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Overview

Eraldo Paulesu is affiliated with the University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy and has a research focus centered on Neuroscience and Psychology. Their work covers various subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

Their research topics include:

  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Free Will and Agency
  • Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
  • Motor Control and Adaptation

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated extensively with Paulesu include:

  • Laura Zapparoli
  • Lucia Maria Sacheli
  • Francantonio Devoto
  • Marika Mariano
  • Gabriella Bottini

Common venues for publishing their research are:

  • Scientific Reports
  • NeuroImage Clinical
  • Cortex
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Human Brain Mapping

Recent significant papers by Eraldo Paulesu include:

  • How the motor system copes with aging: a quantitative meta-analysis of the effect of aging on motor function control (2022, Communications Biology)
  • Neural Correlates of Body Integrity Dysphoria (2020, Current Biology)
  • How the effects of actions become our own (2020, Science Advances)
  • The sense of agency in joint actions: A theory-driven meta-analysis (2022, Cortex)
  • Imaging the neural underpinnings of freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease (2022, NeuroImage Clinical)

Best Publications

  • The neural correlates of the verbal component of working memory.

    E. Paulesu;C. D. Frith;C. D. Frith;R. S. J. Frackowiak

  • Dyslexia: cultural diversity and biological unity.

    Eraldo Paulesu;Jean Francois Demonet;Ferruccio Fazio;Eamon McCrory

  • Localization of grasp representations in humans by PET: 1. Observation versus execution

    G. Rizzolatti;L. Fadiga;M. Matelli;V. Bettinardi

  • Investigations of the functional anatomy of attention using the Stroop test

    C. J. Bench;C. D. Frith;P. M. Grasby;P. M. Grasby;K. J. Friston

  • The bilingual brain. Proficiency and age of acquisition of the second language.

    Daniela Perani;Eraldo Paulesu;Nuria Sebastian Galles;Emmanuel Dupoux

  • The role of the right hemisphere in the interpretation of figurative aspects of language. A positron emission tomography activation study.

    G. Bottini;R. Corcoran;R. Sterzi;E. Paulesu

  • Is developmental dyslexia a disconnection syndrome? Evidence from PET scanning

    Eraldo Paulesu;Uta Frith;Uta Frith;Margaret Snowling;Alison Gallagher

  • Anatomical variability in the cortical representation of first and second language

    Stanislas Dehaene;Emmanuel Dupoux;Jacques Mehler;Laurent Cohen

  • A cultural effect on brain function.

    Eraldo Paulesu;Eamon McCrory;Ferruccio Fazio;L. Menoncello

  • The role of age of acquisition and language usage in early, high-proficient bilinguals: an fMRI study during verbal fluency

    Daniela Perani;Jubin Abutalebi;Eraldo Paulesu;Simona Brambati

  • Localization of grasp representations in humans by PET

    G. Rizzolatti;L. Fadiga;M. Matelli;V. Bettinardi

  • Shared Cortical Anatomy for Motor Awareness and Motor Control

    A. Berti;G. Bottini;M. Gandola;L. Pia

  • Identification of the central vestibular projections in man: a positron emission tomography activation study.

    Gabriella Bottini;Roberto Sterzi;Eraldo Paulesu;Giuseppe Vallar

  • The physiology of coloured hearing A PET activation study of colour-word synaesthesia

    E. Paulesu;J. Harrison;S. Baron-Cohen;J. D. G. Watson

  • Rapid Assessment of Regional Cerebral Metabolic Abnormalities in Single Subjects with Quantitative and Nonquantitative [18F]FDG PET: A Clinical Validation of Statistical Parametric Mapping

    M. Signorini;E. Paulesu;K. Friston;D. Perani

  • Brain abnormalities underlying altered activation in dyslexia: a voxel based morphometry study.

    G. Silani;U. Frith;J.-F. Demonet;F. Fazio

  • Cerebral representations for egocentric space: functional-anatomical evidence from caloric vestibular stimulation and neck vibration

    Gabriella Bottini;Hans Otto Karnath;Giuseppe Vallar;Roberto Sterzi

  • Brain activity during stimulus independent thought

    Philip McGuire;Eraldo Paulesu;Richard Frackowiak;Chris Frith

  • Functional heterogeneity of left inferior frontal cortex as revealed by fMRI.

    Eraldo Paulesu;Ben Goldacre;Paola Scifo;Stefano F. Cappa

  • Acupuncture produces central activations in pain regions.

    Gabriele E. M. Biella;Maria Luisa Sotgiu;Giulio Pellegata;Eraldo Paulesu

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniela Perani
Daniela Perani Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
F. Fazio
F. Fazio University of Milano-Bicocca
Chris D. Frith
Chris D. Frith University College London
Richard S. J. Frackowiak
Richard S. J. Frackowiak École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Stefano F. Cappa
Stefano F. Cappa Istituto Universitario Di Studi Superiori Di Pavia
Giuseppe Vallar
Giuseppe Vallar University of Milano-Bicocca
Claudio Luzzatti
Claudio Luzzatti University of Milano-Bicocca
Paola Scifo
Paola Scifo Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Raymond J. Dolan
Raymond J. Dolan University College London
Uta Frith
Uta Frith University College London

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