Marco Tettamanti

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Marco Tettamanti, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Psychobiology and Psychophysiology. In 1996, he got an M.Sc. in neurobiology and molecular biology at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Switzerland. In 2004, he got a Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. From 2004 to 2018, he has been a tenured full-time IRCCS research fellow at the San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy. From 2018 to 2022, he was Associate Professor at the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), University of Trento, Italy. In 2022, he moved to the University of Milano-Bicocca.

His research is mainly focused on the neurobiology of language, combining psycholinguistics, psychophysics, neuropsychological, and cognitive-computational methods with multimodal neuroimaging techniques (MRI, MEG, EEG, TMS) to understand the neural mechanisms underlying normal and pathological language functions and language development.

Upcoming Events

September 17, 2024
  • BIL Seminar: Margreet Vogelzang September 17, 2024 @ 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm Aula 3143 U6 Bicocca

    Introducing the concept of (bilingual) reference profiles: A cluster-analysis approach

    Empirical studies on bilingual children’s reference production have often focussed on comparisons with monolingual peers. In this talk, I will introduce the concept of “reference profiles”: Speakers may exhibit similar or different behaviours in reference production, independently of whether they belong to a specific group (e.g., monolinguals or bilinguals) or whether their production adheres to some norm.
    As an empirical example, I will present data from thirty-seven Greek-Italian bilingual children (Mage = 9;4, range 7;10-11;6) who performed narrative retelling tasks in both of their languages, as well as vocabulary tasks and various cognitive tasks. The data show that the children had a good mastery of reference (i.e. appropriately using null pronouns, full pronouns, or full nouns) in both of their languages. Using cluster analyses, two distinct reference profiles were identified. Further investigation showed that these profiles differed in both their sustained attention and in the use of overspecified REs in contexts where reference to the same referent was maintained. These results are interpreted in light of current cognitive theories of (bilingual) reference processing and emphasise the potential of (reference) profiles for the study of other domains beyond bilingual reference production.

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