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  1. Brain activity explains the relationship between elders’ blood biochemistry and cognitive abilities

    Article • Neural Plasticity, June 2019, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    MD Eugenio Picano, Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi, Prof Silvia Pellegrini

  2. Visual imagery and visual perception induce similar changes in occipital slow waves of sleep

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, June 2019, American Physiological Society

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  3. Regional Delta Waves In Human Rapid Eye Movement Sleep

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, February 2019, Society for Neuroscience

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  4. Formant Space Reconstruction From Brain Activity in Frontal and Temporal Regions Coding for Heard Vowels

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, February 2019, Frontiers

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  5. Emotionotopy: Gradients encode emotion dimensions in right temporo-parietal territories

    Article • November 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  6. Common spatiotemporal processing of visual features shapes object representation

    Article • November 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  7. The SoftPro Project: Synergy-Based Open-Source Technologies for Prosthetics and Rehabilitation

    Article • October 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  8. Editorial

    Article • International Journal of Psychophysiology, October 2018, Elsevier

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  9. Eight Weddings and Six Funerals: An fMRI Study on Autobiographical Memories

    Article • Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, September 2018, Frontiers

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  10. Regional low-frequency oscillations in human rapid-eye movement sleep

    Article • August 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  11. Foreground-Background Segmentation Revealed during Natural Image Viewing

    Article • eNeuro, January 2018, Society for Neuroscience

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  12. Different levels of visual perceptual skills are associated with specific modifications in functional connectivity and global efficiency

    Article • International Journal of Psychophysiology, January 2018, Elsevier

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  13. Functional and spatial segregation within the inferior frontal and superior temporal cortices during listening, articulation imagery, and production of vowels

    Article • Scientific Reports, December 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  14. Peripersonal space representation develops independently from visual experience

    Article • Scientific Reports, December 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  15. Modality-independent encoding of individual concepts in the left parietal cortex

    Article • Neuropsychologia, October 2017, Elsevier

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  16. A magnetic compatible supernumerary robotic finger for functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) acquisitions: Device description and preliminary results

    Article • July 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi, Irfan Hussain

  17. Heart rate variability analysis during muscle fatigue due to prolonged isometric contraction

    Article • July 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  18. Muscle fatigue assessment through electrodermal activity analysis during isometric contraction

    Article • July 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  19. Not in one metric: Neuroticism modulates different resting state metrics within distinctive brain regions

    Article • Behavioural Brain Research, June 2017, Elsevier

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  20. Foreground-background segmentation revealed during natural image viewing

    Article • February 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  21. Randomized trial on the effects of a combined physical/cognitive training in aged MCI subjects: the Train the Brain study

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    sabrina molinaro, Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi, Prof Silvia Pellegrini

  22. Are Supramodality and Cross-Modal Plasticity the Yin and Yang of Brain Development? From Blindness to Rehabilitation

    Article • Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, November 2016, Frontiers

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  23. Hand synergies: Integration of robotics and neuroscience for understanding the control of biological and artificial hands

    Article • Physics of Life Reviews, July 2016, Elsevier

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  24. How concepts are encoded in the human brain: A modality independent, category-based cortical organization of semantic knowledge

    Article • NeuroImage, July 2016, Elsevier

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  25. Towards a synergy framework across neuroscience and robotics: Lessons learned and open questions. Reply to comments on: “Hand synergies: Integration of robotics and neuroscience for understanding the control of biological and artificial hands”

    Article • Physics of Life Reviews, July 2016, Elsevier

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  26. When Neuroscience ‘Touches’ Architecture: From Hapticity to a Supramodal Functioning of the Human Brain

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, June 2016, Frontiers

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  27. Progression from Vegetative to Minimally Conscious State Is Associated with Changes in Brain Neural Response to Passive Tasks: A Longitudinal Single-Case Functional MRI Study

    Article • Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, June 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Luca Cecchetti, Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  28. Sleep reverts changes in human gray and white matter caused by wake-dependent training

    Article • NeuroImage, April 2016, Elsevier

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  29. A synergy-based hand control is encoded in human motor cortical areas

    Article • eLife, February 2016, eLife

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  30. Analysis of Residual Dependencies of Independent Components Extracted from fMRI Data

    Article • Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, January 2016, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  31. A topographical organization for action representation in the human brain

    Article • Human Brain Mapping, July 2015, Wiley

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  32. Proneness to social anxiety modulates neural complexity in the absence of exposure: A resting state fMRI study using Hurst exponent

    Article • Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging, May 2015, Elsevier

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  33. Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Extended Training during Sleep Deprivation in Humans: Evidence for Local, Task-Specific Effects

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, March 2015, Society for Neuroscience

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  34. Spatial imagery relies on a sensory independent, though sensory sensitive, functional organization within the parietal cortex: A fMRI study of angle discrimination in sighted and congenitally blind individuals

    Article • Neuropsychologia, February 2015, Elsevier

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  35. Congenital blindness affects diencephalic but not mesencephalic structures in the human brain

    Article • Brain Structure and Function, January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  36. The direct, not V1-mediated, functional influence between the thalamus and middle temporal complex in the human brain is modulated by the speed of visual motion

    Article • Neuroscience, January 2015, Elsevier

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  37. It's not all in your car: functional and structural correlates of exceptional driving skills in professional racers

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, November 2014, Frontiers

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  38. Towards a supramodal organization of conceptual knowledge

    Article • International Journal of Psychophysiology, November 2014, Elsevier

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  39. Morphometric Changes of the Corpus Callosum in Congenital Blindness

    Article • PLoS ONE, September 2014, PLOS

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  40. The blind brain: How (lack of) vision shapes the morphological and functional architecture of the human brain

    Article • Experimental Biology and Medicine, June 2014, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  41. Mind the blind brain to understand the sighted one! Is there a supramodal cortical functional architecture?

    Article • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, April 2014, Elsevier

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi, Prof Silvia Pellegrini

  42. Modality Dependent Cross-Modal Functional Reorganization Following Congenital Visual Deprivation within Occipital Areas: A Meta-Analysis of Tactile and Auditory Studies

    Article • Multisensory Research, January 2014, Brill

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  43. How Skill Expertise Shapes the Brain Functional Architecture: An fMRI Study of Visuo-Spatial and Motor Processing in Professional Racing-Car and Naïve Drivers

    Article • PLoS ONE, October 2013, PLOS

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  44. Cholinergic enhancement differentially modulates neural response to encoding during face identity and face location working memory tasks

    Article • Experimental Biology and Medicine, August 2013, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  45. The Effects of Visual Control and Distance in Modulating Peripersonal Spatial Representation

    Article • PLoS ONE, March 2013, PLOS

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  46. Beyond Motor Scheme: A Supramodal Distributed Representation in the Action-Observation Network

    Article • PLoS ONE, March 2013, PLOS

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  47. Cholinergic enhancement reduces functional connectivity and BOLD variability in visual extrastriate cortex during selective attention

    Article • Neuropharmacology, January 2013, Elsevier

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  48. Where the brain appreciates the final state of an event: The neural correlates of telicity

    Article • Brain and Language, October 2012, Elsevier

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  49. Functional Signalers of Changes in Visual Stimuli: Cortical Responses to Increments and Decrements in Motion Coherence

    Article • Cerebral Cortex, September 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  50. Evidence of a direct influence between the thalamus and hMT+ independent of V1 in the human brain as measured by fMRI

    Article • NeuroImage, April 2012, Elsevier

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  51. The neural mechanisms of reliability weighted integration of shape information from vision and touch

    Article • NeuroImage, April 2012, Elsevier

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  52. Touching Motion: rTMS on the Human Middle Temporal Complex Interferes with Tactile Speed Perception

    Article • Brain Topography, February 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Andrea Pavan, Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  53. Increased BOLD Variability in the Parietal Cortex and Enhanced Parieto-Occipital Connectivity during Tactile Perception in Congenitally Blind Individuals

    Article • Neural Plasticity, January 2012, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  54. Decomposing metaphor processing at the cognitive and neural level through functional magnetic resonance imaging

    Article • Brain Research Bulletin, October 2011, Elsevier

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  55. Distinct Neural Systems Involved in Agency and Animacy Detection

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, August 2011, The MIT Press

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  56. New light from the dark

    Article • Current Opinion in Neurology, August 2011, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  57. Functional inhibition of the human middle temporal cortex affects non-visual motion perception: a repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation study during tactile speed discrimination

    Article • Experimental Biology and Medicine, February 2011, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  58. The Nature of Consciousness in the Visually Deprived Brain

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2011, Frontiers

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  59. Neural correlates of human-robot handshaking

    Article • September 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  60. Beyond visual, aural and haptic movement perception: hMT+ is activated by electrotactile motion stimulation of the tongue in sighted and in congenitally blind individuals

    Article • Brain Research Bulletin, July 2010, Elsevier

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  61. Effects of Visual Experience on the Human MT+ Functional Connectivity Networks: An fMRI Study of Motion Perception in Sighted and Congenitally Blind Individuals

    Article • Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, January 2010, Frontiers

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  62. Is Social Phobia a “Mis-Communication” Disorder? Brain Functional Connectivity during Face Perception Differs between Patients with Social Phobia and Healthy Control Subjects

    Article • Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, January 2010, Frontiers

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  63. Do We Really Need Vision? How Blind People "See" the Actions of Others

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, August 2009, Society for Neuroscience

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  64. Beyond amygdala: Default Mode Network activity differs between patients with Social Phobia and healthy controls

    Article • Brain Research Bulletin, August 2009, Elsevier

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  65. Modulation of specific brain activity by the perceptual analysis of very subtle geometrical relationships of the Mangina-Test stimuli: A functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) investigation in young healthy adults

    Article • International Journal of Psychophysiology, August 2009, Elsevier

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  66. Neural correlates of “analytical-specific visual perception” and degree of task difficulty as investigated by the Mangina-Test: A functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study in young healthy adults

    Article • International Journal of Psychophysiology, August 2009, Elsevier

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  67. Cholinergic modulation of visual working memory during aging: A parametric PET study

    Article • Brain Research Bulletin, June 2009, Elsevier

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  68. Differential modulation of neural activity throughout the distributed neural system for face perception in patients with Social Phobia and healthy subjects

    Article • Brain Research Bulletin, November 2008, Elsevier

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  69. Imagery and spatial processes in blindness and visual impairment

    Article • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, October 2008, Elsevier

    prof. Irene C. Mammarella, Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  70. Cholinergic Enhancement Eliminates Modulation of Neural Activity by Task Difficulty in the Prefrontal Cortex during Working Memory

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, July 2008, The MIT Press

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  71. Sensing Glove for Brain Studies: Design and Assessment of Its Compatibility for fMRI With a Robust Test

    Article • IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, June 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  72. Tactile flow explains haptic counterparts of common visual illusions

    Article • Brain Research Bulletin, April 2008, Elsevier

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  73. The Effect of Visual Experience on the Development of Functional Architecture in hMT+

    Article • Cerebral Cortex, March 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  74. Functional Suppression of HMT+ by RTMS Results in Impaired Tactile Flow Discrimination in Humans

    Article • January 2007, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  75. A Compatible Electrocutaneous Display for functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging application

    Article • August 2006, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  76. Combination of event-related potentials and functional magnetic resonance imaging during single-letter reading

    Article • August 2006, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  77. Neural correlates of spatial working memory in humans: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study comparing visual and tactile processes

    Article • Neuroscience, April 2006, Elsevier

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  78. Pharmacological Modulation of Prefrontal Cortical Activity During a Working Memory Task in Young and Older Humans: A PET Study With Physostigmine

    Article • American Journal of Psychiatry, November 2005, American Psychiatric Association

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  79. Beyond sensory images: Object-based representation in the human ventral pathway

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 2004, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi

  80. Functional Exploration Studies of Supramodal Organization in the Human Extrastriate Cortex

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Emiliano Ricciardi