@article{peressotti2022moral,

title = {Moral judgments in native, regional, and foreign languages},

author = { Francesca Peressotti and Anna Lorenzoni and Michele Miozzo},

url = {https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bilingualism-language-and-cognition/article/moral-judgments-in-native-regional-and-foreign-languages/862AEAEFA2D2443B6943CD90D8E843A4},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728923000342 },

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-06-02},

urldate = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Bilingualism: Language and Cognition},

pages = {1--10},

publisher = {Cambridge University Press},

abstract = {We examined moral judgments in three types of language: a native national language (Italian), a non-native foreign language (English), and a native regional language (Venetian, oral and colloquial). We used the Moral Foundation Questionnaire to investigate cross-linguistic differences in multiple aspects of morality. Higher scores in the Harm, Purity and Fairness dimensions were obtained in the foreign and the regional language with respect to the national language. In addition, higher scores in the Ingroup dimension were obtained in the foreign language with respect to the native language. The effects of language on morality can thus be quite pervasive, involving a variety of aspects of morality. The differences we observed across these languages are explained in terms of their sociolinguistics – specifically, the greater use of national languages with moral values and beliefs. It is proposed that language effects arise because the language that is used activates information associated with it.},

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@article{Gastaldon2023,

title = {Inefficient speech-motor control affects predictive speech comprehension: atypical electrophysiological correlates in stuttering},

author = {S. Gastaldon and P. Busan and G. Arcara and F. Peressotti},

url = {10.1093/cercor/bhad004},

doi = {10.1093/cercor/bhad004},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-21},

urldate = {2023-01-21},

journal = {Cerebral Cortex},

abstract = {Listeners predict upcoming information during language comprehension. However, how this ability is implemented is still largely unknown. Here, we tested the hypothesis proposing that language production mechanisms have a role in prediction. We studied 2 electroencephalographic correlates of predictability during speech comprehension—pre-target alpha–beta (8–30 Hz) power decrease and the post-target N400 event-related potential effect—in a population with impaired speech-motor control, i.e. adults who stutter (AWS), compared to typically fluent adults (TFA). Participants listened to sentences that could either constrain towards a target word or not, modulating its predictability. As a complementary task, participants also performed context-driven word production. Compared to TFA, AWS not only displayed atypical neural responses in production, but, critically, they showed a different pattern also in comprehension. Specifically, while TFA showed the expected pre-target power decrease, AWS showed a power increase in frontal regions, associated with speech-motor control. In addition, the post-target N400 effect was reduced for AWS with respect to TFA. Finally, we found that production and comprehension power changes were positively correlated in TFA, but not in AWS. Overall, the results support the idea that processes and neural structures prominently devoted to speech planning also support prediction during speech comprehension.},

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@article{DelMaschio2022,

title = {Decision-making depends on language: A meta-analysis of the Foreign Language Effect},

author = {Del Maschio, N and Crespi, F and Peressotti, F and Abutalebi, J and Sulpizio, S },

url = {https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728921001012},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-02-17},

journal = {Bilingualism: Language and Cognition},

pages = {1-14},

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@article{guerra2022kinematic,

title = {Kinematic Evidence of Root-to-Shoot Signaling for the Coding of Support Thickness in Pea Plants},

author = {Silvia Guerra and Bianca Bonato and Qiuran Wang and Alessandro Peressotti and Francesca Peressotti and Walter Baccinelli and Maria Bulgheroni and Umberto Castiello},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

urldate = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Biology},

volume = {11},

number = {3},

pages = {405},

publisher = {MDPI},

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pubstate = {published},

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@article{quartarone2022exploring,

title = {Exploring the ventral white matter language network in bimodal and unimodal bilinguals},

author = {Cinzia Quartarone and Eduardo Navarrete and Sanja Budisavljevi'c and Francesca Peressotti},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

urldate = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Brain and Language},

volume = {235},

pages = {105187},

publisher = {Elsevier},

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pubstate = {published},

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@article{miozzo2022hand,

title = {How the hand has shaped sign languages},

author = {Michele Miozzo and Francesca Peressotti},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

urldate = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Scientific Reports},

volume = {12},

number = {1},

pages = {11980},

publisher = {Nature Publishing Group UK London},

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pubstate = {published},

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}

@article{lorenzoni2022language,

title = {Language as a cue for social categorization in bilingual communities},

author = { Anna Lorenzoni and Mikel Santesteban and Francesca Peressotti and Cristina Baus and Eduardo Navarrete},

url = {https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276334},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0276334},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

urldate = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Plos one},

volume = {17},

number = {11},

pages = {e0276334},

publisher = {Public Library of Science San Francisco, CA USA},

abstract = {This registered report article investigates the role of language as a dimension of social categorization. Our critical aim was to investigate whether categorization based on language occurs even when the languages coexist within the same sociolinguistic context, as is the case in bilingual communities. Bilingual individuals of two bilingual communities, the Basque Country (Spain) and Veneto (Italy), were tested using the memory confusion paradigm in a ‘Who said what?’ task. In the encoding part of the task, participants were presented with different faces together with auditory sentences. Two different languages of the sentences were presented in each study, with half of the faces always associated with one language and the other half with the other language. Spanish and Basque languages were used in Study 1, and Italian and Venetian dialect in Study 2. In the test phase, the auditory sentences were presented again and participants were required to decide which face uttered each sentence. As expected, participants error rates were high. Critically, participants were more likely to confuse faces from the same language category than from the other (different) language category. The results indicate that bilinguals categorize individuals belonging to the same sociolinguistic community based on the language these individuals speak, suggesting that social categorization based on language is an automatic process.},

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@article{Guerra2021,

title = {The coding of object thickness in plants: when roots matter},

author = {Guerra, S and Bonato, B and Wang, Q and Ceccarini, F and Peressotti, A and Peressotti, F and Bulgheroni, M and Castiello, U},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000289},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000289},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-08-19},

journal = {Journal of Comparative Psychology},

volume = {135},

number = {4},

pages = {495-504},

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pubstate = {published},

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}

@article{Ceccarini2021,

title = {On-line control of movement in plants},

author = {Ceccarini, Francesco and Guerra, Silvia and Peressotti, Alessandro and Peressotti, Francesca and Bulgheroni, Maria and Baccinelli, Walter and Bonato, Bianca and Castiello, Umberto },

url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.06.160},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.06.160},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-07-16},

journal = {Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications},

volume = {564},

pages = {86-91},

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pubstate = {published},

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@article{Simonetti2021,

title = {Can plants move like animals? A three-dimensional stereovision analysis of movement in plants},

author = {Simonetti, V and Bulgheroni, M and Guerra, S and Peressotti, A and Peressotti, F and Baccinelli, W and Ceccarini, F and Bonato, B and Wang, Q and Castiello, U},

url = {https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11071854 },

doi = {https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11071854 },

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-06-22},

journal = {Animals},

volume = {11},

number = {7},

pages = {1854},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}