Cristina Cacciari

4.7k total citations
84 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Cristina Cacciari is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Cristina Cacciari has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 25 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 20 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Cristina Cacciari's work include Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (41 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (15 papers) and Second Language Acquisition and Learning (15 papers). Cristina Cacciari is often cited by papers focused on Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (41 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (15 papers) and Second Language Acquisition and Learning (15 papers). Cristina Cacciari collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Spain and United States. Cristina Cacciari's co-authors include Maria Chiara Levorato, Patrizia Tabossi, Francesca Pesciarelli, Roberto Padovani, Sam Glucksberg, Francesco Vespignani, Nicola Molinaro, Paolo Canal, Matthew S. McGlone and Mark Turner and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Neuropsychologia and Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Cristina Cacciari

75 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Cristina Cacciari Italy 28 1.4k 975 675 661 354 84 2.3k
Albert N. Katz Canada 28 1.8k 1.3× 504 0.5× 439 0.7× 883 1.3× 740 2.1× 107 2.7k
Jennifer Hay New Zealand 28 2.0k 1.4× 376 0.4× 1.7k 2.5× 351 0.5× 492 1.4× 76 3.5k
Debra L. Long United States 26 622 0.4× 991 1.0× 166 0.2× 973 1.5× 295 0.8× 59 1.9k
Holger Diessel Germany 20 868 0.6× 875 0.9× 1.5k 2.2× 446 0.7× 60 0.2× 37 2.3k
T. Givón United States 24 937 0.7× 550 0.6× 1.9k 2.8× 372 0.6× 80 0.2× 55 2.7k
Donna Jo Napoli United States 25 656 0.5× 952 1.0× 1.4k 2.1× 290 0.4× 66 0.2× 136 2.3k
Linda Coates Canada 12 455 0.3× 353 0.4× 524 0.8× 177 0.3× 423 1.2× 14 1.4k
Jean Berko Gleason United States 24 416 0.3× 918 0.9× 622 0.9× 800 1.2× 281 0.8× 43 2.0k
Alison Wray United Kingdom 20 687 0.5× 1.9k 2.0× 2.1k 3.1× 336 0.5× 113 0.3× 71 3.5k
Ira Noveck France 25 999 0.7× 1.3k 1.4× 981 1.5× 1.3k 2.0× 304 0.9× 74 3.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cristina Cacciari

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Borelli, Eleonora, Francesca Benuzzi, Elena Bandieri, et al.. (2023). Words hurt: common and distinct neural substrates underlying nociceptive and semantic pain. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 17. 1234286–1234286. 3 indexed citations
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Citron, Francesca, et al.. (2019). Idiomatic expressions evoke stronger emotional responses in the brain than literal sentences. Neuropsychologia. 131. 233–248. 23 indexed citations
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Borelli, Eleonora, Davide Crepaldi, Carlo Adolfo Porro, & Cristina Cacciari. (2018). The psycholinguistic and affective structure of words conveying pain. PLoS ONE. 13(6). e0199658–e0199658. 18 indexed citations
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Cacciari, Cristina, et al.. (2018). Cognitive and Personality Components Underlying Spoken Idiom Comprehension in Context. An Exploratory Study. Frontiers in Psychology. 9. 659–659. 16 indexed citations
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Canal, Paolo, Francesca Pesciarelli, Francesco Vespignani, Nicola Molinaro, & Cristina Cacciari. (2017). Basic composition and enriched integration in idiom processing: An EEG study.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 43(6). 928–943. 29 indexed citations
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Causse, Mickaël, et al.. (2016). The Responders’ Gender Stereotypes Modulate the Strategic Decision-Making of Proposers Playing the Ultimatum Game. Frontiers in Psychology. 7. 12–12. 16 indexed citations
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Citron, Francesca, et al.. (2015). When emotions are expressed figuratively: Psycholinguistic and Affective Norms of 619 Idioms for German (PANIG). Behavior Research Methods. 48(1). 91–111. 59 indexed citations
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Causse, Mickaël, et al.. (2015). Sex and the money – How gender stereotypes modulate economic decision-making: An ERP study. Neuropsychologia. 75. 221–232. 27 indexed citations
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Siyanova‐Chanturia, Anna, Paul Warren, Francesca Pesciarelli, & Cristina Cacciari. (2015). Gender stereotypes across the ages: On-line processing in school-age children, young and older adults. Frontiers in Psychology. 6. 1388–1388. 36 indexed citations
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Cacciari, Cristina & Francesca Pesciarelli. (2013). Motor activation in literal and non-literal sentences: does time matter?. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 7. 202–202. 16 indexed citations
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Cacciari, Cristina, Nadia Bolognini, Irene Senna, et al.. (2011). Literal, fictive and metaphorical motion sentences preserve the motion component of the verb: A TMS study. Brain and Language. 119(3). 149–157. 74 indexed citations
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Canal, Paolo, Francesco Vespignani, Nicola Molinaro, Francesca Pesciarelli, & Cristina Cacciari. (2011). Brain potentials differentiate compositional and non-compositional processing of Multi-Word Expressions: The case of idioms.. IRIS UNIMORE (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia). 10–10. 2 indexed citations
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Molinaro, Nicola, Francesco Vespignani, Paolo Canal, Sergio Fonda, & Cristina Cacciari. (2008). Cloze probability does not only affect N400 amplitude: The case of complex prepositions. Psychophysiology. 45(6). 1008–1012. 12 indexed citations
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Cacciari, Cristina, Fabiola Reati, M. Colombo, et al.. (2006). The comprehension of ambiguous idioms in aphasic patients. Neuropsychologia. 44(8). 1305–1314. 32 indexed citations
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Bennetto, Loisa, Cristina Cacciari, Ellen Campana, et al.. (2005). Speed of Processing Effects on Spoken Idiom Comprehension. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 27(27). 372–377. 2 indexed citations
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Padovani, Roberto, Giovanna Calandra–Buonaura, Cristina Cacciari, Francesca Benuzzi, & Paolo Nichelli. (2005). Grammatical gender in the brain: Evidence from an fMRI study on Italian. Brain Research Bulletin. 65(4). 301–308. 28 indexed citations
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Padovani, Roberto & Cristina Cacciari. (2003). Il ruolo della trasparenza morfologica nel riconoscimento di parole in italiano. Giornale italiano di psicologia. 749–772. 11 indexed citations
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Levorato, Maria Chiara & Cristina Cacciari. (2002). The creation of new figurative expressions: psycholinguistic evidence in Italian children, adolescents and adults. Journal of Child Language. 29(1). 127–150. 70 indexed citations
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Katz, Albert N., Cristina Cacciari, Raymond W. Gibbs, & Mark Turner. (1998). Figurative Language and Thought. 110 indexed citations
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Cacciari, Cristina, et al.. (1997). When Words Have Two Genders: Anaphor Resolution for Italian Functionally Ambiguous Words. Journal of Memory and Language. 37(4). 517–532. 64 indexed citations

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