2022
Alexopoulos, J., Giordano, V., Doering, S., Seidl, R., Benavides-Varela, S., Russwurm, M., ... & Bartha-Doering, L. (2022). Sex differences in neural processing of speech in neonates. Cortex.
Ayaz, H., Baker, W. B., Blaney, G., Boas, D. A., Bortfeld, H., Brady, K., Brake, J., Brigadoi, S., Buckley, E. M., Carp, S. A., Cooper, R. J., Cowdrick, K. R., Culver, J. P., Dan, I., Dehghani, H., Devor, A., Durduran, T., Eggebrecht, A. T., Emberson, L. L., Fang, Q., … Zhou, W. (2022). Optical imaging and spectroscopy for the study of the human brain: status report. Neurophotonics, 9 (Suppl 2), S24001.
Brigadoi, S., Galderisi, A., Guiducci, S., Cusinato, M., Res, G., Avagliano, L., Sandonà, A., Savio, F., Di Giorgio, E., Priante, E., Baraldi. E., (2022). The BabyGlucoLight Project: Understanding the Impact of Neonatal Glycemic Control on Brain Hemodynamics and Developmental Outcome in Very Preterm Neonates. Conf. Proc. BioMed 2022.
Bruno Maria Teresa, Russo Sofia, Valenza Eloisa (2022) Abilità prosodiche e competenze socio-pragmatiche nel Disturbo dello Spettro Autistico: una rassegna sul ruolo delle atipicità attentive. Psicologia Clinica dello Sviluppo.
Carnevali, L., Gui, A., Jones, E. J., & Farroni, T. (2022). Face processing in early development: a systematic review of behavioral studies and considerations in times of COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology, 388.
Carnevali, L., Pezzotti, S., Farroni, T., Lucangeli, D. (2022). Dall'io al noi. Percorsi e attività per stimolare l'intelligenza comunicativa nei bambini da 0 a 12 mesi (Vol. 1). Erickson.
Coëz, A., Loundon, N., Rouillon, I., Parodi, M., Blanchard, M., Achard, S., Garabédian, E.N., Bizaguet, E., Tabassome, S., Tessier, N., Denoyelle, F., Gervain, J. (2022). “The recognition of human voice in deaf and hearing infants”. Hearing, Balance and Communication.
de la Cruz Pavìa, I., Elordieta, G., Villegas, J., Gervain, J., Laka, I. (2022). “Segmental information drives adult bilingual phrase segmentation preference”. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. 25:2, 676-695.
de la Cruz Pavìa, I., Westphal-Fitch, G., Fitch, T., Gervain, J. (2022). “Seven-month-old infants detect symmetrical structures in multi-featured abstract visual patterns”. PLoS One.
Dimakou, A., Sarubbi, A. A., Benavides‐Varela, S., & Rugani, R. (2022). Are Rational Numbers Spontaneous? Natural Numbers Suffice all Processing by the Number Sense. Cognitive Science, 46(7), e13164.
Farroni, T., Della Longa, L. & Valori, I. (2022). The self-regulatory affective touch: a speculative framework for the development of executive functioning. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 43, 167-173.
Forgács, B., Gervain, J., Parise, E., Gergely, Gy., Priyanka Elek, L., Üllei-Kovács, Zs., Király, I. (2022). “Semantic Systems Are Mentalistically Activated for and by Social Partners”. Scientific Reports 12:4866.
Forgács, B., Tauzin, T., Gergely, Gy., Gervain, J. (2022). “The newborn brain is sensitive to the communicative function of language”. Scientific Reports. 12:1220.
Galderisi, A., Perilongo, G., Caprio, S., Da Dalt, L., Di Salvo, G., Gatta, M., ... & Baraldi, E. (2022). Pediatric Preventive Care in Middle-High Resource Countries—The Padova Chart for Health in Children. Frontiers in Pediatrics, 10.
Giannotti, M., Gemignani, M., Rigo, P., Simonelli, A., Venuti, P., & De Falco, S. (2022). Disentangling the effect of sex and caregiving role: the investigation of male same-sex parents as an opportunity to learn more about the neural parental caregiving network. Frontiers in Psychology, 13.
Hym, Ch., Barbu-Roth, M., Nazzi, T., Gervain, J., Provasi, J., Huet, V., Dollat, C., Anderson, D. (2022). “Newborns modulate their crawling in response to their native language but not another language”. Developmental Science. e13248.
Lovato I., Simonelli A., Visentin S., Priante E., Baraldi E., Sacchi C. (2022). Prenatal Environment and Developmental Trajectories: the Intrauterine Growth Restriction. Minerva Pediatrics.
Lovato I., Vanes L.D., Sacchi C., Simonelli A., Hadaya L., Kanel D., Falconer S., Counsell S., Redshaw M., Kennea N., Edwards A.D., NosartI C. (2022). Early childhood temperamental trajectories following very preterm birth and their association with parenting style. Children.
Ma X., Biaggi A., Sacchi C., Lawrence A.J., Chen P., Pollard R., Matter M., Mackes N., Hazelgrove K., Morgan C., Harding S., Schumann G., Pariante C., Mehta M., Montana G., Simonelli A., Rodriguez-Mateos A., Nosarti C., Dazzan P. (2022). Mediating and moderating factors in the relationship between maternal childhood adversity and emotional and behavioural development of the offspring: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychological Medicine.
Martinez Alvarez, A., Benavides-Varela, S, Lapillonne, A. Gervain, J. (2022). “Newborns discriminate utterance-level prosodic contours”. Developmental Science.
Mento G., Duma G.M., Valenza E. and Farroni T. (2022). Face specific neural anticipatory activity in infants 4 and 9 months old, Scientific Report.
Nallet, C., Gervain, J. (2022). “Atypical neural oscillations in response to speech in infants and children with speech and language impairments: A systematic review”. Hearing, Balance and Communication.
Porreca, A., Simonelli, A., De Carli, P., Barone, L., Filippi, B., Rigo, P., ... & Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J. (2022). A randomized wait-list controlled trial to investigate the role of cognitive mechanisms in parenting interventions on mothers with substance use disorder. Trials, 23(1), 1-15.
Sacchi C. (2022). Protection of perinatal mental health during the war in Ukraine. The Lancet Regional Health – Europe.
Turati C. e Valenza E. (2022) Corpo e mente nello sviluppo. Carocci Editore, Roma.
Visser, I., Geambasu, A., Baumgartner, H., Bergmann, C., Byers-Heinlein, K., Carstensen, A., Doyle, F., Gervain, J., Hannon, E., Johnson, S., Kachergis, G., Kline Struhl, M., Kosie, J., Lew-Williams, C., Mayor, J., Moreau, D., Mueller, J. L., Raijmakers, M., Shukla, M., Tsui, A. S. M., Sirois, S., Westermann, G., Soderstrom, M., Levelt, C. (2022). “Many Babies 3: A multi-lab study of infant algebraic rule learning.” Developmental Science. Stage 1 In Principle Accepted Registeed Report.
Zhang, F., Gervain, J., Roeyers, H. (2022). “Developmental Changes in the Brain Response to Speech during the First Year of Life: A Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study of Dutch-Learning Infants”. Infant Behavior and Development, 67: 101724.
2021
Alexopoulos, J., Giordano, V., Janda, C., Benavides‐Varela, S., Seidl, R., Doering, S., ... & Bartha‐Doering, L. (2021). The duration of intrauterine development influences discrimination of speech prosody in infants. Developmental Science, 24(5), e13110.
Berent, I., de la Cruz-Pavía, I., Brentari, D., & Gervain, J. (2021). Infants differentially extract rules from language. Scientific Reports, 11, 20001.
Benavides-Varela, S., Reoyo-Serrano, N. (2021). Small-range numerical representations of linguistic sounds in 9- to 10-month-old infants. Cognition.
Cainelli, E., Favaro, J., De Carli, P., Luisi, C., Simonelli, A., Vecchi, M., ... & Boniver, C. (2021). Executive Functions and Attention in Childhood Epilepsies: A Neuropsychological Hallmark of Dysfunction?. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 27(7), 673-685.
Calignano, G., Dispaldro, M., Russo, S., & Valenza, E. (2021). Attentional engagement during syllable discrimination: The role of salient prosodic cues in 6- to 8-month-old infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 62,101504.
Calignano, G., Sulpizio, S., Vespignani, F., Russo, S., Valenza, E. (2021). The unique role of novel linguistic labels on the disengagement of visual attention, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1-18.
Cellini, N., Di Giorgio, E., Mioni, G., & Di Riso, D. (2021). Sleep and psychological difficulties in Italian school-age children during COVID-19 lockdown. Journal of pediatric psychology, 46(2), 153-167.
Cimino, S., Cerniglia, L., De Carli, P., & Simonelli, A. (2021). DNA methylation and allelic polymorphism at the dopamine transporter promoter affect internalizing and externalizing symptoms in preschoolers. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 52(2), 281-290.
de la Cruz Pavia, I., Marino, C., Gervain, J. (2021). “Learning Word Order: Early Beginnings”. Trends in Cognitive Science. 25(9): 802-812.
de la Cruz Pavìa, I., Gervain, J. (2021). “Infants’ perception of repetition-based regularities in speech: A look from the perspective of the same/different distinction”. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 37: 125-132.
Della Longa, L., Dragovic, D. & Farroni, T. (2021). In touch with the heartbeat: newborns’ cardiac sensitivity to affective and non-affective touch. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
Di Giorgio, E., Lunghi, M., Vallortigara, G., & Simion, F. (2021). Newborns’ sensitivity to speed changes as a building block for animacy perception. Scientific Reports 11, 542.
Di Giorgio, E., Rosa-Salva, O., Frasnelli, E., Calcagnì, A., Lunghi, M., Scattoni, M. L., ... & Vallortigara, G. (2021). Abnormal visual attention to simple social stimuli in 4-month-old infants at high risk for Autism. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 15785.
Di Giorgio, E., Polli, R., Lunghi, M., & Murgia, A. (2021). Impact of the COVID-19 Italian lockdown on the physiological and psychological well-being of children with fragile X syndrome and their families. International journal of environmental research and public health, 18(11), 5752.
Di Giorgio, E., Di Riso, D., Mioni, G., & Cellini, N. (2021). The interplay between mothers’ and children behavioral and psychological factors during COVID-19: An Italian study. European child & adolescent psychiatry, 30(9), 1401-1412.
Fouladivanda, M., Kazemi, K., Makki, K., Khalilian, M., Danyali, H., Gervain, J., Aarabi, A. (2021). “Multi-scale Structural Rich-Club Organization of the Brain in Full-term Newborns: a combined DWI and fMRI study”. Journal of Neural Engineering, 18(4).
Gemignani, J., Gervain, J. (2021). Comparing different pre-processing routines for infant fNIRS data. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 48, 100943.
Gemignani, J., Gervain J. (2021). “A practical guide for synthetic fNIRS data generation”. 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). IEEE.
Geraci, A., Rigo, P., Simonelli, A., Di Nuovo, S., & Simion, F. (2021). Preschoolers' evaluations of comforting actions towards third parties in different relationship contexts. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 76, 101315.
Giordano, V., Alexopoulos, J., Spagna, A., Benavides-Varela, S., Peganc, K., Kothgassner, O. D., ... & Bartha-Doering, L. (2021). Accent discrimination abilities during the first days of life: A fNIRS study. Brain and Language, 223, 105039.
Hillairet de Boisferon, A., Kubicek, C., Gervain, J., Schwarzer, G., Loevenbruck, H., Vilain, A., Fort, M., Méary, D., Pascalis, O. (2021). “Language familiarity influences own-race face recognition in 9- and 12-month-old infants”. Infancy.
Ladányi, E., Lukács, Á., Gervain, J. (2021). “Does rhythmic priming improve grammatical processing in Hungarian-speaking children with and without Developmental Language Disorder?” Developmental Science.
Marino, C., Gervain, J. (2021). “8-month-old infants’ ability to process word order is shaped by the amount of exposure”. Cognition, 213: 104717.
Nallet, C., Gervain, J. (2021). “Neurodevelopmental Preparedness for Language in the Neonatal Brain”. Annual Review of Developmental Psychology. 3:41-58.
Ortiz Barajas, M. C., Guevara, R., Gervain, J. (2021). “The origins and development of speech envelope tracking during the first months of life”. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 48: 100915.
Roskam, I., Aguiar, J., Akgun, E., Arikan, G., Artavia, M., Avalosse, H., ... & Mikolajczak, M. (2021). Parental burnout around the globe: A 42-country study. Affective Science, 2(1), 58-79.
Russo S., Calignano G., Dispaldro M, Valenza E. (2021). An Integrated Perspective on Spatio-Temporal Attention and Infant Language Acquisition, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Volume 18, Issue 4, 1592.
Russo S. & Valenza E. (2021). Apprendere attraverso il corpo, la musica e il ritmo: gli effetti positivi della Sincronizzazione Ritmica secondo i principi della Cognizione Incarnata. Nucleo tematico Musica, cognizione e apprendimento: tra neuroscienze ed educazione Psicologia dell’Educazione, n 2, 23-40.
Sacchi C., O’Muircheartaigh J., Batalle D., Counsell S.J., Simonelli A., Cesano M., Falconer S., Chew A., Kennea N., Nongena P., Rutherford M.A., Edwards A. D., Nosarti C. (2021). Brain and behaviour following adverse intrauterine growth restriction and very preterm birth. The Journal of Pediatrics.
Sacchi C., Miscioscia M., Visentin S., Simonelli A. (2021). The Maternal-Fetal Attachment: Multidimensional Influences During Pregnancy and Association with Maternal Caregiving in Infant’s First Year of Life. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth.
Siddiqui, M., Pinti, P., Lloyd-Fox, S., Jones, E.J.H., Brigadoi, S., Collins-Jones, L., Tachtisidis, I., Johnson, M., Elwell, C.E. (2021). Regional haemodynamic and metabolic coupling in infants. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 15: 780076.
Valenza E., Calignano G. (2021) Attentional shift within and between faces: evidence from children with and without autism spectrum disorder. PLoS ONE 16(5): e0251475.
Yücel*, M., v. Lühmann*, A., Scholkmann*, F., Gervain*, J., Dan*, I., Ayaz, H., Boas, D., Cooper, R.J., Culver, J., Elwell, C., Eggebrecht, A., Franceschini, M. A., Grova, C., Homae, F., Lesage, F., Obrig, H., Tachtsidis, I., Tak, S., Tong, Y., Torricelli, A., Wabnitz, H., Wolf, M. 2021. “Best Practices for fNIRS publications”. Neurophotonics. (* joint first authorship). 8(1): 012101.
2020
Di Giorgio, E., Lunghi, M., Vallortigara, G., & Simion, F. (2020). Newborns’ sensitivity to speed changes as a building block for animacy perception. Scientific Reports.
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.
2019
Bartha-Doering, L., Alexopoulos, J., Giordano, V., Stelzer, L., Kainz, T., Benavides-Varela, S., & Berger, A. (2019). Absence of neural speech discrimination in preterm infants at term-equivalent age. Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 39, 100679.
Buiatti, M., Di Giorgio, E., Piazza, M., Polloni, C., Menna, G., Taddei, F., Baldo, E., & Vallortigara, G. (2019). A cortical route for face-like patter processing in human newborns. PNAS, 116, 4625-4630.
Di Giorgio, E., Lunghi, M., Rugani, R., Regolin, L., Dalla Barba, B., Vallortigara, G., & Simion, F. (2019). A mental number line in human newborns. Developmental Science, e12801.
Santolin, C., Russo, S., Calignano, G., Saffran, J.R., & Valenza, E. (2019). The role of prosody in infants’ preference for speech: A comparison between speech and birdsong. Infancy, 24, 827-833.
2018
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.
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 maternal. DIM- Difficoltà in matematica. 15(1), 75-89.
2017
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.
Di Giorgio, E., Loveland, J.L., Mayer, U., Rosa-Salva, O., Versace, E., & Vallortigara, G. (2017). Filial responses as predisposed and learned preferences: Early attachment in chicks and babies. Behavioral and Brain Research, 325 Part B, 90-104.
Di Giorgio, E., Lunghi, M., Simion, F., & Vallortigara, G. (2017). Visual cues of motion that trigger animacy perception at birth: the case of self-propulsion. Developmental Science, 20, e12394.
2016
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.
Di Giorgio, E., Frasnelli, E., Rosa Salva, O., Scattoni, M. L., Puopolo, M., Tosoni, D., NIDA- Network, Simion, F., & Vallortigara, G. (2016). Difference in visual social predispositions between newborns at low- and high-risk for autism. Scientific Reports, 6, 26395.
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.
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, 1-11.
2015
Bardi, L., Di Giorgio, E., Lunghi, M., Troje, N. H., & Simion, F. (2015). Walking direction triggers visuo-spatial orienting in 6-month-old infants and adults: an eye tracking study. Cognition, 141, 112-120.
Benavides-Varela, S. & Mehler, J. (2015). Verbal Positional Memory in 7-month-olds. Child Development. 86(1), 209-223.
Simion, F., & Di Giorgio, E. (2015). Face perception and processing in early infancy: Inborn predispositions and developmental changes. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:969.
2014
Dupierrix, E., de Boisferon, A. H., Méary, D., Di Giorgio, E., Simion, F., Lee, K., Quinn, P. C., Tomonaga, M., & Pascalis, O. (2014). Preference for human eyes in human infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 123, 138-146.
Gómez, D. M., Berent, I., Benavides-Varela, S., Bion, R. A., Cattarossi, L., Nespor, M., & Mehler, J. (2014). Language universals at birth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(16), 5837-5841.
2013
Di Giorgio, E., Meary, D., Pascalis, O., & Simion, F. (2013). The face perception system becomes species-specific at three months: An eye-tracking study. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 37, 95-99.
2012
Benavides-Varela, S., Hochmann, J.R., Macagno, F., Nespor, M., & Mehler, J. (2012). Newborns' Brain Activity Signals the Origin of Word Memories. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA.109 (44):17908-17913.
Di Giorgio, E., Leo, I., Pascalis, O., & Simion, F. (2012). Is the face perception system human-specific at birth? Developmental Psychology, 48, 1083-1090.
Di Giorgio, E., Turati, C., Altoè, G., & Simion, F. (2012). Face detection in complex visual displays: An eye-tracking study with 3-and 6-month-old infants and adults. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 113, 66-77.
2011
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.
Simion, F., Di Giorgio E., Leo I., & Bardi, L. (2011). The processing of social stimuli in early infancy: From faces to biological motion perception. In Olivier Braddick, Janette Atkinson and Giorgio M. Innocenti, editors: Progress in Brain Research, Vol. 189. Burlington: Academic Press, pp. 173-193.
2010
Turati, C., Di Giorgio, E., Bardi, L., & Simion, F. (2010). Holistic Face Processing in newborns, 3-month-old infants and adults: Evidence from the Composite Face Effect. Child Development, 81, 1894-1905.
2008
Di Giorgio, E., Leo, I., & Simion, F. (2008). Le caratteristiche percettive che determinano la preferenza per il volto alla nascita e a tre mesi di vita. Psicologia Clinica dello Sviluppo, 3, 553-564.