2020
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Gastaldon, Simone ; Arcara, Giorgio ; Navarrete, Eduardo ; Peressotti, Francesca Commonalities in alpha and beta neural desynchronizations during prediction in language comprehension and production Journal Article Forthcoming Cortex, Forthcoming, ISSN: 00109452. Abstract | Links | BibTeX @article{Gastaldon2020,
title = {Commonalities in alpha and beta neural desynchronizations during prediction in language comprehension and production},
author = {Gastaldon, Simone and Arcara, Giorgio and Navarrete, Eduardo and Peressotti, Francesca},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945220303701
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doi = {10.1016/j.cortex.2020.09.026},
issn = {00109452},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-10-01},
journal = {Cortex},
publisher = {Elsevier},
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.
Keywords: language prediction, language production, alpha–beta oscillations, internal model},
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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 |
Ceccarini, Francesco; Guerra, Silvia; Peressotti, Alessandro; Peressotti, Francesca; Bulgheroni, Maria; Baccinelli, Walter; Bonato, Bianca; Castiello, Umberto Speed--accuracy trade-off in plants Journal Article Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, pp. 1–8, 2020. BibTeX @article{ceccarini2020speed,
title = {Speed--accuracy trade-off in plants},
author = { Francesco Ceccarini and Silvia Guerra and Alessandro Peressotti and Francesca Peressotti and Maria Bulgheroni and Walter Baccinelli and Bianca Bonato and Umberto Castiello},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
journal = {Psychonomic Bulletin & Review},
pages = {1--8},
publisher = {Springer},
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Zanini, Chiara; Rugani, Rosa; Giomo, Dunia; Peressotti, Francesca; Franzon, Francesca Effects of animacy on the processing of morphological Number: a cognitive inheritance? Journal Article Word Structure, 13 (1), pp. 22–44, 2020. BibTeX @article{zanini2020effects,
title = {Effects of animacy on the processing of morphological Number: a cognitive inheritance?},
author = { Chiara Zanini and Rosa Rugani and Dunia Giomo and Francesca Peressotti and Francesca Franzon},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
journal = {Word Structure},
volume = {13},
number = {1},
pages = {22--44},
publisher = {Edinburgh University Press The Tun-Holyrood Road, 12 (2f) Jackson's Entry~…},
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Scaltritti, Michele; Suitner, Caterina; Peressotti, Francesca Language and motor processing in reading and typing: Insights from beta-frequency band power modulations Journal Article Brain and Language, 204 , pp. 104758, 2020. BibTeX @article{scaltritti2020languageb,
title = {Language and motor processing in reading and typing: Insights from beta-frequency band power modulations},
author = { Michele Scaltritti and Caterina Suitner and Francesca Peressotti},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
journal = {Brain and Language},
volume = {204},
pages = {104758},
publisher = {Elsevier},
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pubstate = {published},
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Miozzo, Michele; Villabol, Michael; Navarrete, Eduardo; Peressotti, Francesca Hands show where things are: The close similarity between sign and natural space Journal Article Cognition, 196 , pp. 104106, 2020. BibTeX @article{miozzo2020hands,
title = {Hands show where things are: The close similarity between sign and natural space},
author = { Michele Miozzo and Michael Villabol and Eduardo Navarrete and Francesca Peressotti},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
journal = {Cognition},
volume = {196},
pages = {104106},
publisher = {Elsevier},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
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Navarrete, Eduardo; Miozzo, Michele; Peressotti, Francesca Language can shape the perception of oriented objects Journal Article Scientific Reports, 10 (1), pp. 1–9, 2020. BibTeX @article{navarrete2020language,
title = {Language can shape the perception of oriented objects},
author = { Eduardo Navarrete and Michele Miozzo and Francesca Peressotti},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
volume = {10},
number = {1},
pages = {1--9},
publisher = {Nature Publishing Group},
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pubstate = {published},
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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 Cognition, 199 , pp. 104245, 2020. BibTeX @article{miozzo2020foreign,
title = {Foreign language effect in decision-making: How foreign is it?},
author = {Michele Miozzo and Eduardo Navarrete and Martino Ongis and Enrica Mello and Vittorio Girotto and Francesca Peressotti},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
journal = {Cognition},
volume = {199},
pages = {104245},
publisher = {Elsevier},
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pubstate = {published},
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Ceccarini, Francesco; Guerra, Silvia; Peressotti, Alessandro; Peressotti, Francesca; Bulgheroni, Maria; Baccinelli, Walter; Bonato, Bianca; Castiello, Umberto On-line control of movement in plants Journal Article Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 2020. BibTeX @article{ceccarini2020line,
title = {On-line control of movement in plants},
author = { Francesco Ceccarini and Silvia Guerra and Alessandro Peressotti and Francesca Peressotti and Maria Bulgheroni and Walter Baccinelli and Bianca Bonato and Umberto Castiello},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
journal = {Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications},
publisher = {Elsevier},
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2019
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Arcara, Giorgio; Franzon, Francesca; Gastaldon, Simone; Brotto, Silvia; Semenza, Carlo; Peressotti, Francesca; Zanini, Chiara One can be some but some cannot be one: ERP correlates of numerosity incongruence are different for singular and plural Journal Article Cortex, 116 , pp. 104-121, 2019. Abstract | Links | BibTeX @article{Arcara2018,
title = {One can be some but some cannot be one: ERP correlates of numerosity incongruence are different for singular and plural},
author = {Giorgio Arcara and Francesca Franzon and Simone Gastaldon and Silvia Brotto and Carlo Semenza and Francesca Peressotti and Chiara Zanini},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.10.022},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-07-00},
journal = {Cortex},
volume = {116},
pages = {104-121},
abstract = {Humans can communicate information on numerosity by means of number words (e.g. one hundred, a couple), but also through Number morphology (e.g. through the singular vs. the plural forms of a noun). Agreement violations involving Number morphology (e.g. *one apples) are well known to elicit specific ERP components such as the Left Anterior Negativity (LAN); yet, the relationship between a morphological Number value (e.g. singular vs. plural) and its referential numerosity has been scantly considered in the literature. Moreover, even if agreement violations have been proved very useful, they do not typically characterise the everyday language usage, thus narrowing the scope of the results. In this study we investigated Number morphology from a different perspective, by focusing on the ERP correlates of congruence and incongruence between a depicted numerosity and noun phrases. To this aim we designed a picture–phrase matching paradigm in Italian. In each trial, a picture depicting one or four objects was followed by a grammatically well-formed phrase made up of a quantifier and a content noun inflected either in the singular or in the plural. When analysing ERP time-locked to the content noun, plural phrases after pictures presenting one object elicited a larger negativity, similar to a LAN effect. No significant congruence effect was found in the case of the phrases whose morphological Number value conveyed a numerosity of one. Our results suggest that 1) incongruence elicits a negativity (LAN-like) independently from the grammaticality of the utterances and irrespective the P600 component; 2) the reference to a numerosity can be partially encoded in an incremental way when processing Number morphology; and, most importantly, 3) the processing of the morphological Number value of plural is different from that of singular as the former shows a narrower interpretability than the latter.},
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Humans can communicate information on numerosity by means of number words (e.g. one hundred, a couple), but also through Number morphology (e.g. through the singular vs. the plural forms of a noun). Agreement violations involving Number morphology (e.g. *one apples) are well known to elicit specific ERP components such as the Left Anterior Negativity (LAN); yet, the relationship between a morphological Number value (e.g. singular vs. plural) and its referential numerosity has been scantly considered in the literature. Moreover, even if agreement violations have been proved very useful, they do not typically characterise the everyday language usage, thus narrowing the scope of the results. In this study we investigated Number morphology from a different perspective, by focusing on the ERP correlates of congruence and incongruence between a depicted numerosity and noun phrases. To this aim we designed a picture–phrase matching paradigm in Italian. In each trial, a picture depicting one or four objects was followed by a grammatically well-formed phrase made up of a quantifier and a content noun inflected either in the singular or in the plural. When analysing ERP time-locked to the content noun, plural phrases after pictures presenting one object elicited a larger negativity, similar to a LAN effect. No significant congruence effect was found in the case of the phrases whose morphological Number value conveyed a numerosity of one. Our results suggest that 1) incongruence elicits a negativity (LAN-like) independently from the grammaticality of the utterances and irrespective the P600 component; 2) the reference to a numerosity can be partially encoded in an incremental way when processing Number morphology; and, most importantly, 3) the processing of the morphological Number value of plural is different from that of singular as the former shows a narrower interpretability than the latter. |
Colombo, Lucia; Sulpizio, Simone; Peressotti, Francesca The developmental trend of transposed letters effects in masked priming Journal Article Journal of experimental child psychology, 186 , pp. 117–130, 2019. Abstract | Links | BibTeX @article{colombo2019developmental,
title = {The developmental trend of transposed letters effects in masked priming},
author = { Lucia Colombo and Simone Sulpizio and Francesca Peressotti},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2019.05.007},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
journal = {Journal of experimental child psychology},
volume = {186},
pages = {117--130},
publisher = {Elsevier},
abstract = {In the current study, we investigated the development of transposed letter (TL) priming effects with masked priming. Recent studies have reported different and contrasting results concerning the age at which TL priming effects first appear and whether they tend to decline or increase with age. One of the aims of this study was to investigate the developmental trend of orthographic mechanisms underlying the TL effects in Italian. We tested three groups of children (second, third, and fifth graders) and a group of adults with a sandwich masked priming procedure, presenting lists of target words preceded by TL or replaced letter (RL) primes. TLs and RLs were either at the beginning (second–third letters) or the end (fourth–sixth letters) of primes in order to see whether the TL priming effect varied according to position in the letter string. We found that TL priming effects increased with age in both accuracy and latency. No effect of position was found. The results are discussed in light of a possible difference in the development of orthographic mechanisms depending on the transparency of the language.},
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In the current study, we investigated the development of transposed letter (TL) priming effects with masked priming. Recent studies have reported different and contrasting results concerning the age at which TL priming effects first appear and whether they tend to decline or increase with age. One of the aims of this study was to investigate the developmental trend of orthographic mechanisms underlying the TL effects in Italian. We tested three groups of children (second, third, and fifth graders) and a group of adults with a sandwich masked priming procedure, presenting lists of target words preceded by TL or replaced letter (RL) primes. TLs and RLs were either at the beginning (second–third letters) or the end (fourth–sixth letters) of primes in order to see whether the TL priming effect varied according to position in the letter string. We found that TL priming effects increased with age in both accuracy and latency. No effect of position was found. The results are discussed in light of a possible difference in the development of orthographic mechanisms depending on the transparency of the language. |