World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!
Andrea d'Avella

Andrea d'Avella

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
46
Citations
12493
World Ranking
6589
National Ranking
340

Overview

Andrea d'Avella is affiliated with the University of Messina in Italy and has a substantial body of research spanning neuroscience, engineering, and medicine. Their work primarily focuses on motor control and adaptation, muscle activation and electromyography studies, balance, gait, and falls prevention, stroke rehabilitation and recovery, action observation and synchronization, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, and cerebral palsy and movement disorders.

The scientist has published numerous papers in well-known venues. Notable recent publications include:

  • The neural resource allocation problem when enhancing human bodies with extra robotic limbs, 2021, Nature Machine Intelligence
  • Distinct locomotor precursors in newborn babies, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Mixed matrix factorization: a novel algorithm for the extraction of kinematic-muscular synergies, 2022, Journal of Neurophysiology
  • Muscle synergies for evaluating upper limb in clinical applications: A systematic review, 2023, Heliyon
  • Does the cerebellum shape the spatiotemporal organization of muscle patterns? Insights from subjects with cerebellar ataxias, 2020, Journal of Neurophysiology

Frequent co-authors working with Andrea d'Avella include:

  • Daniele Borzelli
  • Denise Berger
  • Francesco Lacquaniti
  • Sergio Gurgone
  • Paolo De Pasquale

Their research has been published repeatedly in particular venues such as:

  • Journal of Neurophysiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
  • Sensors

In terms of fields of study, Andrea d'Avella has contributed extensively to:

  • Neuroscience
  • Engineering
  • Medicine

They have worked particularly in these subfields:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
  • Rehabilitation
  • Social Psychology

Best Publications

  • Combinations of muscle synergies in the construction of a natural motor behavior

    Andrea d'Avella;Philippe Saltiel;Emilio Bizzi

  • Matrix factorization algorithms for the identification of muscle synergies: evaluation on simulated and experimental data sets.

    Matthew C. Tresch;Vincent C. K. Cheung;Andrea d'Avella

  • Control of fast-reaching movements by muscle synergy combinations.

    Andrea d'Avella;Alessandro Portone;Laure Fernandez;Francesco Lacquaniti

  • Shared and specific muscle synergies in natural motor behaviors

    Andrea d'Avella;Emilio Bizzi

  • Locomotor primitives in newborn babies and their development.

    Nadia Dominici;Yuri P. Ivanenko;Germana Cappellini;Andrea d’Avella

  • COMBINING MODULES FOR MOVEMENT

    E. Bizzi;V.C.K. Cheung;A. d'Avella;P. Saltiel

  • Central and Sensory Contributions to the Activation and Organization of Muscle Synergies during Natural Motor Behaviors

    Vincent C. K. Cheung;Andrea d'Avella;Matthew C. Tresch;Emilio Bizzi

  • Microstimulation Activates a Handful of Muscle Synergies

    Simon A. Overduin;Andrea d’Avella;Jose M. Carmena;Jose M. Carmena;Emilio Bizzi

  • Muscle Synergies Encoded Within the Spinal Cord: Evidence From Focal Intraspinal NMDA Iontophoresis in the Frog

    Philippe Saltiel;Kuno Wyler-Duda;Andrea D'Avella;Matthew C. Tresch

  • Modulation of phasic and tonic muscle synergies with reaching direction and speed.

    Andrea d'Avella;Laure Fernandez;Alessandro Portone;Francesco Lacquaniti

  • New perspectives on spinal motor systems.

    Emilio Bizzi;Matthew C. Tresch;Philippe Saltiel;Andrea d'Avella

  • Modulation of Muscle Synergy Recruitment in Primate Grasping

    Simon A. Overduin;Andrea d'Avella;Jinsook Roh;Emilio Bizzi

  • Control of reaching movements by muscle synergy combinations

    Andrea d'Avella;Francesco Lacquaniti

  • Differences in Adaptation Rates after Virtual Surgeries Provide Direct Evidence for Modularity

    Denise J. Berger;Reinhard Gentner;Timothy Edmunds;Dinesh K. Pai

  • Representation of Muscle Synergies in the Primate Brain.

    Simon A. Overduin;Andrea d'Avella;Jinsook Roh;Jose M. Carmena

  • Coordination and localization in spinal motor systems

    Matthew C Tresch;Philippe Saltiel;Andrea d’Avella;Emilio Bizzi

  • Identifying representative synergy matrices for describing muscular activation patterns during multidirectional reaching in the horizontal plane.

    Silvia Muceli;Andreas Trøllund Boye;Andrea d'Avella;Dario Farina

  • Modular organization of spinal motor systems.

    E. Bizzi;A. D’Avella;P. Saltiel;M. Tresch

  • EMG patterns during assisted walking in the exoskeleton.

    Francesca Sylos-Labini;Valentina La Scaleia;Andrea d'Avella;Iolanda Pisotta

  • Adjustments of Motor Pattern for Load Compensation Via Modulated Activations of Muscle Synergies During Natural Behaviors

    Vincent C. K. Cheung;Andrea d'Avella;Emilio Bizzi

Frequent Co-Authors

Francesco Lacquaniti
Francesco Lacquaniti University of Rome Tor Vergata
Yuri P. Ivanenko
Yuri P. Ivanenko Collège de France
Jose M. Carmena
Jose M. Carmena University of California, Berkeley
Mariano Serrao
Mariano Serrao Sapienza University of Rome
Martin A. Giese
Martin A. Giese University of Tübingen
Etienne Burdet
Etienne Burdet Imperial College London
Thomas Schack
Thomas Schack Bielefeld University
Domenico Prattichizzo
Domenico Prattichizzo University of Siena

If you think any of the details on this page are incorrect, let us know.

Report an issue

We appreciate your kind effort to assist us to improve this page, it would be helpful providing us with as much detail as possible in the text box below:

Best Scientists Citing Andrea d'Avella

Trending Scientists

Recently Published Articles