# Giacomo Rizzolatti

**Type:** Researchers  
**Canonical URL:** https://scholariq.org/researchers/giacomo-rizzolatti-2/

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Citations | 71,665 |
| Field | Action Observation and Synchronization |
| h-index | 85 |
| i10-index | 115 |
| OpenAlex ID | https://openalex.org/A5111412896 |
| Works | 164 |

## Researcher papers

- [Action observation activates premotor and parietal areas in a somatotopic manner: an fMRI study](https://scholariq.org/papers/action-observation-activates-premotor-and-parietal-areas-in-a-somatotopic-manner/)
- [Action observation activates premotor and parietal areas in a somatotopic manner: an fMRI study](https://scholariq.org/papers/action-observation-activates-premotor-and-parietal-areas-in-a-somatotopic-manner-2/)
- [Neural Circuits Underlying Imitation Learning of Hand Actions](https://scholariq.org/papers/neural-circuits-underlying-imitation-learning-of-hand-actions/)
- [Congruent Embodied Representations for Visually Presented Actions and Linguistic Phrases Describing Actions](https://scholariq.org/papers/congruent-embodied-representations-for-visually-presented-actions-and-linguistic/)
- [A fronto‐parietal circuit for object manipulation in man: evidence from an fMRI‐study](https://scholariq.org/papers/a-fronto-parietal-circuit-for-object-manipulation-in-man-evidence-from-an-fmri/)
- [Listening to action-related sentences modulates the activity of the motor system: A combined TMS and behavioral study](https://scholariq.org/papers/listening-to-action-related-sentences-modulates-the-activity-of-the-motor-system/)

## Researcher topics

- [Action Observation and Synchronization](https://scholariq.org/topics/action-observation-and-synchronization/)
- [Motor Control and Adaptation](https://scholariq.org/topics/motor-control-and-adaptation/)
- [Visual perception and processing mechanisms](https://scholariq.org/topics/visual-perception-and-processing-mechanisms-2/)
- [Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies](https://scholariq.org/topics/neural-and-behavioral-psychology-studies/)
- [Language, Metaphor, and Cognition](https://scholariq.org/topics/language-metaphor-and-cognition/)

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Source: ScholarIQ — public research metadata, principally OpenAlex. See https://scholariq.org/sources/ for provenance and https://scholariq.org/methodology/ for what these figures mean.