Alfredo Spagna

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Alfredo Spagna is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Alfredo Spagna has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 8 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 3 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Alfredo Spagna's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (22 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (10 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (9 papers). Alfredo Spagna is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (22 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (10 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (9 papers). Alfredo Spagna collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and China. Alfredo Spagna's co-authors include Jin Fan, Tingting Wu, Paolo Bartolomeo, Jianghao Liu, Melissa‐Ann Mackie, Dounia Hajhajate, Patrick R. Hof, Yanghua Tian, Andrea Marotta and Maria Casagrande and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature reviews. Neuroscience, NeuroImage and The Journal of Comparative Neurology.

In The Last Decade

Alfredo Spagna

35 papers receiving 995 citations

Hit Papers

Visual mental imagery in typical imagers and in aphantasi... 2025 2026 2025 5 10 15
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  1. Visual mental imagery in typical imagers and in aphantasia: A millimeter-scale 7-T fMRI study
    2025 16 citations Jianghao Liu, Minye Zhan et al. Cortex profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alfredo Spagna United States 19 787 254 153 76 63 36 1.0k
Filomeno Cortese Canada 17 615 0.8× 198 0.8× 119 0.8× 54 0.7× 123 2.0× 44 924
Hannes Noack Germany 12 528 0.7× 306 1.2× 174 1.1× 56 0.7× 96 1.5× 20 886
Erika Nyhus United States 12 939 1.2× 180 0.7× 141 0.9× 94 1.2× 39 0.6× 21 1.2k
Heidi Jiang United States 8 554 0.7× 225 0.9× 97 0.6× 85 1.1× 91 1.4× 8 926
N. Müller Germany 11 614 0.8× 178 0.7× 163 1.1× 70 0.9× 91 1.4× 23 987
Andrew E. Reineberg United States 11 683 0.9× 251 1.0× 72 0.5× 39 0.5× 97 1.5× 22 845
W. Ross Fulham Australia 17 958 1.2× 158 0.6× 151 1.0× 53 0.7× 30 0.5× 39 1.1k
Kara A. Dyckman United States 16 760 1.0× 147 0.6× 191 1.2× 51 0.7× 120 1.9× 23 1.0k
Nahid Zokaei United Kingdom 22 900 1.1× 195 0.8× 148 1.0× 83 1.1× 28 0.4× 44 1.2k
Petter Marklund Sweden 13 573 0.7× 147 0.6× 139 0.9× 83 1.1× 54 0.9× 16 863

Countries citing papers authored by Alfredo Spagna

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alfredo Spagna

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alfredo Spagna

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alfredo Spagna. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alfredo Spagna based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alfredo Spagna. Alfredo Spagna is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Liu, Jianghao, Minye Zhan, Dounia Hajhajate, et al.. (2025). Visual mental imagery in typical imagers and in aphantasia: A millimeter-scale 7-T fMRI study. Cortex. 185. 113–132. 16 indexed citations breakdown →
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Spagna, Alfredo, et al.. (2024). In the Mind’s Eye: Exploring the Relationship Between Visual Mental Imagery and Stereotyping. Personality and Social Psychology Review. 29(3). 250–272. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Jianghao, Dimitri J. Bayle, Alfredo Spagna, et al.. (2023). Fronto-parietal networks shape human conscious report through attention gain and reorienting. Communications Biology. 6(1). 730–730. 13 indexed citations
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Wu, Tingting, Alfredo Spagna, Melissa‐Ann Mackie, & Jin Fan. (2023). Resource sharing in cognitive control: Behavioral evidence and neural substrates. NeuroImage. 273. 120084–120084. 3 indexed citations
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Spagna, Alfredo, et al.. (2023). Visual mental imagery: Evidence for a heterarchical neural architecture. Physics of Life Reviews. 48. 113–131. 26 indexed citations
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Toba, Monica N., Tal Seidel Malkinson, Henrietta Howells, Melissa‐Ann Mackie, & Alfredo Spagna. (2023). Same, Same but Different? A Multi-Method Review of the Processes Underlying Executive Control. Neuropsychology Review. 34(2). 418–454. 4 indexed citations
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Bartolomeo, Paolo, Jianghao Liu, & Alfredo Spagna. (2023). Colors in the mind’s eye. Cortex. 170. 26–31. 2 indexed citations
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Spagna, Alfredo, Dimitri J. Bayle, Jianghao Liu, et al.. (2022). The cost of attentional reorienting on conscious visual perception: an MEG study. Cerebral Cortex. 33(5). 2048–2060. 8 indexed citations
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Spagna, Alfredo. (2022). Visual mental imagery: Inside the mind's eyes. Handbook of clinical neurology. 187. 145–160. 14 indexed citations
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Giordano, Vito, Johanna Alexopoulos, Alfredo Spagna, et al.. (2021). Accent discrimination abilities during the first days of life: An fNIRS study. Brain and Language. 223. 105039–105039. 6 indexed citations
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Chen, Yu, Alfredo Spagna, Tingting Wu, et al.. (2019). Testing a Cognitive Control Model of Human Intelligence. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 2898–2898. 44 indexed citations
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Wu, Tingting, Xingchao Wang, Qiong Wu, et al.. (2019). Anterior insular cortex is a bottleneck of cognitive control. NeuroImage. 195. 490–504. 67 indexed citations
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Spagna, Alfredo, et al.. (2018). Right hemisphere superiority for executive control of attention. Cortex. 122. 263–276. 48 indexed citations
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Spagna, Alfredo, Alexander J. Dufford, Qiong Wu, et al.. (2018). Gray matter volume of the anterior insular cortex and social networking. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 526(7). 1183–1194. 23 indexed citations
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Spagna, Alfredo, et al.. (2017). Deficit of supramodal executive control of attention in schizophrenia. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 97. 22–29. 15 indexed citations
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Casagrande, Maria, et al.. (2017). Dysfunctional personality traits in adolescence: effects on alerting, orienting and executive control of attention. Cognitive Processing. 18(2). 183–193. 11 indexed citations
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Tian, Yanghua, Alfredo Spagna, Melissa‐Ann Mackie, et al.. (2016). Venlafaxine treatment reduces the deficit of executive control of attention in patients with major depressive disorder. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 28028–28028. 28 indexed citations
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Spagna, Alfredo, Diana Martella, Luis J. Fuentes, Andrea Marotta, & Maria Casagrande. (2016). Hemispheric modulations of the attentional networks. Brain and Cognition. 108. 73–80. 33 indexed citations
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Eilam‐Stock, Tehila, Tingting Wu, Alfredo Spagna, Laura Egan, & Jin Fan. (2016). Neuroanatomical Alterations in High-Functioning Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 10. 237–237. 40 indexed citations
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Marotta, Andrea, Roberto Delle Chiaie, Alfredo Spagna, et al.. (2015). Impaired conflict resolution and vigilance in euthymic bipolar disorder. Psychiatry Research. 229(1-2). 490–496. 28 indexed citations

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