Publications

2025

Marco Ciapparelli, Marco Marelli, William Graves, Carlo Reverberi, Compositionality in the semantic network: a model-driven representational similarity analysis, Cerebral Cortex, Volume 35, Issue 8, August 2025.
Link to the paper: https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/35/8/bhaf246/8250582?login=false#531426151

Buchanan, E.M., Cuccolo, K., Heyman, T. et al. Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages. Nat Hum Behav (2025).
Link to the paper: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02254-x

de Varda, A. G., & Marelli, M. (2025). Cracking arbitrariness: A data-driven study of auditory iconicity in spoken English. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1-18.
Link to the paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-024-02630-0

de Varda, A. G., Saponaro, C., & Marelli, M. (2025). High variability in LLMs’ analogical reasoning. Nature Human Behaviour, 1-3.
Link to the paper: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01659-w

Ciapparelli, M.,  Zarbo, C., & Marelli, M. (2025). Conceptual Combination in Large Language Models: Uncovering Implicit Relational Interpretations in Compound Words with Contextualized Word Embeddings. Cognitive Science.
Link to the paper: https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70048

Dubova, M., Chandramouli, S., Gigerenzer, G., Grünwald, P., Holmes, W., Lombrozo, T., Marelli, M., Musslick, S., Nicenboim, B., Ross, L., Shiffrin, R., White, M., Wagenmakers, E. J., Bürkner, P. C., & Sloman, S. J. (2025). Is Occam’s razor losing its edge? New perspectives on the principle of model parsimony. PNAS
Link to the paper: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2401230121

Gatti, D., Petilli, M., Marchetti, M., Vecchi T., Mazzoni, G., Rinaldi, L., and Marelli, M. (2025). False memories from nowhere: humans falsely recognize words that are not attested in their vocabulary. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.
Link to the paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-025-02677-7

Hsieh, C.Y., Marelli, M., & Rastle, K. (2025). Compositional processing in the recognition of Chinese compounds: Behavioural and computational studies. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.
Link to the paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-025-02668-8

Binz, M., Alaniz, S., Roskies, A., Aczel, B., Bergstrom, C., Allen, C., Schad, D., Wulff, D. U., West, J., Zhang, Q., Shiffrin, R., Gershman, S. J., Popov, V., Bender, E. M., Marelli, M., Botvinick, M. M., Akata, Z. and Schulz, E., (2025). How should the advent of large language models affect the practice of science? PNAS. 
Link to the paper: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2401227121

2024

Abbondanza, M., Amenta, S., Rinaldi, L., & Marelli, M. (2024). “Time is -ending: Sublexical information activates the horizontal mental time line in word processing”. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Advance online publication. 
Link to the paper: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-52125-001

de Varda, A., Gatti, D., Marelli, M., & Guenther, F. (2024). Meaning Beyond Lexicality: Capturing Pseudoword Definitions with Language Models.
Link to the paper: https://direct.mit.edu/coli/article/doi/10.1162/coli_a_00527/123792/Meaning-beyond-lexicality-Capturing-Pseudoword

Gatti, D., Rodio, F., Rinaldi, L., & Marelli, M. (2024). “On humans’ (explicit) intuitions about the meaning of novel words”. Cognition, 251. 
Link to the paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027724001689?dgcid=coauthor

2023

Bonandrini, R., Amenta, S., Sulpizio, S., Tettamanti, M., Mazzucchelli, A., & Marelli, M. (2023). “Form to meaning mapping and the impact of explicit morpheme combination in novel word processing”. Cognitive Psychology, 145, 101594.
Link to the paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001002852300052X
Link to the code: https://osf.io/qp2ad/