Viola Macchi Cassia

Viola Macchi Cassia publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

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Viola Macchi Cassia D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

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Best Publications

• Face preference at birth.

  Eloisa Valenza;Francesca Simion;Viola Macchi Cassia;Carlo Umiltà

  738
  Citations

• Can a Nonspecific Bias Toward Top-Heavy Patterns Explain Newborns' Face Preference?

  Viola Macchi Cassia;Chiara Turati;Francesca Simion

  403
  Citations

• Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed-speech preference

  Michael C. Frank;Katherine Jane Alcock;Natalia Arias-Trejo;Gisa Aschersleben

  315
  Citations

• Newborns' face recognition: role of inner and outer facial features.

  Chiara Turati;Viola Macchi Cassia;Francesca Simion;Irene Leo

  243
  Citations

• Newborns’ preference for up–down asymmetrical configurations

  Francesca Simion;Eloisa Valenza;Viola Macchi Cassia;Chiara Turati

  197
  Citations

• Do all kids look alike? Evidence for an other-age effect in adults.

  Dana Kuefner;Viola Macchi Cassia;Marta Picozzi;Emanuela Bricolo

  195
  Citations

• The origins of face perception: specific versus non‐specific mechanisms

  Francesca Simion;Viola Macchi Cassia;Chiara Turati;Eloisa Valenza

  182
  Citations

• Human infants’ preference for left-to-right oriented increasing numerical sequences

  Maria Dolores de Hevia;Luisa Girelli;Margaret Addabbo;Viola Macchi Cassia

  148
  Citations

• Small on the left, large on the right: numbers orient visual attention onto space in preverbal infants.

  Hermann Bulf;Maria Dolores de Hevia;Maria Dolores de Hevia;Maria Dolores de Hevia;Viola Macchi Cassia

  127
  Citations

• Holistic processing for faces and cars in preschool-aged children and adults: evidence from the composite effect.

  Viola Macchi Cassia;Marta Picozzi;Dana Kuefner;Emanuela Bricolo

  124
  Citations

• Early Experience Predicts Later Plasticity for Face Processing: Evidence for the Reactivation of Dormant Effects

  Viola Macchi Cassia;Dana Kuefner;Marta Picozzi;Elena Vescovo

  103
  Citations

• Age biases in face processing: the effects of experience across development.

  Viola Macchi Cassia

  91
  Citations

• Dominance of global visual properties at birth.

  Viola Macchi Cassia;Francesca Simion;Idanna Milani;Carlo Umiltà

  90
  Citations

• Face preference at birth: the role of an orienting mechanism

  Viola Macchi Cassia;Francesca Simion;Carlo Umiltaà

  87
  Citations

• Why mix-ups don't happen in the nursery: evidence for an experience-based interpretation of the other-age effect.

  Viola Macchi Cassia;Marta Picozzi;Dana Kuefner;Monica Casati

  86
  Citations

• Minds without language represent number through space: origins of the mental number line

  Maria Dolores de Hevia;Maria Dolores de Hevia;Luisa Girelli;Viola Macchi Cassia

  82
  Citations

• A behavioural and ERP investigation of 3-month-olds’ face preferences

  Viola Macchi Cassia;Dana Kuefner;Alissa Westerlund;Charles A. Nelson;Charles A. Nelson

  82
  Citations

• Congruency as a nonspecific perceptual property contributing to newborns' face preference.

  Viola Macchi Cassia;Eloisa Valenza;Francesca Simion;Irene Leo

  67
  Citations

• Modulation of Face-sensitive Event-related Potentials by Canonical and Distorted Human Faces: The Role of Vertical Symmetry and Up-Down Featural Arrangement

  Viola Macchi Cassia;Dana Kuefner;Alissa Westerlund;Charles A. Nelson;Charles A. Nelson

  56
  Citations

• Age-related face processing bias in infancy: evidence of perceptual narrowing for adult faces.

  Viola Macchi Cassia;Hermann Bulf;Ermanno Quadrelli;Valentina Proietti

  40
  Citations