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Zaira Cattaneo publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

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

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 162 publications — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Zaira Cattaneo D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

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

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Zaira Cattaneo is affiliated with the University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy, where their research primarily spans neuroscience and psychology. Their work addresses various aspects of cognitive neuroscience, neurology, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and psychiatry and mental health.

The research topics covered by Cattaneo include:

  • Vestibular and auditory disorders
  • Action observation and synchronization
  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation studies
  • Aesthetic perception and analysis
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Hemispheric asymmetry in neuroscience
  • Neural and behavioral psychology studies

Cattaneo's publication record includes notable papers such as:

  • Consensus Paper: Cerebellum and Social Cognition (2020) in The Cerebellum
  • Overlapping and Specific Neural Correlates for Empathizing, Affective Mentalizing, and Cognitive Mentalizing: A Coordinate-Based Meta-Analytic Study (2021) in Human Brain Mapping
  • Social Distance during the COVID-19 Pandemic Reflects Perceived Rather Than Actual Risk (2021) in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • New Horizons on Non-invasive Brain Stimulation of the Social and Affective Cerebellum (2021) in The Cerebellum
  • How Social Is the Cerebellum? Exploring the Effects of Cerebellar Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on the Prediction of Social and Physical Events (2021) in Brain Structure and Function

Frequent coauthors of Cattaneo include:

  • Andrea Ciricugno
  • Maria Arioli
  • Chiara Ferrari
  • Viola Oldrati
  • Cosimo Urgesi

The primary venues where Cattaneo has published work are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Cerebellum
  • Human Brain Mapping
  • Neuropsychologia
  • Brain Sciences

The volumes of work published by Cattaneo reflect a multidisciplinary approach incorporating neuroscience, psychology, and the use of brain stimulation techniques with an emphasis on social cognition and neural mechanisms underpinning perception and action. Their focus on topics such as cerebellar function and social cognitive processes contributes to understanding the neural bases of human behavior in health and disease settings.

Best Publications

  • Consensus Paper: Cerebellum and Social Cognition

    Frank Van Overwalle;Mario Manto;Zaira Cattaneo;Silvia Clausi

  • Imagery and spatial processes in blindness and visual impairment.

    Zaira Cattaneo;Tomaso Vecchi;Cesare Cornoldi;Irene Mammarella

  • Transcranial direct current stimulation over Broca's region improves phonemic and semantic fluency in healthy individuals

    Z. Cattaneo;A. Pisoni;C. Papagno

  • Blind Vision: The Neuroscience of Visual Impairment

    Zaira Cattaneo;Tomaso Vecchi

  • Baseline cortical excitability determines whether TMS disrupts or facilitates behavior.

    Juha Silvanto;Zaira Cattaneo;Lorella Battelli;Alvaro Pascual-Leone

  • Common framework for "virtual lesion" and state-dependent TMS: The facilitatory/suppressive range model of online TMS effects on behavior.

    Juha Silvanto;Zaira Cattaneo

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 the lateral occipital complex in visual mirror symmetry detection and grouping: An fMRI-guided TMS study

    Silvia Bona;Silvia Bona;Andrew Herbert;Carlo Toneatto;Juha Silvanto;Juha Silvanto

  • The role of the angular gyrus in the modulation of visuospatial attention by the mental number line.

    Zaira Cattaneo;Juha Silvanto;Juha Silvanto;Alvaro Pascual-Leone;Lorella Battelli

  • 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

  • Using state‐dependency of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to investigate letter selectivity in the left posterior parietal cortex: a comparison of TMS‐priming and TMS‐adaptation paradigms

    Zaira Cattaneo;Federica Rota;Tomaso Vecchi;Juha Silvanto;Juha Silvanto;Juha Silvanto

  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation reveals the content of visual short-term memory in the visual cortex

    Juha Silvanto;Zaira Cattaneo

  • Processing of featural and configural aspects of faces is lateralized in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex: a TMS study.

    Chiara Renzi;Susanna Schiavi;Claus Christian Carbon;Tomaso Vecchi

  • The world can look better: enhancing beauty experience with brain stimulation

    Zaira Cattaneo;Carlotta Lega;Albert Flexas;Marcos Nadal

  • Neural correlates of the semantic interference effect: New evidence from transcranial direct current stimulation

    A. Pisoni;C. Papagno;Z. Cattaneo

  • The role of the prefrontal cortex in controlling gender-stereotypical associations: A TMS investigation

    Zaira Cattaneo;Giulia Mattavelli;Elisa Platania;Costanza Papagno

  • The Causal Role of the Occipital Face Area (OFA) and Lateral Occipital (LO) Cortex in Symmetry Perception

    Silvia Bona;Zaira Cattaneo;Juha Silvanto

  • The role of the cerebellum in explicit and incidental processing of facial emotional expressions: A study with transcranial magnetic stimulation.

    Chiara Ferrari;Viola Oldrati;Marcello Gallucci;Tomaso Vecchi

  • The compensatory dynamic of inter-hemispheric interactions in visuospatial attention revealed using rTMS and fMRI.

    Ela B. Plow;Zaira Cattaneo;Thomas A. Carlson;George A. Alvarez

Frequent Co-Authors

Tomaso Vecchi
Tomaso Vecchi University of Pavia
Juha Silvanto
Juha Silvanto University of Surrey
Lotfi B. Merabet
Lotfi B. Merabet Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Costanza Papagno
Costanza Papagno University of Trento
Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Alvaro Pascual-Leone Harvard University
Marcos Nadal
Marcos Nadal University of the Balearic Islands
Claus-Christian Carbon
Claus-Christian Carbon University of Bamberg
Giuseppe Vallar
Giuseppe Vallar University of Milano-Bicocca
Cesare Cornoldi
Cesare Cornoldi University of Padua
Marcello Gallucci
Marcello Gallucci University of Milano-Bicocca

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