Luca Rinaldi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3863105 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luca Rinaldi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luca |
| FAMILY NAME | Rinaldi |
| SIGNATURE | RINALDI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pavia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2017-6102 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The relationship between individual sensitivity to music reward and rhythmic processing
Rhythm is a fundamental aspect of music, naturally developing in humans, engaging perceptual, emotional, and motor processes, and in turn relying on multiple cognitive functions such as memory and attention. Rhythm is also closely linked to music reward, as musical pleasure arises from making and resolving predictions about temporal structures. However, this relationship remains largely unexplored. To fill this gap, in the present study, a sample…
Spatial representation of serial order in working memory
The spontaneous spatialization of serial order in working memory (WM), often reflected by the SPoARC effect, is thought to be influenced by reading/writing habits. However, cross-cultural research comparing the direction of spatial organization in WM remains limited. Here we investigated the spontaneity of this spatialization (its independence from visual-spatial prompts) and its generalizability across different cultural reading systems (Italian…
Serial-order and rule-learning abilities in children with musical training
Playing a musical instrument is an engaging, challenging activity that has been linked to benefits in several cognitive domains, including language. Insofar, these benefits have been traced back to working memory abilities related to order information, as both language and music are highly complex signals that require maintaining temporally embedded structures unfolding over time. Yet, the critical question remains open as to whether the positive…
False memories from nowhere
Semantic knowledge plays an active role in many well-known false memory phenomena, including those emerging from the Deese–Roediger–McDermott (DRM) task. Indeed, in this experimental paradigm, humans tend to falsely recognize newly presented words via activation of other previously shown stimuli. In the present study we aimed to test what happens in cases in which no apparent prior semantic knowledge is available, like in the case of entirely nov…
Visual experience modulates the sensitivity to the distributional history of words in natural language
Different experiential traces (i.e., linguistic, motor, and perceptual) are likely contributing to the organization of human semantic knowledge. Here, we aimed to address this issue by investigating whether visual experience may affect the sensitivity to distributional priors from natural language. We conducted an independent reanalysis of data from Bottini et al., in which early blind and sighted participants performed an auditory lexical decisi…
Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages
Decomposing geographical judgments into spatial, temporal and linguistic components
When mentally exploring maps representing large-scale environments (e.g., countries or continents), humans are assumed to mainly rely on spatial information derived from direct perceptual experience (e.g., prior visual experience with the geographical map itself). In the present study, we rather tested whether also temporal and linguistic information could account for the way humans explore and ultimately represent this type of maps. We quantifie…
On humans' (explicit) intuitions about the meaning of novel words
Hands-on false memories
Although mouse-tracking has been seen as a real-time window into different aspects of human decision-making processes, currently little is known about how the decision process unfolds in veridical and false memory retrieval. Here, we directly investigated decision-making processes by predicting participants’ performance in a mouse-tracking version of a typical Deese–Roediger–McDermott (DRM) task through distributional semantic models, a usage-bas…
Number is not just an illusion
While seminal theories suggest that nonsymbolic visual numerosity is mainly extracted from segmented items, more recent views advocate that numerosity cannot be processed independently of nonnumeric continuous features confounded with the numerical set (i.e., such as the density, the convex hull, etc.). To disentangle these accounts, here we employed two different visual illusions presented in isolation or in a merged condition (e.g., combining t…
Spatial frequency equalization does not prevent spatial–numerical associations
There is an intense debate surrounding the origin of spatial–numerical associations (SNAs), according to which small numbers are mapped onto the left side of the space and large numbers onto the right. Despite evidence suggesting that SNAs would emerge as an innate predisposition to map numerical information onto a left-to-right spatially oriented mental representation, alternative accounts have challenged these proposals, maintaining that such a…
Toward a unified account of nonsymbolic and symbolic representations of number
Non-symbolic numerosity encoding escapes spatial frequency equalization
Vector-Space Models of Semantic Representation From a Cognitive Perspective
Models that represent meaning as high-dimensional numerical vectors—such as latent semantic analysis (LSA), hyperspace analogue to language (HAL), bound encoding of the aggregate language environment (BEAGLE), topic models, global vectors (GloVe), and word2vec—have been introduced as extremely powerful machine-learning proxies for human semantic representations and have seen an explosive rise in popularity over the past 2 decades. However, despit…
Smelling the space around us
The prompt recognition of pleasant and unpleasant odors is a crucial regulatory and adaptive need of humans. Reactive answers to unpleasant odors ensure survival in many threatening situations. Notably, although humans typically react to certain odors by modulating their distance from the olfactory source, the effect of odor pleasantness over the orienting of visuospatial attention is still unknown. To address this issue, we first trained partici…
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Smelling the space around us
The prompt recognition of pleasant and unpleasant odors is a crucial regulatory and adaptive need of humans. Reactive answers to unpleasant odors ensure survival in many threatening situations. Notably, although humans typically react to certain odors by modulating their distance from the olfactory source, the effect of odor pleasantness over the orienting of visuospatial attention is still unknown. To address this issue, we first trained partici…
Vector-Space Models of Semantic Representation From a Cognitive Perspective
Models that represent meaning as high-dimensional numerical vectors—such as latent semantic analysis (LSA), hyperspace analogue to language (HAL), bound encoding of the aggregate language environment (BEAGLE), topic models, global vectors (GloVe), and word2vec—have been introduced as extremely powerful machine-learning proxies for human semantic representations and have seen an explosive rise in popularity over the past 2 decades. However, despit…
Non-symbolic numerosity encoding escapes spatial frequency equalization
Number is not just an illusion
While seminal theories suggest that nonsymbolic visual numerosity is mainly extracted from segmented items, more recent views advocate that numerosity cannot be processed independently of nonnumeric continuous features confounded with the numerical set (i.e., such as the density, the convex hull, etc.). To disentangle these accounts, here we employed two different visual illusions presented in isolation or in a merged condition (e.g., combining t…
Spatial frequency equalization does not prevent spatial–numerical associations
There is an intense debate surrounding the origin of spatial–numerical associations (SNAs), according to which small numbers are mapped onto the left side of the space and large numbers onto the right. Despite evidence suggesting that SNAs would emerge as an innate predisposition to map numerical information onto a left-to-right spatially oriented mental representation, alternative accounts have challenged these proposals, maintaining that such a…
Toward a unified account of nonsymbolic and symbolic representations of number
Hands-on false memories
Although mouse-tracking has been seen as a real-time window into different aspects of human decision-making processes, currently little is known about how the decision process unfolds in veridical and false memory retrieval. Here, we directly investigated decision-making processes by predicting participants’ performance in a mouse-tracking version of a typical Deese–Roediger–McDermott (DRM) task through distributional semantic models, a usage-bas…
Decomposing geographical judgments into spatial, temporal and linguistic components
When mentally exploring maps representing large-scale environments (e.g., countries or continents), humans are assumed to mainly rely on spatial information derived from direct perceptual experience (e.g., prior visual experience with the geographical map itself). In the present study, we rather tested whether also temporal and linguistic information could account for the way humans explore and ultimately represent this type of maps. We quantifie…
On humans' (explicit) intuitions about the meaning of novel words
False memories from nowhere
Semantic knowledge plays an active role in many well-known false memory phenomena, including those emerging from the Deese–Roediger–McDermott (DRM) task. Indeed, in this experimental paradigm, humans tend to falsely recognize newly presented words via activation of other previously shown stimuli. In the present study we aimed to test what happens in cases in which no apparent prior semantic knowledge is available, like in the case of entirely nov…
Visual experience modulates the sensitivity to the distributional history of words in natural language
Different experiential traces (i.e., linguistic, motor, and perceptual) are likely contributing to the organization of human semantic knowledge. Here, we aimed to address this issue by investigating whether visual experience may affect the sensitivity to distributional priors from natural language. We conducted an independent reanalysis of data from Bottini et al., in which early blind and sighted participants performed an auditory lexical decisi…
Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages
The relationship between individual sensitivity to music reward and rhythmic processing
Rhythm is a fundamental aspect of music, naturally developing in humans, engaging perceptual, emotional, and motor processes, and in turn relying on multiple cognitive functions such as memory and attention. Rhythm is also closely linked to music reward, as musical pleasure arises from making and resolving predictions about temporal structures. However, this relationship remains largely unexplored. To fill this gap, in the present study, a sample…
Spatial representation of serial order in working memory
The spontaneous spatialization of serial order in working memory (WM), often reflected by the SPoARC effect, is thought to be influenced by reading/writing habits. However, cross-cultural research comparing the direction of spatial organization in WM remains limited. Here we investigated the spontaneity of this spatialization (its independence from visual-spatial prompts) and its generalizability across different cultural reading systems (Italian…
Serial-order and rule-learning abilities in children with musical training
Playing a musical instrument is an engaging, challenging activity that has been linked to benefits in several cognitive domains, including language. Insofar, these benefits have been traced back to working memory abilities related to order information, as both language and music are highly complex signals that require maintaining temporally embedded structures unfolding over time. Yet, the critical question remains open as to whether the positive…
Cognition (12 works) · Cognitive psychology (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Perception (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (5 works) · Natural language processing (5 works) · Neuroscience (5 works) · Semantic memory (5 works)