Luigi Cattaneo

5.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
114 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Luigi Cattaneo is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Luigi Cattaneo has authored 114 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 33 papers in Social Psychology and 30 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Luigi Cattaneo's work include Action Observation and Synchronization (33 papers), Motor Control and Adaptation (31 papers) and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies (21 papers). Luigi Cattaneo is often cited by papers focused on Action Observation and Synchronization (33 papers), Motor Control and Adaptation (31 papers) and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies (21 papers). Luigi Cattaneo collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and France. Luigi Cattaneo's co-authors include Maddalena Fabbri‐Destro, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Guido Barchiesi, Marc Sato, Giovanni Pavesi, Sonia Boria, Stefano Rozzi, Giovanni Buccino and Lucia Riggio and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience and Physiological Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Luigi Cattaneo

106 papers receiving 3.7k 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.

Cortical Mechanisms Underlying the Organization of Goal-Directed Actions and Mirror Neuron-Based Action Understanding

2014 351 citations Giacomo Rizzolatti, Luigi Cattaneo et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Luigi Cattaneo Italy	30	2.5k	1.8k	890	618	574	114	3.9k
Guy Vingerhoets Belgium	42	2.5k 1.0×	869 0.5×	732 0.8×	432 0.7×	327 0.6×	161	4.9k
Franck Vidal France	44	5.2k 2.0×	696 0.4×	411 0.5×	1.1k 1.7×	456 0.8×	134	6.1k
Jonathan Cole United Kingdom	38	2.4k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	301 0.3×	454 0.7×	309 0.5×	121	3.9k
Pedro Ribeiro Brazil	32	1.9k 0.8×	361 0.2×	448 0.5×	431 0.7×	335 0.6×	205	3.7k
Michel Rijntjes Germany	37	3.9k 1.5×	1.1k 0.6×	951 1.1×	495 0.8×	1.1k 2.0×	111	6.1k
Cecilia Guariglia Italy	38	3.6k 1.4×	560 0.3×	1.0k 1.2×	920 1.5×	267 0.5×	194	5.5k
Darlene V. Howard United States	43	3.7k 1.5×	917 0.5×	1.8k 2.0×	616 1.0×	175 0.3×	92	5.0k
Deborah J. Serrien United Kingdom	34	3.0k 1.2×	860 0.5×	541 0.6×	131 0.2×	636 1.1×	86	3.8k
Elisabetta Làdavas Italy	55	7.6k 3.0×	2.1k 1.1×	387 0.4×	2.4k 3.8×	636 1.1×	150	9.3k
Peter G. Enticott Australia	43	3.9k 1.5×	1.1k 0.6×	892 1.0×	584 0.9×	1.4k 2.4×	210	6.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Luigi Cattaneo

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luigi Cattaneo

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Cesari, Paola, et al.. (2025). The neural bases of the reach–grasp movement in humans: Quantitative evidence from brain lesions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(10). e2419801122–e2419801122. 1 indexed citations

Cattaneo, Luigi, et al.. (2025). Investigating resting-state functional connectivity of the human hand motor system: an offline TMS-fMRI study. NeuroImage. 314. 121254–121254.

Anghileri, Daniela, Marco Pastori, Günther Umlauf, et al.. (2024). Global Water Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa and how to strengthen science-policy dialogues on transboundary governance and cooperation. Journal of Environmental Management. 365. 121417–121417. 12 indexed citations

Crawford, J. Douglas, et al.. (2022). Action planning modulates the representation of object features in human fronto‐parietal and occipital cortex. European Journal of Neuroscience. 56(6). 4803–4818. 6 indexed citations

Finocchiaro, Chiara, Luigi Cattaneo, Carlotta Lega, & Gabriele Miceli. (2021). Thematic Reanalysis in the Left Posterior Parietal Sulcus: A TMS Study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(3). 1–17. 4 indexed citations

Sala, Francesco, Davide Giampiccolo, & Luigi Cattaneo. (2021). Novel Asleep Techniques for Intraoperative Assessment of Brain Connectivity. Frontiers in Neurology. 12. 687030–687030. 10 indexed citations

Pastori, Marco, Ángel Udías, Luigi Cattaneo, et al.. (2021). Bioenergy Potential of Crop Residues in the Senegal River Basin: A Cropland–Energy–Water-Environment Nexus Approach. Sustainability. 13(19). 11065–11065. 4 indexed citations

Finocchiaro, Chiara, et al.. (2020). The role of the l-IPS in the comprehension of reversible and irreversible sentences: an rTMS study. Brain Structure and Function. 225(8). 2403–2414. 6 indexed citations

Ginatempo, Francesca, Beniamina Mercante, Luigi Cattaneo, et al.. (2019). Role of cutaneous and proprioceptive inputs in sensorimotor integration and plasticity occurring in the facial primary motor cortex. The Journal of Physiology. 598(4). 839–851. 22 indexed citations

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Mazzoni, Noemi, Christianne Jacobs, Paola Venuti, Juha Silvanto, & Luigi Cattaneo. (2017). State-Dependent TMS Reveals Representation of Affective Body Movements in the Anterior Intraparietal Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 37(30). 7231–7239. 29 indexed citations

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Cattaneo, Luigi, et al.. (2015). Climate data processing with GIS support: description of Bias Correction and Temporal Downscaling tools implemented in Clime software.. 1 indexed citations

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Cattaneo, Luigi, et al.. (2015). Clime: climate data processing in GIS environment.. 2 indexed citations

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Zollo, Alessandra Lucia, et al.. (2012). Assessment of COSMOCLM performances in simulating the past climate of Italy..

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Cattaneo, Luigi, et al.. (2012). Assessment of COSMOCLM performances over Mediterranean area.. 2 indexed citations

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Wood, Rachel, Vittorio Gallese, & Luigi Cattaneo. (2010). Visuotactile empathy within the primary somatosensory cortex revealed by short-latency afferent inhibition. Neuroscience Letters. 473(1). 28–31. 19 indexed citations

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Cattaneo, Luigi & Giovanni Pavesi. (2010). Recording the Trigemino-Facial Inhibitory Reflex: Technique and Normal Findings. Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology. 27(2). 126–129. 4 indexed citations

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Sato, Marc, Giovanni Buccino, Maurizio Gentilucci, & Luigi Cattaneo. (2009). On the tip of the tongue: Modulation of the primary motor cortex during audiovisual speech perception. Speech Communication. 52(6). 533–541. 40 indexed citations

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Sato, Marc, Luigi Cattaneo, Giacomo Rizzolatti, & Vittorio Gallese. (2007). Numbers within Our Hands: Modulation of Corticospinal Excitability of Hand Muscles during Numerical Judgment. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 19(4). 684–693. 111 indexed citations

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Cattaneo, Luigi, et al.. (2007). Impairment of actions chains in autism and its possible role in intention understanding. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(45). 17825–17830. 345 indexed citations

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Pavesi, Giovanni, et al.. (2000). The inhibitory trigemino-facial reflex is elicited only in some facial muscles. Journal of Dental Research. 79. 339–339. 4 indexed citations

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