Robert P. Spunt

2.5k total citations
22 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Robert P. Spunt is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert P. Spunt has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 15 papers in Social Psychology and 5 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Robert P. Spunt's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (9 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (9 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (7 papers). Robert P. Spunt is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (9 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (9 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (7 papers). Robert P. Spunt collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Netherlands. Robert P. Spunt's co-authors include Matthew D. Lieberman, Ralph Adolphs, Sara M. Schaafsma, Donald W. Pfaff, Ajay B. Satpute, Meghan L. Meyer, Emily B. Falk, Elliot T. Berkman, Shelley E. Taylor and Naomi I. Eisenberger and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Robert P. Spunt

22 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Peers

Robert P. Spunt
David Dodell‐Feder United States
Joseph M. Moran United States
Grit Hein Germany
Rachel L.C. Mitchell United Kingdom
Anat Maril Israel
David Dodell‐Feder United States
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All Works

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Tusche, Anita, Robert P. Spunt, Lynn K. Paul, J. Michael Tyszka, & Ralph Adolphs. (2023). Neural signatures of social inferences predict the number of real-life social contacts and autism severity. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4399–4399. 4 indexed citations
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Spunt, Robert P. & Ralph Adolphs. (2017). The neuroscience of understanding the emotions of others. Neuroscience Letters. 693. 44–48. 60 indexed citations
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Spunt, Robert P. & Ralph Adolphs. (2017). A new look at domain specificity: insights from social neuroscience. Nature reviews. Neuroscience. 18(9). 559–567. 64 indexed citations
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Spunt, Robert P., et al.. (2016). The neural basis of understanding the expression of the emotions in man and animals. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 12(1). 95–105. 27 indexed citations
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Scheele, Dirk, et al.. (2015). A human tendency to anthropomorphize is enhanced by oxytocin. European Neuropsychopharmacology. 25(10). 1817–1823. 25 indexed citations
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Spunt, Robert P., David Kemmerer, & Ralph Adolphs. (2015). The neural basis of conceptualizing the same action at different levels of abstraction. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 11(7). 1141–1151. 51 indexed citations
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Spunt, Robert P., Meghan L. Meyer, & Matthew D. Lieberman. (2015). The Default Mode of Human Brain Function Primes the Intentional Stance. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 27(6). 1116–1124. 66 indexed citations
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Spunt, Robert P., Jed T. Elison, Nicholas Dufour, et al.. (2015). Amygdala lesions do not compromise the cortical network for false-belief reasoning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(15). 4827–4832. 23 indexed citations
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Spunt, Robert P. & Ralph Adolphs. (2014). Validating the Why/How contrast for functional MRI studies of Theory of Mind. NeuroImage. 99. 301–311. 86 indexed citations
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Schaafsma, Sara M., Donald W. Pfaff, Robert P. Spunt, & Ralph Adolphs. (2014). Deconstructing and reconstructing theory of mind. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 19(2). 65–72. 296 indexed citations
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Lick, David J., et al.. (2013). Reverse-correlating mental representations of sex-typed bodies: the effect of number of trials on image quality. Frontiers in Psychology. 4. 476–476. 13 indexed citations
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Spunt, Robert P.. (2013). Mirroring, Mentalizing, and the Social Neuroscience of Listening. International Journal of Listening. 27(2). 61–72. 8 indexed citations
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Spunt, Robert P. & Matthew D. Lieberman. (2012). Dissociating Modality-Specific and Supramodal Neural Systems for Action Understanding. Journal of Neuroscience. 32(10). 3575–3583. 110 indexed citations
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Spunt, Robert P. & Matthew D. Lieberman. (2012). The Busy Social Brain. Psychological Science. 24(1). 80–86. 117 indexed citations
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Meyer, Meghan L., Robert P. Spunt, Elliot T. Berkman, Shelley E. Taylor, & Matthew D. Lieberman. (2012). Evidence for social working memory from a parametric functional MRI study. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(6). 1883–1888. 169 indexed citations
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Falk, Emily B., Robert P. Spunt, & Matthew D. Lieberman. (2012). Ascribing beliefs to ingroup and outgroup political candidates: neural correlates of perspective-taking, issue importance and days until the election. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 367(1589). 731–743. 36 indexed citations
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Spunt, Robert P. & Matthew D. Lieberman. (2011). An integrative model of the neural systems supporting the comprehension of observed emotional behavior. NeuroImage. 59(3). 3050–3059. 114 indexed citations
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Spunt, Robert P., Ajay B. Satpute, & Matthew D. Lieberman. (2010). Identifying the What, Why, and How of an Observed Action: An fMRI Study of Mentalizing and Mechanizing during Action Observation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 23(1). 63–74. 173 indexed citations
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Spunt, Robert P., Emily B. Falk, & Matthew D. Lieberman. (2010). Dissociable Neural Systems Support Retrieval of How and Why Action Knowledge. Psychological Science. 21(11). 1593–1598. 90 indexed citations
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Spunt, Robert P., et al.. (2009). Aversive and avoidant indecisiveness: Roles for regret proneness, maximization, and BIS/BAS sensitivities. Personality and Individual Differences. 47(4). 256–261. 34 indexed citations

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