Publications of Emiliano Zaccarella

Papitto, G., Friederici, A. D., & Zaccarella, E. (2024). Distinct neural mechanisms for action access and execution in the human brain: Insights from an fMRI study. Cerebral Cortex. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhae163

Wu, J., Cheng , Y., Qu, X., Kang, T., Cai, Y., Wang, P., … Chen, L. (2024). Continuous theta-burst stimulation on the left posterior inferior frontal gyrus perturbs complex syntactic processing stability in Mandarin chinese. Neurobiology of Language. doi:10.1162/nol_a_00140

van der Burght, C. L., Friederici, A. D., Maran, M., Papitto, G., Pyatigorskaya, E., Schroen, J., … Zaccarella, E. (2023). Cleaning up the brickyard: How theory and methodology shape experiments in cognitive neuroscience of language. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 35, 2067–2088.

Graessner, A., Duchow, C., Zaccarella, E., Friederici, A. D., Obrig, H., & Hartwigsen, G. (2023). Electrophysiological correlates of basic semantic composition in people with aphasia. NeuroImage: Clinical, 40. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2023.103516

Liu, Y., Gao, C., Wang, P., Friederici, A. D., Zaccarella, E., & Chen, L. (2023). Exploring the neurobiology of Merge at a basic level: Insights from a novel artificial grammar paradigm. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1151518

Chen, L., Gao, C., Li, Z., Zaccarella, E., Friederici, A. D., & Feng, L. (2023). Frontotemporal effective connectivity revealed a language-general syntactic network for Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 66. doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2023.101127

Pyatigorskaya, E., Maran, M., & Zaccarella, E. (2023). Testing the automaticity of syntax using masked visual priming. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. doi:10.1080/23273798.2023.2173790

Schell, M., Friederici, A. D., & Zaccarella, E. (2022). Neural classification maps for distinct word combinations in Broca's area. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2022.930849

Maran, M., Friederici, A. D., & Zaccarella, E. (2022). Syntax through the looking glass: A review on two-word linguistic processing across behavioral, neuroimaging and neurostimulation studies. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 142. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104881

Maran, M., Numssen, O., Hartwigsen, G., & Zaccarella, E. (2022). Online neurostimulation of Broca's area does not interfere with syntactic predictions: A combined TMS-EEG approach to basic linguistic combination. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.968836

Girard-Buttoz, C., Zaccarella, E., Bortolato, T., Friederici, A. D., Wittig, R. M., & Crockford, C. (2022). Chimpanzees produce diverse vocal sequences with ordered and recombinatorial properties. Communications Biology, 5. doi:10.1038/s42003-022-03350-8

Trettenbrein, P., Pendzich, N.-K., Cramer, J.-M., Steinbach, M., & Zaccarella, E. (2021). Psycholinguistic norms for more than 300 lexical signs in German Sign Language (DGS). Behavior Research Methods, 53, 1817–1832.

Chen, L., Goucha, T., Männel, C., Friederici, A. D., & Zaccarella, E. (2021). Hierarchical syntactic processing is beyond mere associating: Functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence from a novel artificial grammar. Human Brain Mapping, 42, 3253–3268.

Graessner, A., Zaccarella, E., Friederici, A. D., Obrig, H., & Hartwigsen, G. (2021). Dissociable contributions of frontal and temporal brain regions to basic semantic composition. Brain Communications, 3. doi:10.1093/braincomms/fcab090

Graessner, A., Zaccarella, E., & Hartwigsen, G. (2021). Differential contributions of left-hemispheric language regions to basic semantic composition. Brain Structure & Function, 226, 501–518.

Trettenbrein, P., & Zaccarella, E. (2021). Controlling video stimuli in sign language and gesture research: The OpenPoseR package for analyzing OpenPose motion tracking data in R. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.628728

Trettenbrein, P., Papitto, G., Friederici, A., & Zaccarella, E. (2021). Functional neuroanatomy of language without speech: An ALE meta-analysis of sign language. Human Brain Mapping, 42, 699–712.

Zaccarella, E., Papitto, G., & Friederici, A. D. (2021). Language and action in Broca's area: Computational differentiation and cortical segregation. Brain and Cognition, 147. doi:10.1016/j.bandc.2020.105651

Papitto, G., Friederici, A. D., & Zaccarella, E. (2020). The topographical organization of motor processing: An ALE meta-analysis on six action domains and the relevance of Broca’s region. NeuroImage, 206. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116321

Wu, C.-Y., Zaccarella, E., & Friederici, A. D. (2019). Universal neural basis of structure building evidenced by network modulations emerging from Broca's area: The case of Chinese. Human Brain Mapping, 40, 1705–1717.