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5825
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Edouard Gentaz publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Edouard Gentaz sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 203 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Edouard Gentaz D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Edouard Gentaz sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Edouard Gentaz is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Their research intersects multiple fields, including psychology, social sciences, and neuroscience. Gentaz's work spans subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, education, developmental and educational psychology, clinical psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Among the main topics of Gentaz's research are:

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Multisensory perception and integration

Edouard Gentaz has contributed to numerous scientific papers, with some recent publications including:

  • Multisensory Gains in Simple Detection Predict Global Cognition in Schoolchildren (2020), published in Scientific Reports
  • Emotion recognition development: Preliminary evidence for an effect of school pedagogical practices (2020), published in Learning and Instruction
  • The effects of a 'pretend play-based training' designed to promote the development of emotion comprehension, emotion regulation, and prosocial behaviour in 5- to 6-year-old Swiss children (2020), published in British Journal of Psychology
  • Emotion knowledge, social behaviour and locomotor activity predict the mathematic performance in 706 preschool children (2021), published in Scientific Reports
  • Prosocial lying in children between 4 and 11 years of age: The role of emotional understanding and empathy (2020), published in Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Several frequent co-authors have collaborated with Gentaz, including:

  • Thalia Cavadini
  • Dannyelle Valente
  • Sylvie Richard
  • Lola Chennaz
  • Fleur Lejeune

Gentaz's research has been published in a variety of venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • Children
  • Scientific Reports
  • Acta Psychologica
  • PLoS ONE
  • Revue interdisciplinaire sur le handicap visuel

In addition to articles, Gentaz has contributed to book publications. A recent example includes the 2023 release titled EMOTIMAT Enseigner les émotions en classe, Livret de l'enseignant Activités Cycle 1, published by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Best Publications

  • Touching for knowing : cognitive psychology of haptic manual perception

    Yvette Hatwell;Arlette Streri;Edouard Gentaz

  • The visuo-haptic and haptic exploration of letters increases the kindergarten-children's understanding of the alphabetic principle

    Florence Bara;Edouard Gentaz;Pascale Colé;Liliane Sprenger-Charolles

  • Haptic Guidance Improves the Visuo-Manual Tracking of Trajectories

    Jérémy Bluteau;Jérémy Bluteau;Sabine Coquillart;Yohan Payan;Edouard Gentaz

  • Cross-modal recognition of shape from hand to eyes in human newborns.

    Arlette Streri;Edouard Gentaz

  • Haptics in teaching handwriting: the role of perceptual and visuo-motor skills.

    Florence Bara;Edouard Gentaz

  • Reference frames and haptic perception of orientation: Body and head tilt effects on the oblique effect

    Marion Luyat;Edouard Gentaz;Tony Regia Corte;Michel Guerraz

  • Haptics in learning to read with children from low socio-economic status families

    Florence Bara;Edouard Gentaz;Pascale Colé

  • A Visuo-Haptic Device - Telemaque - Increases Kindergarten Children's Handwriting Acquisition

    R. Palluel-Germain;F. Bara;A.H. de Boisferon;B. Hennion

  • The regulation of emotions in adolescents: Age differences and emotion-specific patterns.

    Anne Theurel;Edouard Gentaz

  • Human ability to detect kinship in strangers' faces: effects of the degree of relatedness

    Gwenaël Kaminski;Slimane Dridi;Christian Graff;Edouard Gentaz

  • Cross-modal recognition of shape from hand to eyes and handedness in human newborns.

    Arlette Streri;Edouard Gentaz

  • Geometrical haptic illusions: the role of exploration in the Müller-Lyer, vertical-horizontal, and Delboeuf illusions.

    Edouard Gentaz;Yvette Hatwell

  • Evidence of amodal representation of small numbers across visuo-tactile modalities in 5-month-old infants

    Julie Féron;Edouard Gentaz;Arlette Streri

  • Role of gravitational cues in the haptic perception of orientation

    Edouard Gentaz;Yvette Hatwell

  • The haptic 'oblique effect' in children's and adults' perception of orientation.

    Edouard Gentaz;Yvette Hatwell

  • The visual and visuo-haptic exploration of geometrical shapes increases their recognition in preschoolers:

    Solène Kalenine;Leatitia Pinet;Edouard Gentaz

  • Preference for point-light human biological motion in newborns: contribution of translational displacement.

    Christel Bidet-Ildei;Elenitsa Kitromilides;Jean-Pierre Orliaguet;Marina Pavlova

  • Neuropsychological outcome in children with optic pathway tumours when first-line treatment is chemotherapy.

    E Lacaze;E Lacaze;V Kieffer;A Streri;C Lorenzi

  • The haptic perception of spatial orientations.

    Edouard Gentaz;Gabriel Baud-Bovy;Marion Luyat

  • Tactile Sensory Capacity of the Preterm Infant: Manual Perception of Shape From 28 Gestational Weeks

    Leïla Marcus;Fleur Lejeune;Frédérique Berne-Audéoud;Edouard Gentaz

  • Firstborns’ Disadvantage in Kinship Detection

    Gwenaël Kaminski;Fabien Ravary;Christian Graff;Edouard Gentaz

Frequent Co-Authors

Arlette Streri
Arlette Streri Université Paris Cité
Stephan Eliez
Stephan Eliez University of Geneva
Marie Schaer
Marie Schaer University of Geneva
Olivier Pascalis
Olivier Pascalis Grenoble Alpes University
Yohan Payan
Yohan Payan Grenoble Alpes University
Valérie Camos
Valérie Camos University of Fribourg
James W. Tanaka
James W. Tanaka University of Victoria
Anatole Lécuyer
Anatole Lécuyer French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA
Marco Congedo
Marco Congedo Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Kang Lee
Kang Lee University of Toronto

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