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Donatella Spinelli

Donatella Spinelli

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Neuroscience

D-Index
60
Citations
11339
World Ranking
3874
National Ranking
169

Overview

Donatella Spinelli is affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome in Italy and has contributed extensively to research primarily in the field of neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, and statistics and probability.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas related to neural and behavioral psychology studies, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, and the developmental aspects of reading, literacy, and mathematical skills. Additional focuses include language development and disorders, the neurobiology of language and bilingualism, and neuroscience related to music perception.

Spinelli has authored multiple papers published across various respected venues. Recent publications include:

  • "Predicting individual differences in reading, spelling and maths in a sample of typically developing children: A study in the perspective of comorbidity" (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • "Prompting future events: Effects of temporal cueing and time on task on brain preparation to action" (2020, Brain and Cognition)
  • "Testing the Specificity of Predictors of Reading, Spelling and Maths: A New Model of the Association Among Learning Skills Based on Competence, Performance and Acquisition" (2020, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience)
  • "Preparatory ERPs in visual, auditory, and somatosensory discriminative motor tasks" (2020, Psychophysiology)
  • "Sustained visuospatial attention enhances lateralized anticipatory ERP activity in sensory areas" (2021, Brain Structure and Function)

Frequent collaborators include Pierluigi Zoccolotti, Maria De Luca, and Chiara Valeria Marinelli, each having coauthored numerous publications with Spinelli. Additional coauthors are Marika Berchicci and Francesco Di Russo.

Their work appears regularly in several publication venues, notably OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) at La Trobe University, Zenodo hosted by CERN, PLoS ONE, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, and Brain and Cognition.

This comprehensive body of research reflects a focus on integrating cognitive neuroscience approaches to understand developmental and educational phenomena, supported by advanced statistical methodologies.

Best Publications

  • Visual Experience Modifies Distribution of Horizontally and Vertically Oriented Receptive Fields in Cats

    Helmut V. B. Hirsch;D. N. Spinelli

  • Spatiotemporal analysis of the cortical sources of the steady-state visual evoked potential.

    Francesco Di Russo;Sabrina Pitzalis;Teresa Aprile;Grazia Spitoni

  • Word length effect in early reading and in developmental dyslexia.

    Pierluigi Zoccolotti;Maria De Luca;Enrico Di Pace;Filippo Gasperini

  • Identification of the neural sources of the pattern-reversal VEP

    Francesco Di Russo;Sabrina Pitzalis;Grazia Spitoni;Teresa Aprile

  • Modification of the distribution of receptive field orientation in cats by selective visual exposure during development.

    Helmut V. B. Hirsch;D. N. Spinelli

  • Crowding, reading, and developmental dyslexia.

    Marialuisa Martelli;Gloria Di Filippo;Donatella Spinelli;Pierluigi Zoccolotti

  • Reading words and pseudowords: an eye movement study of developmental dyslexia.

    Maria De Luca;Marta Borrelli;Anna Judica;Donatella Spinelli

  • The ERG in response to alternating gratings in patients with diseases of the peripheral visual pathway.

    A Fiorentini;L Maffei;M Pirchio;D Spinelli

  • Eye movement patterns in linguistic and non-linguistic tasks in developmental surface dyslexia.

    Maria De Luca;Enrico Di Pace;Anna Judica;Donatella Spinelli

  • Crowding effects on word identification in developmental dyslexia.

    Donatella Spinelli;Maria De Luca;Anna Judica;Pierluigi Zoccolotti

  • Markers of developmental surface dyslexia in a language (Italian) with high grapheme–phoneme correspondence

    Pierluigi Zoccolotti;Maria De Luca;Enrico Di Pace;Anna Judica

  • Neural correlates of fast stimulus discrimination and response selection in top-level fencers

    Francesco Di Russo;Francesco Taddei;Teresa Apnile;Donatella Spinelli

  • Electrophysiological evidence for an early attentional mechanism in visual processing in humans

    Francesco Di Russo;Donatella Spinelli

  • Length effect in word naming in reading: role of reading experience and reading deficit in italian readers.

    Donatella Spinelli;Maria De Luca;Gloria Di Filippo;Monica Mancini

  • Evidence for edge and bar detectors in human vision

    David C. Burr;M. Concetta Morrone;Donatella Spinelli

  • Benefits of sports participation for executive function in disabled athletes.

    Francesco Di Russo;Alessandro Bultrini;Stefano Brunelli;Anna Sofia Delussu

  • Automatic gain control contrast mechanisms are modulated by attention in humans: evidence from visual evoked potentials.

    Francesco Di Russo;Donatella Spinelli;M.Concetta Morrone

  • Prefrontal hyperactivity in older people during motor planning

    Marika Berchicci;Giuliana Lucci;Caterina Pesce;Donatella Spinelli

  • Infant contrast sensitivity evaluated by evoked potentials.

    Mario Pirchio;Donatella Spinelli;Adriana Fiorentini;Lamberto Maffei

  • Beyond the “Bereitschaftspotential”: Action preparation behind cognitive functions

    F Di Russo;M Berchicci;C Bozzacchi;R L Perri

  • Rapid naming, not cancellation speed or articulation rate, predicts reading in an orthographically regular language (Italian)

    Gloria Di Filippo;Daniela Brizzolara;Anna Chilosi;Maria De Luca

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierluigi Zoccolotti
Pierluigi Zoccolotti Sapienza University of Rome
Francesco Di Russo
Francesco Di Russo Foro Italico University of Rome
Sabrina Pitzalis
Sabrina Pitzalis Sapienza University of Rome
Karl H. Pribram
Karl H. Pribram Georgetown University
Gabriella Antonucci
Gabriella Antonucci Sapienza University of Rome
Maria Concetta Morrone
Maria Concetta Morrone University of Pisa
Steven A. Hillyard
Steven A. Hillyard University of California, San Diego
Gaspare Galati
Gaspare Galati Sapienza University of Rome
David C. Burr
David C. Burr University of Florence
Lamberto Maffei
Lamberto Maffei National Research Council (CNR)

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