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Teresa Farroni

Teresa Farroni

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Psychology

D-Index
31
Citations
7595
World Ranking
11067
National Ranking
261

Overview

Teresa Farroni is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy, with a research focus primarily in neuroscience and psychology. Their scientific work spans several subfields including cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, developmental and educational psychology, and pharmacy.

The researcher has contributed publications to a number of well-regarded scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets for their work include Frontiers in Psychology, Brain Sciences, PLoS ONE, the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, and Scientific Reports.

Their research interests cover multiple topics such as action observation and synchronization, tactile and sensory interactions, multisensory perception and integration, infant health and development, autism spectrum disorder research, neural and behavioral psychology studies, as well as child and animal learning development.

Frequent collaborators with Teresa Farroni include Letizia Della Longa, Irene Valori, Laura Carnevali, Danica Dragovic, and Phoebe E. McKenna-Plumley.

Recent publications associated with Teresa Farroni demonstrate a focus on affective touch, virtual reality, early developmental processes, and sensory perception. Noteworthy papers include:

  • Interpersonal Affective Touch in a Virtual World: Feeling the Social Presence of Others to Overcome Loneliness (2022, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • Proprioceptive Accuracy in Immersive Virtual Reality: A Developmental Perspective (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • Face Processing in Early Development: A Systematic Review of Behavioral Studies and Considerations in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic (2022, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • The Self-Regulatory Affective Touch: A Speculative Framework for the Development of Executive Functioning (2021, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences)
  • The Role of Vision and Proprioception in Self-Motion Encoding: An Immersive Virtual Reality Study (2021, Attention Perception & Psychophysics)

Best Publications

  • Eye contact detection in humans from birth

    Teresa Farroni;Gergely Csibra;Francesca Simion;Mark H. Johnson

  • Newborns' preference for face-relevant stimuli: Effects of contrast polarity

    Teresa Farroni;Mark H. Johnson;Enrica Menon;Luisa Zulian

  • The emergence of the social brain network: Evidence from typical and atypical development

    Mark H Johnson;Richard Griffin;Gergely Csibra;Hanife Halit

  • Gaze Following in Newborns

    Teresa Farroni;Teresa Farroni;Stefano Massaccesi;Donatella Pividori;Mark H. Johnson

  • The perception of facial expressions in newborns

    Teresa Farroni;Enrica Menon;Silvia Rigato;Mark H. Johnson

  • Infants' use of gaze direction to cue attention: The importance of perceived motion

    Teresa Farroni;Mark H. Johnson;Margaret Brockbank;Francesca Simion

  • Mechanisms of Eye Gaze Perception during Infancy

    Teresa Farroni;Mark H. Johnson;Gergely Csibra

  • Infants Perceiving and Acting on the Eyes: Tests of an Evolutionary Hypothesis.

    Teresa Farroni;Eileen M. Mansfield;Carlo Lai;Mark H. Johnson

  • Body perception in newborns.

    Maria Laura Filippetti;Mark H. Johnson;Sarah Lloyd-Fox;Danica Dragovic

  • Neural Correlates of Eye-Gaze Detection in Young Children with Autism

    Sarah J. Grice;Hanife Halit;Teresa Farroni;Teresa Farroni;Simon Baron-Cohen

  • Direct gaze modulates face recognition in young infants

    Teresa Farroni;Stefano Massaccesi;Enrica Menon;Mark H. Johnson

  • Factors influencing newborns' preference for faces with eye contact

    Teresa Farroni;Enrica Menon;Mark H. Johnson

  • The evolution of social orienting: evidence from chicks (Gallus gallus) and human newborns.

    Orsola Rosa Salva;Teresa Farroni;Teresa Farroni;Lucia Regolin;Giorgio Vallortigara

  • Configural processing at birth: evidence for perceptual organisation.

    Teresa Farroni;Eloisa Valenza;Francesca Simion;Carlo Umiltà

  • Social perception in the infant brain: gamma oscillatory activity in response to eye gaze

    Tobias Grossmann;Mark H. Johnson;Teresa Farroni;Gergely Csibra

  • Infant cortex responds to other humans from shortly after birth

    Teresa Farroni;Antonio M. Chiarelli;Sarah Lloyd-Fox;Stefano Massaccesi

  • Does gaze perception facilitate overt orienting

    Eileen M. Mansfield;Teresa Farroni;Mark H. Johnson

  • Newborn body perception: sensitivity to spatial congruency

    Maria Laura Filippetti;Giulia Orioli;Mark H. Johnson;Teresa Farroni

  • The shared signal hypothesis and neural responses to expressions and gaze in infants and adults

    Silvia Rigato;Teresa Farroni;Mark H. Johnson

  • Neural Mechanisms of Body Awareness in Infants

    Maria Laura Filippetti;Sarah Lloyd-Fox;Matthew R. Longo;T. Farroni

Frequent Co-Authors

Gergely Csibra
Gergely Csibra Central European University
Francesca Simion
Francesca Simion University of Padua
Nathalie George
Nathalie George Université Paris Cité
Tobias Grossmann
Tobias Grossmann University of Virginia
Jacques Mehler
Jacques Mehler International School for Advanced Studies
Carlo Umiltà
Carlo Umiltà University of Padua
Teodora Gliga
Teodora Gliga University of East Anglia
Simon Baron-Cohen
Simon Baron-Cohen University of Cambridge
Emily J.H. Jones
Emily J.H. Jones Birkbeck, University of London
Anne Maass
Anne Maass University of Padua

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