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  1. Developmental changes in audio-visual speech integration during the first year of life in infants at elevated and typical likelihood of autism

    Article • PLOS One, May 2026, PLOS

    Valentina Riva

  2. A two-person neuroscience perspective on parent-infant dyadic expansion of consciousness

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, April 2026, Frontiers

    Valentina Riva

  3. Editorial: Risk and protective factors, family environment and (a)typical neurodevelopmental outcomes, volume II

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, April 2026, Frontiers

    Valentina Riva

  4. Inter-neural co-regulation before and after an interactive perturbation in mother-infant dyads

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Livio Provenzi, Valentina Riva

  5. Imaginary Coherence in Parent-Infant EEG Hyperscanning: Neural and Behavioral Synchrony in Social Interactions

    Article • October 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Valentina Riva

  6. Exploring the impact of manual and automatic EEG pre-processing methods on interpersonal neural synchrony measures in parent-infant hyperscanning studies

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience Methods, May 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Livio Provenzi, Valentina Riva

  7. Gamma oscillations and auditory perception: A cluster-based statistic investigation in infants at higher likelihood of autism and developmental language disorder

    Article • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, April 2025, Elsevier

    Valentina Riva

  8. Early selective attention to the articulating mouth as a potential female-specific marker of better language development in autism: a review

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, February 2025, Frontiers

    Valentina Riva

  9. 2-Brain Regulation for Improved Neuroprotection during Early Development (2-BRAINED): a translational hyperscanning research project

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2025, Frontiers

    Valentina Riva

  10. Exploring the impact of parents’ face-mask wearing on dyadic interactions in infants at higher likelihood for autism compared with general population

    Article • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, November 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Livio Provenzi, Valentina Riva

  11. Pupillary responses for social versus non-social stimuli in autism: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Article • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, November 2024, Elsevier

    Valentina Riva

  12. Prospective Interrelation Between Sensory Sensitivity and Fine Motor Skills During the First 18 Months Predicts Later Autistic Features

    Article • Developmental Science, September 2024, Wiley

    Valentina Riva

  13. Cumulative Risk Factors in Child Language Development

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, September 2024, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Maria Luisa Lorusso, raffaella pozzoli, Chiara Cantiani, Valentina Riva, Elena Capelli

  14. EEG Functional Connectivity Analysis for the Study of the Brain Maturation in the First Year of Life

    Article • Sensors, August 2024, MDPI AG

    Valentina Riva

  15. Application of Machine Learning Analysis of EEG Connectivity Data and Environmental Factors for the Identification of neurodevelopmental conditions

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

    Valentina Riva

  16. Editorial: Physical and medical conditions associated with autism

    Article • Frontiers in Psychiatry, June 2024, Frontiers

    Valentina Riva

  17. 2-Brain Regulation to Achieve Improved Neuroprotection during Early Development (2-BRAINED): A translational hyperscanning research project

    Article • June 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Livio Provenzi, Valentina Riva

  18. Visual statistical learning in preverbal infants at a higher likelihood of autism and its association with later social communication skills

    Article • PLOS One, May 2024, PLOS

    Valentina Riva

  19. Infants’ reorienting efficiency depends on parental autistic traits and predicts future socio-communicative behaviors

    Article • Cerebral Cortex, May 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Valentina Riva

  20. Rules generalization in children with dyslexia

    Article • Research in Developmental Disabilities, March 2024, Elsevier

    Valentina Riva

  21. Differentiating early sensory profiles in toddlers at elevated likelihood of autism and association with later clinical outcome and diagnosis

    Article • Autism, October 2023, SAGE Publications

    Valentina Riva

  22. Intergenerational longitudinal associations between parental reading/musical traits, infants’ auditory processing, and later phonological awareness skills

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroscience, July 2023, Frontiers

    Ph.D. Maria Luisa Lorusso, Valentina Riva

  23. Baseline EEG in the first year of life: Preliminary insights into the development of autism spectrum disorder and language impairments

    Article • iScience, July 2023, Elsevier

    Valentina Riva

  24. Editorial: Risk and protective factors, family environment and (a)typical neurodevelopmental outcomes

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, June 2023, Frontiers

    Dr Livio Provenzi, Valentina Riva

  25. Long-Lasting Effects of Changes in Daily Routine during the Pandemic-Related Lockdown on Preschoolers’ Language and Emotional–Behavioral Development: A Moderation Analysis

    Article • Children, March 2023, MDPI AG

    Ph.D. Maria Luisa Lorusso, Valentina Riva

  26. The teleNIDA: Early Screening of Autism Spectrum Disorder Through a Novel Telehealth Approach

    Article • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, February 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Valentina Riva

  27. Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders: The SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic Implications

    Article • Brain Sciences, February 2023, MDPI AG

    Valentina Riva

  28. Synchronizing with the rhythm: Infant neural entrainment to complex musical and speech stimuli

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, October 2022, Frontiers

    Valentina Riva

  29. Infants aged 12 months use the gender feature in determiners to anticipate upcoming words: an eye-tracking study

    Article • Journal of Child Language, March 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Valentina Riva

  30. Visual Implicit Learning Abilities in Infants at Familial Risk for Language and Learning Impairments

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, February 2022, MDPI AG

    Valentina Riva

  31. Atypical ERP responses to audiovisual speech integration and sensory responsiveness in infants at risk for autism spectrum disorder

    Article • Infancy, January 2022, Wiley

    Valentina Riva

  32. The (a)typical burden of COVID-19 pandemic scenario in Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Valentina Riva

  33. Impact of Early Rhythmic Training on Language Acquisition and Electrophysiological Functioning Underlying Auditory Processing: Feasibility and Preliminary Findings in Typically Developing Infants

    Article • Brain Sciences, November 2021, MDPI AG

    Valentina Riva

  34. A Pilot Study Evaluating the Effects of Early Intervention for Italian Siblings of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Article • Brain Sciences, October 2021, MDPI AG

    Valentina Riva

  35. Detection without further processing or processing without automatic detection? Differential ERP responses to lexical-semantic processing in toddlers at high clinical risk for autism and language disorder

    Article • Cortex, August 2021, Elsevier

    Ph.D. Maria Luisa Lorusso, Valentina Riva

  36. Effects of COVID-19 Lockdown on the Emotional and Behavioral Profiles of Preschool Italian Children with and without Familial Risk for Neurodevelopmental Disorders

    Article • Brain Sciences, April 2021, MDPI AG

    Valentina Riva

  37. Early developmental trajectories of expressive vocabulary and gesture production in a longitudinal cohort of Italian infants at high‐risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Article • Autism Research, March 2021, Wiley

    Valentina Riva

  38. Dysfunctions in Infants’ Statistical Learning are Related to Parental Autistic Traits

    Article • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Valentina Riva

  39. The Mediation Role of Dynamic Multisensory Processing Using Molecular Genetic Data in Dyslexia

    Article • Brain Sciences, December 2020, MDPI AG

    Valentina Riva

  40. EEG Effective Source Projections Are More Bilaterally Symmetric in Infants Than in Adults

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, March 2020, Frontiers

    Valentina Riva

  41. Infants’ Learning of Rule-Based Visual Sequences Predicts Language Outcome at 2 Years

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, February 2020, Frontiers

    Valentina Riva

  42. Paternal—but Not Maternal—Autistic Traits Predict Frontal EEG Alpha Asymmetry in Infants with Later Symptoms of Autism

    Article • Brain Sciences, November 2019, MDPI AG

    Valentina Riva

  43. Oscillatory gamma activity mediates the pathway from socioeconomic status to language acquisition in infancy

    Article • Infant Behavior and Development, November 2019, Elsevier

    Valentina Riva

  44. Postnatal maternal symptoms of depression and child emotion dysregulation: The mediation role of infant EEG alpha asymmetry

    Article • Infant Behavior and Development, November 2019, Elsevier

    Valentina Riva

  45. The influence of DCDC2 risk genetic variants on reading: Testing main and haplotypic effects

    Article • Neuropsychologia, July 2019, Elsevier

    Valentina Riva

  46. Reduced left-lateralized pattern of event-related EEG oscillations in infants at familial risk for language and learning impairment

    Article • NeuroImage Clinical, January 2019, Elsevier

    Valentina Riva

  47. Distinct ERP profiles for auditory processing in infants at-risk for autism and language impairment

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Valentina Riva

  48. ERP responses to lexical-semantic processing in typically developing toddlers, in adults, and in toddlers at risk for language and learning impairment

    Article • Neuropsychologia, August 2017, Elsevier

    Valentina Riva

  49. Working memory mediates the effects of gestational age at birth on expressive language development in children.

    Article • Neuropsychology, July 2017, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Valentina Riva

  50. From CNTNAP2 to Early Expressive Language in Infancy: The Mediation Role of Rapid Auditory Processing

    Article • Cerebral Cortex, May 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Valentina Riva

  51. A common genetic variant inFOXP2is associated with language-based learning (dis)abilities: Evidence from two Italian independent samples

    Article • American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics, April 2017, Wiley

    Sara Mascheretti, Valentina Riva

  52. Auditory discrimination predicts linguistic outcome in Italian infants with and without familial risk for language learning impairment

    Article • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, August 2016, Elsevier

    Valentina Riva

  53. GRIN2B mediates susceptibility to intelligence quotient and cognitive impairments in developmental dyslexia

    Article • Psychiatric Genetics, February 2015, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Valentina Riva

  54. GRIN2B predicts attention problems among disadvantaged children

    Article • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, October 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Valentina Riva

  55. The role of DCDC2 genetic variants and low socioeconomic status in vulnerability to attention problems

    Article • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, July 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Valentina Riva

  56. KIAA0319 and ROBO1: evidence on association with reading and pleiotropic effects on language and mathematics abilities in developmental dyslexia

    Article • Journal of Human Genetics, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Valentina Riva

  57. Putative Risk Factors in Developmental Dyslexia

    Article • Journal of Learning Disabilities, June 2013, SAGE Publications

    Valentina Riva

  58. Variants in SNAP25 are targets of natural selection and influence verbal performances in women

    Article • Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, December 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Valentina Riva

  59. Pleiotropic Effects of DCDC2 and DYX1C1 Genes on Language and Mathematics Traits in Nuclear Families of Developmental Dyslexia

    Article • Behavior Genetics, November 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Valentina Riva