Lisa Aziz‐Zadeh

5.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
61 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Lisa Aziz‐Zadeh is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lisa Aziz‐Zadeh has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 32 papers in Social Psychology and 20 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Lisa Aziz‐Zadeh's work include Action Observation and Synchronization (29 papers), Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (20 papers) and Children's Physical and Motor Development (11 papers). Lisa Aziz‐Zadeh is often cited by papers focused on Action Observation and Synchronization (29 papers), Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (20 papers) and Children's Physical and Motor Development (11 papers). Lisa Aziz‐Zadeh collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Italy. Lisa Aziz‐Zadeh's co-authors include Marco Iacoboni, Christian Keysers, Valeria Gazzola, Stephen M. Wilson, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Sook‐Lei Liew, Eran Zaidel, John C. Mazziotta, António R. Damásio and Jonas Kaplan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Neuroscience and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Lisa Aziz‐Zadeh

61 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Congruent Embodied Representations for Visually Presented Actions and Linguistic Phrases Describing Actions
    2006 543 citations Lisa Aziz‐Zadeh, Marco Iacoboni et al. profile →
  2. Empathy and the Somatotopic Auditory Mirror System in Humans
    2006 522 citations Lisa Aziz‐Zadeh, Christian Keysers et al. profile →

Peers

Lisa Aziz‐Zadeh
Maddalena Fabbri‐Destro Italy
Raffaella I. Rumiati Italy
Marco Tettamanti Italy
Corrado Sinigaglia Italy
Nicholas P. Holmes United Kingdom
Istvan Molnar-Szakacs United States
Andrea Norton United States
Hein T. van Schie Netherlands
Dana Samson Belgium
Perrine Ruby France
Maddalena Fabbri‐Destro Italy
Lisa Aziz‐Zadeh
Citations per year, relative to Lisa Aziz‐Zadeh Lisa Aziz‐Zadeh (= 1×) peers Maddalena Fabbri‐Destro

Countries citing papers authored by Lisa Aziz‐Zadeh

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lisa Aziz‐Zadeh

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lisa Aziz‐Zadeh

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lisa Aziz‐Zadeh. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lisa Aziz‐Zadeh 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 Lisa Aziz‐Zadeh. Lisa Aziz‐Zadeh 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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Nadler, Ethan O., et al.. (2025). Statistical or Embodied? Comparing Colorseeing, Colorblind, Painters, and Large Language Models in Their Processing of Color Metaphors. Cognitive Science. 49(7). e70083–e70083. 1 indexed citations
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Aziz‐Zadeh, Lisa, et al.. (2024). Interoception in Autism: A Narrative Review of Behavioral and Neurobiological Data. Psychology Research and Behavior Management. Volume 17. 1841–1853. 6 indexed citations
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Butera, Christiana, et al.. (2023). Relationships between Affect Recognition, Empathy, Alexithymia, and Co-Occurring Conditions in Autism. Brain Sciences. 13(8). 1161–1161. 3 indexed citations
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Aziz‐Zadeh, Lisa, et al.. (2023). Disgust Processing and Potential Relationships with Behaviors in Autism. Current Psychiatry Reports. 25(10). 465–478. 4 indexed citations
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Butera, Christiana, et al.. (2022). Relationships between alexithymia, interoception, and emotional empathy in autism spectrum disorder. Autism. 27(3). 690–703. 24 indexed citations
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Kilroy, Emily, et al.. (2022). Differences in Praxis Errors in Autism Spectrum Disorder Compared to Developmental Coordination Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 54(3). 1113–1129. 6 indexed citations
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Butera, Christiana, John Sideris, Emily Kilroy, et al.. (2020). Impact of Sensory Processing on School Performance Outcomes in High Functioning Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Mind Brain and Education. 14(3). 243–254. 29 indexed citations
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Kilroy, Emily, et al.. (2020). Decoding Autism (vs. TD and DCD). OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations
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Reynolds, Jess E., Melissa K. Licari, Jac Billington, et al.. (2015). Mirror neuron activation in children with developmental coordination disorder: A functional MRI study. International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience. 47(Part_B). 309–319. 43 indexed citations
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Fox, Glenn M., et al.. (2013). Witnessing hateful people in pain modulates brain activity in regions associated with physical pain and reward. Frontiers in Psychology. 4. 772–772. 18 indexed citations
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Aziz‐Zadeh, Lisa, Tong Sheng, Sook‐Lei Liew, & Hanna Damásio. (2011). Understanding Otherness: The Neural Bases of Action Comprehension and Pain Empathy in a Congenital Amputee. Cerebral Cortex. 22(4). 811–819. 48 indexed citations
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Landau, Ayelet N., Lisa Aziz‐Zadeh, & Richard B. Ivry. (2010). The Influence of Language on Perception: Listening to Sentences about Faces Affects the Perception of Faces. Journal of Neuroscience. 30(45). 15254–15261. 34 indexed citations
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Liew, Sook‐Lei, Shihui Han, & Lisa Aziz‐Zadeh. (2010). Familiarity modulates mirror neuron and mentalizing regions during intention understanding. Human Brain Mapping. 32(11). 1986–1997. 88 indexed citations
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Aziz‐Zadeh, Lisa, et al.. (2008). Modulation of the FFA and PPA by language related to faces and places. Social Neuroscience. 3(3-4). 229–238. 23 indexed citations
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Aziz‐Zadeh, Lisa & António R. Damásio. (2008). Embodied semantics for actions: Findings from functional brain imaging. Journal of Physiology-Paris. 102(1-3). 35–39. 165 indexed citations
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Aziz‐Zadeh, Lisa, Lisa Koski, Eran Zaidel, John C. Mazziotta, & Marco Iacoboni. (2006). Lateralization of the Human Mirror Neuron System. Journal of Neuroscience. 26(11). 2964–2970. 215 indexed citations
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Aziz‐Zadeh, Lisa, et al.. (2005). Hearing what you are doing - An FMRI study of auditory empathy. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 1 indexed citations

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