Chiara Finocchiaro

My research focuses on language from different perspectives: Psycholinguistics, Neuropsychology and Neuroscience. The long-term objective is to get converging evidence on a given topic by using different experimental techniques.
On the psycholinguistic side, I have been studying aspects related to the lexical access and the retrieval of grammatical features for production.
On the side of Neurolinguistics and Language Neuroscience, I’ve been mainly involved Neural correlates of grammatical class.

Psycholinguistics

1. Retrieval of the grammatical gender feature across some representative European languages.
2. Grammatical gender and conceptual gender in the production of Italian clitic pronouns.

Neuropsychology

3. Abilities with prepositions in Aphasia.
4. Abilities with auxiliary verbs and main verbs in Aphasia.

Neuroscience (TMS and tDCS)

5. Neural correlates of thematic roles assignment.

Publications (last three years)

BONFIGLIOLI C., FINOCCHIARO C., GESIERICH B., ROSITANI F., VESCOVI M. (2009). A kinematic approach to the conceptual representations of this and that. Cognition, 111, 270-274.
FINOCCHIARO C., MAHON B.Z., CARAMAZZA A. (2008). Gender agreement and multiple referents. Rivista di Linguistica/Italian Journal of Linguistics, 20, 285-307.
FINOCCHIARO C. (2008). The syntagmatic congruency effect: Evidence from clitic production in Italian. Lingue e Linguaggio, 2, 187-207.
FINOCCHIARO C., FIERRO B., BRIGHINA F., GIGLIA G., FRANCOLINI M., CARAMAZZA A. (2008). When nominal features are marked on verbs: A transcranial magnetic stimulation study. Brain and Language, 104, 113-121.
FINOCCHIARO C., BASSO G., GIOVENZANA A., CARAMAZZA A. Morphological complexity reveals verb-specific prefrontal engagement. Journal of Neurolinguistics. 23, 553-563.
 

For the complete list of publications, visit U-Gov catalogue, here.