Sandro Franceschini

3.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
42 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Sandro Franceschini is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Statistics and Probability and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Sandro Franceschini has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 19 papers in Statistics and Probability and 17 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Sandro Franceschini's work include Reading and Literacy Development (30 papers), Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (19 papers) and Tactile and Sensory Interactions (11 papers). Sandro Franceschini is often cited by papers focused on Reading and Literacy Development (30 papers), Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (19 papers) and Tactile and Sensory Interactions (11 papers). Sandro Franceschini collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Belgium. Sandro Franceschini's co-authors include Andrea Facoetti, Simone Gori, Milena Ruffino, Sara Bertoni, Luca Ronconi, Massimo Molteni, Tiziana Gianesini, Luigi Rocco Chiri, Claudio Sica and Marta Ghisi and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Current Biology and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Sandro Franceschini

39 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

A Causal Link between Visual Spatial Attention and Reading Acquisition

2012 411 citations Sandro Franceschini, Simone Gori et al. Current Biology profile →
Action Video Games Make Dyslexic Children Read Better

2013 352 citations Sandro Franceschini, Simone Gori et al. Current Biology profile →
A different vision of dyslexia: Local precedence on global perception

2017 270 citations Sandro Franceschini, Sara Bertoni et al. Scientific Reports profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sandro Franceschini Italy	18	1.2k	942	593	333	314	42	2.1k
Kevin J. Riggs United Kingdom	24	1.2k 1.0×	1.2k 1.2×	257 0.4×	344 1.0×	296 0.9×	63	2.0k
Frances A. Conners United States	27	1.4k 1.3×	794 0.8×	474 0.8×	254 0.8×	453 1.4×	57	2.4k
Grégoire Borst France	29	653 0.6×	1.1k 1.2×	426 0.7×	677 2.0×	327 1.0×	120	2.1k
Genevieve McArthur Australia	34	2.0k 1.7×	2.4k 2.5×	434 0.7×	584 1.8×	562 1.8×	106	3.8k
Mark Strauss United States	22	1.0k 0.9×	1.6k 1.7×	235 0.4×	386 1.2×	499 1.6×	49	2.3k
Mike Anderson Australia	26	585 0.5×	835 0.9×	191 0.3×	523 1.6×	202 0.6×	70	2.0k
Marianna E. Hayiou‐Thomas United Kingdom	25	1.5k 1.3×	557 0.6×	290 0.5×	206 0.6×	553 1.8×	52	2.0k
Kristen Pammer Australia	24	1.2k 1.1×	1.4k 1.5×	691 1.2×	258 0.8×	214 0.7×	64	2.2k
Simone Gori Italy	28	1.8k 1.5×	1.9k 2.0×	1.0k 1.7×	345 1.0×	379 1.2×	74	3.1k
Zvia Breznitz Israel	30	2.0k 1.8×	1.2k 1.3×	849 1.4×	241 0.7×	656 2.1×	89	2.6k

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All Works

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Franceschini, Sandro, Sara Bertoni, Sara Mascheretti, et al.. (2025). Flickering lenses enhance reading performance through placebo effect. Psychological Research. 89(4). 120–120.

Bertoni, Sara, Sandro Franceschini, Luca Ronconi, et al.. (2024). Action video games and posterior parietal cortex neuromodulation enhance both attention and reading in adults with developmental dyslexia. Cerebral Cortex. 34(4). 10 indexed citations

Franceschini, Sandro, et al.. (2024). Letter Tracing: a Serious Game to Teach Handwriting and Assess Proficiency through Machine Learning. PubMed. 2024. 1–4.

Bertoni, Sara, Sara Mascheretti, Sandro Franceschini, et al.. (2024). Action video games normalise the phonemic awareness in pre-readers at risk for developmental dyslexia. npj Science of Learning. 9(1). 8 indexed citations

Franceschini, Sandro, et al.. (2023). Evaluating the Efficacy of a Serious Game in Enhancing Word Reading Speed. Virtual Community of Pathological Anatomy (University of Castilla La Mancha). 17(1). 523–530. 1 indexed citations

Franceschini, Sandro, et al.. (2023). Serious games for a technology-enhanced early screening of handwriting difficulties. IrInSubria (University of Insubria). 1–4. 1 indexed citations

Bertoni, Sara, Sandro Franceschini, Gianluca Campana, & Andrea Facoetti. (2022). The effects of bilateral posterior parietal cortex tRNS on reading performance. Cerebral Cortex. 33(9). 5538–5546. 11 indexed citations

Franceschini, Sandro, Sara Bertoni, & Andrea Facoetti. (2021). Manual dexterity predicts phonological decoding speed in typical reading adults. Psychological Research. 85(8). 2882–2891. 7 indexed citations

Franceschini, Sandro, et al.. (2020). Local perception impairs the lexical reading route. Psychological Research. 85(4). 1748–1756. 13 indexed citations

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Bertoni, Sara, Sandro Franceschini, Luca Ronconi, Simone Gori, & Andrea Facoetti. (2019). Is excessive visual crowding causally linked to developmental dyslexia?. Neuropsychologia. 130. 107–117. 70 indexed citations

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Franceschini, Sandro & Sara Bertoni. (2018). Improving action video games abilities increases the phonological decoding speed and phonological short-term memory in children with developmental dyslexia. Neuropsychologia. 130. 100–106. 50 indexed citations

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Franceschini, Sandro, et al.. (2018). Sluggish dorsally-driven inhibition of return during orthographic processing in adults with dyslexia. Brain and Language. 179. 1–10. 23 indexed citations

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Franceschini, Sandro, Sara Bertoni, Tiziana Gianesini, Simone Gori, & Andrea Facoetti. (2017). A different vision of dyslexia: Local precedence on global perception. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 17462–17462. 270 indexed citations breakdown →

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Franceschini, Sandro, Luca Ronconi, Sara Bertoni, et al.. (2017). Action video games improve reading abilities and visual-to-auditory attentional shifting in English-speaking children with dyslexia. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 5863–5863. 123 indexed citations

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Gori, Simone, Aaron R. Seitz, Luca Ronconi, Sandro Franceschini, & Andrea Facoetti. (2015). Multiple Causal Links Between Magnocellular–Dorsal Pathway Deficit and Developmental Dyslexia. Cerebral Cortex. 26(11). 4356–4369. 143 indexed citations

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Franceschini, Sandro, et al.. (2013). Action Video Games Make Dyslexic Children Read Better. Current Biology. 23(6). 462–466. 352 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ronconi, Luca, Simone Gori, Milena Ruffino, et al.. (2012). Decreased Coherent Motion Discrimination in Autism Spectrum Disorder: The Role of Attentional Zoom-Out Deficit. PLoS ONE. 7(11). e49019–e49019. 61 indexed citations

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Franceschini, Sandro, et al.. (2012). A Causal Link between Visual Spatial Attention and Reading Acquisition. Current Biology. 22(9). 814–819. 411 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ruffino, Milena, Simone Gori, Sandro Franceschini, & Andrea Facoetti. (2010). Developmental dyslexia: Perceptual noise exclusion deficit or spatial attention dysfunction?. Perception. 39. 80–80. 3 indexed citations

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Sica, Claudio, Marta Ghisi, Gianmarco Altoè, et al.. (2008). The Italian version of the Obsessive Compulsive Inventory: Its psychometric properties on community and clinical samples. Journal of Anxiety Disorders. 23(2). 204–211. 105 indexed citations

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