Publications

2022

  • Montemurro S, Montefinese M, Serena M, Pucci V, Mondini S & Semenza C. (2022). The interactive support of cognitive reserve and semantic knowledge in proper name retrieval. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1-11. [link] [pdf]

2021

  • Montefinese M, Pinti P, Ambrosini E, Tachtsidis I & Vinson D. (2021). Inferior parietal lobule is sensitive to different semantic similarity relations for concrete and abstract words. Psychophysiology, 58(3), e13750. [link] [pdf]

  • Montefinese M, Ambrosini E & Angrilli A. (2021). Online search trends and word-related emotional response during COVID-19 lockdown in Italy: a cross-sectional online study. PeerJ, 9, e11858. [link] [pdf]

2020

  • Montefinese M, Hallam G, Stampacchia S, Thompson HE, Jefferies E. (2020). Deficits of semantic control disproportionately affect low-relevance conceptual features: Evidence from semantic aphasia. Aphasiology, 1-15. [link]

  • Montefinese M, Ambrosini E, Visalli A & Vinson D. (2020). Catching the intangible: a role for emotion? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, E138. [link]

  • Vivas L, Montefinese M, Bolognesi M & Vivas J (2020). Core features: measures and characterization for different languages. Cognitive Processing (in press). [link]

  • Montefinese M, Hallam G, Thompson H & Jefferies B (2020). The interplay between control processes and feature relevance: Evidence from dual task methodology. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73(3), 384-395. [link] [pdf]

2019

  • Buchanan E, De Deyne S, Montefinese M. (2019). A practical primer on processing semantic property norm data. Cognitive Processing, doi: 10.1007/s10339-019-00939-6. [link] [pdf] [video tutorial]

  • Montefinese M (2019). Semantic representation of abstract and concrete words: a mini-review of neural evidence. Journal of Neurophysiology, 121(5), 1585-1587. [link]

  • Montefinese M, Vinson D, Vigliocco G, Ambrosini E (2019). Italian age of acquisition norms for a large set of words (ItAoA). Frontiers in Psychology, 10:278. [link]

  • Montefinese M, Ambrosini E & Roivainen E (2019). No grammatical gender effect on affective ratings: evidence from Italian and German languages. Cognition & Emotion, 33(4), 848-854. [link]

2018

  • Montefinese M, Semenza C. (2018). Number line estimation and complex mental calculation: Is there a shared cognitive process driving the two tasks?. Cognitive Processing, 1-10. [link]

  • Montefinese M, Vinson D, Ambrosini E. (2018). Recognition memory and featural similarity between concepts: the pupil’s point of view. Biological Psychology, 135, 159-169. [link] [pdf]

2017

  • Montefinese M, Turco C, Piccione F & Semenza C (2017). Causal role of the posterior parietal cortex for two-digit mental subtraction and addition: A repetitive TMS study. NeuroImage, 155, 72-81. [link]

  • Fairfield B, Ambrosini E, Mammarella N, Montefinese M (2017). Affective norms for Italian words in older adults: age differences in ratings of valence, arousal and dominance. Plos ONE, 12(1), e0169472. [link]

2015

  • Montefinese M, Ciavarro M, Ambrosini E (2015). What is the right place for atypical exemplars? Commentary on: “The right hemisphere contribution to semantic categorization: A TMS study”. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1349. [link]

  • Montefinese M*, Vinson D* (2015). Can the humped animal’s knee conceal its name? Commentary on: “The roles of shared vs. distinctive conceptual features in lexical access”. Frontiers in Psychology 6, 418. [link]

  • Montefinese M, Zannino GD, Ambrosini E (2015). Semantic similarity between old and new items produces false alarms in recognition memory. Psychological Research, 79(5), 785-794. [link]

  • Montefinese M, Sulpizio V, Galati G, Committeri G (2015) Age-related effects on spatial memory across viewpoint changes relative to different reference frames. Psychological Research, 79(4), 687-697. [link]

2014

  • Montefinese M, Ambrosini E, Fairfield B, Mammarella N (2014). The adaptation of the affective norms for English Words (ANEW) for Italian. Behavior Research Methods, 46(3), 887-903. [link]

  • Montefinese M, Ambrosini E, Fairfield B, Mammarella N (2014). Semantic significance: a new measure of feature informativeness. Memory and Cognition, 42(3), 355-369. [link]

2013

  • Montefinese M, Ambrosini E, Fairfield B, Mammarella N (2013). The “subjective” pupil old/new effect: Is the truth plain to see?. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 89, 48-56. [link]

  • Ambrosini E*, Vastano R*, Montefinese M*, Ciavarro M* (2013). Functional specificity of the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine system in the attentional networks. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 7, 201. [link]

  • Montefinese M, Ambrosini E, Fairfield B, & Mammarella N (2013). Erratum to: Semantic memory: A feature-based analysis and new norms for Italian. Behavior Research Methods, 45(2), 462-462. [link]

  • Montefinese M, Ambrosini E, Fairfield B, Mammarella N (2013). Semantic Memory: a Feature-Based Analysis and New Norms for Italian. Behavior Research Methods, 45(2), 440-461. [link]

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