ANNA LORENZONI
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Via Venezia, 8 – Office: CLA (Building 4), Room 21
anna.lorenzoni@unipd.it
Research Areas
- Gaze processing and social attention
- Eye movements and social cognition
- The role of social variables in shaping face processing
- Language as a cue for social categorization
I obtained a master’s degree in ‘Neuroscienze e riabilitazione Neuropsicologica’ in 2017 (Unipd) and a PhD in Psychological Sciences in 2023 (Unipd; supervisor: Prof. Eduardo Navarrete). Currently, I’m a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Developmental and Social Psychology (Tutor: Prof. Mario Dalmaso), University of Padova.
Other research interests: How language can interface with other social variables, such as race | The role of social variables on word recognition | Impact of linguistic labels on attentional mechanisms
International collabrations: Dr. Mikel Santesteban (from ‘The Bilingual Mind’ research group; University of the Basque Country), Dr. Cristina Baus ( from Universitat de Barcelona, Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, Barcelona) and Dr. Elena Pagliarini (from Departament de Filologia Catalana; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).
Expertise and skills: R, PsychoPy, OpenSesame, Labvanced, Qualtrics, Pupillometry, Eye-Tracking (Tobii and Eyelink Eye-Tracker), Generalized Linear Mixed Models, Cumulative Link Mixed Models (for Ordinal data).
Selected Publications
2024
Lorenzoni, Anna; Faccio, Rita; Navarrete, Eduardo
Does Foreign-Accented Speech Affect Credibility? Evidence from the Illusory-Truth Paradigm Journal Article
In: Journal of Cognition, vol. 7, no. 1, 2024.
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In a pioneering study, Lev-Ari and Keysar (2010) observed that unknown statements are judged less credible when uttered with foreign accent compared to native accent. This finding was interpreted in terms of processing fluency; when intelligibility is reduced, the credibility of the message decreases. Here, we use the illusory truth paradigm to explore how accent affects credibility. In a between-participant design, participants were exposed to unknown statements uttered by native-accented or foreign-accented speakers. After a distractor task, the same statements were presented with new statements, and participants assessed their truthfulness. Truthfulness ratings were higher for repeated statements than for new statements, replicating the illusory truth effect. Contrary to the processing fluency hypothesis, the effect was similar in both the foreign-accented and native-accented speech groups. A new group of participants rated the speakers’ voices on various social traits. A negative bias against foreign speakers was observed. However, this negative-bias did not affect truth ratings.The impact of foreign-accented speech on message credibility is discussed in the context of two factors, processing fluency and out-group stereotype activation.
2023
Lorenzoni, Anna; Calignano, Giulia; Dalmaso, Mario; Navarrete, Eduardo
Linguistic identity as a modulator of gaze cueing of attention Journal Article
In: Scientific Reports, vol. 13, no. 10829, 2023.
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Eye-gaze stimuli can elicit orienting of attention in an observer, a phenomenon known as gaze cueing of attention. Here, we explored whether gaze cueing can be shaped by the linguistic identity of the cueing face. In two experiments, participants were first familiarized with different faces together with auditory sentences. Half of the sentences were associated with the native language of the participants (Italian) and the other half with an unknown language (Albanian and Basque, in Experiments 1 and 2, respectively). In a second phase, participants performed a gaze-cueing task. In a third recognition phase, the auditory sentences were presented again, and participants were required to decide which face uttered each sentence. Results indicated that participants were more likely to confuse faces from the same language category than from the other language category. Results of the gaze-cueing task revealed a greater gaze-cueing effect for faces associated with the native vs. unknown language. Critically, this difference emerged only in Experiment 1, which may reflect differences in social status between the two language groups. Our findings revealed the impact of language as a social cue on the gaze-cueing effect, suggesting that social attention is sensitive to the language of our interlocutors.
2022
Lorenzoni, Anna; Pagliarini, Elena; Vespignani, Francesco; Navarrete, Eduardo
Pragmatic and knowledge range lenience towards foreigners Journal Article
In: Acta Psychologica, vol. 226, pp. 103572, 2022.
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Foreign-accented speech categorizes the speaker as an outgroup individual with a lower linguistic competence and a different knowledge heritage from a native speaker. Here we explore whether the identification of an individual as a native or a foreign speaker has an impact on trivia statement judgments, regardless of her foreign-accented speech. Italian native participants first read a bio description of a native and of a foreign speaker and then rate to what degree a series of statements associated with each of the speakers makes sense (Studies 1 and 2) or are true (Study 3). Importantly, the fluency processing between native and foreign speakers was kept constant by using a written presentation of the materials. Under-informative statements such as ‘Some frogs are amphibians’ were tested in Study 1. The results of Study 1 show more acceptable judgments when the sentences were associated with the foreign speaker. Unknown facts about world knowledge such as ‘Butterflies do not see gray’ were tested in Studies 2 and 3. The results show more acceptable (Study 2) and more true (Study 3) judgments when the sentences were associated with the foreign speaker. In addition, in Study 3 the foreign speaker was considered more trustworthy than the native speaker in a rating test at the end of the main judgment-sentence task. Our findings show that linguistic identity per se has an impact on evaluation judgments, suggesting that message interpretation cannot be dissociated from who is communicating the message.
Lorenzoni, Anna; Santesteban, Mikel; Peressotti, Francesca; Baus, Cristina; Navarrete, Eduardo
Language as a cue for social categorization in bilingual communities Journal Article
In: Plos one, vol. 17, no. 11, pp. e0276334, 2022.
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2021
Lorenzoni, Anna; Santesteban, Mikel; Peressotti, Francesca; Baus, Cristina; Navarrete, Eduardo
Dimensions of social categorization: Inside the role of language Journal Article
In: Plos one, vol. 16, no. 7, pp. e0254513, 2021.
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Publications
2024
Lorenzoni, Anna; Faccio, Rita; Navarrete, Eduardo
Does Foreign-Accented Speech Affect Credibility? Evidence from the Illusory-Truth Paradigm Journal Article
In: Journal of Cognition, vol. 7, no. 1, 2024.
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In a pioneering study, Lev-Ari and Keysar (2010) observed that unknown statements are judged less credible when uttered with foreign accent compared to native accent. This finding was interpreted in terms of processing fluency; when intelligibility is reduced, the credibility of the message decreases. Here, we use the illusory truth paradigm to explore how accent affects credibility. In a between-participant design, participants were exposed to unknown statements uttered by native-accented or foreign-accented speakers. After a distractor task, the same statements were presented with new statements, and participants assessed their truthfulness. Truthfulness ratings were higher for repeated statements than for new statements, replicating the illusory truth effect. Contrary to the processing fluency hypothesis, the effect was similar in both the foreign-accented and native-accented speech groups. A new group of participants rated the speakers’ voices on various social traits. A negative bias against foreign speakers was observed. However, this negative-bias did not affect truth ratings.The impact of foreign-accented speech on message credibility is discussed in the context of two factors, processing fluency and out-group stereotype activation.
2023
Lorenzoni, Anna; Calignano, Giulia; Dalmaso, Mario; Navarrete, Eduardo
Linguistic identity as a modulator of gaze cueing of attention Journal Article
In: Scientific Reports, vol. 13, no. 10829, 2023.
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Eye-gaze stimuli can elicit orienting of attention in an observer, a phenomenon known as gaze cueing of attention. Here, we explored whether gaze cueing can be shaped by the linguistic identity of the cueing face. In two experiments, participants were first familiarized with different faces together with auditory sentences. Half of the sentences were associated with the native language of the participants (Italian) and the other half with an unknown language (Albanian and Basque, in Experiments 1 and 2, respectively). In a second phase, participants performed a gaze-cueing task. In a third recognition phase, the auditory sentences were presented again, and participants were required to decide which face uttered each sentence. Results indicated that participants were more likely to confuse faces from the same language category than from the other language category. Results of the gaze-cueing task revealed a greater gaze-cueing effect for faces associated with the native vs. unknown language. Critically, this difference emerged only in Experiment 1, which may reflect differences in social status between the two language groups. Our findings revealed the impact of language as a social cue on the gaze-cueing effect, suggesting that social attention is sensitive to the language of our interlocutors.
Peressotti, Francesca; Lorenzoni, Anna; Miozzo, Michele
Moral judgments in native, regional, and foreign languages Journal Article
In: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, pp. 1–10, 2023.
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2022
Lorenzoni, Anna; Pagliarini, Elena; Vespignani, Francesco; Navarrete, Eduardo
Pragmatic and knowledge range lenience towards foreigners Journal Article
In: Acta Psychologica, vol. 226, pp. 103572, 2022.
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Lorenzoni, Anna; Santesteban, Mikel; Peressotti, Francesca; Baus, Cristina; Navarrete, Eduardo
Language as a cue for social categorization in bilingual communities Journal Article
In: Plos one, vol. 17, no. 11, pp. e0276334, 2022.
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SANCHEZ, Eduardo NAVARRETE; Pedis, Marta De; Lorenzoni, Anna; others,
Verbal deception in picture naming Journal Article
In: QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, 2022.
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abstract = {Telling a lie requires several cognitive processes. We investigated three cognitive processes involved in verbal deception: the decision to deceive, the suppression of the true statement, and the construction of the false statement. In a standard picture-naming task, participants were instructed to commit true and false naming statements. Critically, participants could freely decide to name the picture (i.e., true naming events) or to commit a verbal deception and use a different name (i.e., false naming events). Different types of analysis were performed with the aim of exploring the influence of semantic, lexical, and phonological information of the target picture in the decision, suppression, and construction processes. The first type of analysis revealed that participants decided to lie more often when the target picture was less typical or less familiar. The second and third types of analysis focused on the false naming events. False naming latencies turned out to be faster when the name of the target picture was a highly frequent or an earlier-acquired name, suggesting an influence of lexical variables in the suppression of the true statement. The third analysis type explored the phonological relationship between the word that participants uttered in the false statements and the target picture name. No phonological influences emerged in this last analysis. These findings demonstrate that verbal deception is tied to semantic and lexical variables corresponding to true statements.},
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Telling a lie requires several cognitive processes. We investigated three cognitive processes involved in verbal deception: the decision to deceive, the suppression of the true statement, and the construction of the false statement. In a standard picture-naming task, participants were instructed to commit true and false naming statements. Critically, participants could freely decide to name the picture (i.e., true naming events) or to commit a verbal deception and use a different name (i.e., false naming events). Different types of analysis were performed with the aim of exploring the influence of semantic, lexical, and phonological information of the target picture in the decision, suppression, and construction processes. The first type of analysis revealed that participants decided to lie more often when the target picture was less typical or less familiar. The second and third types of analysis focused on the false naming events. False naming latencies turned out to be faster when the name of the target picture was a highly frequent or an earlier-acquired name, suggesting an influence of lexical variables in the suppression of the true statement. The third analysis type explored the phonological relationship between the word that participants uttered in the false statements and the target picture name. No phonological influences emerged in this last analysis. These findings demonstrate that verbal deception is tied to semantic and lexical variables corresponding to true statements.
2021
Lorenzoni, Anna; Santesteban, Mikel; Peressotti, Francesca; Baus, Cristina; Navarrete, Eduardo
Dimensions of social categorization: Inside the role of language Journal Article
In: Plos one, vol. 16, no. 7, pp. e0254513, 2021.
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2018
Francesca Peressotti Anna Lorenzoni, Eduardo Navarrete
The Manipulability Effect in Object Naming Journal Article
In: Journal of Cognition, vol. 1, no. 30, 2018.
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abstract = {Seeing objects triggers activation of motor areas. The implications of this motor activation in tasks that do not require object-use is still a matter of debate in cognitive sciences. Here we test whether motor activation percolates into the linguistic system by exploring the effect of object manipulability in a speech production task. Italian native speakers name the set of photographs provided by Guérard, Lagacè and Brodeur (Beh Res Meth, 2015). Photographs varied on four motor dimensions concerning on how easily the represented objects can be grasped, moved, or pantomimed, and the number of actions that can be performed with them. The results show classical psycholinguistic phenomena such as the effect of age of acquisition and name agreement in naming latencies. Critically, linear mixed-effects models show an effect of three motor predictors over and above the psycholinguistic effects (replicating, in part, previous findings, Guérard et al., 2015). Further research is needed to address how, and at which level, the manipulability effect emerges in the course of word production.},
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Seeing objects triggers activation of motor areas. The implications of this motor activation in tasks that do not require object-use is still a matter of debate in cognitive sciences. Here we test whether motor activation percolates into the linguistic system by exploring the effect of object manipulability in a speech production task. Italian native speakers name the set of photographs provided by Guérard, Lagacè and Brodeur (Beh Res Meth, 2015). Photographs varied on four motor dimensions concerning on how easily the represented objects can be grasped, moved, or pantomimed, and the number of actions that can be performed with them. The results show classical psycholinguistic phenomena such as the effect of age of acquisition and name agreement in naming latencies. Critically, linear mixed-effects models show an effect of three motor predictors over and above the psycholinguistic effects (replicating, in part, previous findings, Guérard et al., 2015). Further research is needed to address how, and at which level, the manipulability effect emerges in the course of word production.
2016
Navarrete, Eduardo; Mahon, Bradford Z; Lorenzoni, Anna; Peressotti, Francesca
What can written-words tell us about lexical retrieval in speech production? Journal Article
In: Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 6, pp. 1982, 2016.
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abstract = {In recent decades, researchers have exploited semantic context effects in picture naming tasks in order to investigate the mechanisms involved in the retrieval of words from the mental lexicon. In the blocked naming paradigm, participants name target pictures that are either blocked or not blocked by semantic category. In the continuous naming task, participants name a sequence of target pictures that are drawn from multiple semantic categories. Semantic context effects in both tasks are a highly reliable phenomenon. The empirical evidence is, however, sparse and inconsistent when the target stimuli are printed-words instead of pictures. In the first part of the present study we review the empirical evidence regarding semantic context effects with written-word stimuli in the blocked and continuous naming tasks. In the second part, we empirically test whether semantic context effects are transferred from picture naming trials to word reading trials, and from word reading trials to picture naming trials. The results indicate a transfer of semantic context effects from picture naming to subsequently read within-category words. There is no transfer of semantic effects from target words that were read to subsequently named within-category pictures. These results replicate previous findings (Navarrete et al., 2010) and are contrary to predictions from a recent theoretical analysis by Belke (2013). The empirical evidence reported in the literature together with the present results, are discussed in relation to current accounts of semantic context effects in speech production.},
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In recent decades, researchers have exploited semantic context effects in picture naming tasks in order to investigate the mechanisms involved in the retrieval of words from the mental lexicon. In the blocked naming paradigm, participants name target pictures that are either blocked or not blocked by semantic category. In the continuous naming task, participants name a sequence of target pictures that are drawn from multiple semantic categories. Semantic context effects in both tasks are a highly reliable phenomenon. The empirical evidence is, however, sparse and inconsistent when the target stimuli are printed-words instead of pictures. In the first part of the present study we review the empirical evidence regarding semantic context effects with written-word stimuli in the blocked and continuous naming tasks. In the second part, we empirically test whether semantic context effects are transferred from picture naming trials to word reading trials, and from word reading trials to picture naming trials. The results indicate a transfer of semantic context effects from picture naming to subsequently read within-category words. There is no transfer of semantic effects from target words that were read to subsequently named within-category pictures. These results replicate previous findings (Navarrete et al., 2010) and are contrary to predictions from a recent theoretical analysis by Belke (2013). The empirical evidence reported in the literature together with the present results, are discussed in relation to current accounts of semantic context effects in speech production.
Conferences
2024
Anna, Lorenzoni; Dalmaso, Mario
Gaze matters: on the nature of the reverse congruency effect Conference
Talk at XXX Congresso dell'Associazione Italiana di Psicologia - Sezione Sperimentale | Noto, 23-25 September 2024, 2024.
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abstract = {Eye-gaze plays a central role in social interactions and can elicit orienting of attention in an observer. Recent evidence has shown differences in inducing attentional shifting between eye-gaze stimuli compared to non-social stimuli (e.g., 'arrows'). For example, in a spatial Stroop task, while arrows induce a standard congruency effect (faster reaction times for congruent compared to incongruent trials), eye-gaze stimuli elicit a reversed congruency effect (faster reaction times for incongruent compared to congruent trials). Our study aims to further explore the explanation for the reverse congruency effect related to joint attention: on incongruent trials, specifically for eye-gaze stimuli, the peripheral stimulus is pointing towards the object to which participants' attention is expected to be allocated (i.e., the fixation). Participants (N = 60) were asked to discriminate the direction indicated by the target (arrow or eye-gaze stimuli), which can appear to the left or right of a central fixation point. Participants were instructed to keep their eyes at fixation and to ignore the location in which the target could appear. To further explore the joint-attention assumption, we manipulated the central fixation point (i.e., the object of joint focus), which, within trials, could be either a meaningful real-life object or a symbolic cross. The results replicate previous studies, showing a standard congruency effect for arrow stimuli and a reverse congruency effect for eye-gaze stimuli, for both the symbolic cross and the meaningful real-life object fixation points. Ongoing research is still exploring the nature of this result.},
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Eye-gaze plays a central role in social interactions and can elicit orienting of attention in an observer. Recent evidence has shown differences in inducing attentional shifting between eye-gaze stimuli compared to non-social stimuli (e.g., 'arrows'). For example, in a spatial Stroop task, while arrows induce a standard congruency effect (faster reaction times for congruent compared to incongruent trials), eye-gaze stimuli elicit a reversed congruency effect (faster reaction times for incongruent compared to congruent trials). Our study aims to further explore the explanation for the reverse congruency effect related to joint attention: on incongruent trials, specifically for eye-gaze stimuli, the peripheral stimulus is pointing towards the object to which participants' attention is expected to be allocated (i.e., the fixation). Participants (N = 60) were asked to discriminate the direction indicated by the target (arrow or eye-gaze stimuli), which can appear to the left or right of a central fixation point. Participants were instructed to keep their eyes at fixation and to ignore the location in which the target could appear. To further explore the joint-attention assumption, we manipulated the central fixation point (i.e., the object of joint focus), which, within trials, could be either a meaningful real-life object or a symbolic cross. The results replicate previous studies, showing a standard congruency effect for arrow stimuli and a reverse congruency effect for eye-gaze stimuli, for both the symbolic cross and the meaningful real-life object fixation points. Ongoing research is still exploring the nature of this result.
Lorenzoni, Anna; Calignano, Giulia; Navarrete, Eduardo; Dalmaso, Mario
The influence of face-ethnicity on word recognition: a cognitive pupillometry study Conference
Poster at 7th meeting of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience- ESCAN | Ghent, 22-25 May 2024, 2024.
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Ethnicity plays a substantial role in shaping the way faces are perceived. At the same time, several social factors seem to influence word recognition. However, there is currently a lack of research investigating whether word recognition is influenced by the ethnicity of concomitant facial stimuli. In a lexical-decision task, 48 Italian participants were presented with words and non-words along with Caucasian (ingroup) or Asian (outgroup) faces. Participants saw a face for 2000ms, followed by a linguistic-stimulus and decided whether the string of letters represented a word or a non-word in their native language (Italian). Reaction times were faster for words with respect to non-words (lexicality-effect), and for high-frequency with respect to low-frequency words (frequency-effect). Results also showed greater pupil dilation indicating increased attentional engagement towards outgroup-faces compared to ingroup-faces. Then, when the linguistic stimulus was presented, a first interaction was observed showing that pupil dilation was greater for words with respect to non-words when presented with an ingroup-face. The opposite emerged by presenting an outgroup-face. In addition, a substantial interaction was observed showing greater pupil dilation for high-frequency with respect to low-frequency words, only for outgroup-face. We interpreted these interactions as an indication that word-recognition processes (words and high-frequency words) can be dramatically affected by face-ethnicity. Our results allow us to interpret the cognitive pupillary-response as an index of word recognition influenced by the ethnicity of the face. The data from this study provides early support for the idea that social cues influence an automatic process such as word recognition.
2023
Anna, Lorenzoni; Giulia, Calignano; Mario, Dalmaso; Eduardo, Navarrete
Does linguistic identity influence social attention? It depends on the perceived ‘status’ of the language. Conference
Talk at XVI Symposium of Psycholinguistics | Vitoria-Gasteiz, 31 May – 2 June , 2023.
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2022
Lorenzoni, Anna; Pagliarini, Elena; Vespignani, Francesco; Navarrete, Eduardo
Pragmatic and knowledge lenience toward foreigners Conference
Poster at the 2nd Experiment in the Linguistic Meaning conference (ELM2), 18-20 May 2022, University of Pennsylvania, USA, 2022.
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Elena, Greatti; Anna, Lorenzoni; Francesco, Vespignani; Eduardo, Navarrete
Catching the truth: an EEG study Conference
Poster at the Cognitive Science Arena, 18-19 February, Bolzano, Italy, 2022.
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2021
Anna; Vespignani Lorenzoni, Francesco; Pagliarini
Does this sentence make sense? It depends on who said it! Conference
Talk at the European Social Cognition Network (ESCON), 13-16 September 2021, University of Salzburg, Austria, 2021.
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Anna; Santesteban Lorenzoni, Mikel; Peressotti
Esplorando il ruolo del linguaggio come spunto per la categorizzazione sociale Conference
Mini Talk at Associazione Italiana di Psicologia-Sezione Sperimentale. 8-10 September 2021. Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy, 2021.
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Anna; Greatti Lorenzoni, Elena; Navarrete
The role of linguistic speaker identity on language credibility: Evidence from a written modality paradigm. Conference
Talk at XV International Symposium of Psycholinguistics, 22-25 June 2021, Universities Nebrija and Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 2021.
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