Paul E. Downing

12.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
92 papers, 8.8k citations indexed

About

Paul E. Downing is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul E. Downing has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 8.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 25 papers in Social Psychology and 20 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Paul E. Downing's work include Face Recognition and Perception (66 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (40 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (24 papers). Paul E. Downing is often cited by papers focused on Face Recognition and Perception (66 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (40 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (24 papers). Paul E. Downing collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Italy. Paul E. Downing's co-authors include Marius V. Peelen, Nancy Kanwisher, Yuhong Jiang, Alison J. Wiggett, Kathleen M. O’Craven, Chris Dodds, Nikolaas N. Oosterhof, Annie Chan, John C Taylor and Kim S. Graham and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Paul E. Downing

91 papers receiving 8.6k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A Cortical Area Selective for Visual Processing of the Human Body

2001 1.5k citations Paul E. Downing, Nancy Kanwisher et al. profile →
fMRI evidence for objects as the units of attentional selection

1999 647 citations Kathleen M. O’Craven, Paul E. Downing et al. Nature profile →
Selectivity for the Human Body in the Fusiform Gyrus

2004 520 citations Marius V. Peelen, Paul E. Downing profile →
The neural basis of visual body perception

2007 511 citations Marius V. Peelen, Paul E. Downing profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paul E. Downing United Kingdom	42	7.7k	2.9k	1.9k	785	780	92	8.8k
Werner Sommer Germany	55	9.4k 1.2×	1.8k 0.6×	3.1k 1.6×	1.5k 1.9×	766 1.0×	291	10.7k
Marius V. Peelen Italy	47	6.6k 0.9×	2.1k 0.7×	1.6k 0.8×	558 0.7×	802 1.0×	131	7.4k
Edward Awh United States	52	12.8k 1.7×	1.4k 0.5×	2.7k 1.4×	1.3k 1.6×	545 0.7×	115	14.3k
Geoffrey F. Woodman United States	51	9.6k 1.2×	1.2k 0.4×	2.0k 1.0×	448 0.6×	584 0.7×	138	10.4k
Aina Puce United States	45	10.4k 1.3×	1.7k 0.6×	3.2k 1.7×	928 1.2×	1.2k 1.5×	105	12.0k
Giorgio Ganis United States	32	4.1k 0.5×	1.7k 0.6×	1.6k 0.8×	924 1.2×	310 0.4×	69	5.9k
Jean‐René Duhamel France	43	9.2k 1.2×	2.9k 1.0×	2.0k 1.0×	921 1.2×	273 0.3×	82	11.1k
Floris P. de Lange Netherlands	60	10.0k 1.3×	2.2k 0.8×	2.1k 1.1×	1.1k 1.4×	293 0.4×	177	12.1k
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran United States	37	4.7k 0.6×	2.6k 0.9×	2.4k 1.3×	839 1.1×	284 0.4×	122	7.3k
Carlo Umiltà Italy	62	10.9k 1.4×	2.3k 0.8×	2.8k 1.5×	2.6k 3.3×	584 0.7×	249	13.5k

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Downing, Paul E., et al.. (2025). Boosting forward connectivity between primary visual and body selective cortex reduces interference between sex and emotion judgements of bodies. NeuroImage. 310. 121102–121102. 1 indexed citations

Downing, Paul E., et al.. (2022). Asymmetric visual representation of sex from facial appearance. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 30(2). 585–595. 1 indexed citations

Downing, Paul E., et al.. (2020). Asymmetric visual representation of sex from human body shape. Cognition. 205. 104436–104436. 13 indexed citations

Peelen, Marius V. & Paul E. Downing. (2017). Category selectivity in human visual cortex: Beyond visual object recognition. Neuropsychologia. 105. 177–183. 74 indexed citations

Harry, Bronson, Katja Umla‐Runge, Andrew D. Lawrence, Kim S. Graham, & Paul E. Downing. (2016). Evidence for Integrated Visual Face and Body Representations in the Anterior Temporal Lobes. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 28(8). 1178–1193. 33 indexed citations

Lingnau, Angelika & Paul E. Downing. (2015). The lateral occipitotemporal cortex in action. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 19(5). 268–277. 215 indexed citations

Mundy, Matthew, Paul E. Downing, R. C. Honey, et al.. (2014). Brain Correlates of Experience-Dependent Changes in Stimulus Discrimination Based on the Amount and Schedule of Exposure. PLoS ONE. 9(6). e101011–e101011. 5 indexed citations

Koningsbruggen, Martijn G. van, Marius V. Peelen, & Paul E. Downing. (2013). A Causal Role for the Extrastriate Body Area in Detecting People in Real-World Scenes. Journal of Neuroscience. 33(16). 7003–7010. 26 indexed citations

Wiggett, Alison J., Matthew Hudson, Angela Clifford, Steven P. Tipper, & Paul E. Downing. (2012). Doing, seeing, or both: Effects of learning condition on subsequent action perception. Social Neuroscience. 7(6). 606–621. 12 indexed citations

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Oosterhof, Nikolaas N., Steven P. Tipper, & Paul E. Downing. (2012). Visuo-motor imagery of specific manual actions: A multi-variate pattern analysis fMRI study. NeuroImage. 63(1). 262–271. 51 indexed citations

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Taylor, John C & Paul E. Downing. (2011). Division of Labor between Lateral and Ventral Extrastriate Representations of Faces, Bodies, and Objects. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 23(12). 4122–4137. 64 indexed citations

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Wiggett, Alison J., et al.. (2009). Dissociation of extrastriate body and biological-motion selective areas by manipulation of visual-motor congruency. Neuropsychologia. 47(14). 3118–3124. 49 indexed citations

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Downing, Paul E.. (2007). Face Perception: Broken into Parts. Current Biology. 17(20). R888–R889. 3 indexed citations

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Morrison, India & Paul E. Downing. (2007). Organization of felt and seen pain responses in anterior cingulate cortex. NeuroImage. 37(2). 642–651. 93 indexed citations

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Morrison, India, Marius V. Peelen, & Paul E. Downing. (2006). The Sight of Others' Pain Modulates Motor Processing in Human Cingulate Cortex. Cerebral Cortex. 17(9). 2214–2222. 113 indexed citations

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Downing, Paul E., et al.. (2006). The role of the extrastriate body area in action perception. Social Neuroscience. 1(1). 52–62. 111 indexed citations

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Downing, Paul E. & Chris Dodds. (2003). Competition in visual working memory for control of search. Perception. 32. 0–0. 1 indexed citations

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Epstein, Russell A., Nancy Kanwisher, Paul E. Downing, & Zoe Kourtzi. (2001). Functional Neuroimaging of Visual Recognition. MIT Press eBooks. 109–152. 41 indexed citations

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O’Craven, Kathleen M., Paul E. Downing, & Nancy Kanwisher. (1999). fMRI evidence for objects as the units of attentional selection. Nature. 401(6753). 584–587. 647 indexed citations breakdown →

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Downing, Paul E. & Anne Treisman. (1997). The line-motion illusion: Attention or impletion?. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 23(3). 768–779. 57 indexed citations

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