AMENTA SIMONA

Role
Assistant Professor  
Academic disciplines
General Psychology (PSIC-01/A)
Scientific-Disciplinary Group:
GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY, NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE, PSYCHOMETRICS (11/PSIC-01)

Publications

  • 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

  • Marson, F., Bonandrini, R., Saban, I., Amenta, S., Marelli, M. (2025). The English Pseudoword Lexicon Project - a Megastudy for Investigating Pseudoword Processing. In the ESCoP 2025 abstract booklet (pp.340-340). Detail

  • Abbondanza, M., Amenta, S., Rinaldi, L., Marelli, M. (2025). Time Is -Ending: Sublexical Information Activates the Horizontal Mental Time Line in Word Processing. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION, 51(1), 119-132 [10.1037/xlm0001331]. Detail

  • 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

  • Loca, G., Amenta, S., Marelli, M. (2025). Can we ground novel words? Mapping perceptual features from language-based representations to human intuitions. In Abstract Booklet (pp.44-44). Detail

Awards

Editorial boards

  • Associate Editor di rivista o collana editoriale - JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH, 2026
  • Altro tipo di attività editoriale - BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS, 2024

Research and teaching assignments

  • Attivita' di insegnamento - Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, 2020 - 2021
  • Ricercatore all estero - Post-doctoral Research Fellow - Ghent University, 2017 - 2018