Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo

11.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
242 papers, 9.1k citations indexed

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Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo has authored 242 papers receiving a total of 9.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 146 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 110 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 46 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo's work include Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (92 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (56 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (50 papers). Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo is often cited by papers focused on Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (92 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (56 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (50 papers). Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and United States. Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo's co-authors include Carlo Caltagirone, Stefano Vicari, Lucia Fadda, Alberto Costa, Roberta Perri, Antonella Peppe, Sebastiano Lorusso, Marco Di Monaco, Laura Serra and Samantha Bellucci and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo

239 papers receiving 8.9k 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.

The Mental Deterioration Battery: Normative Data, Diagnostic Reliability and Qualitative Analyses of Cognitive Impairment

1996 1.1k citations Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo, Carlo Caltagirone et al. profile →
Forward and backward span for verbal and visuo-spatial data: standardization and normative data from an Italian adult population

2012 457 citations Marco Di Monaco, Alberto Costa et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo Italy	51	4.8k	3.2k	1.5k	1.3k	987	242	9.1k
Dean C. Delis United States	64	6.1k 1.3×	5.3k 1.7×	1.2k 0.8×	1.8k 1.5×	1.4k 1.4×	189	14.1k
Lisa Cipolotti United Kingdom	54	6.3k 1.3×	3.0k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	1.4k 1.1×	960 1.0×	194	11.6k
Josef Kessler Germany	48	4.8k 1.0×	2.5k 0.8×	1.3k 0.9×	838 0.7×	774 0.8×	171	8.9k
Guido Gainotti Italy	56	8.2k 1.7×	3.1k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	1.7k 1.3×	1.1k 1.1×	287	12.2k
Ruchika Shaurya Prakash United States	40	3.9k 0.8×	2.6k 0.8×	498 0.3×	1.4k 1.1×	2.6k 2.7×	91	11.9k
Stéphane Lehéricy France	52	6.0k 1.3×	2.5k 0.8×	1.7k 1.2×	1.2k 0.9×	1.4k 1.4×	133	11.0k
Stanley J. Colcombe United States	33	3.6k 0.8×	2.7k 0.8×	388 0.3×	1.5k 1.2×	2.3k 2.3×	57	10.8k
Bogdan Draganski Germany	49	5.2k 1.1×	2.1k 0.7×	1.9k 1.3×	896 0.7×	1.3k 1.3×	151	10.7k
Edith Kaplan United States	44	6.9k 1.4×	5.0k 1.6×	1.2k 0.8×	1.7k 1.3×	1.2k 1.2×	86	12.8k
Edward H.F. de Haan Netherlands	64	7.3k 1.5×	3.0k 0.9×	591 0.4×	2.9k 2.3×	808 0.8×	218	13.6k

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Fiorenzato, Eleonora, Silvia Zabberoni, Maria Stefania De Simone, et al.. (2025). Effects of virtual reality cognitive training on executive function and prospective memory in Parkinson's disease and healthy aging. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 473. 123507–123507. 2 indexed citations

Simone, Maria Stefania De, et al.. (2025). Long-term associative memory and spatial pattern separation impairments in individuals with subjective cognitive decline: A neuropsychological and medial temporal lobe subregions volumetric analysis. Cortex. 192. 196–212.

Simone, Maria Stefania De, Gianfranco Spalletta, Daniela Vecchio, et al.. (2024). The Role of the Anterior Thalamic Nuclei in the Genesis of Memory Disorders in Alzheimer’s Disease: An Exploratory Study. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease. 97(1). 507–519. 1 indexed citations

Costa, Alberto, et al.. (2024). Dopaminergic Treatment and Episodic Memory in Parkinson’s Disease: A Meta-analysis of the Literature. Neuropsychology Review. 35(4). 688–709. 1 indexed citations

Simone, Maria Stefania De, Alberto Costa, Gaetano Tieri, et al.. (2023). The effectiveness of an immersive virtual reality and telemedicine-based cognitive intervention on prospective memory in Parkinson’s disease patients with mild cognitive impairment and healthy aged individuals: design and preliminary baseline results of a placebo-controlled study. Frontiers in Psychology. 14. 1268337–1268337. 7 indexed citations

Tomaiuolo, Francesco, Antonio Cerasa, Jason P. Lerch, et al.. (2020). Brain Neurodegeneration in the Chronic Stage of the Survivors from Severe Non-Missile Traumatic Brain Injury: A Voxel-Based Morphometry Within-Group at One versus Nine Years from a Head Injury. Journal of Neurotrauma. 38(2). 283–290. 8 indexed citations

Perri, Roberta, Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo, Marco Di Monaco, Carlo Caltagirone, & Gian Daniele Zannino. (2018). The attribute priming effect in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Neuropsychology. 13(3). 485–502. 6 indexed citations

Zabberoni, Silvia, Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo, Antonella Peppe, Carlo Caltagirone, & Alberto Costa. (2017). Does Dopamine Depletion Trigger a Spreader Lexical-Semantic Activation in Parkinson’s Disease? Evidence from a Study Based on Word Fluency Tasks. Parkinson s Disease. 2017. 1–6. 3 indexed citations

Carlesimo, Giovanni Augusto, Laura Serra, Lucia Fadda, et al.. (2007). Bilateral damage to the mammillo-thalamic tract impairs recollection but not familiarity in the recognition process: A single case investigation. Neuropsychologia. 45(11). 2467–2479. 60 indexed citations

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Vicari, Stefano, Deny Menghini, Margherita Di Paola, et al.. (2006). Acquired amnesia in childhood: A single case study. Neuropsychologia. 45(4). 704–715. 14 indexed citations

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Costa, Alberto, Antonella Peppe, Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo, Patrizio Pasqualetti, & Carlo Caltagirone. (2006). Major and minor depression in Parkinson's disease: a neuropsychological investigation. European Journal of Neurology. 13(9). 972–980. 43 indexed citations

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Perri, Roberta, Giacomo Koch, Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo, et al.. (2005). Alzheimer's disease and frontal variant of frontotemporal dementia. Journal of Neurology. 252(10). 1238–1244. 50 indexed citations

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Carlesimo, Giovanni Augusto, Patrizia Turriziani, Eraldo Paulesu, et al.. (2003). Brain activity during intra- and cross-modal priming: new empirical data and review of the literature. Neuropsychologia. 42(1). 14–24. 23 indexed citations

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Costa, Alberto, Antonella Peppe, Grazia Dell’Agnello, et al.. (2003). Dopaminergic Modulation of Visual-Spatial Working Memory in Parkinson’s Disease. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders. 15(2). 55–66. 102 indexed citations

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Carlesimo, Giovanni Augusto, Ivana Buccione, Lucia Fadda, et al.. (2002). Standardizzazione di due test di memoria per uso clinico: Breve Racconto e Figura di Rey. 12(1). 1–13. 205 indexed citations

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Sabbadini, Maurizio, et al.. (2002). Evaluation of communicative and functional abilities in Wolf–Hirshhorn syndrome. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. 46(7). 575–582. 9 indexed citations

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Oliveri, Massimiliano, Patrizia Turriziani, Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo, et al.. (2001). Parieto-frontal Interactions in Visual-object and Visual-spatial Working Memory: Evidence from Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. Cerebral Cortex. 11(7). 606–618. 153 indexed citations

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Perri, Roberta, Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo, & Carlo Caltagirone. (2001). Mild Cognitive impairment: studio italiano multicentrico. 11(3). 65–71. 2 indexed citations

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Caltagirone, Carlo, Guido Gainotti, Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo, et al.. (1995). The Mental Deterioration Battery (Part 1): Description of a instrument of the neuropsychological diagnosis. 56(4). 461–470. 5 indexed citations

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Caltagirone, Carlo, et al.. (1991). Cognitive Function in Multiple Sclerosis: A Subcortical Pattern of Neuropsychological Impairment?. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9 indexed citations

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