Proverbio, Alice M, Crotti, Nicola, Zani, Alberto, Adorni, Roberta
Abstract Background The specific role of the two cerebral hemispheres in processing idiomatic language is highly debated. While some studies show the involvement of the left inferior frontal gyrus...
New insights into name category-related effects: is the Age of Acquisition a possible factor? (2009)
Adorni, Roberta, Proverbio, Alice
Abstract Background Electrophysiological, hemodynamic and neuropsychological studies have provided evidence of dissociation in the way words belonging to different semantic categories (e.g., animals,...
Proverbio, Alice M, Adorni, Roberta
Abstract Background It has been suggested that the variability among studies in the onset of lexical effects may be due to a series of methodological differences. In this study we investigated the...
Neural markers of a greater female responsiveness to social stimuli (2008)
Proverbio, Alice M, Zani, Alberto, Adorni, Roberta
Abstract Background There is fMRI evidence that women are neurally predisposed to process infant laughter and crying. Other findings show that women might be more empathic and sensitive than men to...
Dissociating object familiarity from linguistic properties in mirror word reading
Proverbio, Alice M, Wiedemann, Friederike, Adorni, Roberta, Rossi, Valentina, Del Zotto, Marzia, Zani, Alberto