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Overview

Pier Francesco Ferrari is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research spans multiple fields including Neuroscience, Psychology, and Medicine, with notable contributions in the subfields of Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Surgery, Neurology, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

The main topics of their work involve:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Pectus Deformity Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Facial Nerve Paralysis Treatment and Research
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology

Ferrari has contributed papers published in a variety of scientific venues. Among frequent publication venues are Research Square, bioRxiv, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Scientific Reports, and Current Biology.

Recent significant papers include:

  • Detection and analysis of cortical beta bursts in developmental EEG data, 2022, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Bursting with Potential: How Sensorimotor Beta Bursts Develop from Infancy to Adulthood, 2023, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Sculpting Culture: Early Maternal Responsiveness and Child Emotion Regulation - A UK-Italy Comparison, 2020, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • The epidemiology of Moebius syndrome in Italy, 2021, Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
  • Learning new sport actions: Pilot study to investigate the imitative and the verbal instructive teaching methods in motor education, 2020, PLoS ONE

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • R. G. Holly
  • James Bonaiuto
  • Gino Coudé
  • Arturo Carta
  • Stefania Favilla

Pier Francesco Ferrari's body of work integrates experimental and clinical aspects across neuroscience and psychology with a multidisciplinary approach that also touches on medicine and surgery. Their research on neural dynamics and cognitive processes, combined with clinical topics such as facial nerve paralysis and pectus deformity, illustrates a broad scientific scope.

Best Publications

  • Parietal lobe: from action organization to intention understanding.

    Leonardo Fogassi;Pier Francesco Ferrari;Benno Gesierich;Stefano Rozzi

  • Empathy: Gender effects in brain and behavior

    Leonardo Christov-Moore;Elizabeth A. Simpson;Gino Coudé;Kristina Grigaityte

  • Mirror neurons responding to the observation of ingestive and communicative mouth actions in the monkey ventral premotor cortex.

    Pier Francesco Ferrari;Vittorio Gallese;Giacomo Rizzolatti;Leonardo Fogassi

  • Neonatal Imitation in Rhesus Macaques

    Pier F Ferrari;Elisabetta Visalberghi;Annika Paukner;Leonardo Fogassi

  • Functional organization of inferior parietal lobule convexity in the macaque monkey: electrophysiological characterization of motor, sensory and mirror responses and their correlation with cytoarchitectonic areas.

    Stefano Rozzi;Pier Francesco Ferrari;Luca Bonini;Giacomo Rizzolatti

  • Mirror Neurons Responding to Observation of Actions Made with Tools in Monkey Ventral Premotor Cortex

    Pier Francesco Ferrari;Stefano Rozzi;Leonardo Fogassi

  • Assessing human mirror activity with EEG Mu Rhythm: a meta-analysis

    Nathan A. Fox;Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg;Kathryn H. Yoo;Lindsay C. Bowman

  • Escalated aggressive behavior: dopamine, serotonin and GABA.

    Rosa M.M. de Almeida;Pier Francesco Ferrari;Stefano Parmigiani;Klaus A. Miczek

  • Towards a bottom-up perspective on animal and human cognition.

    Frans B.M. de Waal;Pier Francesco Ferrari

  • Ventral Premotor and Inferior Parietal Cortices Make Distinct Contribution to Action Organization and Intention Understanding

    Luca Bonini;Stefano Rozzi;Francesca Ugolotti Serventi;Luciano Simone

  • Accumbal dopamine and serotonin in anticipation of the next aggressive episode in rats

    P. F. Ferrari;A. M. M. Van Erp;W. Tornatzky;K. A. Miczek

  • Capuchin monkeys display affiliation toward humans who imitate them

    Annika Paukner;Stephen J. Suomi;Elisabetta Visalberghi;Pier F. Ferrari;Pier F. Ferrari

  • Contagious yawning in gelada baboons as a possible expression of empathy

    E. Palagi;A. Leone;G. Mancini;Pier Francesco Ferrari

  • Mirror Neurons and the Evolution of Embodied Language

    Leonardo Fogassi;Pier Francesco Ferrari

  • Reciprocal Face-to-Face Communication between Rhesus Macaque Mothers and Their Newborn Infants

    Pier Francesco Ferrari;Pier Francesco Ferrari;Annika Paukner;Consuel Ionica;Stephen J. Suomi

  • Selection, evolution of behavior and animal models in behavioral neuroscience.

    Stefano Parmigiani;Paola Palanza;John Rodgers;Piers Francesco Ferrari

  • The mirror neuron system as revealed through neonatal imitation: presence from birth, predictive power, and evidence of plasticity

    Elizabeth A. Simpson;Lynne Murray;Lynne Murray;Annika Paukner;Pier F. Ferrari

  • Neurons Controlling Voluntary Vocalization in the Macaque Ventral Premotor Cortex

    Gino Coudé;Gino Coudé;Pier Francesco Ferrari;Pier Francesco Ferrari;Francesca Rodà;Francesca Rodà;Monica Maranesi;Monica Maranesi

  • Behavioral profile of wild mice in the elevated plus-maze test for anxiety.

    A Holmes;S Parmigiani;P.F Ferrari;P Palanza

  • Defensive behaviors in wild and laboratory (Swiss) mice: the mouse defense test battery

    Blanchard Rj;Hebert Ma;Ferrari Pf;Palanza P

  • The Mirror Neuron System: A Fresh View

    Antonino Casile;Antonino Casile;Vittorio Caggiano;Vittorio Caggiano;Pier Francesco Ferrari

Frequent Co-Authors

Leonardo Fogassi
Leonardo Fogassi University of Parma
Stephen J. Suomi
Stephen J. Suomi National Institutes of Health
Lynne Murray
Lynne Murray University of Reading
Nathan A. Fox
Nathan A. Fox University of Maryland, College Park
Stefano Rozzi
Stefano Rozzi University of Parma
Elisabetta Palagi
Elisabetta Palagi University of Pisa
Giacomo Rizzolatti
Giacomo Rizzolatti University of Parma
R.J. Rodgers
R.J. Rodgers University of Leeds
Vittorio Gallese
Vittorio Gallese University of Parma
Klaus A. Miczek
Klaus A. Miczek Tufts University

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