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Pamela Heaton 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 Pamela Heaton sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 74 publications — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Pamela Heaton 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 Pamela Heaton sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Pamela Heaton is a researcher affiliated with Goldsmiths University of London in the United Kingdom. Their work predominantly spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with a focused exploration into cognitive neuroscience and social psychology. The research integrates several subfields, including experimental and cognitive psychology, developmental neuroscience, and human-computer interaction.

Their published research addresses a variety of topics, prominently featuring neuroscience and music perception, action observation and synchronization, and music therapy and health. Other areas of investigation include autism spectrum disorder research, hearing loss and rehabilitation, as well as virtual reality applications and impacts. Additionally, their work involves tactile and sensory interactions within these broader subject areas.

Heaton's recent scholarly contributions include papers such as:

  • "Autism, music and Alexithymia: A musical intervention to enhance emotion recognition in adolescents with ASD" (2021), published in Research in Developmental Disabilities
  • "Mediating Interpersonal Synchronization in Children through a Full-Body Mixed Reality System: Analysis of the Pre-Interactive Mandala Experience" (2023), published in PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality
  • "The Moving Mandala: Exploring the Pro-Social Effects of Musical and Non-Musical Synchrony in Children in a Virtual World" (2025), published in European Journal of Investigation in Health Psychology and Education
  • "Hearing the feeling: Auditory emotion perception in Williams syndrome" (2020), published in Research in Developmental Disabilities
  • "Autism, musicality, and empathy: Through the lens of first-person accounts" (2025), published in Research in Neurodiversity

The venues that have frequently published their work include:

  • Research in Developmental Disabilities
  • PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality
  • European Journal of Investigation in Health Psychology and Education
  • Research in Neurodiversity
  • International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology

Heaton collaborates regularly with several coauthors, including Olga Gali, Sena Beste Ercan, Gray Atherton, Liam Cross, and Narcís Parés. These repeated collaborations reflect a networked research approach within related fields of study.

Best Publications

  • Pitch memory, labelling and disembedding in autism

    Pamela Heaton

  • Autism and pitch processing: a precursor for savant musical ability?

    Pamela Heaton;Beate Hermelin;Linda Pring

  • Veridical mapping in the development of exceptional autistic abilities

    Laurent Mottron;Lucie Bouvet;Anna Bonnel;Anna Bonnel;Fabienne Samson

  • Annotation: The savant syndrome

    Pamela Heaton;Gregory L. Wallace

  • Can children with autistic spectrum disorders perceive affect in music? An experimental investigation.

    Pam F. Heaton;Beate Hermelin;Linda Pring

  • Interval and contour processing in autism

    Pamela Heaton

  • Enhanced perceptual processing of speech in autism.

    Anna Järvinen-Pasley;Gregory L Wallace;Franck Ramus;Franck Ramus;Francesca Happé;Francesca Happé

  • Autism and pitch processing splinter skills A group and subgroup analysis

    Pamela Heaton;Kerry Williams;Omar Cummins;Francesca Happé

  • Music: a unique window into the world of autism

    Istvan Molnar-Szakacs;Pamela Heaton

  • Superior discrimination of speech pitch and its relationship to verbal ability in autism spectrum disorders

    Pamela Heaton;Kristelle Hudry;Amanda Ludlow;Elizabeth Hill

  • Assessing musical skills in autistic children who are not savants

    Pamela Heaton

  • The Effect of Coloured Overlays on Reading Ability in Children with Autism.

    Amanda K. Ludlow;Arnold J. Wilkins;Pam Heaton

  • `Hath charms to soothe . . .' An exploratory study of how high-functioning adults with ASD experience music

    Rory Allen;Elisabeth L. Hill;Pam F. Heaton

  • Measuring the effects of alexithymia on perception of emotional vocalizations in autistic spectrum disorder and typical development

    Pam F. Heaton;Lisa Reichenbacher;Disa Sauter;Rory Allen

  • Evidence for reduced domain-specificity in auditory processing in autism

    Anna Järvinen-Pasley;Pamela Heaton

  • Research note: exceptional absolute pitch perception for spoken words in an able adult with autism.

    Pamela Heaton;Robert E. Davis;Francesca G.E. Happé

  • The Relationship between Form and Function Level Receptive Prosodic Abilities in Autism

    Anna Järvinen-Pasley;Susan Peppé;Gavin King-Smith;Pamela Heaton

  • Intact brain processing of musical emotions in autism spectrum disorder, but more cognitive load and arousal in happy vs. sad music

    Line Gebauer;Joshua Skewes;Gitte Westphael;Pamela Heaton

  • A pseudo-savant: A case of exceptional musical splinter skills

    Pamela Heaton;Linda Pring;Beate Hermelin

  • Do social and cognitive deficits curtail musical understanding? Evidence from autism and Down syndrome

    Pamela Heaton;Rory Allen;Kerry Williams;Omar Cummins

  • Developmental Disorders of Language, Learning and Cognition

    Pamela Heaton

Frequent Co-Authors

Francesca Happé
Francesca Happé King's College London
Elisabeth L. Hill
Elisabeth L. Hill Goldsmiths University of London
Beate Hermelin
Beate Hermelin Goldsmiths University of London
Peter Vuust
Peter Vuust Royal Academy of Music
Gregory L. Wallace
Gregory L. Wallace George Washington University
Franck Ramus
Franck Ramus École Normale Supérieure
Eric Fombonne
Eric Fombonne Oregon Health & Science University
Jacob A. Burack
Jacob A. Burack McGill University
Arnold J. Wilkins
Arnold J. Wilkins University of Essex
Daniel J. Levitin
Daniel J. Levitin McGill University

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