Publications

Peer-reviewed papers

• Ferrari, A., de Lange, F., Akrami, A. (invited, under review). Where learning paths meet: Convergence and divergence of statistical and reinforcement learning. Current Opinions in Neurobiology.
• Ferrari, A., Hagoort, P. (2025). Beat gestures and prosodic prominence interactively influence language comprehension. Cognition, 256, 106049. [Download]
• Nazli, I., Ferrari, A., Huber-Huber, C., & de Lange, F. (2024). Forward and backward blocking in statistical learning. PLoS One, 19(8), e0306797. [Download]
• Benetti, S.*, Ferrari, A.*, Pavani, F. (2023). Multimodal processing in face-to-face interactions: a bridging link between psycholinguistics and sensory neuroscience. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 17:1108354. *shared first authorship [Download]
• Ferrari, A., Richter, D., & de Lange, F. (2022). Updating contextual sensory expectations for adaptive behaviour. The Journal of Neuroscience, 42(47), 8855-8869. [Download]
• Ferrari, A., & Noppeney, U. (2021). Attention controls multisensory perception via two distinct mechanisms at different levels of the cortical hierarchy. PLoS Biology, 19(11), e3001465. [Download]
• Benetti, S., Zonca, J., Ferrari, A., Rezk, M., Rabini, G., & Collignon, O. (2021). Visual motion processing recruits regions selective for auditory motion in early deaf individuals. NeuroImage, 230, 117816. [Download]
• Beierholm, U., Rohe, T., Ferrari, A., Stegle, O., & Noppeney, U. (2020). Using the past to estimate sensory uncertainty. eLife, 9, e54172. [Download]

Preprints

• Momentè, F., Suglia, A., Giulianelli, M., Ferrari, A., Koller, A., Lemon, O., Schlangen, D., Fernández, R., Bernardi, R. (2025). Triangulating LLM progress through benchmarks, games, and cognitive tests. arXiv. [Download]
• Mazzi, G.*, Ferrari, A.*, Mencaroni, M. L., Valzolgher, C., Tommasini, M., Pavani, F., Benetti, S. (2025). Prior expectations guide multisensory integration during face-to-face communication. bioRxiv. *shared first authorship [Download]
• Ferrari, A., Filippin, L., Buiatti, M., Parise, E. (2024). WTools: a MATLAB toolbox for time-frequency analysis. bioRxiv. [Download]

In preparation

• Ferrari, A.*, Mazzi, G.*, Rabini, G., Mencaroni, M. L., Pavani, F., Benetti, S. Neural mechanisms of multisensory integration during face-to-face communication. *shared first authorship
• Degano, G.*, Ferrari, A.*, Noppeney, U. Audiotactile encoding of music in the human brain. *shared first authorship
• Ferrari, A.*, Meijer, D.*, Noppeney, U. Attention selection and switching in multisensory causal inference. *shared first authorship
• Chen Y., Ferrari, A., Hagoort, P., Bocanegra, B., Poletiek, F. Statistical learning of a hierarchical centre-embedded structure: influence of Zipf distribution and semantic biases.