Questi sono i contributi dei componenti del nostro team nelle pubblicazioni scientifiche fino al 2023
Contributi per la ricerca nella prima infanzia:
- Fló, A., Benjamin, L., Palu, M., Dehaene-Lambertz, G. (2024). Statistical learning beyond words in human neonates.
- Visibelli, E., Porru, A., Lucangeli, D., Butterworth, B., Benavides-Varela, S. (2024). Neural indicators of numerical abilities in the infant human brain: A systematic review. Developmental Review, 74.
- Visibelli, E., Vigna, G., Nascimben, C., & Benavides-Varela, S. (2024). Neurobiology of numerical learning. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, 158, 105545.
- Bastianello, T., Lorenzini, I., Nazzi, T., & Majorano, M. (2023). The Language ENvironment Analysis system (LENA): A validation study with Italian-learning children. Journal of Child Language.
- Benjamin, L., Flo, A., Al Roumi, F., & Dehaene-Lambertz, G. (2023). Humans parsimoniously represent auditory sequences by pruning and completing the underlying network structure. ELife, 12, e86430.
- Martinez‐Alvarez, A., Benavides‐Varela, S., Lapillonne, A., & Gervain, J. (2023). Newborns discriminate utterance‐level prosodic contours. Developmental Science, 26(2), e13304.
- Alexopoulos, J., Giordano, V., Doering, S., Seidl, R., Benavides-Varela, S., Russwurm, M., Greenwood, S., Berger, A., & Bartha-Doering, L. (2022). Sex differences in neural processing of speech in neonates. Cortex, 157, 117-128.
- Bastianello, T., Vihman, M.M., Keren-Portnoy, T., & Majorano, M. (2022). Infant looking preferences towards dynamic faces: A systematic review. Infant Behavior and Development, 67, 101709.
- Benjamin, L., Fló, A., Palu, M., Naik, S., Melloni, L., & Dehaene-Lambertz, G. (2022). Tracking transitional probabilities and segmenting auditory sequences are dissociable processes in adults and neonates. Developmental Science, n/a(n/a), e13300.
- Fló, A., Benjamin, L., Palu, M., & Dehaene-Lambertz, G. (2022). Sleeping neonates track transitional probabilities in speech but only retain the first syllable of words. Scientific Reports, 12(1), Article 1.
- Fló, A., Gennari, G., Benjamin, L., & Dehane-Lambertz, G. (2022). Automated Pipeline for Infants Continuous EEG (APICE): A flexible pipeline for developmental cognitive studies | Elsevier Enhanced Reader. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
- Kabdebon, C., Flo, A., de Heering, A., & Aslin, R. (2022). The power of rhythms: How steady-state evoked responses reveal early neurocognitive development. NeuroImage, 119150.
- Alexopoulos, J., Giordano, V., Janda, C., Benavides‐Varela, S., Seidl, R., Doering, S., Berger, A., & Bartha‐Doering, L. (2021). The duration of intrauterine development influences discrimination of speech prosody in infants. Developmental Science, e13110.
- Benavides-Varela, S., & Reoyo-Serrano, N. (2021). Small-range numerical representations of linguistic sounds in 9-to 10-month-old infants. Cognition, 104637.
- Benjamin, L., Dehaene-Lambertz, G., & Fló, A. (2021). Remarks on the analysis of steady-state responses: Spurious artifacts introduced by overlapping epochs. Cortex.
- Fló, A. (2021). Evidence of ordinal position encoding of sequences extracted from continuous speech. Cognition, 104646.
- Gennari, G., Marti, S., Palu, M., Fló, A., & Dehaene-Lambertz, G. (2021). Orthogonal neural codes for speech in the infant brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(31), e2020410118.
- Giordano, V., Alexopoulos, J., Spagna, A., Benavides-Varela, S., Peganc, K., Kothgassner, O. D., Klebermass-Schrehof, K., Olischar, M., Berger, A., & Bartha-Doering, L. (2021). Accent discrimination abilities during the first days of life: An fNIRS study. Brain and Language, 223, 105039.
- Saksida, A., Flo, A., Guedes, B., Nespor, M., & Peña Garay, M. (2021). Prosody facilitates learning the word order in a new language. Cognition, 104686.
- Dehaene-Lambertz, G., Flo, A., & Pena, M. (2020). Infants’ early competence for language and symbols. In The social brain: A developmental perspective.
- Lunghi, M., Di Giorgio, E., Benavides-Varela, S., & Simion, F. (2020). Covert orienting of attention in 3-month-old infants: The case of biological motion. Infant Behavior and Development, 58, 101422.
- Bartha-Doering, L., Alexopoulos, J., Giordano, V., Stelzer, L., Kainz, T., Benavides-Varela, S., Wartenburger, I., Klebermass-Schrehof, K., Olischar, M., Seidl, R., & Berger, A. (2019). Absence of neural speech discrimination in preterm infants at term-equivalent age. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 39, 100679.
- Fló, A., Brusini, P., Macagno, F., Nespor, M., Mehler, J., & Ferry, A. L. (2019). Newborns are sensitive to multiple cues for word segmentation in continuous speech. Developmental Science, 0(0), e12802.
- Majorano, M., Bastianello, T., Morelli, M., Lavelli, M. & Vihman M.M. (2019). Vocal Production and Novel Word Learning in the First Year. Journal of Child Language, 46(3), 606-616.
- Hochmann, J. R., Benavides‐Varela, S., Fló, A., Nespor, M., & Mehler, J. (2018). Bias for Vocalic Over Consonantal Information in 6‐Month‐Olds. Infancy, 23(1), 136-151.
- Benavides-Varela, S., & Gervain, J. (2017). Learning word order at birth: A NIRS study. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
- Benavides-Varela, S., Siugzdaite, R., Gómez, D. M., Macagno, F., Cattarossi, L., & Mehler, J. (2017). Brain regions and functional interactions supporting early word recognition in the face of input variability. PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 114(29), 7588-7593.
- Spinelli, L., Zucchelli, L., Contini, D., Caffini, M., Mehler, J., Fló, A., Ferry, A. L. A. L., Filippin, L., Macagno, F., Cattarossi, L., & Torricelli, A. (2017). In vivo measure of neonate brain optical properties and hemodynamic parameters by time-domain near-infrared spectroscopy. Neurophotonics, 4(04), 1.
- Ferry, A. L., Fló, A., Brusini, P., Cattarossi, L., Macagno, F., Nespor, M., & Mehler, J. (2016). On the edge of language acquisition: Inherent constraints on encoding multisyllabic sequences in the neonate brain. Developmental Science, 19(3), 488–503.
- Galderisi, A., Brigadoi, S., Cutini, S., Moro, S. B., Lolli, E., Meconi, F., Benavides-Varela, S., Baraldi, E., Amodio, P., Cobelli, C., Trevisanuto, D. & Dell’Acqua, R. (2016). Long-term continuous monitoring of the preterm brain with diffuse optical tomography and electroencephalography: a technical note on cap manufacturing. Neurophotonics, 3(4), 045009-045009.
- Benavides-Varela, S. & Mehler, J. (2015). Verbal Positional Memory in 7-month-olds. Child Development. 86(1), 209-223.
- Villalta, J. I., Landi, S. M., Fló, A., & Della-Maggiore, V. (2015). Extinction Interferes with the Retrieval of Visuomotor Memories Through a Mechanism Involving the Sensorimotor Cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 25(6), 1535–1543.
- Gómez, D. M., Berent, I., Benavides-Varela, S., Bion, R. A., Cattarossi, L., Nespor, M., & Mehler, J. (2014). Language universals at birth. PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 111(16), 5837-5841.
- Benavides-Varela, S., Hochmann, J.R., Macagno, F., Nespor, M., & Mehler, J. (2012). Newborns’ Brain Activity Signals the Origin of Word Memories. PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA.109 (44):17908-17913
- Benavides-Varela, S., Gómez. D.M., Macagno, F., Bion, R., Peretz, I., & Mehler, J. (2011). Memory in the neonate brain. PlosOne 6(11)
- Benavides-Varela, S., Gómez, D.M., & Mehler, J. (2011). Studying neonates’ language and memory capacities with functional near-infrared spectroscopy. Frontiers in Psychology, 2:64
- Bion, R.A.; Benavides-Varela, S. Nespor, M. (2011). Acoustic markers of prominence influence infant’s and adults’ segmentation of speech sequences. Language and Speech 54(1): 123-140
- Hochmann, J.R., Benavides-Varela, S., Nespor, M., & Mehler, J. (2011). Consonants and Vowels, Different Roles in Early Language Acquisition. Developmental Science 14(6): 1445-1448
Contributi su aspetti educativi nello sviluppo tipico e atipico
- Benavides-Varela, S., Laurillard, D., Piperno, G., Lucangeli, D., & Butterworth, B. (2023). Digital games for learning basic arithmetic at home. Progress in Brain Research, 276, 35-61.
- Bastianello, T., Majorano, M., & Burro R. (2020). Children’s Attention in a Word Learning Interactive Context with Educators and Vocabulary Growth. Early Child Development and Care, 190(11), 1700-1711.
- Benavides-Varela, S., Callegher, C. Z., Fagiolini, B., Leo, I., Altoè, G., & Lucangeli, D. (2020). Effectiveness of digital-based interventions for children with mathematical learning difficulties: A meta-analysis. Computers & Education, 157, 103953.
- Vigna, G. & Benavides-Varela, S. (2020). Una revisione della letteratura sulla comprensione del concetto di zero e dei suoi precursori durante l’infanzia. DIS- Discalculia e Difficoltà in matematica. 3(1)
- White, L., Benavides-Varela, S., & Mády, K. (2020). Are initial-consonant lengthening and final-vowel lengthening both universal word segmentation cues?. Journal of Phonetics, 81, 100982.
- Benavides-Varela, S., Lorusso, R., Baro, V., Denaro, L., Estévez-Pérez, N., Lucangeli, D., D’Avella, D. & Semenza, C. (2018). Mathematical skills in children with pilocytic astrocytoma. Acta neurochirurgica, 1-9.
- Todeschini, M., Micheletto, L. & Benavides-Varela, S. (2018). “Conoscere le Forme”: un percorso di potenziamento delle abilità visuo-spaziali per gli apprendimenti in geometria rivolto a bambini della scuola materna. DIM- Difficoltà in matematica. 15(1), 75-89.
- Benavides-Varela, S, Butterworth, B., Burgio, F., Arcara, G., Lucangeli, D., Semenza, C. (2016). Numerical activities and information learned at home link to the exact numeracy skills in 5 to 6 years-old children. Front. Psychol. 7:94.
- Benavides-Varela, S., Butterworth, B., Burgio, F., Arcara, G., Lucangeli, D., Semenza, C. (2016). Le attività con l’uso dei numeri e le informazioni apprese in casa si correlano alle abilità di calcolo esatto nei bambini di 5/6 anni. DIM- Difficoltà in matematica, 13(1), 9-34.
- Lorusso, R., Sciarra, D., Pegorer, S., Benavides-Varela, S., Lucangeli, D. (2016). Crescere i problem solvers di domani. DIM- Difficoltà in matematica. 13(1), 37-53.
- Zanini, C., Benavides-Varela, S., Lorusso, R., & Franzon, F. (2016). Mass is more: The conceiving of (un) countability and its encoding into language in 5-year-old-children. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1-1.
- Pinchman, H., Matjeko, A., Obersteiner, A., Killikelly, C, Abrahao, K., Benavides-Varela, S., Gabriel, F., Rato, J. & Vuillier, L (2014). Forging a new path for Educational Neuroscience: An international young-researcher perspective on combining neuroscience and educational practices. Trends in Neuroscience and Education 3.1: 28-31.
Contributi per la ricerca nell’età adulta:
- Benjamin, L., Zang, D., Fló A, Qi, Z., Su, P., Zhou, W., Wang, L., Wu, X., Gui, P., Dehaene-Lambertz, G. (2024). The role of conscious attention in statistical learning: evidence from patients with impaired consciousness.
- Vigna, G., Ghidoni, E., Burgio, F., Danesin, L., Angelini, D., Benavides-Varela, S., & Semenza, C. (2022). Dyscalculia in Early Adulthood: Implications for Numerical Activities of Daily Living. Brain sciences, 12 (3), 373.
- Benjamin L, Sablé-Meyer M, Fló A, Dehaene-Lambertz G, Roumi FA. 2024. Long-Horizon Associative Learning Explains Human Sensitivity to Statistical and Network Structures in Auditory Sequences. J Neurosci 44.