Peer-reviewed journal articles (in press)

Ramsey, R., Cumming, J., and Edwards, M. G. (2009). Mental Imagery Inflates Performance Expectations but not Actual Performance of a Novel and Challenging Motor Task. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 28, 331-347

Ramsey, R., Cumming, J., Edwards, M.G., Williams, S. and Brunning, C. (2009). Examining the Emotion Aspect of PETTLEP based Imagery and Penalty Taking Performance in Football. The International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 6, 207-223.

Ramsey, R., Cumming, J. and Edwards, M.G. (2008). Exploring A Modified Conceptualisation Of Imagery Direction And Golf Putting Performance. The International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 6, 207-223.

Rice, N.J., Edwards, M.G., Schindler, I., Punt, T.D., McIntosh, R.D., Humphreys, G.W. & Milner, A.D. (2008), Delay Abolishes The Obstacle Avoidance Deficit In Unilateral Optic Ataxia. Neuropsychologia,
46, 1549-1557.

Eastough, D. and Edwards, M.G. (2007). Movement Kinematics In Prehension Are Affected By Grasping Objects Of Different Mass. Experimental Brain Research, 176, 193-198.

Edwards, M.G., Wing, A.M., Stevens, J and Humphreys, G.W. (2005). Knowing Your Nose Better Than Your Thumb: Measures Of Over-Grasp Reveal That Face-Parts Are Special. Experimental Brain Research, 161, 72-80

Riddoch, M.J., Humphreys, G.W., Jacobson, S., Pluck, G., Bateman, A. and Edwards, M.G. (2004). Impaired Orientation Discrimination And Localisation Following Parietal Damage: On The Interplay Between Dorsal And Ventral Processes In Visual Perception. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 21, 597–623

Humphreys, G.W. and Edwards, M.G. (2004). Automatic Obstacle Avoidance And Parietal Cortex. Nature Neuroscience, 7, 693.

Banfield, J.F., Pendry, L.F., Mewse A.J. and Edwards, M.G. (2003). The Effects Of An Elderly Stereotype Prime On Reaching And Grasping Actions. Social Cognition, 21, 299-319.

Edwards, M.G., Humphreys, G.W. and Castiello, U. (2003). Motor Facilitation Following Action Observation: A Behavioural Study In Prehensile Action. Brain and Cognition, 53, 495-502.

Edwards, M.G. and Humphreys, G.W. (2002). Visual Selection And Action In Balint’s Syndrome. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 19, 445-462.

Hanley, R., Kay, J. and Edwards, M.G. (2002). Imageability And Word Production. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 19, 193-206.

Riddoch, M.J., Humphreys, G.W. and Edwards, M.G. (2001). An Experimental Analysis Of Anarchic Lower Limb Action. Neuropsychologia, 39, 574-579.

Riddoch, M.J., Humphreys, G.W. and Edwards, M.G. (2000). Neuropsychological Evidence Distinguishing Object Selection From Action (Effector) Selection. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 17, 547-562.

Edwards, M.G. and Humphreys, G.W. (1999). Pointing And Grasping In Unilateral Neglect: Effect Of Online Visual Feedback In Grasping. Neuropsychologia, 37, 959-973.

Riddoch, M.J., Edwards, M.G., Humphreys, G.W., West, R. and Heafield, T. (1998). Visual Affordances Direct Action: Neuropsychological Evidence From Manual Interference. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 15 (6/7/8), 645-685.


Book Chapters

Holmes, P.S., Cumming, J. and Edwards, M.G., (in press). Motor Imagery In Learning Processes: Motor Imagery And Observation In Skill Learning, In A. Guillot and C. Collet, The Neurophysiological Foundations Of Mental And Motor Imagery

Humphreys, G.W., Punt, D., Riddoch, M.J., Linnell, K.J., Edwards, M.G., & Wing, A.M. (2005). Attending To What You Are Doing: Neuropsychological And Experimental Evidence For Interactions Between Perception And Action, In G.W. Humphreys & M.J. Riddoch, Attention in Action: Advances from Cognitive Neuroscience, pp3-26.

Castiello, U., Lusher, D., Mari, M., Edwards, M.G. & Humphreys, G.W. (2002). Observing A Human Or A Robotic Hand Grasping An Object: Differential Motor Priming Effects. In W. Prinz & B. Hommel (Eds.), Attention And Performance XIX. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Riddoch, M.J., Humphreys, G.W. & Edwards, M.G. (2001). Visual Affordances And Object Selection. In S. Monsell & J. Driver (Eds.), Attention And Performance XVIII., MIT Press


Published Abstracts

Edwards, M.G., Martin, J.A., Hughes, C. and Peters, D. (2009), Effects of Ageing and Selective Attention on Movement Speed, Cognitive Processing, 10 (S2), 152

Hardwick, R. and Edwards, M.G. (2009), Effects of Action Observation on Movement Execution, Cognitive Processing, 10 (S2), 168

Routen, A.C., Peters, D.M., Upton, D., & Edwards, M.G. (2009). A preliminary investigation of child, parent and programme leader reflections on participation and delivery of a family-based weight intervention programme: Proceedings of the BASES Annual Conference. Journal of Sport Sciences, 27 (S2), S85.

Weber, M. and Edwards, M.G. (2008), Frontal Exectutive Function Following Concussion: A Need To Modify Assessment? Brain Injury, 22, 189 (ISSN 02699052)

Edwards, M.G. & Eastough, D. (2007) Weighing-up perception-action dissociation: Does grasping object mass rely on perception?  In Proceedings of the European Cognitive Science Conference 2007, by Stella Vosniadou and Daniel Kayser [p908] (ISBN-10: 184169696X).


Edwards, M.G., Cumming, J., Holmes, P.S. & Williams, A.M. (2007) Neuroscience of Action Observation and Imagery,  In, 12th European Congress of Sport Psychology FEPSAC 2007: Sport and Exercise Psychology Bridges Between Disciplines and Cultures. Greece, University of Thessaly [p141] (ISBN: 978-960-89923-0-6).

Ramsey, R., Cumming, J. & Edwards, M.G. (2007) Exploring a modified conceptualisation of imagery direction and golf putting performance,  In, 12th European Congress of Sport Psychology FEPSAC 2007: Sport and Exercise Psychology Bridges Between Disciplines and Cultures. Greece, University of Thessaly [p322] (ISBN: 978-960-89923-0-6).

Cumming, J., Edwards, M.G., Ramsey R. and Nordin, S.M. (2006), Going Full Circle In Imagery Research: From Mirror Neurons To Sports Performance And Back Again, Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 28: S8-S9

Cumming, J., Nordin, S.M., Edwards, M.G. and Ramsey, R. (2006), Closing The Circle: What Imagery Researchers In Neuroscience And Sport Psychology Can Learn From Each Other, Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology 28: S10-S10

Eastough, D. and Edwards, M.G. (2006), Movement Kinematics In Prehension Are Affected By Grasping Objects Of Different Mass, Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 28: S59-S60

Eastough, D. and Edwards, M.G. (2006), Extrinsic And Intrinsic Feature Labeling Have Surprising Effects On Movement Kinematics In Prehension, Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 28: S60-S60

Edwards, M.G., Cumming, J and Ramsey, R (2006), Imagery In The Neurosciences: Mirror Neurons And Mechanisms Of Performance Enhancement, Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 28: S9-S9

Edwards, M.G., Dijkerman, H.C. and Humphreys, G.W. (2006), Pointing Errors In A Patient With Left Parietal Optic Ataxia Are Linked To Eye Position Rather Than Body Position, Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 28: S60-S60

Nordin, S.M., Ramsey, R., Cumming, J. and Edwards, M.G. (2006), Imagery In Sport Psychology: Effects On Performance From Imagery Direction Manipulations, Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology 28: S10-S10

Ramsey, R., Edwards, M.G. and Cumming, J. (2006), Neuroscience Meets Sport Psychology: Enhanced Performance Following Action Imagery In Three Movement Kinematics Studies, Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 28: S9-S9

Ramsey, R., Cumming, J., Skubala, M., Barton, S. and Edwards, M.G. (2006), Mental Imagery Inflates Performance Expectations But Not Actual Performance Of A Novel And Challenging Motor Task, Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 28: S148-S149


Manuscripts in final preparation / submission

Bartolo, A., Coello, Y., Delepoulle, S., Edwards, M.G., Endo, S. and Wing, A.M.
The involvement of motor representations in the perceptual judgment of what is reachable: An fMRI study.

Hardwick, R.H. and Edwards, M.G., Observed Reach Kinematics Modulate Executed Reach Kinematics in Prehension


McAllister, C.J., Hardwick, R.H., Edwards, M.G. and Holmes, P.S., Observing another person’s actions can inhibit the excitability of the observer’s motor system

Ramsey, R., Cumming, J., Chambers, E. and Edwards, M.G., Neural systems coding imagery modality and somatotopy

Ramsey, R., Edwards, M. G., and Cumming, J.
Performance modulation following action imagery: a movement kinematic study of grasping.

Salama, I.M., Turner, S. and Edwards, M.G. Automatic moderation of grip strength
following action observation

Weber, M. and Edwards, M.G., The effect of brain injury terminology on university athletes' expected outcome from injury, familiarity and actual symptom report

Williams, S., Cumming, J. and
Edwards, M.G., To what extent does the functional equivalence between imagery, observation, and movement influence imagery ability? Investigating different modes of MIQ-R delivery