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37
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8758
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Nicola Canessa publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nicola Canessa sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 143 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Nicola Canessa D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nicola Canessa sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 37 D-Index — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

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
Andrea Falini
Andrea Falini Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Sandro Iannaccone
Sandro Iannaccone Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Daniela Perani
Daniela Perani Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Luigi Ferini-Strambi
Luigi Ferini-Strambi Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Giacomo Rizzolatti
Giacomo Rizzolatti University of Parma
Maurizio Zollo
Maurizio Zollo Imperial College London
Paola Scifo
Paola Scifo Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Alessandra Gorini
Alessandra Gorini University of Milan

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