Mirella Dapretto

24.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
141 papers, 12.0k citations indexed

About

Mirella Dapretto is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mirella Dapretto has authored 141 papers receiving a total of 12.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 110 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 41 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 32 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Mirella Dapretto's work include Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (62 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (38 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (17 papers). Mirella Dapretto is often cited by papers focused on Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (62 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (38 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (17 papers). Mirella Dapretto collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and France. Mirella Dapretto's co-authors include Susan Y. Bookheimer, Marco Iacoboni, Jennifer H. Pfeifer, Marian Sigman, Leanna M. Hernandez, John C. Mazziotta, Carrie L. Masten, Susan S. Lee, Kristin McNealy and Ashley Scott and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Neuron and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Mirella Dapretto

139 papers receiving 11.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Understanding emotions in others: mirror neuron dysfunction in children with autism spectrum disorders

2005 1.1k citations Mirella Dapretto, Jennifer H. Pfeifer et al. profile →
The mirror neuron system and the consequences of its dysfunction

2006 962 citations Mirella Dapretto et al. profile →
Form and Content

1999 522 citations Mirella Dapretto, Susan Y. Bookheimer profile →
The Power of the Like in Adolescence

2016 367 citations Leanna M. Hernandez, Mirella Dapretto et al. profile →

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Kevin A. Pelphrey United States

Kai Vogeley Germany

Beatríz Luna United States

B. J. Casey United States

Hauke R. Heekeren Germany

Michael Lombardo United Kingdom

Guillén Fernández Netherlands

Kevin S. LaBar United States

Hermán van Engeland Netherlands

B.J. Casey United States

Kevin A. Pelphrey United States

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mirella Dapretto

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Sullivan, Catherine, Emily Neuhaus, Raphael Bernier, et al.. (2025). Number of Alpha Peaks in the Electroencephalogram Is Associated With Clinical Phenotype and Copy Number Variants in Youths With Autism. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 11(3). 300–309.

Neuhaus, Emily, Catherine Sullivan, Raphael Bernier, et al.. (2024). A common genetic variant in the Neurexin family member CNTNAP2 is related to language but not communication skills in youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Autism Research. 18(5). 898–908. 1 indexed citations

Patterson, Geneviève, et al.. (2024). Sensory over‐responsivity and atypical neural responses to socially relevant stimuli in autism. Autism Research. 17(7). 1328–1343. 2 indexed citations

Dickinson, Abigail, et al.. (2024). Accelerated Infant Brain Rhythm Maturation in Autism. Developmental Science. 28(1). e13593–e13593. 2 indexed citations

Okada, Nana J., Nicole M. McDonald, Shafali Jeste, et al.. (2023). Associations between thalamocortical functional connectivity and sensory over-responsivity in infants at high likelihood for ASD. Cerebral Cortex. 33(12). 8075–8086. 8 indexed citations

Nair, Aarti, Janelle Liu, Tawny Tsang, et al.. (2021). Altered Thalamocortical Connectivity in 6-Week-Old Infants at High Familial Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder. Cerebral Cortex. 31(9). 4191–4205. 25 indexed citations

Wood, Emily T., Geneviève Patterson, Nana J. Okada, et al.. (2021). Sensory over-responsivity is related to GABAergic inhibition in thalamocortical circuits. Translational Psychiatry. 11(1). 39–39. 45 indexed citations

McQuaid, Goldie A., Kevin A. Pelphrey, Susan Y. Bookheimer, et al.. (2021). The gap between IQ and adaptive functioning in autism spectrum disorder: Disentangling diagnostic and sex differences. Autism. 25(6). 1565–1579. 39 indexed citations

Zbozinek, Tomislav D., Frank H. Wilhelm, Mirella Dapretto, et al.. (2021). Associations between physiological and neural measures of sensory reactivity in youth with autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 62(10). 1183–1194. 17 indexed citations

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Okada, Nana J., Janelle Liu, Tawny Tsang, et al.. (2021). Atypical cerebellar functional connectivity at 9 months of age predicts delayed socio‐communicative profiles in infants at high and low risk for autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 63(9). 1002–1016. 17 indexed citations

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Lawrence, Katherine E., Leanna M. Hernandez, Allison Jack, et al.. (2020). Sex Differences in Functional Connectivity of the Salience, Default Mode, and Central Executive Networks in Youth with ASD. Cerebral Cortex. 30(9). 5107–5120. 54 indexed citations

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Hutman, Ted, Carolyn Ponting, Nicole M. McDonald, et al.. (2020). Electrophysiological signatures of visual statistical learning in 3‐month‐old infants at familial and low risk for autism spectrum disorder. Developmental Psychobiology. 62(6). 858–870. 8 indexed citations

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Liu, Janelle, Nana J. Okada, Geneviève Patterson, et al.. (2020). Emerging atypicalities in functional connectivity of language-related networks in young infants at high familial risk for ASD. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 45. 100814–100814. 27 indexed citations

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Hernandez, Leanna M., Katherine E. Lawrence, Jennifer K. Lowe, et al.. (2020). Imaging-genetics of sex differences in ASD: distinct effects of OXTR variants on brain connectivity. Translational Psychiatry. 10(1). 82–82. 26 indexed citations

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McDonald, Nicole M., Abigail Dickinson, Joel Frohlich, et al.. (2020). Functional connectivity during language processing in 3‐month‐old infants at familial risk for autism spectrum disorder. European Journal of Neuroscience. 53(5). 1621–1637. 18 indexed citations

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Lawrence, Katherine E., Leanna M. Hernandez, Emily T. Wood, et al.. (2020). Sex Differences in Salience Network Connectivity and its Relationship to Sensory Over‐Responsivity in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Autism Research. 13(9). 1489–1500. 26 indexed citations

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Lawrence, Katherine E., Leanna M. Hernandez, Susan Y. Bookheimer, & Mirella Dapretto. (2018). Atypical longitudinal development of functional connectivity in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research. 12(1). 53–65. 37 indexed citations

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Zeeland, Ashley A. Scott‐Van, Mirella Dapretto, Dara G. Ghahremani, Russell A. Poldrack, & Susan Y. Bookheimer. (2011). Reward Processing in Autism. Autism. 3(2). 53–67. 76 indexed citations

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Masten, Carrie L., Naomi I. Eisenberger, Larissa A. Borofsky, et al.. (2009). Neural correlates of social exclusion during adolescence: understanding the distress of peer rejection. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 4(2). 143–157. 389 indexed citations

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Hutman, Ted & Mirella Dapretto. (2009). The Emergence of Empathy during Infancy. 13(4). 367. 10 indexed citations

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