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45
Citations
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World Ranking
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National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
  • 2014 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Natalie Sebanz is affiliated with the Central European University in Hungary and conducts research primarily in psychology and neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields including social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, music, and sociology and political science. The research topics center around action observation and synchronization, child and animal learning development, neuroscience and music perception, motor control and adaptation, face recognition and perception, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, and diverse music education insights.

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • Progress in Joint-Action Research (2021) in Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • Defining key concepts for mental state attribution (2024) in Communications Psychology
  • Computing Joint Action Costs: Co-Actors Minimize the Aggregate Individual Costs in an Action Sequence (2021) in Open Mind
  • Synchronicities that shape the perception of joint action (2020) in Scientific Reports
  • How does a partner's motor variability affect joint action? (2020) in PLoS ONE

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Günther Knoblich
  • Luke Sebanz McEllin
  • Shaheed Azaad
  • Ivana Konvalinka
  • Anna Zamm

Natalie Sebanz has contributed notably to several publication venues, with multiple papers appearing in:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Cognition
  • PLoS ONE
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Current Directions in Psychological Science

In addition to journal articles, the scientist has a book titled Perception and Action in a Social Context published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.

Awards received by Natalie Sebanz include membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2017 in the domain of psychology and cognitive sciences, as well as membership in the Academia Europaea since 2014.

Best Publications

  • Joint action: bodies and minds moving together

    Natalie Sebanz;Harold Bekkering;Günther Knoblich

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

    Natalie Sebanz;Günther Knoblich;Wolfgang Prinz

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

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

    Günther Knoblich;Natalie Sebanz

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

    Natalie Sebanz;Günther Knoblich;Wolfgang Prinz;Edmund Wascher

  • Detecting deception in a bluffing body: The role of expertise

    Natalie Sebanz;Maggie Shiffrar

  • Experiencing ownership over a dark-skinned body reduces implicit racial bias

    Lara Maister;Natalie Sebanz;Natalie Sebanz;Günther Knoblich;Manos Tsakiris

  • The joint flanker effect: sharing tasks with real and imagined co-actors

    Silke Atmaca;Natalie Sebanz;Günther Knoblich

  • Let the Force Be With Us: Dyads Exploit Haptic Coupling for Coordination

    Robrecht P. R. D. van der Wel;Guenther Knoblich;Natalie Sebanz

  • Monitoring individual and joint action outcomes in duet music performance

    Janeen D. Loehr;Dimitrios Kourtis;Cordula Vesper;Natalie Sebanz

  • Action co-representation: The joint SNARC effect

    Silke Atmaca;Natalie Sebanz;Wolfgang Prinz;Günther Knoblich

  • The sense of commitment : a minimal approach

    John Michael;Natalie Sebanz;Günther Knoblich

  • Are you ready to jump? Predictive mechanisms in interpersonal coordination.

    Cordula Vesper;Robrecht P. R. D. van der Wel;Günther Knoblich;Natalie Sebanz

  • Do people automatically track others' beliefs? Evidence from a continuous measure.

    Robrecht P. R. D. van der Wel;Natalie Sebanz;Natalie Sebanz;Guenther Knoblich;Guenther Knoblich

  • Effects of a coactor's focus of attention on task performance.

    Anne Böckler;Günther Knoblich;Günther Knoblich;Natalie Sebanz;Natalie Sebanz

  • Invisible Man: Exclusion from shared attention affects gaze behavior and self-reports

    Anne Böckler;Anne Böckler;Paul Hömke;Paul Hömke;Natalie Sebanz;Natalie Sebanz

Frequent Co-Authors

Günther Knoblich
Günther Knoblich Central European University
Wolfgang Prinz
Wolfgang Prinz Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Maggie Shiffrar
Maggie Shiffrar Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Chris D. Frith
Chris D. Frith University College London
Glyn W. Humphreys
Glyn W. Humphreys University of Oxford
Gergely Csibra
Gergely Csibra Central European University
Albert Costa
Albert Costa Pompeu Fabra University
Dan Sperber
Dan Sperber Central European University
Sukhvinder S. Obhi
Sukhvinder S. Obhi McMaster University
Heinrich H. Bülthoff
Heinrich H. Bülthoff Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

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