Publications

Dewe, H., Sill, O. J., Thurlbeck, S., Kentridge, R., & Cowie D. (2024) The role of visuomotor synchrony on virtual full-body illusions in children and adults. Journal of Neuropsychology. 

Allen, K.R., Smith, K.A., Bird, L., Tenenbaum, J.B., Makin, T.R. & Cowie, D. (2023) Lifelong learning of cognitive styles for physical problem-solving: The effect of embodied experience. Psychonomic bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-023-02400-4.

Cowie, D., Gottwald, J., Bird, L.A., & Bremner, A.J. (2022) The role of hand size in body representation: a developmental investigation. Nature Scientific Reports, 12, 19281, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-23716-6

Keenaghan, S., Polaskova, M., Thurlbeck, S., Kentridge, R. & Cowie, D. (2022). Alice in Wonderland: The effects of body size and movement on children’s size perception and bodily awareness in virtual reality. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 224, 105518, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2022.105518.

Mathew RK, The Immersive Healthcare Collaboration, Mushtaq F. (2021). Three principles for the progress of immersive technologies in healthcare training and education. BMJ Simulation and Technology Enhanced Learning. DOI: 10.1136/bmj stel-2021-000881

Dewe, H., Gottwald, J., Bird., L., Brenton, H., Gillies, M. & Cowie, D. (2021). My virtual self: the role of movement in children’s sense of embodiment. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2021.3073906

Mowbray, R., & Cowie, D., (2020) Mind your step: learning to walk in complex environments. Experimental Brain Research, 238(6),1455-1465. DOI: 10.1007/s00221-020-05821-y  

Gottwald, J., Keenaghan, S., Zampieri, E., Tosodduk, H. , Bremner, A.J., & Cowie, D., (2020) The developing bodily self: how posture constrains body representation in childhood. Child Development, 92(1),351-355. DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13425

Thaler, L., Zhang, Y., Antoniou, M., Kish, D. & Cowie, D. (2020). The Flexible Action System: Click-Based Echolocation May Replace Certain Visual Functionality for Adaptive Walking. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 46(1): 21-35. DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000697 

Keenaghan, S., Bowles, L., Crawfurd, G., Thurlbeck, S., Kentridge, R., & Cowie, D. (2020). My body until proven otherwise: Exploring the time course of the Full Body Illusion. Consciousness & Cognition, 78, 102882. DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2020.102882

Knight, F., Bremner, A.J. & Cowie, D. (2020). Does the language we use to segment the body, shape the way we perceive it? A study of tactile perceptual distortions. Cognition, 197: 104127. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104127.

Dayal, V., Rajabian, A., Jahanshahi, M., Aviles-Olmos, I., Cowie, D., Peters, A., ... & Foltynie, T. (2020). Pedunculopontine Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinsonian Disorders: A Case Series. Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, 1-8.

Mowbray, R., Gottwald, J. M., Zhao, M., Atkinson, A. P., & Cowie, D. (2019). The development of visually guided stepping. Experimental Brain Research, 237(11), 2875-2883. DOI: 10.1007/s00221-019-05629-5.

Mora, L., Cowie, D., Banissy, M., & Cocchini, G. (2018). My true face: unmasking one's own face representation. Acta Psychologica, 191, 63-68. DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2018.08.014.

Cowie, D., McKenna, A., Bremner, A., & Aspell, J.E. (2018). The development of bodily self-consciousness: Responses to the Full Body Illusion in childhood. Developmental Science, 21(3),:e12557. DOI: 10.1111/desc.12557

D'Souza, H., Cowie, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Bremner, A.J. (2017). Specialization of the motor system in human infants: From broadly-tuned to selectively specialized purposeful actions. Developmental Science, 20(4), e12409.  DOI: 10.1111/desc.12409. 

Le Cornu Knight, F., Cowie, D., & Bremner, A.J. (2017). Part-based representations of the body in early childhood: Evidence from perceived distortions of tactile space across limb boundaries, Developmental Science, 20(6), e12439. DOI: 10.1111/desc.12439 

Cowie, D., Sterling,S., & Bremner,A.J. (2016) Multisensory processes in own-hand localisation develop by 10 years: Evidence from the rubber hand illusion. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 142, 230-238. DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2015.10.003 

Begum, J., Cowie, D., & Bremner, A.J. (2014). The origins of ability and automaticity in tactile spatial perception. Developmental Science, 17(6), 946-947. 

Begum, J., Cowie, D., & Bremner, A.J. (2014). Effects of posture on tactile localisation by 4 years of age are modulated by sight of the hands: Evidence for an early acquired external spatial frame of reference for touch. Developmental Science, 17(6), 935-943. DOI: 10.1111/desc.12184 

Cowie, D., Makin, T.R., & Bremner, A.J. (2013). Children’s responses to the Rubber Hand Illusion reveal dissociable pathways in body representation. Psychological Science, 24(5), 762-769.  DOI: 10.1177/0956797612462902 

Cowie, D., Atkinson, J., & Braddick, O. (2012). Visually guided step descent in children with Williams Syndrome. Developmental Science, 15(1), 74-86. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01104.x 

Cowie, D., Limousin, P., Peters, A., Hariz, M., & Day, B.L. (2012). Doorway-provoked freezing of gait and its treatment in Parkinson’s disease. Movement Disorders, 27(4), 492-499. DOI: 10.1002/mds.23990 

Aviles-Olmos, I., Foltynie, T., Panicker, J., Cowie, D., Limousin, P., Hariz, M., Fowler, C.J., & Zrinzo, L. (2012). The surgical anatomy of the pedunculopontine nucleus cannot be disputed, buried or exhumed. Acta Neurochirurgica, 154(8), 1531-1533. 

Aviles-Olmos, I., Foltynie, T., Panicker, J., Cowie, D., Limousin, P., Hariz, M., Fowler, C.J., & Zrinzo, L. (2012). Uncertainty, misunderstanding and the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus - Response to letter by Mazzone et al. Acta Neurochirurgica, 154(5), 839-841. 

Aviles-Olmos, I., Foltynie, T., Panicker, J., Cowie, D., Limousin, P., Hariz, M., Fowler, C.J., & Zrinzo, L. (2011). Urinary incontinence following deep brain stimulation of the pedunculopontine nucleus. Acta Neurochirurgica, 153(12), 2357-2360. 

Cowie, D., Limousin, P., Peters, A., & Day, B.L. (2010). Insights into the neural control of locomotion from walking through doorways in Parkinson’s disease. Neuropsychologia, 48(9), 2750-2757.  DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.05.022 

Cowie, D., Atkinson, J., & Braddick, O. (2010). Development of visual control in stepping down. Experimental Brain Research, 202, 181-188. DOI: 10.1007/s00221-009-2125-6 

Cowie, D., Smith, L., & Braddick, O. (2010). The development of locomotor planning for end-state comfort. Perception, 39, 661-670. 

Cowie, D., Braddick, O., & Atkinson, J. (2008). Visual control of action in step descent. Experimental Brain Research, 186, 343-348. DOI: 10.1007/s00221-008-1320-1 

Nardini, M., Braddick, O., Atkinson, J., Cowie, D., Ahmed, T., Swain, E., & Reidy, H. (2008). Uneven integration for perception and action cues in children’s working memory. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 25, 968-984. 

Curnow, T., Cowie, D., Henning, G.B., & Hill, N.J. (2007). Some observations on the masking effects of Mach Bands. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 24(10), 3233-3241.