Francesco Mannella

852 total citations
29 papers, 507 citations indexed

About

Francesco Mannella is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesco Mannella has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 507 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 9 papers in Social Psychology and 7 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Francesco Mannella's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (11 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (8 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (7 papers). Francesco Mannella is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (11 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (8 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (7 papers). Francesco Mannella collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and United States. Francesco Mannella's co-authors include Gianluca Baldassarre, Kevin Gurney, Marco Mirolli, Daniele Caligiore, Michael A. Arbib, Vincenzo G. Fiore, Peter Redgrave, Giovanni Pezzulo, Raymond J. Dolan and Karl Friston and has published in prestigious journals such as Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences and Frontiers in Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Francesco Mannella

27 papers receiving 500 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Francesco Mannella Italy 14 312 135 98 82 57 29 507
Makoto Ito Japan 14 664 2.1× 262 1.9× 72 0.7× 44 0.5× 42 0.7× 29 1.0k
Thomas E. Hazy United States 11 725 2.3× 140 1.0× 58 0.6× 45 0.5× 47 0.8× 12 889
Jacqueline Scholl United Kingdom 13 599 1.9× 83 0.6× 82 0.8× 55 0.7× 19 0.3× 25 759
Karl Th. Kalveram Germany 11 239 0.8× 69 0.5× 50 0.5× 56 0.7× 49 0.9× 28 461
Erie D. Boorman United Kingdom 7 880 2.8× 75 0.6× 112 1.1× 34 0.4× 20 0.4× 7 994
Reka Daniel United States 8 582 1.9× 73 0.5× 66 0.7× 48 0.6× 12 0.2× 9 757
Inês Almeida Portugal 12 231 0.7× 47 0.3× 48 0.5× 83 1.0× 40 0.7× 21 408
Clayton P. Mosher United States 14 484 1.6× 120 0.9× 174 1.8× 23 0.3× 58 1.0× 17 660
Chia-Jung Chang Taiwan 10 403 1.3× 306 2.3× 126 1.3× 61 0.7× 16 0.3× 20 741
Daniel McNamee United Kingdom 10 467 1.5× 87 0.6× 104 1.1× 35 0.4× 8 0.1× 20 604

Countries citing papers authored by Francesco Mannella

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Fields of papers citing papers by Francesco Mannella

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Francesco Mannella

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Francesco Mannella. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Francesco Mannella based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Francesco Mannella. Francesco Mannella is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Costa, Alberto, Giuseppe Curcio, Vincenzo De Laurenzi, et al.. (2025). The Signalled Licking/Avoidance of Punishment (SLAP) Paradigm in Rats: Capacity for Insight Between Goal Conditioning and Signalling Contingencies. International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience. 85(5). e70028–e70028. 1 indexed citations
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Pezzulo, Giovanni, et al.. (2024). Learning to segment self-generated from externally caused optic flow through sensorimotor mismatch circuits. Neural Networks. 181. 106716–106716.
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Pezzulo, Giovanni, et al.. (2024). Neural representation in active inference: Using generative models to interact with—and understand—the lived world. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1534(1). 45–68. 9 indexed citations
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Borghi, Anna M., et al.. (2024). Language as a cognitive and social tool at the time of large language models. IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome). 8(3). 179–198. 2 indexed citations
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Maselli, Antonella, Francesco Donnarumma, Domenico Maisto, et al.. (2023). Modeling Motor Control in Continuous Time Active Inference: A Survey. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems. 16(2). 485–500. 6 indexed citations
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Mannella, Francesco & Luca Tummolini. (2022). Kick-starting concept formation with intrinsically motivated learning: the grounding by competence acquisition hypothesis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 378(1870). 20210370–20210370. 6 indexed citations
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Mannella, Francesco, et al.. (2021). Active inference through whiskers. Neural Networks. 144. 428–437. 15 indexed citations
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Caligiore, Daniele, Francesco Mannella, & Gianluca Baldassarre. (2019). Different Dopaminergic Dysfunctions Underlying Parkinsonian Akinesia and Tremor. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 13. 550–550. 15 indexed citations
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Cartoni, Emilio, Francesco Mannella, Vieri Giuliano Santucci, et al.. (2019). REAL-2019: Robot open-Ended Autonomous Learning competition.. 142–152. 3 indexed citations
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Mannella, Francesco, et al.. (2018). Know Your Body Through Intrinsic Goals. Frontiers in Neurorobotics. 12. 30–30. 18 indexed citations
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Mannella, Francesco, et al.. (2018). General differential Hebbian learning: Capturing temporal relations between events in neural networks and the brain. PLoS Computational Biology. 14(8). e1006227–e1006227. 15 indexed citations
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Caligiore, Daniele, Francesco Mannella, Michael A. Arbib, & Gianluca Baldassarre. (2017). Dysfunctions of the basal ganglia-cerebellar-thalamo-cortical system produce motor tics in Tourette syndrome. PLoS Computational Biology. 13(3). e1005395–e1005395. 77 indexed citations
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Mannella, Francesco, Marco Mirolli, & Gianluca Baldassarre. (2016). Goal-Directed Behavior and Instrumental Devaluation: A Neural System-Level Computational Model. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 10. 181–181. 28 indexed citations
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Mannella, Francesco & Gianluca Baldassarre. (2015). Selection of cortical dynamics for motor behaviour by the basal ganglia. Biological Cybernetics. 109(6). 575–595. 28 indexed citations
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Fiore, Vincenzo G., Francesco Mannella, Marco Mirolli, et al.. (2014). Corticolimbic catecholamines in stress: a computational model of the appraisal of controllability. Brain Structure and Function. 220(3). 1339–1353. 18 indexed citations
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Fiore, Vincenzo G., Valerio Sperati, Francesco Mannella, et al.. (2014). Keep focussing: striatal dopamine multiple functions resolved in a single mechanism tested in a simulated humanoid robot. Frontiers in Psychology. 5. 124–124. 32 indexed citations
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Mannella, Francesco, Kevin Gurney, & Gianluca Baldassarre. (2013). The nucleus accumbens as a nexus between values and goals in goal-directed behavior: a review and a new hypothesis. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 7. 135–135. 109 indexed citations
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Baldassarre, Gianluca, Francesco Mannella, Vincenzo G. Fiore, et al.. (2012). Intrinsically motivated action–outcome learning and goal-based action recall: A system-level bio-constrained computational model. Neural Networks. 41. 168–187. 42 indexed citations
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Tosh, Colin R., K. R. Gurney, Steven M. Phelps, et al.. (2010). Modelling Perception with Artificial Neural Networks. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 16 indexed citations
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Ognibene, Dimitri, Francesco Mannella, Giovanni Pezzulo, & Gianluca Baldassarre. (2006). Integrating reinforcement-learning, accumulator models, and motor-primitives to study action selection and reaching in monkeys. 2. 360–365. 1 indexed citations

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