Lucia Riggio

6.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
56 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Lucia Riggio is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lucia Riggio has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 32 papers in Social Psychology and 14 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Lucia Riggio's work include Action Observation and Synchronization (29 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (19 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (19 papers). Lucia Riggio is often cited by papers focused on Action Observation and Synchronization (29 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (19 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (19 papers). Lucia Riggio collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and Brazil. Lucia Riggio's co-authors include Giacomo Rizzolatti, Carlo Umiltà, Isabella Dascola, Giovanni Buccino, B. M. Sheliga, Ferdinand Binkofski, Vittorio Gallese, Anna M. Borghi, Giorgia Melli and Giacomo Rizzolatti and has published in prestigious journals such as Brain Research, Journal of Nutrition and Neuropsychologia.

In The Last Decade

Lucia Riggio

56 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Reorienting attention across the horizontal and vertical meridians: Evidence in favor of a premotor theory of attention

1987 1.4k citations Giacomo Rizzolatti, Lucia Riggio et al. Neuropsychologia profile →
Listening to action-related sentences modulates the activity of the motor system: A combined TMS and behavioral study

2005 509 citations Giovanni Buccino, Lucia Riggio et al. Cognitive Brain Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lucia Riggio Italy	25	3.8k	2.0k	1.2k	842	230	56	4.7k
Maria Alessandra Umiltà Italy	30	3.2k 0.8×	2.8k 1.4×	1.2k 0.9×	777 0.9×	120 0.5×	61	4.4k
Gisa Aschersleben Germany	40	5.0k 1.3×	3.8k 1.9×	1.6k 1.3×	2.3k 2.8×	162 0.7×	108	7.0k
Howard N. Zelaznik United States	34	4.2k 1.1×	1.1k 0.6×	764 0.6×	1.1k 1.3×	117 0.5×	77	5.4k
Beatriz Calvo‐Merino United Kingdom	21	2.6k 0.7×	2.7k 1.3×	1.1k 0.9×	988 1.2×	93 0.4×	35	3.6k
Alessandro D’Ausilio Italy	28	2.3k 0.6×	1.6k 0.8×	858 0.7×	633 0.8×	153 0.7×	104	3.2k
Jochen Müsseler Germany	28	3.6k 1.0×	2.8k 1.4×	1.1k 0.9×	972 1.2×	102 0.4×	100	4.6k
Dirk Kerzel Switzerland	34	3.3k 0.9×	895 0.4×	808 0.6×	349 0.4×	251 1.1×	175	3.8k
Catherine L. Reed United States	27	2.7k 0.7×	1.1k 0.5×	1.2k 1.0×	475 0.6×	156 0.7×	82	3.4k
Istvan Molnar-Szakacs United States	19	3.0k 0.8×	2.3k 1.1×	954 0.8×	687 0.8×	92 0.4×	28	4.1k
Marius V. Peelen Italy	47	6.6k 1.7×	2.1k 1.1×	1.6k 1.3×	558 0.7×	802 3.5×	131	7.4k

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Visani, Elisa, et al.. (2022). Grasping the semantic of actions: a combined behavioral and MEG study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 16. 1008995–1008995. 3 indexed citations

Riggio, Lucia, et al.. (2022). Seeing through the cat’s eyes: evidence of a spontaneous perspective taking process using a non-human avatar. Cognitive Processing. 23(2). 269–283. 1 indexed citations

Riggio, Lucia, et al.. (2019). The Uznadze illusion reveals similar effects of relative size on perception and action. Experimental Brain Research. 237(4). 953–965. 8 indexed citations

Borghi, Anna M. & Lucia Riggio. (2015). Stable and variable affordances are both automatic and flexible. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 9. 351–351. 92 indexed citations

Mograbi, Daniel C., et al.. (2015). Influence of short incompatible practice on the Simon effect: transfer along the vertical dimension and across vertical and horizontal dimensions. Experimental Brain Research. 233(11). 3313–3321. 5 indexed citations

Ambrosecchia, Marianna, et al.. (2015). Spatial stimulus-response compatibility and affordance effects are not ruled by the same mechanisms. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 9. 283–283. 14 indexed citations

Riggio, Lucia, Elena Gherri, & Juan Lupiáñez. (2012). Onset and Offset as Determinants of the Simon Effect.. Edinburgh Research Explorer. 33(2). 209–236. 2 indexed citations

Scorolli, Claudia, Ferdinand Binkofski, Giovanni Buccino, et al.. (2011). Abstract and Concrete Sentences, Embodiment, and Languages. Frontiers in Psychology. 2. 227–227. 55 indexed citations

Gough, Patricia, Lucia Riggio, Fabian Chersi, et al.. (2011). Nouns referring to tools and natural objects differentially modulate the motor system. Neuropsychologia. 50(1). 19–25. 37 indexed citations

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Marino, Barbara F. M., Vittorio Gallese, Giovanni Buccino, & Lucia Riggio. (2010). Language sensorimotor specificity modulates the motor system. Cortex. 48(7). 849–856. 29 indexed citations

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Buccino, Giovanni, Marc Sato, Luigi Cattaneo, Francesca Rodà, & Lucia Riggio. (2009). Broken affordances, broken objects: A TMS study. Neuropsychologia. 47(14). 3074–3078. 128 indexed citations

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Borghi, Anna M. & Lucia Riggio. (2008). Sentence comprehension and simulation of object temporary, canonical and stable affordances. Brain Research. 1253. 117–128. 103 indexed citations

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Riggio, Lucia, et al.. (2007). Visual reaction times in strabismic amblyopia: a case-control study.. PubMed. 78(3). 182–9. 9 indexed citations

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Buccino, Giovanni & Lucia Riggio. (2006). THE ROLE OF THE MIRROR NEURON SYSTEM IN MOTOR LEARNING. Kinesiology. 38(1). 5–15. 26 indexed citations

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Riggio, Lucia, et al.. (2006). The role of affordances in inhibition of return. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 13(6). 1085–1090. 8 indexed citations

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Buccino, Giovanni, Lucia Riggio, Giorgia Melli, et al.. (2005). Listening to action-related sentences modulates the activity of the motor system: A combined TMS and behavioral study. Cognitive Brain Research. 24(3). 355–363. 509 indexed citations breakdown →

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Riggio, Lucia & Kim Kirsner. (1997). The relationship between central cues and peripheral cues in covert visual orientation. Perception & Psychophysics. 59(6). 885–899. 79 indexed citations

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Sheliga, B. M., Laila Craighero, Lucia Riggio, & Giacomo Rizzolatti. (1997). Effects of spatial attention on directional manual and ocular responses. Experimental Brain Research. 114(2). 339–351. 101 indexed citations

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Sheliga, B. M., Lucia Riggio, Laila Craighero, & Giacomo Rizzolatti. (1995). Spatial attention-determined modifications in saccade trajectories. Neuroreport. 6(3). 585–585. 90 indexed citations

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Sheliga, B. M., Lucia Riggio, & Giacomo Rizzolatti. (1994). Orienting of attention and eye movements. Experimental Brain Research. 98(3). 507–22. 346 indexed citations

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