@article{pmid27929326,

title = {A joint investigation of semantic facilitation and semantic interference in continuous naming},

author = {M. Scaltritti and F. Peressotti and E. Navarrete},

doi = { http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000354},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

journal = {J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn},

volume = {43},

number = {5},

pages = {818-823},

abstract = {When speakers name multiple semantically related items, opposing effects can be found. Semantic facilitation is found when naming 2 semantically related items in a row. In contrast, semantic interference is found when speakers name semantically related items separated by 1 or more intervening unrelated items. This latter form of interference is cumulative, as it increases as a function of the number of related items that have been named beforehand. Semantic facilitation has therefore been envisaged as a product of transient and fast-decaying activation of related representations, whereas semantic interference has been linked to longer-lasting changes in the connections between semantic and lexical representations. In this work we attempted to explore and compare the 2 phenomena jointly, by means of contrasting naming sequences with noncontiguous semantically related items and sequences with contiguous semantically related items. Results provide evidence that mechanisms responsible for semantic facilitation and interference may jointly occur in parallel, producing opposing influences on behavior. Importantly, semantic facilitation may exhibit cumulative features too, though these are immediately disrupted when unrelated items intervene.},

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@article{colombo2017serial,

title = {Serial mechanism in transposed letters effects: A developmental study},

author = {Colombo, L., Sulpizio, S., & Peressotti, F.},

doi = {doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2017.04.002},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

journal = {Journal of Experimental Child Psychology},

volume = {161},

pages = {46--62},

publisher = {Elsevier},

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@article{scaltritti2017bilingual,

title = {Bilingual advantage and language switch: What's the linkage?},

author = { Michele Scaltritti and Francesca Peressotti and Michele Miozzo},

doi = { https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728915000565},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

journal = {Bilingualism: Language and Cognition},

volume = {20},

number = {1},

pages = {80--97},

publisher = {Cambridge University Press},

abstract = {Whether bilingualism affects executive functions is a topic of intense debate. While some studies have provided evidence of enhanced executive functions in bilinguals compared to monolinguals, other studies have failed to find advantages. In the present study, we investigated whether high opportunity of language switching could contribute to bilingual advantage. Advantages have been consistently found with Catalan–Spanish bilinguals who experience frequent opportunities of language switching. Fewer opportunities are experienced by speakers of Italian and one of the Italian dialects, the participants of our study. We anticipated reduced or no advantages with these participants. In Experiment 1, subjective estimates of familiarity with dialect failed to show a relationship with performances in different tasks involving executive control. In Experiment 2, we compared Italian–Venetian dialect bilinguals to Italian monolinguals in the flanker task, and no advantages were found either. Contrasting with results from Catalan–Spanish bilinguals, our results suggest that language switching plays a role in bilingual advantages.},

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@article{pmid27472035,

title = {Typing pictures: Linguistic processing cascades into finger movements},

author = {M. Scaltritti and B. Arfe and M. Torrance and F. Peressotti},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-11-01},

journal = {Cognition},

volume = {156},

pages = {16--29},

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@article{pmid27244095,

title = {Serial position encoding of signs},

author = {M. Miozzo and A. Petrova and S. Fischer-Baum and F. Peressotti},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-09-01},

journal = {Cognition},

volume = {154},

pages = {69--80},

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@article{pmid26834659,

title = {Asymmetric switch costs in numeral naming and number word reading: Implications for models of bilingual language production},

author = {M. G. Reynolds and S. Schloffel and F. Peressotti},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-01-01},

journal = {Front Psychol},

volume = {6},

pages = {2011},

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@article{gastaldon2016referential,

title = {Referential numerosity and morphosyntactic number agreement: A psycholinguistic study on Italian Qualche/Alcuni},

author = { Simone Gastaldon and Chiara Zanini and Giorgio Arcara and Francesca Peressotti and Francesca Franzon},

url = {http://colab.psy.unipd.it/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/09.-Gastaldon-1.pdf},

doi = {http://hdl.handle.net/11707/5674},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-01-01},

journal = {Research in Generative Grammar},

volume = {38},

pages = {105--113},

abstract = {The present study aims at shedding new light on the relationship between morphological Number and the numerosity of the referent(s). Previous studies exploiting agreement violations suggested a possible involvement of numerosity processing in the encoding of morphological Number (Carreiras et al., 2010). By employing the two Italian quantifiers qualche and alcuni, and exploiting their diverging requirements for Number agreement, we developed a picture–phrase matching paradigm. This minimal pair enabled us to test the hypothesis that when the morphological information of Number is incongruent with the numerosity encoded on the whole expression, more processing time is needed. The results are consistent with previous studies, and add evidence to a relationship between certain aspects of language and numerical cognition. Notably, contrary to previous literature, our results were obtained by exploiting well-formed expressions only.},

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@article{navarrete2016canc,

title = {What can written-words tell us about lexical retrieval in speech production?},

author = { Eduardo Navarrete and Bradford Z Mahon and Anna Lorenzoni and Francesca Peressotti},

url = {https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01982/full},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01982},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-01-01},

urldate = {2016-01-01},

journal = {Frontiers in Psychology},

volume = {6},

pages = {1982},

publisher = {Frontiers},

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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