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Francesca Simion

Francesca Simion

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Psychology

D-Index
49
Citations
10647
World Ranking
5642
National Ranking
95

Overview

Francesca Simion is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy and focuses research primarily within the fields of psychology and neuroscience. Their work spans various subfields including social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The scientist's research topics cover a wide range of areas, notably:

  • Child and animal learning development
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Primate behavior and ecology
  • Psychology of moral and emotional judgment
  • Action observation and synchronization
  • Infant development and preterm care
  • Animal behavior and reproduction

Francesca Simion has contributed to multiple papers with notable recent publications including:

  • "Newborns' sensitivity to speed changes as a building block for animacy perception," 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "Infants' intention-based evaluations of distributive actions," 2022, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • "Abnormal visual attention to simple social stimuli in 4-month-old infants at high risk for Autism," 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "Infants' preferences for approachers over repulsers shift between 4 and 8 months of age," 2022, Aggressive Behavior
  • "Preschoolers' evaluations of comforting actions towards third parties in different relationship contexts," 2021, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology

The scientist has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • Aggressive Behavior
  • Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
  • European Journal of Developmental Psychology

Francesca Simion has collaborated extensively with several coauthors including Alessandra Geraci, Elisa Di Giorgio, Marco Lunghi, Giorgio Vallortígara, and Lucia Regolin. These partnerships have contributed to multiple joint publications, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach within the wider psychological and neuroscientific research communities.

Best Publications

  • Eye contact detection in humans from birth

    Teresa Farroni;Gergely Csibra;Francesca Simion;Mark H. Johnson

  • A predisposition for biological motion in the newborn baby

    Francesca Simion;Lucia Regolin;Hermann Bulf

  • Face preference at birth.

    Eloisa Valenza;Francesca Simion;Viola Macchi Cassia;Carlo Umiltà

  • Can a Nonspecific Bias Toward Top-Heavy Patterns Explain Newborns' Face Preference?

    Viola Macchi Cassia;Chiara Turati;Francesca Simion

  • Infants' use of gaze direction to cue attention: The importance of perceived motion

    Teresa Farroni;Mark H. Johnson;Margaret Brockbank;Francesca Simion

  • Newborns' Preference for Faces: What Is Crucial?.

    Chiara Turati;Francesca Simion;Idanna Milani;Carlo Umiltà

  • Biological motion preference in humans at birth: role of dynamic and configural properties

    Lara Bardi;Lucia Regolin;Francesca Simion

  • Newborns' face recognition: role of inner and outer facial features.

    Chiara Turati;Viola Macchi Cassia;Francesca Simion;Irene Leo

  • Can newborns discriminate between their own cry and the cry of another newborn infant

    Marco Dondi;Francesca Simion;Giovanna Caltran

  • Newborns’ preference for up–down asymmetrical configurations

    Francesca Simion;Eloisa Valenza;Viola Macchi Cassia;Chiara Turati

  • The origins of face perception: specific versus non‐specific mechanisms

    Francesca Simion;Viola Macchi Cassia;Chiara Turati;Eloisa Valenza

  • Newborns' Face Recognition over Changes in Viewpoint.

    Chiara Turati;Hermann Bulf;Francesca Simion

  • Face perception and processing in early infancy: inborn predispositions and developmental changes.

    Francesca Simion;Elisa Di Giorgio

  • Preferential orienting to faces in newborns : A temporal-nasal asymmetry

    Francesca Simion;Eloisa Valenza;Carlo Umiltà;Beatrice Dalla Barba

  • Three-month-olds’ visual preference for faces and its underlying visual processing mechanisms

    Chiara Turati;Eloisa Valenza;Irene Leo;Francesca Simion

  • Intersensory Perception at Birth: Newborns Match Nonhuman Primate Faces and Voices

    David J. Lewkowicz;Irene Leo;Francesca Simion

  • Configural processing at birth: evidence for perceptual organisation.

    Teresa Farroni;Eloisa Valenza;Francesca Simion;Carlo Umiltà

  • Perceptual Completion in Newborn Human Infants.

    Eloisa Valenza;Irene Leo;Lucia Gava;Francesca Simion

  • Inhibition of Return in Newborn Infants

    Eloisa Valenza;Francesca Simion;Carlo Umiltà

  • A mental number line in human newborns

    Elisa Di Giorgio;Marco Lunghi;Rosa Rugani;Rosa Rugani;Lucia Regolin

  • Is the face-perception system human-specific at birth?

    Elisa Di Giorgio;Irene Leo;Olivier Pascalis;Francesca Simion

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlo Umiltà
Carlo Umiltà University of Padua
Lucia Regolin
Lucia Regolin University of Padua
Giorgio Vallortigara
Giorgio Vallortigara University of Trento
Teresa Farroni
Teresa Farroni University of Padua
Bruno Rossion
Bruno Rossion University of Lorraine
Olivier Pascalis
Olivier Pascalis Grenoble Alpes University
Daniel S. Messinger
Daniel S. Messinger University of Miami
Kang Lee
Kang Lee University of Toronto
Nicola Yuill
Nicola Yuill University of Sussex
Masaki Tomonaga
Masaki Tomonaga University of Human Environments

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