Publications

Rastelli, S., Antonicelli, G., Iaria, B., Mingardi, P., & Pagliara, F. (In press). Adult second language acquisition under negligible exposure and no instruction A self-paced reading study on adjuncts obligatory control. Journal of Second Language Studies. Doi:10.1075/jsls.00053.ras

Eisenhauer, S., Zhang, M., Krieger-Redwood, K., Aveyard, R., Jackson, R.L., Cornelissen, P.L., Smallwood, J., & Jefferies, E. (2026). Controlled Retrieval Relies on Directed Interactions between Semantic Control Regions and Visual Cortex: MEG Evidence from Oscillatory Dynamics. Journal of Neuroscience, 46(11). Doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0271-25.2026

Guediche, S., Navarra-Barindelli, E., Caffarra, S., & Martin, C. (2026). Stimulus intelligibility impacts L1 effects on L2 visual word recognition. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 79. Doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2026.101339

Ozamiz-Etxebarria, N., Erkoreka, L., & Mancini, S. (2026). Relationship between socio-linguistic factors and symptoms of depression, anxiety and psychosis in the general population. Frontiers in Psychology, 17. Doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1690424

Rastelli, S., Antonicelli, G., & Canal, P. (2026). Probabilistic information influences telic vs. atelic representations of Italian predicates in Dowty's adverbial test: an ERP study at the frequency-semantics interface. Lingua, 341. Doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2026.104247

Ristic, B., Molinaro, N., & Mancini, S. (2026). Number maintenance in subject-verb agreement: evidence from Basque. Frontiers in Language Sciences, 5. Doi:10.3389/flang.2026.1657112

Erkoreka, L., Ozamiz-Etxebarria, N., Ruiz, O., Prieto, M., Aspiazu, S., Mingo, A., Aguirre, U., Orive, M., & Mancini, S. (2025). Reported severity of psychotic, depressive and anxiety symptoms in relation to bilingual language profile: An exploratory study and the validation of Basque versions of the PQ-B, DASS-42, PHQ-9 and GAD-7. Plos One, 20(3 March), e0314069. Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0314069

Gorostiola-Oyarzabal, N., Joya, A., Freijo Guerrero, M.d.M., Martín Muñoz, A., & Mancini, S. (2025). Surrogate Molecular Biomarkers for Poststroke Cognitive Impairment: A Narrative Review. Stroke, 56. Doi:10.1161/STROKEAHA.124.050507

Marin-Marin, L., Eisenhauer, S., Gonzalez Alam, T.R.J., Margulies, D.S., Smallwood, J., & Jefferies, E. (2025). Whole-Brain Dimensions of Intrinsic Connectivity Capture Modality-Specific and Heteromodal Language Representations. Journal of Neuroscience, 45(22). Doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1876-24.2025

Minissi, M.E., Antzaka, A., Mancini, S., & Lallier, M. (2025). Can playing video games enhance reading skills through more efficient serial visual search mechanisms? Insights from an eye tracking study. Language Cognition and Neuroscience, 40(2), 209-230. Doi:10.1080/23273798.2024.2411696

Pracar, A.L., Biondo, N., Dronkers, N.F., & Ivanova, M.V. (2025). The neuroanatomy of Broca's aphasia. Frontiers in Language Sciences, 4. Doi:10.3389/flang.2025.1496209

Rastelli, S., Antonicelli, G., Iaria, B., Mingardi, P., & Pagliara, F. (2025). So what am I supposed to do?: Italian elders and low-literacy citizens struggle with gerundive adjuncts in government documents: A self-paced reading study. Written Language and Literacy, 28(2), 227-262. Doi:10.1075/wll.00097.ras

Siegelman, N., Schroeder, S., Bao, Y.B., Acartürk, C., Agrawal, N., Bolliger, L.S., Brasser, J., Campos-Rojas, C., Drieghe, D., Filipović Đurđević, D., Goldina, S., Ibáñez Orellana, R., Jäger, L.A., Jóhannesson, Ó.I., Khare, A., Kharlamov, N., Knudsen, H.B.S., Kristjánsson, Á., Lee, C.E., Lee, J.R., Leite, M.P.T., Mancini, S., Mihajlović, N., Mišić, K., Orekhova, M., Parshina, O., Popović Stijačić, M., Protopapas, A., Reich, D.R., Rimzhim, A., Rothe-Neves, R., Sá, T.M.M., Santana-Covarrubias, A., Sekerina, I., Sigurdardottir, H.M., Smirnova, A., Srivastava, P., Teixeira, E.N., Ugrinic, I., Usal, K.A., Vakulya, K., Verma, A., Vieira, J.M.M., Wu, D.H., Xue, J., Zdravković, S., Zhuo, J., Ziaka, L., & Kuperman, V. (2025). Wave 2 of the Multilingual Eye-Movement Corpus (MECO): New text reading data across languages. Scientific Data, 12(1). Doi:10.1038/s41597-025-05453-3

Thomas, T., Martin, C.D., & Caffarra, S. (2025). The impact of speaker accent on discourse processing: A frequency investigation. Brain and Language, 260. Doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2024.105509

Antonicelli, G., Molinaro, N., De La Riva, P., Laspiur, R., De Turiso, A.L., Carrera, M., & Mancini, S. (2024). Cortical tracking of prosody after stroke and in aging: preliminary evidence from magnetoencephalography. Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody, 21-26. Doi:10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-5

Biondo, N., Ivanova, M.V., Pracar, A.L., Baldo, J., & Dronkers, N.F. (2024). Mapping sentence comprehension and syntactic complexity: evidence from 131 stroke survivors. Brain Communications, 6(6). Doi:10.1093/braincomms/fcae379

Matchin, W., Mancini, S., Li, J., & Zaccarella, E. (2024). Editorial: Syntax, the brain, and linguistic theory: a critical reassessment. Frontiers in Language Sciences, 3. Doi:10.3389/flang.2024.1441948

Antonicelli, G., & Rastelli, S. (2023). Event-related potentials in the study of L2 sentence processing: A scoping review of the decade 2010-2020. Language Acquisition, 30(2), 163-200. Doi:10.1080/10489223.2022.2141633

Biondo, N., Pagliarini, E., Moscati, V., Rizzi, L., & Belletti, A. (2023). Features matter: the role of number and gender features during the online processing of subject- and object- relative clauses in Italian. Language Cognition and Neuroscience, 38(6), 802-820. Doi:10.1080/23273798.2022.2159989

Heinzova, P., Carreiras, M., & Mancini, S. (2023). Processing argument structure complexity in Basque-Spanish bilinguals. Language Cognition and Neuroscience, 38(5), 745-763. Doi:10.1080/23273798.2022.2154370

Moscati, V., Marini, A., & Biondo, N. (2023). What a thousand children tell us about grammatical complexity and working memory: A cross-sectional analysis on the comprehension of clitics and passives in Italian. Applied Psycholinguistics, 44(6), 1161-1184. Doi:10.1017/S0142716423000462

Biondo, N., Soilemezidi, M., & Mancini, S. (2022). Yesterday Is History, Tomorrow Is a Mystery: An Eye-Tracking Investigation of the Processing of Past and Future Time Reference During Sentence Reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, 48(7), 1001-1018. Doi:10.1037/xlm0001053

Ertl, M.M., Trapp, S.K., Alzueta, E., Baker, F.C., Perrin, P.B., Caffarra, S., Yüksel, D., Ramos-Usuga, D., & Arango-Lasprilla, J.C. (2022). Trauma-Related Distress During the COVID-19 Pandemic In 59 Countries. Counseling Psychologist, 50(3), 306-334. Doi:10.1177/00110000211068112

Gosselin, L., Martin, C.D., Martín, A.G., & Caffarra, S. (2022). When a nonnative accent lets you spot all the errors: Examining the syntactic interlanguage benefit. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 34(9), 1650-1669. Doi:10.1162/jocn_a_01886

Mao, T., Biondo, N., & Zheng, Z. (2022). Adult Chinese Spanish L2ers’ acquisition of phi-agreement and temporal concord: The role of morphosyntactic features and adverb/subject-verb distance. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. Doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1007828

Ristic, B., Mancini, S., Molinaro, N., & Staub, A. (2022). Maintenance Cost in the Processing of Subject–Verb Dependencies. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, 48(6), 829-838. Doi:10.1037/xlm0000863

Thomas, T., Martin, C.D., & Caffarra, S. (2022). An ERP investigation of accented isolated single word processing. Neuropsychologia, 175. Doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108349

Alzueta, E., Perrin, P., Baker, F.C., Caffarra, S., Ramos-Usuga, D., Yuksel, D., & Arango-Lasprilla, J.C. (2021). How the COVID-19 pandemic has changed our lives: A study of psychological correlates across 59 countries. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 77(3), 556-570. Doi:10.1002/jclp.23082

Antúnez, M., Mancini, S., Hernández-Cabrera, J.A., Hoversten, L.J., Barber, H.A., & Carreiras, M. (2021). Cross-linguistic semantic preview benefit in Basque-Spanish bilingual readers: Evidence from fixation-related potentials. Brain and Language, 214. Doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104905

Caffarra, S., Joo, S.J., Bloom, D., Kruper, J., Rokem, A., & Yeatman, J.D. (2021). Development of the visual white matter pathways mediates development of electrophysiological responses in visual cortex. Human Brain Mapping, 42(17), 5785-5797. Doi:10.1002/hbm.25654

Caffarra, S., Karipidis, I.I., Yablonski, M., & Yeatman, J.D. (2021). Anatomy and physiology of word-selective visual cortex: from visual features to lexical processing. Brain Structure and Function, 226(9), 3051-3065. Doi:10.1007/s00429-021-02384-8

Caffarra, S., Lizarazu, M., Molinaro, N., & Carreiras, M. (2021). Reading-related brain changes in audiovisual processing: Cross-sectional and longitudinal MEG evidence. Journal of Neuroscience, 41(27), 5867-5875. Doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3021-20.2021

Costello, B., Caffarra, S., Fariña, N., Duñabeitia, J.A., & Carreiras, M. (2021). Reading without phonology: ERP evidence from skilled deaf readers of Spanish. Scientific Reports, 11(1). Doi:10.1038/s41598-021-84490-5

Gosselin, L., Martin, C.D., Navarra-Barindelli, E., & Caffarra, S. (2021). The presence of a foreign accent introduces lexical integration difficulties during late semantic processing. Language Cognition and Neuroscience, 36(9), 1086-1106. Doi:10.1080/23273798.2021.1909084

Joo, S.J., Tavabi, K., Caffarra, S., & Yeatman, J.D. (2021). Automaticity in the reading circuitry. Brain and Language, 214. Doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104906

Mancini, S., Caffarra, S., & Nevins, A. (2021). Editorial: Featural Relations in the Brain: Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives on Grammatical Agreement. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. Doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.754430

Molnar, M., Alemán Bañón, J., Mancini, S., & Caffarra, S. (2021). The Processing of Spanish Article–Noun Gender Agreement by Monolingual and Bilingual Toddlers. Language and Speech, 64(4), 980-990. Doi:10.1177/0023830920977050

Yeatman, J.D., Tang, K.A., Donnelly, P.M., Yablonski, M., Ramamurthy, M., Karipidis, I.I., Caffarra, S., Takada, M.E., Kanopka, K., Ben-Shachar, M., & Domingue, B.W. (2021). Rapid online assessment of reading ability. Scientific Reports, 11(1). Doi:10.1038/s41598-021-85907-x

Yuksel, D., McKee, G.B., Perrin, P.B., Alzueta, E., Caffarra, S., Ramos-Usuga, D., Arango-Lasprilla, J.C., & Baker, F.C. (2021). Sleeping when the world locks down: Correlates of sleep health during the COVID-19 pandemic across 59 countries. Sleep Health, 7(2), 134-142. Doi:10.1016/j.sleh.2020.12.008

Caffarra, S., Wolpert, M., Scarinci, D., & Mancini, S. (2020). Who are you talking to? The role of addressee identity in utterance comprehension. Psychophysiology, 57(4). Doi:10.1111/psyp.13527

Ristic, B., Mancini, S., & Molinaro, N. (2020). Finding identity in the midst of ambiguity: case and number disambiguation in Basque. Language Cognition and Neuroscience, 35(10), 1272-1282. Doi:10.1080/23273798.2020.1734639

Biondo, N., Vespignani, F., & Dillon, B. (2019). Attachment and concord of temporal adverbs: Evidence from eye movements. Frontiers in Psychology, 10(MAY). Doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00983

Caffarra, S., & Martin, C.D. (2019). Not all errors are the same: ERP sensitivity to error typicality in foreign accented speech perception. Cortex, 116, 308-320. Doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2018.03.007

Caffarra, S., Mendoza, M., & Davidson, D. (2019). Is the LAN effect in morphosyntactic processing an ERP artifact?. Brain and Language, 191, 9-16. Doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2019.01.003

Caffarra, S., Motamed Haeri, A., Michell, E., & Martin, C.D. (2019). When is irony influenced by communicative constraints? ERP evidence supporting interactive models. European Journal of Neuroscience, 50(10), 3566-3577. Doi:10.1111/ejn.14503

Mancini, S., Massol, S., Duñabeitia, J.A., Carreiras, M., & Molinaro, N. (2019). Agreement and illusion of disagreement: An ERP study on Basque. Cortex, 116, 154-167. Doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2018.08.036

Antzaka, A., Martin, C., Caffarra, S., Schlöffel, S., Carreiras, M., & Lallier, M. (2018). The effect of orthographic depth on letter string processing: the case of visual attention span and rapid automatized naming. Reading and Writing, 31(3), 583-605. Doi:10.1007/s11145-017-9799-0

Biondo, N., Vespignani, F., Rizzi, L., & Mancini, S. (2018). Widening agreement processing: a matter of time, features and distance. Language Cognition and Neuroscience, 33(7), 890-911. Doi:10.1080/23273798.2018.1446542

Caffarra, S., Michell, E., & Martin, C.D. (2018). The impact of foreign accent on irony interpretation. Plos One, 13(8). Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0200939

Mancini, M. (2018). Features in Agreement and Processing. .

Mancini, S. (2018). When grammar and parsing agree. Frontiers in Psychology, 9(APR). Doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00336

Quiñones, I., Molinaro, N., Mancini, S., Hernández-Cabrera, J.A., Barber, H., & Carreiras, M. (2018). Tracing the interplay between syntactic and lexical features: fMRI evidence from agreement comprehension. Neuroimage, 175, 259-271. Doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.03.069

Caffarra, S., Barber, H., Molinaro, N., & Carreiras, M. (2017). When the end matters: influence of gender cues during agreement computation in bilinguals. Language Cognition and Neuroscience, 32(9), 1069-1085. Doi:10.1080/23273798.2017.1283426

Caffarra, S., Martin, C.D., Lizarazu, M., Lallier, M., Zarraga, A., Molinaro, N., & Carreiras, M. (2017). Word and object recognition during reading acquisition: MEG evidence. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 24, 21-32. Doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2017.01.002

Mancini, S., Quiñones, I., Molinaro, N., Hernandez-Cabrera, J.A., & Carreiras, M. (2017). Disentangling meaning in the brain: Left temporal involvement in agreement processing. Cortex, 86, 140-155. Doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2016.11.008

Molinaro, N., Giannelli, F., Caffarra, S., & Martin, C. (2017). Hierarchical levels of representation in language prediction: The influence of first language acquisition in highly proficient bilinguals. Cognition, 164, 61-73. Doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2017.03.012

Siyanova-Chanturia, A., Conklin, K., Caffarra, S., Kaan, E., & van Heuven, W.J.B. (2017). Representation and processing of multi-word expressions in the brain. Brain and Language, 175, 111-122. Doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2017.10.004

Wolpert, M., Mancini, S., & Caffarra, S. (2017). Addressee identity and morphosyntactic processing in basque allocutive agreement. Frontiers in Psychology, 8(SEP). Doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01439

Caffarra, S., Zimnukhova, S., & Mancini, S. (2016). What usage can do: The effect of language dominance on simultaneous bilinguals’ morphosyntactic processing. Linguistics Vanguard, 2. Doi:10.1515/lingvan-2016-0020

Ristić, B., Molinaro, N., & Mancini, S. (2016). Agreement attraction in Serbian: Decomposing markedness. Mental Lexicon, 11(2), 242-276. Doi:10.1075/ml.11.2.04ris

Caffarra, S., & Barber, H.A. (2015). Does the ending matter? The role of gender-to-ending consistency in sentence reading. Brain Research, 1605(1), 83-92. Doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2015.02.018

Caffarra, S., Molinaro, N., Davidson, D., & Carreiras, M. (2015). Second language syntactic processing revealed through event-related potentials: An empirical review. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 51, 31-47. Doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2015.01.010

Caffarra, S., Siyanova-Chanturia, A., Pesciarelli, F., Vespignani, F., & Cacciari, C. (2015). Is the noun ending a cue to grammatical gender processing? An ERP study on sentences in Italian. Psychophysiology, 52(8), 1019-1030. Doi:10.1111/psyp.12429

Carreiras, M., Quiñones, I., Mancini, S., Hernández-Cabrera, J.A., & Barber, H. (2015). Verbal and nominal agreement: An fMRI study. Neuroimage, 120, 88-103. Doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.06.075

Molinaro, N., Barber, H.A., Caffarra, S., & Carreiras, M. (2015). On the left anterior negativity (LAN): The case of morphosyntactic agreement: A Reply to Tanner etal.. Cortex, 66, 156-159. Doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2014.06.009

Caffarra, S., Janssen, N., & Barber, H.A. (2014). Two sides of gender: ERP evidence for the presence of two routes during gender agreement processing. Neuropsychologia, 63, 124-134. Doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.08.016

Mancini, S., Molinaro, N., Davidson, D.J., Avilés, A., & Carreiras, M. (2014). Person and the syntax-discourse interface: An eye-tracking study of agreement. Journal of Memory and Language, 76, 141-157. Doi:10.1016/j.jml.2014.06.010

Mancini, S., Postiglione, F., Laudanna, A., & Rizzi, L. (2014). On the person-number distinction: Subject-verb agreement processing in Italian. Lingua, 146, 28-38. Doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2014.04.014

Quiñones, I., Molinaro, N., Mancini, S., Hernández-Cabrera, J.A., & Carreiras, M. (2014). Where agreement merges with disagreement: FMRI evidence of subject-verb integration. Neuroimage, 88, 188-201. Doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.11.038

Caffarra, S., Pesciarelli, F., & Cacciari, C. (2013). The interaction between language and visual spatial attention systems in grammatical gender processing. An N2pc study. Cognitive Neuroscience, 4(3-4), 217-224. Doi:10.1080/17588928.2013.823392

Mancini, S., Molinaro, N., & Carreiras, M. (2013). Anchoring Agreement in Comprehension. Linguistics and Language Compass, 7(1), 1-21. Doi:10.1111/lnc3.12008

Pérez, A., Molinaro, N., Mancini, S., Barraza, P., & Carreiras, M. (2012). Oscillatory dynamics related to the Unagreement pattern in Spanish. Neuropsychologia, 50(11), 2584-2597. Doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.07.009

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. Doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2011.06.055

Mancini, S., Molinaro, N., Rizzi, L., & Carreiras, M. (2011). When persons disagree: An ERP study of Unagreement in Spanish. Psychophysiology, 48(10), 1361-1371. Doi:10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01212.x