Harold Bekkering

19.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
227 papers, 14.0k citations indexed

About

Harold Bekkering is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Harold Bekkering has authored 227 papers receiving a total of 14.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 163 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 141 papers in Social Psychology and 92 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Harold Bekkering's work include Action Observation and Synchronization (136 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (63 papers) and Motor Control and Adaptation (62 papers). Harold Bekkering is often cited by papers focused on Action Observation and Synchronization (136 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (63 papers) and Motor Control and Adaptation (62 papers). Harold Bekkering collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and United Kingdom. Harold Bekkering's co-authors include Marcel Braß, Hein T. van Schie, Andreas Wohlschläger, Sebastiaan F.W. Neggers, Sabine Hunnius, John C. Mazziotta, Roger P. Woods, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Marco Iacoboni and Wolfgang Prinz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Harold Bekkering

222 papers receiving 13.6k citations

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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.

Cortical Mechanisms of Human Imitation

1999 1.9k citations Harold Bekkering et al. profile →
Rational imitation in preverbal infants

2002 746 citations György Gergely, Harold Bekkering et al. Nature profile →
Compatibility between Observed and Executed Finger Movements: Comparing Symbolic, Spatial, and Imitative Cues

2000 568 citations Harold Bekkering et al. Brain and Cognition profile →
Movement observation affects movement execution in a simple response task

2001 542 citations Harold Bekkering et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Harold Bekkering

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Harold Bekkering. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Harold Bekkering 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 Harold Bekkering. Harold Bekkering is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Predictive processing: Shedding light on the computational processes underlying motivated behavior 2025 ·Behavioral and Brain Sciences ·(unknown), Zhaoqi Zhang, Karl Friston, Harold Bekkering	0
2	Differences in functional brain organization during gesture recognition between autistic and neurotypical individuals 2022 ·Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience ·James P. Trujillo, Aslı Özyürek, Cornelis C. Kan, (unknown), Harold Bekkering	2
3	Differences in the production and perception of communicative kinematics in autism 2021 ·Autism Research ·James P. Trujillo, Aslı Özyürek, Cornelis C. Kan, (unknown), Harold Bekkering	15
4	Cooperation and preference by peers in early childhood: A longitudinal study 2020 ·Social Development ·Hinke M. Endedijk, Antonius H. N. Cillessen, Harold Bekkering, Sabine Hunnius	9
5	Seeing the Unexpected: How Brains Read Communicative Intent through Kinematics 2019 ·Cerebral Cortex ·James P. Trujillo, Irina Simanova, Aslı Özyürek, Harold Bekkering	13
6	The communicative advantage: how kinematic signaling supports semantic comprehension 2019 ·Psychological Research ·James P. Trujillo, Irina Simanova, Harold Bekkering, Aslı Özyürek	15
7	Nine-month-old infants update their predictive models of a changing environment 2019 ·Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience ·Ezgi Kayhan, Marlene Meyer, Jill X. O’Reilly, Sabine Hunnius, Harold Bekkering	16
8	Young children integrate current observations, priors and agent information to predict others’ actions 2019 ·PLoS ONE ·Ezgi Kayhan, (unknown), Johan Kwisthout, Iris van Rooij, Sabine Hunnius, Harold Bekkering	9
9	How preschoolers and adults represent their joint action partner’s behavior 2017 ·Psychological Research ·Lucia Maria Sacheli, Marlene Meyer, (unknown), Harold Bekkering, Sabine Hunnius	13
10	Measuring mimicry: general corticospinal facilitation during observation of naturalistic behaviour 2017 ·European Journal of Neuroscience ·(unknown), Lucia Maria Sacheli, Harold Bekkering, Ivan Toni, Salvatore Maria Aglioti	2
11	Flexibility in Embodied Language Processing: Context Effects in Lexical Access 2014 ·Topics in Cognitive Science ·Wessel O. van Dam, Inti A. Brazil, Harold Bekkering, Shirley‐Ann Rueschemeyer	28
12	Playing for us: The Influence of joint action on planning in three-year-olds 2013 ·eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·Sarah A. Gerson, Sabine Hunnius, Harold Bekkering	3
13	How learning to shake a rattle affects 8-month-old infants’ perception of the rattle's sound: Electrophysiological evidence for action-effect binding in infancy 2011 ·Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience ·Markus Paulus, Sabine Hunnius, Michiel van Elk, Harold Bekkering	73
14	What do mirror neurons mirror? 2011 ·Philosophical Psychology ·Sebo Uithol, Iris van Rooij, Harold Bekkering, Pim Haselager	25
15	When do we stop calling them mirror neurons 2008 ·Radboud Repository (Radboud University) ·Sebo Uithol, Pim Haselager, Harold Bekkering	1
16	Self-identification and empathy modulate error-related brain activity during the observation of penalty shots between friend and foe 2008 ·Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience ·Roger Newman‐Norlund, (unknown), Hein T. van Schie, Ellen R. A. de Bruijn, Harold Bekkering	51
17	Parieto-Frontal Connectivity during Visually Guided Grasping 2007 ·Journal of Neuroscience ·Meike J. Grol, Jasminka Majdandžić, Klaas Ε. Stephan, Lennart Verhagen, H. Chris Dijkerman, Harold Bekkering, Frans A.J. Verstraten, Ivan Toni	164
18	Feature processing asymmetry in a colour and orientation conjunction-search task 2004 ·Perception ·Aave Hannus, Harold Bekkering, Ellen A. Drost, (unknown), (unknown)	0
19	Imitation: A tool to study functional and pathological action control 2002 ·Brain and Cognition ·Harold Bekkering	0
20	Rational imitation of goal-directed actions in 14-month-olds 2001 ·Nature ·György Gergely, Harold Bekkering, Ildikó Király	9

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