Selected Publications

2024

• Deriu, V., Altavilla, D., Adornetti, I., Chiera, A., Ferretti, F. (2024). Narrative Identity in Addictive Disorders: A Conceptual Review. Frontiers in Psychology. 15:1409217. 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1409217. 

• Ferretti, F. (2024). Narrative and pantomime at the origin of language. In "Perspectives on Pantomime" (pp. 78-99). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 

• Francesco F., Adornetti I. (2024). Origin of Language. In:  "Reference Module in Social Sciences" (to be published in: International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Edition), Elsevier.  https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.00053-3

2023

• Adornetti I. (2023). Investigating conspiracy theories in the light of narrative persuasion. Frontiers in Psychology, 14:1288125, 1-4. 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1288125. 

• Adornetti, I., Chiera, A., Deriu, V., Altavilla, D., Ferretti, F. (2023). Comprehending stories in pantomime. A pilot study with typically developing children and its implications for the narrative origin of language. Language & Communication, 93, 155-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2023.10.001 

• Adornetti I., Chiera A., Altavilla D., Deriu V., Marini A., Gobbo M., Valeri G., Magni R., Ferretti F. (2023). Defining the Characteristics of Story Production of Autistic Children: A Multilevel Analysis. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-023-06096-2 

• Ansani, A., Giombini, L., Poggi, I., Young J.O. (2023). Ethos Theory of Music: Toward An Empirical Confirmation Through Moral Foundations Theory. Empirical Studies of the Arts. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0276237423118039

• Benítez-Burraco, A., Adornetti, I., Ferretti, F., Progovac, L. (2023). An evolutionary account of impairment of self in cognitive disorders, Cognitive Processing, 24 (1), 107-127 doi: 10.1007/s10339-022-01110-4 

• Chiera, A., Ansani, A., Sessa, I., Cataldo, V., Schettino, L., Poggi, I. (2023) Gestures and pauses to help thought: hands, voice, and silence in the tourist guide’s speech. Cognitive Processing, 24(1), 25–41 . doi: 10.1007/s10339-022-01116-y 

• Ferretti F. (2023) On the influence of thought on language: a naturalistic framework for the pantomimic origins of human communication. Frontiers in Psychology, 14  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1197968 

2022

• Adornetti I., Chiera A., Altavilla D., Deriu V., Lecci C.M., Marini A., Valeri G., Magni R., Ferretti F. (2022), How do we comprehend linguistic and visual narratives? A study in children with typical development, Language Sciences, 93, 101500. doi: 10.1016/j.langsci.2022.101500 

• Altavilla, D., Adornetti, I., Chiera, A., Deriu, V., Acciai, A., & Ferretti, F. (2022). Introspective self-narrative modulates the neuronal response during the empathic process. An event-related potentials (ERPs) study, Experimental Brain Research.  240, 2725–2738 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-022-06441-4

• Ansani, A., Marini, M., Poggi, I., & Mallia, L. (2022). Recognition memory in movie scenes: The soundtrack induces mood-coherent bias, but not through mood induction. Journal of Cognitive Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2022.2116448 

• Chiera A., Adornetti I., Altavilla D., Acciai A., Cosentino E., Deriu V., McCarroll C., Nicchiarelli S., Preziotti V., Ferretti F. (2022), Does the Character-Based Dimension of Stories Impact Narrative Processing? An Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) study , Cognitive processing, 23,  255–267 doi: 10.1007/s10339-021-01070-1 

• Ferretti F. (2022) Narrative Persuasion. A Cognitive Perspective on Language Evolution, Springer, Cham.

• Ferretti F., Adornetti I., Chiera A. (2022), Narrative pantomime: a protolanguage for persuasive communication , Lingua, 271, 103247  doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2022.103247

• Poggi, I., & Ansani, A. (2022). Multimodality and Music Performance. The Lexicons of Gesture and Gaze in Orchestra and Choir Conductors. Acta Polytechnica Hungarica, 19(5), 215–234. https://doi.org/10.12700/APH.19.5.2022.5.11 

•  Sorbo, C., Roccaforte, M., Ferretti, F., Chiera, A., Adornetti, I., Nicchiarelli, S., Magni, R., Valeri, G., Marini, A. (2022). La valutazione delle abilità narrative nei Disturbi dello Spettro Autistico (ASD). CHIMERA. Romance Corpora and Linguistic Studies, 9, 243-264.

2021

• Adornetti I., Chiera A., Altavilla D.,  Deriu V., Marini A.,  Valeri G., Magni R., Ferretti F. (2021)  Self-projection in middle childhood: a study on the relationship between theory of mind and episodic future thinking. Cognitive Processing, 22, 321–332 doi: 10.1007/s10339-021-01013-w 

• Adornetti I., Ferretti F. (2021) The narrative self in schizophrenia and its cognitive underpinnings. In V. Cardella & A. Gangemi (eds.)  Psychopatology and philosophy of mind. What mental disorders can tell us about our minds.  Routledge, London. pp. 96-116

• Ansani, A., Marini, M., Mallia, L., & Poggi, I. (2021). Music and Time Perception in Audiovisuals: Arousing Soundtracks Lead to Time Overestimation No Matter Their Emotional Valence. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction - Special Issue: Music Interactions vol. II, 5(11), 68. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti5110068

• Ansani, A., Marini, M., Cecconi, C., Dragoni, D., Rinallo, E., Poggi, I., & Mallia, L. (2021). Analyzing the Perceived Utility of Covid-19 Countermeasures: The Role of Pronominalization, Moral Foundations, Moral Disengagement, Fake News Embracing, and Health Anxiety. Psychological Reports. https://doi.org/10.1177/00332941211027829

• Benitez-Burraco A., Ferretti F., Progovac L. (2021) Human self-domestication and the evolution of pragmatics. Cognitive Science, 45(6), e12987 , pp. 1-39. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12987 

• Canali S., Altavilla D., Acciai A., Deriu V., Chiera A., Adornetti I., Bassi A., Colonna Z., De Luca V., Vignola F., Ferretti F. (2021), The Narrative of Persons with Gambling Problems and Substance Use: A Multidimensional Analysis of the Language of Addiction , Journal of Gambling Issues, vol. 47, pp. 167-198.

• Carlo E.,  Adornetti I., Ferretti F. (2021), Il ruolo della costruzione di scenari nella spiegazione dei disturbi macrolinguistici della schizofrenia, Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia,  vol. 12 (1) pp. 88-105 , DOI: 10.4453/rifp.2021.0007

• Ferretti F., Adornetti I. (2021), Persuasive conversation as a new form of communication in Homo sapiens. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376 (1824) https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0196 

• Marini, M., Ansani, A., Paglieri, F., Caruana, F., & Viola, M. (2021). The impact of facemasks on emotion recognition, trust attribution, and re-identification. Scientific Reports (Nature Research) 11, 5577. doi:  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-84806-5

• Somma F., Di Fuccio R., Lattanzio L., Ferretti F (2021) Multisensorial tangible user interface for immersive storytelling: A usability pilot study with a visually impaired child, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Volume 2817, paper 8.

• Żywiczyński P., Sibierska M., Wacewicz S., van de Weijer J., Ferretti F., Adornetti I., Chiera A., Deriu V. (2021). Evolution of conventional communication. A cross-cultural study of pantomimic reenactments of transitive events. Language & Communication. 80, 191-203. 

2020

• Adornetti I., Chiera A., Deriu V., Altavilla D., Lucentini S., Marini A., Valeri G., Magni R., Vicari S., & Ferretti F. (2020) An investigation of visual narrative comprehension in children with autism spectrum disorders. Cognitive Processing, 21, 435–447  doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-020-00976-6 

• Adornetti I., Chiera A., Deriu V., Altavilla D., Valeri G., Marini A., Magni R., & Ferretti F. (2020) L’elaborazione delle storie nel Disturbo dello Spettro Autistico: il caso delle narrazioni visive. Sistemi Intelligenti, XXXII, n. 3, pp. 623-647. DOI: 10.1422/99079

• Altavilla D., Acciai A., Deriu V., Chiera A., Adornetti I., Ferretti F.,  Bassi A., Colonna Z., De Luca V., & Canali S. (2020). Linguistic analysis of self-narratives of patients with gambling disorder, in Addictive Disorders & Their Treatment, 19(4), 209-217  doi: 10.1097/ADT.0000000000000229 

• Ansani, A., Marini, M., D'Errico, F., & Poggi, I. (2020). How soundtracks shape what we see. Analyzing the influence of music on visual scenes through self-assessment, eye-tracking, and pupillometry. Frontiers in Psychology. Research topic “The Effects of Music on Cognition and Action”. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02242 

• Ansani A. (2020) Geert Brône and Bert Oben (Eds.): Eye‑tracking in interaction [Book review]. Corpus Pragmatics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41701-020-00082-0   

• Chiera A., Adornetti I., & Ferretti F.  (2020) Learning and Evolutionary Constraints on Linguistic Variability, Status Quaestionis, 19, pp. 11-47. doi: https://doi.org/10.13133/2239-1983/17130 

• Ferretti F., & Adornetti I.  (eds, 2020), The Speaking Brain. The Origin of Language from a Cognitive Standpoint, Paradigmi, XXXVIII (2), pp. 181-292. 

• Ferretti F., & Adornetti I. , 2020, Why We Need a Narrative Brain to Account for the Origin of Language, Paradigmi, XXXVIII (2), pp. 269-292. doi: 10.30460/97898 

• Marini M., Ansani A., & Paglieri F. (2020). Attraction comes from many sources: attentional and comparative processes in decoy effects. Judgment and Decision Making (JDM), 15(5). 

• Poggi I., Ranieri L., Leone Y., & Ansani A. (2020). The Power of Gaze in Music. Leonard Bernstein’s Conducting Eyes. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 4(2), 20. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti4020020 

• Poggi I., D’Errico F., & Ansani A. (2020). The conductor’s intensity gestures. Psychology of Music (online first)

• Somma F., Di Fuccio R., Lattanzio L., Ferretti F., & Gigliotta O. (2020), Usability and engagement of a digital and multisensorial tool for immersive storytelling: a pilot study. Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Psychology-Based Technologies, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol-2730, paper27.

2019

• Adornetti I., Chiera A., Nicchiarelli S., Vasileva O., (eds., 2019) How did language evolve? Biological, psychological, and linguistic perspectives, Theoria et Historia Scientiarum, vol. 16. 

• Adornetti I., Ferretti F., Chiera A., Wacewicz S., Żywiczyński P., Deriu V., Marini A., Magni R., Casula L., Vicari S.,  Valeri. G. (2019) Do children with Autism Spectrum Disorders understand pantomimic events?, Frontiers in Psychology., 10: 1382. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01382 

• Ansani, A., D’Errico, F., & Poggi, I. (2019). ‘You will be judged by the music I hear’: A study on the influence of music on moral judgement. Journal of Web Intelligence. Vol 17(1), 53-62 

• D’Errico, F. (2019). ‘Too humble and sad’: The effect of humility and emotional display when a politician talks about a moral issue. Social Science Information,Vol. 58(4), pp. 660-680.

• D’Errico, F., & Poggi, I. (2019) Tracking a Leader’s Humility and its emotions from body, face and voice. Journal of Web intelligence. Vol 17 (1), 63-74

• D'Errico F. , Paciello M., Fida R. , Tramontano C. (2019) Effect of Affective Priming on Prosocial Orientation through Mobile Application: Differences between Digital Immigrants and Natives. Acta Polytechnica Hungarica 16(2):109-128

• D’Errico F. Paciello M. (2019) Online Moral struggles in hosting immigrant’s discourses: the underlying role of expressed anger and moral processes. Journal of language aggression and conflict. 7 (2). Doi: 10.1075/jlac.00024.der 

• D’Errico, F. Martinez, M., D’Anna, C., Schmid, M., Mastrobattista, S., and Parlongo R., (2019). ‘Prosocial’ Virtual Reality as tool for Monitoring Engagement in Intergroup Helping Situations In (Eds) De Carolis et al. Socio-Affective Technologies (Sat19) Proceedings Ceur vol. 2474, pp. 17-21.

• Origlia, A., Savy, R., Cataldo, V., Schettino, L., Ansani, A., Sessa, I., Chiera, A., & Poggi, I. (2019, June). Human, All Too Human: Towards a Disfluent Virtual Tourist Guide. In Adjunct Publication of the 27th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (pp. 393-399).

• Paciello, D’Errico and Saleri (2019). Moral struggles in social media discussion: the case of sexist aggression. In In (Eds) De Carolis et al. Socio-Affective Technologies (Sat19) Proceedings Ceur vol. 2474, pp. 13-16.

• Paciello M., Cerniglia L., D’Errico F., Cersosimo M., Pedon A (2019) Looking at the immigrants’ faces. The study of audience’s emotions and attitude toward immigrants through a documentary film. Journal of developmental and educational psychology. pp. 285-294 issn: 0214- 9877

• Ferretti, F. (2019) Quali precursori per il linguaggio? La comunicazione umana tra adattamento, exaptation ed evoluzione culturale, Sistemi intelligenti,  31, 1, pp. 139-156, doi: 10.1422/92939

• Ferretti F., Adornetti I. (2019) Piaget' comeback. Reflections on language in a post-Chomskyan era, Paradigmi, XXXVII, 1, pp. 101-120, doi: 10.30460

• Marini A., Ferretti F., Chiera A., Magni R., Adornetti I., Nicchiarelli S., Vicari S., Valeri G. (2019), Episodic future thinking and narrative discourse generation in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Journal of Neurolinguistics, 49, pp. 178-188. doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2018.07.003

• Poggi I., D'Errico F., Vincze L. (2019). Uncertain Words, Uncertain Texts. Perception and Effects of Uncertainty in Biomedical Communication., Acta Polytechnica Hungarica 16(2):pp. 13-34

2018

• Adornetti I., Chiera A., Ferretti F. (2018). Embodied cognition e origine del linguaggio: il ruolo cruciale del gesto. Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience, 13. https://doi.org/10.13130/2240-9599/11107

• D’Errico, F., & Poggi, I. (2018) The lexicon of feeling offended. Proceedings of AISB (Artificial Intelligence & simulation of Behavior). Emotion Modeling and Detection in Social Media and Online Interaction. Liverpool 5th April 2018.

• D’Errico F. Paciello M, De Carolis, B., Vattani, A. Palestra, G. Anzivino. G. (2018) Cognitive Emotions in E-Learning Processes and Their Potential Relationship with Students’ Academic Adjustment, International Journal of Emotional Education, Volume 10, Number 1, April 2018 pp 89-111. 

• D'Errico F. , Paciello M., (2018) "Online moral disengagement and hostile emotions in discussions on hosting immigrants", Internet Research, Vol. 28 Issue: 5, pp.1313-1335, https://doi.org/10.1108/IntR-03-2017-0119

• D’Errico F. Paciello M. Amadei M. (2018) Prosocial words in social media discussions on hosting immigrants. Insights for psychological and computational field. Proceedings of AISB (Artificial Intelligence & simulation of Behavior). Emotion Modeling and Detection in Social Media and Online Interaction. Liverpool 5th April 2018.

• Leone G.,  Giner Sorella R., D’Errico F. , Sessa I. , Migliorisi S. (2018) It's Time To Be Ashamed! Reactions To The Breaking Of A Long-Lasting Self-Censorship On Ingroup War Crimes. Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology. 25 (4) 519-535

• Ferretti F., Adornetti I., Chiera A., Nicchiarelli S., Valeri G., Magni R., Vicari S., Marini A. (2018), Time and narrative: an investigation of storytelling abilities in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Frontiers in Psychology, 9: 944 doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00944

• Ferretti F., Adornetti I., Chiera A., Cosentino E., Nicchiarelli S. (2018) Introduction: Origin and Evolution of Language - an Interdisciplinary Perspective, Topoi, 37(2), pp. 219-234. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-018-9560-6

• Ferretti F., Chiera A., Nicchiarelli S., Adornetti I., Magni R., Vicari S., Valeri G., Marini A. (2018) The development of Episodic Future Thinking in middle childhood, Cognitive Processing. 19(1), pp. 87-94 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-017-0842-5

• Origlia, A., Savy, R., Poggi, I., Cutugno, F., Alfano, I., D'Errico, F., ... & Cataldo, V. (2018). An Audiovisual Corpus of Guided Tours in Cultural Sites: Data Collection Protocols in the CHROME Project. In Proceedings of the 2018 AVI-CH Workshop on Advanced Visual Interfaces for Cultural Heritage (Vol. 2091).

• Poggi I., Ansani A., Cecconi C. (2018). The meanings of the sigh. Vocal expression along the route of our desires. Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and philosophy of experience, 13. https://doi.org/10.13130/2240-9599/11106

• Poggi, I & Ansani, A. (2018). The lexicon of the Conductor’s gaze.  5th International Conference on Movement and Computing (Genoa, 28-30/6/2018)

• Poggi, I & Ansani, A. (2018).  “Alzò gli occhi al cielo”. Semantics of an item in the lexicon of gaze. Conference MidTerm AISC 2018 “Levels of cognition” (Genoa, 25-27/6/2018)

• Poggi I & D’Errico F. (2018) Feeling offended. Frontiers in psychology. Vol. 8, pp.2221; https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02221, 

• Zlatev J., Adornetti I., Chiera A., Devydler S., Ferretti F., Wacewicz S., Żywiczynski P. (2018) Pantolang: a synthethic cognive-semiotic approach to language origins, in Cuskley C., Flaherty M., McCrohon L., Little H., Ravignani A., Verhoef T. (a cura di) The Evolution of Language. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference, pp. 548-550

2017

• Ferretti, F., Adornetti, I., Chiera, A., Nicchiarelli, S., Magni, R., Valeri, G., & Marini, A. (2017). Mental Time Travel and language evolution: a narrative account of the origins of human communication. Language Sciences, 63, pp. 105-108

• Wacewicz, S., Zywiczynski, P., Chiera, A. (2017). An evolutionary approach to low-level conversational cooperation. Language Sciences, 63, pp. 91-104

• Ansani, A., D'Errico, F., Poggi, I. (2017). “It sounds wrong…” - Does music affect moral judgement? Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2017). Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 10409

• D’Errico F., Poggi I. (2017) “Humble” Politicians and Their Multimodal Communication. In: Gervasi O. et al. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2017. ICCSA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10406. Springer, pp. 705-717

• Poggi, I. & Ansani, A. (2017). Gestures of intensity in orchestra and choir conductionn. Proceedings of the 4th European and 7th Nothern Symposium on MultiModal Communication (MMSym 2016). Copenaghen. Issue 141 (pag. 111-119)

2016

• Adornetti I. (2016) On the phylogenesis of executive functions and their connection with language evolution, Frontiers in Psychology, 7: 1426

• Chiera, A. (2016). From Conversation to Language: An Evolutionary Sensory-Motor Account. In: J. Zlatev, P. Konderak & G. Sonnesson (Eds.) Meaning, Mind and Communication: Studies in Cognitive Semiotics. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main. 

• D'Errico, F., & Poggi, I. (2016, October). When the" truth" can (softly) hurt. Effects of political orientation on different forms of parody. In Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom), 2016 7th IEEE International Conference on (pp. 000219-000226). IEEE.

• D’Errico, F., & Poggi, I. (2016). “The Bitter laughter”. When parody is a moral and affective priming in political persuasion. Frontiers in psychology, 7.

• D’Errico, F., & Poggi, I. (2016). Social emotions. A challenge for sentiment analysis and User Models. In Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services (pp. 13-34). Springer International Publishing.

• Ferretti F. (2016) The social brain is not enough: on the importance of the ecological brain for the origin of language. Frontiers in Psychology,7 : 1138.

• Marini A., Ferretti F., Chiera A., Magni R., Adornetti I., Nicchiarelli S., Vicari S., Valeri G., (2016) Self-based and Mechanical-based Future thinking in children with autism spectrum disorder, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46(10), 3353-3360 

• Nicchiarelli, S. (2016) Protolanguage as Formulaic Communicaction, In: J. Zlatev, P. Konderak & G. Sonnesson (Eds.) Meaning, Mind and Communication: Studies in Cognitive Semiotics. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main.

• Poggi, I., & D'Errico, F. (2016). Body as a tool for political discredit. Multimodality in the parody of politicians. Reti, saperi, linguaggi, 3(1), 119-140.