Pubblication

Here you can find a selection of the scientific peer-revied studies published by our lab and the research teams we are collaborating with. The main topics are social, mathematical and language skills in infancy

• Ghio M., Cara C., & Tettamanti M., (2021)
  The prenatal brain readiness for speech processing: A review on foetal development of auditory and primordial language networks
  Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 128 (March), 709–719

• Di Giorgio, E., Lunghi, M., Vallortigara, G., & Simion, F. (2021).
  Newborns’ sensitivity to speed changes as a building block for animacy perception. 
  Scientific Reports, 11(1), 542. 

• Castaldi, E., Turi M., Gassama S., Piazza M., & Eger E. (2020)
  Excessive visual crowding effects in developmental dyscalculia
  Journal of Vision, 20(8), 1–20.

• Castaldi, E., Piazza, M., & Iuculano, T. (2020)
  Learning disabilities: Developmental dyscalculia.
  In Handbook of Clinical Neurology (Vol. 174, pp. 61–75). Elsevier B.V.

• Decarli, G., Paris, E., Tencati, C., Nardelli, C., Vescovi, M., Surian, L., & Piazza, M. (2020).
  Impaired large numerosity estimation and intact subitizing in developmental dyscalculia. 
  PLOS ONE, 15(12), e0244578.

• Decarli, G., Franchin, L., Piazza, M., & Surian, L. (2020).
  Infants’ use of motion cues in object individuation processes.
  Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 197, 104868.

• Di Giorgio, E., Lunghi, M., Rugani, R., Regolin, L., Dalla Barba, B., Vallortigara, G., & Simion, F. (2019).
  A mental number line in human newborns.
  Developmental Science, 22(6), 1–10. 

• Buiatti, M., Di Giorgio, E., Piazza, M., Polloni, C., Menna, G., Taddei, F., Baldo, E., & Vallortigara, G. (2019).
  Cortical route for facelike pattern processing in human newborns.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(10), 4625–4630.

• Piazza, M., De Feo, V., Panzeri, S., & Dehaene, S. (2018).
  Learning to focus on number.
  Cognition, 181, 35–45.

• Di Giorgio, E., Loveland, J. L., Mayer, U., Rosa-Salva, O., Versace, E., & Vallortigara, G. (2017).
  Filial responses as predisposed and learned preferences: Early attachment in chicks and babies. 
  In Behavioural Brain Research (Vol. 325, pp. 90–104). Elsevier B.V.

• Di Giorgio, E., Lunghi, M., Simion, F., & Vallortigara, G. (2017).
  Visual cues of motion that trigger animacy perception at birth: the case of self-propulsion. 
  Developmental Science, 20(4), e12394. 

• Di Giorgio, E., Frasnelli, E., Rosa Salva, O., Maria Luisa, S., Puopolo, M., Tosoni, D., Simion, F., Vallortigara, G., Apicella, F., Gagliano, A., Guzzetta, A., Molteni, M., Persico, A., Pioggia, G., Valeri, G., & Vicari, S. (2016).
  Difference in Visual Social Predispositions between Newborns at Low-and High-risk for Autism. 
  Scientific Reports, 6(1), 1–9. 

• Mascalzoni, E., Regolin, L., Vallortigara, G., & Simion, F. (2013).
  The cradle of causal reasoning: newborns’ preference for physical causality. 
  Developmental Science, 16(3), 327–335.