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Francesco Giannelli

Post-doctoral researcher

  • Brain Mechanisms of Language Learning

Education

Foreign Languages Degree
MA Linguistics
MSc Neuroscience of Language
PhD Experimental Psychology, Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience

Research interest

My research interest focuses on electrophysiology of language. I study the cerebral organization and the time course of the subsystems underlying language processing.

More especifically, I investigate language prediction and its relation with attention and perception.

Publications 

Molinaro, N., Giannelli, F., Caffarra, S., Martin C., (2017). Hierarchical levels of representation in language prediction: The influence of first language acquisition in highly proficient bilinguals. Cognition, 164, 61-73

Giannelli, F., Molinaro, N. (Submitted, under review). Native experience modulates neural timing: plasticity in language prediction hierarchiesBrain and Language

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