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Cosimo Urgesi

Cosimo Urgesi

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Neuroscience

D-Index
43
Citations
8507
World Ranking
7348
National Ranking
388

Psychology

D-Index
43
Citations
8462
World Ranking
7220
National Ranking
138

Overview

Cosimo Urgesi is affiliated with the University of Udine in Italy and has made contributions across several interconnected fields of study. Their work primarily focuses on Neuroscience, Psychology, and Medicine, with research efforts covering subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Neurology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

Their research topics explore diverse areas including Action Observation and Synchronization, Vestibular and Auditory Disorders, Motor Control and Adaptation, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders, Face Recognition and Perception, as well as Infant Development and Preterm Care.

Recent publications by Cosimo Urgesi include:

  • A Neural Circuit for Spirituality and Religiosity Derived From Patients With Brain Lesions, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • How social is the cerebellum? Exploring the effects of cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation on the prediction of social and physical events, 2021, Brain Structure and Function
  • Effectiveness of Computerized Cognitive Training Programs (CCTP) with Game-like Features in Children with or without Neuropsychological Disorders: a Meta-Analytic Investigation, 2020, Neuropsychology Review
  • Home-based cognitive training in pediatric patients with acquired brain injury: preliminary results on efficacy of a randomized clinical trial, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Virtual Reality Social Prediction Improvement and Rehabilitation Intensive Training (VR-SPIRIT) for paediatric patients with congenital cerebellar diseases: study protocol of a randomised controlled trial, 2020, Trials

Cosimo Urgesi frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Niccolò Butti, Alessandra Finisguerra, Viola Oldrati, Renato Borgatti, and Romina Romaniello.

Their work has been published in a range of venues, with notable contributions to Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Brain Sciences, NeuroImage, Scientific Reports, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Best Publications

  • Action anticipation and motor resonance in elite basketball players

    Salvatore M Aglioti;Paola Cesari;Michela Romani;Cosimo Urgesi

  • Mapping Implied Body Actions in the Human Motor System

    Cosimo Urgesi;Valentina Moro;Matteo Candidi;Salvatore M. Aglioti

  • Controlling memory impairment in elderly adults using virtual reality memory training: a randomized controlled pilot study.

    Gabriele Optale;Cosimo Urgesi;Valentina Busato;Silvia Marin

  • Representation of body identity and body actions in extrastriate body area and ventral premotor cortex

    Cosimo Urgesi;Matteo Candidi;Silvio Ionta;Salvatore M Aglioti

  • The spiritual brain: selective cortical lesions modulate human self-transcendence

    Cosimo Urgesi;Salvatore M. Aglioti;Miran Skrap;Franco Fabbro

  • Simulating the Future of Actions in the Human Corticospinal System

    Cosimo Urgesi;Marta Maieron;Alessio Avenanti;Emmanuele Tidoni

  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Reveals Two Cortical Pathways for Visual Body Processing

    Cosimo Urgesi;Beatriz Calvo-Merino;Patrick Haggard;Salvatore M. Aglioti

  • Magnetic stimulation of extrastriate body area impairs visual processing of nonfacial body parts

    Cosimo Urgesi;Giovanni Berlucchi;Salvatore M. Aglioti

  • Action anticipation beyond the action observation network: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study in expert basketball players.

    A. M. Abreu;E. Macaluso;R. T. Azevedo;Paola Cesari

  • The Neural Basis of Body Form and Body Action Agnosia

    Valentina Moro;Cosimo Urgesi;Simone Pernigo;Paola Lanteri

  • Vicarious motor activation during action perception: beyond correlational evidence

    Alessio Avenanti;Matteo Candidi;Cosimo Urgesi

  • Extrastriate body area underlies aesthetic evaluation of body stimuli.

    B Calvo-Merino;B Calvo-Merino;C Urgesi;Guido Orgs;S M Aglioti

  • Motor facilitation during action observation: topographic mapping of the target muscle and influence of the onlooker's posture.

    Cosimo Urgesi;Matteo Candidi;Franco Fabbro;Michela Romani

  • Corticospinal facilitation during first and third person imagery

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

  • 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

  • Neuropsychological Profile in High Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Antonio Narzisi;Filippo Muratori;Sara Calderoni;Franco Fabbro

  • Motor facilitation of the human cortico-spinal system during observation of bio-mechanically impossible movements.

    Michela Romani;Paola Cesari;Cosimo Urgesi;Stefano Facchini

  • Fooling the Kickers but not the Goalkeepers: Behavioral and Neurophysiological Correlates of Fake Action Detection in Soccer

    Enzo Tomeo;Paola Cesari;Salvatore M. Aglioti;Cosimo Urgesi

  • 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

  • Shaping and reshaping the aesthetic brain: Emerging perspectives on the neurobiology of embodied aesthetics.

    Louise P. Kirsch;Cosimo Urgesi;Emily S. Cross;Emily S. Cross

  • Virtual lesion of ventral premotor cortex impairs visual perception of biomechanically possible but not impossible actions

    Matteo Candidi;Cosimo Urgesi;Silvio Ionta;Salvatore M. Aglioti

Frequent Co-Authors

Salvatore Maria Aglioti
Salvatore Maria Aglioti Sapienza University of Rome
Franco Fabbro
Franco Fabbro University of Udine
Alessio Avenanti
Alessio Avenanti University of Bologna
Rosario Montirosso
Rosario Montirosso Eugenio Medea
Filippo Muratori
Filippo Muratori University of Pisa
Paolo Brambilla
Paolo Brambilla University of Milan
Emily S. Cross
Emily S. Cross University of Glasgow
Andrea Marini
Andrea Marini University of Udine
Matteo Balestrieri
Matteo Balestrieri University of Udine
Sonja A. Kotz
Sonja A. Kotz Maastricht University

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