Publications of Emiliano Zaccarella

Journal Article (26)

2017
Journal Article
Goucha, T., Zaccarella, E., & Friederici, A. D. (2017). A revival of Homo loquens as a builder of labeled structures: Neurocognitive considerations. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 81, 213–224.
Journal Article
Zaccarella, E., & Friederici, A. D. (2017). The neurobiological nature of syntactic hierarchies. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 81, 205–212.
Journal Article
Zaccarella, E., Schell, M., & Friederici, A. D. (2017). Reviewing the functional basis of the syntactic Merge mechanism for language: A coordinate-based activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 80, 646–656.
Journal Article
Zaccarella, E., Meyer, L., Makuuchi, M., & Friederici, A. D. (2017). Building by syntax: The neural basis of minimal linguistic structures. Cerebral Cortex, 27, 411–421.
2015
Journal Article
Zaccarella, E., & Friederici, A. D. (2015). Merge in the human brain: A sub-region based functional investigation in the left pars opercularis. Frontiers in Psychology, 6. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01818
Journal Article
Zaccarella, E., & Friederici, A. D. (2015). Reflections of word processing in the insular cortex: A sub-regional parcellation based functional assessment. Brain and Language, 142, 1–7.

Book Chapter (3)

2023
Book Chapter
Zaccarella, E., Papitto, G., Trettenbrein, P., & Friederici, A. D. (2023). Sprache und Handlung sind zweierlei. In Jahrbuch der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften 2022. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000D-31AE-8
Book Chapter
Trettenbrein, P., Zaccarella, E., & Friederici, A. D. Functional and structural brain asymmetries in sign language processing. In Handbook of clinical neurology. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/6mbej
2021
Book Chapter
Zaccarella, E., & Trettenbrein, P. (2021). Neuroscience and syntax. In N. Allott, T. Lohndal, & G. Rey (Eds.), A Companion to Chomsky – Blackwell Companions to Philosophy (pp. 325–347). ‎Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell.

Conference Paper (1)

2014
Conference Paper
Goucha, T., Zaccarella, E., & Friederici, A. D. (2014). A revival of the Homo Loquens as a builder of labeled structures. In The evolution of language: proceedings of the 10th international conference (EVOLANG 10) (pp. 445–446). Vienna, Austria.

Meeting Abstract (1)

2019
Meeting Abstract
Graessner, A., Zaccarella, E., Friederici, A. D., & Hartwigsen, G. (2019). Neural correlates of basic semantic composition. In Clinical Neurophysiology (Vol. 130, pp. e158–e159). Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Talk (24)

2023
Talk
Finkbeiner, T. A., Meister, N.-K., Steinbach, M., Trettenbrein, P., & Zaccarella, E. Project update: Parts of speech and iconicity in German Sign Language (DGS). Talk_at_event presented at the ViCom Annual Meeting, Bad Homburg, Germany. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000D-E927-1
Talk
van der Burght, C. L., Friederici, A., Maran, M., Papitto, G., Pyatigorskaya, E., Schroen, J., … Zaccarella, E. Cleaning up the brickyard: How theory and methodology shape experiments in cognitive neuroscience of language. Talk_at_event presented at the Session on “Interdisciplinary approaches to ontological challenges in psychology” as part of the Society for Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) Unconference 2023, Padova, Italy and virtual. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000D-54F3-2
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Finkbeiner, T. A., Meister, N.-K., Steinbach, M., Trettenbrein, P., & Zaccarella, E. Wortarten und Ikonizität in der Deutschen Gebärdensprache (DGS). Talk_at_event presented at the Kolloquium der Germanistischen Linguistik, Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000D-5081-6
2022
Talk
Zaccarella, E. Neural, behavioural, and evolutionary aspects of the combinatorial linguistic mind. Talk_at_event presented at the Department of Comparative Language Science Colloquium, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000B-B3F9-2
Talk
Finkbeiner, T. A., Meister, N.-K., Steinbach, M., Trettenbrein, P., & Zaccarella, E. Parts of speech and iconicity in German Sign Language (DGS). Talk_at_event presented at the ViCom Kick-Off Meeting, Bad Homburg, Germany. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000C-7CDC-2
Talk
Zaccarella, E. Neural, behavioural, and evolutionary aspects of the combinatorial linguistic brain. Talk_at_event presented at the International Symposium on Neurocognitive Architecture for Human Language, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000B-22E8-9
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Papitto, G., Trettenbrein, P., Friederici, A. D., & Zaccarella, E. Segregation and overlap between language and action: Neurobiological and theoretical perspectives. Talk_at_event presented at the Joint Conference on Language Evolution, Kanazawa, Japan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000B-22E5-C
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Zaccarella, E., Trettenbrein, P., & Friederici, A. D. Neurobiology of spoken, written, and sign language processing. Talk_at_event presented at the Workshop on “Segregation and overlap between action and language: Neurobiological and theoretical perspectives” at the Joint Conference on Language Evolution 2022, Kanazawa, Japan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000A-F324-B
Talk
Trettenbrein, P., Maran, M., Pendzich, N.-K., Pohl, J., Finkbeiner, T. A., Friederici, A. D., & Zaccarella, E. Can detection of extraneous visual signals reveal the syntactic structure of sign language? Talk_at_event presented at the Workshop on “Visual Communication: New Theoretical and Empirical Developments”, Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), Tübingen, Germany. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000A-0C09-0
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