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Bennett I. Bertenthal

Psychology · Indiana University

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Established · publishing since 1978
Child and Animal Learning DevelopmentAction Observation and SynchronizationSpatial Cognition and NavigationVisual perception and processing mechanismsInfant Health and Development

Publications

212

Citations

8,056

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

48

Publishing since 1978

Research summary
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Bennett I. Bertenthal studies how infants perceive and understand the world, focusing on early social development in interactions between mothers and their babies. Recent work examines how infants coordinate attention, regulate emotions, and synchronize physiologically and neurally with caregivers, often using measures like brain activity and heart-rhythm patterns. He also investigates how motor experience shapes infants' understanding of other people's actions.

Infant social and emotional developmentMother-infant physiological and neural synchronyPerception and understanding of others' actionsCoordinated attention and joint attentionDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience

Publication activity peaked around 2021 and has generally slowed in the years since, averaging under two papers per year over the last five years.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 9, 2026

In context
Among 478 established Psychology PIs within our index
Citations: 8,056cohort median 2,193
h-index: 48cohort median 22
Publications / year (recent): 1.6cohort median 3

Typically publishes in teams of ~3 · 65% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 17 venues

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.6/year recently
2017: 1 publication172018: 4 publications182019: 7 publications192020: 3 publications202021: 14 publications14212022: 3 publications222023: 2 publications23242025: 3 publications2526
Collaborators per year
Distinct co-authors at Indiana University each year — a rough indication of whether the group around this researcher has been growing or contracting. An estimate from co-authorship, not a roster: collaborators are not necessarily lab members, and recent years can be under-counted while indexing catches up.
2017: 1 collaborator at the same institution2018: 0 collaborators at the same institution2019: 1 collaborator at the same institution2020: 0 collaborators at the same institution2021: 5 collaborators at the same institution2022: 0 collaborators at the same institution2023: 0 collaborators at the same institution2024: 0 collaborators at the same institution2025: 0 collaborators at the same institution1719212325
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library)×5
  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience×3
  • Frontiers in Psychology×2
  • Infant Behavior and Development×2
  • Infancy×2
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Last updated Sep 1, 2026.

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