This is the web page of Paul Downing's lab in the Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience at Bangor University. Our research uses fMRI and other methods to investigate human high-level vision with a focus on socially-relevant stimuli: faces, bodies, and their movements.

Lab News:

Winter 09/10
Welcome to Dr Martijn van Koningsbruggen, who is starting a 2-year postdoc on our Leverhulme-funded TMS/fMRI project.

We've had a paper recently accepted at J Neurophys:
Taylor J, Wiggett A, Downing P. Viewpoint dependency and masking effects in visual cortical body representations. in press, Journal of Neurophysiology.


Fall 2009
Welcome to John Kontaris, who is starting his PhD in the lab.

Paul Downing and Nick Oosterhof will be at SFN in Chicago, presenting work on visual-motor congruency in extrastriate cortex, and MVPA work on the "mirror system" -- Posters 168.6/W13 and 577.13/FF132


Summer 2009
Congratulations to Nick Oosterhof on receiving a Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD Fellowship!

Paul Downing (with co-Is Steve Tipper, Bob Rafal, and Martin Giese) was awarded a 2-year grant from the Leverhulme Trust to conduct TMS and fMRI studies of the action-perception network.

We've had two papers accepted recently at Neuropsychologia -- see Publications link at the right.