Geoffrey Bird

20.0k total citations · 6 hit papers
199 papers, 12.9k citations indexed

About

Geoffrey Bird is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Geoffrey Bird has authored 199 papers receiving a total of 12.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 136 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 80 papers in Social Psychology and 61 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Geoffrey Bird's work include Action Observation and Synchronization (60 papers), Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (59 papers) and Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (53 papers). Geoffrey Bird is often cited by papers focused on Action Observation and Synchronization (60 papers), Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (59 papers) and Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (53 papers). Geoffrey Bird collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Geoffrey Bird's co-authors include Caroline Catmur, Richard Cook, Rebecca Brewer, Cecilia Heyes, Jennifer Murphy, Clare Press, Essi Viding, Chris Frith, Punit Shah and Giorgia Silani and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Geoffrey Bird

191 papers receiving 12.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Empathic brain responses in insula are modulated by levels of alexithymia but not autism

2010 486 citations Geoffrey Bird et al. profile →
Mixed emotions: the contribution of alexithymia to the emotional symptoms of autism

2013 398 citations Geoffrey Bird, Richard Cook Translational Psychiatry profile →
Mirror neurons: From origin to function

2014 336 citations Richard Cook, Geoffrey Bird et al. profile →
Theory of mind is not theory of emotion: A cautionary note on the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test.

2016 287 citations Rebecca Brewer, Geoffrey Bird et al. profile →
The Structure of Social Cognition: In(ter)dependence of Sociocognitive Processes

2016 274 citations Francesca Happé, Geoffrey Bird et al. profile →
Alexithymia: a general deficit of interoception

2016 262 citations Rebecca Brewer, Richard Cook et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Geoffrey Bird United Kingdom	64	7.9k	5.0k	4.0k	3.5k	3.0k	199	12.9k
Simone Shamay‐Tsoory Israel	50	5.5k 0.7×	5.7k 1.1×	2.7k 0.7×	2.5k 0.7×	3.8k 1.3×	192	11.9k
Claus Lamm Austria	47	6.9k 0.9×	5.4k 1.1×	3.1k 0.8×	2.2k 0.6×	2.8k 0.9×	213	12.3k
Kai Vogeley Germany	50	7.8k 1.0×	4.1k 0.8×	2.0k 0.5×	1.2k 0.3×	1.9k 0.6×	237	10.9k
Richard D. Lane United States	60	8.6k 1.1×	4.0k 0.8×	5.4k 1.3×	5.1k 1.5×	6.6k 2.2×	212	21.2k
Marco Iacoboni United States	66	14.7k 1.9×	12.1k 2.4×	3.4k 0.9×	1.8k 0.5×	4.9k 1.6×	187	22.1k
Hauke R. Heekeren Germany	63	8.5k 1.1×	2.0k 0.4×	1.6k 0.4×	2.1k 0.6×	2.4k 0.8×	200	12.9k
Christian Keysers Netherlands	56	12.1k 1.5×	10.7k 2.2×	2.6k 0.7×	1.2k 0.4×	4.0k 1.3×	132	17.6k
Gregory A. Miller United States	61	9.6k 1.2×	1.8k 0.4×	2.5k 0.6×	3.1k 0.9×	5.1k 1.7×	241	15.4k
Andrew J. Calder United Kingdom	67	12.4k 1.6×	3.4k 0.7×	2.1k 0.5×	2.7k 0.8×	5.5k 1.8×	135	16.8k
Agustín Ibáñez Chile	60	6.7k 0.8×	2.7k 0.5×	3.9k 1.0×	1.2k 0.4×	2.3k 0.8×	416	11.1k

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Yorke, Isabel, Jennifer Murphy, Frühling Rijsdijk, et al.. (2025). Alexithymia may explain the genetic relationship between autism and sensory sensitivity. Translational Psychiatry. 15(1). 75–75. 1 indexed citations

Bird, Geoffrey, et al.. (2024). Poorer representation of minds underpins less accurate mental state inference for out-groups. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 19432–19432.

Viding, Essi, Alex Lloyd, Peter Martin, et al.. (2024). Trial protocol for the Building Resilience through Socio-Emotional Training (ReSET) programme: a cluster randomised controlled trial of a new transdiagnostic preventative intervention for adolescents. Trials. 25(1). 143–143.

Contreras-Huerta, Luis Sebastian, Michel‐Pierre Coll, Geoffrey Bird, et al.. (2023). Neural representations of vicarious rewards are linked to interoception and prosocial behaviour. NeuroImage. 269. 119881–119881. 10 indexed citations

Catmur, Caroline, et al.. (2023). Coherence and divergence in autonomic‐subjective affective space. Psychophysiology. 60(6). e14262–e14262. 4 indexed citations

Coll, Michel‐Pierre, Hannah Hobson, Geoffrey Bird, & Jennifer Murphy. (2021). Systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between the heartbeat-evoked potential and interoception. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 122. 190–200. 132 indexed citations

Pisani, Sara, Jennifer Murphy, Jane Conway, et al.. (2021). The relationship between alexithymia and theory of mind: A systematic review. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 131. 497–524. 26 indexed citations

Stantić, Mirta, et al.. (2021). Short Report: Face Memory and Face Perception in Autism. Autism. 1 indexed citations

Contreras-Huerta, Luis Sebastian, Patricia Lockwood, Geoffrey Bird, Matthew A J Apps, & Molly J. Crockett. (2020). Prosocial behavior is associated with transdiagnostic markers of affective sensitivity in multiple domains.. Emotion. 22(5). 820–835. 31 indexed citations

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Hobson, Hannah, et al.. (2020). The association between communication impairments and acquired alexithymia in chronic stroke patients. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. 42(5). 495–504. 7 indexed citations

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Hobson, Hannah, Heather Westwood, Jane Conway, et al.. (2020). Alexithymia and autism diagnostic assessments: Evidence from twins at genetic risk of autism and adults with anorexia nervosa. Research in autism spectrum disorders. 73. 101531–101531. 20 indexed citations

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Hobson, Hannah, Rebecca Brewer, Caroline Catmur, & Geoffrey Bird. (2019). The Role of Language in Alexithymia: Moving Towards a Multiroute Model of Alexithymia. Emotion Review. 11(3). 247–261. 44 indexed citations

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Conway, Jane, Caroline Catmur, & Geoffrey Bird. (2019). Understanding individual differences in theory of mind via representation of minds, not mental states. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 26(3). 798–812. 47 indexed citations

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Conway, Jane, et al.. (2019). Understanding how minds vary relates to skill in inferring mental states, personality, and intelligence.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 149(6). 1032–1047. 15 indexed citations

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Hobson, Hannah, Heather Westwood, Jane Conway, et al.. (2018). The impact of alexithymia on autism diagnostic assessments. PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints). 5 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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Harris, Adam J. L., Punit Shah, Caroline Catmur, Geoffrey Bird, & Ulrike Hahn. (2013). Autism, optimism and positive events: evidence against a general optimistic bias. Cognitive Science. 35(35). 123. 7 indexed citations

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Cook, Richard, Geoffrey Bird, Gabriele K. Lünser, Steffen Huck, & Cecilia Heyes. (2011). Automatic imitation in a strategic context: players of rock–paper–scissors imitate opponents' gestures . Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 279(1729). 780–786. 68 indexed citations

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Blakemore, Sarah‐Jayne, Davina Bristow, Geoffrey Bird, Jamie Ward, & Chris Frith. (2005). Somatosensory activations during the observation of touch and a case of vision-touch synesthesia. UCL Discovery (University College London). 10 indexed citations

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Bird, Geoffrey. (1971). Contraception and Sexual Life.. PubMed Central. 30. 22–22. 9 indexed citations

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