Publications

I am author of 45 peer-reviewed articles in leading international journals in the field, including Psychological Review, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, PNAS, Science, and Psychological Science. Number of first authorships: 17; Number of senior authorships: 17. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9328-3019

H-index (Google Scholar): 37; i10-index: 45 (citations: 6399)

Bibliometric overview

*Manea, V., Kampis, D., Grosse Wiesmann, C., Revencu, B., & Southgate, V. (2023) An initial but receding altercentric bias in preverbal infants’ memory. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 290:20230738.

*Kampis, D., Duplessy Lukowski, H., & Southgate, V. (2023) Training self-other distinction facilitates perspective- taking in young children. Child Development, 94(4), 956-969.

*Yeung, E., Askitis, D., & Southgate, V. (2022) Emerging self-representation presents a challenge for young children’s perspective tracking. Open Mind, 6, 232-249.

Grosse Wiesmann, C., Kampis, D., Poulsen, E., Schüller, C., Duplessy Lukowski, H., & Southgate V. (2022) Cognitive Dissonance from 2 years of age: Toddlers’, but not infants’, blind choices induce preferences. Cognition, 223, 105039.

*Kampis, D., Grosse Wiesmann, C., Koop, S., & Southgate, V. (2022). Understanding the self in relation to others: infants spontaneously map others’ face to their own at 16 to 26 months. Developmental Science, 2022;25:313197.

Rocha, S., Southgate, V. & Mareschal, D. (2021) Rate of infant carrying predicts infants spontaneous motor tempo. Royal Society Open Science 8(9), 210608.

Kampis, D., Karman, P., Csibra, G., Southgate, V., & Hernik, M. (2021) A two-lab replication attempt of Southgate, Senju & Csibra, 2007. Royal Society Open Science, 8(8), 210190.

*Kampis, D. & Southgate, V. (2020). Altercentric cognition: how the presence of others influences our cognitive processing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24(11), 945-959.

Rocha, S., Southgate, V., & Mareschal, D. (2020). Infant spontaneous Motor Tempo. Developmental Science, 00:e13032.

de Klerk, C.C.J.M., Albiston, H., Bulgarelli, C., Southgate, V., & Hamilton, A. (2020). Observing third-party ostracism enhances facial mimicry in 30-month-olds. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 196, 104862.

*Southgate, V. (2020). Are infants altercentric? The other and the self in early social cognition. Psychological Review, 127(4), 505-523.

Bulgarelli, C., de Klerk, C., Richards, J., Southgate, V., Hamilton, A., & Blasi, A. (2020). The developmental trajectory of fronto-temporoparietal connectivity: a longitudinal fNIRS investigation. Human Brain Mapping, 41, 2717-2740

*Bulgarelli, C., Blasi, A., de Klerk, C.C.J.M., Richards, J.E., Hamilton, A., & Southgate, V. (2019). Fronto-temporoparietal connectivity and self-awareness in 18-month-olds: A resting state fNIRS study. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 38, 100676.

de Klerk, C.C.J.M., Bulgarelli, C., Hamilton, A.H., & Southgate, V. (2019). Selective facial mimicry of native over foreign speakers in preverbal infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 183, 33-47.

de Klerk, C.C.J.M., Lamy-Yang, I., & Southgate, V. (2018). The role of sensorimotor experience in the development of mimicry. Developmental Science, 22:e12771

Baillargeon, R., Buttelmann, D., & Southgate, V. (2018). Interpreting Failed Replications of Early False-Belief Findings: Methodological and Theoretical Considerations. Cognitive Development, 46, 112-124.

de Klerk, C.C.J.M., Hamilton, A.F.C., & Southgate, V. (2018). Eye contact modulates facial mimicry in 4-month-old infants: an EMG and fNIRS study. Cortex, 106, 93-103.

Bulgarelli, C., Blasi, A., Arridge, S., Powell, S., de Klerk, C.C.J.M., Southgate, V., Brigadoi, S., Penny, W., Tak, S., & Hamilton, A. (2018). Dynamic causal modelling on infant fNIRS data: A validation study on a simultaneously recorded fNIRS-fMRI dataset. Neuroimage, 175, 413-424.

Begus, K., Gliga, T., & Southgate, V. (2016). Infants’ preferences for native speakers are associated with an expectation of information. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113 (44), 12397-12494.

de Klerk, C.C.J.M., Southgate, V. & Csibra, G. (2016). Predictive action tracking without motor experience in 8-month-old infants. Brain and Cognition, 109,131-139.

de Klerk, C.C.J.M., Johnson, M.H., & Southgate, V. (2015). An EEG study on the somatotopic organisation of sensorimotor cortex activation during action execution and observation in infancy. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 15, 1-10.

Begus, K., Southgate, V., & Gliga, T. (2015). Neural mechanisms of infant learning: Differences in frontal theta activity during object exploration modulate subsequent object recognition. Biology Letters, 11: 20150041.

Begus K, Gliga T, & Southgate V. (2014) Infants learn what they want to learn: Responding to infant pointing leads to superior learning. PLoS ONE, 9(10): e108817.

de Klerk, C.C.J.M., Johnson, M.H., Heyes, C.M., & Southgate, V. (2014). Baby Steps: Investigating the development of perceptual-motor couplings in infancy. Developmental Science, 18(2), 270-280.

Southgate, V., Begus, K., Lloyd-Fox, S., di Gangi, V., & Hamilton, A. (2014). Goal representation in the infant brain. Neuroimage, 85, 294-301.

Southgate, V., & Vernetti, A. (2014). Belief-based action prediction in preverbal infants. Cognition, 130, 1-10.

Southgate, V. (2013). Does infant behaviour provide support for the mirror neuron theory of action understanding? Consciousness and Cognition, 22, 1114-1121.

Southgate, V., & Begus, K. (2013). Motor activation during the observation of non-executable actions in infants. Psychological Science, 24(6), 828-835.

Begus, K., & Southgate, V. (2012). Infant pointing serves an interrogative function. Developmental Science, 15 (5), 611-617.

Hernik, M., & Southgate, V. (2012). On the role of preference and persistence in infants' goal attribution. Target article with commentaries. Developmental Science, 15(5), 714-722.

Senju, A., Southgate, V., Snape, C., Leonard, M., & Csibra, G. (2011). Do 18-month-olds really attribute mental states to others? A critical test. Psychological Science, 22, 878-880.

Southgate, V., Chevallier, C., & Csibra, G. (2010). Seventeen-month-olds appeal to false beliefs to interpret others' referential communication. Developmental Science, 16, 907-912.

Southgate, V., Johnson, M.H., El Karoui, I., & Csibra, G. (2010). Motor system activation reveals infants' online prediction of others' goals. Psychological Science, 21, 355-359.

Senju, A., Southgate, V., Miura, Y., Matsui, T., Hasegawa, T., Tojo, Y., Osanai, H., & Csibra, G. (2010). Absence of spontaneous action anticipation by false belief attribution in children with autism spectrum disorder. Development and Psychopathology, 22, 353-360.

Southgate, V., Johnson, M.H., Osborne, T., & Csibra, G. (2009). Predictive motor activation during action observation in human infants. Biology Letters, 5, 769-772.

Southgate, V., & Csibra, G. (2009). Inferring the outcome of an ongoing novel action at 13 Months. Developmental Psychology, 45, 1794-1798.

Southgate, V., Chevallier, C., & Csibra, G. (2009). Sensitivity to communicative relevance tells young children what to imitate. Developmental Science, 12, 1013-1019.

Senju, A., Southgate, V., White, S., & Frith, U. (2009). Mindblind eyes: an absence of spontaneous theory of mind in asperger syndrome. Science, 325 (5942), 883-885.

Southgate, V., & Hamilton, A.F. (2008). Unbroken mirrors: challenging a theory of autism. Trends in Cognitive Sciences,12 (6), 225-229.

Southgate, V., Johnson, M.H., & Csibra, G. (2008). Infants attribute goals even to biomechanically impossible actions. Cognition, 107, 1059-1069.

Southgate, V., Csibra, G., Kaufman, J., & Johnson, M.H. (2008). Distinct processing of objects and faces in the infant brain. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 741-749.

Southgate, V., Senju, A., & Csibra, G. (2007). Action anticipation through attribution of false belief in two-year-olds. Psychological Science, 18 (7), 587- 592.

Southgate, V., van Maanen, C., & Csibra, G. (2007). Infant pointing: communication to cooperate or communication to learn? Child Development, 78 (3), 735-740.

Southgate, V., & Gomez, J.C. (2006). Searching beneath the shelf in macaque monkeys: evidence for a gravity bias or a foraging bias? Journal of Comparative Psychology, 120 (3), 314-321.

Southgate, V., & Meints, K. (2000). Typicality, naming and category membership in young children. Cognitive Linguistics, 11 (1/2), 1-12.

Peer-reviewed publications

Book chapters and

non-peer-reviewed publications

Rubio-Fernandez, P., Southgate, V., & Király, I. (2021) Pragmatics for infants: commentary on Wenzel et al. (2020). Royal Society Open Science, 8(6), 210247.

Grosse Wiesmann, C., & Southgate, V. (2021) Early theory of mind development: Are infants inherently altercentric? In The neural basis of mentalizing (pp. 49-66). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Begus, K., & Southgate, V. (2018). Information seeking in infancy. In Language and Concept Development from Infancy Through Childhood: Social Motivation, Cognition, and Linguistic Mechanisms of Learning (Eds. P. Ganea & M. Saylor). Springer.

Begus, K., Gliga, T., & Southgate, V. (2017). Reply to Kinzler and Liberman: Neural correlate provides direct evidence that infant’s social preferences are about information. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(19): E3755-E3755.

Gliga, T., & Southgate, V. (2016). Metacognition: Pre-verbal infants adapt their behaviour to their knowledge states. Current Biology, 26 (22), pR1191-R1193.

Southgate, V. (2014). Early manifestations of mind reading. In S. Baron-Cohen, H. Tager-Flusberg & M. Lombardo (Eds.), Understanding Other Minds, 3rd Edition. Oxford University Press.

Gliga, T., & Southgate, V. (2012). A brain prepared for a social world. In C. Brownell & V. Slaughter (Eds.) Early Development of Body Representations. Cambridge University Press.

Southgate, V., Gergely, G., & Csibra, G. (2008). Does the mirror neuron system and its impairment explain human imitation and autism? In J.A. Pineda (Ed.), The Role of Mirroring Processes in Social Cognition. Humana Press.

Csibra, G., & Southgate, V. (2006). Evidence for infants understanding of false beliefs should not be dismissed. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10 (1), 4-5.

Hutto, D., Herschbach, M., & Southgate, V. (2011). Social Cognition: Mindreading and Alternatives. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 2, 375-395.