Publications

The visual encoding of familiar and unfamiliar tools

Valio, L., Cuomo, M., Ilardi, C.R., Federico, G. (2025)

bioRxiv

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Affordance And Tool Use: A Neurocognitive Approach

Osiurak, F., & Federico, G. (2024)

The Modern Legacy of Gibson's Affordances for the Sciences of Organisms

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Parietal cortex and cumulative technological culture

Federico, G., Osiurak, F. (2023)

Cognitive Archaeology, Body Cognition, and the Evolution of Visuospatial Perception

A neurotrophic withdrawal hypothesis for multisystem adverse events associated with anti-NGF therapy for canine osteoarthritis pain

Federico, G., Ilardi, A., Elia, V., Chieffi, S. (2026)

Frontiers in Veterinary Science

An integrated account for technological cognition

Federico, G., Osiurak, F., Brandimonte, M.A., Marangolo, P., Ilardi, C.R. (2026)

Cognitive Neuroscience

Causal reasoning guides visual exploration

Valio, L., Ferrante, D., Montanari, R., Brandimonte, M.A., Federico, G. (2026)

Experimental Brain Research

Enhancing verb naming with anodal tDCS over the left inferior frontal gyrus: Insights from lesion mapping and structural connectivity estimation

Ilardi, C.R., Federico, G., Alfano, V., Basso, L., De Luca, M., Caltagirone, C., Marangolo, P. (2026)

Cortex

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Error Monitoring Failure in Metamemory Appraisal: A Visuospatial-Driven Feature of Mild Cognitive Impairment due to Alzheimer’s Disease

Ilardi, C.R., Marangolo, P., Chieffi, S., Napoletano, M., Finoja, A., Federico, G., Santangelo, G., Iavarone, A. (2026)

Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology

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Growing Technological Opacity and the Social Brain

Osiurak, F., Federico, G. (2026)

Perspectives on Psychological Science

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Insights into the cognitive evolution of genus Homo: Eye-tracking analysis of stone tool recognition in trained versus novice modern humans

Bryche, C., Federico, G., Seye, A., Fournel, A., Osiurak, F. (2026)

Current Research in Behavioral Sciences

Neuropsychology of social learning

Osiurak, F., Federico, G., Stauffert, N., Gärdenfors, P. (2026)

Discover Psychology

Shared perception: evidence for a perceptual organization account

Uccelli, S., Federico, G., Brandimonte, M.A., Bruno, N. (2026)

BMC Psychology

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The influence of spatial frequencies, orientation, and familiarity on face stimuli integration

Cuomo, M., Federico, G., Capolongo, G.M., Fracasso, A., Buonocore, A. (2026)

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

Toward a cognitive neuroscience of technology

Federico, G., Ilardi, C.R., Brandimonte, M.A., Marangolo, P., Osiurak, F. (2026)

Cognitive Neuroscience

Deficits in reaching movements under visual interference as a novel diagnostic marker for mild cognitive impairment

Ilardi, C.R., Federico, G., La Marra, M., Amato, R., Iavarone, A., Soricelli, A., Santangelo, G., Chieffi, S. (2025)

Scientific Reports

Left area PF as a neural marker of technical reasoning

Federico, G., Ilardi, C.R., Marangolo, P., Bryche, C., Metaireau, M., Bluet, A., Lesourd, M., Rossetti, Y., Osiurak, F. (2025)

Brain Structure and Function

Lithic industries, modern tools, and language: An evolutionary perspective through fMRI

Bryche, C., Lesourd, M., Seye, A., Bluet, A., Uomini, N., Rossetti, Y., Reynaud, E., Federico, G., Osiurak, F. (2025)

NeuroImage

Mechanical and semantic knowledge mediate the implicit understanding of the physical world

Federico, G., Osiurak, F., Ilardi, C.R., Cavaliere, C., Alfano, V., Tramontano, L., Ciccarelli, G., Cafaro, C., Salvatore, M., Brandimonte, M.A. (2025)

Brain and Cognition

No matter how big it is, but how you use it: the importance of demographic adjustment in clinical neuropsychology

Ilardi, C.R., Menichelli, A., Federico, G., Salvatore, M., Manganotti, P. (2025)

Neurological Sciences

Rethinking causal understanding and reverse engineering through the lens of cultural ecology

Osiurak, F., Federico, G. (2025)

Evolution and Human Behavior

Shaping the physical world to our ends through the left PF technical-cognition area

Osiurak, F., Federico, G., Fournel, A., Gaujoux, V., Lamberton, F., Ibarrola, D., Rossetti, Y., Lesourd, M. (2025)

eLife

The neural basis of transactive technical cognition

Osiurak, F., Bryche, C., Metaireau, M., Bluet, A., Gramaje, C., Baumard, J., Rossetti, Y., Lesourd, M., Federico, G. (2025)

NeuroImage

The technical-reasoning network is recruited when people observe others make or teach how to make tools: An fMRI study

Bluet, A., Reynaud, E., Federico, G., Bryche, C., Lesourd, M., Fournel, A., Lamberton, F., Ibarrola, D., Rossetti, Y., Osiurak, F. (2025)

iScience

Two distinct neural pathways for mechanical versus digital technology

Federico, G., Lesourd, M., Fournel, A., Bluet, A., Bryche, C., Metaireau, M., Baldi, D., Brandimonte, M.A., Soricelli, A., Rossetti, Y., Osiurak, F. (2025)

NeuroImage

On the Clinimetrics of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment: Cutoff Analysis in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment due to Alzheimer’s Disease

Ilardi, C.R., Menichelli, A., Michelutti, M., Cattaruzza, T., Federico, G., Salvatore, M., Iavarone, A., Manganotti, P. (2024)

Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease

The fear of COVID-19 contagion: an exploratory EEG-fMRI study

Federico, G., Ciccarelli, G., Noce, G., Cavaliere, C., Ilardi, C.R., Tramontano, L., Alfano, V., Mele, G., Di Cecca, A., Salvatore, M., Brandimonte, M.A. (2024)

Scientific Reports

The Relationship between Executive Functions and Body Weight: Sex as a Moderating Variable

Ilardi, C.R., Monda, A., Iavarone, A., Chieffi, S., Casillo, M., Messina, A., Villano, I., Federico, G., Alfano, V., Salvatore, M., Sapuppo, W., Monda, V., Monda, M., Di Maio, G., La Marra, M. (2024)

Behavioral Sciences

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The Role of Explanation in the Evolution of Technology

Osiurak, F., Federico, G., Bryche, C., Bluet, A., Metaireau, M., Tran, É., Brogniart, J., Claidière, N. (2024)

The American Journal of Psychology

The Starkstein Apathy Scale-Italian Version: An Update

Ilardi, C.R., Sannino, M., Federico, G., Cirillo, M.A., Cavaliere, C., Iavarone, A., Garofalo, E. (2024)

Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology

Bringing cumulative technological culture beyond copying versus reasoning

Osiurak, F., Claidière, N., Federico, G. (2023)

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Cultural cognition and technology: Mechanical actions speak louder than bodily actions

Osiurak, F., Claidière, N., Federico, G. (2023)

Physics of Life Reviews

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)

Federico, G. (2023)

Experimental Brain Research

Involvement of the posterior tool processing network during explicit retrieval of action tool and semantic tool knowledge: an fMRI study

Lesourd, M., Reynaud, E., Navarro, J., Gaujoux, V., Faye-Védrines, A., Alexandre, B., Baumard, J., Federico, G., Lamberton, F., Ibarrola, D., Rossetti, Y., Osiurak, F. (2023)

Cerebral Cortex

On the functional brain networks involved in tool-related action understanding

Federico, G., Osiurak, F., Ciccarelli, G., Ilardi, C.R., Cavaliere, C., Tramontano, L., Alfano, V., Migliaccio, M., Di Cecca, A., Salvatore, M., Brandimonte, M.A. (2023)

Communications Biology

Sex differences in functional brain networks involved in interoception: An fMRI study

Alfano, V., Cavaliere, C., Di Cecca, A., Ciccarelli, G., Salvatore, M., Aiello, M., Federico, G. (2023)

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Simultaneous real-time EEG-fMRI neurofeedback: A systematic review

Ciccarelli, G., Federico, G., Mele, G., Di Cecca, A., Migliaccio, M., Ilardi, C.R., Alfano, V., Salvatore, M., Cavaliere, C. (2023)

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Technical reasoning: neither cognitive instinct nor cognitive gadget

Osiurak, F., Federico, G., Claidière, N. (2023)

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

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The “Little Circles Test” (LCT): a dusted-off tool for assessing fine visuomotor function

Ilardi, C.R., La Marra, M., Amato, R., Di Cecca, A., Di Maio, G., Ciccarelli, G., Migliaccio, M., Cavaliere, C., Federico, G. (2023)

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

The visual encoding of graspable unfamiliar objects

Federico, G., Osiurak, F., Brandimonte, M.A., Salvatore, M., Cavaliere, C. (2023)

Psychological Research

What semantic dementia tells us about the ability to infer others’ communicative intentions

Osiurak, F., & Federico, G. (2023)

Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Brain Networks Involved in Depression in Patients with Frontotemporal Dementia and Parkinson’s Disease: An Exploratory Resting-State Functional Connectivity MRI Study

Alfano, V., Federico, G., Mele, G., Garramone, F., Esposito, M., Aiello, M., Salvatore, M., Cavaliere, C. (2022)

Diagnostics

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Il ruolo del ragionamento e dell'elaborazione semantica nell'uso di utensili: la prospettiva integrata dell’action reappraisal

Federico, G., & Brandimonte, M.A. (2022)

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Self-Reported Sleep Quality Across Age Modulates Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Limbic and Fronto-Temporo-Parietal Networks: An Exploratory Cross-Sectional fMRI Study

Federico, G., Alfano, V., Garramone, F., Mele, G., Salvatore, M., Aiello, M., Cavaliere, C. (2022)

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Technical reasoning bolsters cumulative technological culture through convergent transformations

Osiurak, F., Claidière, N., Bluet, A., Brogniart, J., Lasserre, S., Bonhoure, T., Di Rollo, L., Gorry, N., Polette, Y., Saude, A., Federico, G., Uomini, N., Reynaud, E. (2022)

Science Advances

The Area Prostriata may play a role in technical reasoning

Federico, G., Cavaliere, C., Reynaud, E., Salvatore, M., Brandimonte, M.A., Osiurak, F. (2022)

Behavioral and Brain Functions

The cortical thickness of the area PF of the left inferior parietal cortex mediates technical-reasoning skills

Federico, G., Reynaud, E., Navarro, J., Lesourd, M., Gaujoux, V., Lamberton, F., Ibarrola, D., Cavaliere, C., Alfano, V., Aiello, M., Salvatore, M., Seguin, P., Schnebelen, D., Brandimonte, M.A., Rossetti, Y., Osiurak, F. (2022)

Scientific Reports