Hermann Bulf

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Hermann Bulf is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Statistics and Probability. According to data from OpenAlex, Hermann Bulf has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 24 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 13 papers in Statistics and Probability. Recurrent topics in Hermann Bulf's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (20 papers), Face Recognition and Perception (13 papers) and Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (13 papers). Hermann Bulf is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (20 papers), Face Recognition and Perception (13 papers) and Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (13 papers). Hermann Bulf collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and France. Hermann Bulf's co-authors include Francesca Simion, Lucia Regolin, Eloisa Valenza, Viola Macchi Cassia, Chiara Turati, Scott P. Johnson, Maria Dolores de Hevia, Ermanno Quadrelli, Adélaïde de Heering and Bruno Rossion and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Child Development.

In The Last Decade

Hermann Bulf

47 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

A predisposition for biological motion in the newborn baby 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 100 200 300 400 500
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. A predisposition for biological motion in the newborn baby
    2008 527 citations Francesca Simion, Hermann Bulf et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Hermann Bulf Italy 15 820 643 367 310 262 52 1.4k
Eloisa Valenza Italy 20 1.5k 1.8× 652 1.0× 305 0.8× 643 2.1× 108 0.4× 47 1.9k
Jonathan A. Slemmer United States 8 568 0.7× 905 1.4× 196 0.5× 334 1.1× 157 0.6× 11 1.4k
Gert Westermann United Kingdom 20 646 0.8× 934 1.5× 297 0.8× 430 1.4× 76 0.3× 90 1.6k
Peter Walker United Kingdom 23 1.0k 1.3× 474 0.7× 480 1.3× 1.0k 3.3× 267 1.0× 70 2.0k
Gedeon O. Deák United States 26 776 0.9× 1.4k 2.2× 582 1.6× 327 1.1× 140 0.5× 72 2.0k
Ramesh S. Bhatt United States 31 1.7k 2.0× 1.2k 1.9× 529 1.4× 708 2.3× 206 0.8× 100 2.5k
David H. Rakison United States 25 649 0.8× 1.2k 1.8× 610 1.7× 488 1.6× 108 0.4× 60 1.8k
J. Gavin Bremner United Kingdom 23 789 1.0× 949 1.5× 311 0.8× 569 1.8× 239 0.9× 74 1.8k
Frances H. Rauscher United States 15 1.0k 1.2× 534 0.8× 542 1.5× 416 1.3× 178 0.7× 22 1.8k
Martha E. Arterberry United States 22 671 0.8× 534 0.8× 314 0.9× 235 0.8× 67 0.3× 61 1.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hermann Bulf

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hermann Bulf

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Arioli, Martina, et al.. (2025). Newborns' Asymmetrical Processing of Order From Sequentially Presented Magnitudes. Child Development. 96(6). 2079–2096. 1 indexed citations
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Turati, Chiara, et al.. (2025). Ostracism affects children’s behavioral reactivity and gaze cueing of attention. PLoS ONE. 20(3). e0320338–e0320338. 1 indexed citations
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Quadrelli, Ermanno, et al.. (2025). Infants’ neural processing of emotional faces after ostracism. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 28414–28414.
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Riva, Valentina, et al.. (2024). Rules generalization in children with dyslexia. Research in Developmental Disabilities. 146. 104673–104673. 1 indexed citations
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Háden, Gábor P., et al.. (2023). Early maturation of sound duration processing in the infant’s brain. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 10287–10287. 6 indexed citations
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Quadrelli, Ermanno, et al.. (2023). Ostracism modulates children’s recognition of emotional facial expressions. PLoS ONE. 18(6). e0287106–e0287106. 5 indexed citations
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Quadrelli, Ermanno, et al.. (2022). Decoding functional brain networks through graph measures in infancy: The case of emotional faces.. Biological Psychology. 170. 108292–108292. 2 indexed citations
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Bulf, Hermann, et al.. (2021). Electrophysiological Evidence of Space-Number Associations in 9-Month-Old Infants. Child Development. 92(5). 2142–2152. 5 indexed citations
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Bulf, Hermann, et al.. (2021). Infants’ learning of non‐adjacent regularities from visual sequences. Infancy. 26(2). 319–326. 4 indexed citations
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Riva, Valentina, et al.. (2021). Dysfunctions in Infants’ Statistical Learning are Related to Parental Autistic Traits. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 51(12). 4621–4631. 6 indexed citations
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Bertels, Julie, et al.. (2021). Visual statistical learning in infancy: Discrimination of fine‐grained regularities depends on early test trials. Infancy. 27(3). 462–478. 2 indexed citations
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Bulf, Hermann, et al.. (2021). Rule learning transfer across linguistic and visual modalities in 7‐month‐old infants. Infancy. 26(3). 442–454. 8 indexed citations
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Bulf, Hermann, et al.. (2021). Space modulates cross-domain transfer of abstract rules in infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 213. 105270–105270. 12 indexed citations
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Quadrelli, Ermanno, et al.. (2020). Social context influences infants’ ability to extract statistical information from a sequence of gestures. Infant Behavior and Development. 61. 101506–101506. 6 indexed citations
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Hevia, Maria Dolores de, et al.. (2018). Operational momentum for magnitude ordering in preschool children and adults. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 179. 260–275. 5 indexed citations
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Senna, Irene, et al.. (2016). Discrimination of biomechanically possible and impossible hand movements at birth (vol 86, pg 632, 2015). PUB – Publications at Bielefeld University (Bielefeld University).
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Valenza, Eloisa, Yumiko Otsuka, Hermann Bulf, et al.. (2015). Face Orientation and Motion Differently Affect the Deployment of Visual Attention in Newborns and 4-Month-Old Infants. PLoS ONE. 10(9). e0136965–e0136965. 12 indexed citations
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Bulf, Hermann, Scott P. Johnson, & Eloisa Valenza. (2011). Visual statistical learning in the newborn infant. Cognition. 121(1). 127–132. 188 indexed citations
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Valenza, Eloisa & Hermann Bulf. (2007). The role of kinetic information in newborns’ perception of illusory contours. Developmental Science. 10(4). 492–501. 29 indexed citations
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Turati, Chiara, Hermann Bulf, & Francesca Simion. (2007). Newborns’ face recognition over changes in viewpoint. Cognition. 106(3). 1300–1321. 89 indexed citations

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