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Tomaso Vecchi

Tomaso Vecchi

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Neuroscience

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45
Citations
7226
World Ranking
6947
National Ranking
361

Psychology

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45
Citations
7202
World Ranking
6756
National Ranking
129

Overview

Tomaso Vecchi is affiliated with the University of Pavia in Italy. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields including Psychology, Neuroscience, and Medicine, with notable emphasis on Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Clinical Psychology. Their work often intersects with specific topics such as Migraine and Headache Studies, Vestibular and Auditory Disorders, Action Observation and Synchronization, Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, COVID-19 and Mental Health, Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation, and Memory Processes and Influences.

Vecchi has published extensively, with recent papers including:

  • Covid-19 Outbreak In Italy: Are We Ready for the Psychosocial and the Economic Crisis? Baseline Findings From the PsyCovid Study (2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry)
  • Risk Perception in a Real-World Situation (COVID-19): How It Changes From 18 to 87 Years Old (2021, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • The foreign language effect on decision-making: A meta-analysis (2021, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review)
  • Cognitive Telerehabilitation for Older Adults With Neurodegenerative Diseases in the COVID-19 Era: A Perspective Study (2021, Frontiers in Neurology)
  • Cerebellum and semantic memory: A TMS study using the DRM paradigm (2020, Cortex)

The scientist frequently collaborates with colleagues including Cristina Tassorelli, Sara Bottiroli, Sara Bernini, Elena Cavallini, and Daniele Gatti.

Publication venues where Vecchi's research appears most frequently include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Vecchi has contributed a book titled Memory as Prediction, published by The MIT Press in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Visuo-spatial working memory and individual differences

    Cesare Cornoldi;Tomaso Elia Vecchi

  • Imagery and spatial processes in blindness and visual impairment.

    Zaira Cattaneo;Tomaso Vecchi;Cesare Cornoldi;Irene Mammarella

  • Blind Vision: The Neuroscience of Visual Impairment

    Zaira Cattaneo;Tomaso Vecchi

  • Neural correlates of spatial working memory in humans: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study comparing visual and tactile processes

    Emiliano Ricciardi;Daniela Bonino;Daniela Bonino;Claudio Gentili;Lorenzo Sani

  • Gender effects in spatial orientation: cognitive profiles and mental strategies.

    Andrea Bosco;Anna M. Longoni;Tomaso Vecchi

  • Do We Really Need Vision? How Blind People “See” the Actions of Others

    Emiliano Ricciardi;Daniela Bonino;Lorenzo Sani;Tomaso Vecchi

  • Theory of Mind in aging: Comparing cognitive and affective components in the faux pas test.

    Sara Bottiroli;Elena Cavallini;Irene Ceccato;Tomaso Elia Vecchi

  • Gender Differences in Visuo-Spatial Processing: The Importance of Distinguishing Between Passive Storage and Active Manipulation

    Tomaso Vecchi;Luisa Girelli

  • The cognitive effects of listening to background music on older adults: processing speed improves with upbeat music, while memory seems to benefit from both upbeat and downbeat music.

    Sara Bottiroli;Alessia Rosi;Riccardo Russo;Tomaso Vecchi

  • Aging and everyday memory: the beneficial effect of memory training.

    Elena Cavallini;Adriano Pagnin;Tomaso Vecchi

  • Passive Storage and Active Manipulation in Visuo-spatial Working Memory: Further Evidence From the Study of Age Differences

    Tomaso Vecchi;Cesare Cornoldi

  • Covid-19 Outbreak In Italy: Are We Ready for the Psychosocial and the Economic Crisis? Baseline Findings From the PsyCovid Study

    Chiara Cerami;Gaia C Santi;Caterina Galandra;Alessandra Dodich

  • A neurological dissociation between preserved visual and impaired spatial processing in mental imagery.

    Claudio Luzzatti;Tomaso Vecchi;Daniela Agazzi;Marcello Cesa-Bianchi

  • Visuo-spatial working memory: Structures and variables affecting a capacity measure

    Tomaso Vecchi;Maria Luisa Monticellai;Maria Luisa Monticellai;Cesare Cornoldi;Cesare Cornoldi

  • Visuo-spatial imagery in congenitally totally blind people.

    Tomaso Vecchi

  • Spatial memory and integration processes in congenital blindness.

    Tomaso Elia Vecchi;C. Tinti;Cesare Cornoldi

  • The Dorsomedial Prefrontal Cortex Plays a Causal Role in Integrating Social Impressions from Faces and Verbal Descriptions

    Chiara Ferrari;Carlotta Lega;Mirta Vernice;Marco Tamietto

  • Risk Perception in a Real-World Situation (COVID-19): How It Changes From 18 to 87 Years Old

    Alessia Rosi;Floris Tijmen van Vugt;Floris Tijmen van Vugt;Serena Lecce;Irene Ceccato

  • Contrasting early visual cortical activation states causally involved in visual imagery and short-term memory.

    Zaira Cattaneo;Tomaso Vecchi;Alvaro Pascual-Leone;Juha Silvanto

  • The causal role of category-specific neuronal representations in the left ventral premotor cortex (PMv) in semantic processing.

    Zaira Cattaneo;Joseph T. Devlin;Francesca Salvini;Tomaso Vecchi

  • Long-term effects of memory training in the elderly: a longitudinal study.

    Sara Bottiroli;Elena Cavallini;Tomaso Vecchi

Frequent Co-Authors

Zaira Cattaneo
Zaira Cattaneo University of Milano-Bicocca
Pietro Pietrini
Pietro Pietrini IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
Emiliano Ricciardi
Emiliano Ricciardi IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
Juha Silvanto
Juha Silvanto University of Surrey
Lotfi B. Merabet
Lotfi B. Merabet Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Cesare Cornoldi
Cesare Cornoldi University of Padua
John T. E. Richardson
John T. E. Richardson The Open University
Giorgio Sandrini
Giorgio Sandrini University of Pavia
John Dunlosky
John Dunlosky Kent State University
Claus-Christian Carbon
Claus-Christian Carbon University of Bamberg

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