Papers
10
Total Citations
3,195
H-Index
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About
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is a pioneering cognitive neuroscientist whose research bridges action perception, social cognition, and adolescent brain development. Her landmark work on sensorimotor prediction—how the brain distinguishes self-produced from externally generated sensations—has fundamentally shaped our understanding of agency and sensory attenuation. Her 1999 study on self-produced tactile stimulation (852 citations) and her 2001 PET study on the cerebellum’s role in predicting sensory consequences (597 citations) are foundational in the field. She also revealed a striking interference effect: observing biological movement disrupts concurrent action execution, a phenomenon that is atypical in autism spectrum conditions. Her 2003 paper on this effect (841 citations) remains highly influential. More recently, Blakemore has focused on the developing social brain, authoring a widely cited 2010 review on its implications for education (153 citations). She has also explored how the brain responds to humanoid robots, contributing to human-robot interaction research. With over 2,000 total citations across her most-cited works, Blakemore’s research continues to inform neuroscience, robotics, and developmental psychology.
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Top Papers
- 1Spatio-Temporal Prediction Modulates the Perception of Self-Produced Stimuli852 citations · 1999
- 2An Interference Effect of Observed Biological Movement on Action841 citations · 2003
- 3The cerebellum is involved in predicting the sensory consequences of action597 citations · 2001
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- 6The Developing Social Brain: Implications for Education153 citations · 2010
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