Publications
Book chapters
Osiurak, F., & Federico, G. (2024). Affordance and tool use: A neurocognitive approach. In M. Mangalam, A. Hajnal, & D. G. Kelty-Stephen (Eds.), The modern legacy of Gibson’s affordances for the sciences of organisms. New York: Routledge.
Federico, G., & Osiurak, F. (2023). Parietal cortex and cumulative technological culture. In E. Bruner (Ed.), Cognitive archaeology, body cognition, and the evolution of visuospatial perception (pp. 109-130). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Publications: 2024
Federico, G., Ciccarelli, G., Noce, G. et al. (2024). The fear of COVID-19 contagion: an exploratory EEG-fMRI study. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 1-10.
Osiurak, F., Federico, G., Fournel, A. et al. (2024). Shaping the physical world to our ends: The left PF technical-cognition area. eLife 13:RP94578.
Ilardi, C. R., Monda, A., Iavarone, A. et al. (2024). The Relationship between Executive Functions and Body Weight: Sex as a Moderating Variable. Behavioral Sciences, 14(3), 258.
Ilardi, C.R., Sannino, M., Federico, G. et al. (2024). The Starkstein Apathy Scale-Italian Version: An Update. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology.
Publications: 2023
Federico, G., Osiurak, F., Ciccarelli, G. et al. (2023). On the functional brain networks involved in tool-related action understanding. Nature Communications Biology 6, 1163.
Osiurak, F., Claidière, N., & Federico, G. (2023). Bringing cumulative technological culture beyond copying versus reasoning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 27(1), 30-42.
Osiurak, F., Federico, G., & Claidière, N. (2023). Technical reasoning: Neither cognitive instinct nor cognitive gadget. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 27(4), 339–340.
Osiurak, F., & Federico, G. (2023). What semantic dementia tells us about the ability to infer others' communicative intentions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, e12.
Federico, G. (2023). Eating Russula mushrooms is a matter of semantic knowledge. Comment on “The elicitation of affordance depends on conceptual attributes: evidence from a virtual reality study” by Lai et al.(2023). Experimental Brain Research, 241, 1459–146.
Lesourd, M., Reynaud, E., Navarro, J., Gaujoux, V., Faye-Védrines, A., ... & Osiurak, F. (2023). Involvement of the posterior tool processing network during explicit retrieval of action tool and semantic tool knowledge: an fMRI study. Cerebral Cortex, 33(11).
Osiurak, F., Claidière, N., & Federico, G. (2023). Cultural cognition and technology: Mechanical actions speak louder than bodily actions. Comment on" Blind alleys and fruitful pathways in the comparative study of cultural cognition" by Andrew Whiten. Physics of Life Reviews, 44, 141-144.
Ilardi, C. R., La Marra, M., Amato, R., Di Cecca, A., Di Maio, G., Ciccarelli, G., ... & Federico, G. (2023). The “Little Circles Test”(LCT): a dusted-off tool for assessing fine visuomotor function. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 1-14.
Ciccarelli, G., Federico, G., Mele, G., Di Cecca, A., Migliaccio, M., Ilardi, C. R., ... & Cavaliere, C. (2023). Simultaneous real-time EEG-fMRI neurofeedback: A systematic review. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 17, 1123014.
Alfano, V., Cavaliere, C., Di Cecca, A., Ciccarelli, G., Salvatore, M., Aiello, M., & Federico, G. (2023). Sex differences in functional brain networks involved in interoception: An fMRI study. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 17, 1130025.
Publications: 2022
Federico, G., Cavaliere, C., Reynaud, E., Salvatore, M., Brandimonte, M. A., & Osiurak, F. (2022). The Area Prostriata may play a role in technical reasoning. Behavioral and Brain Functions, 18(1), 1-4.
Federico, G., Reynaud, E., Navarro, J., Lesourd, M., Gaujoux, V., Lamberton, F., ... & Osiurak, F. (2022). The cortical thickness of the area PF of the left inferior parietal cortex mediates technical-reasoning skills. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 11840.
Alfano, V., Federico, G., Mele, G., Garramone, F., Esposito, M., Aiello, M., ... & Cavaliere, C. (2022). Brain networks involved in depression in patients with frontotemporal dementia and Parkinson’s disease: an exploratory resting-state functional connectivity MRI study. Diagnostics, 12(4), 959.
Federico, G., Osiurak, F., Brandimonte, M. A., Salvatore, M., & Cavaliere, C. (2023). The visual encoding of graspable unfamiliar objects. Psychological Research, 87(2), 452-461.
Osiurak, F., Claidière, N., Bluet, A., Brogniart, J., Lasserre, S., Bonhoure, T., ... & Reynaud, E. (2022). Technical reasoning bolsters cumulative technological culture through convergent transformations. Science Advances, 8(9), eabl7446.
Federico, G., Alfano, V., Garramone, F., Mele, G., Salvatore, M., Aiello, M., & Cavaliere, C. (2022). Self-reported sleep quality across age modulates resting-state functional connectivity in limbic and fronto-temporo-parietal networks: An exploratory cross-sectional fMRI study. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 14, 806374.
Federico, G., & Brandimonte, M. A. (2022). Il ruolo del ragionamento e dell'elaborazione semantica nell'uso di utensili: la prospettiva integrata dell’action reappraisal. TOPIC-Temi Di Psicologia Dell'ordine Degli Psicologi Della Campania, 1(1), 10-53240.
Brandimonte, M. A., & Federico, G. (2022). Verso un approccio integrato dei sistemi di conoscenza semantica e sensomotoria. Giornale italiano di psicologia, 49(2), 429-435.
Publications: 2021
Osiurak, F., & Federico, G. (2021). Four ways of (mis-) conceiving embodiment in tool use. Synthese, 199(1-2), 3853-3879.
Baldi, D., Basso, L., Nele, G., Federico, G., Antonucci, G. W., Salvatore, M., & Cavaliere, C. (2021). Rhinoplasty pre-surgery models by using low-dose computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and 3D printing. Dose-Response, 19(4), 15593258211060950.
Federico, G., Osiurak, F., Reynaud, E., & Brandimonte, M. A. (2021). Semantic congruency effects of prime words on tool visual exploration. Brain and Cognition, 152, 105758.
Federico, G., Ferrante, D., Marcatto, F., & Brandimonte, M. A. (2021). How the fear of COVID-19 changed the way we look at human faces. PeerJ, 9, e11380.
Federico, G., Osiurak, F., & Brandimonte, M. A. (2021). Hazardous tools: the emergence of reasoning in human tool use. Psychological Research, 1-11.
Publications: 2019 - 2020
Federico, G., & Brandimonte, M. A. (2020). Looking to recognise: The pre-eminence of semantic over sensorimotor processing in human tool use. Scientific Reports, 10 (1): 6157.
Osiurak, F., Federico, G., Brandimonte, M. A., Reynaud, E., & Lesourd, M. (2020). On the temporal dynamics of tool use. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 518.
Federico, G., & Brandimonte, M. A. (2019). Tool and object affordances: An ecological eye-tracking study. Brain and Cognition, 135, 103582.