Publications

Sala, M., Vespignani, F., Gastaldon, S., Casalino, L., & Peressotti, F. (2025). In the Words of Others: ERP Evidence of Speaker‐Specific Phonological Prediction. Psychophysiology, 62(9), e70135. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.70135 

Gastaldon, S. & Calignano, G. (2025). Linguistic alignment with an artificial agent: A commentary and re-analysis. Cognition 259: 106099. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106099 

Gastaldon, S., Busan, P., Molinaro, N., Lizarazu, M.  (2024). Cortical tracking of speech is reduced in adults who stutter when listening for speaking.  Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 67(11), 4339–4357. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-24-00227 

Costa, C., Pezzetta, R., Masina, F., Lago, S., Gastaldon, S., Frangi, C. Genon, S., Arcara, G., Scarpazza, C. (2024). Comprehensive Investigation of Predictive Processing: A Cross- and Within-Cognitive Domains fMRI Meta-Analytic Approach. Human Brain Mapping 45(12), e26817. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26817 

Gastaldon, S.*, Bonfiglio, N.*, Vespignani, F., Peressotti, F. (2024). Predictive language processing: integrating comprehension and production, and what atypical populations can tell us. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1369177. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1369177 

Lago, S., Pezzetta, R., Gastaldon, S., Peressotti, F., Arcara, G. (2023) Trial-by-trial fluctuations of pre-stimulus alpha power predict post-stimulus amplitude of language ERPs. Psychophysiology, e14388. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14388 

Gastaldon, S., Busan, P., Arcara, G., Peressotti, F. (2023) Inefficient speech-motor control affects predictive speech comprehension: atypical electrophysiological correlates in stuttering. Cerebral Cortex 33(11): 6834–6851. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhad004 

Gastaldon, S., Arcara, G., Navarrete, E., Peressotti, F. (2020) Commonalities in alpha and beta neural desynchronizations during prediction in language comprehension and production. Cortex 133: 328-345. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.09.026 

Arcara, G., Franzon, F., Gastaldon, S., Brotto, S., Semenza, C., Peressotti, S., Zanini, C. (2019). One can be some but some cannot be one: ERP correlates of numerosity incongruence are different for singular and plural. Cortex 116:104-121. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.10.022 

Theofanopoulou, C.*, Gastaldon, S.*, O'Rourke, T., Samuels, B.D., Martins, P.T., Delogu, F., Alamri, S., Boeckx, C. (2017). Self-domestication in Homo sapiens: Insights from comparative genomics. PLoS One 12 (10): e0185306. (*co-first authors) DOI: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185306 

Gastaldon, S., Zanini, C., Arcara, G., Peressotti, F., Franzon, F. (2016) Referential numerosity and morphosyntactic number agreement: A psycholinguistic study on Italian Qualche/Alcuni. Research in Generative Grammar 38:105–113. http://hdl.handle.net/11707/5674 

Gastaldon, S., D'Imperio, D., Lago, S., Passarini, L., Garzon, M., Zorzi, M., Meneghello F., Bambini, V., Arcara, G. (in preparation). Challenging hemispheric assumptions in post-stroke pragmatics: comparable deficits across lesion side

Gastaldon, S., Gheller, F., Bonfiglio, N., Brotto, D., Bottari, D., Trevisi, P., Martini, A., Vespignani, F.*, Peressotti, F.* (in preparation). Chronic acoustic degradation via cochlear implants alters predictive processing in audiovisual speech

Piazza, G., Vespignani, F., Gastaldon, S., Peressotti, F. (in preparation). Dynamic Hierarchies of Multimodal Prediction: How the Brain Predicts Visual Speech During Naturalistic Communication

Gastaldon, S., Gheller, F., Piazza, G.*, Sala, M.*, Casalino, L.°, Battistutta, M.°, Vespignani, F., Peressotti, F. (in preparation). “Despite the noise, I can see what you mean”: How multi-talker babble noise intensity affects audiovisual speech prediction

Sala, M., Vespignani, F., Gastaldon, S., Casalino, L., Peressotti, F. (2025, v1). In the words of others: ERP evidence of speaker-specific phonological predictions. biorXiv. [DOI] - accepted for publication in 2025 in a revised version in Psychophysiology with the title "In the words of others: ERP evidence of speaker-specific phonological prediction"

Gastaldon, S. & Calignano, G. (2024 v2). Linguistic alignment with an artificial agent: A commentary and re-analysis in the spirit of collaborative Open Science. PsyArXiv. [DOI] - published in 2025 in a revised version in Cognition with the title "Linguistic alignment with an artificial agent: A commentary and re-analysis" [DOI]

Quartarone, C., Navarrete, E., Gastaldon, S., Budisavljević, S., Peressotti, F. (2024 v2) The role of the Frontal Aslant tract in bilingual language control. bioRxiv. [DOI]

Gastaldon, S., Busan, P., Molinaro, N., , Lizarazu, M.  (2024 v2). Cortical tracking of speech is reduced in adults who stutter when listening for speaking. bioRxiv. [DOI] - published in 2024 in a revised version in Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research [DOI]

Lago, S., Pezzetta, R., Gastaldon, S., Peressotti, F., Arcara, G. (2023) Trial-by-trial fluctuations of prestimulus alpha power predict post-stimulus amplitude of language ERPs. PsyArXiv. [DOI] - published in 2023 in a revised version in Psychophysiology [DOI]

Gastaldon, S., Busan, P., Arcara, G., Peressotti, F. (2021) When inefficient speech-motor control affects speech comprehension: atypical electrophysiological correlates of language prediction in stuttering. bioRxiv, 2021.10.28.466231. [DOI] - published in 2023 in a revised version in Cerebral Cortex with the title "Inefficient speech-motor control affects predictive speech comprehension: atypical electrophysiological correlates in stuttering" [DOI]

Gastaldon, S., Arcara, G., Navarrete, E., Peressotti, F. (2020). Commonalities in alpha and beta neural desynchronizations during prediction in language comprehension and production. bioRxiv, 2020.05.13.092528. [DOI] - published in 2020 in a revised version in Cortex [DOI]

Theofanopoulou, C.*, Gastaldon, S.*, O'Rourke, T., Bridget, S., Messner, A., Martins, P.T., Delogu, F., Alamri, S., Boeckx, C. (2017). Comparative genomic evidence for self-domestication in Homo sapiens. bioRxiv, pp: 125799. *co-first authors [DOI] - published in 2017 a revised version in PLoS One with the title "Self-domestication in Homo sapiens: Insights from comparative genomics" [DOI]

2025

Battistutta, M., Sala, M., Gastaldon, S., Liotti, M., Peressotti, F. (accepted). Testing the role of the beta band and the inferior frontal gyrus in linguistic prediction with HD-tACS. Poster at the XXX Congress of the Associazione Italiana di Psicologia - Sezione Sperimentale, September 11-13, Turin, Italy.

Gastaldon, S. (accepted). Symposium "The Body Whispering to the Ear: How Self and Others' Bodily Signals Affect Auditory and Speech Processing". Organizer, moderator and speaker at the round table. XV International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON) 2025, September 15-20, Porto, Portugal. 

Piazza, G., Vespignani, F., Gastaldon, S., Winchester, M.M., Peressotti, F. (accepted). The brain tracks mouth movements to predict speech, even when the mouth is not visible. Talk within the symposium "The Body Whispering to the Ear: How Self and Others' Bodily Signals Affect Auditory and Speech", XV International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON) 2025, September 15-20, Porto, Portugal.

Gastaldon, S., Gheller, F., Bonfiglio, N., Brotto, D., Bottari, D., Trevisi, P., Martini, A., Vespignani, F.*, Peressotti, F.* (2025). Different paths to prediction during audiovisual speech comprehension in deaf cochlear implant users? Oral presentation at the XVII International Symposium of Psycholinguistics (IPS) 2025, May 26-28, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

Sala, M., Vespignani, F., Gastaldon, S., Casalino, L., Peressotti, F. (2025). Adapting expectations to speaker variability: speaker identity shapes phonological prediction. Poster at the 19th Alpine Brain Imaging Meeting (ABIM), January 12-16, Champéry, Switzerland

2024

Gastaldon, S., Gheller, F., Piazza, G., Vespignani, F., Peressotti, F. (2024).  "Despite the noise, I can see what you mean": audiovisual speech in different noisy situations. Poster at the XXX Congress of the Associazione Italiana di Psicologia - Sezione Sperimentale, September 23-25, Noto, Italy.

Piazza, G., Gastaldon S., Vespignani, F., Carta, S., Di Liberto, G.M., Peressotti, F. (2024). Does the brain employ mouth movements to predict upcoming words? Poster at the XXX Congress of the Associazione Italiana di Psicologia - Sezione Sperimentale, September 23-25, Noto, Italy.

Sala, M., Vespignani, F., Gastaldon, S., Casalino, L., Peressotti, F. (accepted, 2024). Contextual modulation of phonological predictions: Exploring the role of Speaker Identity. Poster presentation at the Highlights in the Language Sciences (HLS) Conference 2024, July 8-11, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Sala, M., Vespignani, F., Gastaldon, S., Casalino, L., Peressotti, F. (2024). In the words of others: How speaker identity shapes phonological prediction . Oral presentation at the 21st Psycholinguistics in Flanders (PiF) conference, May 27-28, Brussels, Belgium.

2023

Gastaldon, S., Bonfiglio, N., Vespignani, F., Gheller, F., Bottari, D., Brotto, D., Trevisi, P., Martini, A., Peressotti, F. (2023). The role of degraded auditory input on predictive audiovisual language processing: the case of cochlear implant users. Poster at the Annual meeting of the Society for Neurobiology of Language (SNL), October 24-26, Marseille, France.

Gastaldon, S., Bonfiglio, N., Vespignani, F., Gheller, F., Brotto, D., Trevisi, P., Martini, A., Peressotti, F. (2023). Investigating predictive audiovisual language processing in cochlear implant users. Talk within the junior symposium "When senses matter (and when not): the impact of sensory deprivation on the development of different aspects of cognition", XXIX Congress of the Associazione Italiana di Psicologia - Sezione Sperimentale, September 18-20, Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca, Lucca, Italy.

Gastaldon, S., Bonfiglio, N., Vespignani, F., Gheller, F., Bottari, D., Brotto, D., Trevisi, P., Martini, A., Peressotti, F. (2023). Predictive audiovisual speech processing with and without mouth cues in cochlear implant users. Poster at 29th AMLaP (Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing) conference, August 31-September 2, Donostia-San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain.

Peressotti, F., Quartarone, C., Navarrete, E., Budisavljević, S., Gastaldon, S. (2023). What the microstructural properties of the Frontal Aslant tract of unimodal and bimodal bilinguals tell about language control. Talk at the XVI Symposium of Psycholinguistics. May 31-June 2, Vitória-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain.

2022

Gastaldon, S., Bonfiglio, N., Vespignani, F., Bottari, D., Brotto, D., Trevisi, P., Martini, A., Peressotti, F. (2022). Investigating semantic prediction and mouth cues during audiovisual speech processing in cochlear implant users. Minitalk at the 30th Conference of the Associazione Italiana di Psicologia, September 27-30, Padova, Italy.

Gastaldon, S., Quartarone, C., Budisavljević, S., Peressotti, F. (2022). Language production performance in unimodal and bimodal bilinguals and structural properties of the frontal aslant tract. Oral presentation at the 30th Conference of the Associazione Italiana di Psicologia, September 27-30, Padova, Italy.

Lago, S., Pezzetta, R., Gastaldon, S., Peressotti, F., Arcara, G. (2022) Trial-to-trial spontaneous fluctuations of prestimulus alpha power modulate the EEG response amplitude to linguistic violations. Poster at the XXX National Conference of the Italian Society of Psychophisiology and Cognitive Neuroscience, September 15-17, Udine, Italy.

Gastaldon, S., Bonfiglio, N., Vespignani, F., Bottari, D., Brotto, D., Trevisi, P., Martini, A., Peressotti, F. (2022). Semantic predictability and articulatory cues during audio-visual speech comprehension in deaf people with cochlear implant: an electroencephalographic study. Poster at the 22nd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP), August 29 - September 1, Lille, France.

Quartarone, C., Gastaldon, S., Navarrete, E., Budisavljević, S., Peressotti, F. (2022). Frontal aslant tract and language production in bimodal and unimodal bilinguals. Poster at the 22nd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP), August 29 - September 1, Lille, France.

Gastaldon, S., Busan, P., Arcara, G., Peressotti, F. (2022) Impaired speech-motor control in stuttering affects EEG correlates of predictive speech comprehension. Talk at the TEX2022 workshop 'Bringing together Predictive Processes and Statistical Learning', July 19-22, SISSA - Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Trieste, Italy.

Quartarone, C., Gastaldon, S., Navarrete, E., Budisavljević, S., & Peressotti, F. (2022). Language control in unimodal and bimodal bilinguals: White matter structural changes reveal both commonalities and specificities related to language modality. Workshop series “ How a more diverse and multi-modal perspective of translanguaging can inform existing linguistic frameworks and educational practices”, June 7, Research Culture Awards, University College of London, United Kingdom.

2021

Gastaldon, S. (2021). Indagare il contributo della produzione linguistica nella predizione in comprensione. Indizi elettrofisiologici in adulti tipici e con balbuzie [Investigating the role of language production in prediction during comprehension. Electrophysiological evidence in typical adults and adults who stutter]. Oral presentation for the doctoral thesis prize competition, 27th Conference of the Italian Association of Psychology (AIP - Sezione Sperimentale), 8-10 September, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy.

Quartarone, C., Budisavljević, S., Gastaldon, S., Navarrete, E., Peressotti, F. (2021). Frontal aslant tract and language production in bimodal and unimodal bilinguals. Talk at the Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), 2-4 September, Université de Paris, Paris, France.

Gastaldon, S., Bellelli, S., Vespignani, F., Zamparelli, R. (2021). Silent repetition as a window into inner speech processing in the brain. Short talk at the INSL - Current Approaches to Inner Speech and Inner Language workshop, July 1-2, Institute of Linguistics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. 

2020

Gastaldon, S., Lizarazu, M., Peressotti, F., Molinaro, N. (2020). Speech-brain entrainment is reduced in adults who stutter when listening for speaking. Poster at the IMPRS Conference 2020 on Interdisciplinary Approaches in the Language Sciences, June 3-5, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. [virtual conference due to the COVID-19 pandemic] [available on ResearchGate]

2019

Gastaldon, S., Arcara, G., Navarrete, E., Peressotti, F. (2019). Anticipatory mechanisms at beta frequency in language comprehension and production. Poster at the 21st Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP), September 25–28, Tenerife, Spain.

Gastaldon, S., Arcara, G., Navarrete, E., Natarelli, G., Busan, P., Peressotti, F. (2019). Predizione e produzione: Processi anticipatori nell’elaborazione del linguaggio in parlanti fluenti e con balbuzie. Mini talk at the XXV Congresso dell’Associazione Italiana di Psicologia – Sezione sperimentale, September 18-20, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.

Gastaldon, S., Arcara, G., Navarrete, E., Natarelli, G., Busan, P., Peressotti, F. (2019). Do I produce to predict? Brain oscillations in language anticipation in fluent speech and stuttering. Oral communication at the 6th European Student Conference on Behaviour and Cognition (ESCBC), September 4-7, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.

Gastaldon, S., Navarrete, E., Arcara, G., Peressotti, F. (2019). Patterns of alpha and beta oscillations in language prediction and production. Poster at the 7th Cognitive Science Arena, February 15–16, Bressanone-Brixen (BZ), Italy.

Gastaldon, S., Navarrete, E., Arcara, G., Peressotti, F. (2019). Oscillazioni neurali α e β in predizione e produzione linguistica: Caratteristiche comuni e distintive. Poster at the Giornate di Studi Scientifici sul Linguaggio, February 11–12, University of Trento, Rovereto (TN), Italy.

2018

Gastaldon, S., Navarrete, E., Peressotti, F. (2018). Producing, comprehending, and predicting: Project outline on spoken and signed language electrophysiology. Poster at the 6th Cognitive Science Arena, February 23–25, Bressanone-Brixen (BZ), Italy.

2017

Zanini, C., Franzon, F., Semenza, C., Peressotti, F., Gastaldon, S., Brotto, S., Arcara, G. (2017). Referential numerosity in quantification expressions. An ERP study on Italian. Poster at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, November 5–7, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Zanini, C., Franzon, F., Semenza, C., Peressotti, F., Brotto, S., Gastaldon, S., Arcara, G. (2017). The encoding of numerosity in quantification expressions. Insight from an ERP study. Poster at the 18th Science of Aphasia, September 11–14, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.

Arcara, G., Franzon, F., Gastaldon, S., Brotto, S., Semenza, C., Peressotti, F., Zanini, C. (2017). Encoding Numerosity into Number Morphology: An ERP Study. Poster at the 10th International Morphological Processing Conference (MoProc), June 22–24, SISSA (International School for Advanced Studies), Trieste, Italy.

Theofanopoulou, C., Messner, A., O'Rourke, T., Gastaldon, S., Martins, P.T., Alamri, S., Samuels, B., Boeckx, C. (2017). Paleogenomic evidence for self-domestication in Homo sapiens. Talk at the Conference of the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association (EHBEA), April 6–8, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.

2015

Gastaldon, S., Zanini, C., Arcara, G., Peressotti, F., Franzon, F. (2015). Referential Numerosity and Morphosyntactic Number Agreement: a Psycholinguistic Study on Italian qualche/alcuni. Poster at the 41st Generative Grammar Meeting (IGG41), February 26–28, Università per Stranieri di Perugia, Perugia, Italy.