Laura Barca's Publications List

Lexical-semantic reading in a shallow orthography: Evidence from a girl with Williams Syndrome.

2009-07-02T07:51:00Z

Barca, L., Bello, A., Volterra, V., & Burani, C. (2009) Reading and Writing. An Interdisciplinary Journal. :

The effect of word length and other sublexical, lexical, and semantic variables on developmental reading deficits.

2009-07-02T07:32:03Z

OBJECTIVE: To examine the effect of word length and several sublexical, and lexico-semantic variables on the reading of Italian children with a developmental reading deficit. BACKGROUND: Previous studies indicated the role of word length in transparent orthographies. However, several factors that may interact with word length were not controlled for. METHODS: Seventeen impaired and 34 skilled sixt...

Maria De Luca, Laura Barca, Cristina Burani, Pierluigi Zoccolotti (2008) Cogn Behav Neurol 21: 4 227-235

Fully transparent orthography, yet lexical reading aloud: New evidence from Italian.

2009-07-02T07:46:18Z

Pagliuca, G., Arduino, L.S., Barca, L., & Burani, C. (2008) Language and Cognitive Processes 23: 422-433

Clinica delle emiparesi in età evolutiva: un caso clinico di sinergie tra trattamento riabilitativo e studio con neuroimmagini.

2009-07-03T07:30:14Z

Stortini M., Barca L., Bisozzi E., Cherubini S., Luttazi P., Morocutti A., Castelli E. & Giannarelli P., Randisi F., Longo D., Genovese E., Cannatà V., Nogueira Delfino L., Fariello G. (2008) EUROPA MEDICOPHYSICA, 44, 1-3

La riabilitazione delle difficoltà linguistiche in esito a trauma cranioencefalico: un caso di afasia ottica.

2009-07-03T07:28:08Z

Cappelli, F.R., Amicuzi, I., Apicella, G., Di Giulio, P., Barca, L., Castelli, E., & Stortini, M. (2008) EUROPA MEDICOPHYSICA, 44, 1-3

Rapporto postura/movimento: training specifico per la stabilità e l’azione.

2009-07-03T07:29:27Z

Stortini, M., Giannarelli, P., Cherubini, S., Luttazi, P., Latini, B., Pagnacco, A., Barca, L., Mattogno, F., Castelli, E. (2008) EUROPA MEDICOPHYSICA, 44, 1-3

Interhemispheric cooperation and non-cooperation during word recognition: evidence for callosal transfer dysfunction in dyslexic adults.

2009-07-02T07:32:03Z

Participants report briefly-presented words more accurately when two copies are presented, one in the left visual field (LVF) and another in the right visual field (RVF), than when only a single copy is presented. This effect is known as the 'redundant bilateral advantage' and has been interpreted as evidence for interhemispheric cooperation. We investigated the redundant bilateral advantage in dy...

Lisa Henderson, Laura Barca, Andrew W Ellis (2007) Brain Lang 103: 3 276-291

Context-sensitive rules and word naming in Italian children.

2009-07-02T07:45:30Z

Barca, L., Ellis, A.W., & Burani, C. (2007) Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal 20: 495-509

Frequency, not age of acquisition affects Italian word naming.

2009-07-02T07:49:03Z

Burani, C., Barca, L., & Arduino, L.S. (2007) . European Journal of Cognitive Psychology 19: 828-866

Orthographic complexity and word naming in Italian: some words are more transparent than others.

2009-07-02T07:32:03Z

Italian is a language with a transparent orthography in which printed words can be translated into the correct sequence of phonemes using a limited set of rules. The rules of letter-sound conversion are, however, simpler for some letters than for others: The pronunciations of sequences involving the letters c and g are determined by complex (i.e., context-sensitive) rules that depend on the letter...

Cristina Burani, Laura Barca, Andrew W Ellis (2006) Psychon Bull Rev 13: 2 346-352

Italian developmental dyslexic and proficient readers: where are the differences?

2009-07-02T07:32:03Z

Italian dyslexic children are characterized by a pervasive reading speed deficit, with relatively preserved accuracy. This pattern has been associated with predominant use of the nonlexical reading procedure. However, there is no evidence of a deficit in the lexical route of Italian dyslexics. We investigated both lexical and nonlexical reading procedures in dyslexic children through two marker ef...

Laura Barca, Cristina Burani, Gloria Di Filippo, Pierluigi Zoccolotti (2006) Brain Lang 98: 3 347-351

Word morphology and lexical comprehension in Williams Syndrome

2009-07-02T07:44:22Z

Burani, C., Bimonte, D., Barca, L., & Vicari, S. (2006) Brain & Language 99: 208-219

Frequenza, immaginabilità ed età di acquisizione delle parole: in che misura queste variabili influenzano la lettura dei bambini italiani?

2009-07-02T07:42:53Z

Mazzotta, S., Barca, L., Marcolini, S., Stella, G., & Burani, C. (2005) Psicologia e Clinica dello Sviluppo 2: 247-266

A database for semantic, grammatical, and frequency properties of the first words acquired by Italian children.

2009-07-02T07:32:03Z

The CFVlexvar.xls database includes imageability, frequency, and grammatical properties of the first words acquired by Italian children. For each of 519 words that are known by children 18-30 months of age (taken from Caselli & Casadio's, 1995, Italian version of the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory), new values of imageability are provided and values for age of acquisition, child wri...

Pasquale Rinaldi, Laura Barca, Cristina Burani (2004) Behav Res Methods Instrum Comput 36: 3 525-530

Caratteristiche semantiche, grammaticali e di frequenza delle parole del “Primo Vocabolario del Bambino”

2009-07-02T07:40:26Z

Rinaldi, P., Barca, L., & Burani, C. (2004) Psicologia e Clinica dello Sviluppo 1: 119-143

Accesso lessicale e lettura ad alta voce: il ruolo delle componenti morfologiche delle parole

2009-07-02T07:42:10Z

Traficante, D., Barca, L., & Burani, C. (2004) Giornale Italiano di Psicologia 31: 821-838

Word naming times and psycholinguistic norms for Italian nouns.

2009-07-02T07:32:03Z

The present study describes normative measures for 626 Italian simple nouns. The database (LEXVAR.XLS) is freely available for down-loading on the Web site http://wwwistc.ip.rm.cnr.it/materia/database/. For each of the 626 nouns, values for the following variables are reported: age of acquisition, familiarity, imageability, concreteness, adult written frequency, child written frequency, adult spok...

Laura Barca, Cristina Burani, Lisa S Arduino (2002) Behav Res Methods Instrum Comput 34: 3 424-434

Età di acquisizione delle parole e disturbi acquisiti del linguaggio: Una rassegna

2009-07-02T07:39:39Z

Barca, L. & Burani, C. (2002) Ricerche di Psicologia 25: 2 73-94

Lessico e ortografia nella lettura ad alta voce di adulti e bambini di lingue diverse

2009-07-02T07:38:57Z

Barca, L. (2002) Età evolutiva 73: 118-128

Word reading and picture naming in Italian.

2009-07-02T07:32:03Z

Results from two separate norming studies of lexical access in Italian were merged, permitting a comparison of word-reading and picture-naming latencies and the factors that predict each one for an overlapping subsample of 128 common nouns. Factor analysis of shared lexical predictors yielded four latent variables: a frequency factor, a semantic factor, a length factor, and a final factor dominate...

E Bates, C Burani, S D'Amico, L Barca (2001) Mem Cognit 29: 7 986-999

Una base di dati sui valori di età di acquisizione, frequenza, familiarità, immaginabilità, concretezza, e altre variabili lessicali e sublessicali per 626 nomi dell’Italiano

2009-07-02T07:38:02Z

Burani, C., Barca, L., & Arduino, L.S. (2001) Giornale Italiano di Psicologia 4: 839-854