Bert Timmermans

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Bert Timmermans is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bert Timmermans has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 12 papers in Social Psychology and 9 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Bert Timmermans's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (14 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (10 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (8 papers). Bert Timmermans is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (14 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (10 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (8 papers). Bert Timmermans collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Belgium and United Kingdom. Bert Timmermans's co-authors include Leonhard Schilbach, Kai Vogeley, Axel Cleeremans, Gary Bente, Tobias Schlicht, Alan Costall, Vasudevi Reddy, Kristian Sandberg, Morten Overgaard and Antoine Pasquali and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, NeuroImage and Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Bert Timmermans

36 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Toward a second-person neuroscience

2013 973 citations Leonhard Schilbach, Bert Timmermans et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bert Timmermans Germany	19	1.9k	973	416	383	182	38	2.4k
Gustav Kuhn United Kingdom	27	1.5k 0.8×	898 0.9×	401 1.0×	349 0.9×	90 0.5×	88	2.2k
Klaus Kessler United Kingdom	29	1.9k 1.0×	737 0.8×	688 1.7×	445 1.2×	198 1.1×	83	2.8k
David J. Turk United Kingdom	24	1.7k 0.9×	632 0.6×	574 1.4×	499 1.3×	183 1.0×	36	2.2k
Anthony P. Atkinson United Kingdom	23	2.3k 1.2×	990 1.0×	1.1k 2.7×	387 1.0×	175 1.0×	43	3.0k
Michael J. Hove United States	22	2.0k 1.1×	1.2k 1.2×	660 1.6×	197 0.5×	230 1.3×	40	2.7k
Evelyn C. Ferstl Germany	20	1.7k 0.9×	703 0.7×	780 1.9×	714 1.9×	139 0.8×	47	2.3k
Fulvia Castelli United States	11	2.4k 1.3×	911 0.9×	439 1.1×	748 2.0×	440 2.4×	15	3.0k
Anna Grabowska Poland	29	1.8k 1.0×	516 0.5×	693 1.7×	604 1.6×	295 1.6×	77	2.7k
Ivana Konvalinka Denmark	17	1.1k 0.6×	1.1k 1.1×	317 0.8×	177 0.5×	116 0.6×	32	1.8k
Tobias Schlicht Germany	9	917 0.5×	687 0.7×	264 0.6×	219 0.6×	99 0.5×	22	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Bert Timmermans

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bert Timmermans

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Moll, Kristina, et al.. (2025). Experimental investigations of social exclusion among adolescents with psychiatric disorders: a systematic review. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 34(9). 2631–2648.

Tatler, Benjamin W., et al.. (2024). The time course of Temporal Binding in social and nonsocial interactions. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 32(1). 326–341.

Tatler, Benjamin W., et al.. (2020). Social Agency as a continuum. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 28(2). 434–453. 42 indexed citations

Dotov, Dobromir, Rubén Fossión, Tom Froese, et al.. (2019). Multi-Scale Coordination of Distinctive Movement Patterns During Embodied Interaction Between Adults With High-Functioning Autism and Neurotypicals. Frontiers in Psychology. 9. 2760–2760. 11 indexed citations

Siedlecka, Marta, et al.. (2018). Responses improve the accuracy of confidence judgements in memory tasks.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 45(4). 712–723. 11 indexed citations

Pfeiffer, Ulrich J., Leonhard Schilbach, Bert Timmermans, et al.. (2014). Why we interact: On the functional role of the striatum in the subjective experience of social interaction. NeuroImage. 101. 124–137. 113 indexed citations

Schilbach, Leonhard, et al.. (2014). “Making it explicit” makes a difference: Evidence for a dissociation of spontaneous and intentional level 1 perspective taking in high-functioning autism. Cognition. 131(3). 345–354. 35 indexed citations

Timmermans, Bert & Leonhard Schilbach. (2014). Investigating Alterations of Social Interaction in Psychiatric Disorders with Dual Interactive Eye Tracking and Virtual Faces. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8. 758–758. 17 indexed citations

Böckler, Anne, Bert Timmermans, Natalie Sebanz, Kai Vogeley, & Leonhard Schilbach. (2014). Effects of Observing Eye Contact on Gaze Following in High-Functioning Autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 44(7). 1651–1658. 21 indexed citations

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Wierzchoń, Michał, Borysław Paulewicz, Dariusz Asanowicz, Bert Timmermans, & Axel Cleeremans. (2014). Different subjective awareness measures demonstrate the influence of visual identification on perceptual awareness ratings. Consciousness and Cognition. 27. 109–120. 60 indexed citations

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Timmermans, Bert, et al.. (2013). Using Dual Eye Tracking to Investigate Real Time Social Interactions. Human Factors in Computing Systems. 6 indexed citations

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Timmermans, Bert, Tobias Schlicht, & Leonhard Schilbach. (2013). Social interaction builds the we-mode: Online comment on Gallotti & Frith "Social cognition in the we-mode". Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 17(4). 3 indexed citations

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Schilbach, Leonhard, Danilo Bzdok, Bert Timmermans, et al.. (2012). Introspective Minds: Using ALE Meta-Analyses to Study Commonalities in the Neural Correlates of Emotional Processing, Social & Unconstrained Cognition. PLoS ONE. 7(2). e30920–e30920. 182 indexed citations

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Pfeiffer, Ulrich J., Bert Timmermans, Gary Bente, Kai Vogeley, & Leonhard Schilbach. (2011). A Non-Verbal Turing Test: Differentiating Mind from Machine in Gaze-Based Social Interaction. PLoS ONE. 6(11). e27591–e27591. 64 indexed citations

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Sandberg, Kristian, Bo Martin Bibby, Bert Timmermans, Axel Cleeremans, & Morten Overgaard. (2011). Measuring consciousness: Task accuracy and awareness as sigmoid functions of stimulus duration. Consciousness and Cognition. 20(4). 1659–1675. 71 indexed citations

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Pasquali, Antoine, Bert Timmermans, & Axel Cleeremans. (2010). Know thyself: Metacognitive networks and measures of consciousness. Cognition. 117(2). 182–190. 76 indexed citations

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Timmermans, Bert, et al.. (2010). Experiencing more complexity than we can tell. Cognitive Neuroscience. 1(3). 229–230. 2 indexed citations

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Cleeremans, Axel, Bert Timmermans, & Antoine Pasquali. (2007). Consciousness and metarepresentation: A computational sketch. Neural Networks. 20(9). 1032–1039. 55 indexed citations

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Timmermans, Bert. (2006). Perspective Leibniz, Whitehead, Deleuze. Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles). 2 indexed citations

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Duynslaeger, Marijke Van, Bert Timmermans, & Frank Van Overwalle. (1999). Automatic goal inferences: Are direct and hidden goals alike?. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 1 indexed citations

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