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Mauro Pesenti is affiliated with Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. Their research primarily centers on neuroscience, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience.

The main areas of study covered by Pesenti's work include:

  • Neuroscience

More specifically, Pesenti has contributed to multiple subfields such as:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Statistics and Probability
  • Automotive Engineering
  • Social Psychology
  • Pollution

The scientific topics frequently explored in Pesenti's publications are:

  • Motor Control and Adaptation
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Spatial Cognition and Navigation

Pesenti has published papers in various academic journals, with recent contributions appearing in:

  • Cognition
  • Current Biology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Psychological Research
  • Neuropsychologia

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Pesenti include:

  • Spatial biases in mental arithmetic are independent of reading/writing habits: Evidence from French and Arabic speakers (2020, Cognition)
  • Exogenous covert shift of attention without the ability to plan eye movements (2020, Current Biology)
  • Role of the fronto-parietal cortex in prospective action judgments (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • A functional role for oculomotor preparation in mental arithmetic evidenced by the abducted eye paradigm (2022, Psychological Research)
  • Shifting attention in visuospatial short-term memory does not require oculomotor planning: Insight from congenital gaze paralysis (2021, Neuropsychologia)

Key frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Michaël Andres
  • Nicolas Masson
  • Gilles Vannuscorps
  • Sarah Carneiro Pereira
  • Laurie Geers

Best Publications

  • Neuroanatomical Substrates of Arabic Number Processing, Numerical Comparison, and Simple Addition: A PET Study

    Mauro Pesenti;Marc Thioux;Xavier Seron;Anne De Volder

  • Neural Correlates of Simple and Complex Mental Calculation

    Laure Zago;Mauro Pesenti;Emmanuel Mellet;Fabrice Crivello

  • Images of numbers, or "When 98 is upper left and 6 sky blue".

    Xavier Seron;Mauro Pesenti;Marie-Pascale Noël;Gérard Deloche

  • Numerosity-duration interference: a Stroop experiment.

    Valérie Dormal;Xavier Seron;Mauro Pesenti

  • Finger-digit compatibility in Arabic numeral processing.

    Samuel Di Luca;Alessia Granà;Carlo Semenza;Xavier Seron

  • Mental calculation in a prodigy is sustained by right prefrontal and medial temporal areas

    Mauro Pesenti;Laure Zago;Fabrice Crivello;Emmanuel Mellet

  • Masked priming effect with canonical finger numeral configurations

    Samuel Di Luca;Mauro Pesenti

  • Number magnitude and grip aperture interaction.

    Michael Andres;Marco Davare;Mauro Pesenti;Etienne Olivier

  • Selective impairment as evidence for mental organisation of arithmetical facts: BB, a case of preserved subtraction?

    Mauro Pesenti;Xavier Seron;Martial Van Der Linden

  • Finger counting: The missing tool?

    Michael Andres;Samuel Di Luca;Mauro Pesenti

  • Latent deleterious effects of binge drinking over a short period of time revealed only by electrophysiological measures.

    Pierre Maurage;Mauro Pesenti;Pierre Philippot;Frédéric Joassin

  • Common substrate for mental arithmetic and finger representation in the parietal cortex.

    Michael Andres;Nicolas Michaux;Mauro Pesenti

  • Finger numeral representations: more than just another symbolic code.

    Samuel Di Luca;Mauro Pesenti

  • Role of distinct parietal areas in arithmetic: An fMRI-guided TMS study

    Michael Andres;Barbara Pelgrims;Nicolas Michaux;Etienne Olivier

  • Creating number semantics through finger movement perception.

    Arnaud Badets;Mauro Pesenti

  • Dissociation of numerosity and duration processing in the left intraparietal sulcus: A transcranial magnetic stimulation study

    Valérie Dormal;Michael Andres;Mauro Pesenti

  • Cross-modal interactions between human faces and voices involved in person recognition

    Frederic Joassin;Mauro Pesenti;Pierre Maurage;Emilie E. Verreckt

  • Number magnitude potentiates action judgements.

    Arnaud Badets;Michael Andres;Samuel Di Luca;Mauro Pesenti

  • Disrupted regulation of social exclusion in alcohol-dependence : an fMRI Study

    P. Maurage;F. Joassin;M. Pesenti;P. Philippot

  • A common right fronto-parietal network for numerosity and duration processing: an fMRI study.

    Valérie Dormal;Giulia Dormal;Frédéric Joassin;Mauro Pesenti

Frequent Co-Authors

Xavier Seron
Xavier Seron Université Catholique de Louvain
Pierre Maurage
Pierre Maurage Université Catholique de Louvain
Marie-Pascale Noël
Marie-Pascale Noël Université Catholique de Louvain
Alexandre Heeren
Alexandre Heeren Université Catholique de Louvain
Pierre Philippot
Pierre Philippot Université Catholique de Louvain
Salvatore Campanella
Salvatore Campanella Université Libre de Bruxelles
Dana Samson
Dana Samson Université Catholique de Louvain
Klaus Willmes
Klaus Willmes RWTH Aachen University
Raymond Bruyer
Raymond Bruyer Université Catholique de Louvain
Martial Van der Linden
Martial Van der Linden University of Geneva

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