2026 Beatrice de Gelder: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	95	909	814	29	27	377	31327
Psychology	95	776	678	43	41	371	31123

Research.com Recognitions

2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Beatrice de Gelder is a researcher affiliated with Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Their scholarly work covers multiple disciplines within neuroscience and psychology, emphasizing cognitive processes and behavioral studies.

The main fields of study for this researcher include:

Neuroscience
Psychology

Within these fields, the subfields of focus are:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Social Psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Human-Computer Interaction
Sensory Systems

Their research topics span diverse areas, involving:

Face Recognition and Perception
Neural dynamics and brain function
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Action Observation and Synchronization
Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Multisensory perception and integration

Frequently publishing in several scientific journals, they have contributed notably to:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Cerebral Cortex
Journal of Vision
NeuroImage
Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by them are:

"The rise of affectivism," 2021, published in Nature Human Behaviour
"A computational neuroethology perspective on body and expression perception," 2021, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
"Computation-Based Feature Representation of Body Expressions in the Human Brain," 2020, Cerebral Cortex
"The role of computational and subjective features in emotional body expressions," 2020, Scientific Reports
"Being the victim of virtual abuse changes default mode network responses to emotional expressions," 2020, Cortex

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their academic work, with frequent co-authors including:

Marta Poyo Solanas
Maarten J. Vaessen
Martin A. Giese
Minye Zhan
Giuseppe Marrazzo

Best Publications

Neural bases of the non-conscious perception of emotional signals

Marco Tamietto;Marco Tamietto;Marco Tamietto;Beatrice de Gelder;Beatrice de Gelder;Beatrice de Gelder

1336
Citations
Towards the neurobiology of emotional body language

Beatrice de Gelder;Beatrice de Gelder

1007
Citations
The perception of emotions by ear and by eye

Beatrice de Gelder;Jean Vroomen

866
Citations
Rapid perceptual integration of facial expression and emotional body language.

Hanneke K. M. Meeren;Corné C. R. J. van Heijnsbergen;Beatrice de Gelder

865
Citations
Fear fosters flight: A mechanism for fear contagion when perceiving emotion expressed by a whole body

Beatrice de Gelder;Josh Snyder;Doug Greve;George Gerard

667
Citations
Body expressions influence recognition of emotions in the face and voice.

Jan Van den Stock;Ruthger Righart;Beatrice de Gelder

580
Citations
Sound enhances visual perception: cross-modal effects of auditory organization on vision.

J. Vroomen;B. de Gelder

559
Citations
Hemispheric Asymmetries for Whole-Based and Part-Based Face Processing in the Human Fusiform Gyrus

Bruno Rossion;Laurence Dricot;Anne Devolder;Jean-Michel Bodart

547
Citations
Why bodies? Twelve reasons for including bodily expressions in affective neuroscience

Beatrice de Gelder;Beatrice de Gelder

510
Citations
Multisensory integration, perception and ecological validity

Beatrice De Gelder;Beatrice De Gelder;Paul Bertelson;Paul Bertelson

467
Citations
Recalibration of temporal order perception by exposure to audio-visual asynchrony.

Jean J. Vroomen;Mirjam M. Keetels;Béatrice De Gelder;Béatrice De Gelder;Paul Bertelson;Paul Bertelson

465
Citations
Crossmodal binding of fear in voice and face

Raymond J. Dolan;J. S. Morris;B. de Gelder

390
Citations
Unseen facial and bodily expressions trigger fast emotional reactions

Marco Tamietto;Lorys Castelli;Sergio Vighetti;Paola Perozzo

384
Citations
Seeing Fearful Body Expressions Activates the Fusiform Cortex and Amygdala

Nouchine Hadjikhani;Beatrice de Gelder;Beatrice de Gelder

380
Citations
Perceiving fear in dynamic body expressions.

J. Grèzes;S. Pichon;B. de Gelder

366
Citations
Standing up for the body. Recent progress in uncovering the networks involved in the perception of bodies and bodily expressions

Beatrice de Gelder;Jan Van den Stock;Jan Van den Stock;Hanneke K.M. Meeren;Charlotte B.A. Sinke;Charlotte B.A. Sinke

361
Citations
The ventriloquist effect does not depend on the direction of deliberate visual attention

P Bertelson;J Vroomen;B de Gelder;Jon Driver

349
Citations
The neural correlates of perceiving human bodies: an ERP study on the body-inversion effect.

Jeroen J. Stekelenburg;Beatrice de Gelder

349
Citations
The newly sighted fail to match seen with felt

Richard Held;Yuri Ostrovsky;Beatrice de Gelder;Tapan Gandhi

323
Citations
Face recognition and lip-reading in autism

Beatrice de Gelder;Jean Vroomen;Lucienne van der Heide

311
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Tamietto University of Turin

Jean Vroomen Tilburg University

Jan Van den Stock KU Leuven

Paul Bertelson Université Libre de Bruxelles

Alan J. Pegna University of Queensland

Nouchine Hadjikhani Harvard Medical School

Julie Grèzes École Normale Supérieure

Jack van Honk Utrecht University

Mariska E. Kret Leiden University

Rainer Goebel Maastricht University

External Links

Personal website of Beatrice de Gelder Google Scholar page

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