Laura Barca

3.1k total citations
58 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Laura Barca is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Laura Barca has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 26 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 17 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Laura Barca's work include Reading and Literacy Development (19 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (15 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (14 papers). Laura Barca is often cited by papers focused on Reading and Literacy Development (19 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (15 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (14 papers). Laura Barca collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and France. Laura Barca's co-authors include Cristina Burani, Giovanni Pezzulo, Lisa S. Arduino, Anna M. Borghi, Luca Tummolini, Ferdinand Binkofski, Andrew W. Ellis, Pierluigi Zoccolotti, Elizabeth Bates and Simonetta D’Amico and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Laura Barca

56 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Laura Barca Italy 25 1.2k 1.0k 592 575 185 58 2.0k
Daisy L. Hung Taiwan 31 2.2k 1.9× 1.2k 1.2× 424 0.7× 658 1.1× 158 0.9× 69 3.0k
Rosemary Varley United Kingdom 25 1.3k 1.1× 1.0k 1.0× 389 0.7× 461 0.8× 226 1.2× 91 2.1k
Anna M. Woollams United Kingdom 29 2.2k 1.9× 1.3k 1.3× 351 0.6× 387 0.7× 262 1.4× 64 2.5k
Roberto Cubelli Italy 27 1.6k 1.4× 647 0.6× 584 1.0× 313 0.5× 149 0.8× 104 2.2k
Li Hai Tan Hong Kong 31 2.2k 1.9× 1.6k 1.6× 316 0.5× 751 1.3× 147 0.8× 78 3.1k
Isabell Wartenburger Germany 28 2.0k 1.8× 860 0.8× 420 0.7× 623 1.1× 156 0.8× 83 2.6k
Paola Palladino Italy 23 917 0.8× 972 1.0× 169 0.3× 536 0.9× 215 1.2× 72 1.8k
Janice Kay United Kingdom 27 2.2k 1.9× 1.5k 1.5× 247 0.4× 395 0.7× 245 1.3× 57 2.7k
Gedeon O. Deák United States 26 776 0.7× 1.4k 1.4× 582 1.0× 327 0.6× 65 0.4× 72 2.0k
Deborah Zaitchik United States 19 831 0.7× 1.3k 1.3× 604 1.0× 401 0.7× 442 2.4× 29 2.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Laura Barca

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laura Barca

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All Works

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Barca, Laura, Domenico Maisto, & Giovanni Pezzulo. (2023). Modeling and controlling the body in maladaptive ways: an active inference perspective on non-suicidal self-injury behaviors. Neuroscience of Consciousness. 2023(1). 3 indexed citations
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Barca, Laura & Giovanni Pezzulo. (2020). Keep your interoceptive streams under control: An active inference perspective on anorexia nervosa. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 20(2). 427–440. 30 indexed citations
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Barca, Laura, Claudia Mazzuca, & Anna M. Borghi. (2020). Overusing the pacifier during infancy sets a footprint on abstract words processing. Journal of Child Language. 47(5). 1084–1099. 21 indexed citations
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Dove, Guy, Laura Barca, Luca Tummolini, & Anna M. Borghi. (2020). Words have a weight: language as a source of inner grounding and flexibility in abstract concepts. Psychological Research. 86(8). 2451–2467. 47 indexed citations
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Borghi, Anna M., Laura Barca, Ferdinand Binkofski, et al.. (2019). Words as social tools: Flexibility, situatedness, language and sociality in abstract concepts. Physics of Life Reviews. 29. 178–184. 10 indexed citations
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Borghi, Anna M., Laura Barca, Ferdinand Binkofski, & Luca Tummolini. (2018). Varieties of abstract concepts: development, use and representation in the brain. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 373(1752). 20170121–20170121. 74 indexed citations
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Borghi, Anna M., Laura Barca, Ferdinand Binkofski, & Luca Tummolini. (2018). Abstract concepts, language and sociality: from acquisition to inner speech. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 373(1752). 20170134–20170134. 62 indexed citations
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Borghi, Anna M., Laura Barca, Ferdinand Binkofski, et al.. (2018). Words as social tools: Language, sociality and inner grounding in abstract concepts. Physics of Life Reviews. 29. 120–153. 150 indexed citations
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Mazzuca, Claudia, Laura Barca, & Anna M. Borghi. (2017). The Particularity of Emotional Words: A Grounded Approach. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5 indexed citations
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Smeding, Annique, et al.. (2016). Tracking and simulating dynamics of implicit stereotypes: A situated social cognition perspective.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 111(6). 817–834. 21 indexed citations
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Flumini, Andrea, Laura Barca, Anna M. Borghi, & Giovanni Pezzulo. (2014). How do you hold your mouse? Tracking the compatibility effect between hand posture and stimulus size. Psychological Research. 79(6). 928–938. 20 indexed citations
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Barca, Laura & Giovanni Pezzulo. (2012). Unfolding Visual Lexical Decision in Time. PLoS ONE. 7(4). e35932–e35932. 61 indexed citations
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Barca, Laura, Flaminia Frascarelli, & Giovanni Pezzulo. (2011). Working memory and mental imagery in Cerebral Palsy: A single case investigation. Neurocase. 18(4). 298–304. 10 indexed citations
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Barca, Laura, Giovanni Pezzulo, & Enrico Castelli. (2010). Egocentric and allocentric spatial references in children with Cerebral Palsy. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 32(32). 5 indexed citations
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Barca, Laura, et al.. (2010). The neural basis of the right visual field advantage in reading: An MEG analysis using virtual electrodes. Brain and Language. 118(3). 53–71. 45 indexed citations
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Burani, Cristina, Laura Barca, & Andrew W. Ellis. (2006). Orthographic complexity and word naming in Italian: Some words are more transparent than others. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 13(2). 346–352. 44 indexed citations
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Barca, Laura, et al.. (2005). Frequenza, immaginabilità ed età di acquisizione delle parole: in che misura influenzano la lettura dei bambini italiani?. Psicologia clinica dello sviluppo. 249–268. 2 indexed citations
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Rinaldi, Pasquale, et al.. (2004). Caratteristiche semantiche, grammaticali e di frequenza delle parole del "primo vocabolario del bambino". Psicologia clinica dello sviluppo. 119–144.
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Traficante, Daniela, et al.. (2004). Accesso lessicale e lettura ad alta voce: il ruolo delle componenti morfologiche delle parole. Giornale italiano di psicologia. 821–838. 2 indexed citations
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