A5083503930- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
- Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Language Development and Disorders
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Sport Psychology and Performance
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Regulation of Appetite and Obesity
- Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Educational and Social Studies
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Motor Control and Adaptation
- Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials
- Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function
University of Urbino
2016-2024
Gestione Sistemi per l’Informatica (Italy)
2022
Ospedali Riuniti Marche Nord
2018-2022
University of Milano-Bicocca
2007-2021
Institute for Biomedical Research and Innovation
2020
National Research Council
2020
Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta
2019-2020
Although it is widely accepted that nouns and verbs are functionally independent linguistic entities, less clear whether their processing recruits different brain areas. This issue particularly relevant for those theories of lexical semantics (and, more in general, cognition) suggest the embodiment abstract concepts, i.e., based strongly on perceptual motoric representations. paper presents a formal meta-analysis neuroimaging evidence noun verb order to address this dichotomy effectively at...
The wide variety of techniques and tasks used to study the neural correlates noun verb processing has resulted in a body inconsistent evidence. We performed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiment detect grammatical class effects that generalize across tasks. A total 12 participants undertook grammatical-class switching task (GCST), which they were presented with (or verb) asked retrieve corresponding noun), classical picture naming (PNT) widely previous aphasiological...
The increasing number of primary students with varying degrees exposure to a family minority language requires reflection on whether specific aspects their daily experience influence learning. Indeed, Minority Language Children (MLC) often report difficulties in reading that must be better investigated exclude neurodevelopmental conditions such as dyslexia. To this aim, we developed new instrument, the Daily Linguistic Practice Interview. It allows for collecting information about linguistic...
We used fMRI to explore the extent of anatomical overlap three neural systems that literature on developmental dyslexia associates with reading: auditory phonological, visual magnocellular, and motor/cerebellar systems. Twenty-eight normal subjects performed four tasks during scans: word pseudoword reading, rhyming for letter names, motion perception, a motor sequence learning task. found left occipitotemporal cortex (OTC), which previous studies reported be dysfunctional in dyslexia, can...
In 2000 Baddeley proposed the existence of a new component working memory, episodic buffer, which should contribute to on‐line maintenance integrated memory traces. The author assumed that this be critical for immediate recall short story exceeds capacity phonological store. Accordingly, patients with Alzheimer’s dementia (AD) suffer deficit buffer when is impossible. On other hand, somewhat preserved in such some IR can occur (Baddeley and Wilson, 2002). We adopted logic voxel‐based...
We studied the linguistic profile and neurolinguistic organization of a 14-year-old adolescent (EB) who underwent left hemispherectomy at age 2.5 years. After initial aphasia, his language skills recovered within 2 years, with exception some word finding problems. Over neuropsychological assessments showed that EB's was near-to-normal, lexical competence, which lagged slightly behind for both auditory written language. Moreover, accuracy speed in reading writing words non-words were normal...
Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) is considered a universal marker of developmental dyslexia (DD) and could also be helpful to identify reading deficit in minority-language children (MLC), which it may hard disentangle whether the difficulties are due learning disorder or lower proficiency language instruction. We tested rapid naming skills monolingual Good Readers (mGR), Poor (mPR), MLC, by using our new version RAN, RAN-Shapes, 127 primary school students (from 3rd 5th grade). In line with...
According to the dual-route model, a printed string of letters can be processed by either grapheme-to-phoneme conversion (GPC) route or lexical-semantic route. Although meta-analyses imaging literature support existence distinct but interacting reading procedures, individual neuroimaging studies that explored neural correlates yielded inconclusive results. We used list-manipulation paradigm provide fresh empirical look at this issue and isolate specific areas underlie two procedures. In...
Neuroimaging tools could open a window on residual neurofunctional activity in the absence of detectable behavioural responses patients with disorders consciousness (DOC). Nevertheless, literature this topic is characterised by large heterogeneity paradigms and methodological approaches that can undermine reproducibility results. To explicitly test whether task-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) be used to systematically detect differences between different classes DOC,...