MARELLI MARCO
- U06, Floor: 4, Room: 4080
Thursday 11.30-12.30
Biography
2016-today: Researcher at the Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca
2016: Researcher at the Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium
2012-2016: Post-doctoral fellow at the COMPOSES lab, Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento
2007-2011: Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology, Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Milano-Bicoccai
2010: Visiting Ph.D. student at the Centre for Comparative Psycholinguistics, University of Alberta, Canada
2005-2007: Master in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Milano-Bicocca
2002-2005: Bachelor in Psychological Science and Techniques, University of Milano-Bicocca
Research
My research interests pertain to the processing of written words and how information is stored and represented within the semantic system. I am also interested in the the interplay between these processes and other domains in human cognition, such as perception, action, and reasoning. These topics are investigated by combining experimental techniques (reaction times, analysis of eye-movements in reading, explicit judgments) with computational approaches (learning models, vector space models).
Research areas:
- Computational modelling in psycholinguistics
- Representation and learning in distributed models (distributional semantics in particular)
- Semantic, morphological, and orthographic effects in word recognition
- Contextual effects in reading
Publications
De Varda, A., Marelli, M. (2025). Cracking arbitrariness: A data-driven study of auditory iconicity in spoken English. PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW, 32(3), 1425-1442 [10.3758/s13423-024-02630-0]. Detail
Hsieh, C., Marelli, M., Rastle, K. (2025). Compositional processing in the recognition of Chinese compounds: Behavioural and computational studies. PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW, 32(4), 1878-1889 [10.3758/s13423-025-02668-8]. Detail
Binz, M., Alaniz, S., Roskies, A., Aczel, B., Bergstrom, C., Allen, C., et al. (2025). How should the advancement of large language models affect the practice of science?. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 122(5) [10.1073/pnas.2401227121]. Detail
Ciapparelli, M., Marelli, M., Graves, W., Reverberi, C. (2025). Compositionality in the semantic network: a model-driven representational similarity analysis. CEREBRAL CORTEX, 35(8) [10.1093/cercor/bhaf246]. Detail
De Varda, A., Saponaro, C., Marelli, M. (2025). High variability in LLMs’ analogical reasoning. NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR, 9(7), 1339-1341 [10.1038/s41562-025-02224-3]. Detail
Research projects
Awards
Awards
- Outstanding Article Award by Language Learning, Language Learning, Wiley, 2025
- Albert Valdman Award, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Cambridge University Press, 2024
- ACL outstanding paper award, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023
- Premio miglior tesi di dottorato in psicologia, AIP - Associazione Italiana di Psicologia, 2012
Editorial boards
- Membro del Comitato Editoriale - THE MENTAL LEXICON, 2022
- Membro del Comitato Editoriale - MORPHOLOGY, 2020
- Associate Editor di rivista o collana editoriale - BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS, 2020
Research and teaching assignments
- Ricercatore universitario a t.d. - Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, 2016 - 2019
- Ricercatore all estero - Ghent University, 2016