunnisak Mohd Khatib, N., Laughton, R. & Swami, V. (2020) Greater Gastric Interoception is Associated with More Positive Body Image: Evidence from Adults in Malaysia and the United Kingdom Body Image 34: 101-111.

Todd, J., Barron, D., Aspell, J.E., Kheng Lin Toh, E., Syahirah Zahari, H., Azzatunnisak Mohd Khatib, N. & Swami, V. (2020) Translation and Validation of a Bahasa Malaysia (Malay) Version of the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA) PlosOne 15(4): e0231048. 

Todd, J., Hina, F. & Aspell, J.E. (2020) Reduction of auditory input improves performance on the heartbeat tracking task, but does not necessarily enhance interoception. Experimental Brain Research 238:621–629.

Todd, J., Aspell, J.E., Barron, D. & Swami, V. (2019) An Exploration of the Associations between Facets of Interoceptive Awareness and Body Image in Adolescents. Body Image  31: 171-180.

Cardini, F., Fatemi-Ghomi, N., Gajewska-Knapik, K., Gooch, V. & Aspell, J.E. (2019) Enlarged representation of the peripersonal space in pregnancy. Scientific Reports 9:8606. 

Hina, F. & Aspell, J.E. (2019) Altered interoceptive processing in smokers. International Journal of Psychophysiology 142: 10-16. 

Swami, V., Todd, J., Aspell, J.E., Azzatunnisak Mohd Khatib, N., Kheng Lin Toh, E., Syahirah Zahari, H., & Barron, D. (2019) Translation and Validation of a Bahasa Malaysia (Malay) Version of the Functionality Appreciation Scale. Body Image 30: 114-120. 

Mul, C., Cardini, F., Stagg, S.D., Sadeghi-Esfahlani, S., Kiourtsoglou, D., Cardellicchio, P. & Aspell, J.E, 2019. Altered bodily self-consciousness and peripersonal space in autism. Autism 23: 2055-2067 . 

Todd, J., Aspell, J. E., Barron, D. & Swami, V., 2019. Multiple dimensions of interoceptive awareness are associated with facets of body image in British adults. Body Image, 29, pp.6-16. 

Heydrich, L.*, Aspell, J.E.*, Marillier, G., Lavanchy, T., Herbelin, B. & Blanke, O., 2018. Cardio-visual full body illusion alters bodily self-consciousness and tactile processing in somatosensory cortex. Scientific Reports, 8: 9230 (*contributed equally). 

Mul, C., Stagg, S.D., Herbelin, B. & Aspell, J.E., 2018. The feeling of me feeling for you: Interoception, alexithymia and empathy in autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Apr 11: 1-15. Read the full text

Piech, R.M., Strelchuk, D., Knights, J., Hjälmheden, J.V., Olofsson, J.K. & Aspell, J.E., 2017. People with higher interoceptive sensitivity are more altruistic, but improving interoception does not increase altruism. Scientific Reports, 7:15652.  Read the full text

Cowie, D., McKenna, A., Bremner, A.J. & Aspell, J.E., 2017. The development of bodily self-consciousness: changing responses to the full body illusion in childhood. Developmental Science, 00:e12557. Read the full text

Pamment, J. & Aspell, J.E., 2016. Putting pain out of mind with an ‘out of body’ illusion. European Journal of Pain, 21(2): 334-342. Read the full text.

Aspell, J.E.*, Heydrich, L.*, Marillier, G., Lavanchy, T., Herbelin, B. and Blanke, O., 2013. Turning body and self inside out: visualized heartbeats alter bodily self-consciousness and tactile perception. Psychological Science, 24(12), pp.2445-2453 (*contributed equally). Read the full text.

Heydrich, L., Dodds, T., Aspell, J.E., Herbelin, B., Buelthoff, H., Mohler, B. and Blanke, O., 2013. Visual capture and the experience of having two bodies-Evidence from two different virtual reality techniques. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, p.946. Read the full text.

Rognini, G., Sengül, A., Aspell, J.E., Salomon, R., Bleuler, H. and Blanke, O., 2013. Visuo-tactile integration and body ownership during self-generated action. European Journal of Neuroscience, 37(7), pp.1120-1129. Read the full text.

Sengül, A., Rognini, G., van Elk, M., Aspell, J. E., Bleuler, H. and Blanke, O., 2013. Force feedback facilitates multisensory integration during robotic tool use. Experimental Brain Research, 227(4), pp.497-507. Read the full text.

Sengül, A., van Elk, M., Rognini, G., Aspell, J.E., Bleuler, H. and Blanke, O., 2012. Extending the Body to Virtual Tools Using a Robotic Surgical Interface: Evidence from the Crossmodal Congruency Task. PLoS ONE, 7(12), e4947. Read the full text.

Salmon, R., van Elk, M., Aspell, J.E. and Blanke, O., 2012. I feel who I see: visual body identity affects visual-tactile integration in peripersonal space. Consciousness and Cognition, 21, pp.1355-1364. Read the full text

Aspell, J.E., Palluel, E. and Blanke, O., 2012. Early and late activity in somatosensory cortex reflects changes in bodily self-consciousness: An evoked potential study. Neuroscience, 216, pp.110-122. Read the full text

Palluel, E., Aspell, J.E., Lavanchy, T. and Blanke, O., 2012. Experimental changes in bodily self-consciousness are tuned to the frequency sensitivity of proprioceptive fibres. Neuroreport, 23, pp.354-359. Read the full text.

Palluel, E., Aspell, J.E. and Blanke, O., 2011. Leg muscle vibration modulates bodily self-consciousness: integration of proprioceptive, visual, and tactile signals. Journal of Neurophysiology, 105(5), pp.2239-47. Read the full text.

Aspell, J.E., Lenggenhager, B. and Blanke, O., 2011. Multisensory perception and bodily self-consciousness: from out-of body to inside-body experience. In: Murray, M.M. and Wallace, M.T. (Eds.). The Neural Bases of Multisensory Processes, Frontiers in Neuroscience. CRC Press. Read the full text.

Aspell, J.E., Lavanchy, T., Lenggenhager, B. and Blanke, O., 2010. Seeing the body modulates audiotactile integration. European Journal of Neuroscience, 31(10), pp.1868-73.Read the full text.

Aspell, J.E. and Blanke, O., 2009. Understanding the out-of-body experience from a neuroscientific perspective. In: Murray, C.D. (Ed.). Psychological Scientific Perspectives on Out of Body and Near Death Experiences, Psychology Research Progress, pp.73-88. New York: Nova Science Publishers.

Blanke, O. and Aspell, J.E., 2009. Brain technologies raise unprecedented ethical challenges. Nature, 458(7239), p.703. Comment on: Nature, 457(7233), pp.1080-1. Read the full text.

Aspell, J.E., Lenggenhager, B., & Blanke, O. (2009). Keeping in touch with one’s self: multisensory mechanisms of self-consciousness. PLoS one, 4(8), e6488. Read the full text.