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2026

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Psychology

D-Index
64
Citations
20118
World Ranking
2927
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Hungary Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Hungary Leader Award

Overview

Günther Knoblich is affiliated with Central European University in Hungary and has published extensively in the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience. Their research spans various subfields including Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their work centers on several main topics within these disciplines, notably:

  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

Günther Knoblich has contributed research papers addressing key themes in joint action, coordination, and cultural evolution, including:

  • Progress in Joint-Action Research (2021), published in Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • Motor constraints influence cultural evolution of rhythm (2020), published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Chimpanzee Coordination and Potential Communication in a Two-touchscreen Turn-taking Game (2020), published in Scientific Reports
  • Synchronicities that shape the perception of joint action (2020), published in Scientific Reports
  • How does a partner's motor variability affect joint action? (2020), published in PLoS ONE

These papers have been cited numerous times, reflecting the engagement of the scientific community with their work.

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Natalie Sebanz
  • Arianna Curioni
  • Cordula Vesper
  • Thomas Wolf
  • Josep Call

The venues in which they publish most often demonstrate a focus on multidisciplinary and open-access journals such as:

  • Scientific Reports
  • PLoS ONE
  • Cognition
  • Acta Psychologica
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Günther Knoblich is also the author of a book titled Perception and Action in a Social Context, published in 2021 by Cambridge University Press, which has received citations within the scholarly field.

Best Publications

  • Joint action: bodies and minds moving together

    Natalie Sebanz;Harold Bekkering;Günther Knoblich

  • The case for motor involvement in perceiving conspecifics.

    Margaret Wilson;Günther Knoblich

  • Representing others' actions: just like one's own?

    Natalie Sebanz;Günther Knoblich;Wolfgang Prinz

  • Perceptual basis of bimanual coordination

    Franz Mechsner;Dirk Kerzel;Giinther Knoblich;Wolfgang Prinz

  • Continuous attraction toward phonological competitors

    Michael J. Spivey;Marc Grosjean;Günther Knoblich

  • Prediction in Joint Action: What, When, and Where

    Natalie Sebanz;Guenther Knoblich

  • Psychological Research on Joint Action: Theory and Data

    Günther Knoblich;Stephen Andrew Butterfill;Natalie Sebanz

  • An eye movement study of insight problem solving

    Günther Knoblich;Stellan Ohlsson;Gary E. Raney

  • Predicting the Effects of Actions: Interactions of Perception and Action

    Günther Knoblich;Rüdiger Flach

  • 2010 Special Issue: A minimal architecture for joint action

    Cordula Vesper;Stephen Butterfill;Günther Knoblich;Natalie Sebanz

  • How two share a task: Corepresenting stimulus-response mappings

    Natalie Sebanz;Günther Knoblich;Wolfgang Prinz

  • The Social Nature of Perception and Action

    Günther Knoblich;Natalie Sebanz

  • Action coordination in groups and individuals: Learning anticipatory control.

    Günther Knoblich;Jerome Scott Jordan

  • Making oneself predictable: Reduced temporal variability facilitates joint action coordination.

    Cordula Vesper;Robrecht Van der Wel;Gunther Knoblich;Natalie Sebanz

  • The neural correlates of perceiving one's own movements.

    Dirk T Leube;Günther Knoblich;Michael Erb;Wolfgang Grodd

  • Do Implicit and Explicit Measures of the Sense of Agency Measure the Same Thing

    John A. Dewey;Günther Knoblich

  • Evolving intentions for social interaction: from entrainment to joint action

    Günther Knoblich;Natalie Sebanz

  • Pianists duet better when they play with themselves: on the possible role of action simulation in synchronization.

    Peter E. Keller;Günther Knoblich;Günther Knoblich;Bruno H. Repp;Bruno H. Repp

  • Human body perception from the inside out

    Günther Knoblich;Ian M. Thornton;Marc Grosjean;Maggie Shiffrar

  • Twin Peaks: An ERP Study of Action Planning and Control in Coacting Individuals

    Natalie Sebanz;Günther Knoblich;Wolfgang Prinz;Edmund Wascher

Frequent Co-Authors

Natalie Sebanz
Natalie Sebanz Central European University
Wolfgang Prinz
Wolfgang Prinz Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Bruno H. Repp
Bruno H. Repp Haskins Laboratories
Angela D. Friederici
Angela D. Friederici Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Maggie Shiffrar
Maggie Shiffrar Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Peter E. Keller
Peter E. Keller University of Sydney
Dan Sperber
Dan Sperber Central European University
Josep Call
Josep Call University of St Andrews
Stellan Ohlsson
Stellan Ohlsson University of Illinois at Chicago
Heinrich H. Bülthoff
Heinrich H. Bülthoff Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

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