Prof Matthew Longo

Positions held:

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychological Sciences

Overview
Overview

Biography

Matthew Longo is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Psychological Sciences. Matt completed his BA degree in Cognitive Science at the University of California, Berkeley in 2000, and his PhD in Psychology at the University of Chicago in 2006. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London from 2006 to 2010, when he joined Birkbeck.
Matt is the director of the Body Representation Laboratory. His research uses a range of methods from perceptual psychophysics and cognitive neuroscience to investigate the psychological and neural bases of our experience and mental representation of our bodies and how this shapes our perception of the world.

Qualifications
- PhD, University of Chicago, 2006
- MA, University of Chicago, 2004
- BA, University of California at Berkeley, 2000
Web profiles
- Body Representation Laboratory webpage
- Google Scholar
Honours and awards
- Fellow, Association for Psychological Science, November 2017
- EPS Prize, Experimental Psychology Society, November 2014
- Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology, American Psychological Association, November 2013
- John Dewey Memorial Lectureship, University of Chicago, November 2005
- Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation (USA), November 2002
ORCID
0000-0002-2450-4903
Research
Research

Research interests
- Somatosensation
- Touch
- Space Perception
- Body Image
Lab information
- Body Representation Laboratory: <a href="http://www.bbk.ac.uk/psychology/bodylab/">http://www.bbk.ac.uk/psychology/bodylab/</a>
Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching

Supervision

Supervisions within Birkbeck:

5

Current doctoral researchers
- DENISE MARQUES CADETE
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Principal Supervisor, Oct 2021 onwards
  
  Title of thesis:
  The embodiment of bodily properties
  
  Description:
  My PhD research investigates the flexibility of body perception, including the embodiment of bodily properties and extra body parts.
  In previous research, we induced the illusion of having a sixth finger for a long duration, suggesting we can have an endured representation of a supernumerary finger (Cadete & Longo, 2020). With a sixth finger that lasts in time, we were then able to manipulate other bodily properties to the supernumerary finger. We, therefore, induced varied lengths to investigate whether the sixth finger is represented independently or as a copy of the actual fingers (Cadete & Longo, 2022). Participants embodied a long and a short sixth finger, suggesting the sixth finger is represented independently, with its own features.
  Publications:
  Cadete, D., & Longo, M. R. (2020). A continuous illusion of having a sixth finger. Perception, 49(8), 807–821. https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006620939457
  Cadete, D., & Longo, M. R. (2022). The long sixth finger illusion: The representation of the supernumerary finger is not a copy and can be felt with varying lengths. Cognition, 218, 104948. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104948
- OLGA GOLUBOVA
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Principal Supervisor, Oct 2016 onwards
  
  Title of thesis:
  Reconstruction of perceptual space
Doctoral alumni since 2013-14
- KELDA MANSER-SMITH
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Principal Supervisor, Oct 2016
  
  Title of thesis:
  Somatosensory perception of the hands and feet
  
  Awarded:
  2021
- KLAUDIA AMBROZIAK
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Principal Supervisor, Sep 2015
  
  Title of thesis:
  Malleability of body image: how looking at other people affects perception of our own body
  
  Awarded:
  2019
Teaching

Teaching modules
- Sensorimotor Processes and Attention (PSYC003H7)
- Cognitive, Affective, and Social Neuroscience (PSYC004H7)
- Neurocases and Clinical Assessments (PSYC006H7)
- Structure and Measurement of the Human Brain (PSYC026H7)
- Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (PSYC069H6)
- Neuropsychology (SCPS227H6)
Publications
Publications
Article
- Cadete, Denise and Marino, V.P. and Ferre, Elisa Raffaella and Longo, Matthew (2025) Perceived hand size and perceived hand weight. Cognition 254, ISSN 0010-0277.
- Shahzad, I. and Occelli, V. and Giraudet, E. and Azañón, E. and Longo, Matthew and Mouraux, A. and Collignon, O. (2025) How visual experience shapes body representation. Cognition 254 (105980), ISSN 0010-0277.
- Myga, Kasia A. and Azañón, E. and Ambroziak, K.B. and Ferre, Elisa Raffaella and Longo, Matthew (2024) Haptic experience of bodies alters body perception. Perception 53 (10), pp. 716-729. ISSN 0301-0066.
- Longo, Matthew (2024) Precise tactile localisation on the human fingernail. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 291 (2026), ISSN 0962-8452.
- Wareing, L. and Readman, M.R. and Longo, Matthew and Linkenauger, S.A. and Crawford, T.J. (2024) The utility of heartrate and heartrate variability biofeedback for the improvement of interoception across behavioural, physiological and neural outcome measures: a systematic review. Brain Sciences ISSN 2076-3425.
- Hidaka, S. and Tucciarelli, Raffaele and Yusuf, S. and Memmolo, F. and RAJAPAKSE, Sampath and Azañón, Elena and Longo, Matthew (2024) Haptic touch modulates size adaptation aftereffects on the hand. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance ISSN 0096-1523. (In Press)
- Walsh, E. and Moreira, C. and Longo, Matthew (2024) Opposite size illusions for inverted faces and letters. Cognition 245 (105733), ISSN 0010-0277.
- Walsh, E. and Whitby, J. and Chen, Y.-Y. and Longo, Matthew (2024) No influence of emotional expression on size underestimation of upright faces. PLoS One ISSN 1932-6203.
- Longo, Matthew and Medina, S. (2023) Stimulus intensity modulates perceived tactile distance. Perception ISSN 0301-0066.
- Pinardi, M. and Longo, Matthew and Formica, D. and Strbac, M. and Mehring, C. and Burdet, E. and Di Pino, G. (2023) Impact of supplementary sensory feedback on the control and embodiment in human movement augmentation. Communications Engineering 2 (64), ISSN 2731-3395.
- Ambroziak, K.B. and Bofill, M.A. and Azañón, E. and Longo, Matthew (2023) Perceptual aftereffects of adiposity transfer from hands to whole bodies. Experimental Brain Research 241, pp. 2371-2379. ISSN 0014-4819.
- Tucciarelli, Raffaele and Ferre, Elisa Raffaella and Amoruso, Elena and Azanon Gracia, Elena and Longo, Matthew (2023) Gravitational and Retinal Reference Frames Shape Spatial Memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General ISSN 0096-3445.
- Ferre, Elisa and Joel, Jonathan and Cadete, Denise and Longo, Matthew (2023) Systematic Underestimation of Human Hand Weight. Current Biology 33 (14), pp. R758-R759. ISSN 0960-9822.
- Hidaka, S. and Chen, N. and Ishii, N. and Iketani, R. and Suzuki, K. and Longo, Matthew and Wada, M. (2023) No differences in implicit hand maps among different degrees of autistic traits. Autism Research ISSN 1939-3792.
- Kang, W. and Longo, Matthew (2023) Tactile localisation on stretched skin. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance ISSN 0096-1523.
- Tame, Luigi and Longo, Matthew (2023) Emerging principles in functional representations of touch. Nature Reviews Psychology ISSN 2731-0574.
- Longo, Matthew (2023) Comparative cognition: Capuchin monkeys believe in magic. Current Biology 33 (9), pp. R366-R368. ISSN 0960-9822.
- BLYTHE, Ellen and Garrido, L. and Longo, Matthew (2023) Emotion is perceived accurately from isolated body parts, especially hands. Cognition 230 (105260), ISSN 0010-0277.
- Cadete, Denise and Longo, Matthew (2022) Matches, mismatches, and the experience of supernumerary body parts: Comment on “Left and right temporal-parietal junctions (TPJs) as “match/mismatch” hedonic machines: A unifying account of TPJ function”, by Doricchi et al.. Physics of Life Reviews ISSN 1571-0645.
- Mainka, T. and Ganos, C. and Longo, Matthew (2022) Skin stretch modulates tactile distance perception without central correction mechanisms. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance ISSN 0096-1523.
- Hidaka, S. and Tucciarelli, Raffaele and Azañón, Elena and Longo, Matthew (2022) Tilt adaptation aftereffects reveal fundamental perceptual characteristics of tactile orientation processing on the hand. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 48 (12), pp. 1427-1438. ISSN 0096-1523.
- Cadete, Denise and Alsmith, A.J.T. and Longo, Matthew (2022) Curved sixth fingers: flexible representation of the shape of supernumerary body parts. Consciousness and Cognition 105 (103413), ISSN 1053-8100.
- Brzozowska, Alicja and Longo, Matthew and Mareschal, Denis and Wiesemann, F. and Gliga, Teodora (2022) Oxytocin but not naturally occurring variation in caregiver touch associates with infant social orienting. Developmental Psychobiology 64 (6), pp. e22290. ISSN 0012-1630.
- Bono, Davide and Belyk, M. and Longo, Matthew and Dick, Fred (2022) Beyond language: the unspoken sensory-motor representation of the tongue in non-primates, non-human and human primates. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 139 (104730), ISSN 0149-7634.
- Readman, M.R. and Longo, Matthew and McLatchie, N.M. and Crawford, T. J. and Linkenauger, S.A. (2022) The distorted body: the perception of the relative proportions of the body is preserved in Parkinson’s disease. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 29, pp. 1317-1326. ISSN 1069-9384.
- Tame, Luigi and Limbu, S. and Harlow, R. and Parikh, M. and Longo, Matthew (2022) Size constancy mechanisms: empirical evidence from touch. Vision 6 (3), pp. 40. ISSN 2411-5150.
- Chang, Kai-Chien and Longo, Matthew (2022) Similar tactile distance anisotropy across segments of the arm. Perception 51 (5), pp. 300-312. ISSN 0301-0066.
- Longo, Matthew (2022) Distortion of mental body representations. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 26 (3), pp. 241-254. ISSN 1364-6613.
- Longo, Matthew (2022) No evidence for sex differences in tactile distance anisotropy. Experimental Brain Research 240, pp. 591-600. ISSN 0014-4819.
- Ehrsson, H.H. and Fotopoulou, A. and Radzuin, D. and Longo, Matthew and Tsakiris, M. (2022) No specific relationship between hypnotic suggestibility and the rubber hand illusion. Nature Communications 13 (564), ISSN 2041-1723.
- Cadete, Denise and Longo, Matthew (2022) The long sixth finger illusion: the representation of the supernumerary finger is not a copy and can be felt with varying lengths. Cognition 218 (104948), ISSN 0010-0277.
- Maister, Lara and De Beukelaer, S. and Longo, Matthew and Tsakiris, M. (2021) The self in the mind’s eye: revealing how we truly see ourselves through reverse correlation. Psychological Science 32 (12), pp. 1965-1978. ISSN 0956-7976.
- Manser-Smith, Kelda and Tame, Luigi and Longo, Matthew (2021) Tactile Distance Anisotropy on the feet. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 83, pp. 3227-3239. ISSN 1943-3921.
- Mainka, T. and Azañón, E. and Zeuner, K.E. and Knutzen, A. and Bäumer, T. and Neumann, W.-J. and Borngräber, F. and Kühn, A.A. and Longo, Matthew and Ganos, C. (2021) Intact organization of tactile space in isolated focal dystonia. Movement Disorders 36 (8), pp. 1949-1955. ISSN 0885-3185.
- Nicula, Anabela and Longo, Matthew (2021) Perception of tactile distance on the back. Perception 50 (8), pp. 677-689. ISSN 0301-0066.
- Ferrè, Elisa Raffaella and Alsmith, A.J.T. and Haggard, P. and Longo, Matthew (2021) The vestibular system modulates the contributions of head and torso to egocentric spatial judgements. Experimental Brain Research 239, pp. 2295-2302. ISSN 0014-4819.
- Brzozowska, Alicja and Longo, Matthew R. and Mareschal, Denis and Wiesemann, F. and Gliga, Teodora (2021) Capturing touch in parent-infant interaction: a comparison of methods. Infancy 26 (3), pp. 494-514. ISSN 1525-0008.
- Tamè, Luigi and Tucciarelli, Raffaele and Sadibolova, Renata and Sereno, Martin and Longo, Matthew R. (2021) Reconstructing neural representations of tactile space. NeuroImage 229 (117730), ISSN 1053-8119.
- Hidaka, S. and Tamè, Luigi and Longo, Matthew R. (2021) Tactile interactions in the path of tactile apparent motion. Cognition 209 (104569), ISSN 0010-0277.
- Myga, Kasia A. and Ambroziak, K.B. and Tame, Luigi and Farnè, A. and Longo, Matthew (2021) Whole-hand perceptual maps of joint location. Experimental Brain Research 239, pp. 1235-1246. ISSN 0014-4819.
- Manser-Smith, K. and Romano, D. and Tame, L. and Longo, Matthew R. (2021) Fingers hold spatial information that toes do not. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 74 (1), pp. 95-105. ISSN 1747-0218.
- Tame, Luigi and Longo, Matthew R. (2021) Probing the neural representations of body-related stimuli. Cortex 134, pp. 358-361. ISSN 0010-9452.
- D'Angelo, M. and Tucciarelli, R. and Maister, L. and Frassinetti, F. and Longo, Matthew R. (2021) Embodying an invisible face shrinks the cone of gaze. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 150 (6), pp. 1132-1146. ISSN 0096-3445.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Rajapakse, S.S. and Alsmith, A.J.T. and Ferrè, Elisa Raffaella (2020) Shared contributions of the head and torso to spatial reference frames across spatial judgments. Cognition 204 (104349), ISSN 0010-0277.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Amoruso, E. and Calzolari, E. and Ben Yehuda, M. and Haggard, P. and Azanon Gracia, Elena (2020) Anisotropies of tactile distance perception on the face. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 82, pp. 3636-3647. ISSN 1943-3921.
- Vagnoni, E. and Lingard, Lee and Munro, Shanette and Longo, Matthew R. (2020) Semantic modulation of time-to-collision judgments. Neuropsychologia 147 (107588), ISSN 0028-3932.
- Cadete, D. and Longo, Matthew R. (2020) A continuous illusion of having a sixth finger. Perception 49 (8), pp. 807-821. ISSN 0301-0066.
- Hidaka, Souta and Tucciarelli, Raffaele and Azanon Gracia, Elena and Longo, Matthew R. (2020) Tactile distance adaptation aftereffects do not transfer to perceptual hand maps. Acta Psychologica 208 (103090), ISSN 0001-6918.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Holmes, M. (2020) Distorted Perceptual Face Maps. Acta Psychologica 208 (103128), ISSN 0001-6918.
- Longo, Matthew R. (2020) Body image: neural basis of ‘Negative’ phantom limbs. Current Biology 30 (11), pp. PR644-R646. ISSN 0960-9822.
- Azanon Gracia, Elena and Tucciarelli, Raffaele and Siromahov, Metodi and Amoruso, Elena and Longo, Matthew R. (2020) Mapping visual spatial prototypes: multiple reference frames shape visual memory. Cognition 198 (104199), ISSN 0010-0277.
- Longo, Matthew R. (2020) Tactile Distance Anisotropy on the palm: a meta-analysis. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 82, pp. 2137-2146. ISSN 1943-3921.
- Viceconti, A. and Camerone, E.M. and Luzzi, D. and Pentassuglia, D. and Pardini, M. and Ristori, D. and Rossettini, G. and Gallace, A. and Longo, Matthew R. and Testa, M. (2020) Explicit and implicit own’s body and space perception in painful musculoskeletal disorders and rheumatic diseases: a systematic scoping review. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience ISSN 1662-5161.
- Hidaka, S. and Tame, L. and Zafarana, A. and Longo, Matthew R. (2020) Anisotropy in tactile time perception. Cortex 128, pp. 124-131. ISSN 0010-9452.
- Dolgilevica, K. and Longo, Matthew R. and Tame, Luigi (2020) Structural representations of fingers rely on both anatomical and spatial reference frames. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 46 (2), pp. 125-130. ISSN 0096-1523.
- Miller, L.E. and Longo, Matthew R. and Saygin, A.P. (2019) Tool use modulates somatosensory cortical processing in humans. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 31 (12), pp. 1782-1795. ISSN 0898-929X.
- Ambroziak, K.B. and Azanon Gracia, Elena and Longo, Matthew R. (2019) Body size adaptation alters perception of test stimuli, not internal body image. Frontiers in Psychology 10, ISSN 1664-1078.
- Ferrè, Elisa Raffaella and Frett, T. and Haggard, P. and Longo, Matthew R. (2019) A gravitational contribution to perceived body weight. Scientific Reports 9 (11448), ISSN 2045-2322.
- Manser-Smith, Kelda and Tamè, Luigi and Longo, Matthew R. (2019) A common representation of fingers and toes. Acta Psychologica 199, pp. 102900. ISSN 0001-6918.
- Tavacioglu, E.E. and Azanon Gracia, Elena and Longo, Matthew R. (2019) Perceptual distortions of 3-D finger size. Perception 48 (8), pp. 668-684. ISSN 0301-0066.
- Romano, D. and Tamè, Luigi and Amoruso, E. and Azanon Gracia, Elena and Maravita, A. and Longo, Matthew R. (2019) The standard posture of the hand. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 45 (9), pp. 1164-1173. ISSN 0096-1523.
- van der Veer, A.H. and Longo, Matthew R. and Alsmith, A.J.T. and Wong, H.Y. and Mohler, B.J. (2019) Self and body part localization in virtual reality: comparing a headset and a large-screen immersive display. Frontiers in Robotics and AI 6, pp. 33. ISSN 2296-9144.
- Azanon Gracia, Elena and Longo, Matthew R. (2019) Tactile perception: beyond the somatotopy of the somatosensory cortex. Current Biology 29 (9), pp. R322-R324. ISSN 0960-9822.
- Longo, Matthew R. (2019) Sex differences in perceptual hand maps: a meta-analysis. Acta Psychologica 196, pp. 1-10. ISSN 0001-6918.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Lulciuc, A. and Sotakova, L. (2019) No evidence of Tactile Distance Anisotropy on the belly. Royal Society Open Science 6 (3), ISSN 2054-5703.
- Tamè, Luigi and Azanon Gracia, Elena and Longo, Matthew R. (2019) A conceptual model of tactile processing across body features of size, shape, side, and spatial location. Frontiers in Psychology ISSN 1664-1078.
- Hecht, H. and Welsch, R. and Viehoff, J. and Longo, Matthew R. (2019) The shape of personal space. Acta Psychologica 193, pp. 113-122. ISSN 0001-6918.
- Sadibolova, Renata and Ferrè, Elisa Raffaella and Linkenauger, S.A. and Longo, Matthew R. (2018) Distortions of perceived volume and length of body parts. Cortex 111, pp. 74-86. ISSN 0010-9452.
- Tamè, Luigi and Linkenauger, S.A. and Longo, Matthew R. (2018) Dissociation of feeling and belief in the rubber hand illusion. PLoS One ISSN 1932-6203.
- van der Veer, A.H. and Alsmith, A.J.T. and Longo, Matthew R. and Wong, H.Y. and Mohler, B.J. (2018) Where am I in virtual reality?. PLOS ONE ISSN 1932-6203.
- Walsh, Eamonn and Vormberg, Alexandra and Hannaford, J. and Longo, Matthew R. (2018) Inversion produces opposite size illusions for faces and bodies. Acta Psychologica 191, pp. 15-24. ISSN 0001-6918.
- Sadibolova, Renata and Tamè, Luigi and Longo, Matthew R. (2018) More than skin-deep: integration of skin-based and musculo-skeletal reference frames in localisation of touch. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 44 (11), pp. 1672-1682. ISSN 0096-1523.
- Longo, Matthew R. (2018) The effects of instrumental action on perceptual hand maps. Experimental Brain Research 236 (11), pp. 3113-3119. ISSN 0014-4819.
- Ambroziak, K.B. and Tamè, Luigi and Longo, Matthew R. (2018) Conceptual distortions of hand structure are robust to changes in stimulus information. Consciousness and Cognition 61, pp. 107-116. ISSN 1053-8100.
- Sadibolova, Renata and Tamè, Luigi and Walsh, Eamonn and Longo, Matthew R. (2018) Mind the gap: the effects of temporal and spatial separation in localization of dual touches on the hand. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience ISSN 1662-5161.
- Fiori, Federico and Longo, Matthew R. (2018) Tactile distance illusions reflect a coherent stretch of tactile space. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115 (6), pp. 1238-1243. ISSN 0027-8424.
- Medina, S. and Tamè, Luigi and Longo, Matthew R. (2018) Tactile localization biases are modulated by gaze direction. Experimental Brain Research 236 (1), pp. 31-42. ISSN 0014-4819.
- Manser-Smith, K. and Tamè, Luigi and Longo, Matthew R. (2018) Tactile confusions of the fingers and toes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 44 (11), pp. 1727-1738. ISSN 0096-1523.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Golubova, Olga (2017) Mapping the internal geometry of tactile space. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 43 (10), pp. 1815-1827. ISSN 0096-1523.
- Miller, L.E. and Cawley-Bennett, A. and Longo, Matthew R. and Saygin, A.P. (2017) The recalibration of tactile perception during tool use is body-part specific. Experimental Brain Research 235 (10), pp. 2917-2926. ISSN 0014-4819.
- Alsmith, A.J.T. and Ferrè, Elisa Raffaella and Longo, Matthew R. (2017) Dissociating contributions of head and torso to spatial reference frames: the misalignment paradigm. Consciousness and Cognition 53, pp. 105-114. ISSN 1053-8100.
- Linkenauger, S.A. and Kirby, L.R. and McCulloch, K.C. and Longo, Matthew R. (2017) People watching: the perception of the relative body proportions of the self and others. Cortex 92, pp. 1-7. ISSN 0010-9452.
- Vagnoni, E. and Andreanidou, V. and Lourenco, S.F. and Longo, Matthew R. (2017) Action ability modulates time-to-collision judgments. Experimental Brain Research 235 (9), pp. 2729-2739. ISSN 0014-4819.
- Ganea, Natasa and Longo, Matthew R. (2017) Projecting the self outside the body: body representations underlying proprioceptive imagery. Cognition 162, pp. 41-47. ISSN 0010-0277.
- Miller, L. and Longo, Matthew R. and Saygin, A.P. (2017) Visual illusion of tool use recalibrates tactile perception. Cognition 162, pp. 32-40. ISSN 0010-0277.
- Tamè, Luigi and Bumpus, N. and Linkenauger, S.A. and Longo, Matthew R. (2017) Distorted body representations are robust to differences in experimental instructions. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 79 (4), pp. 1204-1216. ISSN 1943-3921.
- Azanon Gracia, Elena and Camacho, K. and Morales, M. and Longo, Matthew R. (2017) The sensitive period for tactile remapping does not include early infancy. Child Development 89 (4), pp. 1394-1404. ISSN 0009-3920.
- Calzolari, Elena and Azanon Gracia, Elena and Danvers, M. and Vallar, G. and Longo, Matthew R. (2017) Adaptation aftereffects reveal that tactile distance is a basic somatosensory feature. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114 (17), pp. 4555-4560. ISSN 0027-8424.
- Tamè, Luigi and Carr, Alex and Longo, Matthew R. (2017) Vision of the body improves inter-hemispheric integration of tactile-motor responses. Acta Psychologica 175, pp. 21-27. ISSN 0001-6918.
- Longo, Matthew R. (2017) Expansion of perceptual body maps near – but not across – the wrist. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience ISSN 1662-5161.
- Tamè, Luigi and Dransfield, E. and Quettier, T. and Longo, Matthew R. (2017) Finger posture modulates structural body representations. Scientific Reports 7, pp. 43019. ISSN 2045-2322.
- Ambroziak, K.B. and Azanon Gracia, Elena and Longo, Matthew R. (2017) Eating and body image: does food insecurity make us feel thinner?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 40, pp. e106. ISSN 0140-525X.
- Longo, Matthew R. (2017) Hand posture modulates perceived tactile distance. Scientific Reports 7, pp. 9665. ISSN 2045-2322.
- Azanon Gracia, Elena and Mihaljevic, K. and Longo, Matthew R. (2016) A three-dimensional spatial characterization of the crossed-hands deficit. Cognition 157, pp. 289-295. ISSN 0010-0277.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Morcom, R. (2016) No correlation between distorted body representations underlying tactile distance perception and position sense. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 10, pp. 593-601. ISSN 1662-5161.
- Azanon Gracia, Elena and Radulova, S. and Haggard, P. and Longo, Matthew R. (2016) Does the crossed-limb deficit affect the uncrossed portions of limbs?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 42 (9), pp. 1320-1331. ISSN 0096-1523.
- Cardini, F. and Longo, Matthew R. (2016) Congruency of body-related information induces somatosensory reorganization. Neuropsychologia 84, pp. 213-221. ISSN 0028-3932.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Tamè, Luigi and Sadibolova, Renata (2016) Embodying prostheses – how to let the body welcome assistive devices. Physics of Life Reviews 16, pp. 184-185. ISSN 1571-0645.
- Miller, L.E. and Longo, Matthew R. and Saygin, A.P. (2016) Mental body representations retain homuncular shape distortions: evidence from Weber’s Illusion. Consciousness and Cognition 40, pp. 17-25. ISSN 1053-8100.
- Saulton, A. and Longo, Matthew R. and Wong, H.Y. and Bulthoff, H.H. and de la Rosa, S. (2016) The role of visual similarity and memory in body model distortions. Acta Psychologica 164, pp. 103-111. ISSN 0001-6918.
- Longo, Matthew R. (2016) Distorted body representations in healthy cognition. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 70 (3), pp. 378-388. ISSN 1747-0218.
- Azanon Gracia, Elena and Tamè, Luigi and Maravita, A. and Linkenauger, S.A. and Ferrè, Elisa Raffaella and Tajadura-Jimenez, A. and Longo, Matthew R. (2016) Multimodal contributions to body representation. Multisensory Research 29 (6), pp. 635-661. ISSN 2213-4794.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Mattioni, S. and Ganea, Natasa (2015) Perceptual and conceptual distortions of implicit hand maps. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9 (656), ISSN 1662-5161.
- Longo, Matthew R. (2015) Posture modulates implicit hand maps. Consciousness and Cognition 36, pp. 96-102. ISSN 1053-8100.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Ghosh, A. and Yahya, Tasneem (2015) Bilateral symmetry of distortions of tactile size perception. Perception 44 (11), pp. 1251-1262. ISSN 0301-0066.
- Filippetti, Maria Laura and Lloyd-Fox, Sarah and Longo, Matthew R. and Farroni, T. and Johnson, Mark H. (2015) Neural mechanisms of body awareness in infants. Cerebral Cortex 25 (10), pp. 3779-3787. ISSN 1047-3211.
- Longo, Matthew R. (2015) Intuitive anatomy: distortions of conceptual knowledge of hand structure. Cognition 142, pp. 230-235. ISSN 0010-0277.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Mancini, F. and Haggard, P. (2015) Implicit body representations and tactile spatial remapping. Acta Psychologica 160, pp. 77-87. ISSN 0001-6918.
- Vagnoni, Eleonora and Lourenco, S.F. and Longo, Matthew R. (2015) Threat modulates neural responses to looming visual stimuli. European Journal of Neuroscience 42 (5), pp. 2190-2202. ISSN 0953-816X.
- Walsh, Eamonn and Guilmette, D. and Longo, Matthew R. and Moore, J.W. and Oakley, D.A. and Halligan, P.W. and Mehta, M.A. and Deeley, Q. (2015) Are you suggesting that’s my hand? The relation between hypnotic suggestibility and the rubber hand illusion. Perception 44 (6), pp. 709-723. ISSN 0301-0066.
- Tamè, Luigi and Longo, Matthew R. (2015) Inter-hemispheric integration of tactile-motor responses across body parts. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9, pp. 345. ISSN 1662-5161.
- Longo, Matthew R. (2015) Three-dimensional coherence of the conscious body image. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 68 (6), pp. 1116-1123. ISSN 1747-0218.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Trippier, S. and Vagnoni, Eleonora and Lourenco, S.F. (2015) Right hemisphere control of visuospatial attention in near space. Neuropsychologia 70, pp. 350-357. ISSN 0028-3932.
- Longo, Matthew R. (2015) Implicit and explicit body representations. European Psychologist 20 (1), pp. 6-15. ISSN 1016-9040.
- Margolis, A.N. and Longo, Matthew R. (2015) Visual detail about the body modulates tactile localisation biases. Experimental Brain Research 233 (2), pp. 351-358. ISSN 0014-4819.
- Miller, L.E. and Longo, Matthew R. and Saygin, A.P. (2014) Tool morphology constrains the effects of tool use on body representations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 40 (6), pp. 2143-2153. ISSN 0096-1523.
- Mattioni, S. and Longo, Matthew R. (2014) The effects of verbal cueing on implicit hand maps. Acta Psychologica 153, pp. 60-65. ISSN 0001-6918.
- Piryankova, I.V. and Wong, H.Y. and Linkenauger, S.A. and Stinson, C. and Longo, Matthew R. and Bulthoff, H.H. and Mohler, B.J. (2014) Owning an overweight or underweight body: distinguishing the physical, experienced and virtual body. PLoS One 9 (8), pp. e103428. ISSN 1932-6203.
- Eshkevari, E. and Rieger, E. and Longo, Matthew R. and Haggard, P. and Treasure, J. (2014) Persistent body image disturbance following recovery from eating disorders. International Journal of Eating Disorders 47 (4), pp. 400-409. ISSN 0276-3478.
- Le Cornu Knight, F. and Longo, Matthew R. and Bremner, A.J. (2014) Categorical perception of tactile distance. Cognition 131 (2), pp. 254-262. ISSN 0010-0277.
- Longo, Matthew R. (2014) The effects of immediate vision on implicit hand maps. Experimental Brain Research 232 (4), pp. 1241-1247. ISSN 0014-4819.
- Sadibolova, R. and Longo, Matthew R. (2014) Seeing the body produces limb-specific modulation of skin temperature. Biology Letters 10 (4), ISSN 1744-9561.
- Alsmith, A. and Longo, Matthew R. (2014) Where exactly am I? Self-location judgements distribute between head and torso. Consciousness and Cognition 24, pp. 70-74. ISSN 1053-8100.
- Longo, Matthew R. (2013) Distorted body representations in healthy adults. Psychological Science Agenda 27 (11),
- Fuentes, C.T. and Longo, Matthew R. and Haggard, P. (2013) Body image distortions in healthy adults. Acta Psychologica 144 (2), pp. 344-351. ISSN 0001-6918.
- Mancini, F. and Longo, Matthew R. and Canzoneri, E. and Vallar, G. and Haggard, P. (2013) Changes in cortical oscillations linked to multisensory modulation of nociception. European Journal of Neuroscience 37 (5), pp. 768-776. ISSN 0953-816X.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Sadibolova, Renata (2013) Seeing the body distorts tactile size perception. Cognition 126 (3), pp. 475-481. ISSN 0010-0277.
- Haggard, P. and Iannetti, G.D. and Longo, Matthew R. (2013) Spatial sensory organization and body representation in pain perception. Current Biology 23 (4), pp. R164-R176. ISSN 0960-9822.
- Fuentes, C.T. and Pazzaglia, M. and Longo, Matthew R. and Scivoletto, G. and Haggard, P. (2013) Body image distortions following spinal cord injury. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 84 (2), pp. 201-207. ISSN 0022-3050.
- Ferrè, E.R. and Longo, Matthew R. and Fiori, F. and Haggard, P. (2013) Vestibular modulation of spatial perception. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 7, pp. 660. ISSN 1662-5161.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Tsakiris, M. (2013) Merging second-person and first-person neuroscience. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 36 (4), pp. 429-430. ISSN 0140-525X.
- Tajadura-Jiménez, A. and Longo, Matthew R. and Coleman, R. and Tsakiris, M. (2012) The person in the mirror: using the enfacement illusion to investigate the experiential structure of self-identification. Consciousness and Cognition 21 (4), pp. 1725-1738. ISSN 1053-8100.
- Longo, Matthew R. (2012) Book review: a tour of the senses: how your brain interprets the world by John M. Henshaw. American Journal of Human Biology 24 (6), pp. 873-875. ISSN 1042-0533.
- Mancini, F. and Haggard, P. and Iannetti, G.D. and Longo, Matthew R. and Sereno, Martin I. (2012) Fine-grained nociceptive maps in primary somatosensory cortex. Journal of Neuroscience 32 (48), pp. 17155-17162. ISSN 0270-6474.
- Vagnoni, Eleonora and Lourenco, S.F. and Longo, Matthew R. (2012) Threat modulates perception of looming visual stimuli. Current Biology 22 (19), pp. R826-R827. ISSN 0960-9822.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Haggard, P. (2012) Implicit body representations and the conscious body image. Acta Psychologica 141 (2), pp. 164-168. ISSN 0001-6918.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Serino, A. (2012) Tool use induces complex and flexible plasticity of human body representations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 35 (4), pp. 229-230. ISSN 0140-525X.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Long, C. and Haggard, P. (2012) Mapping the invisible hand: a body model of a phantom limb. Psychological Science 23 (7), pp. 740-742. ISSN 0956-7976.
- Cardini, F. and Longo, Matthew R. and Driver, J. and Haggard, P. (2012) Rapid enhancement of touch from non-informative vision of the hand. Neuropsychologia 50 (8), pp. 1954-1960. ISSN 0028-3932.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Lourenco, S.F. and Francisco, A. (2012) Approaching stimuli bias attention in numerical space. Acta Psychologica 140 (2), pp. 129-132. ISSN 0001-6918.
- Rohlfing, K.J. and Longo, Matthew R. and Bertenthal, B.I. (2012) Dynamic pointing triggers shifts of visual attention in young infants. Developmental Science 15 (3), pp. 426-435. ISSN 1363-755X.
- Eshkevari, E. and Rieger, E. and Longo, Matthew R. and Haggard, P. and Treasure, J. (2012) Increased plasticity of the bodily self in eating disorders. Psychological Medicine 42 (4), pp. 819-828. ISSN 0033-2917.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Haggard, P. (2012) What is it like to have a body?. Current Directions in Psychological Science 21 (2), pp. 140-145. ISSN 0963-7214.
- Boyer, T.W. and Longo, Matthew R. and Bertenthal, B.I. (2012) Is automatic imitation a specialized form of stimulus–response compatibility? Dissociating imitative and spatial compatibilities. Acta Psychologica 139 (3), pp. 440-448. ISSN 0001-6918.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Musil, J.J. and Haggard, P. (2012) Visuo-tactile integration in personal space. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 24 (3), pp. 543-552. ISSN 0898-929X.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Iannetti, G.D. and Mancini, F. and Driver, J. and Haggard, P. (2012) Linking pain and the body: neural correlates of visually induced analgesia. Journal of Neuroscience 32 (8), pp. 2601-2607. ISSN 0270-6474.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Haggard, P. (2012) A 2.5-D representation of the human hand. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 38 (1), pp. 9-13. ISSN 0096-1523.
- Le Cornu Knight, F. and Bremner, A.J. and Longo, Matthew R. (2012) The categorical perception of tactile distance: a difference in acuity at anatomical landmarks?. Seeing and Perceiving 25, pp. 42-42. ISSN 1878-4755.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Haggard, P. (2011) Weber's illusion and body shape: Anisotropy of tactile size perception on the hand.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 37 (3), pp. 720-726. ISSN 0096-1523.
- Lourenco, S.F. and Longo, Matthew R. and Pathman, T. (2011) Near space and its relation to claustrophobic fear. Cognition 119 (3), pp. 448-453. ISSN 0010-0277.
- Mancini, F. and Longo, Matthew R. and Iannetti, G.D. and Haggard, P. (2011) A supramodal representation of the body surface. Neuropsychologia 49 (5), pp. 1194-1201. ISSN 0028-3932.
- Mancini, F. and Longo, Matthew R. and Kammers, M.P.M. and Haggard, P. (2011) Visual distortion of body size modulates pain perception. Psychological Science 22 (3), pp. 325-330. ISSN 0956-7976.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Pernigo, S. and Haggard, P. (2011) Vision of the body modulates processing in primary somatosensory cortex. Neuroscience Letters 489 (3), pp. 159-163. ISSN 0304-3940.
- Cardini, F. and Longo, Matthew R. and Haggard, P. (2011) Vision of the body modulates somatosensory intracortical inhibition. Cerebral Cortex 21, pp. 2014-2022. ISSN 1460-2199.
- Papeo, L. and Longo, Matthew R. and Feurra, M. and Haggard, P. (2010) The role of the right temporoparietal junction in perceptual conflict: detection or resolution?. Experimental Brain Research 206 (2), pp. 129-139. ISSN 0014-4819.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Haggard, P. (2010) An implicit body representation underlying human position sense. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107 (26), pp. 11727-11732. ISSN 0027-8424.
- Lourenco, S.F. and Longo, Matthew R. (2010) General magnitude representation in human infants. Psychological Science 21 (6), pp. 873-881. ISSN 0956-7976.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Lourenco, S.F. (2010) Bisecting the mental number line in near and far space. Brain and Cognition 72 (3), pp. 362-367. ISSN 0278-2626.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Azanon, E. and Haggard, P. (2010) More than skin deep: body representation beyond primary somatosensory cortex. Neuropsychologia 48 (3), pp. 655-668. ISSN 0028-3932.
- Azanon, E. and Longo, Matthew R. and Soto-Faraco, S. and Haggard, P. (2010) The posterior parietal cortex remaps touch into external space. Current Biology 20 (14), pp. 1304-1309. ISSN 0960-9822.
- Tsakiris, M. and Longo, Matthew R. and Haggard, P. (2010) Having a body versus moving your body: neural signatures of agency and body-ownership. Neuropsychologia 48, pp. 2740-2749. ISSN 0028-3932.
- Longo, Matthew R. (2009) What's embodied and how can we tell?. European Journal of Social Psychology 39 (7), pp. 1207-1209. ISSN 1099-0992.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Schüür, F. and Kammers, M.P.M. and Tsakiris, M. and Haggard, P. (2009) Self awareness and the body image. Acta Psychologica 132 (2), pp. 166-172. ISSN 0001-6918.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Betti, V. and Aglioti, S.M. and Haggard, P. (2009) Visually induced analgesia: seeing the body reduces pain. Journal of Neuroscience 29 (39), pp. 12125-12130. ISSN 0270-6474.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Kammers, M.P.M. and Gomi, H and Tsakiris, M. and Haggard, P. (2009) Contraction of body representation induced by proprioceptive conflict. Current Biology 19 (17), pp. R727-R728. ISSN 0960-9822.
- Lourenco, S.F. and Longo, Matthew R. (2009) The plasticity of near space: evidence for contraction. Cognition 112 (3), pp. 451-456. ISSN 0010-0277.
- Kammers, M.P.M. and Longo, Matthew R. and Tsakiris, M. and Dijkerman, H.C. and Haggard, P. (2009) Specificity and coherence of body representations. Perception 38 (12), pp. 1804-1820. ISSN 0301-0066.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Bertenthal, B.I. (2009) Attention modulates the specificity of automatic imitation to human actors. Experimental Brain Research 192 (4), pp. 739-744. ISSN 0014-4819.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Haggard, P. (2009) Sense of agency primes manual motor responses. Perception 38 (1), pp. 69-78. ISSN 0301-0066.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Schüür, F. and Kammers, M.P.M. and Tsakiris, M. and Haggard, P. (2009) Self awareness and the body image. Acta Psychologica 132 (2), pp. 166-172. ISSN 0001-6918.
- Lourenco, S.F. and Longo, Matthew R. (2009) Multiple spatial representations of number: evidence for co-existing compressive and linear scales. Experimental Brain Research 193 (1), pp. 151-156. ISSN 0014-4819.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Schüür, F. and Kammers, M.P.M. and Tsakiris, M. and Haggard, P. (2008) What is embodiment? a psychometric approach. Cognition 107 (3), pp. 978-998. ISSN 0010-0277.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Kosobud, A. and Bertenthal, B.I. (2008) Automatic imitation of biomechanically possible and impossible actions: effects of priming movements versus goals. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 34 (2), pp. 489-501. ISSN 0096-1523.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Bertenthal, B.I. (2008) Flexibility and development of mirroring mechanisms. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31 (1), pp. 31-31. ISSN 0140-525X.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Cardozo, S. and Haggard, P. (2008) Visual enhancement of touch and the bodily self. Consciousness and Cognition 17 (4), pp. 1181-1191. ISSN 1053-8100.
- Bertenthal, B.I. and Longo, Matthew R. (2007) Is there evidence of a mirror system from birth?. Developmental Science 10 (5), pp. 526-529. ISSN 1363-755X.
- Bertenthal, B.I. and Longo, Matthew R. and Kenny, S. (2007) Phenomenal permanence and the development of predictive tracking in infancy. Child Development 78 (1), pp. 350-363. ISSN 0009-3920.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Lourenco, S.F. (2007) Space perception and body morphology: extent of near space scales with arm length. Experimental Brain Research 177, pp. 285-290. ISSN 0014-4819.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Lourenco, S.F. (2007) Spatial attention and the mental number line: evidence for characteristic biases and compression. Neuropsychologia 45 (7), pp. 1400-1407. ISSN 0028-3932.
- Bertenthal, B.I. and Longo, Matthew R. and Kosobud, A. (2006) Imitative response tendencies following observation of intransitive actions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 32 (2), pp. 210-225. ISSN 0096-1523.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Bertenthal, B.I. (2006) Common coding of observation and execution of action in 9-month-old infants. Infancy 10 (1), pp. 43-59. ISSN 1525-0008.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Lourenco, S.F. (2006) On the nature of near space: effects of tool use and the transition to far space. Neuropsychologia 44 (6), pp. 977-981. ISSN 0028-3932.
- Longo, Matthew R. and Bertenthal, B.I. (2004) Automaticity and inhibition in action planning. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (1), pp. 44-45. ISSN 0140-525X.
- Bertenthal, B.I. and Longo, Matthew R. (2002) Advancing our understanding of early perceptual and cognitive development. Human Development 45 (6), pp. 434-440. ISSN 0018-716X.
Book Section
- Hoffmann, M. and Longo, Matthew (2022) Body models in humans and robots. In: Alsmith, A.J.T. and Longo, Matthew (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Bodily Awareness. Routledge. ISBN 9780367337315. (In Press)
- van der Veer, A.H. and Alsmith, A. J.T. and Longo, Matthew R. and Wong, H.Y. and Diers, D. and Bues, M. and Giron, A.P. and Mohler, B. J. (2019) The influence of the viewpoint in a self-avatar on body part and self-localization. In: SAP '19 ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2019. ACM. ISBN 9781450368902.
- Vagnoni, E. and Longo, Matthew R. (2019) Peripersonal space: its functions, plasticity, and neural basis. In: Cheng, T.H.Y. and Spence, C. and Deroy, O. (eds.) Spatial Senses: Philosophy of Perception in an Age of Science. Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy. Routledge. ISBN 9781138506411.
- Alsmith, A.J.T. and Longo, Matthew R. (2019) Using VR technologies to investigate the flexibility of human self-conception. In: Fischer, E. and Curtis, M. (eds.) Methodological Advances in Experimental Philosophy. Advances in Experimental Philosophy. London, UK: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781350068995.
- Longo, Matthew R. (2017) Body representations and the sense of self. In: de Vignemont, F. and Alsmith, A. (eds.) The Subject's Matter: Self-Consciousness and the Body. Cambridge, U.S.: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262036832.
- Longo, Matthew R. (2017) Distorted body representations and skilled action. In: Grünbaum, T. and Christensen, M.S. (eds.) Sensation of Movement. Current Issues in Consciousness Research. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138646339.
- Longo, Matthew R. (2016) Types of body representation. In: Coello, Y. and Fischer, M. (eds.) Perceptual and Emotional Embodiment. Foundations of Embodied Cognition. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 117-134. ISBN 9781138805811.
- Lourenco, S.F. and Longo, Matthew R. (2011) Origins and development of generalized magnitude representation. In: Dehaene, S and Brannon, E.M. (eds.) Space, Time and Number in the Brain: Searching for the Foundations of Mathematical Thought. London: Elsevier. pp. 225-244. ISBN 9780123859488.
- Bertenthal, B.I. and Longo, Matthew R. (2008) Motor knowledge and action understanding: a developmental perspective. In: Klatzky, R. and MacWhinney, B. and Behrmann, M. (eds.) Embodiment, Ego-Space, and Action. Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series. Oxford, UK: Psychology Press. pp. 319-364. ISBN 9780805862881.
Letter
- Longo, Matthew (2023) Motor adaptation and distorted body representations. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 27 (1), pp. 9-9. Elsevier. ISSN 1364-6613.

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