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Matthew R. Longo

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Birkbeck, University of London
Verified email at bbk.ac.uk
Cited by 12172

More than skin deep: body representation beyond primary somatosensory cortex

MR Longo, E Azañón, P Haggard - Neuropsychologia, 2010 - Elsevier
The neural circuits underlying initial sensory processing of somatic information are relatively
well understood. In contrast, the processes that go beyond primary somatosensation to …

[PDF][PDF] Spatial sensory organization and body representation in pain perception

P Haggard, GD Iannetti, MR Longo - Current Biology, 2013 - cell.com
Pain is a subjective experience that protects the body. This function implies a special relation
between the brain mechanisms underlying pain perception and representation of the body. …

Guillain–barré syndrome

S Esposito, MR Longo - Autoimmunity reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
The term Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS), the most frequent cause of acute paralytic neuropathy,
covers a number of recognisably distinct variants. The exact cause of GBS is unknown, …

What is embodiment? A psychometric approach

MR Longo, F Schüür, MPM Kammers, M Tsakiris… - Cognition, 2008 - Elsevier
What is it like to have a body? The present study takes a psychometric approach to this
question. We collected structured introspective reports of the rubber hand illusion, to …

An implicit body representation underlying human position sense

MR Longo, P Haggard - Proceedings of the National …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Knowing the body's location in external space is a fundamental perceptual task. Perceiving
the location of body parts through proprioception requires that information about the angles …

Having a body versus moving your body: neural signatures of agency and body-ownership

M Tsakiris, MR Longo, P Haggard - Neuropsychologia, 2010 - Elsevier
The exact relation between the sense that one's body is one's own (body-ownership) and
the sense that one controls one's own bodily actions (agency) has been the focus of much …

General magnitude representation in human infants

SF Lourenco, MR Longo - Psychological Science, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Behavioral demonstrations of reciprocal interactions among the dimensions of space, number,
and time, along with evidence of shared neural mechanisms in posterior parietal cortex, …

On the nature of near space: Effects of tool use and the transition to far space

MR Longo, SF Lourenco - Neuropsychologia, 2006 - Elsevier
Many researchers have proposed that the near space immediately surrounding the body is
represented differently than more distant space. Indeed, it has often been suggested that …

Visually induced analgesia: seeing the body reduces pain

MR Longo, V Betti, SM Aglioti… - Journal of …, 2009 - Soc Neuroscience
Given previous reports of strong interactions between vision and somatic senses, we investigated
whether vision of the body modulates pain perception. Participants looked into a mirror …

Increased plasticity of the bodily self in eating disorders

E Eshkevari, E Rieger, MR Longo, P Haggard… - Psychological …, 2012 - cambridge.org
BackgroundThe rubber hand illusion (RHI) has been widely used to investigate the bodily
self in healthy individuals. The aim of the present study was to extend the use of the RHI to …