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Umberto Castiello

Umberto Castiello

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Psychology

D-Index
66
Citations
15616
World Ranking
2720
National Ranking
37

Overview

Umberto Castiello is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy and contributes to research primarily within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields, notably Plant Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology, and Social Psychology.

The scientist's research focuses on topics such as Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies, Plant and animal studies, Plant Reproductive Biology, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Plant Molecular Biology Research, and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research.

Recent publications by Umberto Castiello include the following:

  • "(Re)claiming plants in comparative psychology." (2020) in Journal of comparative psychology
  • "Can Plants Move Like Animals? A Three-Dimensional Stereovision Analysis of Movement in Plants" (2021) in Animals
  • "Handedness and White Matter Networks" (2020) in The Neuroscientist
  • "Speed-accuracy trade-off in plants" (2020) in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • "Reach-to-Grasp: A Multisensory Experience" (2021) in Frontiers in Psychology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Umberto Castiello include:

  • Bianca Bonato
  • Silvia Guerra
  • Valentina Simonetti
  • Qiuran Wang
  • Maria Bulgheroni

The scientist regularly publishes in several journals, with multiple contributions to:

  • Biology
  • Plant Signaling & Behavior
  • Preprints.org
  • Journal of comparative psychology
  • Plants

Best Publications

  • The neuroscience of grasping

    Umberto Castiello

  • Size of the attentional focus and efficiency of processing

    Umberto Castiello;Carlo Arrigo Umilta

  • Temporal dissociation of motor responses and subjective awareness. A study in normal subjects.

    Umberto Castiello;Y Paulignan;M. Jeannerod

  • The Human Premotor Cortex Is 'Mirror' Only for Biological Actions

    Yen F. Tai;Christoph Scherfler;David J. Brooks;Nobukatsu Sawamoto

  • The reach-to-grasp movement in children with autism spectrum disorder.

    Morena Mari;Umberto Castiello;Deborah Marks;Catherine Marraffa

  • Influence of different types of grasping on the transport component of prehension movements.

    M. Gentilucci;U. Castiello;M.L. Corradini;M. Scarpa

  • Potential for social involvement modulates activity within the mirror and the mentalizing systems

    Chiara Begliomini;Andrea Cavallo;Valeria Manera;Cristina Becchio;Cristina Becchio

  • Splitting focal attention.

    Umberto Castiello;Carlo Umiltà

  • Wired to Be Social: The Ontogeny of Human Interaction

    Umberto Castiello;Cristina Becchio;Stefania Zoia;Cristian Nelini

  • Toward You The Social Side of Actions

    Cristina Becchio;Luisa Sartori;Umberto Castiello

  • Evidence of early development of action planning in the human foetus: a kinematic study

    Stefania Zoia;Laura Blason;Giuseppina D’Ottavio;Maria Bulgheroni

  • Grasping a fruit: selection for action.

    Umberto Castiello

  • Effects of End-Goal on Hand Shaping

    Caterina Ansuini;Marco Santello;Stefano Massaccesi;Umberto Castiello;Umberto Castiello

  • Grasping intentions: from thought experiments to empirical evidence.

    Cristina Becchio;Valeria Manera;Luisa Sartori;Andrea Cavallo

  • How to Accurately Detect Autobiographical Events

    Giuseppe Sartori;Sara Agosta;Cristina Zogmaister;Santo Davide Ferrara

  • An object for an action, the same object for other actions: effects on hand shaping

    Caterina Ansuini;Livia Giosa;Luca Turella;Gianmarco Altoè

  • Temporal coupling between transport and grasp components during prehension movements: effects of visual perturbation.

    M Gentilucci;S Chieffi;M Scarpa;Umberto Castiello

  • Mirror Neurons in Humans: Consisting or Confounding Evidence?.

    Luca Turella;Andrea C. Pierno;Federico Tubaldi;Umberto Castiello;Umberto Castiello

  • Robotic movement elicits visuomotor priming in children with autism

    Andrea C. Pierno;Morena Mari;Dean Lusher;Umberto Castiello;Umberto Castiello

  • Cues to intention: the role of movement information

    Luisa Sartori;Cristina Becchio;Umberto Castiello

  • Erratum: The neuroscience of grasping

    Umberto Castiello

Frequent Co-Authors

Cristina Becchio
Cristina Becchio Italian Institute of Technology
Carlo Umiltà
Carlo Umiltà University of Padua
Annette Horstmann
Annette Horstmann University of Helsinki
Giuseppe Sartori
Giuseppe Sartori University of Padua
Patrick Haggard
Patrick Haggard University College London
Francesco Pavani
Francesco Pavani University of Trento
Vicki Anderson
Vicki Anderson Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Margot Prior
Margot Prior University of Melbourne
Glyn W. Humphreys
Glyn W. Humphreys University of Oxford
Skye McDonald
Skye McDonald University of New South Wales

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