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Böhme, R. A., Banellis, L., Vejlø, M., Allen, M. G. & Fardo, F. (2026). No evidence for a link between mental health symptoms and pain thresholds. Anxiety, Stress and Coping, 39(1), 101-117. https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2025.2534858

Jeganathan, J., Campbell, M. E. J., Legrand, N., Allen, M. & Breakspear, M. (2025). Aberrant Cardiac Interoception in Psychosis. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 51(1), 208-216. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbae078

Deolindo, C. S., Ehmsen, J. F., Courtin, A. S., Mitchell, A. G., Kraenge, C. E., Nikolova, N., Allen, M. G. & Fardo, F. (2025). Assessing individual sensitivity to the Thermal Grill Illusion: A two-dimensional adaptive psychophysical approach. Journal of Pain, 27, Article 104732. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2024.104732

Lund, A. E., Corrêa, C. M. C., Fardo, F., Fleming, S. M. & Allen, M. G. (2025). Domain Generality in Metacognitive Ability: A Confirmatory Study Across Visual Perception, Episodic Memory, and Semantic Memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001462

Hoogervorst, K., Banellis, L. & Allen, M. G. (2025). Domain-specific updating of metacognitive self-beliefs. Cognition, 254, Article 105965. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105965

Banellis, L., Nikolova, N., Ehmsen, J. F., Courtin, A., Vejlø, M., Tyrer, A., Böhme, R. A., Fardo, F. & Allen, M. (2025). Interoceptive ability is uncorrelated across respiratory and cardiac axes: a large scale psychophysical study. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/s56v4_v1

Banellis, L., Nikolova, N., Ehmsen, J. F., Courtin, A., Vejlø, M., Tyrer, A., Böhme, R. A., Bavato, F., Hoogervorst, K., Fardo, F. & Allen, M. (2025). Interoceptive Ability is Unrelated to Mental Health Symptoms: Evidence From a Large Scale Multi-Domain Psychophysical Investigation. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/p5gvc_v2

Hakala, C., Bisgaard Heintzelmann, M., Nikolova, N., Allen, M., Dahl Rossau, C. & Blicher, J. (2025). Laptop-based Testing of Emotion Discrimination in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Poster session presented at 8th Annual Research Meeting 2025, Aarhus N, Denmark.

Leganes-Fonteneau, M., Desmedt, O., Allen, M. G., Wiers, R. W. & Maurage, P. (2025). Mapping acute alcohol effects on bodily sensations: A cross-dimensional interoceptive approach. Journal of Psychopharmacology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/02698811251338223

Nikolova, N., Fischer Ehmsen, J., Banellis, L., Brændholt, M., Steenkjær, C., Vejlø, M., Fardo, F. & Allen, M. G. (2025). Microstructural Brain Correlates of Inter-individual Differences in Respiratory Interoception. The Journal of neuroscience, 45(36), Article e0787242025. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0787-24.2025

Tyrer, A., Ehmsen, J. F., Hoogervorst, K., Nikolova, N., Pando-Naude, V., Steenkjær, C. H., Courtin, A., Fardo, F., Hauser, T. U., Bavato, F. & Allen, M. (2025). Peripheral Beta-Blockade Differentially Enhances Cardiac and Respiratory Interoception. Abstract from 8th Annual Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Banellis, L., Rebollo, I., Nikolova, N. & Allen, M. (2025). Stomach–brain coupling indexes a dimensional signature of mental health. Nature Mental Health, 3(8), 899-908. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-025-00468-6

Niedernhuber, M., Fardo, F., Allen, M. & Bekinschtein, T. (2025). Supramodal and modality-specific neural information supports multi-feature prediction errors across cortical levels. Imaging Neuroscience, 3, Article IMAG.a.149. https://doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.149

Brændholt, M., Nikolova, N., Vejlø, M., Banellis, L., Fardo, F., Kluger, D. S. & Allen, M. (2025). The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making. PLoS Computational Biology, 21(5 ), Article e1013086. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013086

Ehmsen, J. F., Nikolova, N., Christensen, D. E., Banellis, L., Böhme, R. A., Brændholt, M., Courtin, A. S., Krænge, C. E., Mitchell, A. G., Deolindo, C. S., Steenkjær, C. H., Vejlø, M., Mathys, C., Allen, M. G. & Fardo, F. (2025). Thermosensory predictive coding underpins an illusion of pain. Science Advances, 11(11), Article eadq0261. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adq0261

Kluger, D. S., Allen, M. G. & Gross, J. (2024). Brain–body states embody complex temporal dynamics. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 28(8), 695-698. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2024.05.003

Schoeller, F., Horowitz, A. H., Jain, A., Maes, P., Reggente, N., Christov-Moore, L., Pezzulo, G., Barca, L., Allen, M., Salomon, R., Miller, M., Di Lernia, D., Riva, G., Tsakiris, M., Chalah, M. A., Klein, A., Zhang, B., Garcia, T., Pollack, U. ... Friston, K. (2024). Interoceptive technologies for psychiatric interventions: From diagnosis to clinical applications. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 156, Article 105478. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105478

Hakala, C., Heintzelmann, M. B., Blicher, J., Nikolova, N., Allen, M. & Rossau, C. D. (2024). Laptop-based Testing of Emotion Discrimination and Interoception in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Poster session presented at 35th International Symposium on ALS/MND, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Tyrer, A., Hoogervorst, K., Pando-Naude, V., Steenkjær, C. H., Nehrer, S. W., Firisz, D. & Allen, M. (2024). Neural Signatures of Predictive Processing under Central vs Peripheral Noradrenergic Blockade. Poster session presented at 30th Annual Meeting of the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping, Seoul, Korea, Republic of.

Xue, K., Zheng, Y., Papalexandrou, C., Hoogervorst, K., Allen, M. & Rahnev, D. (2024). No gender difference in confidence or metacognitive ability in perceptual decision-making. iScience, 27(12), Article 111375. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.111375

Mitchell, A. G., Fischer Ehmsen, J., Basińska, M., Courtin, A. S., Böhme, R. A., Sardeto Deolindo, C., Allen, M. G., Sandberg, K. & Fardo, F. (2024). Thermal contrast enhancement predicts paradoxical heat sensation. Communications Psychology, 2(1), 1-8. Article 37. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-024-00083-8

Brændholt, M., Kluger, D. S., Varga, S., Heck, D. H., Gross, J. & Allen, M. G. (2023). Breathing in waves: Understanding respiratory-brain coupling as a gradient of predictive oscillations. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 152, Article 105262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105262

Luettich, A., Sievers, C., Alfaro Almagro, F., Allen, M., Jbabdi, S., Smith, S. M. & Pattinson, K. T. S. (2023). Functional connectivity between interoceptive brain regions is associated with distinct health-related domains: A population-based neuroimaging study. Human Brain Mapping, 44(8), 3210-3221. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26275

Allen, M., Varga, S. & Heck, D. H. (2023). Respiratory rhythms of the predictive mind. Psychological Review, 130(4), 1066-1080. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000391

Allen, M., Levy, A., Parr, T. & Friston, K. J. (2022). In the Body’s Eye: The computational anatomy of interoceptive inference. PLoS Computational Biology, 18(9), Article e1010490. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010490

Duerler, P., Brem, S., Fraga-González, G., Neef, T., Allen, M., Zeidman, P., Stämpfli, P., Vollenweider, F. X. & Preller, K. H. (2022). Psilocybin Induces Aberrant Prediction Error Processing of Tactile Mismatch Responses-A Simultaneous EEG-FMRI Study. Cerebral Cortex, 32(1), 186-196. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab202

Heck, D. H., Correia, B. L., Fox, M. B., Liu, Y., Allen, M. & Varga, S. (2022). Recent insights into respiratory modulation of brain activity offer new perspectives on cognition and emotion. Biological Psychology, 170, Article 108316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108316

Legrand, N., Nikolova, N., Correa, C., Brændholt, M., Stuckert, A., Kildahl, N., Vejlø, M., Fardo, F. & Allen, M. (2022). The heart rate discrimination task: A psychophysical method to estimate the accuracy and precision of interoceptive beliefs. Biological Psychology, 168, Article 108239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108239

Nikolova, N., Harrison, O., Toohey, S., Brændholt, M., Legrand, N., Correa, C., Vejlø, M., Jensen, M. S., Fardo, F. & Allen, M. (2022). The respiratory resistance sensitivity task: An automated method for quantifying respiratory interoception and metacognition. Biological Psychology, 170, Article 108325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108325

Allen, M. (2022). The seductive allure of cargo cult computationalism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, Article e183. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X22000279

Nikolova, N., Waade, P. T., Friston, K. J. & Allen, M. (2022). What Might Interoceptive Inference Reveal about Consciousness? Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 13(4), 879-906. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-021-00580-3

Hesp, C., Smith, R., Parr, T., Allen, M., Friston, K. J. & Ramstead, M. J. D. (2021). Deeply felt affect: The emergence of valence in deep active inference. Neural Computation, 33(2), 398-446. https://doi.org/10.1162/neco_a_01341

Legrand, N., Engen, S. S., Correa, C. M. C., Mathiasen, N. K., Nikolova, N., Fardo, F. & Allen, M. (2021). Emotional metacognition: stimulus valence modulates cardiac arousal and metamemory. Cognition and Emotion, 35(4), 705-721. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2020.1859993

Harrison, O. K., Garfinkel, S. N., Marlow, L., Finnegan, S. L., Marino, S., Köchli, L., Allen, M., Finnemann, J., Keur-Huizinga, L., Harrison, S. J., Stephan, K. E., Pattinson, K. T. S. & Fleming, S. M. (2021). The Filter Detection Task for measurement of breathing-related interoception and metacognition. Biological Psychology, 165, Article 108185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108185

Allen, M. (2021). True belief and the ramifications of introspection in scientific discovery. Nature Human Behaviour, 5(12), 1594-1594. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01234-1

Fardo, F., Beck, B., Allen, M. & Finnerup, N. B. (2020). Beyond labeled lines: A population coding account of the thermal grill illusion. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 108, 472-479. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.11.017

Baglini, R. B., Christensen, E. K., Kereszt, A., Dioni, A., Kurm, A., Birch Alsøer, A., Meerwald, A. F., Hansen, A. E., Szöllösi, B., Duhring, B., Palfi, B. S., Vestergaard, C. D., Jensen, C., Fjendbo, D. T., Hus, E. V., Lundkvist Søndergaard, E., Olsen, E. R., Hahn, E. R., Albæk Schnedler, E.-L. ... Wallentin, M. (2020). Criticism of the paper “The association between early career informal mentorship in academic collaborations and junior author performance”. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/cngmy

Allen, M., Legrand, N., Costa Correa, C. M. & Fardo, F. (2020). Thinking through prior bodies: autonomic uncertainty and interoceptive self-inference. The Behavioral and brain sciences, 43, e91. Article e91. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X19002899

Allen, M. (2020). Unravelling the Neurobiology of Interoceptive Inference. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24(4), 265-266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2020.02.002

Murphy, C., Poerio, G., Sormaz, M., Wang, H. T., Vatansever, D., Allen, M., Margulies, D. S., Jefferies, E. & Smallwood, J. (2019). Hello, is that me you are looking for? A reexamination of the role of the DMN in social and self relevant aspects of off-task thought. PLoS One, 14(11), Article e0216182. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216182

Allen, M., Poggiali, D., Whitaker, K., Marshall, T. R. & Kievit, R. A. (2019). Raincloud plots: A multi-platform tool for robust data visualization [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]. Wellcome Open Research, 4, Article 63. https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15191.1

Gallagher, S. & Allen, M. (2018). Active inference, enactivism and the hermeneutics of social cognition. Synthese, 195(6), 2627-2648. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-016-1269-8

Marshall, C. R., Hardy, C. J. D., Allen, M., Russell, L. L., Clark, C. N., Bond, R. L., Dick, K. M., Brotherhood, E. V., Rohrer, J. D., Kilner, J. M. & Warren, J. D. (2018). Cardiac responses to viewing facial emotion differentiate frontotemporal dementias. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, 5(6), 687-696. https://doi.org/10.1002/acn3.563

Allen, M. & Friston, K. J. (2018). From cognitivism to autopoiesis: towards a computational framework for the embodied mind. Synthese, 195(6), 2459-2482. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-016-1288-5

Rouault, M., McWilliams, A., Allen, M. G. & Fleming, S. M. (2018). Human metacognition across domains: insights from individual differences and neuroimaging. Personality neuroscience, 1, Article e17. https://doi.org/10.1017/pen.2018.16

Owens, A. P., Allen, M., Ondobaka, S. & Friston, K. J. (2018). Interoceptive inference: From computational neuroscience to clinic. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 90, 174-183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2018.04.017

Carey, D., Caprini, F., Allen, M., Lutti, A., Weiskopf, N., Rees, G., Callaghan, M. F. & Dick, F. (2018). Quantitative MRI provides markers of intra-, inter-regional, and age-related differences in young adult cortical microstructure. NeuroImage, 182, 429-440. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.11.066

Allen, M. (2018). The foundation: Mechanism, prediction, and falsification in Bayesian enactivism: Comment on "Answering Schrödinger's question: A free-energy formulation" by Maxwell James Désormeau Ramstead et al. Physics of Life Reviews, 24(March), 17-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2018.01.007

Fardo, F., Vinding, M. C., Allen, M. G., Jensen, T. S. & Finnerup, N. B. (2017). Delta and gamma oscillations in operculo-insular cortex underlie innocuous cold thermosensation. Journal of Neurophysiology, 117(5), 1959-1968. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00843.2016

Fardo, F., Auksztulewicz, R., Allen, M., Dietz, M., Roepstorff, A. & Friston, K. (2017). Expectation violation and attention to pain jointly modulate neural gain in somatosensory cortex. NeuroImage, 153, 109-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.03.041

Allen, M., Glen, J. C., Mullensiefen, D., Schwarzkopf, D. S., Fardo, F., Frank, D., Callaghan, M. F. & Rees, G. (2017). Metacognitive ability correlates with hippocampal and prefrontal microstructure. NeuroImage, 149, 415-423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.02.008

NSPN Consortium (2017). Metacognitive impairments extend perceptual decision making weaknesses in compulsivity. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 6614. Article 6614. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-06116-z

Hauser, T. U., Allen, M., Purg, N., Moutoussis, M., Rees, G. & Dolan, R. J. (2017). Noradrenaline blockade specifically enhances metacognitive performance. eLife, 6, Article e24901. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.24901

Kumar, S., Tansley-Hancock, O., Sedley, W., Winston, J. S., Callaghan, M. F., Allen, M., Cope, T. E., Gander, P. E., Bamiou, D.-E. & Griffiths, T. D. (2017). The Brain Basis for Misophonia. Current Biology, 27(4), 527-533. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.12.048

Allen, M., Fardo, F., Dietz, M. J., Hillebrandt, H., Friston, K., Rees, G. & Roepstorff, A. (2015). Anterior insula coordinates hierarchical processing of tactile mismatch responses. NeuroImage. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.11.030

Fardo, F., Allen, M., Jegindø, E.-M. E., Angrilli, A. & Roepstorff, A. (2015). Neurocognitive evidence for mental imagery-driven hypoalgesic and hyperalgesic pain regulation. NeuroImage, 120, 350-361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.07.008

Ma, Y., Bang, D., Wang, C., Allen, M. G., Frith, C., Roepstorff, A. & Han, S. (2014). Sociocultural patterning of neural activity during self-reflection. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (Online), 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nss103

Allen, M. G. (2013). Mental Training and Neuroplasticity: Theoretical and Emperical Insights. Aarhus Universitet.

Allen, M., Smallwood, J., Christensen, J., Gramm, D., Rasmussen, B., Jensen, C. G., Roepstorff, A. & Lutz, A. (2013). The balanced mind: the variability of task-unrelated thoughts predicts error monitoring. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 743. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00743

Allen, M. G. (2012). Cognitive-affective neural plasticity following active-controlled mindfulness intervention. Poster session presented at Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, United States.

Allen, M. G., Dietz, M., Blair, K. S., van Beek, M., Rees, G., Vestergaard-Poulsen, P., Lutz, A. & Roepstorff, A. (2012). Cognitive-Affective Neural Plasticity following Active-Controlled Mindfulness Intervention. The Journal of neuroscience, 32(44), 15601-15610. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2957-12.2012

Tylén, K., Allen, M. G., Hunter, B. K. & Roepstorff, A. (2012). Interaction versus Observation: distinctive modes of social cognition in human brain and behavior? A combined fMRI and eye-tracking study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00331

Tylén, K., Allen, M. G., Hunter, B. K. & Roepstorff, A. (2012). Interaction vs. observation: distinctive modes of social cognition in human brain and behavior? A combined fMRI and eye-tracking study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6, 331. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00331

Weed, E., Allen, M. G. & Gramm, D. (2012). Negative “gossip” stimuli modulate left-lateralized P1 component while viewing neutral faces.. Poster session presented at Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference 2012, San Sebastián, Spain.

Allen, M. G. & Williams, G. (2011). Consciousness, plasticity, and connectomics: the role of intersubjectivity in human cognition. Frontiers in Psychology.

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