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Overview

Nicola Canessa is affiliated with the Istituto Universitario Di Studi Superiori Di Pavia in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, medicine, and psychology, with a strong emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and mental health-related subfields.

The scientist's recent published papers include:

  • Overlapping and specific neural correlates for empathizing, affective mentalizing, and cognitive mentalizing: A coordinate-based meta-analytic study, 2021, Human Brain Mapping
  • Neural representation of social concepts: a coordinate-based meta-analysis of fMRI studies, 2020, Brain Imaging and Behavior
  • Lockdown Effects on Healthy Cognitive Aging During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Risk perception and behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic: Predicting variables of compliance with lockdown measures, 2022, PLoS ONE
  • Neurocognition and social cognition in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders with and without a history of violence: results of a multinational European study, 2021, Translational Psychiatry

Canessa's work covers multiple topics, including:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research

The frequent co-authors with whom Nicola Canessa collaborates are:

  • Giulia Mattavelli
  • Maria Arioli
  • Claudia Gianelli
  • Gianpaolo Basso
  • Paolo Poggi

In terms of publication venues, Canessa has often published in:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Human Brain Mapping
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
  • Brain Sciences

Their academic contributions span several key fields of study, notably:

  • Neuroscience
  • Medicine
  • Psychology

Canessa's subfield interests include:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Best Publications

  • Neural Circuits Involved in the Recognition of Actions Performed by Nonconspecifics: An fMRI Study

    Giovanni Buccino;Fausta Lui;Nicola Canessa;Ilaria Patteri

  • Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Brain Structural Changes and Neurocognitive Function before and after Treatment

    Nicola Canessa;Vincenza Castronovo;Stefano F. Cappa;Mark S. Aloia

  • Understanding the exploration–exploitation dilemma: An fMRI study of attention control and decision-making performance

    Daniella Laureiro-Martínez;Daniella Laureiro-Martínez;Stefano Brusoni;Nicola Canessa;Maurizio Zollo

  • Prefrontal involvement in imitation learning of hand actions: Effects of practice and expertise

    Stefan Vogt;Giovanni Buccino;Afra M. Wohlschläger;Nicola Canessa

  • The Different Neural Correlates of Action and Functional Knowledge in Semantic Memory: An fMRI Study

    Nicola Canessa;Francesca Borgo;Stefano F. Cappa;Daniela Perani

  • The Functional and Structural Neural Basis of Individual Differences in Loss Aversion

    Nicola Canessa;Chiara Crespi;Matteo Motterlini;Gabriel Baud-Bovy;Gabriel Baud-Bovy

  • Neuropsychological evidence for a strategic control of multiple routes in imitation.

    Alessia Tessari;Nicola Canessa;Maja Ukmar;Raffaella I. Rumiati

  • Social Cognition through the Lens of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience.

    Maria Arioli;Chiara Crespi;Nicola Canessa

  • Brain activation changes before and after PAP treatment in obstructive sleep apnea.

    Vincenza Castronovo;Nicola Canessa;Luigi Ferini Strambi;Mark S. Aloia

  • Perceived social isolation is associated with altered functional connectivity in neural networks associated with tonic alertness and executive control.

    Elliot A. Layden;John T. Cacioppo;Stephanie Cacioppo;Stefano F. Cappa

  • Emotion recognition from facial expressions: a normative study of the Ekman 60-Faces Test in the Italian population.

    Alessandra Dodich;Chiara Cerami;Nicola Canessa;Chiara Crespi

  • Overlapping and specific neural correlates for empathizing, affective mentalizing, and cognitive mentalizing: A coordinate-based meta-analytic study.

    Maria Arioli;Zaira Cattaneo;Emiliano Ricciardi;Nicola Canessa

  • Emotional empathy in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a behavioural and voxel-based morphometry study

    Chiara Cerami;Alessandra Dodich;Nicola Canessa;Chiara Crespi

  • Frontopolar cortex and decision-making efficiency: comparing brain activity of experts with different professional background during an exploration-exploitation task

    Daniella Laureiro-Martínez;Nicola Canessa;Stefano Brusoni;Maurizio Zollo

  • The Effect of Social Content on Deductive Reasoning: An fMRI Study

    Nicola Canessa;Alessandra Gorini;Stefano F. Cappa;Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini

  • A novel task assessing intention and emotion attribution: Italian standardization and normative data of the Story-based Empathy Task.

    Alessandra Dodich;Chiara Cerami;Nicola Canessa;Chiara Crespi

  • Microstructural white matter correlates of emotion recognition impairment in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

    Chiara Crespi;Chiara Cerami;Alessandra Dodich;Nicola Canessa

  • Specificity of Esthetic Experience for Artworks: An fMRI Study

    Cinzia Di Dio;Nicola Canessa;Stefano F. Cappa;Giacomo Rizzolatti

  • The Neural Bases of Social Intention Understanding: the Role of Interaction Goals

    Nicola Canessa;Federica Alemanno;Federica Riva;Alberto Zani

  • Neural correlates of empathic impairment in the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia

    Chiara Cerami;Alessandra Dodich;Nicola Canessa;Chiara Crespi

  • Differential Impairment of Cognitive and Affective Mentalizing Abilities in Neurodegenerative Dementias: Evidence from Behavioral Variant of Frontotemporal Dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Mild Cognitive Impairment

    Alessandra Dodich;Chiara Cerami;Chiara Crespi;Nicola Canessa

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefano F. Cappa
Stefano F. Cappa Istituto Universitario Di Studi Superiori Di Pavia
Sandro Iannaccone
Sandro Iannaccone Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Daniela Perani
Daniela Perani Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Giacomo Rizzolatti
Giacomo Rizzolatti University of Parma
Paola Scifo
Paola Scifo Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Alessandra Gorini
Alessandra Gorini University of Milan
Giovanni Buccino
Giovanni Buccino Magna Graecia University
Alice Mado Proverbio
Alice Mado Proverbio University of Milano-Bicocca
Alberto Zani
Alberto Zani National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Karl Zilles
Karl Zilles Forschungszentrum Jülich

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