Rebecca Brewer

3.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
44 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Rebecca Brewer is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rebecca Brewer has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 23 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 14 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Rebecca Brewer's work include Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (21 papers), Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (17 papers) and Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (10 papers). Rebecca Brewer is often cited by papers focused on Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (21 papers), Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (17 papers) and Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (10 papers). Rebecca Brewer collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Rebecca Brewer's co-authors include Geoffrey Bird, Caroline Catmur, Richard Cook, Jennifer Murphy, Punit Shah, Bethany Oakley, Clare Press, Hannah Hobson, Eilidh Cage and Federica Biotti and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and Psychological Science.

In The Last Decade

Rebecca Brewer

42 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Theory of mind is not theory of emotion: A cautionary note on the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test.

2016 287 citations Rebecca Brewer, Geoffrey Bird et al. Journal of Abnormal Psychology profile →
Alexithymia: a general deficit of interoception

2016 262 citations Rebecca Brewer, Richard Cook et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rebecca Brewer United Kingdom	22	1.3k	1.2k	951	685	514	44	2.4k
Tamara Russell United Kingdom	23	2.0k 1.6×	1.1k 0.9×	924 1.0×	801 1.2×	514 1.0×	45	3.3k
Ben Alderson‐Day United Kingdom	29	1.7k 1.3×	1.1k 0.9×	442 0.5×	667 1.0×	473 0.9×	74	2.9k
Shannon M. Couture United States	18	968 0.7×	1.4k 1.2×	1.2k 1.2×	713 1.0×	764 1.5×	19	2.8k
Stefan Roepke Germany	34	946 0.7×	920 0.7×	2.3k 2.4×	595 0.9×	730 1.4×	141	3.6k
Christine I. Hooker United States	30	1.5k 1.2×	1.2k 1.0×	643 0.7×	958 1.4×	632 1.2×	61	2.7k
Emma Lawrence United Kingdom	19	846 0.7×	713 0.6×	410 0.4×	404 0.6×	526 1.0×	25	2.1k
Kimberley Rogers United States	9	954 0.7×	571 0.5×	771 0.8×	316 0.5×	502 1.0×	13	2.2k
Michele Poletti Italy	31	731 0.6×	1.4k 1.1×	832 0.9×	344 0.5×	199 0.4×	140	2.9k
Anthony C. Ruocco Canada	30	700 0.5×	902 0.7×	1.6k 1.7×	575 0.8×	340 0.7×	95	2.9k
Simon McCarthy‐Jones United Kingdom	35	1.5k 1.2×	2.0k 1.6×	792 0.8×	750 1.1×	498 1.0×	83	3.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Rebecca Brewer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rebecca Brewer

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All Works

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Westwood, Heather, William Mandy, & Rebecca Brewer. (2025). The Relationship Between Interoception, Alexithymia, Autistic Traits and Eating Pathology in Autistic Adults. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 1 indexed citations

Spooner, R. L., Jonathan M. Bird, Dawn Watling, et al.. (2024). No differences between remote and laboratory-based testing of cardiac interoceptive accuracy using the phase adjustment task. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 28524–28524. 2 indexed citations

Spooner, R. L., Jonathan M. Bird, Jennifer Todd, et al.. (2024). Exploring sex differences in cardiac interoceptive accuracy using the phase adjustment task. Psychophysiology. 61(12). e14689–e14689. 7 indexed citations

Brewer, Rebecca, et al.. (2023). Non‐autistic adults can recognize posed autistic facial expressions: Implications for internal representations of emotion. Autism Research. 16(7). 1321–1334. 4 indexed citations

Nijhof, Annabel D., Caroline Catmur, Rebecca Brewer, et al.. (2023). Differences in own-face but not own-name discrimination between autistic and neurotypical adults: A fast periodic visual stimulation-EEG study. Cortex. 171. 308–318. 2 indexed citations

Biotti, Federica, et al.. (2021). Development and validation of the Interoceptive States Static Images (ISSI) database. Behavior Research Methods. 54(4). 1744–1765. 2 indexed citations

Brewer, Rebecca, et al.. (2021). Personal Identity After an Autism Diagnosis: Relationships With Self-Esteem, Mental Wellbeing, and Diagnostic Timing. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 699335–699335. 39 indexed citations

Hobson, Hannah, Rebecca Brewer, Caroline Catmur, & Geoffrey Bird. (2019). The Role of Language in Alexithymia: Moving Towards a Multiroute Model of Alexithymia. Emotion Review. 11(3). 247–261. 44 indexed citations

Murphy, Jennifer, Rebecca Brewer, David Plans, et al.. (2019). Testing the independence of self-reported interoceptive accuracy and attention. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 73(1). 115–133. 127 indexed citations

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Murphy, Jennifer, Rebecca Brewer, Michel‐Pierre Coll, et al.. (2019). I feel it in my finger: Measurement device affects cardiac interoceptive accuracy. Biological Psychology. 148. 107765–107765. 28 indexed citations

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Coll, Michel‐Pierre, Jennifer Murphy, Caroline Catmur, Geoffrey Bird, & Rebecca Brewer. (2019). The importance of stimulus variability when studying face processing using fast periodic visual stimulation: A novel ‘mixed-emotions’ paradigm. Cortex. 117. 182–195. 7 indexed citations

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Brewer, Rebecca, et al.. (2019). Communicative misalignment in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Cortex. 115. 15–26. 20 indexed citations

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Brewer, Rebecca, et al.. (2018). Brief Report: Typical Auditory-Motor and Enhanced Visual-Motor Temporal Synchronization in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 49(2). 788–793. 16 indexed citations

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Hobson, Hannah, Jeremy Hogeveen, Rebecca Brewer, et al.. (2018). Language and alexithymia: Evidence for the role of the inferior frontal gyrus in acquired alexithymia. Neuropsychologia. 111. 229–240. 31 indexed citations

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Brewer, Rebecca, Richard Cook, Valentina Cardi, et al.. (2018). Alexithymia explains increased empathic personal distress in individuals with and without eating disorders. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 72(7). 1827–1836. 15 indexed citations

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Murphy, Jennifer, Rebecca Brewer, Caroline Catmur, & Geoffrey Bird. (2016). Interoception and psychopathology: A developmental neuroscience perspective. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 23. 45–56. 240 indexed citations

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Cook, Jennifer, et al.. (2016). Interaction takes two: Typical adults exhibit mind-blindness towards those with autism spectrum disorder.. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 125(7). 879–885. 134 indexed citations

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Brewer, Rebecca, Abigail A. Marsh, Caroline Catmur, et al.. (2015). The impact of autism spectrum disorder and alexithymia on judgments of moral acceptability.. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 124(3). 589–595. 37 indexed citations

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Brewer, Rebecca, et al.. (2015). Atypical trait inferences from facial cues in alexithymia.. Emotion. 15(5). 637–643. 10 indexed citations

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Nash, Robert A., Kimberley A. Wade, & Rebecca Brewer. (2009). Why do doctored images distort memory?. Consciousness and Cognition. 18(3). 773–780. 27 indexed citations

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