Giacomo Spinelli
Biographic Data
| ID | 3076665 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giacomo Spinelli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giacomo |
| FAMILY NAME | Spinelli |
| SIGNATURE | SPINELLI G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Milano-Bicocca |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3913-8109 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Adaptive control in Stroop, Stroop-like, and Simon task types
Adaptive control-the ability to modulate attention based on contextual demands-is typically assumed to be a domain-general cognitive function. The function's actual domain-generality, however, remains unclear, as confound-controlled evidence for adaptive control is presently limited to the interference tasks used to examine it (typically, Stroop tasks) and the stimuli used in those tasks (typically, words and colors). We addressed these limitatio…
Multiple sources of conflict in the flanker task: Flanker interference can be decomposed into cumulative components
Reverse cueing effects in L2 production: Another dissociation from conflict tasks
Does L2 production involve adaptive control? Previous research drawing on a parallel between Stroop effects in L1 and cognate effects in L2 produced no support for this idea when inducing adaptive control implicitly (i.e., involuntarily). Reasoning that adaptive control might be hard to implement implicitly in L2 production, here, we induced adaptive control explicitly by presenting informative cues revealing whether the upcoming stimulus would b…
No evidence that selection is resource-demanding in conflict and bilingual language production tasks: Implications for theories of adaptive control and language-control associations
Theories of adaptive (and cognitive) control assume that selecting target information in the context of highly salient distractors depends on limited-capacity resources. Building on this assumption, theories of language-control associations propose that the opportunities afforded by bilingualism to engage such effortful selection, such as when speaking in a nondominant language, might improve domain-general adaptive control. The assumption that d…
Fast habituation to semantic interference generated by taboo connotation in reading aloud
The recognition of taboo words - i.e. socially inappropriate words - has been repeatedly associated to semantic interference phenomena, with detrimental effects on the performance in the ongoing task. In the present study, we investigated taboo interference in the context of reading aloud, a task configuration which prompts the overt violation of conventional sociolinguistic norms by requiring the explicit utterance of taboo items. We assessed wh…
Is adaptation involved in bilingual language production? A fresh look at the assumptions motivating potential bilingual-monolingual differences in adaptive control
One of the hottest debates in psychology—whether bilingual-monolingual differences exist in cognitive control—is at a stalemate. Here we propose that the stalemate could be broken by shifting the research focus from whether those differences emerge to why they should. We offer an example of this approach by testing the assumption of current theories of language-control associations that adaptive control is involved in bilingualism, specifically l…
Cues to lexical stress assignment in reading Italian: A megastudy with polysyllabic nonwords
Masked Translation Priming Effects for Chinese-English-Japanese Triple Cognates in Lexical Decision Tasks
Masked orthographic neighbor priming effects in Chinese two-character words
In masked priming lexical decision tasks in alphabetic or syllabic script languages, latencies are longer when a word target is primed by a higher frequency neighbor (e.g., blue–BLUR) than when primed by an unrelated word of equivalent frequency (e.g., care–BLUR) – an “inhibitory neighbor priming effect.” In contrast, Zhou et al. (1999) demonstrated facilitatory orthographic neighbor priming for two-character Chinese words (e.g., 华丽–华贵). However,…
Both task-irrelevant and task-relevant information trigger reactive conflict adaptation in the item-specific proportion-congruent paradigm
Adapting attention flexibly is a fundamental ability of the human control system. In the color-word Stroop task, for example, congruency effects are typically smaller for colors and words that appear mainly in incongruent stimuli (mostly-incongruent items) than for colors and words that appear mainly in congruent stimuli (mostly-congruent items). At least part of this item-specific proportion-congruent (ISPC) effect is due to a process of reactiv…
Learning to assign stress in a second language: The role of second-language vocabulary size and transfer from the native language in second-language readers of Italian
Learning to pronounce a written word implies assigning a stress pattern to that word. This task can present a challenge for speakers of languages like Italian, in which stress information must often be computed from distributional properties of the language, especially for individuals learning Italian as a second language (L2). Here, we aimed to characterize the processes underlying the development of stress assignment in native English and nativ…
Stresyl: An Italian Stress-in-Syllables database for reading research
During the last few decades, empirical research on reading has shown increasing interest in syllable units. More recently, stress assignment has become a particular focus of interest. The relation between syllables and stress, however, has yet to be investigated for Italian. In this paper, we describe a new database, STRESYL, that can help researchers to investigate the relation between syllables and stress in Italian. STRESYL offers type and tok…
Fast habituation to semantic interference generated by taboo connotation in reading aloud
The recognition of taboo words - i.e. socially inappropriate words - has been repeatedly associated to semantic interference phenomena, with detrimental effects on the performance in the ongoing task. In the present study, we investigated taboo interference in the context of reading aloud, a task configuration which prompts the overt violation of conventional sociolinguistic norms by requiring the explicit utterance of taboo items. We assessed wh…
Stresyl: An Italian Stress-in-Syllables database for reading research
During the last few decades, empirical research on reading has shown increasing interest in syllable units. More recently, stress assignment has become a particular focus of interest. The relation between syllables and stress, however, has yet to be investigated for Italian. In this paper, we describe a new database, STRESYL, that can help researchers to investigate the relation between syllables and stress in Italian. STRESYL offers type and tok…
Learning to assign stress in a second language: The role of second-language vocabulary size and transfer from the native language in second-language readers of Italian
Learning to pronounce a written word implies assigning a stress pattern to that word. This task can present a challenge for speakers of languages like Italian, in which stress information must often be computed from distributional properties of the language, especially for individuals learning Italian as a second language (L2). Here, we aimed to characterize the processes underlying the development of stress assignment in native English and nativ…
Both task-irrelevant and task-relevant information trigger reactive conflict adaptation in the item-specific proportion-congruent paradigm
Adapting attention flexibly is a fundamental ability of the human control system. In the color-word Stroop task, for example, congruency effects are typically smaller for colors and words that appear mainly in incongruent stimuli (mostly-incongruent items) than for colors and words that appear mainly in congruent stimuli (mostly-congruent items). At least part of this item-specific proportion-congruent (ISPC) effect is due to a process of reactiv…
Masked orthographic neighbor priming effects in Chinese two-character words
In masked priming lexical decision tasks in alphabetic or syllabic script languages, latencies are longer when a word target is primed by a higher frequency neighbor (e.g., blue–BLUR) than when primed by an unrelated word of equivalent frequency (e.g., care–BLUR) – an “inhibitory neighbor priming effect.” In contrast, Zhou et al. (1999) demonstrated facilitatory orthographic neighbor priming for two-character Chinese words (e.g., 华丽–华贵). However,…
Is adaptation involved in bilingual language production? A fresh look at the assumptions motivating potential bilingual-monolingual differences in adaptive control
One of the hottest debates in psychology—whether bilingual-monolingual differences exist in cognitive control—is at a stalemate. Here we propose that the stalemate could be broken by shifting the research focus from whether those differences emerge to why they should. We offer an example of this approach by testing the assumption of current theories of language-control associations that adaptive control is involved in bilingualism, specifically l…
Cues to lexical stress assignment in reading Italian: A megastudy with polysyllabic nonwords
Masked Translation Priming Effects for Chinese-English-Japanese Triple Cognates in Lexical Decision Tasks
No evidence that selection is resource-demanding in conflict and bilingual language production tasks: Implications for theories of adaptive control and language-control associations
Theories of adaptive (and cognitive) control assume that selecting target information in the context of highly salient distractors depends on limited-capacity resources. Building on this assumption, theories of language-control associations propose that the opportunities afforded by bilingualism to engage such effortful selection, such as when speaking in a nondominant language, might improve domain-general adaptive control. The assumption that d…
Fast habituation to semantic interference generated by taboo connotation in reading aloud
The recognition of taboo words - i.e. socially inappropriate words - has been repeatedly associated to semantic interference phenomena, with detrimental effects on the performance in the ongoing task. In the present study, we investigated taboo interference in the context of reading aloud, a task configuration which prompts the overt violation of conventional sociolinguistic norms by requiring the explicit utterance of taboo items. We assessed wh…
Adaptive control in Stroop, Stroop-like, and Simon task types
Adaptive control-the ability to modulate attention based on contextual demands-is typically assumed to be a domain-general cognitive function. The function's actual domain-generality, however, remains unclear, as confound-controlled evidence for adaptive control is presently limited to the interference tasks used to examine it (typically, Stroop tasks) and the stimuli used in those tasks (typically, words and colors). We addressed these limitatio…
Multiple sources of conflict in the flanker task: Flanker interference can be decomposed into cumulative components
Reverse cueing effects in L2 production: Another dissociation from conflict tasks
Does L2 production involve adaptive control? Previous research drawing on a parallel between Stroop effects in L1 and cognate effects in L2 produced no support for this idea when inducing adaptive control implicitly (i.e., involuntarily). Reasoning that adaptive control might be hard to implement implicitly in L2 production, here, we induced adaptive control explicitly by presenting informative cues revealing whether the upcoming stimulus would b…
Cognition (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (7 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Stroop effect (5 works) · Neuroscience (4 works)