Francesca Benuzzi

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Francesca Benuzzi is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesca Benuzzi has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 20 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 18 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Francesca Benuzzi's work include Action Observation and Synchronization (14 papers), Face Recognition and Perception (13 papers) and Epilepsy research and treatment (13 papers). Francesca Benuzzi is often cited by papers focused on Action Observation and Synchronization (14 papers), Face Recognition and Perception (13 papers) and Epilepsy research and treatment (13 papers). Francesca Benuzzi collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Francesca Benuzzi's co-authors include Paolo Nichelli, Fausta Lui, Carlo Adolfo Porro, Stefano Meletti, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Giovanni Buccino, Massimo Gangitano, C. A. Tassinari, Nicola Canessa and Giovanna Lagravinese and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, PLoS ONE and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Francesca Benuzzi

72 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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
Francesca Benuzzi Italy	25	1.7k	1.0k	675	610	439	75	2.7k
Toshikatsu Fujii Japan	32	2.7k 1.6×	723 0.7×	560 0.8×	757 1.2×	439 1.0×	109	3.5k
Shahar Arzy Israel	24	1.6k 0.9×	680 0.7×	588 0.9×	349 0.6×	284 0.6×	69	2.4k
Susanne Weis Germany	33	2.3k 1.4×	536 0.5×	525 0.8×	677 1.1×	590 1.3×	77	3.1k
Markus Hausmann United Kingdom	39	2.7k 1.6×	669 0.6×	383 0.6×	924 1.5×	414 0.9×	113	4.3k
Maddalena Fabbri‐Destro Italy	21	2.3k 1.4×	1.9k 1.8×	485 0.7×	414 0.7×	868 2.0×	56	3.1k
Marianne Regard Switzerland	33	2.8k 1.7×	594 0.6×	741 1.1×	801 1.3×	363 0.8×	83	4.4k
Séverine Samson France	34	2.7k 1.6×	723 0.7×	1.1k 1.6×	647 1.1×	285 0.6×	108	3.5k
Xiaosi Gu United States	30	2.6k 1.5×	913 0.9×	1.0k 1.5×	895 1.5×	162 0.4×	78	3.9k
Peter Bright United Kingdom	26	2.0k 1.2×	618 0.6×	459 0.7×	505 0.8×	897 2.0×	57	2.9k
Andreas Jansen Germany	37	2.6k 1.6×	562 0.5×	739 1.1×	783 1.3×	404 0.9×	130	4.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Francesca Benuzzi

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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

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

Handjaras, Giacomo, Emiliano Ricciardi, Francesca Benuzzi, et al.. (2023). Maturation-dependent changes in cortical and thalamic activity during sleep slow waves: Insights from a combined EEG-fMRI study. Sleep Medicine. 113. 357–369. 4 indexed citations

Agostini, Alessandro, et al.. (2023). Differential Brain Structural and Functional Patterns in Crohn’s Disease Patients are Associated with Different Disease Stages. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. 29(8). 1297–1305. 8 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

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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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Pizza, Fabio, et al.. (2021). Hypothalamus and amygdala functional connectivity at rest in narcolepsy type 1. NeuroImage Clinical. 31. 102748–102748. 15 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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Luca, Flavia De, et al.. (2017). Episodic future thinking and future-based decision-making in a case of retrograde amnesia. Neuropsychologia. 110. 92–103. 13 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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Agostini, Alessandro, Massimo Campieri, A. Bertani, et al.. (2015). Absence of change in the gray matter volume of patients with ulcerative colitis in remission: a voxel based morphometry study. BioPsychoSocial Medicine. 9(1). 1–1. 30 indexed citations

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Ruggieri, Andrea, Anna Elisabetta Vaudano, Francesca Benuzzi, et al.. (2014). Mapping (and modeling) physiological movements during EEG–fMRI recordings: The added value of the video acquired simultaneously. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 239. 223–237. 13 indexed citations

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Agostini, Alessandro, Nicola Filippini, Francesca Benuzzi, et al.. (2012). Functional magnetic resonance imaging study reveals differences in the habituation to psychological stress in patients with Crohn’s disease versus healthy controls. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. 36(5). 477–487. 51 indexed citations

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Gasparini, Elisa, Francesca Benuzzi, Matteo Pugnaghi, et al.. (2010). Focal sensory-motor status epilepticus in multiple sclerosis due to a new cortical lesion. An EEG–fMRI co-registration study. Seizure. 19(8). 525–528. 8 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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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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