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Atsushi Senju publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Atsushi Senju sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 94 publications — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Atsushi Senju D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Atsushi Senju sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Atsushi Senju is affiliated with Birkbeck, University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with a significant focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Psychology. Additional subfields of study include Developmental and Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Education.

Their work encompasses several main research topics, notably Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, Face Recognition and Perception, and Child and Animal Learning Development. They also investigate Action Observation and Synchronization as well as areas related to Child Development and Digital Technology, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, and Family and Disability Support Research.

Some of their recent publications include the following papers:

  • The two-process theory of biological motion processing, 2020, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Culture modulates face scanning during dyadic social interactions, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Cultural differences in mutual gaze during face-to-face interactions: A dual head-mounted eye-tracking study, 2021, Visual Cognition
  • Extrastriatal dopamine D2/3 receptor binding, functional connectivity, and autism socio-communicational deficits: a PET and fMRI study, 2022, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Affective priming enhances gaze cueing effect., 2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Senju include Toshiki Iwabuchi, Mitsuhiko Ishikawa, Shoji Itakura, Tomoko Nishimura, and Motofumi Sumiya.

Senju has published extensively in several scholarly venues. Prominent among these are Scientific Reports and the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, each hosting multiple publications. Other regular publication venues include Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Visual Cognition, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

In addition to journal articles, Senju has contributed to book publications. One such example is a book published by Frontiers Media titled Sociomateriality in Children with Typical and/or Atypical Development, released in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Action Anticipation Through Attribution of False Belief by 2-Year-Olds

    Victoria Southgate;Atsushi Senju;Gergely Csibra

  • Mindblind Eyes: An Absence of Spontaneous Theory of Mind in Asperger Syndrome

    Atsushi Senju;Victoria Southgate;Sarah White;Uta Frith;Uta Frith

  • The eye contact effect: mechanisms and development

    Atsushi Senju;Mark H. Johnson

  • Gaze Following in Human Infants Depends on Communicative Signals

    Atsushi Senju;Gergely Csibra

  • Atypical eye contact in autism: Models, mechanisms and development

    Atsushi Senju;Mark H Johnson

  • Direct gaze captures visuospatial attention

    Atsushi Senju;Toshikazu Hasegawa

  • Reflexive orienting in response to eye gaze and an arrow in children with and without autism

    Atsushi Senju;Yoshikuni Tojo;Hitoshi Dairoku;Toshikazu Hasegawa

  • The two-process theory of face processing: Modifications based on two decades of data from infants and adults

    Mark H. Johnson;Atsushi Senju;Przemyslaw Tomalski

  • Precursors to Social and Communication Difficulties in Infants At-Risk for Autism: Gaze Following and Attentional Engagement

    Rachael Bedford;Mayada Elsabbagh;Teodora Gliga;Andrew Pickles

  • Spontaneous Theory of Mind and Its Absence in Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Atsushi Senju

  • Attention to Eye Contact in the West and East: Autonomic Responses and Evaluative Ratings

    Hironori Akechi;Atsushi Senju;Helen Uibo;Yukiko Kikuchi

  • Dogs catch human yawns

    Ramiro M Joly-Mascheroni;Atsushi Senju;Alex J Shepherd

  • Do 18-Month-Olds Really Attribute Mental States to Others? A Critical Test

    Atsushi Senju;Victoria Southgate;Charlotte Snape;Mark Leonard

  • Absence of contagious yawning in children with autism spectrum disorder

    Atsushi Senju;Makiko Maeda;Yukiko Kikuchi;Toshikazu Hasegawa

  • Absence of spontaneous action anticipation by false belief attribution in children with autism spectrum disorder

    Atsushi Senju;Victoria Southgate;Yui Miura;Tomoko Matsui

  • 'Autistic' traits in non-autistic Japanese populations: relationships with personality traits and cognitive ability.

    Yura Kunihira;Atsushi Senju;Atsushi Senju;Hitoshi Dairoku;Hitoshi Dairoku;Akio Wakabayashi

  • Understanding the referential nature of looking: infants' preference for object-directed gaze.

    Atsushi Senju;Gergely Csibra;Mark H. Johnson

  • Does perceived direct gaze boost detection in adults and children with and without autism? The stare-in-the-crowd effect revisited.

    Atsushi Senju;Toshikazu Hasegawa;Yoshikuni Tojo

  • Eye contact does not facilitate detection in children with autism.

    Atsushi Senju;Kiyoshi Yaguchi;Yoshikuni Tojo;Toshikazu Hasegawa

  • Deviant gaze processing in children with autism: an ERP study

    Atsushi Senju;Yoshikuni Tojo;Kiyoshi Yaguchi;Toshikazu Hasegawa

  • Action Anticipation Through Attribution of False Belief by

    Year-Olds Southgate;A. Senju;G. Csibra

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshikazu Hasegawa
Toshikazu Hasegawa University of Tokyo
Gergely Csibra
Gergely Csibra Central European University
Tony Charman
Tony Charman King's College London
Tim J. Smith
Tim J. Smith Birkbeck, University of London
Shoji Itakura
Shoji Itakura Kyoto University
Victoria Southgate
Victoria Southgate University of Copenhagen
Kristelle Hudry
Kristelle Hudry La Trobe University
Teodora Gliga
Teodora Gliga University of East Anglia
Mayada Elsabbagh
Mayada Elsabbagh McGill University
Uta Frith
Uta Frith University College London

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