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Manuela Piazza

Manuela Piazza

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
38
Citations
14674
World Ranking
8417
National Ranking
460

Psychology

D-Index
38
Citations
14666
World Ranking
8700
National Ranking
185

Overview

Manuela Piazza is affiliated with the University of Trento in Italy. Their research encompasses multiple fields including mathematics, neuroscience, and psychology, with a focus on both foundational and applied aspects of these disciplines.

Their work prominently addresses cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, mathematics education and teaching techniques, as well as reading and literacy development. Additional topics include memory and neural mechanisms, visual perception and processing mechanisms, olfactory and sensory function studies, and child and animal learning development.

Major fields of study for this researcher include:

  • Mathematics
  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Within these areas, notable subfields consist of statistics and probability, cognitive neuroscience, education, developmental and educational psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Frequent publication venues for Manuela Piazza include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • NeuroImage
  • PLoS ONE
  • Developmental Science
  • Communications Biology

Recent scientific papers feature:

  • "Distance and Direction Codes Underlie Navigation of a Novel Semantic Space in the Human Brain" (2020, Journal of Neuroscience)
  • "Grid-like and distance codes for representing word meaning in the human brain" (2021, NeuroImage)
  • "Individual Brain Charting dataset extension, second release of high-resolution fMRI data for cognitive mapping" (2020, Scientific Data)
  • "Impaired large numerosity estimation and intact subitizing in developmental dyscalculia" (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • "Learning disabilities: Developmental dyscalculia" (2020, Handbook of clinical neurology)

Collaborations have been established with multiple researchers, including:

  • Evelyn Eger
  • Elisa Castaldi
  • Simone Viganò
  • M. Buiatti
  • Gisella Decarli

Manuela Piazza's scientific contributions span experimental studies, data collection initiatives, and reviews focused on understanding cognitive processes related to mathematics and language, as well as their neural correlates. The interdisciplinary nature of their research incorporates education, neuroscience, and psychology to explore developmental phenomena and learning disabilities, such as developmental dyscalculia.

Best Publications

  • THREE PARIETAL CIRCUITS FOR NUMBER PROCESSING

    Stanislas Dehaene;Manuela Piazza;Philippe Pinel;Laurent Cohen

  • Interactions between number and space in parietal cortex.

    Edward M. Hubbard;Manuela Piazza;Philippe Pinel;Stanislas Dehaene

  • Tuning Curves for Approximate Numerosity in the Human Intraparietal Sulcus

    Manuela Piazza;Véronique Izard;Philippe Pinel;Denis Le Bihan

  • A magnitude code common to numerosities and number symbols in human intraparietal cortex.

    Manuela Piazza;Manuela Piazza;Philippe Pinel;Philippe Pinel;Denis Le Bihan;Stanislas Dehaene

  • Developmental trajectory of number acuity reveals a severe impairment in developmental dyscalculia

    Manuela Piazza;Andrea Facoetti;Anna Noemi Trussardi;Ilaria Berteletti

  • Distributed and Overlapping Cerebral Representations of Number, Size, and Luminance during Comparative Judgments

    Philippe Pinel;Manuela Piazza;Denis Le Bihan;Stanislas Dehaene

  • Neurocognitive start-up tools for symbolic number representations

    Manuela Piazza;Manuela Piazza

  • Are subitizing and counting implemented as separate or functionally overlapping processes

    Manuela Piazza;Andrea Mechelli;Brian Butterworth;Cathy J. Price

  • Does subitizing reflect numerical estimation

    Susannah K. Revkin;Susannah K. Revkin;Susannah K. Revkin;Manuela Piazza;Véronique Izard;Laurent Cohen

  • Numerical Estimation in Preschoolers.

    Ilaria Berteletti;Daniela Lucangeli;Manuela Piazza;Stanislas Dehaene

  • Education Enhances the Acuity of the Nonverbal Approximate Number System

    Manuela Piazza;Pierre Pica;Véronique Izard;Véronique Izard;Elizabeth S. Spelke

  • Exact and approximate judgements of visual and auditory numerosity: an fMRI study.

    Manuela Piazza;Manuela Piazza;Andrea Mechelli;Cathy J. Price;Brian Butterworth

  • Subitizing reflects visuo-spatial object individuation capacity

    Manuela Piazza;Antonia Fumarola;Antonia Fumarola;Alessandro Chinello;David Melcher

  • Single-trial classification of parallel pre-attentive and serial attentive processes using functional magnetic resonance imaging

    Manuela Piazza;Manuela Piazza;Eric Giacomini;Denis Le Bihan;Stanislas Dehaene

  • How Humans Count: Numerosity and the Parietal Cortex

    Manuela Piazza;Véronique Izard

  • Cortical route for facelike pattern processing in human newborns

    Marco Buiatti;Elisa Di Giorgio;Manuela Piazza;Carlo Polloni

  • Attentional amplification of neural codes for number independent of other quantities along the dorsal visual stream

    Elisa Castaldi;Manuela Piazza;Stanislas Dehaene;Alexandre Vignaud

  • Neural foundations and functional specificity of number representations.

    Manuela Piazza;Evelyn Eger;Evelyn Eger;Evelyn Eger

  • Neural mechanisms of attentional shifts due to irrelevant spatial and numerical cues.

    Mariagrazia Ranzini;Stanislas Dehaene;Manuela Piazza;Edward M. Hubbard;Edward M. Hubbard;Edward M. Hubbard

  • Mathematical difficulties in developmental coordination disorder: Symbolic and nonsymbolic number processing.

    Alice Gomez;Manuela Piazza;Manuela Piazza;Antoinette Jobert;Antoinette Jobert;Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz;Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz

  • The Role of Attentional Priority and Saliency in Determining Capacity Limits in Enumeration and Visual Working Memory

    David Melcher;Manuela Piazza;Manuela Piazza

Frequent Co-Authors

Stanislas Dehaene
Stanislas Dehaene Collège de France
Antoinette Jobert
Antoinette Jobert Grenoble Alpes University
Brian Butterworth
Brian Butterworth University College London
David Melcher
David Melcher University of Trento
Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz
Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Cathy J. Price
Cathy J. Price University College London
Giorgio Vallortigara
Giorgio Vallortigara University of Trento
Luca Surian
Luca Surian University of Trento
Marco Zorzi
Marco Zorzi University of Padua
Denis Le Bihan
Denis Le Bihan University of Paris-Saclay

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