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Valeria Gazzola

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Neuroscience

D-Index
48
Citations
14708
World Ranking
6084
National Ranking
172

Valeria Gazzola 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 Valeria Gazzola sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 125 publications — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Valeria Gazzola 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 Valeria Gazzola sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 48 D-Index — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Valeria Gazzola is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with a significant focus on cognitive neuroscience and social psychology. Their work also touches on psychiatry and mental health, behavioral neuroscience, and biomedical engineering.

The main topics addressed in Gazzola's research include:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms

Gazzola has published extensively in several scientific venues. Among the most frequent are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • NeuroImage
  • Nature Neuroscience
  • Current Biology
  • Affective Science

The recent papers authored or co-authored by Gazzola reflect a diverse range of topics and collaborative efforts:

  • "Using Bayes factor hypothesis testing in neuroscience to establish evidence of absence," 2020, Nature Neuroscience
  • "Emotional contagion and prosocial behavior in rodents," 2022, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • "Harm to Others Acts as a Negative Reinforcer in Rats," 2020, Current Biology
  • "Neural mechanisms necessary for empathy-related phenomena across species," 2021, Current Opinion in Neurobiology
  • "A systematic review and multivariate meta-analysis of the physical and mental health benefits of touch interventions," 2024, Nature Human Behaviour

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Christian Keysers
  • Kalliopi Ioumpa
  • L. De Angelis
  • Frédéric Michon
  • Rick Waasdorp

These coauthor relationships highlight sustained partnerships, especially notable with Christian Keysers, with whom Gazzola has coauthored many publications.

Best Publications

  • A touching sight: SII/PV activation during the observation and experience of touch.

    Christian Keysers;Bruno Wicker;Valeria Gazzola;Jean-Luc Anton

  • Empathy and the somatotopic auditory mirror system in humans

    Valeria Gazzola;Lisa Aziz-Zadeh;Lisa Aziz-Zadeh;Christian Keysers

  • Somatosensation in social perception

    Christian Keysers;Jon H. Kaas;Valeria Gazzola

  • The anthropomorphic brain: the mirror neuron system responds to human and robotic actions.

    Valeria Gazzola;G. Rizzolatti;Bruno Wicker;Christian Keysers

  • The Observation and Execution of Actions Share Motor and Somatosensory Voxels in all Tested Subjects: Single-Subject Analyses of Unsmoothed fMRI Data

    Valeria Gazzola;Christian Keysers

  • Integrating simulation and theory of mind: from self to social cognition

    Christian Keysers;Valeria Gazzola

  • Using Bayes factor hypothesis testing in neuroscience to establish evidence of absence

    Christian Keysers;Christian Keysers;Valeria Gazzola;Valeria Gazzola;Eric-Jan Wagenmakers

  • Towards a unifying neural theory of social cognition

    Christian Keysers;Valeria Gazzola

  • Expanding the mirror: vicarious activity for actions, emotions, and sensations.

    Christian Keysers;Valeria Gazzola

  • Measuring shared responses across subjects using intersubject correlation

    Samuel A Nastase;Valeria Gazzola;Valeria Gazzola;Uri Hasson;Christian Keysers;Christian Keysers

  • Reduced spontaneous but relatively normal deliberate vicarious representations in psychopathy

    Harma Meffert;Harma Meffert;Valeria Gazzola;Valeria Gazzola;Johan A. den Boer;Arnold A. J. Bartels

  • Social Neuroscience: Mirror Neurons Recorded in Humans

    Christian Keysers;Christian Keysers;Valeria Gazzola;Valeria Gazzola

  • Primary somatosensory cortex discriminates affective significance in social touch

    Valeria Gazzola;Michael L. Spezio;Michael L. Spezio;Joset A. Etzel;Fulvia Castelli

  • Probabilistic tractography recovers a rostrocaudal trajectory of connectivity variability in the human insular cortex.

    Leonardo Cerliani;Leonardo Cerliani;Leonardo Cerliani;Rajat M. Thomas;Saad Jbabdi;Jeroen C.W. Siero;Jeroen C.W. Siero;Jeroen C.W. Siero

  • μ-Suppression during Action Observation and Execution Correlates with BOLD in Dorsal Premotor, Inferior Parietal, and SI Cortices

    Dan Arnstein;Fang Cui;Christian Keysers;Natasha M. Maurits

  • Hebbian learning and predictive mirror neurons for actions, sensations and emotions

    Christian Keysers;Valeria Gazzola

  • The anatomy of suffering: Understanding the relationship between nociceptive and empathic pain

    Jamil Zaki;Tor D. Wager;Tania Singer;Christian Keysers;Christian Keysers

  • Aplasics born without hands mirror the goal of hand actions with their feet.

    Valeria Gazzola;Henk van der Worp;Theodorus Mulder;Theodorus Mulder;Bruno Wicker

  • Experience Modulates Vicarious Freezing in Rats: A Model for Empathy

    Piray Atsak;Marie Orre;Pietertje Bakker;Leonardo Cerliani

  • Emotional Mirror Neurons in the Rat's Anterior Cingulate Cortex.

    Maria Carrillo;Yinging Han;Filippo Migliorati;Ming Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Keysers
Christian Keysers University of Amsterdam
Alessio Avenanti
Alessio Avenanti University of Bologna
Chris I. De Zeeuw
Chris I. De Zeeuw Erasmus University Rotterdam
Sören Krach
Sören Krach University of Lübeck
Natasha M. Maurits
Natasha M. Maurits University of Groningen
Andreas Jansen
Andreas Jansen Philipp University of Marburg
Remco J. Renken
Remco J. Renken University Medical Center Groningen
Antonia F. de C. Hamilton
Antonia F. de C. Hamilton University College London
Eric-Jan Wagenmakers
Eric-Jan Wagenmakers University of Amsterdam
Jamil Zaki
Jamil Zaki Stanford University

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