New chapter! How can we estimate the meaning of words we have never seen before? Hint: take the words you know, shatter them into little pieces and use these pieces to get the meaning of something new. @Daniele__Gatti
Milano-Bicocca e l’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei premiano i #GiovaniTalenti 👏
Congratulazioni alle ricercatrici e ai ricercatori, a cui va il diploma e un finanziamento per le attività di #ricerca
Over the past weekend at the International Word Processing Conference, we presented our findings on how adults process novel words, integrating psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience. @ERCbravenewword (@MarelliMar, @RBonandrini, Iva Saban, @fabio_marson, @giulialoca_)
New chapter with Daniele Gatti reviewing FastText (sub)word vectors!
Soon to appear in the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics.
https://t.co/SquZQ2p5Xi
New article out about opposite perceptual biases in visual and auditory tasks! Great collaboration with Adam Parker and his group.
https://t.co/Dnyf0eeYE3
Exciting news!📢Our multi-author multi-lab paper "Text reading in English as a second language: Evidence from the Multilingual Eye-Movements Corpus" received the Albert Valdman Award for Outstanding Publication in Studies of Second Language Acquisition https://t.co/3SdzGS5O5J
All NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports editors have resigned over the high publication fee, and are starting a new non-profit journal
https://t.co/DmnwDKVCK7
This comes with great regret, and a huge amount of thought and discussion- please read announcement to get more details.
Data suggest that the visual field effect (and the smaller word-frequency effect in the LVF/RH than in the RVF/LH) could be due to the RH being less able than the LH to use information extracted from word chunks to selectively activate word representations. 8/8
New article published in Neuropsychologia (with @MarelliMar and @EP1959)!
Why do we struggle more in reading words appearing in the left visual field (LVF) than in the right visual field (RVF)?
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https://t.co/1JVoyK3llW
New review of neuroscience of volition with @Silvia_Seghezzi: at https://t.co/b6cslrWI4u
Neuroscience has a long history of trying to study ‘free will’, but the definitions of the object of study are often unclear. We try to bring structure to this diverse literature... /1