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  1. Making Trigger-action rules more comprehensible: Investigating which linguistic clues effectively guide non-programmers

    Article • International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, September 2025, Elsevier

    Barbara Treccani

  2. Retrieval practice enhances learning in real primary school settings, whether distributed or not

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, August 2025, Frontiers

    Barbara Treccani

  3. The impact of wearing a heart rate monitoring wristband on museum visitors’ memory and emotions: a randomized controlled trial

    Article • Cognitive Research Principles and Implications, May 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Barbara Treccani

  4. "React", "Command", or "Instruct"? Teachers Mental Models on End-User Development

    Article • April 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Barbara Treccani

  5. Beyond the foreign language effect: unravelling the impact of l2 proficiency on rationality

    Article • Bilingualism Language and Cognition, December 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Barbara Treccani

  6. Bicultural bilinguals: Juggling languages, shifting ‘personalities’, destroying barriers

    Article • International Journal of Bilingualism, November 2024, SAGE Publications

    Barbara Treccani

  7. Do psychological traits influence the perceived usefulness of rule recommendations in configuration tasks?

    Article • Behaviour and Information Technology, August 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Barbara Treccani

  8. Deep learning approach for response assessment to low intensity emotional stimuli

    Article • June 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Barbara Treccani

  9. Gamified Tangible IoT for Education: Exploring Usability in SmartGame

    Article • June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Antonio Bucchiarone, Barbara Treccani

  10. "This Sounds Unclear": Evaluating ChatGPT capability in translating end-user prompts into ready-to-deploy Python Code.

    Article • June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Barbara Treccani, Giuseppe Desolda

  11. RuleCraft: an End-User Development Hub for Education

    Article • June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Antonio Bucchiarone, Barbara Treccani

  12. Inside the kaleidoscope: unravelling the “feeling different” experience of bicultural bilinguals

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, May 2024, Frontiers

    Barbara Treccani

  13. Perceived lack of control promotes creativity

    Article • Journal of Creativity, April 2023, Elsevier

    Barbara Treccani

  14. Beyond the Foreign Language Effect:Unravelling the Impact of L2 Proficiency on Rationality

    Article • January 2023, Elsevier

    Barbara Treccani

  15. Language and Temporal Aspects: A Qualitative Study on Trigger Interpretation in Trigger-Action Rules

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Barbara Treccani

  16. Understanding Concepts, Methods and Tools for End-User Control of Automations in Ecosystems of Smart Objects and Services

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Barbara Treccani

  17. SMARTER: an IoT learning game to teach math

    Article • June 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Barbara Treccani, Giuseppe Desolda

  18. End-User Programming and Math Teachers: an Initial Study

    Article • June 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Barbara Treccani, Giuseppe Desolda

  19. Developmental Dyslexia, Reading Acquisition, and Statistical Learning: A Sceptic’s Guide

    Article • Brain Sciences, August 2021, MDPI AG

    Barbara Treccani

  20. Developmental dyslexia, reading acquisition, and statistical learning: A skeptic’s guide

    Article • August 2021, Center for Open Science

    Barbara Treccani

  21. Brief tests for dementia and the expertise of the examiner

    Article • Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, June 2021, Frontiers

    Barbara Treccani

  22. EMPATHY

    Article • September 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giuseppe Desolda, Barbara Treccani, Fabio Paternò

  23. Registered Replication Report of the Attentional SNARC effect: Failure to Replicate

    Article • Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, June 2020, SAGE Publications

    Barbara Treccani, Juan Lupiáñez

  24. Spatial vs. Linguistic coding of object typical size and semantic category in children

    Article • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, January 2020, Elsevier

    Barbara Treccani

  25. Conceptual spatial compatibility effects are accounted for by symbolic compatibility principles

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, May 2019, Frontiers

    Barbara Treccani

  26. Left-right asymmetries affect the validity of all forms of the Judgement of Line Orientation Test

    Article • Neuropsychology, December 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Barbara Treccani

  27. Feature Integration theory (FIT) and loss of conscious perception after brain damage.

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, December 2018, Frontiers

    Barbara Treccani

  28. Division-of-labour can reduce interference in Stroop-like tasks

    Article • Psychological Research, July 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Barbara Treccani

  29. Single-pulse TMS shows automatic motor activation and inhibition and their sequential modulation

    Article • Psychological Research, April 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Barbara Treccani

  30. Is cognitive control automatic? New insights from transcranial magnetic stimulation

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, March 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Barbara Treccani

  31. Distinguishing Target From Distractor in Stroop, Picture–Word, and Word–Word Interference Tasks

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, December 2015, Frontiers

    Barbara Treccani

  32. Role of stimulus and response feature overlap in between-task logical recoding

    Article • Psychological Research, December 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Barbara Treccani

  33. Theories of bilingual advantage in executive functioning are too vague and thus difficult to falsify

    Article • Cortex, December 2015, Elsevier

    Barbara Treccani

  34. The Connection Is in the Data

    Article • Psychological Science, May 2015, SAGE Publications

    Barbara Treccani

  35. Semantic effects in the word–word interference task: a comment on Roelofs, Piai, and Schriefers (2013)

    Article • Language Cognition and Neuroscience, January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Barbara Treccani

  36. Spatial coding of object typical size: evidence for a SNARC-like effect

    Article • Psychological Research, December 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Barbara Treccani

  37. Cognitive Advantage in Bilingualism

    Article • Psychological Science, December 2014, SAGE Publications

    Barbara Treccani

  38. The role of the sound of objects in object identification: evidence from picture naming

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, October 2014, Frontiers

    Barbara Treccani

  39. Larger, smaller, odd or even? Task-specific effects of optokinetic stimulation on the mental number space

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Psychology, August 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Marco Pitteri, Barbara Treccani

  40. Task sharing can change the fate of task irrelevant information: Evidence from the joint Picture-Word interference paradigm

    Article • January 2013, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Barbara Treccani

  41. When co-action eliminates the Simon effect: disentangling the impact of co-actor's presence and task sharing on joint-task performance

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2013, Frontiers

    Barbara Treccani

  42. Dissociation between Awareness and Spatial Coding: Evidence from Unilateral Neglect

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, April 2012, The MIT Press

    Barbara Treccani

  43. Evidence for a Stimulus Size-Response Position Correspondence Effect

    Article • January 2012, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Barbara Treccani

  44. Neglect Impairs Explicit Processing of the Mental Number Line

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2012, Frontiers

    Barbara Treccani

  45. Up & Down or Plus & Minus? A Polarity Explanation for Verticality Effects in Word Categorization

    Article • January 2012, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Barbara Treccani

  46. When the Joint Picture-Word Task Eliminates the Semantic Interference Effect

    Article • January 2012, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Barbara Treccani

  47. How to cook a SNARC? Space may be the critical ingredient, after all: A comment on Fischer, Mills, and Shaki (2010)

    Article • Brain and Cognition, April 2011, Elsevier

    Barbara Treccani

  48. When task sharing eliminates the Simon effect

    Article • January 2011, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Barbara Treccani

  49. Spatial coding of object size: Evidence for a stimulus size-response position correspondence effect

    Article • January 2011, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Barbara Treccani

  50. The need for a revised version of the Benton judgment of line orientation test

    Article • Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, September 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Barbara Treccani

  51. Influence on Simon and SNARC effects of a nonspatial stimulus-response mapping: Between-task logical recoding.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 2010, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Barbara Treccani

  52. Social and spatial factors underlying the interactive Simon effect

    Article • January 2010, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Barbara Treccani

  53. Flanker and Simon effects interact at the response selection stage

    Article • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, September 2009, SAGE Publications

    Barbara Treccani

  54. Spatial negative priming in bilingualism

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, April 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Barbara Treccani

  55. Spatial coding of word-initial letters: Evidence from a Simon-like task

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, February 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Barbara Treccani

  56. Sun Up, Mole Down: Object Semantic Representations Specify Object-Typical Positions. Evidence From a Simon-Like Paradigm

    Article • January 2008, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Barbara Treccani

  57. The measurement of left—right asymmetries in the Simon effect: A fine-grained analysis

    Article • Behavior Research Methods, February 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Barbara Treccani

  58. Simon effect with and without awareness of the accessory stimulus.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 2006, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Barbara Treccani

  59. Is judgement of line orientation selectively impaired in right brain damaged patients?

    Article • Neuropsychologia, January 2005, Elsevier

    Barbara Treccani