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Alfonso Caramazza

Alfonso Caramazza

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Psychology
USA
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
137
Citations
63746
World Ranking
219
National Ranking
141

Psychology

D-Index
137
Citations
63576
World Ranking
130
National Ranking
81

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award

Overview

Alfonso Caramazza is a researcher affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on the field of Neuroscience, with notable contributions in Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The scientist has published research on several topics including:

  • Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

Alfonso Caramazza's recent papers include:

  • Preserved recognition of basic visual features despite lack of awareness of shape: Evidence from a case of neglect (2024, Cortex)
  • Dissociating goal from outcome during action observation (2024, Cerebral Cortex)

Their research has been published predominantly in the journals Cortex and Cerebral Cortex.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Caramazza include Seda Akbıyık, Teresa Schubert, Shuchen Liu, and Moritz F. Wurm.

Best Publications

  • Domain-Specific Knowledge Systems in the Brain: The Animate-Inanimate Distinction

    Alfonso Caramazza;Jennifer R. Shelton

  • A critical look at the embodied cognition hypothesis and a new proposal for grounding conceptual content

    Bradford Z. Mahon;Alfonso Caramazza;Alfonso Caramazza

  • Dissociation of algorithmic and heuristic processes in language comprehension: evidence from aphasia

    Alfonso Caramazza;Edgar B. Zurif

  • How many levels of processing are there in lexical access

    Alfonso Caramazza

  • Lexical access and inflectional morphology

    Alfonso Caramazza;Alessandro Laudanna;Cristina Romani

  • Curvilinear Motion in the Absence of External Forces: Naïve Beliefs About the Motion of Objects

    Michael McCloskey;Alfonso Caramazza;Bert Green

  • Cognitive mechanisms in number processing and calculation: evidence from dyscalculia

    Michael McCloskey;Alfonso Caramazza;Annamaria Basili

  • A Dissociation Between Moral Judgments and Justifications

    Marc D. Hauser;Fiery Cushman;Liane Young;R. Kang-Xing Jin

  • The Cognate Facilitation Effect: Implications for Models of Lexical Access

    Albert Costa;Alfonso Caramazza;Nuria Sebastian-Galles

  • Lexical organization of nouns and verbs in the brain

    Alfonso Caramazza;Argye E. Hillis

  • Lexical Selection in Bilinguals: Do Words in the Bilingual's Two Lexicons Compete for Selection?

    Albert Costa;Albert Costa;Michelle Miozzo;Alfonso Caramazza

  • On drawing inferences about the structure of normal cognitive systems from the analysis of patterns of impaired performance: the case for single-patient studies.

    Alfonso Caramazza

  • The multiple semantics hypothesis: Multiple confusions?

    Alfonso Caramazza;Argye E. Hillis;Brenda C. Rapp;Cristina Romani

  • CATEGORY-SPECIFIC NAMING AND COMPREHENSION IMPAIRMENT: A DOUBLE DISSOCIATION

    Argye E. Hillis;Alfonso Caramazza

  • On the Basis for the Agrammatic's Difficulty in Producing Main Verbs

    Gabriele Miceli;Gabriele Miceli;M. Caterina Silveri;M. Caterina Silveri;Giampiero Villa;Giampiero Villa;Alfonso Caramazza;Alfonso Caramazza

  • What are the facts of semantic category-specific deficits? A critical review of the clinical evidence.

    Erminio Capitani;M. Laiacona;B. Mahon;A. Caramazza

  • Category-specific naming deficit following cerebral infarction

    John Hart;Rita Sloan Berndt;Alfonso Caramazza

  • The logic of neuropsychological research and the problem of patient classification in aphasia.

    Alfonso Caramazza

  • Concepts and Categories: A Cognitive Neuropsychological Perspective

    Bradford Z. Mahon;Alfonso Caramazza

  • Naive beliefs in “sophisticated” subjects: misconceptions about trajectories of objects ☆

    Alfonso Caramazza;Michael McCloskey;Bert Green

  • Domain-specific knowledge systems in the brain: the animate-inanimate distinction

    A. Caramazza

Frequent Co-Authors

Bradford Z. Mahon
Bradford Z. Mahon Carnegie Mellon University
Yanchao Bi
Yanchao Bi Peking University
Gabriele Miceli
Gabriele Miceli University of Trento
Albert Costa
Albert Costa Pompeu Fabra University
Marius V. Peelen
Marius V. Peelen Radboud University
Argye E. Hillis
Argye E. Hillis Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Rita Sloan Berndt
Rita Sloan Berndt University of Maryland, Baltimore
Brenda Rapp
Brenda Rapp Johns Hopkins University
Edgar Zurif
Edgar Zurif Brandeis University
Michele Miozzo
Michele Miozzo Columbia University

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