Clare Press

5.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
70 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Clare Press is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Clare Press has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 38 papers in Social Psychology and 16 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Clare Press's work include Action Observation and Synchronization (38 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (17 papers) and Motor Control and Adaptation (12 papers). Clare Press is often cited by papers focused on Action Observation and Synchronization (38 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (17 papers) and Motor Control and Adaptation (12 papers). Clare Press collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Clare Press's co-authors include Geoffrey Bird, Cecilia Heyes, Daniel Yon, Richard Cook, Caroline Catmur, Jennifer Cook, Martin Eimer, Patrick Haggard, Sarah‐Jayne Blakemore and Daniel C. Richardson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Neuroscience and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Clare Press

67 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

Mirror neurons: From origin to function 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 100 200 300
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.

  1. Mirror neurons: From origin to function
    2014 336 citations Richard Cook, Geoffrey Bird et al. Behavioral and Brain Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Clare Press United Kingdom 32 2.7k 1.7k 770 535 369 70 3.3k
Jaime A. Pineda United States 34 3.8k 1.4× 2.1k 1.3× 770 1.0× 543 1.0× 742 2.0× 79 4.8k
Maddalena Fabbri‐Destro Italy 21 2.3k 0.8× 1.9k 1.1× 868 1.1× 414 0.8× 485 1.3× 56 3.1k
Hein T. van Schie Netherlands 33 2.2k 0.8× 1.8k 1.1× 818 1.1× 618 1.2× 401 1.1× 74 3.2k
Corrado Sinigaglia Italy 25 3.1k 1.1× 3.1k 1.8× 1.1k 1.4× 892 1.7× 552 1.5× 64 4.4k
Istvan Molnar-Szakacs United States 19 3.0k 1.1× 2.3k 1.4× 687 0.9× 954 1.8× 596 1.6× 28 4.1k
Albert Newen Germany 25 2.8k 1.0× 1.6k 1.0× 548 0.7× 670 1.3× 820 2.2× 81 3.8k
Lisa Aziz‐Zadeh United States 28 2.3k 0.8× 2.1k 1.2× 851 1.1× 1.2k 2.2× 539 1.5× 61 3.6k
Dana Samson Belgium 35 2.5k 0.9× 1.7k 1.0× 1.7k 2.2× 1.0k 1.9× 433 1.2× 70 4.2k
Bruno Wicker France 27 4.0k 1.4× 2.4k 1.5× 782 1.0× 983 1.8× 912 2.5× 43 5.2k
Maggie Shiffrar United States 34 3.0k 1.1× 2.2k 1.3× 919 1.2× 651 1.2× 202 0.5× 72 4.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Clare Press

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Fields of papers citing papers by Clare Press

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Clare Press

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Clare Press. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Clare Press 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 Clare Press. Clare Press 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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Mazor, Matan, Rani Moran, & Clare Press. (2025). Beliefs about perception shape perceptual inference: An ideal observer model of detection.. Psychological Review. 133(2). 271–295. 1 indexed citations
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Press, Clare, et al.. (2024). Autistic adults exhibit typical sensitivity to changes in interpersonal distance. Autism Research. 17(7). 1464–1474.
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Sowden, Sophie, et al.. (2024). Disruption of dopamine D2/D3 system function impairs the human ability to understand the mental states of other people. PLoS Biology. 22(6). e3002652–e3002652. 3 indexed citations
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Press, Clare, et al.. (2024). Autistic adults have insight into their relative face recognition ability. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 17802–17802.
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Yon, Daniel, et al.. (2023). Stubborn Predictions in Primary Visual Cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 35(7). 1133–1143. 7 indexed citations
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Press, Clare, Daniel Yon, & Cecilia Heyes. (2022). Building better theories. Current Biology. 32(1). R13–R17. 13 indexed citations
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Press, Clare, et al.. (2022). Updating perceptual expectations as certainty diminishes. Cognition. 232. 105356–105356. 1 indexed citations
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Sowden, Sophie, et al.. (2022). Dopaminergic Modulation of Dynamic Emotion Perception. Journal of Neuroscience. 42(21). 4394–4400. 9 indexed citations
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Press, Clare, et al.. (2022). Cancelling cancellation? Sensorimotor control, agency, and prediction. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 145. 105012–105012. 18 indexed citations
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Yon, Daniel, et al.. (2021). Action Enhances Predicted Touch. Psychological Science. 33(1). 48–59. 24 indexed citations
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Press, Clare, Peter Kok, & Daniel Yon. (2019). The Perceptual Prediction Paradox. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 24(1). 13–24. 135 indexed citations
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Coll, Michel‐Pierre, Clare Press, Hannah Hobson, Caroline Catmur, & Geoffrey Bird. (2017). Crossmodal Classification of Mu Rhythm Activity during Action Observation and Execution Suggests Specificity to Somatosensory Features of Actions. Journal of Neuroscience. 37(24). 5936–5947. 34 indexed citations
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Yon, Daniel & Clare Press. (2017). Sensory predictions during action support perception of imitative reactions across suprasecond delays. Cognition. 173. 21–27. 5 indexed citations
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Yon, Daniel, et al.. (2017). Our own action kinematics predict the perceived affective states of others.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 43(7). 1263–1268. 25 indexed citations
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Cook, Jennifer, et al.. (2016). Interaction takes two: Typical adults exhibit mind-blindness towards those with autism spectrum disorder.. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 125(7). 879–885. 134 indexed citations
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Cook, Richard, Geoffrey Bird, Caroline Catmur, Clare Press, & Cecilia Heyes. (2014). Mirror neurons: From origin to function. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 37(2). 177–192. 336 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yon, Daniel & Clare Press. (2014). Back to the future: synaesthesia could be due to associative learning. Frontiers in Psychology. 5. 702–702. 18 indexed citations
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Press, Clare. (2011). Action observation and robotic agents: Learning and anthropomorphism. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 35(6). 1410–1418. 82 indexed citations
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Press, Clare, Geoffrey Bird, Eamonn Walsh, & Cecilia Heyes. (2008). Automatic imitation of intransitive actions. Brain and Cognition. 67(1). 44–50. 66 indexed citations
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Press, Clare, Geoffrey Bird, Rüdiger Flach, & Cecilia Heyes. (2005). Robotic movement elicits automatic imitation. Cognitive Brain Research. 25(3). 632–640. 179 indexed citations

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