Publications

Jhilal, S., Molinaro, N., & Klimovich-Gray, A. (In press). Non-verbal skills in auditory word processing: implications for typical and dyslexic readers. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. Doi:10.1080/23273798.2024.2438012

Hernández-Gutiérrez, D., Sorrel, M.A., Shanks, D.R., & Vadillo, M.A. (2025). The Conscious Side of ‘Subliminal’ Linguistic Priming: A Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis and Reliability Analysis of Visibility Measures. Journal of Cognition, 8(1). Doi:10.5334/joc.419

Ku, L.C., & Lai, V.T. (2025). Use of context in updating affective representations of words in older adults. Biological Psychology, 195. Doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109003

Lenc, T., Lenoir, C., Keller, P.E., Polak, R., Mulders, D., & Nozaradan, S. (2025). Measuring self-similarity in empirical signals to understand musical beat perception. European Journal of Neuroscience, 61(2). Doi:10.1111/ejn.16637

Bolognesi, M.M., Combei, C.R., La Pietra, M., & Masini, F. (2024). What makes an awfully good oxymoron?. Language and Cognition, 16(1), 242-262. Doi:10.1017/langcog.2023.68

Gastaldon, S., Bonfiglio, N., Vespignani, F., & Peressotti, F. (2024). Predictive language processing: integrating comprehension and production, and what atypical populations can tell us. Frontiers in Psychology, 15. Doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1369177

Jiménez-Ortega, L., Casado-Palacios, M., Rubianes, M., Martínez-Mejias, M., Casado, P., Fondevila, S., Hernández-Gutiérrez, D., Muñoz, F., Sánchez-García, J., & Martin-Loeches, M. (2024). The bigger your pupils, the better my comprehension: an ERP study of how pupil size and gaze of the speaker affect syntactic processing. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 19(1). Doi:10.1093/scan/nsae047

Lai, V.T., Pfeifer, V., & Ku, L.C. (2024). Emotional language processing: An individual differences approach. Psychology of Learning and Motivation Advances in Research and Theory, 80, 73-104. Doi:10.1016/bs.plm.2024.03.006

Martin, C.D., Pastureau, R., Kerr, E., & Bruin, A.D.E. (2024). Processing of Synonyms and Homographs in Bilingual and Monolingual Speakers. Journal of Cognition, 7(1). Doi:10.5334/joc.329

Mushtaq, F., Welke, D., Gallagher, A., Pavlov, Y.G., Kouara, L., Bosch-Bayard, J., van den Bosch, J.J.F., Arvaneh, M., Bland, A.R., Chaumon, M., Borck, C., He, X., Luck, S.J., Machizawa, M.G., Pernet, C., Puce, A., Segalowitz, S.J., Rogers, C., Awais, M., Babiloni, C., Bailey, N.W., Baillet, S., Bendall, R.C.A., Brady, D., Bringas-Vega, M.L., Busch, N.A., Calzada-Reyes, A., Chatard, A., Clayson, P.E., Cohen, M.X., Cole, J., Constant, M., Corneyllie, A., Coyle, D., Cruse, D., Delis, I., Delorme, A., Fair, D., Falk, T.H., Gamer, M., Ganis, G., Gloy, K., Gregory, S., Hassall, C.D., Hiley, K.E., Ivry, R.B., Jerbi, K., Jenkins, M., Kaiser, J., Keil, A., Knight, R.T., Kochen, S., Kotchoubey, B., Krigolson, O.E., Langer, N., Liesefeld, H.R., Lippé, S., London, R.E., MacNamara, A., Makeig, S., Marinovic, W., Martínez-Montes, E., Marzuki, A.A., Mathew, R.K., Michel, C., Millán, J.d.R., Mon-Williams, M., Morales-Chacón, L., Naar, R., Nilsonne, G., Niso, G., Nyhus, E., Oostenveld, R., Paul, K., Paulus, W., Pfabigan, D.M., Pourtois, G., Rampp, S., Rausch, M., Robbins, K., Rossini, P.M., Ruzzoli, M., Schmidt, B., Senderecka, M., Srinivasan, N., Stegmann, Y., Thompson, P.M., Valdes-Sosa, M., van der Molen, M.J.W., Veniero, D., Verona, E., Voytek, B., Yao, D., Evans, A.C., & Valdes-Sosa, P. (2024). One hundred years of EEG for brain and behaviour research. Nature Human Behaviour, 8(8), 1437-1443. Doi:10.1038/s41562-024-01941-5

Vadillo, M.A., Aniento, P., Hernández-Gutiérrez, D., Saini, L., & Aivar, M.P. (2024). Measuring Learning and Attention to Irrelevant Distractors in Contextual Cueing. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception and Performance, 50(9), 952-970. Doi:10.1037/xhp0001230

Bertels, J., Niesen, M., Destoky, F., Coolen, T., Vander Ghinst, M., Wens, V., Rovai, A., Trotta, N., Baart, M., Molinaro, N., De Tiège, X., & Bourguignon, M. (2023). Neurodevelopmental oscillatory basis of speech processing in noise. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 59. Doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101181

Esparza-Iaizzo, M., Vigué-Guix, I., Ruzzoli, M., Torralba-Cuello, M., & Soto-Faraco, S. (2023). Long-Range ἁ-Synchronization as Control Signal for BCI: A Feasibility Study. Eneuro, 10(3), 1-14. Doi:10.1523/ENEURO.0203-22.2023

Hernández-Gutiérrez, D., Muñoz, F., Khosrowtaj, Z., Sommer, W., Jiménez-Ortega, L., Abdel Rahman, R., Sánchez-García, J., Casado, P., Fondevila, S., Espuny, J., & Martín-Loeches, M. (2023). How the speaker’s emotional facial expressions may affect language comprehension. Language Cognition and Neuroscience, 38(10), 1478-1491. Doi:10.1080/23273798.2022.2130945

Drew, A., Torralba, M., Ruzzoli, M., Morís Fernández, L., Sabaté, A., Pápai, M.S., & Soto-Faraco, S. (2022). Conflict monitoring and attentional adjustment during binocular rivalry. European Journal of Neuroscience, 55(1), 138-153. Doi:10.1111/ejn.15554

Fondevila, S., Hernández-Gutiérrez, D., Espuny, J., Jimenez-Ortega, L., Casado, P., Muñoz, F.M., Sánchez-García, J., & Martín-Loeches, M. (2022). Subliminal Priming Effects of Masked Social Hierarchies During a Categorization Task: An Event-Related Brain Potentials Study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16. Doi:10.3389/fnhum.2022.862359

Keitel, C., Ruzzoli, M., Dugué, L., Busch, N.A., & Benwell, C.S.Y. (2022). Rhythms in cognition: The evidence revisited. European Journal of Neuroscience, 55(11-12), 2991-3009. Doi:10.1111/ejn.15740

Delogu, F., Jachmann, T., Staudte, M., Vespignani, F., & Molinaro, N. (2020). Discourse Expectations Are Sensitive to the Question Under Discussion: Evidence From ERPs. Discourse Processes, 57(2), 122-140. Doi:10.1080/0163853X.2019.1575140

Molinaro, N. (2020). “Words and emotions in sentence context”: a commentary on Hinojosa, Moreno and Ferré (2019). Language Cognition and Neuroscience, 35(7), 862-864. Doi:10.1080/23273798.2019.1647346

Martin, C.D., Underwood, A., & Molinaro, N. (2019). I'm doing better on my own: Social inhibition in vocabulary learning in adults. Frontiers in Psychology, 10(JUN). Doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01350

Bourguignon, M., Molinaro, N., & Wens, V. (2018). Contrasting functional imaging parametric maps: The mislocation problem and alternative solutions. Neuroimage, 169, 200-211. Doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.12.033

Giannelli, F., & Molinaro, N. (2018). Reanalyzing language expectations: Native language knowledge modulates the sensitivity to intervening cues during anticipatory processing. Psychophysiology, 55(10). Doi:10.1111/psyp.13196

Molinaro, N., & Monsalve, I.F. (2018). Perceptual facilitation of word recognition through motor activation during sentence comprehension. Cortex, 108, 144-159. Doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2018.07.001

Monsalve, I.F., Bourguignon, M., & Molinaro, N. (2018). Theta oscillations mediate pre-activation of highly expected word initial phonemes. Scientific Reports, 8(1). Doi:10.1038/s41598-018-27898-w

Canal, P., Pesciarelli, F., Vespignani, F., Molinaro, N., & Cacciari, C. (2017). Basic composition and enriched integration in idiom processing: An EEG study. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, 43(6), 928-943. Doi:10.1037/xlm0000351

Canal, P., Pesciarelli, F., Vespignani, F., Molinaro, N., & Cacciari, C. (2015). Electrophysiological correlates of idiom comprehension: Semantic composition does not follow lexical retrieval. Ceur Workshop Proceedings, 1347, 98-101.

Monsalve, I.F., Pérez, A., & Molinaro, N. (2014). Item parameters dissociate between expectation formats: A regression analysis of time-frequency decomposed EEG data. Frontiers in Psychology, 5(AUG). Doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00847

Duñabeitia, J.A., & Molinaro, N. (2013). The wide-open doors to lexical access. Frontiers in Psychology, 4(JUL). Doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00471

Molinaro, N., Canal, P., Vespignani, F., Pesciarelli, F., & Cacciari, C. (2013). Are complex function words processed as semantically empty strings? A reading time and ERP study of collocational complex prepositions. Language and Cognitive Processes, 28(6), 762-788. Doi:10.1080/01690965.2012.665465

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(3), 211-232. Doi:10.1016/j.jml.2010.12.002