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Bennett I. Bertenthal

Bennett I. Bertenthal

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Psychology

D-Index
47
Citations
9937
World Ranking
6133
National Ranking
3333

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2000 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1991 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Bennett I. Bertenthal is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States and is active in research primarily within the field of psychology. Their work focuses on areas such as infant health and development, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, and child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

The scientist's research encompasses multiple subfields, including social psychology, pharmacy, clinical psychology, developmental and educational psychology, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

Among the main topics addressed in their publications are:

  • Infant Health and Development
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Neuroscience of respiration and sleep

Bennett I. Bertenthal has published in various academic venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Infant Behavior and Development
  • Infancy
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • NeuroImage

Notable recent papers include:

  • Proximity and touch are associated with neural but not physiological synchrony in naturalistic mother-infant interactions, 2021, NeuroImage
  • Associations between infant-mother physiological synchrony and 4- and 6-month-old infants' emotion regulation, 2021, Developmental Psychobiology
  • Sharenting and Children's Privacy in the United States: Parenting Style, Practices, and Perspectives on Sharing Young Children's Photos on Social Media, 2022, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • A method for measuring dynamic respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) in infants and mothers, 2021, Infant Behavior and Development
  • Associations between acoustic features of maternal speech and infants' emotion regulation following a social stressor, 2021, Infancy

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, notably:

  • Drew H. Abney
  • Elizabeth B. daSilva
  • Stefanie Hoehl
  • Trinh Nguyen
  • Gregory F. Lewis

Bennett I. Bertenthal has received fellowships from prominent organizations, including the American Psychological Association in 1991 and the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2000.

Best Publications

  • Haste does not always make waste: expertise, direction of attention, and speed versus accuracy in performing sensorimotor skills.

    Sian L. Beilock;Bennett I. Bertenthal;Annette M. Mccoy;Thomas H. Carr

  • Development of Self-Recognition in the Infant.

    Bennett I. Bertenthal;Kurt W. Fischer

  • ORIGINS AND EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF PERCEPTION, ACTION, AND REPRESENTATION

    Bennett I. Bertenthal

  • The Epigenesis of Mind: Essays on Biology and Cognition

    Bennett I. Bertenthal;Susan Carey;Rochel Gelman

  • Does Perception of Biological Motion Rely on Specific Brain Regions

    Julie Grèzes;Pierre Fonlupt;Bennett Bertenthal;Chantal Delon-Martin

  • Global Processing of Biological Motions

    Bennett I Bertenthal;Jeannine Pinto

  • Perception and Action

    B.I. Bertenthal

  • Infant sensitivity to figural coherence in biomechanical motions

    Bennett I. Bertenthal;Dennis R. Proffitt;James E. Cutting

  • Self-produced Locomotion

    Bennett I. Bertenthal;Joseph J. Campos;Karen Caplovitz Barrett

  • Early Experience and Emotional Development: The Emergence of Wariness of Heights

    Joseph J. Campos;Bennett I. Bertenthal;Rosanne Kermoian

  • A systems approach to the organizing effects of self-produced locomotion during infancy

    Bennett I. Bertenthal;Joseph J. Campos

  • Eye, Head and Trunk Control: The Foundation for Manual Development

    Bennett Bertenthal;Claes von Hofsten

  • Imitative response tendencies following observation of intransitive actions.

    Bennett I. Bertenthal;Matthew R. Longo;Adam Kosobud

  • Perception of biomechanical motions by infants: implementation of various processing constraints.

    Bennett I. Bertenthal;Dennis R. Proffitt;Steven J. Kramer

  • Infants' Sensitivity to Optical Flow for Controlling Posture.

    Bennett I. Bertenthal;Dina L. Bai

  • The development of infant sensitivity to biomechanical motions.

    Bennett I. Bertenthal;Dennis R. Proffitt;Nancy B. Spetner;M. Anne Thomas

  • Perception-Action Coupling in the Development of Visual Control of Posture

    Bennett I. Bertenthal;James L. Rose;Dina L. Bai

  • An Epigenetic Perspective on the Development of Self-Produced Locomotion and Its Consequences:

    Bennett I. Bertenthal;Joseph J. Campos;Rosanne Kermoian

  • Automatic imitation of biomechanically possible and impossible actions: effects of priming movements versus goals

    Matthew R. Longo;Adam Kosobud;Bennett I. Bertenthal

  • Locomotor status and the development of spatial search skills.

    Dina L. Bai;Bennett I. Bertenthal

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew R. Longo
Matthew R. Longo Birkbeck, University of London
Dennis R. Proffitt
Dennis R. Proffitt University of Virginia
Joseph J. Campos
Joseph J. Campos University of California, Berkeley
Chen Yu
Chen Yu The University of Texas at Austin
Kurt Hugenberg
Kurt Hugenberg Indiana University
Stefanie Hoehl
Stefanie Hoehl University of Vienna
Rachel K. Clifton
Rachel K. Clifton University of Massachusetts Amherst
Thomas H. Carr
Thomas H. Carr Michigan State University
Kurt W. Fischer
Kurt W. Fischer Harvard University
Shaun Gallagher
Shaun Gallagher University of Memphis

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