Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

87. Spinelli, G., & Sulpizio, S. (accepted). Is adaptation involved in bilingual language production? A fresh look at the assumptions motivating potential bilingual-monolingual differences in adaptive control. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

86. Scaltritti, M., Spinelli, G., & Sulpizio, S. (2024).  Semantic Stroop Interference Is Modulated by the Availability of Executive Resources: Insights from Delta-Plot Analyses and Cognitive Load Manipulation. Memory & Cognition.

85. Sulpizio, S., Günther, F., Badan, L., Basclain, B., Brysbaert, M., Chan, Y. L.,..., & Marelli, M. (accepted). Taboo language across the globe: A multi-lab study. Behavior Research Methods. [pdf]

84. Sulpizio, S., Scaltritti, M., & Spinelli, G. (accepted). Fast habituation to semantic interference generated by taboo connotation in reading aloud. Cognition & Emotion.

83. Cepollaro, B., Sulpizio, S., Bianchi, C., & Stojanovic, I. (in press). Slurs in quarantine. Mind & Language.

82. Meykadeh, S., Khadem, A., Sulpizio, S., & Somer, W. (2023). Functional Connectivity during Morphosyntactic Processing: An fMRI Study in Balanced Turkish-Persian Bilinguals. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 68, 101162.

81. Bonandrini, R., Amenta, S., Sulpizio, S., Tettamanti, M., Mazzucchelli, A., Marelli, M. (2023). Form to meaning mapping and the impact of explicit morpheme combination in novel word processing. Cognitive Psychology, 145, 101594.

80. Scaltritti, M., Greatti, E., & Sulpizio, S. (2023). Discontinuities in the Propagation of Lexical Decision Processes Across the Motor Hierarchy Revealed by Electrophysiological Indexes of Motor Response Implementation. Neuropsychologia, 188, 108630. [pdf]

79. Scaltritti, M., Giacomoni, F., Job, R., & Sulpizio, S. (2023). Redefining the decisional components of motor responses: Evidence from lexical and object decision tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 49, 835-851.

78. Sulpizio, S., Arcara, G., Lago, S., Marelli, M., & Amenta, S. (2022). Very early and late form-to-meaning computations during visual word recognition as revealed by electrophysiology. Cortex, 157, 167-193.

77. Fedeli, D., Del Maschio, N., Del Mauro, G., Defendenti, F., Sulpizio, S., & Abutalebi, J. (2022). ACC morphology modulates Inhibitory Control: Evidence from neurofunctional activity and behavioral performance. Scientific Reports, 12, 13684.

76. Del Maschio, N., Del Mauro, G., Bellini, C., Abutalebi, J., & Sulpizio, S. (accepted). Foreign to whom? Constraining the moral foreign language effect with bilinguals’ language experience. Language & Cognition, 14, 511-533.

75. Di Dona, G., Scaltritti, M., & Sulpizio, S. (2022). Formant-invariant voice and pitch representations are pre-attentively formed form constantly varying speech and non-speech stimuli. European Journal of Neuroscience, 56, 4086-4106.

74. Di Dona, G., Mantione, F., Alber, B., Sulpizio, S., & Vespignani, F. (2022). Allophonic familiarity differentiates word representations in the brain of native speakers of regional linguistic varieties. Brain & Language, 227, 105085.

73. Scaltritti, M., Job, R., & Sulpizio, S. (2022). Different types of semantic interference, same lapses of attention: Evidence from Stroop tasks. Memory & Cognition, 50, 898-910.

72. Del Maschio, N., Crespi, F., Peressotti, F., Abutalebi, J., & Sulpizio, S. (2022). Decision-making depends on language: A meta-analysis of the Foreign Language Effect. Bilingualism: Language & Cognition, 25, 617-630.

71. Ferro, M., Lamanna, J., Spadini, S., Nespoli, A., Sulpizio, S., & Malgaroli, A. (2022). Does TMS induce synaptic plasticity in the human brain? A critical insight from its application to animal models. Journal of Neural Transmission, 129, 25-36.

70. Del Mauro, G., Del Maschio, N., Sulpizio, S., Fedeli, D., Perani, D., & Abutalebi, J. (2022). Investigating sexual dimorphism in human brain structure using source, voxel, and surface-based morphometry. Brain Structure & Function, 227, 11-21.

69. Painter, D., Fasoli, F., & Sulpizio S. (2024). The impact of Stimuli Length and Analytic Method on Auditory 'Gaydar' Research. Journal of Voice, 38,  246.e1-246.e14,

68. Sulpizio, S., Job, R., Leoni, P.,  & Scaltritti, M. (2022). Prepotent task-irrelevant semantic information is dampened by domain-specific control mechanisms during visual word recognition. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 75, 390-405.

67. Di Dona, G., Scaltritti, M., & Sulpizio, S. (2021). Early differentation of memory retrieval processes for newly learned voices and phonemes as indexed by the MMN. Brain & Language, 220, 104981.

66. Fedeli, D., Del Maschio, N., Sulpizio, S., Rothman, J., & Abutalebi, J. (2021). The bilingual structural connectome: Dual-language experiential factors modulate distinct cerebral networks. Brain & Language, 220, 104978.

65. Calignano, G., Valenza, E., Vespignani, F., Russo, S., & Sulpizio, S. (2021). The unique role of spoken words in the disengagement of visual attention. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74, 1755-1772.

64. Colombo, L., & Sulpizio, S. (2021). The role of orthographic cues to stress in Italian visual word recognition. Quarterly  Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74, 1631-1641.

63. Scaltritti, M., Job, R., & Sulpizio, S. (2021). Selective suppression of taboo information in visual word recognition: Evidence for cognitive control on semantics. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 47, 934-945. [pdf]

62. Sulpizio, S., Pennucci, E., & Job, R. (2021). The impact of emotional content on pseudoword recognition. Psychological Research, 85, 2980-2996.

61. Sulpizio, S.,* Grecucci, A.*, & Job, R. (2021). Tune into the right frequency: Theta changes when distancing from emotions elicited by unpleasant images and words. European Journal of Neuroscience, 53, 916-928.  (Equal contribution)

60. Del Maschio, N., Sulpizio, S., & Abutalebi, J. (2020). Thinking outside the box: The brain-bilingualism relationship in the light of early neurobiological variability. Brain & Language, 211, 104879

59. Scaltritti, M., Job, R., Alario, F. X., & Sulpizio, S. (2020). On the boundary between decision and action: Effector-selective lateralization of beta-frequency power is modulated by the lexical frequency of printed words. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32, 2131-2144 [pdf]

58. Fedeli, D., Del Maschio, N., Caprioglio, C., Sulpizio, S., & Abutalebi, J. (2020). Sulcal pattern variability predicts dACC functional connectivity across adult age. Brain Connectivity, 10, 267-278.

57. Daniele, M., Fasoli, F., Antonio, R., Sulpizio, S., & Maass, A. (2020). Gay voice: Stable marker of sexual orientation or flexible communication device? Archives of Sexual Behavior, 49, 2585-2600.

56. Sulpizio, S., Del Maschio, N., Fedeli, D., & Abutalebi, J. (2020). Bilingual language processing: A meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Review, 108, 834-853.

55. Sulpizio, S., Del Maschio, N., Del Mauro, G., Fedeli, D., & Abutalebi, J. (2020). Bilingualism as a gradient measure modulates functional connectivity of language and control networks. NeuroImage, 205, 116306. [pdf]

54. Fasoli, F., Maass, A., Karniol, R., Antonio, R., & Sulpizio, S. (2020). Voice changes meaning: The role of gay- vs. straight-sounding voices in sentence interpretation. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 39, 653-677.

53. Del Maschio, N., Sulpizio, S., Toti, M., Caprioglio, C., Del Mauro, G., Fedeli, D., & Abutalebi, J. (2020). Second language exposure rather than second language knowledge relates to changes in white matter microstucture. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 4, 165-175.

52. Del Maschio, N., Fedeli, D., Sulpizio, S., & Abutalebi, J. (2019). The relationship between bilingual experience and gyrification in adulthood: A cross-sectional surface-based morphometry study. Brain & Language, 198, 104680.  [pdf]

51. Scaltritti, M., Miniukovich, A., Venuti, P., Job, R., De Angeli, A., & Sulpizio, S. (2019). Investigating effects of typographic variables on webpage reading through eye movements. Scientific Reports, 9: 12711. [pdf]

50. Sulpizio, S. Vassallo, E., Job R., & Abutalebi, J. (2020). ITABU': Dati preliminari di un database delle parole tabù per l'italiano. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 2, 599-614[pdf]

49. Sulpizio, S., & Navarrete, E. (2020). Outgroup faces hamper word recognition. Psychological Research, 84, 2300-2310.

48. Grecucci, A.*, Sulpizio, S.*, Tommasello, E., Vespignani, F., & Job, R. (2019). Seeing emotions, reading emotions: behavioral and ERPs evidence of the regulation of visual and linguistic stimuli. Plos One, 14: e0209461. (Equal contribution) [pdf]

47. Doi, H., Sulpizio, S., Esposito, G., Katou, M., Nishima, E., Kikuno, Y., Honda, M., Oohashi, T., Bornstein, M. H., & Shinohara, K. (2019). Ultrasonic communication in human mother-infant interaction. The Journal of Physiological Sciences, 69, 1085-1096.

46. Sulpizio, S., Toti, M.,  Del Maschio, N., Costa, A., Fedeli, D., Job, R., & Abutalebi, J. (2019). Are you really cursing? Neural processing of taboo words in native and foreign language. Brain & Language, 194,  84-92. [pdf]

45.  Colombo, L., Sulpizio, S., & Peressotti, F. (2019). The developmental trend of transposed letters effects in masked priming. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 186,  117-130.

44. Treccani, B, Mulatti, C., Sulpizio, S., & Job, R. (2019). Does perceptual simulation explain spatial effects in word categoriazion? Frontiers in Psychology,  10, 1102. [pdf]

43. Cepollaro, B., Sulpizio, S., & Bianchi, C. (2019). How bad is it to report a slur? An empirical investigation. Journal of Pragmatics, 146, 32-42.

42. Sulpizio, S., & Avanzi, L. (2019). Crisi di riproducibilità o crisi di fiducia? Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 1-2,  379-392. [pdf]

41. Sulpizio, S., Fasoli, F., Antonio, R., Eyssel, F., Paladino, M. P., & Diehl, C. (in press). Auditory gaydar: Perception of sexual orientation based on female voice. Language and Speech. [pdf]

40. Lamanna, J., Sulpizio, S., Ferro, M., Martoni, R., Abutalebi, J., & Malgaroli, A. (2019). Behavioral assessment of Activity-Based-Anorexia: how cognition can become the drive wheel. Physiology & Behavior, 202, 1-7.

39. Del Maschio, N., Sulpizio, S., Fedeli, D., Ramanujan, K., Ding, G., Weekes, B. S., Cachia, A., & Abutalebi, J. (2019). ACC sulcal patterns and their modulation on cognitive control efficiency across lifespan: A neuroanatomical study on bilinguals and monolinguals. Cerebral Cortex, 7, 3091-3101.  [pdf]

38. Sulpizio, S., & Abutalebi, J. (2019). If experience is not enough: Understanding multilingualism through early neurobiological variability. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 49, 245-247. [pdf]

37. Sulpizio, S., & Job, R. (2018). Early and multiple-loci divergency of proper and common names: An event-related potential investigation. Neuropsychologia, 119, 107-117. [pdf]

36. Del Maschio, N., Sulpizio, S., Gallo, F., Fedeli, D., Weekes, B. S., & Abutalebi, J. (2018). Neuroplasticity across the lifespan and aging effect in bilinguals and monolinguals. Brain & Cognition, 125, 118-126. [pdf]

35. Fasoli, F., Maass, A., & Sulpizio, S. (2017). Stereotypical disease inferences from gay/lesbian vs. heterosexual voice. Journal of Homosexuality, 65, 990-1014. [pdf]

34. Petrova, A., Navarrete, E., Suitner, C., Sulpizio, S., Reynolds, M., Job, R., & Peressotti, F. (2018). Spatial congruency effects exist, just not for words: Looking into Estes, Verges, and Barsalou (2008). Psychological Science, 29, 1195-1199

33. Sulpizio, S., Doi, H., Bornstein, M. H., Cui, J., Esposito, G., & Shinohara, K. (2018). fNIRS reveals enhanced brain activation to female (versus male) infant directed speech (relative to adult directed speech) in young human infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 52, 89-96. [pdf]

32. Mascheretti, S., Andreola, C., Scaini, S., & Sulpizio, S. (2018). Beyond genes: A systematic review of environmental risk factors in specific reading disorder. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 82, 147-152. [pdf]

31. Sulpizio, S., Kuroda, K., Dalsasso, M., Asakawa, T., Bornstein, M. H., Doi, H., Esposito, G., & Shinohara, K. (2018). Discriminating between Mothers’ Infant- and Adult-Directed Speech: Cross-Linguistic Generalizability from Japanese to Italian and German. Neuroscience Research, 133, 21-27. [pdf]

30. Sulpizio, S., & Job, R. (2017). Effetti dell'informazione metrica e segmentale nella produzione di parole. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 4, 957-972.  [pdf]

29. Sulpizio, S., Spinelli, G., & Burani, C. (2017). STRESYL: An Italian Stress-in-Syllables database for research in reading. Journal of Written Language & Literacy, 20, 80-103. [pdf]

28. Sulpizio, S. (2017). Mindfulness: <<Occidentali's karma>>? Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 2, 339-344.

27. Sulpizio, S., & Colombo, L. (2017). Early markers of lexical stress in visual word recognition. Memory & Cognition,  [pdf]

26. Liu, F., Sulpizio, S., Kornpetpanne, S., & Job, R. (2017). It takes biking to learn: Physical activity improves learning a second language. Plos ONE, 12(5): e0177624. [pdf]

25. Colombo, L., Sulpizio, S., & Peressotti, F. (2017). Serial mechanism in transposed-letter effects: A developmental study. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 161, 46-62. [pdf]

24. Fasoli, F., Maass, A., Paladino, M. P., Sulpizio, S. (2017). Gay- and lesbian sounding auditory cues elicit stereotyping and discrimination. Archives of Sexual Behavior,  46, 1261-1277. [pdf]

23. Spinelli, G.*, Sulpizio, S.*, & Burani, C. (2016). Q2Stress: A database for multiple cues to stress assignment in Italian. Behavior Research Methods. [*Equal contribution] [pdf] [download database].

22. Calcagnì, A., Lombardi, L., & Sulpizio, S. (2017). Analysing spatial data from mouse tracker methodology: An entropic approach. Behavior Research Methods.  [download EMOT]

21. Amenta, S., Marelli, M., & Sulpizio, S. (2017). From sound to meaning: Phonology-to-Semantics mapping in visual word recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24, 887-893. [pdf]

17. Fasoli, F., Paladino, M. P., & Sulpizio, S. (2016). Conosco persone omosessuali: Una ricerca esplorativa degli effetti del contatto sull'omofobia e sostegno ai diritti LGBT in Italia. Psicologia Sociale, 11, 263-286. [pdf]

20. Sulpizio, S., Spinelli, G., & Burani, C. (2016). Stress still affects articulatory planning in reading aloud: A Reply to White and Besner (2016). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 42, 2129-31. [pdf]

19. Sulpizio, S., Vespignani, F., & Job, R. (2016). On the time course of lexical stress priming in speech production: Behavioral and ERPs evidence from a free-stress language. Brain Research, 1648, 202-213. [pdf]

18. Fasoli, F., Mazzurega, M., & Sulpizio, S. (2016). When characters impact on dubbing: the role of sexual stereotypes on voice actor/actress' preferences. Media Psychology. [pdf]

16. Sulpizio, S., & Kinoshita, S. (2016). Editorial: Bridging reading aloud and speech production. Frontiers in Psychology, 7: 661. [pdf]

15. Spinelli, G., Sulpizio, S., Primativo, S., & Burani, C. (2016). Stress in context: morpho-syntactic properties affect lexical stress assignment in reading aloud. Frontiers in Psychology, 7: 942. [pdf]

14. Sulpizio, S., & Job, R. (2015). The segment-to-frame association in word reading: Early effects of the interaction between segmental and suprasegmental information. Frontiers in Psychology, 6: 1612. [pdf]

13. Sulpizio, S.*, Fasoli, F.*, Maass, A., Paladino, M. P., Vespignani, F., Eyssel, F., Bentler, D. (2015). The sound of voice: Voice-based categorization of speakers' sexual orientation within and across languages. PLoS ONE, 10(7): e0128882. [*Equal contribution] [pdf]

12. Colombo, L., & Sulpizio, S. (2015). When orthography is not enough: The effect of lexical stress in lexical decision. Memory & Cognition, 43, 811-824 [pdf]

11. Sulpizio, S., Spinelli, G., & Burani, C. (2015). Stress affects articulatory planning in reading aloud. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 41, 453-461. [pdf]

10. Sulpizio, S., & Burani, C. (2015). Reading segments is not reading words: Comment on Kawamoto et al. (2014). Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68, 619-621. [pdf]

9. Sulpizio, S., Burani, C., & Colombo, L. (2015). The process of stress assignment in reading aloud: Critical issues from studies on Italian. Scientific Studies of Reading, 19, 5-20. [pdf]

8. Sadakata, M., Shingai, M., Brandmeyer, A., Sulpizio, S., Sekiyama, K. (2014). Language specific listening to Japanese geminates consonants: Cross-linguistic study. Frontiers in Psychology, 5: 1422. [pdf]

7. Burani, C., Paizi, D., & Sulpizio, S. (2014). Stress assignment in reading Italian: Friendship outweighs dominance. Memory & Cognition, 42, 662-675. [pdf]

6. Sulpizio, S. (2013). Accento e sillabe nei modelli computazionali della lettura: è così semplice leggere unità polisillabiche? Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 2, 289-312. [pdf]

5. Sulpizio, S. & Colombo, L. (2013). Lexical stress, frequency and stress neighborhood effects in the early stages of Italian reading development. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66, 2073-2084. [pdf]

4. Sulpizio, S., Arduino, L. S., Paizi, D., & Burani, C. (2013). Stress assignment in reading Italian polysyllabic pseudowords. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 39, 51-68. [pdf]

3. Sulpizio, S., Job, R., & Burani, C. (2012). Priming lexical stress in reading Italian aloud. Language and Cognitive Processes, 27, 808-820. [pdf]

2. Sulpizio, S., & McQueen, J. M. (2012). Italians use abstract knowledge about lexical stress during spoken-word recognition. Journal of Memory and Language, 66, 177-193. [pdf]

1. Sulpizio, S., & Job, R. (2010). L'intervento delle sillabe nei processi di produzione e riconoscimento visivo delle parole. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 3, 707-718. [pdf]

Book Chapters

7. Sulpizio, S., & Amenta, S. (2022). Linguaggio. In S. K. Ciccarelli, J. N. White, P. Ricciardelli, C. Iani (Eds). Psicologia Generale, Milano: Pearson (pp. 421-464).

6. Amenta, S., & Sulpizio, S. (2022). Comunicazione. In S. K. Ciccarelli, J. N. White, P. Ricciardelli, C. Iani (Eds). Psicologia Generale, Milano: Pearson (pp. 465-492).

5. Arduino, L. S., Sulpizio, S., & Veronelli, L. (in press). La riabilitazione dei disturbi di lettura e scrittura. In Vallar, G., & Papagno, C. (Eds). La riabilitazione neuropsicologica. Bologna: Il Mulino.

4. Sulpizio, S., & Fasoli, F. (2019). Visual word recognition is sensitive to social information extracted from vocal cues. In S. Sulpizio, L. Barca, S. Primativo, L.S. Arduino (Eds.), Word recognition, morphology and lexical reading. Festschrift in Honour of Cristina Burani. College Publications (pp. 45-52).

3. Fasoli, F., Maass, A., & Sulpizio, S. (2016). Communicating the "invisible": Disclosing and inferring sexual orientation though visual and vocal cues. In H. Giles & A., Maass (Eds.) Advances in intergroup communication. NY: Peter Lang Publications.

2. Canavesio, L., Sulpizio, S., & Job, R. (2016). Arithmetic facts and language acquisition effect in primary school children. In K. Papaja & A. Sviatek (Eds.). Modernizing Educational Practice. Perspectives in Content and Language Integrated Learning (pp. 17-36). UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 

1. Job, R., Coppini, A., & Sulpizio, S. (2015). Le non parole possono attivare emozioni? Uno studio empirico. In P. Legrenzi, L. Lotto, & L. Savadori (Eds.), Conoscenza, decisione, negoziazione - Studi in onore di Rino Rumiati (pp.135-140). Bologna: Il Mulino.