2026 Cristina Becchio: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	47	6233	5794	114	112	181	7740

Overview

Cristina Becchio is affiliated with the Italian Institute of Technology in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with significant contributions to cognitive neuroscience and social psychology. The scientist's work includes studies in developmental and educational psychology as well as aspects of psychiatry and mental health.

The main topics covered in their research include:

Action Observation and Synchronization
Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
Motor Control and Adaptation
Child and Animal Learning Development
Tactile and Sensory Interactions
Mental Health and Psychiatry

Recent publications authored by Cristina Becchio focus on varied themes related to mental state attribution, motor control, and behavioral analysis. Notable recent papers include:

Testing theory of mind in large language models and humans, 2024, Nature Human Behaviour
Defining key concepts for mental state attribution, 2024, Communications Psychology
Transient Disruption of the Inferior Parietal Lobule Impairs the Ability to Attribute Intention to Action, 2020, Current Biology
Identifying the signature of prospective motor control in children with autism, 2021, Scientific Reports
Human Movement Datasets: An Interdisciplinary Scoping Review, 2022, ACM Computing Surveys

The scientist frequently publishes in venues that include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Journal of Vision
Current Biology
Nature Communications
iScience

Frequent co-authors of Cristina Becchio reflect collaborations across neuroscience and psychology disciplines. These collaborators include:

Andrea Cavallo
Stefano Panzeri
Eugenio Scaliti
Kiri Pullar
Caterina Ansuini

Cristina Becchio's research incorporates methods and knowledge from multiple interconnected subfields, focusing on understanding the neural and behavioral mechanisms underpinning social cognition, motor functions, and developmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorder. This multidisciplinary approach is evident in the diverse range of publication topics and venues.

Best Publications

Potential for social involvement modulates activity within the mirror and the mentalizing systems

Chiara Begliomini;Andrea Cavallo;Valeria Manera;Cristina Becchio;Cristina Becchio

324
Citations
Wired to Be Social: The Ontogeny of Human Interaction

Umberto Castiello;Cristina Becchio;Stefania Zoia;Cristian Nelini

288
Citations
Toward You The Social Side of Actions

Cristina Becchio;Luisa Sartori;Umberto Castiello

286
Citations
Beyond Autism: Introducing the Dialectical Misattunement Hypothesis and a Bayesian Account of Intersubjectivity.

Dimitris Bolis;Joshua Balsters;Nicole Wenderoth;Cristina Becchio

253
Citations
Grasping intentions: from thought experiments to empirical evidence.

Cristina Becchio;Valeria Manera;Luisa Sartori;Andrea Cavallo

242
Citations
Cues to intention: the role of movement information

Luisa Sartori;Cristina Becchio;Umberto Castiello

222
Citations
Altercentric interference in level 1 visual perspective taking reflects the ascription of mental states, not submentalizing.

Tiziano Vincenzo Furlanetto;Cristina Becchio;Dana Samson;Ian Apperly

193
Citations
Social grasping: from mirroring to mentalizing.

Cristina Becchio;Andrea Cavallo;Chiara Begliomini;Luisa Sartori

189
Citations
The case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: A kinematic study on social intention

Cristina Becchio;Luisa Sartori;Maria Bulgheroni;Umberto Castiello;Umberto Castiello

188
Citations
Different action patterns for cooperative and competitive behaviour.

Ioanna Georgiou;Cristina Becchio;Scott Glover;Umberto Castiello;Umberto Castiello

187
Citations
Decoding intentions from movement kinematics

Andrea Cavallo;Atesh Koul;Caterina Ansuini;Francesca Capozzi

181
Citations
Both your intention and mine are reflected in the kinematics of my reach-to-grasp movement

Cristina Becchio;Luisa Sartori;Maria Bulgheroni;Umberto Castiello;Umberto Castiello

180
Citations
How the gaze of others influences object processing.

Cristina Becchio;Cesare Bertone;Umberto Castiello;Umberto Castiello

178
Citations
Cross-Validation Approaches for Replicability in Psychology.

Atesh Koul;Cristina Becchio;Cristina Becchio;Andrea Cavallo;Andrea Cavallo

159
Citations
A review of select human-building interfaces and their relationship to human behavior, energy use and occupant comfort

Julia K. Day;Claire McIlvennie;Connor Brackley;Mariantonietta Tarantini

150
Citations
Does the intention to communicate affect action kinematics

Luisa Sartori;Cristina Becchio;Bruno G. Bara;Umberto Castiello

150
Citations
Inferring intentions from biological motion: a stimulus set of point-light communicative interactions.

Valeria Manera;Valeria Manera;Ben Schouten;Cristina Becchio;Bruno G. Bara

145
Citations
Interpersonal predictive coding, not action perception, is impaired in autism.

T. von der Lühe;V. Manera;I. Barisic;C. Becchio;C. Becchio

144
Citations
Cooperation or competition? Discriminating between social intentions by observing prehensile movements

Valeria Manera;Valeria Manera;Cristina Becchio;Andrea Cavallo;Luisa Sartori

133
Citations
Cost optimality assessment of a single family house: Building and technical systems solutions for the nZEB target

Cristina Becchio;Paolo Dabbene;Enrico Fabrizio;Valentina Monetti

128
Citations
Motor contagion from gaze: the case of autism

Cristina Becchio;Andrea Pierno;Morena Mari;Dean Lusher

121
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Umberto Castiello University of Padua

Leonhard Schilbach Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Alessio Avenanti University of Bologna

Marco Del Giudice University of New Mexico

Lorenzo Pia University of Turin

Barbara Tversky Columbia University

Caroline Catmur King's College London

Kai Vogeley University of Cologne

Antonio Pierro Sapienza University of Rome

Henrik Walter Charité - University Medicine Berlin

External Links

Personal website of Cristina Becchio

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