
Research Areas
Language system; Language and cognition interactions
Specific research interests:
- Predictive processing in language comprehension
- Biligualism, multilinguyalism and dialects
- Speech processing
- Sign languages
- Lexical access, orthography, reading and writing
Active research grants:
“Perceiving and predicting multisensory speech: a window on the interplay between sensory and motor processes and brain representations”, codice MUR 2022 FT8HNC (Bando PRIN 2022 – DD 104 del 02/02/2022) – CUP “C53D23004130006
Selected Publications
Publications
2006
The acquisition of literacy in Italian Book Chapter
In: Joshy, R. M.; Aaron, P. G. (Ed.): Handbook of orthography and literacy, pp. 105–120, Mahwah NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006.
2005
Bidirectional semantic priming in the attentional blink Journal Article
In: Psychon Bull Rev, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 460–465, 2005.
2003
On recognizing proper names: the orthographic cue hypothesis Journal Article
In: Cogn Psychol, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 87–116, 2003.
Reading aloud: Dissociating the semantic pathway from the non-semantic pathway of the lexical route Journal Article
In: Reading and Writing, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 179–194, 2003.
2002
Le associazioni verbali PD-DPSS: Norme per 294 parole Journal Article
In: Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 153–172, 2002.
2000
Modulazione di una variabile percettiva in un contesto di doppio-compito. Journal Article
In: Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, vol. 27, pp. 843–848, 2000.
1999
The role of letter identity and letter position in orthographic priming Journal Article
In: Percept Psychophys, vol. 61, no. 4, pp. 691–706, 1999.
Functional constraints and multiple procedures in reading Inproceedings
In: Proceedings of ECCS’99—European Conference on Cognitive Science, pp. 309–314, Siena: Multimedia & Communication, 1999.
1998
Lexical effects in naming pseudowords in shallow orthographies: Further empirical data. Journal Article
In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 622, 1998.
1995
Letter-position coding in random constant arrays Journal Article
In: Percept Psychophys, vol. 57, no. 6, pp. 875–890, 1995.
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