Birgit Elsner

3.4k total citations
91 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Birgit Elsner is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Birgit Elsner has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Social Psychology, 43 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 31 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Birgit Elsner's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (40 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (34 papers) and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (10 papers). Birgit Elsner is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (40 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (34 papers) and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (10 papers). Birgit Elsner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Sweden. Birgit Elsner's co-authors include Bernhard Hommel, Gisa Aschersleben, Rebecca Bondü, Petra Hauf, Wolfgang Prinz, Sabina Pauen, Claudia Elsner, Claudia Mentschel, Gustaf Gredebäck and Alexander Drzezga and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Birgit Elsner

83 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Birgit Elsner Germany 22 1.5k 1.4k 1.0k 351 287 91 2.5k
D. Da Fonséca France 22 1.0k 0.7× 901 0.6× 534 0.5× 771 2.2× 498 1.7× 90 2.2k
Vasudevi Reddy United Kingdom 26 1.8k 1.2× 1.7k 1.2× 1.4k 1.3× 596 1.7× 527 1.8× 64 3.4k
Stefanie Hoehl Germany 32 1.9k 1.2× 1.1k 0.8× 1.2k 1.1× 426 1.2× 228 0.8× 113 2.9k
Jacqueline Nadel France 29 2.2k 1.5× 1.5k 1.1× 1.1k 1.1× 301 0.9× 720 2.5× 115 3.5k
Sabine Hunnius Netherlands 32 1.6k 1.1× 1.5k 1.0× 1.6k 1.5× 505 1.4× 165 0.6× 116 2.9k
Isabel Dziobek Germany 26 1.4k 0.9× 785 0.6× 346 0.3× 455 1.3× 812 2.8× 48 2.3k
Vincent M. Reid United Kingdom 27 1.4k 0.9× 874 0.6× 1.1k 1.1× 390 1.1× 201 0.7× 72 2.2k
Martin Schulte‐Rüther Germany 25 1.5k 1.0× 736 0.5× 299 0.3× 366 1.0× 726 2.5× 49 2.3k
Jörg Meinhardt Germany 18 785 0.5× 795 0.6× 333 0.3× 453 1.3× 160 0.6× 30 1.6k
Bruno G. Bara Italy 34 1.5k 1.0× 850 0.6× 888 0.9× 632 1.8× 275 1.0× 82 2.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Birgit Elsner

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Fields of papers citing papers by Birgit Elsner

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Birgit Elsner

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Birgit Elsner. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Birgit Elsner based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Birgit Elsner. Birgit Elsner is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Elsner, Birgit, et al.. (2024). Word-object and action-object learning in a unimodal context during early childhood. Language and Cognition. 16(4). 1320–1337. 1 indexed citations
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Elsner, Birgit, et al.. (2024). Better in sync: Temporal dynamics explain multisensory word‐action‐object learning in early development. Infancy. 29(4). 482–509. 2 indexed citations
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Hoehl, Stefanie, et al.. (2023). Respiratory and cardiac interoceptive sensitivity in the first two years of life. eLife. 12. 1 indexed citations
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Pollatos, Olga, et al.. (2023). Interoceptive accuracy is associated with benefits in decision making in children. Frontiers in Psychology. 13. 1070037–1070037. 10 indexed citations
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Elsner, Birgit, et al.. (2020). The impact of salient action effects on 6-, 7-, and 11-month-olds’ goal-predictive gaze shifts for a human grasping action. PLoS ONE. 15(10). e0240165–e0240165. 6 indexed citations
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Elsner, Birgit, et al.. (2019). Parallels in processing boundary cues in speech and action: OSF Project.. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations
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Elsner, Birgit, et al.. (2019). Word-object and action-object association learning across early development. PLoS ONE. 14(8). e0220317–e0220317. 8 indexed citations
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Elsner, Birgit, et al.. (2018). Action effects foster 11-month-olds’ prediction of action goals for a non-human agent. Infant Behavior and Development. 53. 49–55. 9 indexed citations
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Elsner, Birgit, et al.. (2014). The reciprocal relationship between executive function and theory of mind in middle childhood: a 1-year longitudinal perspective. Frontiers in Psychology. 5. 655–655. 78 indexed citations
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Elsner, Birgit, et al.. (2014). Executive function and food approach behavior in middle childhood. Frontiers in Psychology. 5. 447–447. 49 indexed citations
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Elsner, Birgit, et al.. (2013). Preschoolers’ encoding of rational actions: The role of task features and verbal information. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 116(2). 532–544.
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Elsner, Birgit, et al.. (2012). Event-related potentials for 7-month-olds’ processing of animals and furniture items. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 3. 53–60. 14 indexed citations
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Borghi, Martina, et al.. (2008). Análisis de las piezas de prostatectomía radical de pacientes con cáncer de próstata considerado de bajo potencial maligno. Revista Argentina de Urología. 73(1). 14.
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Elsner, Birgit. (2006). Infants’ imitation of goal-directed actions: The role of movements and action effects. Acta Psychologica. 124(1). 44–59. 103 indexed citations
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Elsner, Birgit, et al.. (2006). Physiological and behavioral parameters of infants’ categorization: changes in heart rate and duration of examining across trials. Developmental Science. 9(6). 551–556. 16 indexed citations
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Elsner, Birgit, Petra Hauf, & Gisa Aschersleben. (2006). Imitating step by step: A detailed analysis of 9- to 15-month-olds’ reproduction of a three-step action sequence. Infant Behavior and Development. 30(2). 325–335. 35 indexed citations
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Elsner, Birgit, Bernhard Hommel, Claudia Mentschel, et al.. (2002). Linking Actions and Their Perceivable Consequences in the Human Brain. NeuroImage. 17(1). 364–372. 112 indexed citations
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Elsner, Birgit & Bernhard Hommel. (2000). Incidental action-outcome learning influences intentional response selection. Consciousness and Cognition. 9(2). 1 indexed citations
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Elsner, Birgit, et al.. (1995). [Is the M. Frostig perceptual training effective or not? On evaluation of the program for promoting visual perception in the German speaking areas].. PubMed. 44(2). 48–61. 1 indexed citations

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