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Overview

Sabine Hunnius is affiliated with Radboud University in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with a notable focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Developmental and Educational Psychology. Other areas of interest include Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Clinical Psychology.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics, including:

  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Psychological and Educational Research Studies
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Language Development and Disorders

Sabine Hunnius has contributed to numerous publications, often appearing in these venues:

  • Developmental Science
  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • Infant Behavior and Development
  • Science Advances

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Marlene Meyer, Francesco Poli, Rogier B. Mars, Emma Kate Ward, and Jan K. Buitelaar.

Some of the recent papers by Sabine Hunnius are:

  • Infants tailor their attention to maximize learning, 2020, Science Advances
  • Enhancing reproducibility in developmental EEG research: BIDS, cluster-based permutation tests, and effect sizes, 2021, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Contributions of expected learning progress and perceptual novelty to curiosity-driven exploration, 2022, Cognition
  • How infant-directed actions enhance infants' attention, learning, and exploration: Evidence from EEG and computational modeling, 2022, Developmental Science
  • Curiosity and the dynamics of optimal exploration, 2024, Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Developmental Changes in Visual Scanning of Dynamic Faces and Abstract Stimuli in Infants: A Longitudinal Study

    Sabine Hunnius;Reint H. Geuze

  • Imitation in infancy: Rational or motor resonance?

    Markus Paulus;Sabine Hunnius;Marlies Vissers;Harold Bekkering

  • The Early Development of Object Knowledge: A Study of Infants' Visual Anticipations During Action Observation

    Sabine Hunnius;Harold Bekkering

  • Prelinguistic Infants Are Sensitive to Space-Pitch Associations Found Across Cultures

    Sarah Dolscheid;Sarah Dolscheid;Sabine Hunnius;Daniel Casasanto;Asifa Majid

  • Facing threat: Infants' and adults' visual scanning of faces with neutral, happy, sad, angry, and fearful emotional expressions

    Sabine Hunnius;Tessa C. J. de Wit;Sven Vrins;Claes von Hofsten

  • What are you doing? How active and observational experience shape infants' action understanding

    Sabine Hunnius;Harold Bekkering

  • Motor activation during observation of unusual versus ordinary actions in infancy.

    Janny C. Stapel;Sabine Hunnius;Michiel van Elk;Harold Bekkering

  • How learning to shake a rattle affects 8-month-old infants' perception of the rattle's sound: Electrophysiological evidence for action-effect binding in infancy

    Markus Paulus;Sabine Hunnius;Michiel van Elk;Harold Bekkering

  • Infants tailor their attention to maximize learning

    F. Poli;G. Serino;G. Serino;R. B. Mars;R. B. Mars;S. Hunnius

  • The role of frequency information and teleological reasoning in infants' and adults' action prediction.

    Markus Paulus;Sabine Hunnius;Carolien van Wijngaarden;Sven Vrins

  • Enhancing reproducibility in developmental EEG research: BIDS, cluster-based permutation tests, and effect sizes.

    Marlene Meyer;Didi Lamers;Ezgi Kayhan;Sabine Hunnius

  • Gaze shifting in infancy: a longitudinal study using dynamic faces and abstract stimuli

    Sabine Hunnius;Reint H. Geuze

  • Bridging the gap between the other and me: the functional role of motor resonance and action effects in infants’ imitation

    Markus Paulus;Sabine Hunnius;Marlies Vissers;Harold Bekkering

  • Online prediction of others’ actions: the contribution of the target object, action context and movement kinematics

    Janny C. Stapel;Sabine Hunnius;Harold Bekkering

  • The early development of visual attention and its implications for social and cognitive development

    Sabine Hunnius

  • Joint action modulates motor system involvement during action observation in 3-year-olds.

    Marlene Meyer;Sabine Hunnius;Michiel van Elk;Michiel van Elk;Freek van Ede

  • Short-term motor training, but not observational training, alters neurocognitive mechanisms of action processing in infancy

    Sarah A. Gerson;Harold Bekkering;Sabine Hunnius

  • Diminished socially selective neural processing in 5-month-old infants at high familial risk of autism.

    Ricarda Braukmann;Sarah Lloyd‐Fox;Sarah Lloyd‐Fox;Anna Blasi;Mark H. Johnson;Mark H. Johnson

  • Gazepath: An eye-tracking analysis tool that accounts for individual differences and data quality.

    Daan R. van Renswoude;Maartje E. J. Raijmakers;Arnout Koornneef;Scott P. Johnson

  • Effects of preterm experience on the developing visual system: a longitudinal study of shifts of attention and gaze in early infancy.

    Sabine Hunnius;Reint H. Geuze;Mar J. Zweens;Arend F. Bos

  • Associations between the developmental trajectories of visual scanning and disengagement of attention in infants.

    S. Hunnius;Reint Geuze;van Paul Geert

Frequent Co-Authors

Harold Bekkering
Harold Bekkering Radboud University
Markus Paulus
Markus Paulus Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Antonius H. N. Cillessen
Antonius H. N. Cillessen Radboud University
Asifa Majid
Asifa Majid University of York
Michiel van Elk
Michiel van Elk Leiden University Medical Center
Daniel Casasanto
Daniel Casasanto Cornell University
Chantal Kemner
Chantal Kemner Utrecht University
Emily J.H. Jones
Emily J.H. Jones Birkbeck, University of London
Hannes Rakoczy
Hannes Rakoczy University of Göttingen
Michael C. Frank
Michael C. Frank Stanford University

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