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Mello M., Serraille E,. Hochmann J.R., Papeo L. (2025). Neural selectivity for social interactions in the infant brain. Under review, OSF preprint, pdf
Papeo L., Mello M., Hochmann J.R. (2025). Perceptual-cue-based mechanisms for recognizing social agents and their roles in social interactions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, in press, pdf
Papeo L., Munin V., Spriet C. (2025). Relational properties as a source of variation for object representation in OTC. Cognitive Neurosciences, Published online: 18 Nov 2025, pdf
Galusca C.I., Papeo L., Bonatti L.L. (2025). The effect of ostensive communication on immediate and delayed memory of novel and familiar action patterns. Memory & Cognition, 3 Nov 2014, 1-14, pdf
Munin V., Abassi E., Beuriat P.A., Papeo L. (2025). The effects of spatial relations and motion information in social scene perception. Scientific Reports 15, 25817, pdf
Mello M., Decroix J., Spriet C., Papeo L. (2025). Parallel and consecutive processing stages for social interaction recognition. PsyArXiv, pdf
Spriet C., Rostami F., Hochmann J.R., Papeo L. (2025). Animate-inanimate object categorization from minimal visual information in the human brain, behavior, and deep neural networks. Under review pdf
Hafri A., Papeo L. (2025). The past, present and future of relation perception. Journal of Experimental psychology: Human Perception and Performance, in press pdf
Goupil N., Kaiser D., Papeo L. (2025). Category-specific effects of high-level relations in visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 51(6), 696–709. pdf
Reilly J., Shain C., Borghesani V., Kuhnke P., Vigliocco G., Peelle J.E., Mahon B.Z., Buxbaum L.J., Majid A., Brysbaert M., Borghi A.M., De Deyne S., Dove G., Papeo L. … Vinson D. (2025). What we mean when we say semantic: Toward a multidisciplinary semantic glossary. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 32 (1), 243-280. pdf
Papeo, L., Vettori, S., Serraille, E., Odin, C., Rostami, F., & Hochmann, J. R. (2024). Abstract thematic roles in infants’ representation of social events. Current Biology, 34(18), 4294-4300 pdf
Vettori S., Odin C., Hochmann J.R., Papeo L. (2024). A perceptual cue-based mechanism for automatic assignment of thematic agent and patient roles. The Journal of Experimental Psychology : General, 154(3), 787–798. pdf
Papeo, L. (2024). What is abstract about seeing social interactions? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, February 17, 2024. pdf
Gandolfo M., Abassi E., Balgova E., Downing P.E., Papeo L., Koldewyn K. (2024). Converging evidence that left extrastriate body area supports visual sensitivity to social interactions. Current Biology, 34(2), 343-351. pdf
Zanon, M., Lemaire, B. S., Papeo, L., & Vallortigara, G. (2024). Innate sensitivity to face-to-face biological motion. Iscience, 27(2). pdf
Cracco, E., Papeo, L., & Wiersema, J. R. (2024). Evidence for a role of synchrony but not common fate in the perception of biological group movements. European Journal of Neuroscience, 60(1), 3557-3571 pdf
Abassi E., Papeo L. (2024). Category-selective encoding of social relationship in visual cortex. The Journal of Neuroscience, 44, 5. pdf
Goupil N., Rayson H., Serraille E., Massera A., Ferrari P.F., Hochmann J.R., Papeo L. (2023). Visual preference for socially relevant spatial relations in humans and monkeys. Psychological Science, 35(6), 681-693. pdf
Goupil, N., Hochmann, J. R., & Papeo, L. (2023). Intermodulation responses show integration of interacting bodies in a new whole. Cortex, 165, 192-140. pdf
Spriet C., Abassi E., Hochmann J.R., Papeo L. (2022). Visual object categorization in infancy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA, 119 (8), e2105866119. pdf
Cracco E., Oomen D., Papeo L., Wiersema J.R. (2022). Using EEG movement tagging to isolate brain responses coupled to biological movements. Neuropsychologia, 177, 108395. pdf
Abassi E., Papeo L. (2022). Behavioral and neural markers of configural processing in perception of social scenes. NeuroImage, 260, 119506 pdf
Goupil N., Papeo L., Hochmann J.R. (2022). Visual perception grounding of social cognition in preverbal infants. Infancy, 27(2), 210-231. pdf
Paparella L., Papeo L. (2022). Chunking by social relationship in working memory. Visual Cognition, 30(5), 354-370. pdf
Hochmann J.R., Papeo L. How can it be both abstract and perceptual? Commentary on Hafri, A., & Firestone, C. (2021), The perception of relations, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Preprint psyArXiv pdf
Adibpour P., Hochmann J.R., Papeo L. (2021). Spatial relations trigger visual binding of people. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 33(7), 1343-1353. pdf
Bellot E., Abassi E., Papeo L. (2021). Moving toward versus away from another: how body motion direction changes the representation of bodies and actions in the visual cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 31(5), 2670–2685. pdf
Papeo L. (2020). Twos in human visual perception. Cortex, 132, 473-478. pdf
Papeo L., de Vega Rodríguez M. (2020). The neurobiology of sentential negation. In The Oxford Handbook of Negation. V. Deprez & M.T. Espinal (Eds.). Oxford University Press.
Abassi E., Papeo L. (2020). The representation of two-body shapes in the human visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 40(4), 852-863. pdf
Papeo L., Goupil N., Soto-Faraco S. (2019). Visual search for people among people. Psychological Science, 30 (10), 1483-1496. pdf
Papeo L., Agostini A., Lingnau A. (2019). The large-scale organization of gestures and words in the middle temporal gyrus. Journal of Neuroscience, 39 (30), 5966-5974 pdf
Papeo L., Abassi E. (2019). Seeing social events: The visual specialization for dyadic human-human interactions. Journal of Experimental psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 45(7), 877 pdf
Agostini A., Papeo L., Galusca C., Lingnau A. (2018). A norming study of high-quality video clips of pantomimes, emblems and meaningless gestures. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 2817-2826. pdf
Papeo L., Wurm M.F., Oosterhof N.N., Caramazza A. (2017). The neural representation of human and nonhuman bipeds and quadrupeds. Scientific Reports, 7:14040 doi:10.1038/s41598-017-14424-7 pdf
Papeo L., Stein T., Soto-Faraco S. (2017). The two-body inversion effect. Psychological Science, 28(3), 369-379 pdf
Papeo L., Hochmann J.R., Battelli L. (2016). The default computation of negated meanings. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 28(12), 1980-1986 pdf
Papeo L., Tessari A., Rumiati R.I. (2016). Also patients with dementia need motor examination, but do we need more examination tools? Reply to “Why patients with dementia need a motor examination”. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, E-Letter, 13 July 2016
Papeo L., Lingnau A. (2015). First-person and third-person verbs in visual motionperception regions. Brain and Language, 141, 135-141 pdf
Papeo L., Cecchetto C., Mazzon G., Granello G., Cattaruzza T., Verriello L., Eleopra R., Rumiati R.I. (2015). The processing of actions and action-words in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Cortex, 64, 136-147 pdf
Hochmann J.R., Papeo L. (2014). The invariance problem in infancy: a pupillometry study. Psychological Science, 25(11), 2038-2046. pdf
Papeo L., Lingnau A., Agosta S., Pascual-Leone A., Battelli L., Caramazza A. (2014). The origin of word-related motor activity. Cerebral Cortex, 25(6), 1668-1675 pdf
Papeo L., Caramazza A. (2014). When “ultrarapid” word-related motor activity is not faster than “early”. (2014). Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00842
Papeo L., Pascual-Leone A., Caramazza, A. (2013). Disrupting the brain to validate hypotheses on the neurobiology of language. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, doi:10.3389/fnhum.2013.00148
Papeo L., Rumiati R.I. (2013). Lexical and gestural symbols in left-brain damaged patients. Cortex, 49, 1668-1678 pdf
Papeo L., Rumiati R.I., Cecchetto C., Tomasino B. (2012). On-line Changing of Thinking about Words: The Effect of Cognitive Context on Neural Responses to Verb Reading. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24, 2348-2362. pdf
Papeo L., Hochmann J.R. (2012). A cross-talk between brain-damage patients and infants on action and language. Neuropsychologia, 50, 1222-1234. pdf
Cecchetto C., Papeo L., Mazzon G., Granello G., Cattaruzza T., Verriello L., Eleopra R., Rumiati R.I. (2012). Action and Language Processing in Patients with Motor Neuron Disease. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 61, 4.
Papeo L., Corradi-Dell’Acqua C., Rumiati R.I. (2011). “She” is not like “I”: The tie between language and action is in our imagination. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 3939-3948. pdf
Papeo L., Negri G.A.L., Zadini A., Rumiati R.I. (2010). Action performance and actionword understanding: Evidence of double dissociations in left-damaged patients. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 27, 428-461.
Papeo L., Longo M.R., Feurra M., Haggard P. (2010). The role of the right temporoparietal junction in intersensory conflict: Detection or resolution? Experimental Brain Research, 206, 129-139. pdf
Rumiati R.I., Papeo L., Corradi-Dell’Acqua C. (2010). Higher-level motor processes. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1191, 219-241 pdf
Papeo L., Vallesi A., Isaja A., Rumiati R.I.(2009). Effects of TMS on different stages of motor and non-motor verb processing in the primary motor cortex. PLoS ONE 4(2): e4508. Factor 8.0 “Must read”, Faculty of 1000 Biology pdf
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