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Harold Bekkering

Harold Bekkering

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
77
Citations
28304
World Ranking
1627
National Ranking
93

Harold Bekkering 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 Harold Bekkering sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 287 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Harold Bekkering 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 Harold Bekkering sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 77 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2016 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Harold Bekkering is affiliated with Radboud University in the Netherlands. Their research spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with particular emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and developmental and educational psychology. The body of work comprises studies in social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and clinical psychology.

Thematic areas central to their research include:

  • Neural and behavioral psychology studies
  • Autism spectrum disorder research
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Reading and literacy development
  • Second language acquisition and learning
  • Neurobiology of language and bilingualism
  • Memory and neural mechanisms

Harold Bekkering has published in multiple prominent venues, contributing repeatedly to:

  • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Communications Psychology
  • Autism Research
  • Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience

Among recent papers are:

  • Defining key concepts for mental state attribution, 2024, Communications Psychology
  • Differences in the production and perception of communicative kinematics in autism, 2021, Autism Research
  • Cooperation and preference by peers in early childhood: A longitudinal study, 2020, Social Development
  • Contrasting Similar Words Facilitates Second Language Vocabulary Learning in Children by Sharpening Lexical Representations, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Constructing Others' Beliefs from One's Own Using Medial Frontal Cortex, 2021, Journal of Neuroscience

The scholar has collaborated frequently with the following co-authors:

  • Sabine Hunnius
  • S. Vijayakumar
  • Rogier B. Mars
  • Peta Baxter
  • Mienke Droop

Recognized by academic bodies, Harold Bekkering is a member of the Academia Europaea since 2017 and was inducted into the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Cortical Mechanisms of Human Imitation

    Marco Iacoboni;Roger P. Woods;Marcel Brass;Harold Bekkering

  • Joint action: bodies and minds moving together

    Natalie Sebanz;Harold Bekkering;Günther Knoblich

  • Rational imitation in preverbal infants

    György Gergely;Harold Bekkering;Ildikó Király

  • Compatibility between observed and executed finger movements: comparing symbolic, spatial, and imitative cues.

    Marcel Brass;Harold Bekkering;Andreas Wohlschläger;Wolfgang Prinz

  • Movement observation affects movement execution in a simple response task

    Marcel Brass;Harold Bekkering;Wolfgang Prinz

  • Imitation of gestures in children is goal-directed.

    Harold Bekkering;Andreas Wohlschläger;Merideth Gattis

  • Reafferent copies of imitated actions in the right superior temporal cortex

    Marco Iacoboni;Lisa M. Koski;Marcel Brass;Harold Bekkering

  • Modulation of activity in medial frontal and motor cortices during error observation

    Hein T van Schie;Rogier B Mars;Rogier B Mars;Michael G H Coles;Harold Bekkering;Harold Bekkering

  • The mirror neuron system is more active during complementary compared with imitative action.

    Roger D Newman-Norlund;Roger D Newman-Norlund;Hein T van Schie;Alexander M J van Zuijlen;Harold Bekkering;Harold Bekkering

  • Modulation of Motor and Premotor Activity during Imitation of Target-directed Actions

    Lisa M. Koski;Andreas Wohlschläger;Harold Bekkering;Roger P. Woods

  • Action generation and action perception in imitation: an instance of the ideomotor principle.

    Andreas Wohlschlager;Merideth Leigh Gattis;Harold Bekkering

  • Complementary systems for understanding action intentions

    Floris P. de Lange;Marjolein Spronk;Roel M. Willems;Ivan Toni

  • Ocular gaze is anchored to the target of an ongoing pointing movement.

    Sebastiaan F. W. Neggers;Harold Bekkering

  • Visual Search Is Modulated by Action Intentions

    Harold Bekkering;Sebastiaan F.W. Neggers

  • Imitation of Gestures in Children is Goal-directed

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  • Getting a Grip on Numbers: Numerical Magnitude Priming in Object Grasping

    Oliver Lindemann;Juan M. Abolafia;Giovanna Girardi;Harold Bekkering

  • You'll never crawl alone: Neurophysiological evidence for experience-dependent motor resonance in infancy

    M. van Elk;H.T. van Schie;S. Hunnius;C. Vesper

  • Altered Intrinsic Functional Connectivity of Anterior and Posterior Insula Regions in High-Functioning Participants With Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Sjoerd J.H. Ebisch;Vittorio Gallese;Roel M. Willems;Dante Mantini;Dante Mantini

  • Motor-cortical beta oscillations are modulated by correctness of observed action

    Thomas Koelewijn;Hein T van Schie;Harold Bekkering;Robert Oostenveld

  • Children's coding of human action: Cognitive factors influencing imitation in 3-year-olds

    Brigitte Gleissner;Andrew N. Meltzoff;Harold Bekkering

  • Parieto-Frontal Connectivity during Visually Guided Grasping

    M.J. Grol;M.J. Grol;J. Majdandzic;K.E. Stephan;L. Verhagen

  • Dorsal stream areas process action semantics

    Michiel van Elk;Hein T van Schie;Harold Bekkering

Frequent Co-Authors

Sabine Hunnius
Sabine Hunnius Radboud University
Michiel van Elk
Michiel van Elk Leiden University Medical Center
Markus Paulus
Markus Paulus Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Ivan Toni
Ivan Toni Radboud University
Sebastiaan F. W. Neggers
Sebastiaan F. W. Neggers Utrecht University
Jay Pratt
Jay Pratt University of Toronto
Jan K. Buitelaar
Jan K. Buitelaar Radboud University
Rogier B. Mars
Rogier B. Mars University of Oxford
Ruud G. J. Meulenbroek
Ruud G. J. Meulenbroek Radboud University
Bert Steenbergen
Bert Steenbergen Radboud University

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