E-mail: mpeelen@princeton.edu

Education:
Ph.D., Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Wales, Bangor, UK, 2006
MA, Cognitive Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2003

Research Interests:
fMRI; visual perception; attention; emotion; body perception; face perception; action perception

Publications:
Peelen MV, Fei-Fei L, Kastner S (in press). Neural mechanisms of rapid natural scene categorization in human visual cortex. Nature

Peelen MV, Glaser B, Vuilleumier P, Eliez S (in press). Differential development of selectivity for faces and bodies in the fusiform gyrus. Developmental Science

Peelen MV, Lucas N, Mayer E, Vuilleumier P (in press). Emotional attention in acquired prosopagnosia. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Peelen MV, Mruczek RE (2008). Sources of spatial and feature-based attention in the human brain. Journal of Neuroscience 28:9328-9329

Peelen MV, Atkinson AP, Andersson F, Vuilleumier P (2007). Emotional modulation of body-selective visual areas. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 2:274-283

Peelen MV, Downing PE (2007). The neural basis of visual body perception. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8:636-648

Pourtois G, Peelen MV, Spinelli L, Seeck M, Vuilleumier P (2007). Direct intracranial recording of body-selective responses in human extrastriate visual cortex. Neuropsychologia 45:2621-2625

Morrison I, Peelen MV, Downing PE (2007). The sight of others’ pain modulates motor processing in human cingulate cortex. Cerebral Cortex 17:2214-2222

Downing PE, Wiggett AJ, Peelen MV (2007). fMRI investigation of overlapping lateral occipitotemporal activations using multi-voxel pattern analysis. Journal of Neuroscience 27:226-233

Peelen MV, Downing PE (2007). Using multi-voxel pattern analysis of fMRI data to interpret overlapping functional activations. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 11:4-5

Peelen MV, Wiggett AJ, Downing PE (2006). Patterns of fMRI activity dissociate overlapping functional brain areas that respond to biological motion. Neuron 49:815-822

Downing PE, Chan AW, Peelen MV, Dodds CM, Kanwisher N (2006). Domain specificity in visual cortex. Cerebral Cortex 16:1453-1461

Downing PE, Peelen MV, Wiggett AJ, Tew BD (2006). The role of the extrastriate body area in action perception. Social Neuroscience 1:52-62

Peelen MV, Downing PE (2005). Selectivity for the human body in the fusiform gyrus. Journal of Neurophysiology 93:603-608

Peelen MV, Downing PE (2005). Is the extrastriate body area involved in motor actions? Nature Neuroscience 8:125-126

Peelen MV, Downing PE (2005). Within-subject reproducibility of category-specific visual activation with functional MRI. Human Brain Mapping 25:402-408

Chan AW, Peelen MV, Downing PE (2004). The effect of viewpoint on body representation in the extrastriate body area. NeuroReport 15:2407-2410

Peelen MV, Heslenfeld DJ, Theeuwes J (2004). Endogenous and exogenous attention shifts are mediated by the same large-scale neural network. NeuroImage 22:822-830