No evidence for a link between mental health symptoms and pain thresholds
Published in Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 2025
Publications
Journal Articles
Microstructural brain correlates of inter-individual differences in respiratory interoception
Published in Journal of Neuroscience, 2025
The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making
Published in PLOS Computational Biology, 2025
Domain generality in metacognitive ability: A confirmatory study across visual perception, memory, and general knowledge
Published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2025
Thermosensory predictive coding underpins an illusion of pain
Published in Science Advances, 2025
Assessing individual sensitivity to the thermal grill illusion: A two-dimensional adaptive psychophysical approach
Published in The Journal of Pain, 2025
Disentangling the spinal mechanisms of illusory heat and burning sensations in the thermal grill illusion
Published in Pain, 2024
Systematic review and co-ordinate based meta-analysis to summarize the utilization of functional brain imaging in conjunction with human models of peripheral and central sensitization
Published in European Journal of Pain, 2024
Thermal contrast enhancement predicts paradoxical heat sensation
Published in Communications Psychology, 2024
Paradoxical heat sensation as a manifestation of thermal hypesthesia: a study of 1090 patients with lesions of the somatosensory system
Published in Pain, 2024
It is one or the other: No overlap between healthy individuals perceiving thermal grill illusion or paradoxical heat sensation
Published in Neuroscience Letters, 2023
Development and external validation of multivariable risk models to predict incident and resolved neuropathic pain: A DOLORisk Dundee study
Published in Journal of Neurology, 2023
When cooling of the skin is perceived as warmth: Enhanced paradoxical heat sensation by pre-cooling of the skin in healthy individuals
Published in Temperature, 2023
The respiratory resistance sensitivity task: An automated method for quantifying respiratory interoception and metacognition
Published in Biological Psychology, 2022
The heart rate discrimination task: A psychophysical method to estimate the accuracy and precision of interoceptive beliefs
Published in Biological Psychology, 2022
Cohort profile: DOLORisk Dundee: a longitudinal study of chronicneuropathic pain
Published in BMJ Open, 2021
Emotional metacognition: stimulus valence modulates cardiac arousal and metamemory
Published in Cognition and Emotion, 2020
Thinking through prior bodies: autonomic uncertainty and interoceptive self-inference
Published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2020
Beyond labeled lines: a population coding account of the thermal grill illusion
Published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2020
When words burn – Language processing differentially modulates pain perception in typical and chronic pain populations
Published in Language and Cognition, 2019
Organization of the thermal grill illusion by spinal segments
Published in Annals of Neurology, 2018
A mechanism for spatial perception on human skin
Published in Cognition, 2018
Expectation violation and attention to pain jointly modulate neural gain in somatosensory cortex
Published in Neuroimage, 2017
Delta and gamma oscillations in operculo-insular cortex underlie innocuous cold thermosensation
Published in Journal of Neurophysiology, 2017
Metacognitive ability correlates with hippocampal and prefrontal microstructure
Published in Neuroimage, 2017
Insula and somatosensory cortical myelination and iron markers underlie individual differences in empathy
Published in Scientific Reports, 2017
Unexpected arousal modulates the influence of sensory noise on confidence
Published in Elife, 2016
Anterior insula coordinates hierarchical processing of tactile mismatch responses
Published in Neuroimage, 2016
Neurocognitive evidence for mental imagery-driven hypoalgesic and hyperalgesic pain regulation
Published in Neuroimage, 2015
What (if anything) is shared in pain empathy? A critical discussion of de Vignemont and Jacob’s theory of the neural substrate of pain empathy
Published in Philosophy of Science, 2014
Preprints
Peripheral beta-blockade differentially enhances cardiac and respiratory interoception
Published in BioRxiv, 2025
Modelling perceptual uncertainty in a thermosensory illusion across the lifespan
Published in BioRxiv, 2025
Sensory-evoked perturbational complexity in human EEG: Effects of stimulus temperature and peripheral sensitisation in nociceptive processing
Published in BioRxiv, 2025
Interoceptive ability is uncorrelated across respiratory and cardiac axes: a large scale psychophysical study
Published in PsyArXiv, 2025
Body-wandering reveals an embodied dimension of thought with distinct affective and neural signatures
Published in BioRxiv, 2024
Inwardly focused cognitive style as a link between mental imagery and mental health
Published in OSF, 2024
Supramodal neural information supports stimulus-driven attention across cortical levels
Published in BioRxiv, 2024
Gender differences in metacognition: global and local contrasts in bias and efficiency
Published in PsyArXiv, 2024