2026 Daniel Casasanto: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	49	5593	5192	3050	2763	195	13013

Overview

Daniel Casasanto is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a focus on experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, and statistics and probability.

Their work addresses several main topics including action observation and synchronization, language, metaphor, and cognition, cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, hearing impairment and communication, multisensory perception and integration, cultural differences and values, and categorization, perception, and language.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Casasanto are the following:

"Temporal focus and time spatialization across cultures" (2020), published in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
"Hidden Differences in Phenomenal Experience" (2023), published in Cognitive Science
"Spatial concepts of number, size, and time in an indigenous culture" (2021), published in Science Advances
"Spatial metaphors and the design of everyday things" (2022), published in Frontiers in Psychology
"Unconscious Number Discrimination in the Human Visual System" (2020), published in Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Trento)

Casasanto has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Susan Goldin-Meadow (5 co-authored papers), Julio Santiago (4 papers), Benjamin Pitt (4 papers), Carmen Callizo-Romero (3 papers), and Slavica Tutnjević (3 papers).

The scientist's publications appear repeatedly in several venues, with multiple contributions to Cognitive Science, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Frontiers in Psychology, and the Journal of Experimental Psychology General, as well as publications in Science Advances.

Best Publications

Time in the mind: Using space to think about time

Daniel Casasanto;Daniel Casasanto;Lera Boroditsky

1505
Citations
Embodiment of abstract concepts: good and bad in right- and left-handers.

Daniel Casasanto;Daniel Casasanto

1095
Citations
Different Bodies, Different Minds The Body Specificity of Language and Thought

Daniel Casasanto;Daniel Casasanto

443
Citations
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Whorf? Crosslinguistic Differences in Temporal Language and Thought

Daniel Casasanto

416
Citations
Motor action and emotional memory

Daniel Casasanto;Katinka Dijkstra

389
Citations
Structural integration in language and music: evidence for a shared system.

Evelina G. Fedorenko;Aniruddh Patel;Daniel Casasanto;Jonathan Winawer

377
Citations
Body-Specific Representations of Action Verbs Neural Evidence From Right- and Left-Handers

Roel M. Willems;Peter Hagoort;Daniel Casasanto

348
Citations
When Left Is “Right” Motor Fluency Shapes Abstract Concepts

Daniel Casasanto;Evangelia G. Chrysikou

339
Citations
The Hands of Time: Temporal gestures in English speakers

Daniel Casasanto;Kyle Jasmin

309
Citations
Functional MRI predicts post-surgical memory following temporal lobectomy

Marcie L. Rabin;Veena M. Narayan;Daniel Y. Kimberg;Daniel J. Casasanto

301
Citations
Mirror reading can reverse the flow of time.

Daniel Casasanto;Roberto Bottini

300
Citations
Space and Time in the Child's Mind: Evidence for a Cross-Dimensional Asymmetry

Daniel Casasanto;Olga Fotakopoulou;Lera Boroditsky

298
Citations
The Thickness of Musical Pitch Psychophysical Evidence for Linguistic Relativity

Sarah Dolscheid;Shakila Shayan;Asifa Majid;Daniel Casasanto

283
Citations
Similarity and proximity: When does close in space mean close in mind?

Daniel Casasanto

255
Citations
Good and Bad in the Hands of Politicians: Spontaneous Gestures during Positive and Negative Speech

Daniel Casasanto;Kyle Jasmin

234
Citations
When You Think About It, Your Past Is in Front of You How Culture Shapes Spatial Conceptions of Time

Juanma de la Fuente;Julio Santiago;Antonio Román;Cristina Dumitrache

218
Citations
Neural dissociations between action verb understanding and motor imagery

Roel M. Willems;Roel M. Willems;Ivan Toni;Peter Hagoort;Daniel Casasanto

216
Citations
Flexibility in Embodied Language Understanding

Roel M. Willems;Daniel Casasanto;Daniel Casasanto;Daniel Casasanto

213
Citations
A Functional Role for the Motor System in Language Understanding: Evidence From Theta-Burst Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Roel M. Willems;Roel M. Willems;Ludovica Labruna;Ludovica Labruna;Ludovica Labruna;Mark D'Esposito;Richard Ivry;Richard Ivry

195
Citations
Do monkeys think in metaphors? Representations of space and time in monkeys and humans

Dustin J. Merritt;Daniel Casasanto;Elizabeth M. Brannon

195
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Roel M. Willems Radboud University

Peter Hagoort Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

Lera Boroditsky University of California, San Diego

William D.S. Killgore University of Arizona

Asifa Majid University of York

Guila Glosser University of Pennsylvania

Susan Goldin-Meadow University of Chicago

Gary Lupyan University of Wisconsin–Madison

Aniruddh D. Patel Tufts University

Sabine Hunnius Radboud University

External Links

Personal website of Daniel Casasanto

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