2026 Christian Agrillo: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	37	9276	8673	201	197	113	4588

Overview

Christian Agrillo is a researcher affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy, focusing primarily on neuroscience. Their work spans multiple subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, statistics and probability, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, cell biology, and nature and landscape conservation. The main research topics cover cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, visual perception and processing mechanisms, zebrafish biomedical research applications, animal behavior and reproduction, child and animal learning development, primate behavior and ecology, and fish biology, ecology, and behavior.

Christian Agrillo's research output includes publications in various scientific venues with a notable frequency in the following journals:

Animals
Animal Cognition
Scientific Reports
Symmetry
Vision

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Christian Agrillo are:

Everything is subjective under water surface, too: visual illusions in fish (2020, Animal Cognition)
Quantitative abilities of invertebrates: a methodological review (2021, Animal Cognition)
Do Domestic Dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) Perceive Numerosity Illusions? (2020, Animals)
The Challenge of Illusory Perception of Animals: The Impact of Methodological Variability in Cross-Species Investigation (2021, Animals)
The ontogeny of continuous quantity discrimination in zebrafish larvae (Danio rerio) (2020, Animal Cognition)

Frequent collaborators in Christian Agrillo's research include:

Maria Elena Miletto Petrazzini
Maria Santacà
Alessandra Pecunioso
Marco Dadda
Angelo Bisazza

Best Publications

Evidence for two numerical systems that are similar in humans and guppies.

Christian Agrillo;Laura Piffer;Angelo Bisazza;Brian Butterworth

244
Citations
Use of number by fish.

Christian Agrillo;Marco Dadda;Giovanna Serena;Angelo Bisazza

218
Citations
Quantity discrimination in female mosquitofish

Christian Agrillo;Marco Dadda;Angelo Bisazza

217
Citations
Childfree by choice: a review

Christian Agrillo;Cristian Nelini

204
Citations
Number versus continuous quantity in numerosity judgments by fish.

Christian Agrillo;Laura Piffer;Angelo Bisazza

164
Citations
Quantity discrimination in felines: a preliminary investigation of the domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus)

Paola Etel Pisa;Christian Agrillo

152
Citations
Ontogeny of Numerical Abilities in Fish

Angelo Bisazza;Laura Piffer;Giovanna Serena;Christian Agrillo

146
Citations
Large Number Discrimination by Mosquitofish

Christian Agrillo;Laura Piffer;Angelo Bisazza

140
Citations
Spontaneous versus trained numerical abilities. A comparison between the two main tools to study numerical competence in non-human animals

Christian Agrillo;Angelo Bisazza

135
Citations
Small and large number discrimination in guppies.

Laura Piffer;Christian Agrillo;Daniel C. Hyde

115
Citations
Spontaneous number representation in mosquitofish

Marco Dadda;Laura Piffer;Christian Agrillo;Angelo Bisazza

114
Citations
The costs of hemispheric specialization in a fish

Marco Dadda;Eugenia Zandonà;Christian Agrillo;Angelo Bisazza

110
Citations
Guppies discriminate between two quantities of food items but prioritize item size over total amount

Tyrone Lucon-Xiccato;Maria Elena Miletto Petrazzini;Christian Agrillo;Angelo Bisazza

99
Citations
Individual differences in non-symbolic numerical abilities predict mathematical achievements but contradict ATOM.

Christian Agrillo;Laura Piffer;Andrea Adriano

96
Citations
Near-death experiences between science and prejudice

Enrico Facco;Christian Agrillo

92
Citations
Understanding the origin of number sense: a review of fish studies

Christian Agrillo;Angelo Bisazza

92
Citations
Near-death experience: Out-of-body and out-of-brain?

Christian Agrillo

90
Citations
Large number discrimination in newborn fish.

Laura Piffer;Maria Elena Miletto Petrazzini;Christian Agrillo

90
Citations
Extensive training extends numerical abilities of guppies

Angelo Bisazza;Christian Agrillo;Tyrone Lucon-Xiccato

87
Citations
Do Fish Perceive Illusory Motion

Simone Gori;Christian Agrillo;Marco Dadda;Angelo Bisazza

85
Citations
Time and numerosity estimation are independent: Behavioral evidence for two different systems using a conflict paradigm.

Christian Agrillo;Ashish Ranpura;Brian Butterworth

78
Citations
Near-Death-Like Experiences without Life-Threatening Conditions or Brain Disorders: A Hypothesis from a Case Report.

Enrico Facco;Christian Agrillo

72
Citations
Sexual Harassment Influences Group Choice in Female Mosquitofish

Christian Agrillo;Marco Dadda;Angelo Bisazza

65
Citations
Perceiving numerosity from birth.

Maria Dolores de Hevia;Elisa Castaldi;Arlette Streri;Evelyn Eger

21
Citations
What is the precise role of cognitive control in the development of a sense of number

Rebecca Merkley;Gaia Scerif;Daniel Ansari

9
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Beran Georgia State University

Brian Butterworth University College London

Bruce Greyson University of Virginia

Bahador Bahrami Max Planck Society

External Links

Personal website of Christian Agrillo

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