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Emiliano Ricciardi publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Emiliano Ricciardi sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 288 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Emiliano Ricciardi D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Emiliano Ricciardi sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 41 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Emiliano Ricciardi is affiliated with the IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca in Italy. Their research spans multiple areas within neuroscience and psychology, with a notable focus on cognitive processes and brain function.

Ricciardi's recent papers include:

  • Overlapping and specific neural correlates for empathizing, affective mentalizing, and cognitive mentalizing: A coordinate-based meta-analytic study, 2021, Human Brain Mapping
  • Mindfulness-based online intervention increases well-being and decreases stress after Covid-19 lockdown, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Integrity of Corpus Callosum Is Essential for the Cross-Hemispheric Propagation of Sleep Slow Waves: A High-Density EEG Study in Split-Brain Patients, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • U-Limb: A multi-modal, multi-center database on arm motion control in healthy and post-stroke conditions, 2021, GigaScience
  • Cortical and subcortical hemodynamic changes during sleep slow waves in human light sleep, 2021, NeuroImage

The scientist frequently collaborates with colleagues including:

  • Giacomo Handjaras
  • Pietro Pietrini
  • Andrea Leo
  • Davide Bottari
  • Giulio Bernardi

Ricciardi's publications appear predominantly in these venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • NeuroImage
  • Sleep Medicine
  • International Journal of Psychophysiology

The main fields of study covered in Ricciardi's work are:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Within these fields, the subfields of study include:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Psychiatry and Mental health

Key research topics addressed by Ricciardi include:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Best Publications

  • Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams

    Rotem Botvinik-Nezer;Rotem Botvinik-Nezer;Felix Holzmeister;Colin F. Camerer;Anna Dreber;Anna Dreber

  • Beyond sensory images: Object-based representation in the human ventral pathway

    Pietro Pietrini;Maura L. Furey;Emiliano Ricciardi;M. Ida Gobbini

  • Imagery and spatial processes in blindness and visual impairment.

    Zaira Cattaneo;Tomaso Vecchi;Cesare Cornoldi;Irene Mammarella

  • Hand synergies: Integration of robotics and neuroscience for understanding the control of biological and artificial hands

    Marco Santello;Matteo Bianchi;Marco Gabiccini;Emiliano Ricciardi

  • The Effect of Visual Experience on the Development of Functional Architecture in hMT

    Emiliano Ricciardi;Nicola Vanello;Lorenzo Sani;Claudio Gentili

  • Neural correlates of spatial working memory in humans: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study comparing visual and tactile processes

    Emiliano Ricciardi;Daniela Bonino;Daniela Bonino;Claudio Gentili;Lorenzo Sani

  • Decomposing metaphor processing at the cognitive and neural level through functional magnetic resonance imaging

    Valentina Bambini;Claudio Gentili;Emiliano Ricciardi;Pier Marco Bertinetto

  • Beyond amygdala: default mode network activity differs between patients with social phobia and healthy controls

    Claudio Gentili;Emiliano Ricciardi;Maria Ida Gobbini;Maria Filomena Santarelli

  • Mind the blind brain to understand the sighted one! Is there a supramodal cortical functional architecture?

    Emiliano Ricciardi;Daniela Bonino;Silvia Pellegrini;Pietro Pietrini

  • Do We Really Need Vision? How Blind People “See” the Actions of Others

    Emiliano Ricciardi;Daniela Bonino;Lorenzo Sani;Tomaso Vecchi

  • Randomized trial on the effects of a combined physical/cognitive training in aged MCI subjects: the Train the Brain study

    L. Maffei;E. Picano;M. G. Andreassi;A. Angelucci

  • Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Extended Training during Sleep Deprivation in Humans: Evidence for Local, Task-Specific Effects

    Giulio Bernardi;Giulio Bernardi;Francesca Siclari;Xiaoqian Yu;Corinna Zennig

  • Beyond visual, aural and haptic movement perception: hMT+ is activated by electrotactile motion stimulation of the tongue in sighted and in congenitally blind individuals

    Isabelle Matteau;Ron Kupers;Emiliano Ricciardi;Pietro Pietrini

  • Regional Delta Waves In Human Rapid Eye Movement Sleep.

    Giulio Bernardi;Monica Betta;Emiliano Ricciardi;Pietro Pietrini

  • Differential modulation of neural activity throughout the distributed neural system for face perception in patients with Social Phobia and healthy subjects.

    Claudio Gentili;Maria Ida Gobbini;Emiliano Ricciardi;Nicola Vanello

  • The Nature of Consciousness in the Visually Deprived Brain

    Ron Kupers;Pietro Pietrini;Emiliano Ricciardi;Maurice Ptito;Maurice Ptito

  • A synergy-based hand control is encoded in human motor cortical areas

    Andrea Leo;Giacomo Handjaras;Matteo Bianchi;Hamal Marino

  • EEG functional connectivity metrics wPLI and wSMI account for distinct types of brain functional interactions.

    Laura Sophie Imperatori;Monica Betta;Luca Cecchetti;Andrés Canales-Johnson

  • Distinct neural systems involved in agency and animacy detection

    Maria Ida Gobbini;Claudio Gentili;Emiliano Ricciardi;Claudia Bellucci

  • New light from the dark: what blindness can teach us about brain function.

    Emiliano Ricciardi;Pietro Pietrini

  • How Skill Expertise Shapes the Brain Functional Architecture: An fMRI Study of Visuo-Spatial and Motor Processing in Professional Racing-Car and Naïve Drivers

    Giulio Bernardi;Emiliano Ricciardi;Lorenzo Sani;Anna Gaglianese

Frequent Co-Authors

Pietro Pietrini
Pietro Pietrini IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
Antonio Bicchi
Antonio Bicchi Italian Institute of Technology
James V. Haxby
James V. Haxby Dartmouth College
Maura L. Furey
Maura L. Furey Janssen (Belgium)
Tomaso Vecchi
Tomaso Vecchi University of Pavia
Giulio Tononi
Giulio Tononi University of Wisconsin–Madison
Maurice Ptito
Maurice Ptito University of Montreal
Enzo Pasquale Scilingo
Enzo Pasquale Scilingo University of Pisa
Marc O. Ernst
Marc O. Ernst University of Ulm
Luciano Fadiga
Luciano Fadiga Italian Institute of Technology

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