Francesca Frassinetti

7.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
93 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Francesca Frassinetti is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesca Frassinetti has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 29 papers in Social Psychology and 15 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Francesca Frassinetti's work include Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction (39 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (25 papers) and Visual perception and processing mechanisms (19 papers). Francesca Frassinetti is often cited by papers focused on Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction (39 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (25 papers) and Visual perception and processing mechanisms (19 papers). Francesca Frassinetti collaborates with scholars based in Italy, France and United Kingdom. Francesca Frassinetti's co-authors include Elisabetta Làdavas, Anna Berti, Nadia Bolognini, Giuseppe di Pellegrino, Alessandro Farnè, Tina Iachini, Stefano Avanzi, Gennaro Ruggiero, Yann Coello and Andrea Serino and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Francesca Frassinetti

91 papers receiving 4.8k citations

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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.

When Far Becomes Near: Remapping of Space by Tool Use

2000 522 citations Anna Berti, Francesca Frassinetti profile →
Hemispatial neglect

2004 445 citations Alessandro Farnè, Francesca Frassinetti et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Francesca Frassinetti Italy	38	3.5k	1.3k	1.1k	697	515	93	4.9k
Gaspare Galati Italy	38	4.0k 1.2×	1.2k 0.9×	681 0.6×	209 0.3×	180 0.3×	159	5.4k
Francesco Pavani Italy	38	3.7k 1.1×	1.3k 1.0×	1.9k 1.7×	974 1.4×	110 0.2×	125	4.6k
James Danckert Canada	39	4.0k 1.1×	810 0.6×	909 0.8×	119 0.2×	303 0.6×	146	4.7k
Michael E. R. Nicholls Australia	38	3.6k 1.0×	640 0.5×	1.4k 1.2×	184 0.3×	194 0.4×	164	4.9k
Árni Kristjánsson Iceland	37	3.6k 1.0×	408 0.3×	1.0k 0.9×	245 0.4×	74 0.1×	173	4.2k
Frédérique de Vignemont France	28	2.6k 0.7×	2.3k 1.7×	855 0.7×	1.1k 1.5×	95 0.2×	73	4.5k
Sebastian Ocklenburg Germany	40	3.6k 1.0×	927 0.7×	684 0.6×	119 0.2×	243 0.5×	189	5.1k
Dana Samson Belgium	35	2.5k 0.7×	1.7k 1.3×	1.0k 0.9×	91 0.1×	62 0.1×	70	4.2k
Robert D. McIntosh United Kingdom	30	2.4k 0.7×	500 0.4×	203 0.2×	88 0.1×	283 0.5×	115	2.7k
Christine Möhr Switzerland	36	2.3k 0.7×	1.5k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	299 0.4×	68 0.1×	145	4.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Francesca Frassinetti

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Francesca Frassinetti

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Moreau, Richard, et al.. (2026). The role of vision and proprioception in implicit and explicit self-movement recognition. Cortex. 196. 61–77.

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

Candini, Michela, et al.. (2024). The role of group membership and culture in interpersonal distance regulation. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 54(9). 523–535. 2 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

Vezzadini, Giuliana, et al.. (2023). Time bisection and reproduction: Evidence for a slowdown of the internal clock in right brain damaged patients. Cortex. 167. 303–317. 2 indexed citations

Candini, Michela, et al.. (2022). Time Interaction With Two Spatial Dimensions: From Left/Right to Near/Far. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 15. 796799–796799. 8 indexed citations

Iachini, Tina, Francesca Frassinetti, Francesco Ruotolo, et al.. (2021). Social Distance during the COVID-19 Pandemic Reflects Perceived Rather Than Actual Risk. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(11). 5504–5504. 31 indexed citations

Hartmann, Helena, et al.. (2020). Neural Correlates of Interpersonal Space Permeability and Flexibility in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Cerebral Cortex. 31(6). 2968–2979. 10 indexed citations

Magnani, Barbara, Alessandro Musetti, & Francesca Frassinetti. (2020). Spatial attention and representation of time intervals in childhood. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 14960–14960. 5 indexed citations

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Anelli, Filomena, Stefano Avanzi, Shahar Arzy, Mauro Mancuso, & Francesca Frassinetti. (2018). Effects of spatial attention on mental time travel in patients with neglect. Cortex. 101. 192–205. 21 indexed citations

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Anelli, Filomena, Elisa Ciaramelli, Shahar Arzy, & Francesca Frassinetti. (2016). Prisms to travel in time: Investigation of time-space association through prismatic adaptation effect on mental time travel. Cognition. 156. 1–5. 26 indexed citations

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Anelli, Filomena, Michela Candini, Marinella Cappelletti, Massimiliano Oliveri, & Francesca Frassinetti. (2015). The Remapping of Time by Active Tool-Use. PLoS ONE. 10(12). e0146175–e0146175. 21 indexed citations

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Magnani, Barbara, Francesco Pavani, & Francesca Frassinetti. (2012). Changing auditory time with prismatic goggles. Cognition. 125(2). 233–243. 17 indexed citations

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Salerno, Silvia, et al.. (2012). Increases of corticospinal excitability in self‐related processing. European Journal of Neuroscience. 36(5). 2716–2721. 11 indexed citations

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Cardinali, Lucilla, Francesca Frassinetti, Claudio Brozzoli, et al.. (2009). Tool-use induces morphological updating of the body schema. Current Biology. 19(13). 1157–1157. 57 indexed citations

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Canaan, Stéphane, Gerlind Sulzenbacher, V. Roig-Zamboni, et al.. (2004). Crystal structure of the conserved hypothetical protein Rv1155 from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. FEBS Letters. 579(1). 215–221. 22 indexed citations

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Pellegrino, Giuseppe di & Francesca Frassinetti. (2000). Direct evidence from parietal extinction of enhancement of visual attention near a visible hand. Current Biology. 10(22). 1475–1477. 66 indexed citations

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Basso, Gianpaolo, Paolo Nichelli, Francesca Frassinetti, & Giuseppe di Pellegrino. (1996). Time perception in a neglected space. Neuroreport. 7(13). 2111–2114. 94 indexed citations

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Berti, Anna, Angelo Maravita, Francesca Frassinetti, & Carlo Umiltà. (1995). Unilateral Neglect can be Affected by Stimuli in the Neglected Field. Cortex. 31(2). 331–343. 15 indexed citations

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Berti, Anna, Francesca Frassinetti, & Carlo Umiltà. (1994). Nonconscious Reading? Evidence From Neglect Dyslexia. Cortex. 30(2). 181–197. 38 indexed citations

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