MARELLI MARCO
- U06, Floor: 4, Room: 4080
Thursday 14.00-15.00
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
Petilli, M., Rodio, F., Günther, F., Marelli, M. (2026). Visual search and stimulus similarity: Modelling search efficiency with hierarchical visual features. Intervento presentato a: 46th European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology (EWCN) - January 26-30, Bressanone, Italy. Detail
Petilli, M., Rodio, F., Gatti, D., Marelli, M., Rinaldi, L. (2026). Multimodal Prior Knowledge Determines False Memory Formation. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. GENERAL, 155(2), 327-343 [10.1037/xge0001852]. Detail
Liu, Y., Chen, S., Marelli, M., Qin, Y. (2026). Knowing a translation pair by the cross-linguistic company it keeps: cross-linguistic context consistency shapes semantic overlap in bilingual conceptual representation. JOURNAL OF MEMORY AND LANGUAGE, 148(April 2026) [10.1016/j.jml.2025.104729]. Detail
Korochkina, M., Marelli, M., Rastle, K. (2026). Morphemes in the wild: Modelling affix learning from the noisy landscape of natural text. JOURNAL OF MEMORY AND LANGUAGE, 148(April 2026) [10.1016/j.jml.2026.104746]. Detail
Buchanan, E., Cuccolo, K., Heyman, T., Van Berkel, N., Coles, N., Iyer, A., et al. (2026). Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages. NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR, 10(1), 182-201 [10.1038/s41562-025-02254-x]. 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
- Editor di rivista, collana editoriale, enciclopedia - , 2023
- 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