A5022750896- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
- Language Development and Disorders
- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Text Readability and Simplification
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Glaucoma and retinal disorders
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
- Retinal Imaging and Analysis
- Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Stuttering Research and Treatment
- Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Face Recognition and Perception
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
2013-2025
Stanford Medicine
2023-2025
Stanford University
2019-2024
Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
2015-2024
Palo Alto University
2021-2022
Abstract Objective This study examined the impact of COVID‐19 pandemic and subsequent social restrictions or quarantines on mental health global adult population. Method A sample 6,882 individuals ( M age = 42.30; 78.8% female) from 59 countries completed an online survey asking about several pandemic‐related changes in life psychological status. Results Of these participants, 25.4% 19.5% reported moderate‐to‐severe depression (DASS‐21) anxiety symptoms (GAD‐7), respectively. Demographic...
The validity of research results depends on the reliability analysis methods. In recent years, there have been concerns about that uses diffusion-weighted MRI (dMRI) to understand human brain white matter connections in vivo, part based methods used this field. We defined and assessed three dimensions dMRI-based tractometry, an technique assesses physical properties pathways: (1) reproducibility, (2) test-retest reliability, (3) robustness. To facilitate we provide software automates...
Abstract Background Sensory changes due to aging or disease can impact brain tissue. This study aims investigate the link between glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness, and alterations in connections. Methods We analyzed diffusion MRI measurements white matter tissue large group, consisting 905 glaucoma patients (aged 49-80) 5292 healthy individuals 45-80) from UK Biobank. Confounds group differences were mitigated by matching sub-sample controls subjects. compared classification using...
Abstract An accurate model of the factors that contribute to individual differences in reading ability depends on data collection large, diverse and representative samples research participants. However, is rarely feasible due constraints imposed by standardized measures which require test administration trained clinicians or researchers. Here we explore whether a simple, two-alternative forced choice, time limited lexical decision task (LDT), self-delivered through web-browser, can serve as...
Abstract Gender‐to‐ending consistency has been shown to influence grammatical gender retrieval in isolated word presentation. Notwithstanding the wealth of evidence, exact role and time course processing this distributional information remain unclear. This ERP study investigated if when brain detects gender‐to‐ending sentences containing Italian determiner‐noun pairs. Determiners either agreed or disagreed with nouns whose endings were reliable misleading cues (transparent irregular nouns)....
Education sculpts specialized neural circuits for skills like reading that are critical to success in modern society but were not anticipated by the selective pressures of evolution. Does emergence brain regions selectively process novel visual stimuli words occur at expense cortical representations other faces and objects? "Neuronal Recycling" predicts learning read should enhance response ventral occipitotemporal cortex (VOTC) decrease categories such as objects. To test this hypothesis,...
Reading typically involves phonological mediation, especially for transparent orthographies with a regular letter to sound correspondence. In this study we ask whether coding is necessary part of the reading process by examining prelingually deaf individuals who are skilled readers Spanish. We conducted two EEG experiments exploiting pseudohomophone effect, in which nonwords that like words elicit encoding during reading. The first, semantic categorization task masked priming, resulted...
We created a set of resources to enable research based on openly-available diffusion MRI (dMRI) data from the Healthy Brain Network (HBN) study. First, we curated HBN dMRI (N = 2747) into Imaging Data Structure and preprocessed it according best-practices, including denoising correcting for motion effects, susceptibility-related distortions, eddy currents. Preprocessed, analysis-ready was made openly available. quality plays key role in analysis dMRI. To optimize QC scale this large dataset,...
Reading is a cognitive skill that requires our brain to go through myriad of changes during learning. While many studies have described how reading acquisition shapes children's function, less known about the impact on structure. Here we examined short-term causal effects training preschoolers' behavior and white matter Forty-eight English-speaking preschoolers (4y10m 6y2m) participated in randomized controlled trial where they were randomly assigned two programs: Letter program was focused...
Distinct theoretical proposals have described how communicative constraints (contextual biases, speaker identity) impact verbal irony processing. Modular models assume that social and contextual factors an effect at a late stage of Interactive claim biases are considered early on. The constraint-satisfaction model further assumes speaker's context's characteristics can compete stages analysis. present ERP study teased apart these by testing the context features (i.e., accent) on Spanish...
The validity of research results depends on the reliability analysis methods. In recent years, there have been concerns about that uses diffusion-weighted MRI (dMRI) to understand human brain white matter connections in vivo , part based methods used this field. We defined and assessed three dimensions dMRI-based tractometry, an technique assesses physical properties pathways: (1) reproducibility, (2) test-retest (3) robustness. To facilitate we provide software automates tractometry (...
The present event-related potential (ERP) study was aimed at testing whether form-function mappings can differently affect sentence comprehension in early bilinguals with a range of linguistic profiles. Basque–Spanish and Spanish–Basque were presented Spanish sentences article-noun gender agreement violations. the target noun could be retrieved based on word-form (i.e. transparent nouns) or only lexical representation opaque nouns). While Basque-dominant showed an impact gender-to-ending...
In modern multi-cultural societies, conversations between foreign speakers and native listeners have become very common. These exchanges often include the use of figurative language. The present study examines, for first time, whether listeners’ non-literal interpretation discourse is influenced by indexical cues such as speaker accent. Native were presented with ironic literal Spanish stories uttered in a or accent (Spanish British English accents, respectively). Two types irony considered:...