Publications

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.

Federico, G., Lesourd, M., Fournel, A. et al. (2025). Two Distinct Neural Pathways for Mechanical versus Digital Technology. NeuroImage. 305, 120971.

Federico, G., Osiurak, F., Ilardi, C. R. et al. (2025). Mechanical and semantic knowledge mediate the implicit understanding of the physical world. Brain and Cognition, 183, 106253.

Ilardi, C.R., Federico, G., La Marra, M. et al. (2025). Deficits in reaching movements under visual interference as a novel diagnostic marker for mild cognitive impairment. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 1901.

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., Menichelli, A., Michelutti, M. et al. (2024). On the Clinimetrics of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment: Cutoff Analysis in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment due to Alzheimer's Disease. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease: JAD.

Ilardi, C.R., Menichelli, A., Federico, G. et al. (2024). No matter how big it is, but how you use it: the importance of demographic adjustment in clinical neuropsychology. Neurological Sciences.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.