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Overview

Giorgio Ganis is affiliated with Plymouth University in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on neuroscience and psychology, with a significant emphasis on cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, sociology and political science, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, as well as artificial intelligence.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Deception detection and forensic psychology
  • Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
  • Spatial Cognition and Navigation

Giorgio Ganis has published in various academic venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Brain Sciences
  • Cortex
  • Nature Human Behaviour
  • Cognition
  • PLoS ONE

Recent notable publications include:

  • "#EEGManyLabs: Investigating the replicability of influential EEG experiments" (2021, Cortex)
  • "Verbal Lie Detection: Its Past, Present and Future" (2022, Brain Sciences)
  • "One hundred years of EEG for brain and behaviour research" (2024, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • "Perspective taking as virtual navigation? Perceptual simulation of what others see reflects their location in space but not their gaze" (2020, Cognition)
  • "A Systematic Review of Neurofeedback for the Management of Motor Symptoms in Parkinson's Disease" (2021, Brain Sciences)

The scientist has co-authored with several frequent collaborators, including:

  • Yuri G. Pavlov
  • Mahnaz Arvaneh
  • Amy R. Bland
  • Niko A. Busch
  • Peter E. Clayson

Giorgio Ganis's scholarly contributions encompass multiple disciplines, integrating different approaches from the study of brain connectivity to behavioral psychology and machine learning robustness challenges.

Best Publications

  • Neural foundations of imagery.

    Stephen M. Kosslyn;Giorgio Ganis;William L. Thompson

  • The case for mental imagery

    Stephen Michael Kosslyn;William L. Thompson;Giorgio Ganis

  • Brain areas underlying visual mental imagery and visual perception: an fMRI study.

    Giorgio Ganis;William L Thompson;Stephen M Kosslyn

  • The role of area 17 in visual imagery: convergent evidence from PET and rTMS.

    S. M. Kosslyn;A. Pascual-Leone;O. Felician;S. Camposano

  • Neural Correlates of Different Types of Deception: An fMRI Investigation

    Giorgi Ganis;S. M. Kosslyn;S. Stose;W. L. Thompson

  • The search for “common sense”: An electrophysiological study of the comprehension of words and pictures in reading

    Giorgio Ganis;Marta Kutas;Martin I. Sereno

  • Neurophysiological evidence for visual perceptual categorization of words and faces within 150 ms

    Haline E. Schendan;Giorgio Ganis;Marta Kutas

  • Training generalized spatial skills

    Rebecca Wright;William L. Thompson;Giorgio Ganis;Nora S. Newcombe

  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of Primary Motor Cortex Affects Mental Rotation

    Giorgio Ganis;Julian P. Keenan;Stephen M. Kosslyn;Alvaro Pascual-Leone

  • An electrophysiological study of scene effects on object identification.

    Giorgio Ganis;Marta Kutas

  • Assessing Vividness of Mental Imagery: The Plymouth Sensory Imagery Questionnaire

    Jackie Andrade;Jon May;Catherine Deeprose;Sarah-Jane Baugh

  • Adaptive filtering to reduce global interference in non-invasive NIRS measures of brain activation: how well and when does it work?

    Quan Zhang;Gary E. Strangman;Giorgio Ganis

  • Lying in the scanner: covert countermeasures disrupt deception detection by functional magnetic resonance imaging.

    Giorgio Ganis;J. Peter Rosenfeld;John Meixner;Rogier A. Kievit

  • Frontostriatal circuits are necessary for visuomotor transformation: mental rotation in Parkinson's disease.

    Melissa M. Amick;Haline E. Schendan;Haline E. Schendan;Haline E. Schendan;Giorgio Ganis;Alice Cronin-Golomb

  • Visual cortex excitability increases during visual mental imagery--a TMS study in healthy human subjects.

    Roland Sparing;Felix M. Mottaghy;Giorgio Ganis;William L. Thompson

  • Virtual Morality: Transitioning from Moral Judgment to Moral Action?

    Kathryn B. Francis;Charles Howard;Ian S. Howard;Michaela Gummerum

  • Hand response differences in a self-face identification task

    Julian Paul Keenan;Stefanie Freund;Roy H Hamilton;Giorgio Ganis;Giorgio Ganis

  • A New Set of Three-Dimensional Shapes for Investigating Mental Rotation Processes: Validation Data and Stimulus Set

    Giorgio Ganis;Rogier Kievit

  • Mental imagery: against the nihilistic hypothesis

    Stephen M. Kosslyn;Giorgio Ganis;William L. Thompson

  • #EEGManyLabs : investigating the replicability of influential EEG experiments

    Yuri G. Pavlov;Nika Adamian;Stefan Appelhoff;Mahnaz Arvaneh

  • Visual mental imagery and perception produce opposite adaptation effects on early brain potentials

    Giorgio Ganis;Haline E. Schendan;Haline E. Schendan

  • Assessing the neural correlates of self-enhancement bias: a transcranial magnetic stimulation study

    Virginia S. Y. Kwan;Veronica Barrios;Giorgio Ganis;Jamie Gorman

  • Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of human area MT/V5 disrupts perception and storage of the motion aftereffect.

    Hugo Théoret;Masahito Kobayashi;Giorgio Ganis;Paul Di Capua

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen M. Kosslyn
Stephen M. Kosslyn Harvard University
William L. Thompson
William L. Thompson Harvard University
Julian Paul Keenan
Julian Paul Keenan Montclair State University
Rogier A. Kievit
Rogier A. Kievit Donders Institute
J. Peter Rosenfeld
J. Peter Rosenfeld Northwestern University
Fred W. Mast
Fred W. Mast University of Bern
Marta Kutas
Marta Kutas University of California, San Diego
Jackie Andrade
Jackie Andrade Plymouth University
Jon May
Jon May Plymouth University
Alice Cronin-Golomb
Alice Cronin-Golomb Boston University

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