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Nicola Molinaro is affiliated with the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language in Spain, where their research spans multiple areas within neuroscience and psychology. Their work focuses largely on cognitive neuroscience, with additional contributions to developmental and educational psychology as well as experimental and cognitive psychology.

Molinaro's research addresses a range of topics, prominently including:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neuroscience and music perception
  • Neurobiology of language and bilingualism
  • Reading and literacy development
  • EEG and brain-computer interfaces
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Functional brain connectivity studies

They have published extensively in prominent scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • NeuroImage
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Human Brain Mapping
  • Scientific Reports

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Nicola Molinaro include:

  • "Impaired neural response to speech edges in dyslexia" (2020, Cortex)
  • "Development of neural oscillatory activity in response to speech in children from 4 to 6 years old" (2020, Developmental Science)
  • "Language Proficiency Entails Tuning Cortical Activity to Second Language Speech" (2021, Cerebral Cortex)
  • "Theta-gamma phase-amplitude coupling in auditory cortex is modulated by language proficiency" (2023, Human Brain Mapping)
  • "Neocortical activity tracks the hierarchical linguistic structures of self-produced speech during reading aloud" (2020, NeuroImage)

Nicola Molinaro frequently collaborates with a number of researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Mikel Lizarazu
  • Manuel Carreiras
  • Mathieu Bourguignon
  • Sanjeev Nara
  • Marie Lallier

Their research primarily falls under neuroscience, with 90 publications in this field, and psychology with 41 publications. Their subfields of study extend into cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, statistics and probability, and social psychology.

Best Publications

  • Grammatical agreement processing in reading: ERP findings and future directions.

    Nicola Molinaro;Horacio A. Barber;Manuel Carreiras

  • Novice Learners, Longitudinal Designs, and Event-Related Potentials: A Means for Exploring the Neurocognition of Second Language Processing.

    Lee Osterhout;Judith McLaughlin;Ilona Pitkänen;Cheryl Frenck-Mestre

  • Out-of-synchrony speech entrainment in developmental dyslexia.

    Nicola Molinaro;Mikel Lizarazu;Marie Lallier;Mathieu Bourguignon

  • Predictive mechanisms in idiom comprehension

    Francesco Vespignani;Paolo Canal;Nicola Molinaro;Sergio Fonda

  • Electrophysiological evidence of interaction between contextual expectation and semantic integration during the processing of collocations

    Nicola Molinaro;Manuel Carreiras

  • A deeper reanalysis of a superficial feature: An ERP study on agreement violations

    Nicola Molinaro;Francesco Vespignani;Remo Job

  • Delta(but not theta)‐band cortical entrainment involves speech‐specific processing

    Nicola Molinaro;Mikel Lizarazu

  • A person is not a number: discourse involvement in subject-verb agreement computation.

    Simona Mancini;Nicola Molinaro;Luigi Rizzi;Manuel Carreiras;Manuel Carreiras

  • Second language syntactic processing revealed through event-related potentials: an empirical review.

    Sendy Caffarra;Nicola Molinaro;Doug Davidson;Manuel Carreiras

  • On the left anterior negativity (LAN): The case of morphosyntactic agreement: a reply to Tanner et al.

    Nicola Molinaro;Horacio A. Barber;Sendy Caffarra;Manuel Carreiras

  • Consonants and Vowels Contribute Differently to Visual Word Recognition: ERPs of Relative Position Priming

    Manuel Carreiras;Jon Andoni Duñabeitia;Nicola Molinaro

  • Developmental evaluation of atypical auditory sampling in dyslexia: Functional and structural evidence

    Mikel Lizarazu;Marie Lallier;Nicola Molinaro;Mathieu Bourguignon

  • Lip-Reading Enables the Brain to Synthesize Auditory Features of Unknown Silent Speech

    Mathieu Bourguignon;Martijn Baart;Efthymia Ec Kapnoula;Nicola Molinaro

  • On the left anterior negativity (LAN): The case of morphosyntactic agreement

    Nicola Molinaro;Horacio A. Barber;Sendy Caffarra;Manuel Carreiras

  • When persons disagree: An ERP study of Unagreement in Spanish

    Simona Mancini;Nicola Molinaro;Luigi Rizzi;Manuel Carreiras;Manuel Carreiras

  • Long-range neural synchronization supports fast and efficient reading: EEG correlates of processing expected words in sentences.

    Nicola Molinaro;Paulo Barraza;Manuel Carreiras

  • On the functional nature of the N400: Contrasting effects related to visual word recognition and contextual semantic integration

    Nicola Molinaro;Markus Conrad;Horacio A Barber;Manuel Carreiras

  • Semantic combinatorial processing of non-anomalous expressions.

    Nicola Molinaro;Manuel Carreiras;Jon Andoni Duñabeitia

  • Are complex function words processed as semantically empty strings? A reading time and ERP study of collocational complex prepositions

    Nicola Molinaro;Paolo Canal;Francesco Vespignani;Francesca Pesciarelli

  • N250 effects for letter transpositions depend on lexicality: 'casual' or 'causal'?

    Jon Andoni Duñabeitia;Nicola Molinaro;Itziar Laka;Adelina Estévez

  • Hierarchical levels of representation in language prediction: The influence of first language acquisition in highly proficient bilinguals.

    Nicola Molinaro;Francesco Giannelli;Sendy Caffarra;Clara D. Martin

  • Stereotypes override grammar: Social knowledge in sentence comprehension.

    Nicola Molinaro;Jui-Ju Su;Manuel Carreiras

  • Why brother and sister are not just siblings: Repair processes in agreement computation

    Nicola Molinaro;Francesco Vespignani;Roberto Zamparelli;Remo Job

  • Oscillatory dynamics related to the Unagreement pattern in Spanish.

    Alejandro Pérez;Nicola Molinaro;Simona Mancini;Paulo Barraza

  • Numbers are not like words: Different pathways for literacy and numeracy

    Manuel Carreiras;Manuel Carreiras;Philip J. Monahan;Mikel Lizarazu;Jon Andoni Duñabeitia

  • Anaphoric agreement violation: an ERP analysis of its interpretation

    Nicola Molinaro;Albert Kim;Francesco Vespignani;Francesco Vespignani;Remo Job

  • Basic composition and enriched integration in idiom processing: An EEG study.

    Paolo Canal;Francesca Pesciarelli;Francesco Vespignani;Nicola Molinaro

  • Development of neural oscillatory activity in response to speech in children from 4 to 6 years old.

    Paula Ríos‐López;Nicola Molinaro;Mathieu Bourguignon;Marie Lallier

  • Language Proficiency Entails Tuning Cortical Activity to Second Language Speech.

    Mikel Lizarazu;Manuel Carreiras;Mathieu Bourguignon;Asier Zarraga

  • When the end matters: influence of gender cues during agreement computation in bilinguals

    Sendy Caffarra;Horacio Barber;Nicola Molinaro;Manuel Carreiras

  • Anchoring Agreement in Comprehension

    Simona Mancini;Nicola Molinaro;Manuel Carreiras;Manuel Carreiras

  • When "He" Can Also Be "She": An ERP Study of Reflexive Pronoun Resolution in Written Mandarin Chinese.

    Jui Ju Su;Nicola Molinaro;Margaret Gillon-Dowens;Pei Shu Tsai

Frequent Co-Authors

Manuel Carreiras
Manuel Carreiras Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
Jon Andoni Duñabeitia
Jon Andoni Duñabeitia Nebrija University
Remo Job
Remo Job University of Trento
Veikko Jousmäki
Veikko Jousmäki Aalto University
Luigi Rizzi
Luigi Rizzi University of Siena
David Soto
David Soto Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
Xavier De Tiege
Xavier De Tiege Université Libre de Bruxelles
George Zouridakis
George Zouridakis University of Houston
Lauri Parkkonen
Lauri Parkkonen Aalto University
Markus Conrad
Markus Conrad University of La Laguna

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