Alfonso Caramazza

37.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
324 papers, 24.6k citations indexed

About

Alfonso Caramazza is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alfonso Caramazza has authored 324 papers receiving a total of 24.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 275 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 150 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 72 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Alfonso Caramazza's work include Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (172 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (118 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (69 papers). Alfonso Caramazza is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (172 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (118 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (69 papers). Alfonso Caramazza collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and China. Alfonso Caramazza's co-authors include Bradford Z. Mahon, Argye E. Hillis, Albert Costa, Jennifer R. Shelton, Edgar Zurif, Gabriele Miceli, Michele Miozzo, Brenda Rapp, Michael McCloskey and Núria Sebastián‐Gallés and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alfonso Caramazza

316 papers receiving 23.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Domain-Specific Knowledge Systems in the Brain: The Animate-Inanimate Distinction

1998 919 citations Alfonso Caramazza et al. profile →
A critical look at the embodied cognition hypothesis and a new proposal for grounding conceptual content

2008 887 citations Alfonso Caramazza et al. profile →
Dissociation of algorithmic and heuristic processes in language comprehension: Evidence from aphasia

1976 728 citations Alfonso Caramazza, Edgar Zurif profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alfonso Caramazza United States	86	20.1k	11.6k	6.2k	5.8k	1.5k	324	24.6k
Angela D. Friederici Germany	103	33.8k 1.7×	19.9k 1.7×	9.8k 1.6×	5.5k 0.9×	2.6k 1.7×	598	41.2k
Marc Brysbaert Belgium	75	13.9k 0.7×	11.9k 1.0×	6.8k 1.1×	2.5k 0.4×	2.0k 1.3×	267	23.5k
Peter Hagoort Netherlands	86	19.7k 1.0×	11.2k 1.0×	6.7k 1.1×	4.3k 0.7×	1.8k 1.2×	371	24.2k
Mark S. Seidenberg United States	71	15.3k 0.8×	17.9k 1.5×	5.2k 0.8×	1.8k 0.3×	1.9k 1.2×	183	24.4k
Linda B. Smith United States	75	6.5k 0.3×	13.4k 1.2×	4.8k 0.8×	3.4k 0.6×	832 0.5×	328	21.0k
Marta Kutas United States	88	30.3k 1.5×	14.3k 1.2×	8.7k 1.4×	4.0k 0.7×	1.9k 1.2×	239	34.1k
Max Coltheart Australia	76	17.9k 0.9×	15.3k 1.3×	5.5k 0.9×	2.4k 0.4×	930 0.6×	358	27.7k
David A. Balota United States	73	14.3k 0.7×	8.6k 0.7×	5.3k 0.8×	1.9k 0.3×	596 0.4×	242	19.0k
Friedemann Pulvermüller Germany	78	16.5k 0.8×	7.1k 0.6×	8.4k 1.3×	9.1k 1.6×	849 0.6×	274	21.9k
Arthur M. Jacobs Germany	67	9.6k 0.5×	6.3k 0.5×	4.8k 0.8×	2.2k 0.4×	411 0.3×	256	14.4k

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Bola, Łukasz, Huichao Yang, Alfonso Caramazza, & Yanchao Bi. (2022). Preference for animate domain sounds in the fusiform gyrus of blind individuals is modulated by shape–action mapping. Cerebral Cortex. 32(21). 4913–4933. 5 indexed citations

Liu, Yuqi, Gilles Vannuscorps, Alfonso Caramazza, & Ella Striem-Amit. (2020). Evidence for an effector-independent action system from people born without hands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(45). 28433–28441. 12 indexed citations

Wurm, Moritz F. & Alfonso Caramazza. (2019). Lateral occipitotemporal cortex encodes perceptual components of social actions rather than abstract representations of sociality. NeuroImage. 202. 116153–116153. 30 indexed citations

Vannuscorps, Gilles, Moritz F. Wurm, Ella Striem-Amit, & Alfonso Caramazza. (2018). Large-Scale Organization of the Hand Action Observation Network in Individuals Born Without Hands. Cerebral Cortex. 29(8). 3434–3444. 20 indexed citations

Striem-Amit, Ella, Gilles Vannuscorps, & Alfonso Caramazza. (2018). Plasticity based on compensatory effector use in the association but not primary sensorimotor cortex of people born without hands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(30). 7801–7806. 28 indexed citations

Wurm, Moritz F., Alfonso Caramazza, & Angelika Lingnau. (2017). Action Categories in Lateral Occipitotemporal Cortex Are Organized Along Sociality and Transitivity. Journal of Neuroscience. 37(3). 562–575. 8 indexed citations

Papeo, Liuba, Moritz F. Wurm, Nikolaas N. Oosterhof, & Alfonso Caramazza. (2017). The neural representation of human versus nonhuman bipeds and quadrupeds. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 14040–14040. 16 indexed citations

Mazza, Veronica, et al.. (2013). Subitizing occurs across features of a single object. Journal of Vision. 13(9). 56–56. 1 indexed citations

Papagno, Costanza, et al.. (2010). Evidence from neuropsychology on verb features: the case of a patient with semantic dementia. CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa). 2 indexed citations

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Lingnau, Angelika, Benno Gesierich, & Alfonso Caramazza. (2009). Asymmetric fMRI adaptation reveals no evidence for mirror neurons in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(24). 9925–9930. 166 indexed citations

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Bedny, Marina, Alfonso Caramazza, Emily D. Grossman, Álvaro Pascual‐Leone, & Rebecca Saxe. (2008). Concepts Are More than Percepts: The Case of Action Verbs. Journal of Neuroscience. 28(44). 11347–11353. 187 indexed citations

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Cappelletti, Marinella, Felipe Fregni, Kevin A. Shapiro, Antonio Leone, & Alfonso Caramazza. (2008). Processing nouns and verbs in the left frontal cortex. A TMS study. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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Caramazza, Alfonso & Chiara Finocchiaro. (2002). Classi grammaticali e cervello. Iris (University of Trento). 3–38. 1 indexed citations

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Costa, Albert, Àngels Colomé, & Alfonso Caramazza. (2000). Lexical Access in Speech Production: The Bilingual Case.. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 30 indexed citations

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Caramazza, Alfonso. (1998). The Interpretation of Semantic Category-specific Deficits: What Do They Reveal About the Organization of Conceptual Knowledge in the Brain?. Neurocase. 4(4-5). 265–272. 88 indexed citations

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Hillis, Argye E. & Alfonso Caramazza. (1995). A framework for interpreting distinct patterns of hemispatial neglect. Neurocase. 1(3). 189–207. 91 indexed citations

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Miceli, Gabriele, Laura Giustolisi, & Alfonso Caramazza. (1991). The Interaction of Lexical and Non-Lexical Processing Mechanisms: Evidence from Anomia. Cortex. 27(1). 57–80. 51 indexed citations

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Miceli, Gabriele, Maria Caterina Silveri, Giampiero Villa, & Alfonso Caramazza. (1984). On the Basis for the Agrammatic's Difficulty in Producing Main Verbs. Cortex. 20(2). 207–220. 390 indexed citations

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Caramazza, Alfonso & Edgar Zurif. (1978). Language acquisition and language breakdown : parallels and divergencies. Johns Hopkins University Press eBooks. 48 indexed citations

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Caramazza, Alfonso & Grace H. Yeni–Komshian. (1974). Voice onset time in two French dialects. Journal of Phonetics. 2(3). 239–245. 83 indexed citations

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