BCBL. Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language

Publications

• Leone-Fernández, B., Molinaro, N., Carreiras, M., & Barber, H. A. (In press) Objects, events and "to be" verbs in Spanish: an ERP study of the syntax-semantics interface. Brain and Language.
• Molinaro, N., Carreiras, C., & Duñabeitia, J.A. (2012) Semantic combinatorial processing of non-anomalous expressions.Neuroimage, 59 (4), 3488–3501
• Duñabeitia, J.A., Molinaro, N., & Carreiras, M. (2011) Through the looking-glass: Mirror reading. Neuroimage, 54, 3004-3009.
• Molinaro, N., Vespignani, F., Zamparelli, R., & Job, R. (2011) Why brother and sister are not just siblings: Repair processes in agreement computation. Journal of Memory and Language, 64 (2011) 211–232.
• Molinaro, N., Barber, H.A., & Carreiras, M.(2011) Grammatical agreement processing in reading: ERP findings and future directions. Cortex, 47, 908-930.
• Mancini, S., Molinaro, N., Rizzi, L. & Carreiras, M. (2011) A person is not a number: discourse involvement in subject-verb agreement computation. Brain Research, 1410, 64-76.
• Mancini, S., Molinaro, N., Rizzi, L. & Carreiras, M.(2011) When persons disagree: an ERP study of Unagreement in Spanish. Psychophysiology, 48(10),1361–1371.
• Molinaro, N. & Carreiras, M. (2010) Electrophysiological evidence of interaction between contextual expectation and semantic integration during the processing of collocations. Biological Psychology, 83, 176-190, doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2009.12.006
• Molinaro, N., Duñabeitia, J.A., Marìn-Gutièrrez, A., & Carreiras, M. (2010) From numbers to letters: Feedback regularization in visual word recognition. Neuropsychologia 48, 1343–1355. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.12.037
• Molinaro, N., Conrad, M., Barber, H., & Carreiras, M. (2010) On the functional nature of the N400: Contrasting effects related to visual word recognition and contextual semantic integration. Cognitive Neuroscience, 1(1), 1-7, doi:10.1080/17588920903373952

• Vespignani, F., Canal, P., Molinaro, N., Fonda, S., & Cacciari, C. (2010) Predictive mechanisms in idiom comprehension. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22 (8), 1682–1700.
• Canal, P., Vespignani, F., Molinaro, N., & Cacciari, C. (2010) Anticipatory mechanisms in idiom comprehension: Psycholinguistic and electrophysiological evidence. In Balconi, M. (Ed.) Neuropsychology of communication (pp. 131-144). Milan (IT): Springer.
• Carreiras, M., Duñabeitia, J. A. & Molinaro, N. (2009) Consonants and vowels contribute differently to visual word recognition: ERPs of relative position priming. Cerebral Cortex, 19, 2659 - 2670. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhp019
• Duñabeitia, J.A., Molinaro, N., Laka, I., Estévez, A., & Carreiras, M. (2009) N250 effects for letter transpositions depend on lexicality: Casual or causal? Neuroreport, 20, 381-387
• Cacciari. C., Vespignani, F., Molinaro, N., Canal. P., & Fonda, S. (2008) What electrophysiology reveals about the comprehension of multiword expressions: from syntax to semantics. In Cognition and language: a long story. Festschrift in honour of Ino Flores d’Arcais (L. Arcuri, P. Boscolo & F. Peressotti, Eds.; pp. 41-58). Padova, IT: CLEUP.
• Molinaro, N., Kim, A., Vespignani, F., & Job, R. (2008) Anaphoric agreement violation: An ERP analysis of its integration. Cognition, 106, 963-974.
• Molinaro, N., Vespignani, F., & Job, R. (2008) A deeper reanalysis of a superficial feature: An ERP study on agreement violations. Brain Research, 1228, 161-176.
• Molinaro, N., Vespignani, F., Canal, P., Fonda, S., & Cacciari, C. (2008) Cloze-probability does not only affect N400 amplitude: The case of complex prepositions. Psychophysiology, 45 (6), 1008-1012.
• Osterhout, L., McLaughlin, J., Pitkanen, I., Frenck-Mestre, C., & Molinaro, N. (2006) Novice learners, longitudinal designs, and event-related potentials: A paradigm for exploring the neurocognition of second-language processing. Language Learning, 56, 199-230. Reprinted in: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Second-language Acquisition (M. Gullberg & P. Indefrey, Eds.). Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing.