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Michael J. Banissy 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 Michael J. Banissy sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 124 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Michael J. Banissy 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 Michael J. Banissy sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% 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

  • 2016 - Spearman Medal, British Psychological Society

Overview

Michael J. Banissy is affiliated with Goldsmiths University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields within psychology and neuroscience, focusing particularly on cognitive and social aspects of perception and sensory function.

The primary fields of study for Banissy include:

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Their work further breaks down into specific subfields:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Sensory Systems

Main topics of Banissy's research cover a range of areas related to human perception and behavior:

  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Multisensory Perception and Integration
  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
  • Psychology of Social Influence
  • Face Recognition and Analysis
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research

Recent papers reflect their diverse research interests and contributions to various psychological domains:

  • "Tsinghua facial expression database - A database of facial expressions in Chinese young and older women and men: Development and validation" (2020), published in PLoS ONE
  • "The Oxford Face Matching Test: A non-biased test of the full range of individual differences in face perception" (2021), published in Behavior Research Methods
  • "Individuals with Autism Share Others' Emotions: Evidence from the Continuous Affective Rating and Empathic Responses (CARER) Task" (2020), published in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • "Measuring Loneliness in Different Age Groups: The Measurement Invariance of the UCLA Loneliness Scale" (2022), published in Assessment
  • "ASMR-Experience Questionnaire (AEQ): A data-driven step towards accurately classifying ASMR responders" (2021), published in British Journal of Psychology

Their frequent collaborators include:

  • Natalie C. Bowling
  • Aikaterini Vafeiadou
  • Claudia Hammond
  • Geoffrey Bird
  • Sarah Bate

Banissy's work frequently appears in various publication venues, with multiple publications in some journals:

  • Journal of Sleep Research (3 publications)
  • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (2 publications)
  • PsycTESTS Dataset (2 publications)
  • PLoS ONE (1 publication)
  • Assessment (1 publication)

In 2016, Banissy was awarded the Spearman Medal by the British Psychological Society.

Best Publications

  • Enhancing Social Ability by Stimulating Right Temporoparietal Junction

    Idalmis Santiesteban;Michael J. Banissy;Michael J. Banissy;Caroline Catmur;Geoffrey Bird;Geoffrey Bird

  • Mirror-touch synesthesia is linked with empathy

    Michael J Banissy;Jamie Ward

  • Inter-individual differences in empathy are reflected in human brain structure

    Michael J. Banissy;Ryota Kanai;Vincent Walsh;Geraint Rees

  • Brain Structure Links Loneliness to Social Perception

    Ryota Kanai;Bahador Bahrami;Bahador Bahrami;Brad Duchaine;Agnieszka Janik

  • Prevalence, characteristics and a neurocognitive model of mirror-touch synaesthesia

    Michael J. Banissy;Roi Cohen Kadosh;Gerrit W. Maus;Gerrit W. Maus;Vincent Walsh

  • Enhanced sensory perception in synaesthesia

    Michael J. Banissy;Vincent Walsh;Jamie Ward

  • Ultra-high-field fMRI insights on insight: Neural correlates of the Aha!-moment.

    Martin Tik;Ronald Sladky;Caroline Di Bernardi Luft;Caroline Di Bernardi Luft;David Willinger

  • Self-other control processes in social cognition: from imitation to empathy

    Marie de Guzman;Geoffrey Bird;Michael J. Banissy;Caroline Catmur;Caroline Catmur

  • Dominant Voices and Attractive Faces: The Contribution of Visual and Auditory Information to Integrated Person Impressions

    Constantin Rezlescu;Constantin Rezlescu;Tegan Penton;Vincent Walsh;Hikaru Tsujimura

  • Functional Lateralization of Temporoparietal Junction: Imitation Inhibition, Visual Perspective Taking and Theory of Mind.

    Idalmis Santiesteban;Michael J. Banissy;Michael J. Banissy;Caroline Catmur;Geoffrey Bird;Geoffrey Bird

  • Task-dependent and distinct roles of the temporoparietal junction and inferior frontal cortex in the control of imitation

    Jeremy Hogeveen;Sukhvinder S. Obhi;Michael J. Banissy;Idalmis Santiesteban

  • Explaining mirror-touch synesthesia

    Jamie Ward;Michael J Banissy

  • Superior Facial Expression, But Not Identity Recognition, in Mirror-Touch Synesthesia

    Michael J Banissy;Lúcia Garrido;Flor Kusnir;Bradley Duchaine

  • Right temporal alpha oscillations as a neural mechanism for inhibiting obvious associations.

    Caroline Di Bernardi Luft;Caroline Di Bernardi Luft;Ioanna Zioga;Ioanna Zioga;Nicholas M. Thompson;Nicholas M. Thompson;Michael J. Banissy

  • Tsinghua facial expression database - A database of facial expressions in Chinese young and older women and men: Development and validation.

    Tao Yang;Zeyun Yang;Guangzheng Xu;Duoling Gao

  • Suppressing Sensorimotor Activity Modulates the Discrimination of Auditory Emotions But Not Speaker Identity

    Michael J. Banissy;Disa Anna Sauter;Jamie Ward;Jane E. Warren

  • Best of both worlds: promise of combining brain stimulation and brain connectome

    Caroline Di Bernardi Luft;Ernesto Pereda;Michael J. Banissy;Joydeep Bhattacharya

  • Increased misophonia in self-reported Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response

    Agnieszka B. Janik McErlean;Agnieszka B. Janik McErlean;Michael J. Banissy

  • High-Frequency Transcranial Random Noise Stimulation Enhances Perception of Facial Identity

    Aleksandra Romanska;Constantin Rezlescu;Tirta Susilo;Bradley Duchaine

  • Functional and structural brain differences associated with mirror-touch synaesthesia

    Henning Holle;Michael J. Banissy;Jamie Ward

  • Assessing Individual Variation in Personality and Empathy Traits in Self-Reported Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response.

    Agnieszka B. Janik McErlean;Michael J. Banissy

  • On being moved: From mirror neurons to empathy

    Michael J. Banissy;Jamie Ward

Frequent Co-Authors

Jamie Ward
Jamie Ward University of Sussex
Neil G. Muggleton
Neil G. Muggleton National Central University
Geoffrey Bird
Geoffrey Bird University of Oxford
Vincent Walsh
Vincent Walsh University College London
Caroline Catmur
Caroline Catmur King's College London
Joydeep Bhattacharya
Joydeep Bhattacharya Goldsmiths University of London
Bradley Duchaine
Bradley Duchaine Dartmouth College
Bettina Pollok
Bettina Pollok Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Ryota Kanai
Ryota Kanai University of Sussex
Hugo D. Critchley
Hugo D. Critchley Brighton and Sussex Medical School

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