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
Amenta, S., de Varda, A., Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., Brysbaert, M., Marelli, M. (2025). The Italian Crowdsourcing Project: Visual word recognition times for 130,495 Italian words. BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS, 57(January 2025) [10.3758/s13428-024-02548-4]. Detail
de Varda, A., Marelli, M. (2025). Cracking arbitrariness: A data-driven study of auditory iconicity in spoken English. PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW [10.3758/s13423-024-02630-0]. Detail
Dubova, M., Chandramouli, S., Gigerenzer, G., Grunwald, P., Holmes, W., Lombrozo, T., et al. (2025). Is Ockham's razor losing its edge? New perspectives on the principle of model parsimony. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 122(5) [10.1073/pnas.2401230121]. 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
Anceresi, G., Gatti, D., Vecchi, T., Marelli, M., Rinaldi, L. (2025). Visual experience modulates the sensitivity to the distributional history of words in natural language. PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW, 32(1), 472-481 [10.3758/s13423-024-02557-6]. Detail