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2022

Bettoni, R.; Cantiani, C.; Riva, V.; Molteni, M.; Macchi Cassia, V.; Bulf, H. Visual Implicit Learning Abilities in Infants at Familial Risk for Language and Learning Impairments. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 1877. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19031877 [PDF]

2021

Silvestri, Valentina & Grassi, Massimo & Nava, Elena. (2021). Face in collision: emotional looming stimuli modulate interpersonal space across development and gender. Psychological Research. 10.1007/s00426-021-01590-7. [PDF]

Baccolo, E., Quadrelli, E., & Macchi Cassia, V. (2021). Neural sensitivity to trustworthiness cues from realistic face images is associated with temperament: an electrophysiological study with 6-month-old infants. Social Neuroscience. [PDF]

Bulf, Hermann & Capparini, Chiara & Nava, Elena & de Hevia, Maria Dolores & Macchi Cassia, Viola. (2021). Space modulates cross-domain transfer of abstract rules in infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 213. 10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105270. [PDF]

Addabbo, M., Licht, V., & Turati, C. (2021). Past and present experiences with maternal touch affect infants’ attention toward emotional faces. Infant Behavior and Development, 63, 101558

2020

Addabbo, M., Bolognini, N., & Turati, C. (2020). Neural time course of pain observation in infancy. Developmental Science, e13074. [PDF]

Addabbo, M., Quadrelli, E., Bolognini, N., Nava, E., & Turati, C. (In press). Mirror-touch experiences in the infant brain. Social Neuroscience. [PDF]

Camodeca, M., & Nava, E. (2020). The long-term effects of bullying, victimization, and bystander behavior on emotion regulation and its physiological correlates. Journal of interpersonal violence, 0886260520934438. [PDF]

Quadrelli, E., Brenna, V., Monacò, S., Turati, C., & Bulf, H. (2020). Emotional facial expressions affect visual rule learning in 7-to 8-month-old infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 61, 101501.

Quadrelli, E., Monacò, S., Turati, C., & Bulf, H. (2020). Social context influences infants' ability to extract statistical information from a sequence of gestures. Infant Behavior and Development, 61, 101501.

Baccolo, E., & Cassia, V. M. (2020). Age‐Related Differences in Sensitivity to Facial Trustworthiness: Perceptual Representation and the Role of Emotional Development. Child Development, 91, 5, 1529-1547. [PDF]

Nava, E., Etzi, R., Gallace, A., Macchi Cassia, V. (2020). Socially-relevant Visual Stimulation Modulates Physiological Response to Affective Touch in Human Infants. Neuroscience. [PDF]

Addabbo, M. & Turati C. (2020). Binding actions and emotions in the infant's brain. Social Neuroscience, 1747, 0927. [PDF]

de Hevia, M.D., Macchi Cassia, V., Veggiotti, L., & Netskou, M.E. (2020). Discrimination of ordinal relationships in temporal sequences by 4-month-old infants. Cognition, 195, 104091. [PDF]

The Many Babies Consortium (in press). Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference. Methods and Practices in Psychological Science . [PDF]

Nava, E., & Tajadura-Jimenez, A. (2020). Auditory-induced body distortions in children and adults. Scientific Reports. 10, 1-14. [PDF]

Addabbo, M. & Turati C. (2020). Binding actions and emotions in the infant's brain. Social Neuroscience. doi: 10.1080/17470919.2020.1760130. [PDF]

Nava, E. & Turati, C. (2020). Subliminal affective priming changes the 'feeling' towards neutral objects in infancy. Social Neuroscience. doi: 10.1080/17470919.2020.1756403. [PDF]

Bettoni, R., Riva, V., Cantiani, C., Molteni, M., Macchi Cassia V., & Bulf, H. (2020). Infants’ Learning of Rule-Based Visual Sequences Predicts Language Outcome at 2 Years. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 281. [PDF]

Giurgola, S., Bolognini, N., & Nava, E. (2020). Perceptual Representation of own Hand Size in early childhood and Adulthood. Scientific Reports, 10, 1-9. [PDF]

Nava, E., Föcker, J., & Gori, M. (2020). Children can optimally integrate multisensory information after a short action-like mini game training. Developmental Science. 23(1), e12840. [PDF]

2019

Quadrelli, E., Anzani, A., Ferri, M., Bolognini, N., Maravita, A., Zambonin, F., & Turati, C. (2019). Electrophysiological correlates of action observation treatment in children with cerebral palsy: A pilot study. Developmental Neurobiology, 79(11-12), 934-948. [PDF]

Quadrelli, E., Roberti, E., Turati, C., & Craighero, L. (2019). Observation of the Point-Light animation of a grasping hand activates sensorimotor cortex in nine-month-old infants. Cortex, 119, 373-385. [PDF]

Quadrelli, E., Geangu, E., & Turati, C (2019). Human action sounds elicit sensorimotor activation early in life. Cortex, 117, 323-335. [PDF]

Nava, E., Croci, E., & Turati, C. ‘I see you sharing, thus I share with you’: indirect reciprocity in toddlers but not infants. Palgrave Communications, 5, 4. [PDF]

Dunn, H., Bernstein, N., de Hevia, M. D., Cassia, V. M., Bulf, H., & McCrink, K. (2019). Operational momentum for magnitude ordering in preschool children and adults. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 179, 260-275. [PDF]

Conte, S., Proietti, V., Quadrelli, E., Turati, C., & Cassia, V. M. (2019). Sibling experience prevents neural tuning to adult faces in 10-month-old infants. Neuropsychologia. [PDF]

Quadrelli, E., Conte, S., Macchi Cassia, V., & Turati, C. (2019). Emotion in motion: Facial dynamics affect infants’ neural
processing of emotions. Developmental Psychobiology. doi: 10.1002/dev.21860. [PDF]

Baccolo, E., & Macchi Cassia, V. (2019). Individual differences in perceptual sensitivity and representation of facial signals of trustworthiness. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 45(2), 224–236. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000601 [PDF]

2018

Nava, E., Rinaldi, L., Bulf, H., & Macchi Cassia, V. (2018). The spatial representation of numbers and time follow distinct developmental trajectories: a study in 6- and 10-year-old children. Cognitive Development, 48, 52-61. [PDF]

Roberti, E., Turati, C., & Quadrelli, E. (2018). Tu sorridi e io sorrido con te. L'osservazione di un'espressione felice attiva le aree sensorimotorie a 7 mesi di vita. Giornale italiano di psicologia, 45(4), 979-989.

Nava, E., Gamberini, C., Berardis, A., & Bolognini, N. (2018). Action shapes the sense of body ownership across human development. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 2507. [PDF]+

Crespo-Llado, M. M., Vanderwert, R., Roberti, E., & Geangu, E. (2018). Eight-month-old infants’ behavioral responses to peers’ emotions as related to the asymmetric frontal cortex activity. Scientific reports, 8(1), 17152.

Kobayashi, M., Macchi Cassia, V., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. K., & Kakigi, R. (2018). Perceptual narrowing towards adult faces is a cross-cultural phenomenon in infancy: a behavioral and near-infrared spectroscopy study with Japanese infants. Developmental Science, 21(1), e12498. DOI: 10.1111/desc.12498. [PDF]

Addabbo M, Longhi E, Marchis IC, Tagliabue P, Turati C (2018) Dynamic facial expressions of emotions are discriminated at birth. PLoS ONE 13(3): e0193868. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0193868. [PDF]

Proietti, V., Rigoldi, M., Croci, E., & Macchi Cassia, V. (2018). Sibling experience modulates perceptual narrowing toward
adult faces in the first year of life. Developmental Psychobiology, 60, 395-406. [PDF]

2017

Nava E., Mattioli F., Gamberini C., Stampatori C., Bellomi F., Turati C., Capra R., & Bolognini N. (2017). Altered bodily self-consciousness in multiple sclerosis. Journal of Neuropsychology, doi: 10.1111/jnp.12134. [PDF]

Macchi Cassia, V., Bulf, H., McCrink, K., & De Hevia, M. D. (2017). Operational momentum during ordering operations for size and number in 4-month-old infants. [PDF]

Kaiser, J., Crespo-Llado, M. M., Turati, C., & Geangu, E. (2017). The development of spontaneous facial responses to others’ emotions in infancy: An EMG study. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 17500. [PDF]

Natale, E., Addabbo, M., Marchis, I. C., Bolognini, N., Macchi Cassia, V., & Turati, C. (2017). Action priming with biomechanically possible and impossible grasps: ERP evidence from 6-month-old infants. Social neuroscience, 12(5), 560-569. [PDF]

Bulf, H., de Hevia, M.D., Gariboldi, V., Macchi-Cassia, V. (2017). Infants learn better from left to right: a directional bias in infants' sequence learning. Scientific Reports. [PDF]

Senna, I., Addabbo, M., Bolognini, N., Longhi, E., Macchi Cassia, V., & Turati, C. (2017). Infants' Visual Recognition of Pincer Grip Emerges Between 9 and 12 Months of Age. Infancy, 22(3), 389-402. [PDF]

de Hevia, M. D., Addabbo, M., Nava, E., Croci, E., Girelli, L., & Cassia, V. M. (2017). Infants’ detection of increasing numerical order comes before detection of decreasing number. Cognition, 158, 177-188. [PDF]

Fengler, I., Nava, E., Villwock, A. K., Büchner, A., Lenarz, T., & Röder, B. (2017). Multisensory emotion perception in congenitally, early, and late deaf CI users. PloS One, 12, e0185821. [PDF]

Nava, E., Rinaldi, L., Bulf, H., Macchi-Cassia, V. (2017). Visual and proprioceptive feedback differently modulate the spatial representation of number and time in children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 161, 161–177. [PDF]

Nava E., Bolognini N., Turati C. (2017). The development of a crossmodal sense of body ownership. Psychological Science, 28, 330-337. [PDF]

Nava, E., Grassi, M., Brenna, V., Croci, E., & Turati, C. (2017). Multisensory Motion Perception in 3–4 Month-Old Infants. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1994. [PDF]

2016

Geangu, E., Ichikawa, H., Lao, J., Kanazawa, S., Yamaguchi, M. K., Caldara, R., Turati, C. (2016). Culture shapes 7-month-olds’ perceptual strategies in discriminating facial expressions of emotion. Current Biology 26, 14 (R663–R664). [PDF]

Geangu, E., Quadrelli, E., Conte, S., Croci, E., Turati, C. (2016). Three-year-olds’ rapid facial electromyographic responses to emotional facial expressions and body postures. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 144, (2016) 1–14. [PDF]

Macchi Cassia, V., Bulf, H., de Hevia, M.D., & Mc Crinck, K. (2016). Operational momentum and size ordering in preverbal infants. Psychological Research, 80, 360-367. [PDF]

Nava, E., Romano, D., Grassi, M., Turati, C. (2016). Skin conductance reveals the early development of the unconscious processing of emotions. Cortex. [PDF]

Nava, E., Grassi, M., & Turati, C. (2016). Audio-visual, visuo-tactile and audio-tactile correspondences in preschoolers. Multisensory Research, 29, 93-111. [PDF]

2015

Addabbo M., Longhi E., Bolognini N., Senna I., Tagliabue P., Macchi Cassia V., & Turati C. (2015) Seeing Touches Early in Life. PLoS ONE 10(9): e0134549. [PDF]

Brenna, V., Nava, E., Turati, C., Montirosso, R., Cavallini, A., & Borgatti, R. (2015). Intersensory redundancy promotes visual rhythm discrimination in visually impaired infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 39, (92-97). [PDF]

Brenna. V, Turati C., Montirosso R., & Macchi Cassia V. (2015). The interference effect of emotional expressions on facial identity recognition in preschool-aged children. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 12, 4, (443-458). [PDF]

Bulf, H., de Hevia, M.D., & Macchi Cassia, V. (2015). Small on the left, large on the right: Numbers orient visual attention onto space in preverbal infants. Developmental Science. E-pub ahead of print. [PDF]

Fengler, I., Nava, E., & Röder, B. (2015). Short-term visual deprivation reduces interference effects of task-irrelevant facial expressions on affective prosody judgments. Frontiers in integrative neuroscience, 9, 31. [PDF]

Geangu, E., Quadrelli, E., Lewis, J.W., Macchi Cassia, V., & Turati., C. (2015). By the sound of it. An ERP investigation of human action sound processing in 7-month-old infants. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. [PDF]

Geangu, E., Senna, I., Croci, E., Turati, C. (2015). The Effect of Biomechanical Properties of Motion on Infants’ Perception of Goal-directed Grasping Actions. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 129, (55-67).

Longhi E., Senna I., Bolognini N., Bulf H., Tagliabue P., Macchi Cassia V., & Turati C. (2015). Discrimination of biomechanically possible and impossible hand movements at birth. Child Development. [PDF]

Macchi Cassia, V., Proietti, V., Gava, L., & Bricolo, E. (2015). Searching for faces of different ages: evidence for an experienced-based own-age detection advantage in adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 41, 1037-1048. [PDF]

Proietti, V., Macchi Cassia, V., dell'Amore, F., Conte, S., Bricolo, E. (2015). Visual scanning behavior is related to recognition performance for own- and other-age faces. Frontiers in Psychology. 6:1684. [PDF]

Proietti, V., Macchi Cassia, V., & Mondloch, C.J. (2015). The own-age face recognition bias is task dependent. British Journal of Psychology, 106, 446-467. [PDF]

Proietti, V., Pavone, S., Ricciardelli, P., Macchi Cassia, V. (2015). The Left Perceptual Bias for adult and infant faces in adults and 5-year-old children: Face age matters. Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition, 20, 1-21.

Quadrelli E., & Turati C. (2015). Origins and development of mirroring mechanisms: A neuroconstructivist framework. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. Special issue paper. [PDF]

Rigoldi, M., Bulf, H., Tagliabue P., Macchi Cassia, V. (2015). I neonati rappresentano le relazioni ordinali tra grandezze non-numeriche. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 42, 895-902.

Rigoldi, M., Proietti, V., Croci, E., Macchi Cassia, V. (2015). L'esperienza con il fratello modula la capacita' di riconoscimento dei volti nei bambini di 9 mesi. Giornale Italiano di Psicogia, 42, 679-686

2014

Brenna V., Bulf H., Valenza E., & Turati C. (2014). Tanti volti, una sequenza: L’apprendimento di una regola astratta a 7 mesi di vita. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 3, 589-597.

Nava, E., Bottari, D., Villwock, A., Fengler, I., Büchner, A., Lenarz, T., & Röder, B. (2014). Audio-tactile integration in congenitally and late deaf cochlear implant users. PloS one, 9(6), e99606. [PDF]

Nava, E., Steiger, T., & Röder, B. (2014). Both developmental and adult vision shape body representations. Scientific Reports, 4, 6622. [PDF]

Bulf, H., de Hevia, M.D., & Macchi Cassia, V. (2014). Are numbers, size and brightness equally efficient in orienting visual attention? Evidence from an eye-tracking study. PLoS ONE, 9, e99499.

De Hevia M.D., Girelli L., Addabbo M., Macchi Cassia V. (2014.) Human Infants' Preference for Left-to-Right Oriented Increasing Numerical Sequences. PLoS ONE, 9, e96412.

Gariboldi, V., Bulf, H., de Hevia, M.D., & Macchi Cassia, V. (2014). Ordinare le grandezze sposta l'attenzione nello spazio rappresentazionale nella prima infanzia: evidenze dall'Operational Momentum. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 36, 609-617

Macchi Cassia, V., Bulf, H., Quadrelli, E., & Proietti, V. (2014). Age-related face processing bias in infancy: Evidence of perceptual narrowing for adult faces. Developmental Psychobiology, 56, 238-248.

Macchi Cassia, V., Luo, L., Pisacane, A., Li, H., Lee, K. (2014). How race and age experiences shape young children’s face processing abilities. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 120, 87-101.

Natale E., Senna I., Bolognini N., Quadrelli E., Addabbo M., Macchi Cassia V., Turati C. (2014). Predicting others’ intention involves motor resonance: EMG evidence from 6- and 9-month-old infants. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 7, 23–29. [PDF]

Proietti, V., Macchi Cassia, V., & Mondloch, C.J. (2014). The own-age face recognition bias is task dependent. British Journal of Psychology. Epub ahead of print: doi: 10.1111/bjop.12104.

2013

Addabbo, M., Quirito, S., & Macchi Cassia, V. (2013). La discriminazione delle relazioni numeriche ordinali nei bambini di 4 mesi. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 40, 657-665

Nava, E., & Pavani, F. (2013). Changes in sensory dominance during childhood: Converging evidence from the Colavita effect and the sound‐induced flash illusion. Child Development, 84(2), 604-616. [PDF]

Nava, E., Güntürkün, O., & Röder, B. (2013). Experience-dependent emergence of functional asymmetries. Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition, 18(4), 407-415. [PDF]

Bulf, H., Valenza, E., Turati, C. (2013) “How a Hat May Affect 3-Month-Olds' Recognition of a Face: An Eye-Tracking Study”.

Brenna, V., Proietti, V., Montirosso, R., & Turati, C. (2013). Positive, but not negative, facial expressions facilitate 3-month-olds’ recognition of an individual face. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 37(2), 137-142. [PDF]

Macchi Cassia, V., Proietti, V., Pisacane, A. (2013). Early and later experience with one younger sibling affects face processing abilities of 6-year-old children. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 37, 160-165.

Peykarjou, S., Westerlund, A., Macchi Cassia, V.,, Kuefner, D., & Nelson, C.A. (2013). The neural correlates of processing newborn and adult faces in 3-year-old children. Developmental Science, 16, 905-914.

Proietti, V., Pisacane, A., Macchi Cassia, V. (2013). Natural experience modulates the processing of older adult faces in young adults and 3-year-old children. PlosOne, 8, e57499

Quadrelli, E., Bulf, H., & Macchi Cassia, V. (2013). La sintonizzazione percettiva verso i volti di adulto nel primo anno di vita. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 2, 437-445.

Turati C., Gava L., Valenza E., Ghirardi V. (2013). Number Versus Extent in Newborns' Spontaneous Preference for Collections of Dots. Cognitive Development, 28, 10-20.

Turati C., Natale E., Bolognini N., Senna I., Picozzi M., Longhi E., Macchi Cassia V. (2013). The early development of human mirror mechanisms: Evidence from electromyographic recordings at 3 and 6 months. Developmental Science, 16, 793-800. [PDF]

2012

De Hevia, L., Girelli, L., & Macchi Cassia, V. (2012). Minds without language represent number through space: Origins of the mental number line. Frontiers in Psycholog, 3: 466

Di Giorgio E., Turati C., Altoé G., Simion F. (2012). Face detection in complex visual displays: An eye tracking study with 3- and 6-month-old infants and adults. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 113, 66-77.

Macchi Cassia, V., de Hevia, M.D., Picozzi, M., & Girelli, L. (2012). Increasing magnitude counts more: Asymmetrical processing of ordinality in 4-month-old infants. Cognition, 124, 183-193.

Macchi Cassia, V., Pisacane, A., & Gava, L. (2012). No own-age bias in 3-year-old children: More evidence for the role of early experience in building face-processing biases. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 113, 372-382

Macchi Cassia, V. (2011). Age biases in face processing: the effects of experience across development. British Journal of Psychology. Person perception 25 years after Bruce and Young (1986), Special Issue 102, 816-829.

2011

Nava, E., & Röder, B. (2011). Adaptation and maladaptation: insights from brain plasticity. In Progress in brain research (Vol. 191, pp. 177-194). Elsevier. [PDF]

Macchi Cassia, V., Turati, C., Schwarzer, G. (2011). Sensitivity to spacing changes in faces and non-face objects in preschool-aged children and adults. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 109, 454-467.

Proietti, V., Pavone, S., Pisacane, A., Gerli, S., Macchi Cassia, V. (2011). L’effetto “altra età” per i volti di adulto anziano. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 1, 225-232.

Tadini, M., Pisacane, A., Macchi Cassia, V. (2011). La sensibilità alle informazioni di second’ordine nei bambini di 4 anni: un confronto tra volti ed altri oggetti. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 4, 1009-1016.

Turati C., Montirosso R., Brenna V., Ferrara V., Borgatti R. (2011). A Smile Enhances 3-Month-Olds’ Recognition of an Individual Face. Infancy, 16, 306-317.

2010

Bulf H., Turati C. (2010). The role of rigid motion in newborns’ face recognition. Visual Cognition, 18, 504-512.

Bottari, D., Nava, E., Ley, P., & Pavani, F. (2010). Enhanced reactivity to visual stimuli in deaf individuals. Restorative neurology and neuroscience, 28(2), 167-179. [PDF]

Marino, B. F., Stucchi, N., Nava, E., Haggard, P., & Maravita, A. (2010). Distorting the visual size of the hand affects hand pre-shaping during grasping. Experimental brain research, 202(2), 499-505. [PDF]

Kuefner, D., Macchi Cassia, V., Vescovo, E., & Picozzi, M. (2010). Natural experience acquired in adulthood enhances holistic face processing: evidence from the other-age effect. Visual Cognition, 18, 11-25.

Picozzi, M., de Hevia M.D., Girelli, L. & Macchi Cassia, V. (2010). Seven-month-old infants detect ordinal numerical relationships within temporal sequences. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 107, 359-367.

Turati C., di Giorgio E., Bardi L., Simion F. (2010). Holistic face processing in newborns, 3-month-old infants and adults: Evidence from the composite effect. Child Development, 81, 1894-1905.

2009

Gava L., Valenza E., Turati C. (2009). Newborns’ perception of left-right spatial relationship. Child Development, 6, 1797-1810.

Nava, E., Bottari, D., Portioli, G., Bonfioli, F., Beltrame, M. A., Formigoni, P., & Pavani, F. (2009). Hearing again with two ears: recovery of spatial hearing after bilateral cochlear implantation. Neuropsychologia, 47(3), 928-932. [PDF+]

Macchi Cassia, V., Kuefner, D., Picozzi, M., Vescovo, E. (2009). Early experience predicts later plasticity for face processing: Evidence for the reactivation of dormant effects. Psychological Science, 20, 853-859.

Macchi Cassia, V., Picozzi, M., Kuefner, D., Bricolo, E., & Turati, C. (2009). Holistic processing for faces and cars in preschool-aged children and adults: evidence from the composite effect. Developmental Science, 12, 236-248.

Macchi Cassia, V., Picozzi, M., Kuefner, D., Casati, M. (2009). Why mix-ups don’t happen in the nursery. Evidence for an experience-based interpretation of the other-age effect. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 1099-1107.

Picozzi, M., Macchi Cassia, V., Turati, C., & Vescovo, E. (2009). The effect of inversion on 3-to 5-year-old children recognition of face and nonface visual objects. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 102, 487-502.

2008

De Heering A., Rossion B., Turati C., & Simion F. (2008). Holistic face processing can be independent of gaze behavior: Evidence from the composite face effect. Journal of Neuropsychology, 2, 183-195.

De Heering A., Turati C., Rossion B., Bulf H., Goffaux V., Simion F. (2008). Newborns face recognition is based on spatial frequencies below 0.5 cycles per degree. Cognition, 106, 444-454.

Gava L., Valenza E., Turati C., de Schonen S. (2008). Newborns’ preference and recognition of partly-occluded faces. Developmental Science, 11, 563 –574.

Kuefner, D., Macchi Cassia, V., Picozzi, M., & Bricolo, E. (2008). Do all kids look alike? Evidence for an other-age effect in adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 34, 811-817.

Macchi Cassia, V., Valenza, E., Simion, F., & Leo, I. (2008). Congruency as a non-specific perceptual property contributing to newborns’ face preference. Child Development, 79, 807-820.

Picozzi, M., Casati, M., Macchi Cassia, V. (2008). Il ruolo dell’esperienza nel riconoscimento di volti di diverse classi di età: uno studio su adulti “esperti”. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 2, 463-472.

Turati C. (2008). Newborns’ memory processes: A study on the effects of retroactive interference and repetition priming. Infancy, 13, 557-569.

Turati C., Bulf H., Simion F. (2008). Newborns’ face recognition over changes in viewpoint. Cognition, 106, 1300-1321.

Vescovo, E., Picozzi, M., Macchi Cassia, V. (2008). L’effetto inversione è specifico per i volti nei bambini di 3 anni? Giornale Italiano di Psicologia,1, 247-254.

2007

Leo, I., Turati, C., Macchi Cassia, Simion, F. (2007). Il riconoscimento del volto alla nascita. Psicologia Clinica dello Sviluppo, 2, 291-306.

2006

Macchi Cassia, V., Kuefner, D., Westerlund, A., & Nelson, C.A. (2006). A behavioral and ERP investigation of 3-month-olds’ face preferences. Neuropsychologia, 44, 2113-2125.

Macchi Cassia, V., Kuefner, D., Westerlund, A., & Nelson, C.A. (2006). Modulation of face-sensitive event-related potentials by canonical and distorted human faces: the role of vertical symmetry and up-down featural arrangement. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 1343-1358.

Turati, C., Macchi Cassia, V., Simion, F., & Leo, I. (2006). Newborns’ face recognition: The role of inner and outer facial features. Child Development, 77, 297-311.

2005

Turati C., Valenza E., Leo I., Simion F. (2005). Three-month-olds’ visual preference for faces and its underlying visual processing mechanisms. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 90, 255-273.

2004

Macchi Cassia, V., Turati, C., & Simion, F. (2004). Can a non-specific bias toward top-heavy patterns explain newborns’ face preference? Psychological Science, 15, 379-383.

Turati C. (2004). Why faces are not special at birth: An alternative account for newborns’ face preference. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 13, 5-8.

Turati C., Sangrigoli S., Ruel J., de Schonen S. (2004). Evidence of the face-inversion effect in 4-month-old infants. Infancy, 6, 275-297.

2003

Macchi Cassia, V., Simion, F. (2003). Differenze individuali nell’esplorazione visuo-manipolatoria e strategie di elaborazione dell’informazione. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia,4, 825-846.

Turati C., Simion F., Zanon L. (2003). Newborns' perceptual categorization for closed and open geometric forms. Infancy, 4, 309-325.

2002

Macchi Cassia, V., & Simion, F. (2002). Individual differences in object-examining duration: Do they reflect the use of different encoding strategies? Cognitive Development,17, 1219-1234.

Macchi Cassia, V., Simion, F., Milani, I., & Umiltà , C. (2002). Dominance of global visual properties at birth. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 4, 398-411.

Simion, F., Farroni, T., Macchi Cassia, V., Turati, C., & Dalla Barba, B. (2002). Newborns' local processing in schematic facelike configurations. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 20, 465-478.

Simion, F., Valenza, E., Macchi Cassia, V., Turati, C., & Umiltà , C. (2002). Newborns' preference for up-down asymmetrical configurations. Developmental Science, 5, 427-434.

Turati C. e Simion F. (2002). Newborns’ recognition of changing and unchanging aspects of schematic faces. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 83, 239-261.

Turati C., Simion F., Milani I., Umiltà, C. (2002). Newborns’ preference for faces: What is crucial? Developmental Psychology, 38, 875-882.

2001

Macchi Cassia, V. (2001). Differenze individuali nelle strategie di elaborazione dell'informazione visiva: l'influenza dell'età e della natura dello stimolo. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 1, 107-132.

Macchi Cassia, V., Farroni, T., Valenza, E., Turati, C., & Simion, F. (2001). L'organizzazione percettiva alla nascita: modalità di elaborazione analitica e globale. Età Evolutiva, 68, 34-49.

Macchi Cassia, V., & Simion, F. (2001). Interferenza asimmetrica tra l'informazione locale e globale alla nascita. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 3, 651-656.

Macchi Cassia, V., Simion, F., & Umiltà , C. (2001). Face preference at birth: The role of an orienting mechanism. Developmental Science, 4, 101-108.

Simion, F., Macchi Cassia, V., Turati, C., & Valenza, E. (2001). The origins of face perception: Specific vs non-specific mechanisms. Infant and Child Development, 10, 59-65.

1998

Macchi Cassia, V. (1998). Metodi per la valutazione delle differenze individuali nei processi attentivi nel primo anno di vita. Psicologia Clinica dello Sviluppo, 2, 211-244.

1997

Macchi Cassia, V., & Simion, F. (1997). La suzione non nutritiva: uno strumento per lo studio delle competenze neonatali. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 4, 767-791.

1996

Valenza, E., Simion, F., Macchi Cassia, V., & Umiltà , C. (1996). Face Preference at Birth. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 22, 892-903.