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  1. The brain predicts visual speech units during naturalistic audiovisual speech listening

    Article • March 2026, Center for Open Science

    Francesca Peressotti

  2. In the Words of Others: ERP Evidence of Speaker‐Specific Phonological Prediction

    Article • Psychophysiology, September 2025, Wiley

    Francesca Peressotti

  3. No Risky Bets: The Brain Avoids All-In Predictions During Naturalistic Multitalker Listening

    Article • July 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Francesca Peressotti

  4. Feeling more in the language used among family and friends

    Article • Bilingualism Language and Cognition, April 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Francesca Peressotti

  5. In the words of others: ERP evidence of speaker-specific phonological prediction

    Article • April 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Francesca Peressotti

  6. Predictive language processing: integrating comprehension and production, and what atypical populations can tell us

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, May 2024, Frontiers

    Francesca Peressotti

  7. I know how you’ll say it: evidence of speaker-specific speech prediction

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, March 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Francesca Peressotti

  8. Foreign and Regional Languages Make You Less Deontological

    Article • Journal of Cognition, January 2024, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Francesca Peressotti

  9. Trial‐by‐trial fluctuations of pre‐stimulus alpha power predict language ERPs

    Article • Psychophysiology, July 2023, Wiley

    Francesca Peressotti

  10. Foreign and Regional Languages Make You Less Deontological

    Article • July 2023, Center for Open Science

    Francesca Peressotti

  11. Moral judgments in native, regional, and foreign languages

    Article • Bilingualism Language and Cognition, June 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Francesca Peressotti

  12. Aging-related effects on the controlled retrieval of semantic information.

    Article • Psychology and Aging, March 2023, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Francesca Peressotti

  13. The Role of the Frontal Aslant Tract in Bilingual Language Control

    Article • February 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Francesca Peressotti

  14. Inefficient speech-motor control affects predictive speech comprehension: atypical electrophysiological correlates in stuttering

    Article • Cerebral Cortex, January 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Francesca Peressotti

  15. Trial-by-trial fluctuations of prestimulus alpha power predict post-stimulus amplitude of language ERPs

    Article • January 2023, Center for Open Science

    Francesca Peressotti

  16. Exploring the ventral white matter language network in bimodal and unimodal bilinguals

    Article • Brain and Language, December 2022, Elsevier

    Francesca Peressotti

  17. Language as a cue for social categorization in bilingual communities

    Article • PLOS One, November 2022, PLOS

    Francesca Peressotti

  18. How the hand has shaped sign languages

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Francesca Peressotti

  19. Kinematic Evidence of Root-to-Shoot Signaling for the Coding of Support Thickness in Pea Plants

    Article • Biology, March 2022, MDPI AG

    Francesca Peressotti

  20. Decision-making depends on language: A meta-analysis of the Foreign Language Effect

    Article • Bilingualism Language and Cognition, February 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Francesca Peressotti

  21. Root-To-Shoot Signaling for the Coding of Support Thickness in Pea Plants

    Article • November 2021, MDPI AG

    Francesca Peressotti

  22. Aging-related effects on the controlled retrieval of semantic information

    Article • November 2021, Center for Open Science

    Francesca Peressotti

  23. The coding of object thickness in plants: When roots matter.

    Article • Journal of Comparative Psychology, November 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Umberto Castiello, Francesca Peressotti

  24. When inefficient speech-motor control affects speech comprehension: atypical electrophysiological correlates of language prediction in stuttering

    Article • October 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Francesca Peressotti

  25. Dimensions of social categorization: Inside the role of language

    Article • PLOS One, July 2021, PLOS

    Francesca Peressotti

  26. On-line control of movement in plants

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, July 2021, Elsevier

    Francesca Peressotti

  27. Can Plants Move Like Animals? A Three-Dimensional Stereovision Analysis of Movement in Plants

    Article • Animals, June 2021, MDPI AG

    Francesca Peressotti

  28. Cracking the code: a comparative approach to plant communication

    Article • Communicative & Integrative Biology, January 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Francesca Peressotti

  29. Commonalities in alpha and beta neural desynchronizations during prediction in language comprehension and production

    Article • Cortex, December 2020, Elsevier

    Francesca Peressotti

  30. Speed–accuracy trade-off in plants

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, June 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Francesca Peressotti

  31. Foreign language effect in decision-making: How foreign is it?

    Article • Cognition, June 2020, Elsevier

    Francesca Peressotti

  32. Language can shape the perception of oriented objects

    Article • Scientific Reports, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Francesca Peressotti

  33. Commonalities in alpha and beta neural desynchronizations during prediction in language comprehension and production

    Article • May 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Francesca Peressotti

  34. Language and motor processing in reading and typing: Insights from beta-frequency band power modulations

    Article • Brain and Language, May 2020, Elsevier

    Francesca Peressotti

  35. Effects of animacy on the processing of morphological Number: a cognitive inheritance?

    Article • WORD Structure, March 2020, Edinburgh University Press

    Francesca Franzon, Francesca Peressotti

  36. Hands show where things are: The close similarity between sign and natural space

    Article • Cognition, March 2020, Elsevier

    Francesca Peressotti

  37. Flexible control of movement in plants

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Francesca Peressotti

  38. The developmental trend of transposed letters effects in masked priming

    Article • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, October 2019, Elsevier

    Francesca Peressotti

  39. One can be some but some cannot be one: ERP correlates of numerosity incongruence are different for singular and plural

    Article • Cortex, July 2019, Elsevier

    Francesca Peressotti

  40. Contrary evidence to mandatory activation of spatial/sensory information from words

    Article • Psychological Science, June 2018, SAGE Publications

    Francesca Peressotti

  41. Can sign language make you better at hand processing?

    Article • PLOS One, March 2018, PLOS

    Francesca Peressotti

  42. The Manipulability Effect in Object Naming

    Article • Journal of Cognition, January 2018, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Francesca Peressotti

  43. The iconicity advantage in sign production: The case of bimodal bilinguals

    Article • Second language Research, December 2017, SAGE Publications

    Eduardo Navarrete, Francesca Peressotti

  44. Serial mechanism in transposed letters effects: A developmental study

    Article • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, September 2017, Elsevier

    Francesca Peressotti

  45. A joint investigation of semantic facilitation and semantic interference in continuous naming.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, May 2017, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Francesca Peressotti

  46. Activation cascading in sign production.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, February 2017, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Francesca Peressotti

  47. Typing pictures: Linguistic processing cascades into finger movements

    Article • Cognition, November 2016, Elsevier

    Francesca Peressotti

  48. Serial position encoding of signs

    Article • Cognition, September 2016, Elsevier

    Francesca Peressotti

  49. Asymmetric Switch Costs in Numeral Naming and Number Word Reading: Implications for Models of Bilingual Language Production

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2016, Frontiers

    Francesca Peressotti

  50. What can Written-Words Tell us About Lexical Retrieval in Speech Production?

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2016, Frontiers

    Francesca Peressotti

  51. Bilingual advantage and language switch: What's the linkage?

    Article • Bilingualism Language and Cognition, August 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Francesca Peressotti

  52. First learned words are not forgotten: Age-of-acquisition effects in the tip-of-the-tongue experience

    Article • Memory & Cognition, May 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Francesca Peressotti

  53. The distractor frequency effect in the colour-naming Stroop task: An overt naming event-related potential study

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Psychology, January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua, Francesca Peressotti

  54. With or Without Semantic Mediation: Retrieval of Lexical Representations in Sign Production

    Article • The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, January 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Francesca Peressotti

  55. Lexical selection is not by competition: Evidence from the blocked naming paradigm

    Article • Journal of Memory and Language, October 2014, Elsevier

    Francesca Peressotti

  56. Gender Agreement: a psycholinguistic and aphasia case study.

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2014, Frontiers

    Emeritus Professor Carlo Semenza, Francesca Peressotti

  57. Exploring the additive effects of stimulus quality and word frequency: The influence of local and list-wide prime relatedness

    Article • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, January 2013, SAGE Publications

    Francesca Peressotti

  58. Event-Related Potential Evidence for Two Functionally Dissociable Sources of Semantic Effects in the Attentional Blink

    Article • PLOS One, November 2012, PLOS

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua, Francesca Peressotti

  59. Event-related potentials distinguish between distinct sources of semantic activation in the attentional blink

    Article • International Journal of Psychophysiology, September 2012, Elsevier

    Francesca Peressotti

  60. Age-of-acquisition effects in delayed picture-naming tasks

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, August 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Francesca Peressotti

  61. Reading aloud: The cumulative lexical interference effect

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, May 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Francesca Peressotti

  62. Reading aloud pseudohomophones in Italian: Always an advantage

    Article • Memory & Cognition, December 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Francesca Peressotti

  63. What Phonological Facilitation Tells about Semantic Interference: A Dual-Task Study

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2011, Frontiers

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua, Francesca Peressotti

  64. The development of lexical representations: Evidence from the position of the diverging letter effect

    Article • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, June 2010, Elsevier

    Francesca Peressotti

  65. ERP Evidence for Ultra-Fast Semantic Processing in the Picture–Word Interference Paradigm

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2010, Frontiers

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua, Francesca Peressotti

  66. The turple effect is modulated by base word frequency: Implications for models of lexical and semantic access

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

    Francesca Peressotti

  67. Speed of processing explains the picture–word asymmetry in conditional naming

    Article • Psychological Research, November 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Francesca Peressotti

  68. Thursday 24th July 2008

    Article • International Journal of Psychology, June 2008, Wiley

    Francesca Peressotti, Professor Donald W Hine

  69. Semantic and repetition priming within the attentional blink: An event-related brain potential (ERP) investigation study

    Article • Biological Psychology, September 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua, Francesca Peressotti

  70. The picture-word interference effect is not a Stroop effect

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, August 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua, Francesca Peressotti

  71. Zeading and reazing: Which is faster? The position of the diverging letter in a pseudoword determines reading time

    Article • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, July 2007, SAGE Publications

    Francesca Peressotti

  72. Bidirectional semantic priming in the attentional blink

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, June 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Roberto Dell'Acqua, Francesca Peressotti

  73. On recognizing proper names: The orthographic cue hypothesis

    Article • Cognitive Psychology, August 2003, Elsevier

    Francesca Peressotti

  74. Article • Reading and Writing, January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Francesca Peressotti

  75. The role of letter identity and letter position in orthographic priming

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Francesca Peressotti

  76. Lexical effects in naming pseudowords in shallow orthographies: Further empirical data.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, April 1998, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Francesca Peressotti

  77. Lexical effects in naming pseudowords in shallow orthographies: Further empirical data.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 1998, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Francesca Peressotti

  78. Letter-position coding in random consonant arrays

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, January 1995, Springer Science + Business Media

    Francesca Peressotti

  79. New evidence for the perceptual precedence of global information

    Article • Acta Psychologica, August 1991, Elsevier

    Francesca Peressotti