
Anna LorenzoniUniversity of Padua | UNIPD · Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialisation
Anna Lorenzoni
PhD in Psychological Sciences
Currently investigating the consequences of language categorization by exploring pupillary activation and eye-movements
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Introduction
I'm a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Padova. My main research interests are language, bilingualism and social cognition. My project focuses on language as a cue for social categorization, exploring its role in many cognitive domains. I’m also interested in studying the role of speaker linguistic identity during language comprehension, using bilingual communities.
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The present study investigated whether semantic processing of word and object primes can bias visual attention using top-down influences, even within an exogenous cueing framework. We hypothesized that real words and familiar objects would more effectively bias attentional engagement and target detection than pseudowords or pseudo-object...
Ethnicity plays a substantial role in shaping the way faces are perceived. At the same time, several social factors seem to influence word recognition. However, there is currently a lack of research investigating whether word recognition is influenced by the ethnicity of concomitant facial stimuli. In a lexical-decision task, 48 Italian participant...
In a pioneering study, Lev-Ari and Keysar (2010) observed that unknown statements are judged less credible when uttered with foreign accent compared to native accent. This finding was interpreted in terms of processing fluency; when intelligibility is reduced, the credibility of the message decreases. Here, we use the illusory truth paradigm to exp...
Eye-gaze stimuli can elicit orienting of attention in an observer (i.e., gaze-cueing of
attention). Increasing evidence has shown that social factors modulate this phenomenon. At the
same time, language hasis recently been considered a critical-cue for social categorization. Here, we
explored the role of linguistic identity inon the gaze-cueing eff...
Foreign-accented (FA) statements are judged as less credible than native-accented (NA) statements.
At the same time, the repetition of a statement makes it sound more truthful (Illusory-truth effect).
Here, we explore the interaction between these two phenomena in a between-participant design:
does the magnitude of the illusory-truth effect depends...
Eye-gaze stimuli can elicit orienting of attention in an observer, a phenomenon known as gaze cueing of attention. Here, we explored whether gaze cueing can be shaped by the linguistic identity of the cueing face. In two experiments, participants were first familiarized with different faces together with auditory sentences. Half of the sentences we...
We examined moral judgments in three types of language: a native national language (Italian), a non-native foreign language (English), and a native regional language (Venetian, oral and colloquial). We used the Moral Foundation Questionnaire to investigate cross-linguistic differences in multiple aspects of morality. Higher scores in the Harm, Puri...
It is well documented a bias in memory recognition when participants have to decide whether they have seen a person before that belongs to a different ethnic group. At the same time, the language of a speaker influences the perception of their face. Recent evidence suggests that language and race interact in creating social categories. Here, we exp...
Telling a lie requires several cognitive processes. We investigated three cognitive processes involved in verbal deception: the decision to deceive, the suppression of the true statement, and the construction of the false statement. In a standard picture-naming task participants were instructed to commit true and false naming statements. Critically...
This registered report article investigates the role of language as a dimension of social categorization. Our critical aim was to investigate whether categorization based on language occurs even when the languages coexist within the same sociolinguistic context, as is the case in bilingual communities. Bilingual individuals of two bilingual communi...
Recent research suggests that language plays a critical role in social categorization. Furthermore, recent findings have shown that social factors can modulate gaze-cueing of attention (GCA). In 2 Experiments (N = 96) we investigated whether GCA is modulated by the linguistic identity associated with facial stimuli. Italian native participants were...
Foreign-accented speech categorizes the speaker as an outgroup individual with a lower linguistic competence and a different knowledge heritage from a native speaker. Here we explore whether the identification of an individual as a native or a foreign speaker has an impact on trivia statement judgments, regardless of her foreign-accented speech. It...
The present pre-registration aims to investigate the role of language as a dimension of social categorization. Our critical aim is to investigate whether language can be used as a dimension of social categorization even when the languages coexist within the same sociolinguistic group, as is the case in bilingual communities where two languages are...
Seeing objects triggers activation of motor areas. The implications of this motor activation in tasks that do not require object-use is still a matter of debate in cognitive sciences. Here we test whether motor activation percolates into the linguistic system by exploring the effect of object manipulability in a speech production task. Italian nati...
In recent decades, researchers have exploited semantic context effects in picture naming tasks in order to investigate the mechanisms involved in the retrieval of words from the mental lexicon. In the blocked naming paradigm, participants name target pictures that are either blocked or not blocked by semantic category. In the continuous naming task...