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Victoria Southgate

Victoria Southgate

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
36
Citations
7371
World Ranking
9402
National Ranking
27

Victoria Southgate 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 Victoria Southgate 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.

Victoria Southgate 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 Victoria Southgate sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 36 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Victoria Southgate is a researcher affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their work spans several interconnected fields, primarily focusing on Psychology and Neuroscience. Within these main areas, Southgate's research frequently explores Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Social Psychology, among other subfields.

The scientist's research concentrates on a range of topics including Child and Animal Learning Development, Language Development and Disorders, Action Observation and Synchronization, Neuroscience and Music Perception, Language, Metaphor, and Cognition, Language and Cultural Evolution, and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior.

Southgate has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, with notable frequent collaborators being Dóra Kampis, Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann, Dimitris Askitis, Chiara Bulgarelli, and Carina de Klerk. These partnerships have contributed to a variety of studies published in a number of scientific journals.

The venues where Southgate's work appears most often include:

  • Royal Society Open Science
  • Developmental Science
  • Cognition
  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Human Brain Mapping

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Southgate include:

  • "Altercentric Cognition: How Others Influence Our Cognitive Processing," 2020, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • "A two-lab direct replication attempt of Southgate, Senju and Csibra (2007)," 2021, Royal Society Open Science
  • "The developmental trajectory of fronto-temporoparietal connectivity as a proxy of the default mode network: a longitudinal fNIRS investigation," 2020, Human Brain Mapping
  • "Infant Spontaneous Motor Tempo," 2020, Developmental Science
  • "An initial but receding altercentric bias in preverbal infants' memory," 2023, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Best Publications

  • Action Anticipation Through Attribution of False Belief by 2-Year-Olds

    Victoria Southgate;Atsushi Senju;Gergely Csibra

  • Mindblind Eyes: An Absence of Spontaneous Theory of Mind in Asperger Syndrome

    Atsushi Senju;Victoria Southgate;Sarah White;Uta Frith;Uta Frith

  • Seventeen‐month‐olds appeal to false beliefs to interpret others’ referential communication

    Victoria Southgate;Coralie Chevallier;Gergely Csibra;Gergely Csibra

  • Unbroken mirrors : challenging a theory of Autism

    Victoria Southgate;Antonia F. de C. Hamilton

  • Infant pointing serves an interrogative function.

    Katarina Begus;Victoria Southgate

  • Predictive motor activation during action observation in human infants.

    Victoria Southgate;Mark H. Johnson;Tamsin Osborne;Gergely Csibra;Gergely Csibra

  • Belief-based action prediction in preverbal infants

    Victoria Southgate;Angelina Vernetti

  • Motor System Activation Reveals Infants’ On-Line Prediction of Others’ Goals

    Victoria Southgate;Mark H. Johnson;Imen El Karoui;Gergely Csibra;Gergely Csibra

  • Do 18-Month-Olds Really Attribute Mental States to Others? A Critical Test

    Atsushi Senju;Victoria Southgate;Charlotte Snape;Mark Leonard

  • Absence of spontaneous action anticipation by false belief attribution in children with autism spectrum disorder

    Atsushi Senju;Victoria Southgate;Yui Miura;Tomoko Matsui

  • Invited Commentary: Interpreting failed replications of early false-belief findings: Methodological and theoretical considerations

    Renée Baillargeon;David Buttelmann;Victoria Southgate

  • Infant pointing: communication to cooperate or communication to learn?

    Victoria Southgate;Catharine van Maanen;Gergely Csibra

  • Infants’ preferences for native speakers are associated with an expectation of information

    Katarina Begus;Katarina Begus;Teodora Gliga;Victoria Southgate;Victoria Southgate

  • Infants Learn What They Want to Learn: Responding to Infant Pointing Leads to Superior Learning

    Katarina Begus;Teodora Gliga;Victoria Southgate

  • Infants attribute goals even to biomechanically impossible actions.

    Victoria Southgate;Mark H. Johnson;Gergely Csibra

  • Sensitivity to communicative relevance tells young children what to imitate

    Victoria Southgate;Coralie Chevallier;Gergely Csibra

  • Are infants altercentric? The other and the self in early social cognition.

    Victoria Southgate

  • Baby steps: investigating the development of perceptual–motor couplings in infancy

    Carina C. J. M. de Klerk;Mark H. Johnson;Cecilia M. Heyes;Victoria Southgate

  • Inferring the outcome of an ongoing novel action at 13 months.

    Victoria Southgate;Gergely Csibra

  • Altercentric Cognition: How Others Influence Our Cognitive Processing.

    Dora Kampis;Victoria Southgate

  • Motor Activation During the Prediction of Nonexecutable Actions in Infants

    Victoria Southgate;Katarina Begus

Frequent Co-Authors

Gergely Csibra
Gergely Csibra Central European University
Antonia F. de C. Hamilton
Antonia F. de C. Hamilton University College London
Mark H. Johnson
Mark H. Johnson University of Cambridge
Teodora Gliga
Teodora Gliga University of East Anglia
Atsushi Senju
Atsushi Senju Birkbeck, University of London
Renée Baillargeon
Renée Baillargeon University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Denis Mareschal
Denis Mareschal Birkbeck, University of London
John E. Richards
John E. Richards University of South Carolina
Uta Frith
Uta Frith University College London
Toshikazu Hasegawa
Toshikazu Hasegawa University of Tokyo

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