Publications
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Publications (students are underlined)
Newman, A. J., & Grossi, G. (Eds.) (2023). Changing Brains: Essays on Neural Plasticity in Honor of Helen J. Neville. Routledge.
Grossi, G., Olmstead, A.J., & Lukaszewski, D. (2023). Does hand proximity improve letter identification? PLoS ONE, 18(1): e0280991. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280991
Grossi, G., & Sacchi, E. (2023). Changes in occipito-temporal cortex with literacy: Electrophysiological evidence. In A. J. Newman and G. Grossi (Eds.), Changing Brains: Essays on Neural Plasticity in Honor of Helen J. Neville. Routledge.
Caggiano, P., Grossi, G., Carlacci De Mattia, L., vanVelzen, J., & Cocchini, G. (2022). Objects with motor valence affect the visual processing of human body parts: Evidence from behavioural and ERP studies. Cortex, 153, 194-206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2022.04.016 [link to the article]
Grossi, G., Olmstead, A. J., & Stoudt, S. (2021). Is semantic processing impaired near the hands? Acta Psychologica, 221: 103443. [Available here]
Jordan-Young, R., Grossi, G., & Rippon, G. (2019). Fifty shades of grey matter. Introduction to the special issue on NeuroGenderings, The Scholar and Feminist Online, 15. 2 Issue (Spring issue). [Available here]
Bryant, K., Grossi, G., & Kaiser, A. (2019). Feminist interventions on the sex/gender question in neuroimaging research. The Scholar and Feminist Online, 15. 2 Issue (Spring issue). [Available here]
Grossi, G. (2017). Hardwiring: Innateness in the age of the brain. Biology and Philosophy, 32 (6), 1047–1082. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-017-9591-1 [link to the article; text is available here or as a preprint on the Philosophy of Science Archive]
Cocchini, G., & Grossi, G. (2016). Extinction: Possible interference of top-down information. A case study. Acta Neuropsychologica, 14 (4), 381-387. [link to the article]
Grossi, G. (2014). A module is a module is a module: Evolution of modularity in Evolutionary Psychology. Dialectical Anthropology, 38 (3), 333-351. doi: 10.1007/s10624-014-9355-0. [link to the article] [text]
Grossi, G., Kelly, S., Nash, A., & Parameswaran, G. (2014). Challenging dangerous ideas: A multi-disciplinary critique of evolutionary psychology. Dialectical Anthropology, 38 (3), 281-285. doi: 10.1007/s10624-014-9358-x. [link to the article]
Grossi, G., Savill, N., Thomas, E., & Thierry, G. (2012). Electrophysiological cross-language neighborhood density effects in late and early English-Welsh bilinguals. Frontiers in Psychology, 3:408. [abstract and pdf]
Grossi, G., & Fine, C. (2012). The role of fetal testosterone in the development of “the essential difference” between the sexes: Some essential issues. In R. Bluhm, A. Jacobson, and H. Maibom (Eds.), Neurofeminism: Issues at the Intersection of Feminist Theory and Cognitive Science. Palgrave-Macmillan. [text; table & notes]
Grossi, G., Savill, N., Thomas, E., & Thierry, G. (2010). Posterior N1 asymmetry to English and Welsh words in early and late English-Welsh bilinguals. Biological Psychology, 85, 124-133. [link]
Capek, C., Grossi, G., Newman, A., McBurney, S., Corina, D., Roeder, B., & Neville, H. (2009). Brain systems mediating semantic and syntactic processing in deaf native signers: Biological invariance and modality specificity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 106 (21), 8784-8789. [link]
Grossi, G., Murphy, J., & Boggan, J. (2009). Word and pseudoword superiority effects in Italian-English bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 12 (1), 113-120. [pdf]
Grossi, G. (2008). Science or belief? Bias in gender difference research. In S. Badaloni, C. A. Drace, O. Gia, C. Levorato, F. Vidotto (Eds.), Under-representation of Women in Science and Technology, pp. 93-106. Padova, Italy: Cleup. [pdf]
Grossi, G. (2008). Differenze di genere per la matematica? [Gender differences in mathematics?] in A. Capitani (Ed.), Un altro genere di tecnologia (pp. 46-54). Edizione Stampa Lulu Enterprises Inc.
Nash, A., & Grossi, G. (2007). Picking Barbie’s™ brain: Inherent sex differences in scientific ability? Journal of Interdisciplinary Feminist Thought, 2 (1), 29-42. [pdf]
Grossi, G. (2006). Relatedness proportion effects on masked associative priming: An ERP study. Psychophysiology, 43 (1), 21-30. [pdf]
Coch, D., Skendzel, W., Grossi, G., & Neville, H. J. (2005). Motion and color processing in school-age children and adults: an ERP study. Developmental Science, 8 (4), 372-386. [pdf]
Grossi, G., & Coch, D. (2005). Automatic word form processing in masked priming: an ERP study. Psychophysiology, 42 (3), 343-355. [pdf]
Coch, D., Grossi, G., Skendzel, W. & Neville, H. J. (2005). ERP nonword rhyming effects in children and adults. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 168-182. [pdf]
Fernandez-Duque, D., Grossi, G., Thornton, I. M. & Neville, H. J (2003). Representation of change: Separate electrophysiological markers of attention, awareness, and implicit processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15(4), 491-507. [pdf]
Rafal, R., Danziger, S., Grossi, G., Machado, L., & Ward, R. (2002). Visual detection is gated by attending for action: Evidence from hemispatial neglect. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 99 (25), 16371-16375. [pdf]
Coch, D., Grossi, G., Coffey-Corina, S., Holcomb, P. J. & Neville, H. J. (2002). A developmental investigation of the ERP auditory rhyming effect. Developmental Science, 5 (4), 467-489. [pdf]
Grossi, G., Coch, D., Coffey-Corina, S., Holcomb, P. J. & Neville, H. J. (2001). Phonological processing in a rhyming task: A developmental ERP study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13 (5), 610-625. [pdf]
Grossi, G. (1999). Which phonology? Evidence for a dissociation between articulatory and auditory phonology from word form deafness [Commentary]. Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 22 (2), 290-291.
Grossi, G. (1997). La specializzazione emisferica per la Lingua Italiana dei Segni in un compito fonologico (The hemispheric specialization for Italian Sign Language in a phonological task). Primo convegno nazionale della lingua italiana dei segni , Ottobre 1995 (Proceedings of the First National Conference of Italian Sign Language, October 1995), pp.12-19, Edizioni Del Cerro, Trieste, Italy.
Grossi, G., Semenza, C., Corazza, S. & Volterra, V. (1996). Hemispheric specialization for sign language. Neuropsychologia, 34 (7), 737-740. [pdf]
Presentations at conferences (students are underlined)
Grossi, G., Abruzzo, P., Pulkkinen, S., & Goldstein, G. J. Transposed letter effect and spelling proficiency: An electrophysiological study. To be presented at the New England Psychological Association conference, Springfield College (MA), October 26, 2024.
Grossi, G. (2023). An online study of the transposed letter effect. Presented at the 64th Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, November 16-19, San Francisco.
Grossi, G., Olmstead, A., Conklin, J., & Vermilyea, K. (2022). Does hand proximity enhance cognitive control? Presented at the Psychonomic Society 63rd Annual Meeting, Boston, November 17-20, 2022.
Grossi, G., Olmstead, A. J., Judson, L., Lisiecki, E., & Lukaszewski, D. (2021). Does hand proximity affect letter identification? Presented at the 62nd Psychonomic Society Meeting, Virtual Conference, Nov 4-7, 2021.
Grossi, G. (2020). In search of a new language: Reconceptualizing and reworking claims of origins. Presented at the “Intersectional Analysis of the Sexed/Gendered Brain” workshop (Neurogenderings Network), Lorentz Center, Leiden, the Netherlands, March 2-6, 2020.
Grossi, G., Olmstead, A. J., Lukaszewski, D., Stevens, K., & Stoudt, S. (2018). An exploration of hand proximity effects in three linguistic tasks. Presented at the 59thPsychonomic Society Conference, New Orleans, Nov 15-18, 2018.
Grossi, G., Olmstead, A., Chabria, T., Chason, M., & Paskoff, R. (2017). Does hand proximity affect semantic processing during reading? To be presented at the 58th Psychonomic Society Meeting, November 9-12, 2017, Vancouver, Canada.
Grossi, G. (2016). “Hardwiring”: Innateness in the Age of the Brain. 57thPsychonomic Society Meeting, Boston, November 17-20, 2016.
Grossi, G., Lane, A., & Talloni-Perlett, M. (2016). An investigation of behavioral cross-language neighborhood density effects in early and late bilinguals. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, New York City, April 2-5, 2016.
Grossi, G. (2014). Hardwired: History of a misleading metaphor. Presented at NeuroGenderings III. The 1st International Dissensus Conference on Brain and Gender. May 8-10, 2014, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Grossi, G., Heimbender, E., & Sacchi, E. (2013). The effect of cross-language bigram frequency on the N1 in late bilinguals. Presented at the 2013 Psychonomic Society Meeting, November 14-17, 2013, Toronto.
Grossi, G., Sacchi, E., Heimbender, E., Earl, N., & Acerra, M. (2013). Electrophysiological correlates of orthographic processing during second language learning. Presented at the 25th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, May 23-26, 2013, Washington, D.C.
Grossi, G., Sacchi, E., Heimbender, E., Earl, N., & Acerra, M. (2013). Posterior N1 asymmetry in late learners of Spanish. Presented at the 11th International Symposium of Psycholinguistics, March 20-23, 2013, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
Grossi, G. (2011). The role of non-adjacent letter bigrams and embedded words in letter identification. Presented at the 2011 Psychonomic Society Meeting, November 1-3, 2011, Seattle.
Grossi, G., Savill, N., Thomas, E., & Thierry, G. (2011). Cross-language neighborhood density effects in late English-Welsh bilinguals: An ERP study. Presented at the 2011 Cognitive Neuroscience Meeting, April 2-5, 2011, San Francisco.
Fearey, B., Conaway, N., Donatien-Coder, D., Siegel, J., Quinones, V., & Grossi, G. (2011). A behavioral investigation of the role of non-adjacent letter bigrams in letter identification. Presented at the 2011 Cognitive Neuroscience Meeting, April 2-5, 2011, San Francisco.
Grossi, G., Savill, N., Thomas, E., & Thierry, G. (2010). Posterior N1 asymmetry to English and Welsh words in early and late English-Welsh bilinguals. Presented at the 2010 Cognitive Neuroscience Meeting, April 17-20, 2010, Montreal, Canada.
Grossi, G. (2009). Presentation at the panel “The Drescher effect: Nuala Drescher recipients share their insights.” Succeeding as Women in Higher Education, SUNY Cortland, October 23-25, 2009.
Grossi, G., & Donatien-Coder, D. (2009). The effect of non-adjacent letter combinations on letter identification. Presented at the 21st Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, May 22 – 25, 2009, San Francisco.
Grossi, G., Thierry, G., Thomas, E., & Di Pietro, J. (2008). Word and pseudoword superiority effects in early/native Welsh-English bilinguals. Presented at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, November 13-16, 2008.
Stillwell, M., & Grossi, G. (2008). No influence of articulatory suppression on word and pseudoword superiority effects. Presented at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, November 13-16, 2008.
Grossi, G., Murphy, J., & Boggan, J. (2006). Word and pseudoword superiority effects in Italian-English bilinguals. Presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Houston, November 16-19, 2006.
Grossi, G. (2006). Scienza o credenze? Bias nella ricerca sulla differenze di genere. (Science or belief? Bias in gender difference research) Paper presented at the Third Conference on Women and Science WS ’06 (III Convegno Donne & Scienza WS ‘06”), Padova, Italy, September 21-23, 2006.
Grossi, G. (2005). Inherent sex differences in scientific abilities? Paper presented at the symposium “Are there inherent sex differences in scientific abilities? A critical review of the literature.” 26th Women’s Science Conference, “Women, Gender, and Science”, SUNY at New Paltz, October 22, 2005.
Grossi, G., Del Santo, T., Doerfer, J., Earle, J., & Perman, A. (2004). Behavioral and electrophysiological effects of relatedness proportion on masked associative priming. Poster presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, November 18-21, 2004.
Grossi, G. (2004). A behavioral and electrophyiological investigation of masked semantic priming. Paper presented at the First Russian Conference on Cognitive Science, Kazan, Russia, October 9-12, 2004.
MacSweeney, M., Grossi, G., & Neville, H. J. (2004). Semantic priming in deaf readers: an ERP study. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 11.
Grossi, G. & Cocchini, G. (2003). Cross-modal extinction between contrasting information: the dominance of visual information. Poster presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, March 30-April 1, 2003.
Capek, C. M., Corina, D., Grossi, G., McBurney, S. L., Neville, H. J., Newman, A. J., Roeder, B. (2003). American Sign Language sentence processing: ERP evidence from adults with different ages of acquisition. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 10.
Capek, C. M., Corina, D., Grossi, G., McBurney, S. L., Mitchell, T. V., Neville, H. J., Newman, A. J., Roeder, B., & Waligura, D. (2002). Electrophysiological evidence for the effects of age of acquisition on brain system mediating semantic and syntactic processing in American Sign Language. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 9:135.
Capek, C.M., Corina, D., Grossi, G., McBurney, S.L., Mitchell, T.V., Neville, H.J., Newman, A.J., Roeder, B., & Waligura, D. (2001). Semantic and syntactic processing in American Sign Language: Electrophysiological evidence. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 8:168.
Grossi, G., Coch, D. & Neville, H. J. (2001). Fractionating word processing: electrophysiological evidence for distinct letter and wordform representations. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 8:124.
Capek, C.M., Corina, D., Grossi, G., McBurney, S.L., Mitchell, T.V., Neville, H.J., Newman, A.J., Roeder, B. & Waligura, D. (2000). Brain systems mediating American Sign Language sentence processing: An ERP study. Society for Neuroscience, 26(1):1246.
Fernandez-Duque, D., Grossi, G., Thornton, I. M. & Neville, H. J. (2000). Representing change with and without awareness: Imaging studies. Presentation at “The unity of consciousness: binding, integration, and dissociation” (ASSC 4) Conference, Brussels, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, CS2-3.4.
Fernandez-Duque, D., Grossi, G., Thornton, I. M. & Neville, H. J. (2000). Change blindness: An Event-Related Brain Potential study. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 7:90.
Grossi, G. & Neville, H. J. (2000). Electrophysiological indices of masked semantic priming. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 7:23.
Grossi, G. & Neville, H. J. (1999). Phonological processing: No evidence of implicit priming from masked lexical decision. Poster presented at the 6th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Washington D.C.
Grossi, G., Coffey-Corina, S., Holcomb, P. J. & Neville, H. J. (1998). Phonological processing: A developmental ERP study. Poster presented at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco.
Grossi, G. & Neville, H.J. (1996). Name matching: Evidence for hemispheric specialization? An ERP study. Poster presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco.
Grossi, G., Semenza, C., Corazza, S. & Volterra, V. (1995). The hemispheric specialization for sign language: a RT study. Poster presented at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco.
