Francesca Morganti

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Francesca Morganti is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Automotive Engineering and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesca Morganti has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 16 papers in Automotive Engineering and 15 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Francesca Morganti's work include Spatial Cognition and Navigation (16 papers), Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts (14 papers) and Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery (13 papers). Francesca Morganti is often cited by papers focused on Spatial Cognition and Navigation (16 papers), Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts (14 papers) and Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery (13 papers). Francesca Morganti collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Israel and Spain. Francesca Morganti's co-authors include Giuseppe Riva, Andrea Gaggioli, Mariano Alcañíz, Daniela Villani, Alessandra Preziosa, Cristina Botella, Fabrizia Mantovani, Antonella Carassa, Silvia Serino and Pietro Cipresso and has published in prestigious journals such as Computers in Human Behavior, Sensors and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

In The Last Decade

Francesca Morganti

58 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Affective Interactions Using Virtual Reality: The Link between Presence and Emotions

2007 708 citations Giuseppe Riva, Fabrizia Mantovani et al. CyberPsychology & Behavior profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Francesca Morganti Italy	17	660	592	417	263	255	59	1.7k
Elisa Pedroli Italy	26	577 0.9×	619 1.0×	299 0.7×	253 1.0×	404 1.6×	88	2.3k
Maria T. Schultheis United States	26	472 0.7×	699 1.2×	356 0.9×	189 0.7×	484 1.9×	72	2.6k
John Waterworth Sweden	19	604 0.9×	268 0.5×	277 0.7×	224 0.9×	210 0.8×	95	1.4k
Évelyne Klinger France	21	422 0.6×	443 0.7×	195 0.5×	362 1.4×	324 1.3×	45	1.6k
Claudia Repetto Italy	21	594 0.9×	398 0.7×	352 0.8×	398 1.5×	107 0.4×	68	1.7k
Merel Krijn Netherlands	8	995 1.5×	318 0.5×	351 0.8×	407 1.5×	101 0.4×	9	1.6k
Michael Barnett‐Cowan Canada	23	643 1.0×	892 1.5×	337 0.8×	427 1.6×	76 0.3×	84	1.8k
Corey J. Bohil United States	16	331 0.5×	866 1.5×	333 0.8×	280 1.1×	114 0.4×	45	1.8k
Max M. North United States	17	979 1.5×	379 0.6×	355 0.9×	419 1.6×	115 0.5×	46	1.9k
Patrice Renaud Canada	19	562 0.9×	382 0.6×	409 1.0×	362 1.4×	166 0.7×	49	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Francesca Morganti

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20 of 20 papers shown

Morganti, Francesca, et al.. (2025). How Cognitive Reserve Could Protect from Dementia? An Analysis of Everyday Activities and Social Behaviors During Lifespan. Brain Sciences. 15(6). 652–652. 1 indexed citations

Festari, Cristina, Cristina Bonomini, Sandra Rosini, et al.. (2024). Virtual Reality Combined With Psychoeducation to Improve Emotional Well‐Being in Informal Caregivers of Alzheimer's Disease Patients: Rationale and Study Design of a Randomized Controlled Trial. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 39(9). e6145–e6145. 5 indexed citations

Morganti, Francesca, Claudio Singh Solorzano, Cristina Bonomini, et al.. (2024). Virtual Reality-Based Psychoeducation for Dementia Caregivers: The Link between Caregivers’ Characteristics and Their Sense of Presence. Brain Sciences. 14(9). 852–852. 1 indexed citations

Morganti, Francesca. (2022). Invecchiare in salute: una apparente contraddizione possibile. Presentazione. PSICOLOGIA DELLA SALUTE. 9–13. 2 indexed citations

Serino, Silvia, Francesca Morganti, Desirée Colombo, et al.. (2018). Disentangling the Contribution of Spatial Reference Frames to Executive Functioning in Healthy and Pathological Aging: An Experimental Study with Virtual Reality. Sensors. 18(6). 1783–1783. 9 indexed citations

Pompeu, José Eduardo, et al.. (2018). Two new virtual reality tasks for the assessment of spatial orientation Preliminary results of tolerability, sense of presence and usability. Dementia & Neuropsychologia. 12(2). 196–204. 16 indexed citations

Morganti, Francesca. (2018). Enacting Space in Virtual Reality: A Comparison Between Money’s Road Map Test and Its Virtual Version. Frontiers in Psychology. 9. 2410–2410. 6 indexed citations

Morganti, Francesca, et al.. (2016). Embodied rehabilitation. Aisberg (University of Bergamo). 74–77. 3 indexed citations

Villani, Daniela, et al.. (2015). Visual exploration patterns of human figures in action: an eye tracker study with art paintings. Frontiers in Psychology. 6. 1636–1636. 39 indexed citations

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Serino, Silvia, Pietro Cipresso, Francesca Morganti, & Giuseppe Riva. (2014). The role of egocentric and allocentric abilities in Alzheimer's disease: A systematic review. Ageing Research Reviews. 16. 32–44. 91 indexed citations

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Morganti, Francesca, et al.. (2013). From allo- to egocentric spatial ability in early Alzheimer’s disease: A study with virtual reality spatial tasks. Cognitive Neuroscience. 4(3-4). 171–180. 68 indexed citations

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Raspelli, Simona, Laura Carelli, Francesca Morganti, et al.. (2009). A neuro vr-based version of the multiple errands test for the assessment of executive functions: A possible approach. 2(4). 299–313. 9 indexed citations

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Gaggioli, Andrea, et al.. (2009). Computer-Guided Mental Practice in Neurorehabilitation. Studies in health technology and informatics. 145. 195–208. 13 indexed citations

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Morganti, Francesca, Antonella Carassa, & Giuseppe Riva. (2008). Enacting Intersubjectivity: A Cognitive and Social Perspective on the Study of Interactions (Emerging Communication; Studies in New Technologies and Practices in Communication). IOS Press eBooks. 280–280. 18 indexed citations

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Rusconi, Maria Luisa, Francesca Morganti, & Anna Paladino. (2008). Long-lasting topographical disorientation in new environments. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 273(1-2). 57–66. 9 indexed citations

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Riva, Giuseppe, Fabrizia Mantovani, Alessandra Preziosa, et al.. (2007). Affective Interactions Using Virtual Reality: The Link between Presence and Emotions. CyberPsychology & Behavior. 10(1). 45–56. 708 indexed citations breakdown →

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Morganti, Francesca, Karine Goulene, Andrea Gaggioli, Marco Stramba‐Badiale, & Giuseppe Riva. (2006). Grasping virtual objects: A feasibility study for an enactive interface application in stroke. Aisberg (University of Bergamo). 4(2). 181–197. 3 indexed citations

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Carassa, Antonella, Francesca Morganti, & Maurizio Tirassa. (2005). A situated cognition perspective on presence. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 27(27). 384–389. 22 indexed citations

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Gaggioli, Andrea, Francesca Morganti, Rachel Walker, et al.. (2004). Training with Computer-Supported Motor Imagery in Post-Stroke Rehabilitation. CyberPsychology & Behavior. 7(3). 327–332. 42 indexed citations

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Morganti, Francesca, et al.. (2003). The Use of Technology-Supported Mental Imagery in Neurological Rehabilitation: A Research Protocol. CyberPsychology & Behavior. 6(4). 421–427. 30 indexed citations

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