EDUARDO NAVARRETE
Associate Professor
Telephone: 0498271277
Via Venezia, 8 – Room 02.022
eduardo.navarrete@unipd.it
Via Venezia, 8 – Room 02.022
eduardo.navarrete@unipd.it
Research Areas
speech production; language and social categorization; lexical access; semantic access; sign language
Selected Publications
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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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.
Publications
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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abstract = {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.},
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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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Quartarone, Cinzia; Navarrete, Eduardo; Budisavljevi'c, Sanja; Peressotti, Francesca
Exploring the ventral white matter language network in bimodal and unimodal bilinguals Journal Article
In: Brain and Language, vol. 235, pp. 105187, 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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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.
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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2020
Gastaldon, Simone; Arcara, Giorgio; Navarrete, Eduardo; Peressotti, Francesca
Commonalities in alpha and beta neural desynchronizations during prediction in language comprehension and production Journal Article
In: Cortex, vol. 131, pp. 328-345, 2020, ISSN: 00109452.
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abstract = {We recorded EEG from participants performing both a comprehension and a production task in two separate blocks. Participants listened to high and low constraint incomplete sentences and were asked either to name a picture to complete it (production) or to simply listen to the final word (comprehension). We found that in a silent gap before the final stimulus, predictable stimuli elicited alpha and beta desynchronization in both tasks, signaling the pre-activation of linguistic information. Source estimation highlighted the involvement of left-lateralized language areas and temporo-parietal areas in the right hemisphere. Furthermore, correlations between the desynchronizations in comprehension and production showed spatiotemporal commonalities in language- relevant areas of the left hemisphere. As proposed by prediction-by-production models, our results suggest that comprehenders engage the production system while predicting upcoming words.
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We recorded EEG from participants performing both a comprehension and a production task in two separate blocks. Participants listened to high and low constraint incomplete sentences and were asked either to name a picture to complete it (production) or to simply listen to the final word (comprehension). We found that in a silent gap before the final stimulus, predictable stimuli elicited alpha and beta desynchronization in both tasks, signaling the pre-activation of linguistic information. Source estimation highlighted the involvement of left-lateralized language areas and temporo-parietal areas in the right hemisphere. Furthermore, correlations between the desynchronizations in comprehension and production showed spatiotemporal commonalities in language- relevant areas of the left hemisphere. As proposed by prediction-by-production models, our results suggest that comprehenders engage the production system while predicting upcoming words.
Keywords: language prediction, language production, alpha–beta oscillations, internal model
Keywords: language prediction, language production, alpha–beta oscillations, internal model
Miozzo, Michele; Villabol, Michael; Navarrete, Eduardo; Peressotti, Francesca
Hands show where things are: The close similarity between sign and natural space Journal Article
In: Cognition, vol. 196, pp. 104106, 2020.
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Navarrete, Eduardo; Miozzo, Michele; Peressotti, Francesca
Language can shape the perception of oriented objects Journal Article
In: Scientific Reports, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 1–9, 2020.
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Miozzo, Michele; Navarrete, Eduardo; Ongis, Martino; Mello, Enrica; Girotto, Vittorio; Peressotti, Francesca
Foreign language effect in decision-making: How foreign is it? Journal Article
In: Cognition, vol. 199, pp. 104245, 2020.
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