Fausta Lui

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Fausta Lui is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Fausta Lui has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 13 papers in Physiology and 10 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Fausta Lui's work include Pain Management and Placebo Effect (11 papers), Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (11 papers) and Retinal Development and Disorders (9 papers). Fausta Lui is often cited by papers focused on Pain Management and Placebo Effect (11 papers), Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (11 papers) and Retinal Development and Disorders (9 papers). Fausta Lui collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and United Kingdom. Fausta Lui's co-authors include Carlo Adolfo Porro, Francesca Benuzzi, Davide Duzzi, Giovanni Buccino, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Roland A. Giolli, Nicola Canessa, Giovanna Lagravinese, Robert H. I. Blanks and Patrizia Baraldi and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, PLoS ONE and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Fausta Lui

51 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Neural Circuits Involved in the Recognition of Actions Performed by Nonconspecifics: An fMRI Study

2004 536 citations Giovanni Buccino, Fausta Lui et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fausta Lui Italy	20	1.3k	700	336	291	274	55	1.9k
India Morrison Sweden	14	1.3k 1.0×	792 1.1×	657 2.0×	347 1.2×	265 1.0×	20	2.1k
Pietro Avanzini Italy	22	1.2k 0.9×	538 0.8×	214 0.6×	368 1.3×	120 0.4×	82	1.9k
Line S. Löken Sweden	11	1.3k 1.1×	875 1.3×	768 2.3×	306 1.1×	186 0.7×	16	2.1k
Roman Ferstl Germany	27	579 0.5×	366 0.5×	525 1.6×	235 0.8×	128 0.5×	67	2.8k
Michael J. Martinez United States	9	1.7k 1.4×	433 0.6×	590 1.8×	317 1.1×	103 0.4×	28	2.4k
Stephan Bohlhalter Switzerland	36	1.7k 1.4×	660 0.9×	260 0.8×	1.0k 3.5×	208 0.8×	110	3.6k
Cherie L. Marvel United States	23	1.3k 1.1×	334 0.5×	228 0.7×	409 1.4×	143 0.5×	42	2.7k
Diane L. Filion United States	24	2.0k 1.6×	398 0.6×	958 2.9×	724 2.5×	148 0.5×	46	3.4k
Stephen Frey Canada	24	1.5k 1.2×	319 0.5×	342 1.0×	161 0.6×	76 0.3×	44	2.8k
Tamar R. Makin United Kingdom	31	2.1k 1.7×	840 1.2×	305 0.9×	230 0.8×	219 0.8×	74	3.4k

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Filippini, Nicola, et al.. (2025). Olfactory Testing and Gray Matter Volume: A Combined Approach to Predict the Conversion to Alzheimer. Brain Sciences. 15(3). 310–310.

Lui, Fausta, Marianna Ambrosecchia, Martina Ardizzi, et al.. (2025). Unveiling the Truth in Pain: Neural and Behavioral Distinctions Between Genuine and Deceptive Pain. Brain Sciences. 15(2). 185–185. 1 indexed citations

Solá, Carlos, Maria Angela Molinari, Francesco Ricci, et al.. (2025). Understanding basic and social emotions in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia. Frontiers in Psychology. 16. 1535722–1535722. 1 indexed citations

Borelli, Eleonora, et al.. (2025). Angry facial expressions elicit a late attentional withdrawal. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 41632–41632.

Candini, Michela, et al.. (2024). Effects of the perceived temporal distance of events on mental time travel and on its underlying brain circuits. Experimental Brain Research. 242(5). 1161–1174. 3 indexed citations

Handjaras, Giacomo, Francesca Benuzzi, Giulio Bernardi, et al.. (2024). Sensitivity and specificity of the action observation network to kinematics, target object, and gesture meaning. Human Brain Mapping. 45(11). e26762–e26762. 1 indexed citations

Benuzzi, Francesca, et al.. (2023). “When You’re Smiling”: How Posed Facial Expressions Affect Visual Recognition of Emotions. Brain Sciences. 13(4). 668–668. 1 indexed citations

Candini, Michela, et al.. (2023). Spatial attention modulation of the brain network involved in mental time travel.. Neuropsychology. 38(3). 268–280. 3 indexed citations

Rossi, Jessica, Francesco Cavallieri, Giada Giovannini, et al.. (2022). Can Disruption of Basal Ganglia-Thalamocortical Circuit in Wilson Disease Be Associated with Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy Phenotype?. Brain Sciences. 12(5). 553–553. 1 indexed citations

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Lui, Fausta, et al.. (2018). Modulation of neural circuits underlying temporal production by facial expressions of pain. PLoS ONE. 13(2). e0193100–e0193100. 23 indexed citations

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Benuzzi, Francesca, et al.. (2015). Neural correlates in intertemporal choice of gains and losses.. Journal of Neuroscience Psychology and Economics. 8(1). 27–47. 5 indexed citations

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Huber, Alexa, Fausta Lui, Davide Duzzi, Giuseppe Pagnoni, & Carlo Adolfo Porro. (2014). Structural and Functional Cerebral Correlates of Hypnotic Suggestibility. PLoS ONE. 9(3). e93187–e93187. 37 indexed citations

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Benuzzi, Francesca, Matteo Pugnaghi, Stefano Meletti, et al.. (2007). Processing the socially relevant parts of faces. Brain Research Bulletin. 74(5). 344–356. 27 indexed citations

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Porro, Carlo Adolfo, Milena Cavazzuti, Daniela Giuliani, et al.. (2004). Effects of ketamine anesthesia on central nociceptive processing in the rat: a 2-deoxyglucose study. Neuroscience. 125(2). 485–494. 9 indexed citations

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Buccino, Giovanni, Fausta Lui, Francesca Benuzzi, et al.. (2002). Observation of actions performed by non-conspecifics activates the mirror system in humans. 1 indexed citations

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Porro, Carlo Adolfo, et al.. (2000). Ketamine effects on CNS nociceptive processing in the rat: 2-deoxyglucose studies. IRIS UNIMORE (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia). 12. 72–72. 1 indexed citations

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Lui, Fausta, et al.. (1992). Kainic acid differently affects retinal projections to different pretectal nuclei. Brain Research Bulletin. 28(3). 423–426. 1 indexed citations

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Ferrari, Roberto, et al.. (1991). Functional impairment of the rat superior colliculus after kainic acid intraocular injection: A 2-Deoxyglucose study. International Journal of Neuroscience. 58(3-4). 199–209. 2 indexed citations

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Benassi, Carlo, et al.. (1991). Correlation between amount of retinal afferents to the pretectal nucleus of the optic tract and dorsal terminal accessory optic nucleus and performance of horizontal optokinetic reflex in rat. Behavioural Brain Research. 45(1). 87–95. 2 indexed citations

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Lui, Fausta, et al.. (1990). Correlation between retinal afferent distribution, neuronal size, and functional activity in the guinea pig medial terminal accessory optic nucleus. Experimental Brain Research. 81(1). 77–84. 8 indexed citations

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