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Overview

E. De Renzi was affiliated with the University of Milan in Italy and conducted research primarily in the areas of psychology, neuroscience, and engineering. Their scholarly output focused on both core and interdisciplinary fields, with specific attention to social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and biomedical engineering.

The scientist contributed a notable paper titled "Features and problems of neuropsychology," published in 2020 in the journal Giornale italiano di psicologia. This publication reflected their engagement with neuropsychological topics and was part of their broader work intersecting psychological theory and applied neuroscience.

Their research addressed several key topics, including:

  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Motor Control and Adaptation
  • Muscle activation and electromyography studies

E. De Renzi collaborated regularly with P. Faglioni, indicating a research partnership that contributed to the development of their shared areas of expertise.

The primary venues for their published work included:

  • Giornale italiano di psicologia

Their interdisciplinary approach incorporated studies in:

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Engineering

With subfields spanning:

  • Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Biomedical Engineering

The focus of their work often revolved around the mechanisms of movement and perception, as evidenced by topics such as action observation, motor control, and electrophysiological methods like electromyography.

Throughout their career, E. De Renzi's research contributed to understanding complex interactions between cognitive processes and physiological responses within the brain and body, particularly related to motor functions and synchronization.

Best Publications

  • The token test: A sensitive test to detect receptive disturbances in aphasics.

    E. De Renzi;L. A. Vignolo

  • Normative Data and Screening Power of a Shortened Version of the Token Test

    E. De Renzi;P. Faglioni

  • Imitating Gestures: A Quantitative Approach to Ideomotor Apraxia

    De Renzi E;Motti F;Nichelli P

  • Verbal and non-verbal short-term memory impairment following hemispheric damage.

    Ennio De Renzi;Paolo Nichelli

  • Prosopagnosia can be associated with damage confined to the right hemisphere—An MRI and PET study and a review of the literature

    E. De Renzi;D. Perani;Giovanni A. Carlesimo;M. C. Silveri

  • Apperceptive and associative forms of prosopagnosia.

    E. De Renzi;P. Faglioni;D. Grossi;P. Nichelli

  • Ideational apraxia: A quantitative study

    E. De Renzi;A. Pieczuro;L.A. Vignolo

  • Modality-specific and supramodal mechanisms of apraxia

    E. De Renzi;P. Faglioni;P. Sorgato

  • Perceptual and associative disorders of visual recognition Relationship to the side of the cerebral lesion

    Ennio De Renzi;Giuseppe Scotti;Hans Spinnler

  • Are semantic systems separately represented in the brain? The case of living category impairment.

    E. De Renzi;F. Lucchelli

  • Bilateral paramedian thalamic artery infarcts: report of eight cases.

    M Gentilini;E De Renzi;G Crisi

  • Oral Apraxia and Aphasia

    E. De Renzi;A. Pieczuro;L.A. Vignolo

  • Prosopagnosia in two patients with CT scan evidence of damage confined to the right hemisphere.

    E De Renzi

  • Semantic amnesia with preservation of autobiographic memory. A case report.

    Ennio De Renzi;Mario Liotti;Paolo Nichelli

  • Spatial Memory and Hemispheric Locus of Lesion

    E. De Renzi;P. Faglioni;P. Previdi

  • Constructional Apraxia and Hemispheric Locus of Lesion

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  • Hemispheric contribution to exploration of space through the visual and tactile modality.

    E. De Renzi;P. Faglioni;G. Scotti

  • The Performance of Patients with Unilateral Brain Damage on Face Recognition Tasks

    E. De Renzi;P. Faglioni;H. Spinnler

  • Slowly Progressive Visual Agnosia or Apraxia Without Dementia

    E De Renzi

  • Attentional shift towards the rightmost stimuli in patients with left visual neglect.

    E. De Renzi;M. Gentilini;P. Faglioni;C. Barbieri

  • Neuropsychological evidence for the existence of cerebral areas critical to the performance of intelligence tasks.

    A. Basso;E. De Renzi;P. Faglioni;G. Scotti

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans Spinnler
Hans Spinnler University of Milan
Luigi A. Vignolo
Luigi A. Vignolo University of Brescia
Paolo Frigio Nichelli
Paolo Frigio Nichelli University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Daniela Perani
Daniela Perani Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Anna Basso
Anna Basso University of Milan
Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo
Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo University of Rome Tor Vergata
Maria Caterina Silveri
Maria Caterina Silveri Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Dario Grossi
Dario Grossi University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
F. Fazio
F. Fazio University of Milano-Bicocca

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