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Gaetano Valenza

Gaetano Valenza

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Computer Science

D-Index
43
Citations
6866
World Ranking
8050
National Ranking
218

Overview

Gaetano Valenza is affiliated with the University of Pisa in Italy and has an extensive research portfolio primarily within the fields of neuroscience and medicine. Their work spans numerous subfields including cognitive neuroscience, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, biomedical engineering, experimental and cognitive psychology, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

The scientist's research focuses on core topics related to heart rate variability and autonomic control, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, functional brain connectivity studies, non-invasive vital sign monitoring, neural dynamics and brain function, mental health research, as well as neural and behavioral psychology studies.

Among their notable recent publications are:

  • "Cardiac sympathetic-vagal activity initiates a functional brain-body response to emotional arousal" (2022) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Assessing Autonomic Function from Electrodermal Activity and Heart Rate Variability During Cold-Pressor Test and Emotional Challenge" (2020) in Scientific Reports
  • "Acute Stress State Classification Based on Electrodermal Activity Modeling" (2021) in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
  • "The role of electroencephalography electrical reference in the assessment of functional brain-heart interplay: From methodology to user guidelines" (2021) in Journal of Neuroscience Methods
  • "Uncovering complex central autonomic networks at rest: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study on complex cardiovascular oscillations" (2020) in Journal of The Royal Society Interface

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Gaetano Valenza include:

  • Vincenzo Catrambone
  • Matteo Bianchi
  • Giuseppe Averta
  • Antonio Bicchi
  • Riccardo Barbieri

The scientist has published regularly in several venues with multiple contributions to:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • 2020 11th Conference of the European Study Group on Cardiovascular Oscillations (ESGCO)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Best Publications

  • cvxEDA: A Convex Optimization Approach to Electrodermal Activity Processing

    Alberto Greco;Gaetano Valenza;Antonio Lanata;Enzo Pasquale Scilingo

  • Affective computing in virtual reality: emotion recognition from brain and heartbeat dynamics using wearable sensors.

    Javier Marín-Morales;Juan Luis Higuera-Trujillo;Alberto Greco;Jaime Guixeres

  • The Role of Nonlinear Dynamics in Affective Valence and Arousal Recognition

    G. Valenza;A. Lanata;E. P. Scilingo

  • Revealing Real-Time Emotional Responses: a Personalized Assessment based on Heartbeat Dynamics

    Gaetano Valenza;Luca Citi;Antonio Lanatá;Enzo Pasquale Scilingo

  • Recognizing Emotions Induced by Affective Sounds through Heart Rate Variability

    Mimma Nardelli;Gaetano Valenza;Alberto Greco;Antonio Lanata

  • Complexity Index From a Personalized Wearable Monitoring System for Assessing Remission in Mental Health

    Antonio Lanata;Gaetano Valenza;Mimma Nardelli;Claudio Gentili

  • Wearable Monitoring for Mood Recognition in Bipolar Disorder Based on History-Dependent Long-Term Heart Rate Variability Analysis

    Gaetano Valenza;Mimma Nardelli;Antonio Lanata;Claudio Gentili

  • The central autonomic network at rest: Uncovering functional MRI correlates of time-varying autonomic outflow.

    Gaetano Valenza;Roberta Sclocco;Andrea Duggento;Luca Passamonti

  • How the Autonomic Nervous System and Driving Style Change With Incremental Stressing Conditions During Simulated Driving

    Antonio Lanata;Gaetano Valenza;Alberto Greco;Claudio Gentili

  • Dominant Lyapunov exponent and approximate entropy in heart rate variability during emotional visual elicitation

    Gaetano Valenza;Paolo Allegrini;Antonio Lanatà;Enzo Pasquale Scilingo

  • Arousal and Valence Recognition of Affective Sounds Based on Electrodermal Activity

    Alberto Greco;Gaetano Valenza;Luca Citi;Enzo Pasquale Scilingo

  • Mood recognition in bipolar patients through the PSYCHE platform: Preliminary evaluations and perspectives

    Gaetano Valenza;Claudio Gentili;Antonio Lanatí;Enzo Pasquale Scilingo

  • Electrodermal activity in bipolar patients during affective elicitation

    Alberto Greco;Gaetano Valenza;Antonio Lanata;Giuseppina Rota

  • Combining electroencephalographic activity and instantaneous heart rate for assessing brain-heart dynamics during visual emotional elicitation in healthy subjects.

    G. Valenza;A. Greco;C. Gentili;A. Lanata

  • Real vs. immersive-virtual emotional experience: Analysis of psycho-physiological patterns in a free exploration of an art museum.

    Javier Marín-Morales;Juan Luis Higuera-Trujillo;Alberto Greco;Jaime Guixeres

  • Speech analysis for mood state characterization in bipolar patients

    Nicola Vanello;Andrea Guidi;Claudio Gentili;Sandra Werner

  • Characterization of Depressive States in Bipolar Patients Using Wearable Textile Technology and Instantaneous Heart Rate Variability Assessment

    Gaetano Valenza;Luca Citi;Claudio Gentili;Antonio Lanata

  • Daytime naps improve motor imagery learning

    Ursula Debarnot;Ursula Debarnot;Eleonora Castellani;Gaetano Valenza;Laura Sebastiani

  • Acute stress state classification based on electrodermal activity modeling

    Alberto Greco;Gaetano Valenza;Jesus Lazaro;Jorge Mario Garzon-Rey

  • Oscillations of Heart Rate and Respiration Synchronize During Affective Visual Stimulation

    G. Valenza;A. Lanata;E. P. Scilingo

  • Advances in Electrodermal Activity Processing with Applications for Mental Health: From Heuristic Methods to Convex Optimization

    Alberto Greco;Gaetano Valenza;Enzo Pasquale Scilingo

Frequent Co-Authors

Enzo Pasquale Scilingo
Enzo Pasquale Scilingo University of Pisa
Antonio Lanata
Antonio Lanata University of Florence
Nicola Toschi
Nicola Toschi University of Rome Tor Vergata
Antonio Bicchi
Antonio Bicchi Italian Institute of Technology
Luca Passamonti
Luca Passamonti University of Cambridge
Luca Faes
Luca Faes University of Palermo
Patrice Abry
Patrice Abry École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Danilo De Rossi
Danilo De Rossi University of Pisa
Daniela Palomba
Daniela Palomba University of Padua
Ioana A. Cristea
Ioana A. Cristea University of Pavia

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