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Online control of prehension predicts performance on a standardised motor assessment test in 8-12 year old children (2017)
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Blanchard, C. C., McGlashan, H. L., French, B., Sperring, R. J., Petrocochino, B., & Holmes, N. P. (2017). Online control of prehension predicts performance on a standardised motor assessment test in 8-12 year old children. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, Article 374. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00374

Goal-directed hand movements are guided by sensory information and may be adjusted 'online', during the movement. If the target of a movement unexpectedly changes position, trajectory corrections can be initiated in as little as 100ms in adults. This... Read More about Online control of prehension predicts performance on a standardised motor assessment test in 8-12 year old children.

Examining ecological validity in social interaction: problems of visual fidelity, gaze, and social potential (2016)
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Reader, A. T., & Holmes, N. P. (2016). Examining ecological validity in social interaction: problems of visual fidelity, gaze, and social potential. Culture and Brain, 4(2), 134-146. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40167-016-0041-8

Social interaction is an essential part of the human experience, and much work has been done to study it. However, several common approaches to examining social interactions in psychological research may inadvertently either unnaturally constrain the... Read More about Examining ecological validity in social interaction: problems of visual fidelity, gaze, and social potential.

Body representations in schizophrenia: an alteration of body structural description is common to people with schizophrenia while alterations of body image worsen with passivity symptoms (2016)
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Graham-Schmidt, K. T., Martin-Iverson, M. T., Holmes, N. P., & Waters, F. (2016). Body representations in schizophrenia: an alteration of body structural description is common to people with schizophrenia while alterations of body image worsen with passivity symptoms. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 21(4), 354-368. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546805.2016.1231111

Introduction: Individuals with schizophrenia, particularly those with passivity symptoms, often feel that their actions and thoughts are controlled by an external agent. Recent evidence has elucidated the role of body representations in the aetiology... Read More about Body representations in schizophrenia: an alteration of body structural description is common to people with schizophrenia while alterations of body image worsen with passivity symptoms.

When one’s sense of agency goes wrong: Absent modulation of time perception by voluntary actions and reduction of perceived length of intervals in passivity symptoms in schizophrenia (2016)
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Graham-Schmidt, K. T., Martin-Iverson, M. T., Holmes, N. P., & Waters, F. A. (2016). When one’s sense of agency goes wrong: Absent modulation of time perception by voluntary actions and reduction of perceived length of intervals in passivity symptoms in schizophrenia. Consciousness and Cognition, 45, 9-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2016.08.006

Passivity symptoms in schizophrenia are characterised by an absence of agency for actions, thoughts and other somatic experiences. Time perception and intentional binding have both been linked to agency and schizophrenia but have not been examined in... Read More about When one’s sense of agency goes wrong: Absent modulation of time perception by voluntary actions and reduction of perceived length of intervals in passivity symptoms in schizophrenia.

Involvement of human primary somatosensory cortex in vibrotactile detection depends on task demand (2016)
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Tamè, L., & Holmes, N. P. (2016). Involvement of human primary somatosensory cortex in vibrotactile detection depends on task demand. NeuroImage, 138, 184-196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.05.056

Detecting and discriminating sensory stimuli are fundamental functions of the nervous system. Electrophysiological and lesion studies suggest that macaque primary somatosensory cortex (SI) is critically involved in discriminating between stimuli, but... Read More about Involvement of human primary somatosensory cortex in vibrotactile detection depends on task demand.

Bilateral representations of touch in the primary somatosensory cortex (2016)
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Tamè, L., Braun, C., Holmes, N. P., Farnè, A., & Pavani, F. (2016). Bilateral representations of touch in the primary somatosensory cortex. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 33(1-2), 48-66. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2016.1159547

According to current textbook knowledge, the primary somatosensory cortex (SI) supports unilateral tactile representations, whereas structures beyond SI, in particular the secondary somatosensory cortex (SII), support bilateral tactile representation... Read More about Bilateral representations of touch in the primary somatosensory cortex.

Online control of reaching and pointing to visual, auditory, and multimodal targets: effects of target modality and method of determining correction latency (2015)
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Holmes, N. P., & Dakwar, A. R. (2015). Online control of reaching and pointing to visual, auditory, and multimodal targets: effects of target modality and method of determining correction latency. Vision Research, 117, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2015.08.019

Movements aimed towards objects occasionally have to be adjusted when the object moves. These online adjustments can be very rapid, occurring in as little as 100 ms. More is known about the latency and neural basis of online control of movements to v... Read More about Online control of reaching and pointing to visual, auditory, and multimodal targets: effects of target modality and method of determining correction latency.

Video stimuli reduce object-directed imitation accuracy: a novel two-person motion-tracking approach (2015)
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Reader, A. T., & Holmes, N. P. (2015). Video stimuli reduce object-directed imitation accuracy: a novel two-person motion-tracking approach. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, Article 644. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00644

Imitation is an important form of social behavior, and research has aimed to discover and explain the neural and kinematic aspects of imitation. However, much of this research has featured single participants imitating in response to pre-recorded vid... Read More about Video stimuli reduce object-directed imitation accuracy: a novel two-person motion-tracking approach.

Effects of action observation on corticospinal excitability: muscle specificity, direction, and timing of the mirror response (2014)
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Naish, K. R., Houston-Price, C., Bremner, A. J., & Holmes, N. P. (2014). Effects of action observation on corticospinal excitability: muscle specificity, direction, and timing of the mirror response. Neuropsychologia, 64, 331-348. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.09.034

Many human behaviours and pathologies have been attributed to the putative mirror neuron system, a neural system that is active during both the observation and execution of actions. While there are now a very large number of papers on the mirror neur... Read More about Effects of action observation on corticospinal excitability: muscle specificity, direction, and timing of the mirror response.

The projected hand illusion: component structure in a community sample and association with demographics, cognition, and psychotic-like experiences (2014)
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Graham, K. T., Martin-Iverson, M. T., Holmes, N. P., & Waters, F. A. (2015). The projected hand illusion: component structure in a community sample and association with demographics, cognition, and psychotic-like experiences. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 77(1), 207-219. doi:10.3758/s13414-014-0748-6

The projected hand illusion (PHI) is a variant of the rubber hand illusion (RHI), and both are commonly used to study mechanisms of self-perception. A questionnaire was developed by Longo et al. (2008) to measure qualitative changes in the RHI. Such... Read More about The projected hand illusion: component structure in a community sample and association with demographics, cognition, and psychotic-like experiences.

Within, but not between hands interactions in vibrotactile detection thresholds reflect somatosensory receptive field organization (2014)
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Tamè, L., Moles, A., & Holmes, N. P. (2014). Within, but not between hands interactions in vibrotactile detection thresholds reflect somatosensory receptive field organization. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00174

Detection of a tactile stimulus on one finger is impaired when a concurrent stimulus (masker) is presented on an additional finger of the same or the opposite hand. This phenomenon is known to be finger-specific at the within-hand level. However, whe... Read More about Within, but not between hands interactions in vibrotactile detection thresholds reflect somatosensory receptive field organization.