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Researcher · University of Parma · Italy

Giacomo Rizzolatti

Giacomo Rizzolatti publishes mostly in Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, on topics such as Action Observation and Synchronization, Visual perception and processing mechanisms and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies.

World rank
#29,769
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Italy
#797
of 65,712
Works
55
Citations
633
Citations per work
11.5

What does Giacomo Rizzolatti research?

Cognitive Neuroscience: 47.9%Social Psychology: 16.4%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology: 8.2%Developmental and Educational Psychology: 4.1%other fields: 23.4%48%top field
Cognitive Neuroscience47.9%Social Psychology16.4%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology8.2%Developmental and Educational Psychology4.1%other fields23.4%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Cognitive Neuroscience48% of their works
  2. 2Social Psychology16% of their works
  3. 3Experimental and Cognitive Psychology8% of their works
  4. 4Developmental and Educational Psychology4% of their works
  5. 5General Health Professions3% of their works
  6. 6Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Giacomo Rizzolatti's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Neural Mechanisms, Embodiment, Mirror Neuron System, Neural Processing, Visual Perception, Cognitive Control, Decision Making and Motor Control.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Neural Mechanisms183 topics
  2. Embodiment111 topic
  3. Mirror Neuron System111 topic
  4. Neural Processing91 topic
  5. Visual Perception91 topic
  6. Cognitive Control51 topic
  7. Decision Making51 topic
  8. Motor Control41 topic
  9. Sensorimotor Learning41 topic
  10. Auditory Cortex21 topic
  11. Cortical Networks21 topic
  12. Cross-modal Plasticity21 topic
  13. Drosophila21 topic
  14. Neuronal Oscillations21 topic
  15. Neuroscience21 topic
  16. Tactile Perception21 topic
  17. Temporal Processing21 topic

Where does Giacomo Rizzolatti work?

Giacomo Rizzolatti's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Parma, Italy.

How many publications and citations does Giacomo Rizzolatti have?

Science Explorer counts 55 works and 633 citations for Giacomo Rizzolatti, ranking #29,769 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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