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Teresa Farroni

Teresa Farroni

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
31
Citations
7595
World Ranking
11064
National Ranking
261

Teresa Farroni 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 Teresa Farroni sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 78 publications — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Teresa Farroni 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 Teresa Farroni sits on this spectrum.

30–31 D-Index: 398 scientists 32–33 D-Index: 702 scientists 34–35 D-Index: 671 scientists 36–37 D-Index: 659 scientists 38–39 D-Index: 641 scientists 40–41 D-Index: 671 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 617 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 558 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 495 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 487 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 445 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 390 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 408 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 345 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 325 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 321 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 248 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 290 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 218 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 219 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 215 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 183 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 169 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 132 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 137 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 120 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 112 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 86 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 101 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 83 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 77 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 70 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 78 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 58 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 53 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 57 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 48 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 53 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 46 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 24 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 35 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 27 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 32 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 31 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 22 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 16 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 24 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 18 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 11 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 19 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 10 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 16 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 10 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 12 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 8 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 5 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 12 scientists 144+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 31 D-Index — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

Mark H. Johnson
Mark H. Johnson University of Cambridge
Francesca Simion
Francesca Simion University of Padua
Gergely Csibra
Gergely Csibra Central European University
Nathalie George
Nathalie George Université Paris Cité
Tobias Grossmann
Tobias Grossmann University of Virginia
Jacques Mehler
Jacques Mehler International School for Advanced Studies
Simon Baron-Cohen
Simon Baron-Cohen University of Cambridge
Teodora Gliga
Teodora Gliga University of East Anglia
Carlo Umiltà
Carlo Umiltà University of Padua
Patrick Bolton
Patrick Bolton King's College London

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