Brain and cognitive development group - BCD Group

Forgács, B., Parise, E., Gervain, J., Berkes, N., Szigeti, A., Feride, B. B., & Király, I. (2026). The Intriguingly Social N400 of Preverbal Infants, Developmental Neurobiology, 86(2), e70027.

Ferrari, A., Filippin, L., Buiatti, M., & Parise, E. (2025). WTools: a MATLAB-based toolbox for time-frequency analysis of infant data, PLoS ONE, 20(5), p. e0323179-15.

Geraci, A., Surian, L., Tina, L.G., & Hamlin, J. K. (2025). Human newborns spontaneously attend to prosocial interactions. Nature Communications 16, 6304 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61517-3

Surian, L., Parise, E., Geraci, A. (2025). Core Moral Concepts and the Sense of Fairness in Human Infants, Human Nature, 36(1), 121-142.

Franchin, L., Porrini, A. T., & Surian, L. (2024). Ad-Hoc conversational implicatures in two-year-olds. Language Learning and Development, 20(3), 219–231. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2023.2277468


Margoni, F., Surian, L., & Baillargeon, R. (2024). The violation-of-expectation paradigm: A conceptual overview. Psychological Review, 131(3), 716-748.

Meristo, M., Surian, L. & Strid, K. (2024). False belief understanding in deaf children: What are the difficulties. Frontiers in Psychology, 15. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1238505

Pomiechowska, B., Takács, S., Volein, Á., & Parise, E. (2024). The nature of label-induced categories: preverbal infants represent surface features and category symbols, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 291(2035), 20241433.

Kampis, D., Askitis, D., Poulsen, E., Parise, E., & Southgate, V. (2024). 14-month-old infants detect a semantic mismatch when occluded objects are mislabeled. Infancy, 29(4), 510–524.

Decarli, G., Zingaro, D., Surian, L., & Piazza, M. (2023). Number sense at 12 months predicts 4‐year‐olds’ maths skills. Developmental Science, 26(6), e13386.

Geraci, A., Santos Barbosa, A. R. D. C., Augello, R., Perucchini, P., & Surian, L. (2023). Education to justice and infants' sense of fairness. Frontiers in Developmental Psychology, 1, 1282533.

Geraci, A., & Surian, L. (2023). Intention-based evaluations of distributive actions by 4-month-olds. Infant Behavior and Development, 70, 101797.

Geraci, A., & Surian, L. (2023). Preverbal infants’ reactions to third-party punishments and rewards delivered toward fair and unfair agents. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 226, 105574.

Kumaravel, V. P., Buiatti, M., Parise, E., & Farella, E. (2022). Adaptable and Robust EEG Bad Channel Detection Using Local Outlier Factor (LOF). Sensors, 22(19), 7314.

Karthik, S., Parise, E., & Liszkowski, U. (2022). Mirroring communicative actions: Contextual modulation of mu rhythm desynchronization in response to the ‘back-of-hand’ action in 9-month-old infants. Developmental Neuropsychology, 47(3), 158-174.

Forgács, B., Gervain, J., Parise, E., Gergely, G., Elek, L. P., Üllei-Kovács, Z., Király, I. (2022). Semantic Systems
Mentalistically Activated for and by Social Partners. Scientific Reports, 12, 4866.

Kumaravel, V. P., Farella, E., Parise, E., & Buiatti, M. (2022). NEAR: An artifact removal pipeline for human newborn EEG data. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 101068.
Kliesch, C., Parise, E., Reid, V., & Hoehl, S. (2021). The role of social signals in segmenting observed actions in eighteen-month-old children. Developmental Science, e13198.

Monroy, C., Domínguez-Martínez, E., Taylor, B., Marin, O. P., Parise, E., & Reid, V. M. (2021). Understanding the causes and consequences of variability in infant ERP editing practices. Developmental Psychobiology, 63(8), e22217.

Silverstein, P., Feng, J., Westermann, G., Parise, E., & Twomey, K. E. (2021). Infants Learn to Follow Gaze in Stages: Evidence Confirming a Robotic Prediction. Open Mind, 1–15.

Sirri, L., Guerra, E., Linnert, S., Smith, E.S., Reid, V., & Parise, E. (2020). Infants' conceptual representations of meaningful verbal and nonverbal sounds. PLoS ONE, 15(6), e0233968.

Forgács, B., Gervain, J., Parise, E., Csibra, G., Gergely, G., Baross, J., Király, I. (2020). Electrophysiological Investigation of Infants’ Understanding of Understanding. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 43, 100783.

Sirri, L., Linnert, S., Reid, V., & Parise, E. (2020). Speech Intonation Induces Enhanced Face Perception in Infants. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 3225–9.

Bazhydai, M., Silverstein, P., Parise, E., & Westermann, G. (2020). Two-year old children preferentially transmit simple actions but not pedagogically demonstrated actions. Developmental Science, e12941.

Bazhydai, M., Westermann, G., & Parise, E. (2020). “I don't know but I know who to ask”: 12-month-olds actively seek information from knowledgeable adults. Developmental Science, desc.12938.

Silverstein, P., Westermann, G., Parise, E., & Twomey, K. (2019). New evidence for learning-based accounts of gaze following: Testing a robotic prediction (pp. 302–306). Presented at the 2019 Joint IEEE 9th International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob).

Silverstein, P., Gliga, T., Westermann, G., & Parise, E. (2019). Probing Communication-Induced Memory Biases in Preverbal Infants: Two Replication Attempts of Yoon, Johnson and Csibra. Infant Behavior and Development, 55, 77-87.

Hoehl, S., Reid, V., & Parise, E. (2019). The Biological Basis of Social Cognition During Development. Neuropsychologia, 126, 1-2.

Forgács, B., Parise, E., Csibra, G., Gergely, G., Jacquey, L., & Gervain, J. (2019). Fourteen-month-old infants track the language comprehension of communicative partners. Developmental Science, 22(2), e12751.

Linnert, S., Tóth, B., Nagy, M., Parise, E., & Király, I. (2019). Neural signatures of recognition memory in 10- to 12-month-old infants, Neuropsychologia,126, 75-81.

Margoni, F., Baillargeon, R., & Surian, L. (2018). Infants distinguish between leaders and bullies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(38), E8835-E8843.

Kampis, D., Parise, E., Csibra, G., & Kovác, Á.M. (2016). On potential ocular artifacts in infant EEG: A reply to comments by Köster, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 283(1835).


Kampis, D., Parise, E., Csibra, G., & Kovác, Á.M. (2015). Neural signatures for sustaining object representations attributed to others in preverbal human infants, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 282(1819).


Domínguez-Martínez, E., Parise, E., Strandval, T., & Reid, V.M. (2015), The Fixation Distance to the Stimulus Influences ERP Quality: an EEG and Eye Tracking N400 Study. PLoS ONE, 10(7), e0134339.


Michel, C., Stets, M., Parise, E., Reid, V.M., Striano, T., & Hoehl, S. (2015). Theta- and alpha-band EEG activity in response to eye gaze cues in early infancy, NeuroImage, 118, 576-583.


Hoehl, S., Michel, C., Reid, V.M., Parise, E., & Striano, T. (2014). Eye contact during live social interaction modulates infants’ oscillatory brain activity, Social Neuroscience, 9(3), 300-308.


Parise, E., & Csibra, G. (2013), Neural Responses to Multimodal Ostensive Signals in 5-Month-old Infants, PLoS ONE, 8(8), e72360.


Meristo, M., e Surian, L. (2013). Do Infants detect indirect reciprocity? Cognition, 129, 102-113. Scopus: 2-s2.0-84880645385. ISI: WOS:000324085100011


Parise, E., & Csibra, G. (2012). Electrophysiological Evidence for the Understanding of Maternal Speech by 9-Month-Old Infants. Psychological Science, 23(7), 728-733.


Parise, E., Handl, A., Palumbo, L., & Friederici, A. D. (2011). Influence of Eye Gaze on Spoken Word Processing: an ERP Study with Infants. Child Development, 82(3), 842-853.


Parise, E., Friederici, A. D., & Striano, T. (2010). “Did you call me?” 5-Month-Old Infants Own Name Guides Their Attention. PLoS ONE, 5(12), e14208.


Grossmann, T., Parise, E., & Friederici, A. D. (2010). The detection of communicative signals directed at the self in infant prefrontal cortex. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 4, 12.


Stahl, D., Parise, E., Hoehl, S., & Striano, T. (2010). Eye contact and emotional face processing in 6-month-old infants: advanced statistical methods applied to event related potentials. Brain and Development, 32(4), 305-317.


Parise, E., Handl, A., & Striano, T. (2010). Processing Faces in Dyadic and Triadic Contexts. Neuropsychologia, 48(2), 518-528.


Surian, L. e Caldi, S. (2010). Infants’ individuation of agents and inert objects. Developmental Science, 13, 143-150. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00873.x


Reid, V. M., Hoehl, S., Grigutsch, M., Groendahl, A., Parise, E., & Striano, T. (2009). The neural correlates of infants and adults goal prediction: evidence for semantic processing systems. Developmental Psychology, 45(3), 620-629.
Hoehl, S., Reid, V.M., Parise, E., Handl, A., Palumbo, L., & Striano, T. (2009). Looking at Eye Gaze Processing and its Neural Correlates in Infancy – Implications for Social Development and Autism Spectrum Disorder. Child Development, 80(4), 968-985.


Parise, E., Reid, V.M., Stets, M., Striano, T. (2008). Direct Eye Contact Influences the Neural Processing of Objects in 5-month-old Infants. Social Neuroscience, 3(2), 141-150.


Parise, E., Cleveland, A., Costabile, A., Striano, T. (2007). Influence of vocal cues on learning about objects in joint attention contexts. Infant Behavior and Development, 30(2), 380-384.

Ex membri recenti:

  • Ambra Ferrari - Post Doc
  • Danielle Parrott - Post Doc
  • Tibor Tauzin - Post Doc
  • Marian Bazhydai (Lancaster University, UK)
  • Gergely Csibra (Central European University, AT)
  • György Gergely (Central European University, AT)
  • Judit Gervain (University of Padua, IT)
  • Bálint Forgács (Eötvös Loránd University, HU)
  • Stefanie Höhl (University of Vienna, AT)
  • Ildikó Király (Eötvös Loránd University, HU)
  • Ágnes Melinda Kovács (Central European University, AT)
  • Ambra Ferrari (SISSA, Trieste)
  • Ulf Liszkowski (University of Hamburg, DE)
  • Olivier Mascaro (University of Paris & CNRS, FR)
  • Vincent Reid (University of Waikato, NZ)
  • Victoria Southgate (University of Copenhagen, DK)
  • Gert Westermann (Lancaster University, UK)
  • Stefania Benetti (CIMeC)
  • Francesco Pavani (CIMeC)
  • Alessandra Geraci (Catania)
  • Francesco Margoni (University of Stavanger, NO)
  • Teresa Farroni (Padova)
  • Silvia Benvides-Valera (Padova)
  • Viola Macchi Cassia (Milano Bicocca)
  • Dora Kampis (University of Copenhagen, DK)
  • Barbara Pomiechowska (University of Birmingham, UK)
  • Louah Sirri (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
     
  • Campagna 5 x 1000 UniTN - PI Eugenio Parise
  • PRIN 2022 PNRR - PI Eugenio Parise
  • PRIN PNRR 2022 - PI Luca Surian
  • PRIN 2022 - Co-PI Eugenio Parise
  • Fondazione Caritro 2023 Scienze Umanistiche - Co-PI Eugenio Parise