Language section of the Cognition and Language Lab, DPSS @UniPadova | Psycholinguistics, electrophysiology of language, bilingualism

Joined June 2018
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New article🔥 Prof. Navarrete and collaborators challenge the generalizability of the foreign language effect in reducing cognitive biases, as their large-sample replication did not support previous findings on the illusion of causality. Read the article: doi.org/10.1017/S13667289261…
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Truth isn’t just about facts, it’s also about context. ⚠️ Warnings reduce belief in repeated falsehoods 📊 True contexts boost credibility, even for new claims Two distinct mechanisms shape perceived truth. Check our new article👇🔥 sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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In collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University, lab member Eduardo Navarrete contributed to a study on causal parametric language mapping using direct electrical stimulation during awake neurosurgery. science.org/doi/10.1126/scia… #Neuroscience #BrainMapping #Neurosurgery #Language
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Can language shape moral choices and career stereotypes? Two papers led by Prof. Eduardo Navarrete show how language shapes: 🧠 moral-reasoning (team: Zhimin Hu et al.) ⚖️ gender–career bias (team: Laura Casalino et al.) Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… journalofcognition.org/artic…
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The lab's recap of September activities! A thread 🧵 1/At #ESCOP2025 in Sheffield (UK), Marco Sala presented an ERP study on phonological prediction (paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…)
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3/ While Laura Casalino presented a study on (the lack of) the foreign language effect on implicit gender biases
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3b/ @AnnaLorenzoni3 presented a poster on race categorization and gaze direction
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1b/ @AnnaLorenzoni3, together with Mario Dalmaso, held a symposium on the relevance of social and non-social gaze cueing in attention
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Lab's last picture before the big changes ahead! @s_gastaldon will start as a @MSCActions fellow at @bcbl_, @GiorgioPiazza_C as well as a @MSCActions fellow at @tcddublin, while Zhimin Hu will be a postdoc at @HongKongPolyU
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5/ At #ICON25 in Porto (Portugal), @s_gastaldon held a symposium on the role of self (breathing, heartbeat) and others' (mouth movements, gestures) bodily signals on auditory and speech processing, to foster an integrated view on bodily signals in multimodal communication
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In the symposium, @GiorgioPiazza_C presented a study investigating the contribution of visemes to hierarchical linguistic prediction in naturalistic speech by using TRF
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New paper alert 🎉 "In the Words of Others: ERP Evidence of Speaker-Specific Phonological Prediction" 🗣️⚡️🧠 Open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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New online study coming soon thanks to a Gorilla Research Grant! 🦻🗣️
Happy to have been selected among the winners of the @GorillaPsyc Language & Linguistics Research Grant! I will implement an online study on predictive speech comprehension/production and adverse listening conditions in deaf people with cochlear implant 🦻🗣️
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Last week our postdoc Zhimin Hu won the best paper award at the Trondheim Young Researchers Symposium on Multilingualism (TYRSM) in Norway! 👏
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Third and last day of the XVII Symposium of Psycholinguistics in Barcelona! Laura Casalino presented the poster "Emptying the file drawer: null results of the Foreign Language Effect".
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The lab at the XVII International Symposium of Psycholinguistics in Barcelona 🎉 @s_gastaldon @AnnaLorenzoni3 @CalignanoGiulia @GiorgioPiazza_C @alessvause Laura Casalino, Marco Sala, Eduardo Navarrete, Francesco Vespignani, Francesca Peressotti
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Second day of the XVII Symposium of Psycholinguistics in Barcelona! Today @AnnaLorenzoni3 presented "The impact of face-ethnicity on attention during word recognition: a pupillometry study" [continues]
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While Marco Sala presented the poster "From Adaptation to Anticipation: How Speaker Familiarity Shapes Speech Predictions"
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