Publications

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 paper: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-52125-001

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., (in press). How should the advent of large language models affect the practice of science? PNAS. 

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.

de Varda, A., Gatti, D., Marelli, M., & Guenther, F. (2024). Meaning Beyond Lexicality: Capturing Pseudoword Definitions with Language Models.

Link to paper: https://direct.mit.edu/coli/article/doi/10.1162/coli_a_00527/123792/Meaning-beyond-lexicality-Capturing-Pseudoword

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

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.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/385437714_False_memories_from_nowhere_humans_falsely_recognize_words_that_are_not_attested_in_their_vocabulary

Gatti, D., Rodio, F., Rinaldi, L., & Marelli, M. (2024). “On humans’ (explicit) intuitions about the meaning of novel words”. Cognition, 251. 

Link to paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027724001689?dgcid=coauthor

Hsieh, C.Y., Marelli, M., & Rastle, K. (in press). Compositional processing in the recognition of Chinese compounds: Behavioural and computational studies. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.

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 paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001002852300052X

Link to code: https://osf.io/qp2ad/