Giulio Bernardi

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Giulio Bernardi is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Giulio Bernardi has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 18 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 5 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Giulio Bernardi's work include Sleep and Wakefulness Research (22 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (14 papers) and Sleep and related disorders (14 papers). Giulio Bernardi is often cited by papers focused on Sleep and Wakefulness Research (22 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (14 papers) and Sleep and related disorders (14 papers). Giulio Bernardi collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Switzerland and United States. Giulio Bernardi's co-authors include Francesca Siclari, Giulio Tononi, Emiliano Ricciardi, Pietro Pietrini, Brady A. Riedner, Joshua J. LaRocque, Monica Betta, Giacomo Handjaras, Bradley R. Postle and Lampros Perogamvros and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Giulio Bernardi

49 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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The neural correlates of dreaming

2017 371 citations Francesca Siclari, Benjamin Baird et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Giulio Bernardi Italy	21	1.4k	540	214	193	100	50	1.7k
Eric C. Landsness United States	17	1.1k 0.8×	484 0.9×	230 1.1×	227 1.2×	169 1.7×	38	1.5k
Caroline Lustenberger Switzerland	20	1.1k 0.8×	476 0.9×	187 0.9×	150 0.8×	83 0.8×	42	1.4k
Francesca Siclari Switzerland	24	1.7k 1.2×	796 1.5×	353 1.6×	220 1.1×	135 1.4×	49	2.0k
Masaki Nishida Japan	14	1.2k 0.8×	799 1.5×	229 1.1×	173 0.9×	59 0.6×	36	1.4k
Renate Wehrle Germany	22	2.1k 1.5×	997 1.8×	330 1.5×	231 1.2×	92 0.9×	43	2.3k
Matthew A. Tucker United States	22	1.8k 1.3×	1.0k 1.9×	194 0.9×	192 1.0×	64 0.6×	31	2.0k
Randolph F. Helfrich United States	19	2.8k 2.0×	519 1.0×	174 0.8×	603 3.1×	120 1.2×	36	3.1k
Christina Zelano United States	22	873 0.6×	407 0.8×	194 0.9×	490 2.5×	88 0.9×	37	2.1k
Kerstin Hoedlmoser Austria	22	1.3k 0.9×	725 1.3×	268 1.3×	103 0.5×	110 1.1×	49	1.5k
Kimberly A. Côté Canada	23	1.5k 1.1×	1.2k 2.2×	309 1.4×	108 0.6×	122 1.2×	43	2.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Giulio Bernardi

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bellesi, Michele, et al.. (2025). The individual determinants of morning dream recall. Communications Psychology. 3(1). 25–25.

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

Ricciardi, Emiliano, et al.. (2024). Prolonged exertion of self-control causes increased sleep-like frontal brain activity and changes in aggressivity and punishment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(47). e2404213121–e2404213121. 5 indexed citations

Dresler, Martin, et al.. (2024). Influencing dreams through sensory stimulation: A systematic review. Sleep Medicine Reviews. 74. 101908–101908. 18 indexed citations

Bernardi, Giulio, et al.. (2023). Crossmodal plasticity following short-term monocular deprivation. NeuroImage. 274. 120141–120141. 5 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

Bernardi, Giulio, et al.. (2023). Memory reactivations during sleep: a neural basis of dream experiences?. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 27(6). 568–582. 14 indexed citations

Berger, Mathieu, Camila Hirotsu, José Haba‐Rubio, et al.. (2020). Risk factors of excessive daytime sleepiness in a prospective population‐based cohort. Journal of Sleep Research. 30(2). e13069–e13069. 42 indexed citations

Hirotsu, Camila, Monica Betta, Giulio Bernardi, et al.. (2020). Pulse wave amplitude drops during sleep: clinical significance and characteristics in a general population sample. SLEEP. 43(7). 27 indexed citations

10.

Leo, Andrea, Luca Cecchetti, Frederick Travis, et al.. (2020). Reductions in perceived stress following Transcendental Meditation practice are associated with increased brain regional connectivity at rest. Brain and Cognition. 139. 105517–105517. 15 indexed citations

11.

Betta, Monica, Giacomo Handjaras, Emiliano Ricciardi, et al.. (2020). Quantifying peripheral sympathetic activations during sleep by means of an automatic method for pulse wave amplitude drop detection. Sleep Medicine. 69. 220–232. 14 indexed citations

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Fanciullacci, Chiara, Giuseppe Lamola, Giada Lettieri, et al.. (2020). Predictive value of electroencephalography connectivity measures for motor training outcome in multiple sclerosis: an observational longitudinal study. European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine. 55(6). 743–753. 6 indexed citations

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Bernardi, Giulio, Monica Betta, Jacinthe Cataldi, et al.. (2019). Visual imagery and visual perception induce similar changes in occipital slow waves of sleep. Journal of Neurophysiology. 121(6). 2140–2152. 20 indexed citations

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Bernardi, Giulio, Monica Betta, Emiliano Ricciardi, et al.. (2019). Regional Delta Waves In Human Rapid Eye Movement Sleep. Journal of Neuroscience. 39(14). 2686–2697. 99 indexed citations

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Betta, Monica, Luca Cecchetti, Andrés Canales‐Johnson, et al.. (2019). EEG functional connectivity metrics wPLI and wSMI account for distinct types of brain functional interactions. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 8894–8894. 85 indexed citations

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Siclari, Francesca, Giulio Bernardi, Jacinthe Cataldi, & Giulio Tononi. (2018). Dreaming in NREM Sleep: A High-Density EEG Study of Slow Waves and Spindles. Journal of Neuroscience. 38(43). 9175–9185. 92 indexed citations

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Siclari, Francesca, Benjamin Baird, Lampros Perogamvros, et al.. (2017). The neural correlates of dreaming. Nature Neuroscience. 20(6). 872–878. 371 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bernardi, Giulio, Francesca Siclari, Xiaoqian Yu, et al.. (2015). Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Extended Training during Sleep Deprivation in Humans: Evidence for Local, Task-Specific Effects. Journal of Neuroscience. 35(11). 4487–4500. 95 indexed citations

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Gaglianese, Anna, Mauro Costagli, Kenichi Ueno, et al.. (2014). The direct, not V1-mediated, functional influence between the thalamus and middle temporal complex in the human brain is modulated by the speed of visual motion. Neuroscience. 284. 833–844. 12 indexed citations

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Gaglianese, Anna, Mauro Costagli, Giulio Bernardi, Emiliano Ricciardi, & Pietro Pietrini. (2012). Evidence of a direct influence between the thalamus and hMT+ independent of V1 in the human brain as measured by fMRI. NeuroImage. 60(2). 1440–1447. 29 indexed citations

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