Sahba Besharati

1.1k total citations
24 papers, 389 citations indexed

About

Sahba Besharati is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sahba Besharati has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 389 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 9 papers in Social Psychology and 7 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Sahba Besharati's work include Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction (10 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (8 papers) and Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts (5 papers). Sahba Besharati is often cited by papers focused on Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction (10 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (8 papers) and Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts (5 papers). Sahba Besharati collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United Kingdom and Italy. Sahba Besharati's co-authors include Aikaterini Fotopoulou, Paul M. Jenkinson, Valentina Moro, Michael D. Kopelman, Olivier Martinaud, Mark Solms, Stephanie J. Forkel, Renato Avesani, Laura Crucianelli and Massimiliano Orri and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Brain and Cerebral Cortex.

In The Last Decade

Sahba Besharati

22 papers receiving 380 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sahba Besharati South Africa 11 209 125 121 73 60 24 389
Carmen Weiß Germany 11 403 1.9× 229 1.8× 167 1.4× 32 0.4× 66 1.1× 14 568
Lajos Simon Hungary 11 91 0.4× 135 1.1× 108 0.9× 193 2.6× 21 0.3× 36 464
Claudie Loranger Canada 7 65 0.3× 74 0.6× 44 0.4× 159 2.2× 125 2.1× 9 398
Cássio M. Meira Brazil 11 104 0.5× 69 0.6× 42 0.3× 26 0.4× 19 0.3× 59 401
Tanya Guitard Canada 7 73 0.3× 87 0.7× 41 0.3× 129 1.8× 150 2.5× 8 417
Clementine Edwards United Kingdom 11 123 0.6× 56 0.4× 311 2.6× 89 1.2× 17 0.3× 22 455
David Williamson Canada 10 174 0.8× 86 0.7× 245 2.0× 208 2.8× 6 0.1× 17 485
John P. Garza United States 10 231 1.1× 94 0.8× 29 0.2× 39 0.5× 18 0.3× 14 351
Jonathan D. Horowitz United States 5 102 0.5× 73 0.6× 58 0.5× 167 2.3× 45 0.8× 6 402
Marlies Pinnow Germany 9 96 0.5× 75 0.6× 39 0.3× 105 1.4× 57 0.9× 18 266

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sahba Besharati

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Besharati, Sahba, Mariano Leal Hernández, Francis McGlone, et al.. (2025). Is cultural context the crucial touch? Neurophysiological and self-reported responses to affective touch in women in South Africa and the United Kingdom. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 20(1).
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Hofer, Sarah, Jörg-Henrik Heine, Sahba Besharati, et al.. (2024). Self-perceptions as mechanisms of achievement inequality: evidence across 70 countries. npj Science of Learning. 9(1). 2–2. 10 indexed citations
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Besharati, Sahba, Paul M. Jenkinson, Michael D. Kopelman, et al.. (2024). What I think she thinks about my paralysed body: Social inferences about disability‐related content in anosognosia for hemiplegia. Journal of Neuropsychology. 19(S1). 75–96. 1 indexed citations
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Daniels, Willie M. U., et al.. (2024). Perspective matters: a systematic review of immersive virtual reality to reduce racial prejudice. Virtual Reality. 28(3). 1 indexed citations
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Watermeyer, Jennifer, et al.. (2024). Experiences on the frontline: Qualitative accounts of South African healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Health SA Gesondheid. 29. 2339–2339. 1 indexed citations
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Besharati, Sahba & Rufus Akinyemi. (2023). Accelerating African neuroscience to provide an equitable framework using perspectives from West and Southern Africa. Nature Communications. 14(1). 8107–8107. 3 indexed citations
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Moro, Valentina, Michele Scandola, Sahba Besharati, et al.. (2023). Examining the role of self-reported somatosensory sensations in body (dis)ownership: A scoping review and empirical study of patients with a disturbed sense of limb ownership. Neuropsychologia. 194. 108776–108776. 5 indexed citations
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Moro, Valentina, et al.. (2022). A fronto-insular-parietal network for the sense of body ownership. Cerebral Cortex. 33(3). 512–522. 25 indexed citations
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Besharati, Sahba, Paul M. Jenkinson, Michael D. Kopelman, et al.. (2022). Awareness is in the eye of the observer: Preserved third-person awareness of deficit in anosognosia for hemiplegia. Neuropsychologia. 170. 108227–108227. 5 indexed citations
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Orri, Massimiliano, Marilyn N. Ahun, Sara Naicker, Sahba Besharati, & Linda Richter. (2022). Childhood factors associated with suicidal ideation among South African youth: A 28-year longitudinal study of the Birth to Twenty Plus cohort. PLoS Medicine. 19(3). e1003946–e1003946. 12 indexed citations
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Richter, Linda, Marilyn N. Ahun, Sahba Besharati, Sara Naicker, & Massimiliano Orri. (2021). Adolescent Mental Health Problems and Adult Human Capital: Findings From the South African Birth to Twenty Plus Cohort at 28 Years of Age. Journal of Adolescent Health. 69(5). 782–789. 9 indexed citations
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Orri, Massimiliano, Sahba Besharati, Marilyn N. Ahun, & Linda Richter. (2021). Analysis of Maternal Postnatal Depression, Socioeconomic Factors, and Offspring Internalizing Symptoms in a Longitudinal Cohort in South Africa. JAMA Network Open. 4(8). e2121667–e2121667. 10 indexed citations
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Kirsch, Louise P., Sahba Besharati, Laura Crucianelli, et al.. (2020). Damage to the right insula disrupts the perception of affective touch. eLife. 9. 48 indexed citations
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Jenkinson, Paul M., Sahba Besharati, Valentina Moro, et al.. (2020). Welcoming back my arm: affective touch increases body ownership following right-hemisphere stroke. Brain Communications. 2(1). fcaa034–fcaa034. 26 indexed citations
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Draper, Catherine E., Simone A. Tomaz, Caylee J. Cook, et al.. (2020). Understanding the influence of 24-hour movement behaviours on the health and development of preschool children from low-income South African settings: the SUNRISE pilot study. South African Journal of Sports Medicine. 32(1). 1–7. 33 indexed citations
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Besharati, Sahba, Stephanie J. Forkel, Michael D. Kopelman, et al.. (2016). Mentalizing the body: spatial and social cognition in anosognosia for hemiplegia. Brain. 139(3). 971–985. 40 indexed citations
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Martinaud, Olivier, Sahba Besharati, Paul M. Jenkinson, & Aikaterini Fotopoulou. (2016). Ownership illusions in patients with body delusions: Different neural profiles of visual capture and disownership. Cortex. 87. 174–185. 58 indexed citations
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Besharati, Sahba, Michael D. Kopelman, Renato Avesani, Valentina Moro, & Aikaterini Fotopoulou. (2014). Another perspective on anosognosia: Self-observation in video replay improves motor awareness. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. 25(3). 319–352. 37 indexed citations
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Besharati, Sahba, Stephanie J. Forkel, Michael D. Kopelman, et al.. (2014). The affective modulation of motor awareness in anosognosia for hemiplegia: Behavioural and lesion evidence. Cortex. 61. 127–140. 33 indexed citations
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Besharati, Sahba, Laura Crucianelli, & Aikaterini Fotopoulou. (2014). Restoring awareness: a review of rehabilitation in anosognosia for hemiplegia. UCL Discovery (University College London). 9(1). 31–37. 2 indexed citations

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