Gatti, D., Petilli, M.A., Marchetti, M., Vecchi, T., Mazzoni, G., Rinaldi, L., & Marelli, M. (2025). False memories from nowhere: Humans falsely recognize words that are not attested in their vocabulary. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02677-7
de Varda, A., Petilli, M.A., & Marelli, M. (2025). SemanticScape: A distributional model of concepts grounded in distance patterns between objects. Journal of Memory and Language, 142, 104624. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2025.104624
Petilli, M.A. & Günther, F. (2024). Vision Spaces (ViSpa) in language sciences. In Reference Module in Social Sciences, Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.00221-0
Petilli, M.A., Marelli, M., Mazzoni, G., Marchetti, M., Rinaldi, L., & Gatti, D. (2024). From vector spaces to DRM lists: False Memory Generator, a software for automated generation of lists of stimuli inducing false memories. Behavior Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-024-02425-0
Petilli, M.A., Rodio, F., Günther, F., & Marelli, M. (2024). Visual search and real-image similarity: An empirical assessment of the search surface through the lens of deep learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-024-02583-4
Petilli, M.A. & Marelli, M. (2024). Visual intuitions in the absence of visual experience: The role of direct experience in concreteness and imageability judgements. Journal of Cognition, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.328
Günther, F., Marelli, M., & Petilli, M.A. (2024). Improved classification accuracy in deep vision models does not come with better predictions of perceptual similarity. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 46). PDF
Rodio, F., Petilli, M.A., Gatti, D., Rinaldi, L., & Marelli, M. (2024). Predicting false memories with convolutional neural networks: the effect of visual similarity in a DRM paradigm with pictorial stimuli. Sistemi intelligenti, 36(1), 73–96. https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1422/112960
Fontana, S., Massironi, A., Petilli, M.A., Lega, C., & Bricolo, E. (2024). A protocol to evaluate the impact of visual distractors on driving attention using a virtual reality simulator. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 3903, 8–16. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3903/AIxHMI2024_paper2.pdf
Giraud, M., Zapparoli, L., Basso, G., Petilli, M.A., Paulesu, E., & Nava, E. (2024). Mapping the emotional homunculus with fMRI. iScience, 27(6). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.109985
Gregorini, C., De Carli, P., Parolin, L.A.L., Petilli, M.A., Konvalinka, I., & Preti, E. (2024). Stable asynchrony? Association between borderline personality traits and interpersonal asynchrony. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment. https://doi.org/10.1037/per0000684
Günther, F., Marelli, M., Tureski, S., & Petilli, M.A. (2023). ViSpa (Vision Spaces): A computer-vision-based representation system for individual images and concept prototypes, with large-scale evaluation. Psychological Review, 130(4), 896. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000392
Pancani, L., Petilli, M.A., Riva, P., & Rusconi, P. (2023). I can’t live without you: delay discounting in smartphone usage. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 35(4), 441–455. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2023.2195031
Petilli, M.A., Günther, F., & Marelli, M. (2022). The Flickr frequency norms: What 17 years of images tagged online tell us about lexical processing. Behavior Research Methods, 56(1), 126–147. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-02031-y
Günther, F., Petilli, M.A., Vergallito, A., & Marelli, M. (2022). Images of the unseen: Extrapolating visual representations for abstract and concrete words in a data-driven computational model. Psychological Research, 86(8), 2512–2532. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-020-01429-7
Petilli, M.A.*, Daini, R., Saibene, F.L., & Rabuffetti, M. (2021). Automated scoring for a Tablet-based Rey Figure copy task differentiates constructional, organisational, and motor abilities. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 14895. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-94247-9
Petilli, M.A.*, Günther, F., Vergallito, A., Ciapparelli, M., & Marelli, M. (2021). Data-driven computational models reveal perceptual simulation in word processing. Journal of Memory and Language, 117, 104194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2020.104194
Petilli, M.A., Marini, F., & Daini, R. (2020). Distractor context manipulation in visual search: How expectations modulate proactive control. Cognition, 196, 104129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104129
Petilli, M.A., Rinaldi, L., Trisolini, D.C., Girelli, L., Vecchio, L.P., & Daini, R. (2020). How difficult is it for adolescents to maintain attention? The differential effects of video games and sports. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73(6), 968–982. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820908499
Günther, F., Petilli, M.A., & Marelli, M. (2020). Semantic transparency is not invisibility: A computational model of perceptually-grounded conceptual combination in word processing. Journal of Memory and Language, 112, 104104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2020.104104
Vergallito, A., Petilli, M.A., & Marelli, M. (2019). Perceptual modality norms for 1,121 Italian words: A comparison with concreteness and imageability scores and an analysis of their impact in word processing tasks. Behavior Research Methods, 52(4), 1599–1616. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-019-01337-8
Vergallito, A.¹, Petilli, M.A.¹, Cattaneo, L., & Marelli, M. (2019). Somatic and visceral effects of word valence, arousal and concreteness in a continuum lexical space. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 20254. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-56382-2
Petilli, M.A., Trisolini, D.C., & Daini, R. (2018). Sustained-paced finger tapping: A novel approach to measure internal sustained attention. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 292606. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00881
Trisolini, D.C., Petilli, M.A., & Daini, R. (2018). Is action video gaming related to sustained attention of adolescents? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71(5), 1033–1039. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2017.1310912
Feldmann-Wüstefeld, T.*, Miyakoshi, M., Petilli, M.A., Schubö, A., & Makeig, S. (2017). Reduced visual attention in heterogeneous textures is reflected in occipital alpha and theta band activity. PLOS One, 12(12), e0187763. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187763