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Lateralization of Neural Speech Discrimination at Birth Is a Predictor for Later Language Development

Developmental Science
2025-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Lisa Bartha‐Doering; Vito Giordano; Sophie Mandl; Silvia Benavides‐Varela; Anna Weiskopf; Johannes Mader; Julia Andrejevic; Nadine Adrian; Lisa Emilia Ashmawy; Patrick Appel et al.
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Neurobehavioral Outcomes Relate to Activation Ratio in Female Carriers of Fragile X Syndrome Full Mutation: Two Pediatric Case Studies

International Journal of Molecular Sciences
2025-01-17 | Journal article
Contributors: Elisa Di Giorgio; Silvia Benavides-Varela; Annamaria Porru; Sara Caviola; Marco Lunghi; Paola Rigo; Giovanna Mioni; Giulia Calignano; Martina Annunziata; Eloisa Valenza et al.
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Neural indicators of numerical abilities in the infant human brain: A systematic review

Developmental Review
2024-12 | Journal article
Contributors: E. Visibelli; A. Porru; D. Lucangeli; B. Butterworth; S. Benavides-Varela
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Evaluations of aggressive chasing interactions by 7‐month‐old infants

Aggressive Behavior
2024-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Alessandra Geraci; Silvia Benavides‐Varela; Chiara Nascimben; Francesca Simion; Elisa Di Giorgio
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Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the Bouba-Kiki effect in naïve baby chicks

2024-05-17 | Preprint
Contributors: Maria Loconsole; Silvia Benavides-Varela; Lucia Regolin
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Neurobiology of numerical learning

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
2024-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Emma Visibelli; Giulia Vigna; Chiara Nascimben; Silvia Benavides-Varela
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Towards Diversifying Early Language Development Research: The First Truly Global International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/) 2021

Journal of Cognition and Development
2024-03-14 | Journal article
Contributors: Paulina Aravena-Bravo; Alejandrina Cristia; Rowena Garcia; Hiromasa Kotera; Ramona Kunene Nicolas; Ronel Laranjo; Bolanle Elizabeth Arokoyo; Silvia Benavides-Varela; Titia Benders; Natalie Boll-Avetisyan et al.
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Digital games for learning basic arithmetic at home

2023 | Book chapter
Contributors: Silvia Benavides-Varela; Diana Laurillard; Giulio Piperno; Daniela Fava Minor; Daniela Lucangeli; Brian Butterworth
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Towards Diversifying Early Language Development Research: First Truly Global International Summer/ Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/) 2021

2023-01-13 | Preprint
Contributors: Paulina Aravena-Bravo; Alejandrina Cristia; Rowena Garcia; Hiromasa Kotera; Ramona Kunene Nicolas; Ronel Laranjo; Bolanle Arokoyo; Silvia Benavides-Varela; Titia Benders; Natalie Boll-Avetisyan et al.
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ManyBabies 5: A large-scale investigation of the proposed shift from familiarity preference to novelty preference in infant looking time

2023-01-10 | Preprint
Contributors: Jessica Elizabeth Kosie; Martin Zettersten; Rana Abu-Zhaya; Dima Amso; Mireille Babineau; Heidi A Baumgartner; Marina Bazhydai; Margherita Belia; Silvia Benavides-Varela; Christina Bergmann et al.
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Dyscalculia in Early Adulthood: Implications for Numerical Activities of Daily Living

Brain Sciences
2022-03-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Giulia Vigna; Enrico Ghidoni; Francesca Burgio; Laura Danesin; Damiano Angelini; Silvia Benavides-Varela; Carlo Semenza
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Aging-related effects on the controlled retrieval of semantic information

2021-11-04 | Preprint
Contributors: Ettore Ambrosini; Francesca Peressotti; Marisa Gennari; Silvia Benavides; Maria Montefinese
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Effectiveness of digital-based interventions for children with mathematical learning difficulties: A meta-analysis

Computers & Education
2020-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Silvia Benavides-Varela; Claudio Zandonella Callegher; Barbara Fagiolini; Irene Leo; Gianmarco Altoè; Daniela Lucangeli
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Mathematical skills in children with pilocytic astrocytoma

Acta Neurochirurgica
2019-01-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Silvia Benavides-Varela; Riccardina Lorusso; Valentina Baro; Luca Denaro; Nancy Estévez-Pérez; Daniela Lucangeli; Domenico D’Avella; Carlo Semenza
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Reassessing lateralization in calculation

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2018-02-19 | Journal article
Contributors: Carlo Semenza; Silvia Benavides-Varela
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Brain regions and functional interactions supporting early word recognition in the face of input variability

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2017-07-18 | Journal article
Contributors: Silvia Benavides-Varela; Roma Siugzdaite; David Maximiliano Gómez; Francesco Macagno; Luigi Cattarossi; Jacques Mehler
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Re-assessing acalculia: Distinguishing spatial and purely arithmetical deficits in right-hemisphere damaged patients

Cortex
2017-03 | Journal article
Contributors: S. Benavides-Varela; D. Piva; F. Burgio; L. Passarini; G. Rolma; F. Meneghello; C. Semenza
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Numerical Activities and Information Learned at Home Link to the Exact Numeracy Skills in 5–6 Years-Old Children

Frontiers in Psychology
2016 | Journal article
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Silvia Benavides-Varela

Mass is more: The conceiving of (un)countability and its encoding into language in 5-year-old-children

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
2016-11-03 | Journal article
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Silvia Benavides-Varela

Zero in the brain: A voxel-based lesion–symptom mapping study in right hemisphere damaged patients

Cortex
2016-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Silvia Benavides-Varela; Laura Passarini; Brian Butterworth; Giuseppe Rolma; Francesca Burgio; Marco Pitteri; Francesca Meneghello; Tim Shallice; Carlo Semenza
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Anatomical substrates and neurocognitive predictors of daily numerical abilities in mild cognitive impairment

Cortex
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84935500018

Contributors: Benavides-Varela, S.; Burgio, F.; Meneghello, F.; De Marco, M.; Arcara, G.; Rigon, J.; Pilosio, C.; Butterworth, B.; Venneri, A.; Semenza, C.
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Silvia Benavides-Varela via Scopus - Elsevier

Verbal Positional Memory in 7-Month-Olds

Child Development
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84922668490

Contributors: Benavides-Varela, S.; Mehler, J.
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Silvia Benavides-Varela via Scopus - Elsevier

A new clinical tool for assessing numerical abilities in neurological diseases: Numerical activities of daily living

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84904555979

Contributors: Semenza, C.; Meneghello, F.; Arcara, G.; Burgio, F.; Gnoato, F.; Facchini, S.; Benavides-Varela, S.; Clementi, M.; Butterworth, B.
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Forging a new path for Educational Neuroscience: An international young-researcher perspective on combining neuroscience and educational practices

Trends in Neuroscience and Education
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84899878373

Contributors: Pincham, H.L.; Matejko, A.A.; Obersteiner, A.; Killikelly, C.; Abrahao, K.P.; Benavides-Varela, S.; Gabriel, F.C.; Rato, J.R.; Vuillier, L.
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Silvia Benavides-Varela via Scopus - Elsevier

Language universals at birth

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84899121893

Contributors: Gómez, D.M.; Berent, I.; Benavides-Varela, S.; Bion, R.A.H.; Cattarossi, L.; Nespor, M.; Mehler, J.
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Silvia Benavides-Varela via Scopus - Elsevier

Right-hemisphere (spatial?) acalculia and the influence of neglect

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84940324475

Contributors: Benavides-Varela, S.; Pitteri, M.; Priftis, K.; Passarini, L.; Meneghello, F.; Semenza, C.
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Silvia Benavides-Varela via Scopus - Elsevier

Telerehabilitation in poststroke anomia

BioMed Research International
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84900006038

Contributors: Agostini, M.; Garzon, M.; Benavides-Varela, S.; De Pellegrin, S.; Bencini, G.; Rossi, G.; Rosadoni, S.; Mancuso, M.; Turolla, A.; Meneghello, F. et al.
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Silvia Benavides-Varela via Scopus - Elsevier

Newborn's brain activity signals the origin of word memories

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2012 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84868127484

Contributors: Benavides-Varela, S.; Hochmann, J.-R.; MacAgno, F.; Nespor, M.; Mehler, J.
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Silvia Benavides-Varela via Scopus - Elsevier

Acoustic markers of prominence influence infants' and adults' segmentation of speech sequences

Language and Speech
2011 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-79953065403

Contributors: Bion, R.A.H.; Benavides-Varela, S.; Nespor, M.
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Silvia Benavides-Varela via Scopus - Elsevier

Consonants and vowels: Different roles in early language acquisition

Developmental Science
2011 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-80054956198

Contributors: Hochmann, J.-R.; Benavides-Varela, S.; Nespor, M.; Mehler, J.
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Silvia Benavides-Varela via Scopus - Elsevier

Memory in the neonate brain

PLoS ONE
2011 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-80455174449

Contributors: Benavides-Varela, S.; Gómez, D.M.; Macagno, F.; Bion, R.A.H.; Peretz, I.; Mehler, J.
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Silvia Benavides-Varela via Scopus - Elsevier

Studying neonates' language and memory capacities with functional near-infrared spectroscopy

Frontiers in Psychology
2011 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84860578553

Contributors: Benavides-Varela, S.; Gómez, D.M.; Mehler, J.
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Silvia Benavides-Varela via Scopus - Elsevier

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