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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/sc… #Neuroscience #BrainMapping #Neurosurgery #Language

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/10.1177/02… journalofcognition.org/articles/10.53…

3b/ @AnnaLorenzoni3 presented a poster on race categorization and gaze direction

3/ While Laura Casalino presented a study on (the lack of) the foreign language effect on implicit gender biases

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/10.1111/ps…)

1b/ @AnnaLorenzoni3, together with Mario Dalmaso, held a symposium on the relevance of social and non-social gaze cueing in attention

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

In the symposium, @GiorgioPiazza_C presented a study investigating the contribution of visemes to hierarchical linguistic prediction in naturalistic speech by using TRF

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

New paper alert 🎉 "In the Words of Others: ERP Evidence of Speaker-Specific Phonological Prediction" 🗣️⚡️🧠 Open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ps…

New online study coming soon thanks to a Gorilla Research Grant! 🦻🗣️

Last week our postdoc Zhimin Hu won the best paper award at the Trondheim Young Researchers Symposium on Multilingualism (TYRSM) in Norway! 👏

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".

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

While Marco Sala presented the poster "From Adaptation to Anticipation: How Speaker Familiarity Shapes Speech Predictions"

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]

@GiorgioPiazza_C @CalignanoGiulia presented "Tracking Neuronal Entrainment to Distributional and Compositional Regularities in Sentences"

@GiorgioPiazza_C presented "Anticipating the Unseen: How the Brain Predicts Mouth Movements to Comprehend Speech"

During the first day of the XVII Symposium of Psycholinguistics in Barcelona, three members of our group presented new results! @s_gastaldon presented "Different paths to prediction during audiovisual speech comprehension in deaf cochlear implant users?" [continues]