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Overview

Maria Caterina Silveri is affiliated with the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with notable specialization in Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience, as well as Psychiatry and Mental Health.

Their work addresses a range of topics, including:

  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Parkinson's Disease mechanisms and treatments
  • Neurobiology of language and bilingualism
  • Psychosomatic disorders and their treatments
  • Genetic neurodegenerative diseases
  • Dementia and cognitive impairment research
  • Functional brain connectivity studies

Maria Caterina Silveri has published in a variety of frequent venues, such as:

  • Journal of Neurology
  • Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Neurological Sciences
  • Neuropsychology
  • Journal of the Neurological Sciences

The most cited paper authored by Silveri is titled "Contribution of the Cerebellum and the Basal Ganglia to Language Production: Speech, Word Fluency, and Sentence Construction-Evidence from Pathology", published in 2020 in the journal The Cerebellum, with 84 citations. Other significant papers relevant to their research interests include:

  • "Placebo and Nocebo Effects as Bayesian-Brain Phenomena: The Overlooked Role of Likelihood and Attention", 2023, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "Decision making in Parkinson's disease: An analysis of the studies using the Iowa Gambling Task", 2021, European Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Cognitive reserve: a multidimensional protective factor in Parkinson's disease related cognitive impairment", 2021, Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition
  • "Resting-state functional connectivity is modulated by cognitive reserve in early Parkinson's disease", 2023, Frontiers in Psychology

Collaborations have been an important aspect of their research activity, with frequent co-authors including Sonia Di Tella, Maria Rita Lo Monaco, Anna Rita Bentivoglio, Francesca Baglio, and Paolo Calabresi.

Best Publications

  • On the Basis for the Agrammatic's Difficulty in Producing Main Verbs

    Gabriele Miceli;Gabriele Miceli;M. Caterina Silveri;M. Caterina Silveri;Giampiero Villa;Giampiero Villa;Alfonso Caramazza;Alfonso Caramazza

  • Evidence for a possible neuroanatomical basis for lexical processing of nouns and verbs

    Antonio Daniele;Laura Giustolisi;M.Caterina Silveri;Cesare Colosimo

  • Prosopagnosia can be associated with damage confined to the right hemisphere—An MRI and PET study and a review of the literature

    E. De Renzi;D. Perani;Giovanni A. Carlesimo;M. C. Silveri

  • Cerebellum and procedural learning: evidence from focal cerebellar lesions

    Marco Molinari;Maria G. Leggio;Alessandra Solida;Roberto Ciorra

  • The cerebellum contributes to linguistic production: A case of agrammatic speech following a right cerebellar lesion

    Maria Caterina Silveri;Maria Giuseppa Leggio;Marco Molinari

  • Neuroanatomical correlates of category-specific semantic disorders: A critical survey

    Guido Gainotti;Maria Caterina Silveri;Antonio Daniele;Laura Giustolisi

  • Variation in the Pattern of Omissions and Substitutions of Grammatical Morphemes in the Spontaneous Speech of So-Called Agrammatic Patients

    Gabriele Miceli;M.Caterina Silveri;Cristina Romani;Alfonso Caramazza

  • Efavirenz associated with cognitive disorders in otherwise asymptomatic HIV-infected patients

    N. Ciccarelli;M. Fabbiani;S. Di Giambenedetto;I. Fanti

  • The phonological short-term store-rehearsal system: Patterns of impairment and neural correlates

    Giuseppe Vallar;Anna Maria Di Betta;Maria Caterina Silveri

  • Neuropsychological correlates of localized cerebral lesions in non-aphasic brain-damaged patients

    Gabriele Miceli;C. Caltagirone;G. Gainotti;C. Masullo

  • Phonological grouping is specifically affected in cerebellar patients: a verbal fluency study

    Maria Giuseppa Leggio;Maria Caterina Silveri;Laura Petrosini;Marco Molinari

  • Dissociation between knowledge of living and nonliving things in dementia of the Alzheimer type

    Maria Caterina Silveri;Antonio Daniele;Laura Giustolisi;Guido Gainotti

  • Reality orientation therapy combined with cholinesterase inhibitors in Alzheimer's disease: randomised controlled trial

    Graziano Onder;Orazio Zanetti;Ezio Giacobini;Giovanni B. Frisoni

  • Cognitive and anatomical locus of lesion in a patient with a category-specific semantic impairment for living beings

    Guido Gainotti;Maria Caterina Silveri

  • Verbal short-term store-rehearsal system and the cerebellum. Evidence from a patient with a right cerebellar lesion.

    M C Silveri;A M Di Betta;V Filippini;M G Leggio

  • Cognitive Analysis of a Case of Pure Dysgraphia

    Gabriele Miceli;M.Caterina Silveri;Alfonso Caramazza

  • MECHANISMS OF UNILATERAL SPATIAL NEGLECT IN RELATION TO LATERALITY OF CEREBRAL LESIONS

    Guido Gainotti;Patrizia D'erme;Diego Monteleone;Maria Caterina Silveri

  • Naming deficit for non-living items: Neuropsychological and PET study

    Maria Caterina Silveri;Guido Gainotti;Daniela Perani;Jee Yun Cappelletti

  • Noun-verb dissociations in brain-damaged patients: Further evidence

    Maria Caterina Silveri;Anna Maria Di Betta

  • Anomia with and without lexical comprehension disorders.

    Guido Gainotti;Maria Caterina Silveri;Giampiero Villa;Gabriele Miceli

  • Interaction between vision and language in category-specific semantic impairment

    M.-C Silveri

Frequent Co-Authors

Guido Gainotti
Guido Gainotti Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Roberto Cauda
Roberto Cauda Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Maria Leggio
Maria Leggio Sapienza University of Rome
Anna Rita Bentivoglio
Anna Rita Bentivoglio Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Camillo Marra
Camillo Marra Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic
Gabriele Miceli
Gabriele Miceli University of Trento
Laura Petrosini
Laura Petrosini Sapienza University of Rome
Raffaella I. Rumiati
Raffaella I. Rumiati International School for Advanced Studies
Daniela Perani
Daniela Perani Vita-Salute San Raffaele University

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