Publications

2026

• Montefinese M, Di Pietro I, Viviani G, Ambrosini E. (2025). The Mind's Compass: Semantic control as the guiding mechanism of affordance management. Accepted in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

• Buchanan EM et al (including Montefinese M) (2025). Accuracy in Parameter Estimation and Simulation Approaches for Sample Size Planning with Multiple Stimuli. Accepted in Behavior Research Methods.

2025

• Heyman T et al (including Montefinese M) & Buchanan EM (2025). Crowdsourcing Multiverse Analyses to Explore the Impact of Different Data-Processing and Analysis Decisions: A Tutorial. Psychological Methods.  [link] 

• Buchanan EM et al (including Montefinese M) & Handjaras G. (2025). Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages. Nature Human Behaviour, 1-20. [link] 

• Höfler M, Kräplin A, Elsherif M, Schepke M, Montefinese M, Seetahul Y, ... & Wallrich L. (2025). Evaluate what is claimed to be confirmed: A falsification assessment form (FAF). Methodology, 21(3), 180-196. [link] 

• Viviani G, Di Pietro I, Buchanan EM, Porru A, Ambrosini E, & Montefinese M. (2025). Exploring semantic and executive flexibility interplay in task switching. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 31609. [link]

• Costa C, et al (including Montefinese M) & Scarpazza C. (2025). Enhancing the quality and reproducibility of research: Preferred Evaluation of Cognitive and Neuropsychological Studies-The PECANS statement for human studies. Behavior Research Methods, 57(7), 182. [link] 

• Montefinese M, Visalli A, Angrilli A, & Ambrosini E. (2025). Fine‐Grained Concreteness Effects on Word Processing and Representation Across Three Tasks: An ERP Study. Psychophysiology, 62(5), e70074. [link] 

• Reilly J, et al (including Montefinese M) & Vinson D. (2025). What we mean when we say semantic: Toward a multidisciplinary semantic glossary. Psychonomic bulletin & review, 32(1), 243-280. [link] 

2024

• Ambrosini E., Benavides-Varela S, Visalli A, Viviani G, & Montefinese M. (2024). Evaluating semantic control with transcranial magnetic stimulation: a systematic review with meta-analysis. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1435338. [link] 

• Röseler L, et al. (including Montefinese M) & Zhang Y. (2024). The replication database: documenting the replicability of psychological science. Journal of Open Psychology Data, 12(8), 1-23. [link] 

• Viviani G, Visalli A, Montefinese M, Vallesi A & Ambrosini E. (2024). Tango of control: The interplay between proactive and reactive control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 153(6), 1644–1670. [link] 

• Visalli A, Montefinese M, Viviani G, Finos L, Vallesi A & Ambrosini E (2024). lmeEEG: Mass linear mixed-effects modeling of EEG data with crossed random effects. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 401, 109991. [link] 

2023

• *Bechtold L, *Cosper SH, *Malyshevskaya A, *Montefinese M, *Morucci P, *Niccolai V, *Repetto C, *Zappa A, Shtyrov Y. (2023). Brain Signatures of Embodied Semantics and Language: A Consensus Paper. Journal of Cognition, 6(1). [link] 

• Montefinese M, Gregori L, Ravelli AA, Varvara R, & Radicioni DP (2023). CONcreTEXT norms: Concreteness ratings for Italian and English words in context. Plos one, 18(10), e0293031. [link] 

• Viviani G, Visalli A, Montefinese M, Vallesi A, & Ambrosini E. (2024). The Stroop legacy: A cautionary tale on methodological issues and a proposed spatial solution. Behavior Research Methods, 56(5), 4758-4785. [link] 

• Ambrosini E, Peressotti F, Gennari M, Benavides-Varela S, & Montefinese, M. (2023). Aging-related effects on the controlled retrieval of semantic information. Psychology and Aging, 38(3), 219–229.  [link] 

• Baker O, Montefinese M, Castro N & Stella M (2023). Multiplex lexical networks and artificial intelligence unravel cognitive patterns of picture naming in people with anomic aphasia. Cognitive Systems Research, 79, 43-54. [link] 

• Montemurro S, Montefinese M, Serena M, Pucci V, Mondini S & Semenza C (2023). The interactive support of cognitive reserve and semantic knowledge in proper name retrieval. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 38(1), 77-87. [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]

*Equal contribution