Research Areas
ERPs and sentence comprehension.
Syntax, pragmatics and their interactions during processing.
Language and visual attention.
Language in bilingualism, aging and deafness.
Selected Publications
2021
The unique role of novel linguistic labels on the disengagement of visual attention Journal Article
In: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 74, no. 10, pp. 1755–1772, 2021.
2020
Discourse expectations are sensitive to the question under discussion: Evidence from ERPs Journal Article
In: Discourse Processes, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 122–140, 2020.
2018
Widening agreement processing: a matter of time, features and distance Journal Article
In: Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, vol. 33, no. 7, pp. 890–911, 2018.
2017
Basic composition and enriched integration in idiom processing: An EEG study. Journal Article
In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, vol. 43, no. 6, pp. 928, 2017.
First Language Attrition Induces Changes in Online Morphosyntactic Processing and Re-Analysis: An ERP Study of Number Agreement in Complex Italian Sentences Journal Article
In: Cognitive science, vol. 41, no. 7, pp. 1760–1803, 2017.
Publications
2022
Allophonic familiarity differentiates word representations in the brain of native speakers of regional linguistic varieties Journal Article
In: Brain and Language, vol. 227, pp. 105085, 2022.
Pragmatic and knowledge range lenience towards foreigners Journal Article
In: Acta Psychologica, vol. 226, pp. 103572, 2022.
2021
Probing language processing in cochlear implant users with visual word recognition: effects of lexical and orthographic word properties Journal Article
In: Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 187–198, 2021.
The unique role of novel linguistic labels on the disengagement of visual attention Journal Article
In: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 74, no. 10, pp. 1755–1772, 2021.
The processing of temporal concord in sentences: an ERP investigation into the role of adverb--verb distance Book Chapter
In: Torrens, V. (Ed.): vol. Syntax Processing, pp. 1-47, Cambridge Scholars Publishing., 2021.
2020
Discourse expectations are sensitive to the question under discussion: Evidence from ERPs Journal Article
In: Discourse Processes, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 122–140, 2020.
2019
Discourse Expectations Are Sensitive to the Question Under Discussion: Evidence From ERPs Journal Article
In: Discourse Processes, pp. 1–19, 2019.
Distinct neural processes for memorizing form and meaning within sentences Journal Article
In: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, vol. 13, pp. 412, 2019.
Seeing emotions, reading emotions: Behavioral and ERPs evidence of the regulation of pictures and words Journal Article
In: PloS one, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. e0209461, 2019.
Attachment and concord of temporal adverbs: evidence from eye movements Journal Article
In: Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 10, 2019.
2018
Widening agreement processing: a matter of time, features and distance Journal Article
In: Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, vol. 33, no. 7, pp. 890–911, 2018.
The processing of German Pitch Accents by Italian learners of German.(Oral presentation at workshop The relation between prosodic and referential structure.) Journal Article
In: 2018.
2017
Basic composition and enriched integration in idiom processing: An EEG study. Journal Article
In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, vol. 43, no. 6, pp. 928, 2017.
First Language Attrition Induces Changes in Online Morphosyntactic Processing and Re-Analysis: An ERP Study of Number Agreement in Complex Italian Sentences Journal Article
In: Cognitive science, vol. 41, no. 7, pp. 1760–1803, 2017.
2016
On the time course of lexical stress priming in speech production: Behavioral and ERPs evidence from a free-stress language Journal Article
In: Brain research, vol. 1648, pp. 202–213, 2016.
2015
Asymmetric activation spreading in the multiplication associative network due to asymmetric overlap between numerosities semantic representations? Journal Article
In: Cognition, vol. 141, pp. 1–8, 2015.
Is the noun ending a cue to grammatical gender processing? An ERP study on sentences in Italian Journal Article
In: Psychophysiology, vol. 52, no. 8, pp. 1019–1030, 2015.
On the non-incremental processing of negation: A pragmatically licensed sentence-picture verification study with Italian (dyslexic) adults Journal Article
In: Nouveaux cahiers de linguistique française, vol. 32, pp. 45–58, 2015.
The Sound of Voice: Voice-Based Categorization of Speakers’ Sexual Orientation within and across Languages Journal Article
In: Plos One, vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 1–38, 2015.
2014
Operand-Order Effect in Multiplication and Addition Journal Article
In: Experimental psychology, vol. 61, no. 6, pp. 470–497, 2014.
2013
Are complex function words processed as semantically empty strings? A reading time and ERP study of collocational complex prepositions Journal Article
In: Language and Cognitive Processes, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 762–788, 2013.
Gli ERP nello studio dei processi di comprensione frasale Incollection
In: La ricerca sperimentale sul linguaggio: acquisizione, uso, perdita, pp. 15, Pavia University Press, 2013.
Gender-to-ending consistency and agreement processing in Italian: two independent effects? Journal Article
In: 2013.
2011
Why brother and sister are not just siblings: Repair processes in agreement computation Journal Article
In: Journal of Memory and Language, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 211–232, 2011.
2010
Anticipatory mechanisms in idiom comprehension: Psycholinguistic and electrophysiological evidence Incollection
In: Neuropsychology of communication, pp. 131–144, Springer, Milano, 2010.
Effects of intensionality on sentence and discourse processing: Evidence from eye-movements Journal Article
In: Journal of Memory and Language, vol. 62, no. 4, pp. 352–379, 2010.
Predictive mechanisms in idiom comprehension Journal Article
In: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 22, no. 8, pp. 1682–1700, 2010.
2009
Brain MRI diffusion-weighted imaging in patients with classical phenylketonuria Journal Article
In: Neuroradiology, vol. 51, no. 12, pp. 803–812, 2009.
2008
A deeper reanalysis of a superficial feature: An ERP study on agreement violations Journal Article
In: Brain research, vol. 1228, pp. 161–176, 2008.
Anaphoric agreement violation: An ERP analysis of its interpretation Journal Article
In: Cognition, vol. 106, no. 2, pp. 963–974, 2008.
Cloze probability does not only affect N400 amplitude: The case of complex prepositions Journal Article
In: Psychophysiology, vol. 45, no. 6, pp. 1008–1012, 2008.
2005
Central processing overlap modulates P3 latency Journal Article
In: Exp Brain Res, vol. 165, no. 1, pp. 54–68, 2005.
2003
Differences in the perception and time course of syntactic and semantic violations Journal Article
In: Brain and language, vol. 85, no. 2, pp. 280–296, 2003.
2002
Cortical brain responses to semantic incongruity and syntactic violation in Italian language: an event-related potential study Journal Article
In: Neuroscience letters, vol. 322, no. 1, pp. 5–8, 2002.
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