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Alessio Avenanti

Alessio Avenanti

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
54
Citations
9473
World Ranking
4658
National Ranking
73

Neuroscience

D-Index
56
Citations
9933
World Ranking
4563
National Ranking
210

Alessio Avenanti publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alessio Avenanti sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 139 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Alessio Avenanti D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alessio Avenanti sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alessio Avenanti is a researcher affiliated with the University of Bologna in Italy. Their work primarily spans neuroscience and psychology, with strong emphases on cognitive neuroscience and social psychology. The subfields addressed also include neurology, psychiatry and mental health, and biomedical engineering.

Their research topics cover a range of neural and behavioral studies, with particular focus on:

  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Motor Control and Adaptation
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Muscle activation and electromyography studies

Avenanti has frequently published in several scientific journals, including:

  • Brain Stimulation
  • Current Biology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Cortex
  • Frontiers in Psychology

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Alessio Avenanti are:

  • "State-Dependent TMS over Prefrontal Cortex Disrupts Fear-Memory Reconsolidation and Prevents the Return of Fear" (2020, Current Biology)
  • "Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in ADHD: A Systematic Review of Efficacy, Safety, and Protocol-induced Electrical Field Modeling Results" (2020, Neuroscience Bulletin)
  • "Tuning alpha rhythms to shape conscious visual perception" (2022, Current Biology)
  • "Blocking facial mimicry affects recognition of facial and body expressions" (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • "Neuropharmacological Modulation of N-methyl-D-aspartate, Noradrenaline and Endocannabinoid Receptors in Fear Extinction Learning: Synaptic Transmission and Plasticity" (2023, International Journal of Molecular Sciences)

Collaboration plays a significant role in Avenanti's research output. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Sonia Turrini
  • Sara Borgomaneri
  • Simone Battaglia
  • Carmelo M. Vicario
  • Vincenzo Romei

Best Publications

  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation highlights the sensorimotor side of empathy for pain

    Alessio Avenanti;Domenica Bueti;Gaspare Galati;Salvatore M Aglioti

  • Racial Bias Reduces Empathic Sensorimotor Resonance with Other-Race Pain

    Alessio Avenanti;Angela Sirigu;Salvatore M. Aglioti

  • Empathy for Pain and Touch in the Human Somatosensory Cortex

    Ilaria Bufalari;Taryn Aprile;Alessio Avenanti;Francesco Di Russo

  • Their pain is not our pain: Brain and autonomic correlates of empathic resonance with the pain of same and different race individuals

    Ruben T. Azevedo;Emiliano Macaluso;Alessio Avenanti;Valerio Santangelo

  • Stimulus-driven modulation of motor-evoked potentials during observation of others' pain.

    Alessio Avenanti;Ilaria Minio-Paluello;Ilaria Bufalari;Salvatore Maria Aglioti

  • Somatic and Motor Components of Action Simulation

    Alessio Avenanti;Nadia Bolognini;Angelo Maravita;Salvatore Maria Aglioti

  • Low-frequency rTMS promotes use-dependent motor plasticity in chronic stroke: a randomized trial.

    A. Avenanti;M. Coccia;E. Ladavas;L. Provinciali

  • Simulating the Future of Actions in the Human Corticospinal System

    Cosimo Urgesi;Marta Maieron;Alessio Avenanti;Emmanuele Tidoni

  • Absence of Embodied Empathy During Pain Observation in Asperger Syndrome

    Ilaria Minio-Paluello;Ilaria Minio-Paluello;Simon Baron-Cohen;Alessio Avenanti;Vincent Walsh

  • Kinesthetic Imagery and Tool-Specific Modulation of Corticospinal Representations in Expert Tennis Players

    Alissa D. Fourkas;Valerio Bonavolontà;Alessio Avenanti;Salvatore M. Aglioti

  • The pain of a model in the personality of an onlooker: Influence of state-reactivity and personality traits on embodied empathy for pain

    Alessio Avenanti;Ilaria Minio-Paluello;Ilaria Bufalari;Salvatore Maria Aglioti

  • Vicarious motor activation during action perception: beyond correlational evidence

    Alessio Avenanti;Matteo Candidi;Cosimo Urgesi

  • Corticospinal facilitation during first and third person imagery

    Alissa D. Fourkas;Alessio Avenanti;Cosimo Urgesi;Cosimo Urgesi;Salvatore M. Aglioti

  • Fronto-parietal areas necessary for a multisensory representation of peripersonal space in humans: An rtms study

    Andrea Serino;Elisa Canzoneri;Alessio Avenanti

  • Neuroanatomical substrates of action perception and understanding: an anatomic likelihood estimation meta-analysis of lesion-symptom mapping studies in brain injured patients

    Cosimo Urgesi;Matteo Candidi;Alessio Avenanti

  • Tuning alpha rhythms to shape conscious visual perception

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  • Compensatory Plasticity in the Action Observation Network: Virtual Lesions of STS Enhance Anticipatory Simulation of Seen Actions

    Alessio Avenanti;Laura Annella;Matteo Candidi;Cosimo Urgesi

  • Seeing the pain of others while being in pain: A laser-evoked potentials study

    Massimiliano Valeriani;Viviana Betti;Domenica Le Pera;Liala De Armas

  • Action Simulation Plays a Critical Role in Deceptive Action Recognition

    Emmanuele Tidoni;Sara Borgomaneri;Giuseppe di Pellegrino;Alessio Avenanti

  • State-dependent TMS over prefrontal cortex disrupts fear memory reconsolidation and prevents the return of fear

    Sara Borgomaneri;Simone Battaglia;Sara Garofalo;Francesco Tortora

  • Freezing or escaping? Opposite modulations of empathic reactivity to the pain of others

    Alessio Avenanti;Ilaria Minio-Paluello;Anna Sforza;Salvatore Maria Aglioti

  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation reveals two functionally distinct stages of motor cortex involvement during perception of emotional body language

    Sara Borgomaneri;Valeria Gazzola;Valeria Gazzola;Alessio Avenanti

Frequent Co-Authors

Salvatore Maria Aglioti
Salvatore Maria Aglioti Sapienza University of Rome
Valeria Gazzola
Valeria Gazzola University of Amsterdam
Carmelo M. Vicario
Carmelo M. Vicario University of Messina
Cosimo Urgesi
Cosimo Urgesi University of Udine
Christian Keysers
Christian Keysers University of Amsterdam
Vincenzo Romei
Vincenzo Romei University of Bologna
Elisabetta Làdavas
Elisabetta Làdavas University of Bologna
Giuseppe di Pellegrino
Giuseppe di Pellegrino University of Bologna
Michael A. Nitsche
Michael A. Nitsche TU Dortmund University
Cristina Becchio
Cristina Becchio Italian Institute of Technology

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