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Carlo Umiltà

Carlo Umiltà

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Psychology
Italy
2023

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Psychology

D-Index
83
Citations
23913
World Ranking
1279
National Ranking
14

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Italy Leader Award
  • 2004 - Mind & Brain Prize, University and Polytechnic of Turin
  • 1991 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Carlo Umiltà is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy. Their research spans multiple areas within neuroscience and physics, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience and astronomy. They have made contributions across both experimental and theoretical domains, reflecting a diverse scholarly profile.

The main fields of study in Umiltà's work include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Physics and Astronomy

Within these broader areas, subfields of focus are:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Neurology
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Statistics and Probability

Umiltà's research topics cover a range of specialized areas such as:

  • Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
  • Motor Control and Adaptation
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Neurology and Historical Studies
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception

Their recent papers illustrate multiple areas of research. Notable publications include:

  • "Practice effects vs. transfer effects in the Simon task," 2020, Psychological Research
  • "A SNARC-like effect for music notation: The role of expertise and musical instrument," 2020, Acta Psychologica
  • "Enhancing the quality and reproducibility of research: Preferred Evaluation of Cognitive and Neuropsychological Studies - The PECANS statement for human studies," 2025, Behavior Research Methods
  • "SPT-3G D1: CMB temperature and polarization power spectra and cosmology from 2019 and 2020 observations of the SPT-3G Main field," 2025, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "A remembrance of Gianni Vicario," 2020, Giornale italiano di psicologia

The research venues where Umiltà frequently publishes include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Psychological Research
  • Acta Psychologica
  • Behavior Research Methods
  • Giornale italiano di psicologia

Frequent collaborators in Umiltà's work are:

  • E. Camphuis
  • Wei Quan
  • L. Balkenhol
  • A. R. Khalife
  • Fan Ge

Umiltà has received recognition including the Mind & Brain Prize from the University and Polytechnic of Turin in 2004 and was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1991. This scholarly record outlines a sustained contribution to both neuroscience and physics across several decades.

Best Publications

  • Reorienting attention across the horizontal and vertical meridians: evidence in favor of a premotor theory of attention.

    Giacomo Rizzolatti;Lucia Riggio;Isabella Dascola;Carlo Umiltá

  • Brain damage: neglect disrupts the mental number line.

    Marco Zorzi;Marco Zorzi;Konstantinos Priftis;Carlo Umiltà

  • Face preference at birth.

    Eloisa Valenza;Francesca Simion;Viola Macchi Cassia;Carlo Umiltà

  • Spatial representation of pitch height : the SMARC effect

    Elena Rusconi;Bonnie Kwan;Bruno L. Giordano;Carlo Umiltà

  • Action for perception: a motor-visual attentional effect.

    Laila Craighero;Luciano Fadiga;Giacomo Rizzolatti;Carlo Umiltà

  • Size of the attentional focus and efficiency of processing

    Umberto Castiello;Carlo Arrigo Umilta

  • OPPOSITE SUPERIORITIES OF THE RIGHT AND LEFT CEREBRAL HEMISPHERES IN DISCRIMINATIVE REACTION TIME TO PHYSIOGNOMICAL AND ALPHABETICAL MATERIAL

    G. Rizzolatti;C. Umiltà;G. Berlucchi

  • When time is space: evidence for a mental time line.

    Mario Bonato;Marco Zorzi;Carlo Umiltà

  • The use of transcranial magnetic stimulation in cognitive neuroscience: A new synthesis of methodological issues

    Marco Sandrini;Carlo Umiltà;Elena Rusconi;Elena Rusconi

  • Spatial Stimulus-Response Compatibility

    Carlo Umiltá;Roberto Nicoletti

  • Influence of different types of grasping on the transport component of prehension movements.

    M. Gentilucci;U. Castiello;M.L. Corradini;M. Scarpa

  • The relationship between visuo-spatial attention and nonword reading in developmental dyslexia

    Andrea Facoetti;Marco Zorzi;Laurie Cestnick;Maria Luisa Lorusso

  • Splitting focal attention.

    Umberto Castiello;Carlo Umiltà

  • The Mental Representation of Numerical Fractions : Real or Integer?

    Mario Bonato;S Fabbri;Carlo Arrigo Umilta;Marco Zorzi

  • Simple reaction times of ipsilateral and contralateral hand to lateralized visual stimuli.

    G. Berlucchi;W. Heron;R. Hyman;G. Rizzolatti

  • Newborns' Preference for Faces: What Is Crucial?.

    Chiara Turati;Francesca Simion;Idanna Milani;Carlo Umiltà

  • The deployment of visual attention in the intact field of hemineglect patients.

    Elisabetta Làdavas;Elisabetta Làdavas;Alessandro Petronio;Alessandro Petronio;Carlo Umiltà;Carlo Umiltà

  • Auditory and visual automatic attention deficits in developmental dyslexia

    Andrea Facoetti;Maria Luisa Lorusso;Pierluigi Paganoni;Carmen Cattaneo

  • A computational model of the Simon effect

    Marco Zorzi;Carlo Umiltá

  • Attention and Performance 15: Conscious and Nonconscious Information Processing

    Carlo Umilta;Morris Moscovitch

  • Giornale Italiano di Psicologia

    P. Amerio;L. Anolli;C. Cornoldi;P. F. Galli

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Zorzi
Marco Zorzi University of Padua
Francesca Simion
Francesca Simion University of Padua
Umberto Castiello
Umberto Castiello University of Padua
Daniela Mapelli
Daniela Mapelli University of Padua
Elisabetta Làdavas
Elisabetta Làdavas University of Bologna
Andrea Facoetti
Andrea Facoetti University of Padua
Brian Butterworth
Brian Butterworth University College London
Morris Moscovitch
Morris Moscovitch University of Toronto
Alessandro Angrilli
Alessandro Angrilli University of Padua
Roberto Cubelli
Roberto Cubelli University of Trento

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