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Kirsten J McKenzie

0000-0002-9525-0218

Senior Lecturer (C800 - Psychology; C850 - Cognitive & affective psychology; C854 - Psychology of perception; C856 - Experimental psychology; C857 - Affective psychology; C861 - Cognitive neuroscience; C862 - Affective neuroscience)

The over-arching focus of my research is body representation; from the cognitive effects of bodily illusions on the experience of pain through to the effects that visual representation of bodies (or a lack thereof) has on body image, inclusivity and social engagement with places and spaces. I am particularly interested in the processes underlying body representation, body image and spatial awareness in individuals across the gender spectrum, and the cognitive and perceptual processes leading to somatic misperception and pain. I use a variety of quantitative, qualitative and neuroimaging techniques.

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Publications

  • Hansford KJ, Baker DH, McKenzie KJ & Preston CEJ. (2025). Illusory finger stretching and somatosensory responses in participants with chronic hand-based pain. PLoS ONE 20(2): e0317693. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0317693
  • Hansford K, Crossland AE, Baker D, Preston C & McKenzie K.J. (2024). Understanding barriers and facilitators to non-pharmaceutical chronic pain research engagement among people living with chronic pain in the UK: A two-phase mixed-methods approach. BMJ Open, 14(12):e089676. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-089676
  • Hansford, K.J., Baker, D.H., McKenzie, K.J. & Preston, C. E. J. (2024). Multisensory processing and proprioceptive plasticity during resizing illusions. Experimental Brain Research, 242, 451–462. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-023-06759-7
  • Klee, S., & McKenzie, K. J. (2023). Alien embodiment and nomadic subjectivity: A speculative report. In C. Daigle & M. Hayler (Eds.), Posthumanism in Practice. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350293830
  • Hansford, K.J., Baker, D.H., McKenzie, K.J. & Preston, C.E.J. (2023). Distinct neural signatures of multimodal resizing illusions. Neuropsychologia, 187: 108622. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108622
  • Irvine, K. R., McCarty, K., McKenzie, K. J., Pollet, T. V., Cornelissen, K. K., Tovee, M. J., & Cornelissen, P. (2019). Distorted body image influences body schema in individuals with negative bodily attitudes. Neuropsychologia, 122, 38-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.11.015
  • Perera, A. T. M., Newport, R., & McKenzie, K. J. (2017). Changing hands: Persistent alterations to body image following brief exposure to multisensory distortions. Experimental Brain Research, 235(6), 1809–1821. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-017-4935-2
  • Perera, A. T. M., Newport, R., & McKenzie, K. J. (2015). Multisensory distortions of the hand have differential effects on tactile perception. Experimental Brain Research, 233(11), 3153–3161. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-015-4384-8
  • McKenzie, K. J., & Newport, R. (2015). Increased somatic sensations are associated with reduced limb ownership. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 78, 88–90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2014.11.005
  • Wan, X., Woods, A. T., van den Bosch, J. J. F., McKenzie, K. J., Velasco, C., & Spence, C. (2014). Cross-cultural differences in cross-modal correspondences between basic tastes and visual features. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1365. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01365
  • Levitan, C. A., Ren, J., Woods, A. T., Boesveldt, S., Chan, J. S., McKenzie, K. J., Dodson, M., Levin, J., Leong, X. R., & van den Bosch, J. J. F. (2014). Cross-cultural colour-odour associations. PLoS ONE, 9(7), e101651. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101651
  • McKenzie, K. J., Lloyd, D. M., Brown, R., Plummer, F., & Poliakoff, E. (2012). Investigating the mechanisms of visually-evoked tactile sensations. Acta Psychologica, 139, 46–53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2011.09.012
  • Brown, R. J., Skehan, D., Chapman, A., Perry, E., McKenzie, K. J., Lloyd, D., Babbs, C., Paine, P., & Poliakoff, E. (2012). Physical symptom reporting is associated with a tendency to experience somatosensory distortion. Psychosomatic Medicine, 74(6), 648–655. https://doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0b013e3182595358
  • Lloyd, D. M., McKenzie, K. J., Brown, R., & Poliakoff, E. (2011). Neural correlates of a visually-induced illusory touch experience investigated with fMRI. Neuropsychologia, 49, 3430–3438. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.08.018
  • McKenzie, K. J., Poliakoff, E., Brown, R., & Lloyd, D. M. (2010). Now you feel it, now you don’t: How robust is the phenomenon of illusory tactile experience? Perception, 39, 839–850. https://doi.org/10.1068/p6401
  • Ryan, S., Pellijeff, Å., Preston, C., & McKenzie, K. (2007). Spatial updating in a 3D world. Journal of Neuroscience, 27(28), 7363–7364. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2201-07.2007
  • Pellijeff, Å., Bonilha, L., Morgan, P. S., McKenzie, K., & Jackson, S. R. (2006). Parietal updating of limb posture: An event-related fMRI study. Neuropsychologia, 44(13), 2685–2690. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.01.009
  • Johnson, B. W., McKenzie, K. J., & Hamm, J. P. (2002). Cerebral asymmetry for mental rotation: Effects of gender, handedness and response hand. NeuroReport, 13(15), 1929–1932. https://doi.org/10.1097/00001756-200210280-00020

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