Publications

2026

Miske, O., Abatayo, A. L., Daley, M., Dirzo, M., Fox, N…Reader, A. T., et al. (2026). Investigating the reproducibility of the social and behavioural sciences. Nature, 652, 126–134. doi: 10.1038/s41586-026-10203-5

2025

Reader, A. T., Gaile, L., Li, W., Chea Mc Corry, E. E., & Mackie, K. (2025). Multiple object handling: exploring strategies for cumulative grasping and transport using a single hand. Experimental Brain Research, 243, 165. doi: 10.1007/s00221-025-07084-x

2024

Holmes, N. P., Di Chiaro, N. V., Crowe, E. M., Marson, B., Göbel, K., Gaigalas, D., Jay, T., Lockett, A. V., Powell, E. S., Zeni, S., & Reader, A. T. (2024). Transcranial magnetic stimulation over supramarginal gyrus stimulates primary motor cortex directly and impairs manual dexterity: Implications for TMS focality. Journal of Neurophysiology, 131(2), 360-378. doi: 10.1152/jn.00369.2023

Crucianelli, L.*, Reader, A. T.*, & Ehrsson, H. H. (2024). Subcortical contributions to the sense of body ownership. Brain, 147(2), 390-405. doi: 10.1093/brain/awad359 *shared authorship

Reader, A. T., & Salvato, G. (2024). Investigating the relationship between self-reported interoceptive experience and risk propensity. Cognition and Emotion, 38(1), 148-162. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2023.2279160

2023

Reader, A. T., Coppi, S., Trifonova, V. S., & Ehrsson, H. H. (2023). No reduction in motor-evoked potential amplitude during the rubber hand illusion. Brain and Behavior, 13(10), e3211. doi: 10.1002/brb3.3211

Schmitz, L.*, & Reader, A. T.* (2023). Smaller preferred interpersonal distance for joint versus parallel action. PLoS ONE, 18(5), e0285202. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0285202 *shared authorship

2022

Reader, A. T. (2022). What do participants expect to experience in the rubber hand illusion? A conceptual replication of Lush (2020). Collabra: Psychology, 8(1), 35743. doi: 10.1525/collabra.35743

Scrivener, C. L., & Reader, A. T. (2022). Variability of EEG electrode positions and their underlying brain regions: visualizing gel artifacts from a simultaneous EEG-fMRI dataset. Brain and Behavior, e2476. doi: 10.1002/brb3.2476

2021

Reader, A. T., Trifonova, V. S., & Ehrsson, H. H. (2021). Little evidence for an effect of the rubber hand illusion on basic movement. European Journal of Neuroscience. doi: 10.1111/ejn.15444

Reader, A. T., Tamè, L., Zeni, S., & Holmes, N. P. (preprint). An instance of presyncope during magnetic stimulation of the median nerve, and instances of presyncope and syncope during evaluation of resting motor threshold with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). doi: 10.31219/osf.io/maurc

Reader, A. T., Trifonova, V. S., & Ehrsson, H. H. (2021). The relationship between referral of touch and the feeling of ownership in the rubber hand illusion. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 629590. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.629590

2019

Reader, A. T., & Ehrsson, H. H. (2019). Weakening the subjective sensation of own hand ownership does not interfere with rapid finger movements. PLoS ONE, 14(10), e0223580. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223580

Reader, A. T.*, & Crucianelli, L.* (2019). A multisensory perspective on the role of the amygdala in body ownership. Journal of Neuroscience, 39(39), . doi: *shared authorship

Reader, A. T., & Holmes, N. P. (2019). Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation over the left posterior middle temporal gyrus reduces wrist velocity during emblematic hand gesture imitation. Brain Topography32(2), 332-341. doi: 10.1007/s10548-018-0684-1

Reader, A. T., & Candidi, M. (2019). Does apraxia support spatial and kinematic or mirror neuron approaches to social interaction? A commentary on Binder et al. (2017). Cortex, 111, 324-326. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2017.10.018

2018

Reader, A. T., Rao, V. M., Christakou, A., & Holmes, N. P. (2018). A kinematic examination of dual-route processing for action imitation. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 80(8), 2069-2083. doi: 10.3758/s13414-018-1582-z

Reader, A. T., & Holmes, N. P. (2018). The left ventral premotor cortex is involved in hand shaping for intransitive gestures: evidence from a two-person imitation experiment. Royal Society Open Science, 5, 181356. doi: 10.1098/rsos.181356 (correction here)

Reader, A. T., Royce, B. P., Marsh, J. E., Chivers, K., & Holmes, N. P. (2018). Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation reveals a role for the left inferior parietal lobule in matching observed kinematics during imitation. European Journal of Neuroscience47(8), 918-928. doi: 10.1111/ejn.13886

2017

Reader, A. T. (2017). Optimal motor synergy extraction for novel actions and virtual environments. Journal of Neurophysiology118(2), 652-654. doi: 10.1152/jn.00165.2017

2016

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. doi: 10.1007/s40167-016-0041-8

Reader, A. T. (2016). Semantic organization of body part representations in the occipitotemporal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience36(2), 265-267. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3766-15.2016

2015

Reader, A. T., & Holmes, N. P (2015). Video stimuli reduce object-directed imitation accuracy: a novel two-person motion-tracking paradigm. Frontiers in Psychology6(644). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00644

2013

Naish, K. R., Reader, A. T., Houston-Price, C., Bremner, A. J., & Holmes, N. P. (2013). To eat or not to eat? Kinematics and muscle activity of reach-to-grasp movements are influenced by the action goal, but observers do not detect these differences. Experimental Brain Research225(2), 261-275.  doi: 10.1007/s00221-012-3367-2