A5091451413- Reading and Literacy Development
- Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction
- Writing and Handwriting Education
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Spatial Cognition and Navigation
- Language Development and Disorders
- Free Will and Agency
- Text Readability and Simplification
- Digital Accessibility for Disabilities
- Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
- Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience
- Memory Processes and Influences
University of Milano-Bicocca
2010-2025
University of Milan
2013
University of Pavia
2013
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...
The lack of inversion effect for face recognition in congenital prosopagnosia (CP) is consistent with the hypothesis a failure holistic processing. However, although CPs' abnormal gaze behavior upright faces has already been demonstrated, neither their scanning strategy inverted faces, nor possibility that because reasons other than deficit have investigated yet.We recorded eye movements prosopagnosic and control group during encoding unknown objects, flowers. Two types stimuli (faces...
Patients suffering from Unilateral Spatial Neglect (USN) fail to pay attention to, respond and report sensory events occurring in the contralesional side of space. The traditional neuropsychological assessment USN is based on paper-and-pencil tests, whose data recording scoring may be subjected human error. utilization technological devices can expected improve USN. Therefore, we built Neurit.Space, a modified digital version three widely used detect signs USN, namely: Bells Cancellation,...
In this study, we validated the "ReadFree tool", a computerised battery of 12 visual and auditory tasks developed to identify poor readers also in minority-language children (MLC). We tested task-specific discriminant power on 142 Italian-monolingual participants (8-13 years old) divided into monolingual (N = 37) good 105) according standardised Italian reading tests. The performances at tool" were entered classification regression tree (CART) model readers. set rules extracted from CART...
A vertical line segment intersecting a horizontal one at different crossing points generates sections. Visual perception of such sections was investigated here in two experiments. In both experiments participants were most accurate and precise when they had to reproduce symmetrical Interestingly, the asymmetrical not equivalent terms participants' performance: constant errors changed as function error curve nicely interpolated by composition harmonics length. consistence with harmonic...
In daily life interactions, we achieve goals with partners through tight temporal coordination or sequential joint efforts. Is our individual sense of control over shared outcomes (sense self-agency) the same as one experienced when act alone? Do explicitly and implicitly feel like are fully in motor even if goal is finally achieved by partner? To address these questions, measured explicit implicit self-agency (coordinated sequential) interactive contexts. We studied 42 healthy adult...
In this study, we validated the “ReadFree tool”: a computerized battery of 12 hierarchically organized tasks in visual and auditory modalities, which do not imply reading. The tool has been developed to identify poor readers irrespective their specific language background, thus, be also suitable for Minority-Language Children (MLC).Each task's discriminant power was tested on 142 Italian-monolingual participants (8-13 years-old) that either presented reading deficit (i.e., monolingual (mPR);...
The present study investigates third language (L3) learners’ processing of Chinese subject and object relative clauses in a supportive context. Using self-paced reading task, we tested native Italian L3 learners Mandarin speakers. results showed that the read significantly more slowly than speakers all target regions. Also, head noun region, they compared to clauses, indicating preference for latter. By contrast, speakers, no significant differences were observed between any performance...