Silvio Ionta

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
62 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Silvio Ionta is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Automotive Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Silvio Ionta has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 30 papers in Social Psychology and 13 papers in Automotive Engineering. Recurrent topics in Silvio Ionta's work include Action Observation and Synchronization (26 papers), Spatial Cognition and Navigation (13 papers) and Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts (12 papers). Silvio Ionta is often cited by papers focused on Action Observation and Synchronization (26 papers), Spatial Cognition and Navigation (13 papers) and Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts (12 papers). Silvio Ionta collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Italy and United States. Silvio Ionta's co-authors include Olaf Blanke, Salvatore Maria Aglioti, Roger Gassert, Matteo Candidi, Cosimo Urgesi, Alissa D. Fourkas, Mirta Fiorio, Eleonora Fornari, Sofia Adelaide Osimo and Marilena Aiello and has published in prestigious journals such as Neuron, Journal of Neuroscience and Nature Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Silvio Ionta

57 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Increased emotional eating during COVID-19 associated with lockdown, psychological and social distress

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Silvio Ionta Switzerland	28	1.7k	1.1k	422	388	376	62	2.8k
Shahar Arzy Israel	24	1.6k 0.9×	680 0.6×	588 1.4×	222 0.6×	284 0.8×	69	2.4k
H. Chris Dijkerman Netherlands	42	3.9k 2.3×	1.6k 1.5×	614 1.5×	1.0k 2.6×	355 0.9×	128	5.3k
Christine Möhr Switzerland	36	2.3k 1.4×	1.5k 1.3×	1.0k 2.4×	299 0.8×	317 0.8×	145	4.3k
Gabriella Bottini Italy	36	3.4k 2.0×	831 0.8×	1.0k 2.5×	466 1.2×	369 1.0×	147	5.0k
Giorgia Committeri Italy	29	3.3k 1.9×	773 0.7×	363 0.9×	159 0.4×	308 0.8×	87	4.0k
Stefan Van der Stigchel Netherlands	41	4.5k 2.7×	740 0.7×	392 0.9×	654 1.7×	304 0.8×	260	5.8k
Lorenzo Pia Italy	29	1.8k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	662 1.6×	656 1.7×	214 0.6×	94	2.7k
Bigna Lenggenhager Switzerland	30	1.9k 1.1×	1.5k 1.3×	804 1.9×	1.6k 4.0×	152 0.4×	103	3.5k
Maddalena Boccia Italy	26	1.3k 0.8×	415 0.4×	417 1.0×	105 0.3×	382 1.0×	124	2.4k
Massimiliano Conson Italy	26	1.2k 0.7×	528 0.5×	424 1.0×	66 0.2×	357 0.9×	100	1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Silvio Ionta

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Fields of papers citing papers by Silvio Ionta

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Silvio Ionta

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All Works

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Pamplona, Gustavo Santo Pedro, et al.. (2025). Visibility manipulations affect the functional connectivity related to illusory body ownership. Cortex. 190. 198–215.

Pamplona, Gustavo Santo Pedro, Jana Zweerings, Lydia Hellrung, et al.. (2025). Neural Mechanisms of Feedback Processing and Regulation Recalibration During Neurofeedback Training. Human Brain Mapping. 46(10). e70279–e70279.

Ionta, Silvio, et al.. (2024). Degraded Visibility Body-Specifically Affects Mental Rotation. Behavioral Sciences. 14(9). 784–784. 5 indexed citations

Pamplona, Gustavo Santo Pedro, et al.. (2024). Neuro-cognitive effects of degraded visibility on illusory body ownership. NeuroImage. 300. 120870–120870. 5 indexed citations

Giannoni‐Luza, Stefano, et al.. (2024). Body-Related Visual Biasing Affects Accuracy of Reaching. Brain Sciences. 14(12). 1270–1270.

Guidetti, Matteo, Stefano Giannoni‐Luza, Tommaso Bocci, et al.. (2023). Modeling Electric Fields in Transcutaneous Spinal Direct Current Stimulation: A Clinical Perspective. Biomedicines. 11(5). 1283–1283. 5 indexed citations

Langner, Robert, Frank Scharnowski, Silvio Ionta, et al.. (2023). Evaluation of the reliability and validity of computerized tests of attention. PLoS ONE. 18(1). e0281196–e0281196. 6 indexed citations

Pamplona, Gustavo Santo Pedro, Robert Langner, Yury Koush, et al.. (2023). Preliminary findings on long‐term effects of fMRI neurofeedback training on functional networks involved in sustained attention. Brain and Behavior. 13(10). e3217–e3217. 7 indexed citations

Pamplona, Gustavo Santo Pedro, et al.. (2022). Vision- and touch-dependent brain correlates of body-related mental processing. Cortex. 157. 30–52. 8 indexed citations

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Farah, Rola, Silvio Ionta, & Tzipi Horowitz‐Kraus. (2021). Neuro-Behavioral Correlates of Executive Dysfunctions in Dyslexia Over Development From Childhood to Adulthood. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 708863–708863. 21 indexed citations

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Osimo, Sofia Adelaide, et al.. (2021). The neural substrates of subliminal attentional bias and reduced inhibition in individuals with a higher BMI: A VBM and resting state connectivity study. NeuroImage. 229. 117725–117725. 11 indexed citations

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Franceschiello, Benedetta, Lorenzo Di Sopra, Silvio Ionta, et al.. (2020). 3-Dimensional magnetic resonance imaging of the freely moving human eye. Progress in Neurobiology. 194. 101885–101885. 7 indexed citations

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Pamplona, Gustavo Santo Pedro, Robert Langner, Yury Koush, et al.. (2020). Network-based fMRI-neurofeedback training of sustained attention. NeuroImage. 221. 117194–117194. 43 indexed citations

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Herrmann, Christoph S., Micah M. Murray, Silvio Ionta, Axel Hutt, & Jérémie Lefebvre. (2016). Shaping Intrinsic Neural Oscillations with Periodic Stimulation. Journal of Neuroscience. 36(19). 5328–5337. 103 indexed citations

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Pisotta, Iolanda, et al.. (2016). Biomimetic rehabilitation engineering: the importance of somatosensory feedback for brain–machine interfaces. Journal of Neural Engineering. 13(4). 41001–41001. 27 indexed citations

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Murray, Micah M., et al.. (2014). Focal dystonia and the Sensory-Motor Integrative Loop for Enacting (SMILE). Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8. 458–458. 40 indexed citations

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Bufalari, Ilaria & Silvio Ionta. (2013). The social and personality neuroscience of empathy for pain and touch. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 7. 393–393. 43 indexed citations

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Ionta, Silvio, Alissa D. Fourkas, & Salvatore Maria Aglioti. (2009). Egocentric and object-based transformations in the laterality judgement of human and animal faces and of non-corporeal objects. Behavioural Brain Research. 207(2). 452–457. 17 indexed citations

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Arzy, Shahar, et al.. (2009). Subjective mental time: the functional architecture of projecting the self to past and future. European Journal of Neuroscience. 30(10). 2009–2017. 83 indexed citations

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Candidi, Matteo, Cosimo Urgesi, Silvio Ionta, & Salvatore Maria Aglioti. (2008). Virtual lesion of ventral premotor cortex impairs visual perception of biomechanically possible but not impossible actions. Social Neuroscience. 3(3-4). 388–400. 96 indexed citations

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