Fausto Caruana

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
51 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Fausto Caruana is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Fausto Caruana has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 31 papers in Social Psychology and 11 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Fausto Caruana's work include Action Observation and Synchronization (27 papers), Motor Control and Adaptation (10 papers) and Face Recognition and Perception (9 papers). Fausto Caruana is often cited by papers focused on Action Observation and Synchronization (27 papers), Motor Control and Adaptation (10 papers) and Face Recognition and Perception (9 papers). Fausto Caruana collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Switzerland. Fausto Caruana's co-authors include Giacomo Rizzolatti, Ahmad Jezzini, Vittorio Gallese, Guy A. Orban, Pietro Avanzini, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Veronica Pelliccia, Ivana Sartori, Giorgio Lo Russo and Marzio Gerbella and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience and Nature reviews. Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Fausto Caruana

49 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.

The impact of facemasks on emotion recognition, trust attribution and re-identification

2021 167 citations Marco Marini, Alessandro Ansani et al. Scientific Reports profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fausto Caruana Italy	22	1.4k	1.0k	416	263	246	51	1.9k
Kaat Alaerts Belgium	27	1.4k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	321 0.8×	232 0.9×	382 1.6×	90	2.1k
Bruno Nazarian France	29	2.3k 1.6×	603 0.6×	625 1.5×	209 0.8×	437 1.8×	73	3.0k
Roger Newman‐Norlund United States	21	1.5k 1.1×	1.2k 1.2×	286 0.7×	183 0.7×	518 2.1×	71	2.1k
Afra Ritzl Germany	13	1.4k 1.0×	888 0.8×	321 0.8×	206 0.8×	342 1.4×	13	2.0k
Michael J. Hove United States	22	2.0k 1.4×	1.2k 1.2×	660 1.6×	230 0.9×	197 0.8×	40	2.7k
Martina Rieger Germany	25	1.6k 1.1×	679 0.6×	393 0.9×	294 1.1×	472 1.9×	63	2.1k
Kestutis Kveraga United States	17	1.9k 1.3×	460 0.4×	561 1.3×	187 0.7×	174 0.7×	40	2.4k
Marzio Gerbella Italy	25	1.9k 1.3×	1.1k 1.0×	238 0.6×	221 0.8×	139 0.6×	45	2.2k
Thomas Ethofer Germany	21	1.8k 1.3×	581 0.6×	950 2.3×	238 0.9×	171 0.7×	43	2.4k
Michael J. Martinez United States	9	1.7k 1.2×	433 0.4×	590 1.4×	317 1.2×	198 0.8×	28	2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Fausto Caruana

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fausto Caruana

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All Works

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Vecchio, Maria Del, Pietro Avanzini, Marzio Gerbella, et al.. (2024). Anatomo-functional basis of emotional and motor resonance elicited by facial expressions. Brain. 147(9). 3018–3031. 5 indexed citations

Marini, Marco, Fabio Paglieri, Alessandro Ansani, Fausto Caruana, & Marco Viola. (2022). Facial impression of trustworthiness biases statement credibility unless suppressed by facemask. Current Psychology. 43(14). 13072–13082. 7 indexed citations

Avanzini, Pietro, et al.. (2022). The Avatar’s Gist: How to Transfer Affective Components From Dynamic Walking to Static Body Postures. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 16. 842433–842433. 1 indexed citations

Caruana, Fausto, Elisabetta Palagi, & Frans Β. Μ. de Waal. (2022). Cracking the laugh code: laughter through the lens of biology, psychology and neuroscience. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1863). 20220159–20220159. 2 indexed citations

Vecchio, Maria Del, Carlotta Fossataro, Flavia Maria Zauli, et al.. (2021). Tonic somatosensory responses and deficits of tactile awareness converge in the parietal operculum. Brain. 144(12). 3779–3787. 16 indexed citations

Marini, Marco, Alessandro Ansani, Fabio Paglieri, Fausto Caruana, & Marco Viola. (2021). The impact of facemasks on emotion recognition, trust attribution and re-identification. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 5577–5577. 167 indexed citations breakdown →

Vecchio, Maria Del, Fausto Caruana, Ivana Sartori, et al.. (2020). Action execution and action observation elicit mirror responses with the same temporal profile in human SII. Communications Biology. 3(1). 80–80. 14 indexed citations

Caruana, Fausto, et al.. (2019). Per un’etologia semiotica del riso di superiorità. Un’ipotesi pragmatista ed evoluzionista. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 243–259. 1 indexed citations

Caruana, Fausto, et al.. (2019). Riso e Logos. Il riso semiotico come protolinguaggio, tra emozioni e socialità. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 66–77.

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Rizzolatti, Giacomo, Maddalena Fabbri‐Destro, Fausto Caruana, & Pietro Avanzini. (2018). System neuroscience: Past, present, and future. CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics. 24(8). 685–693. 11 indexed citations

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Vecchio, Maria Del, Fausto Caruana, Ivana Sartori, et al.. (2018). Ipsilateral somatosensory responses in humans: the tonic activity of SII and posterior insular cortex. Brain Structure and Function. 224(1). 9–18. 17 indexed citations

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Avanzini, Pietro, Rouhollah O. Abdollahi, Ivana Sartori, et al.. (2016). Four-dimensional maps of the human somatosensory system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(13). E1936–43. 79 indexed citations

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Gallese, Vittorio & Fausto Caruana. (2016). Embodied Simulation: Beyond the Expression/Experience Dualism of Emotions. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 20(6). 397–398. 25 indexed citations

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Caruana, Fausto, Pietro Avanzini, Francesca Gozzo, et al.. (2015). Mirth and laughter elicited by electrical stimulation of the human anterior cingulate cortex. Cortex. 71. 323–331. 83 indexed citations

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Orban, Guy A. & Fausto Caruana. (2014). The neural basis of human tool use. Frontiers in Psychology. 5. 310–310. 156 indexed citations

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Caruana, Fausto & Anna M. Borghi. (2013). Embodied Cognition. A new psychology. Giornale italiano di psicologia. 23–48. 2 indexed citations

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Jezzini, Ahmad, Fausto Caruana, Ivilin Peev Stoianov, Vittorio Gallese, & Giacomo Rizzolatti. (2012). Functional organization of the insula and inner perisylvian regions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(25). 10077–10082. 109 indexed citations

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Caruana, Fausto & Vittorio Gallese. (2011). Feeling, expressing, understanding emotions: a new neuroscientific perspective. 223–234. 2 indexed citations

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Umiltà, Maria Alessandra, L. Escola, Irakli Intskirveli, et al.. (2008). When pliers become fingers in the monkey motor system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(6). 2209–2213. 254 indexed citations

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Caruana, Fausto. (2006). In principio era l'azione. Un'analisi normativa dei concetti nell'embodied simulation. 243–258. 1 indexed citations

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