Publications

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Journal Articles

2025

The cost of thinking is similar between large reasoning models and humans

Andrea G. de Varda, Ferdinando Pio D’Elia, Andrew Lampinen, Evelina Fedorenko
OSF Preprint
2025

A distributional model of concepts grounded in the spatial organization of objects

Andrea G. de Varda, Marco Petilli, Marco Marelli
Journal of Memory and Language
2025

High variability in LLMs’ analogical reasoning

Andrea G. de Varda, Chiara Saponaro, Marco Marelli
Nature Human Behaviour (Correspondence)
2025

Cracking arbitrariness: A data-driven study of auditory iconicity in spoken English

Andrea G. de Varda, Marco Marelli
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
2025

The Italian Crowdsourcing Project: Visual word recognition times for 130,495 Italian words

Simona Amenta, Andrea G. de Varda, Pawel Mandera, Emmanuel Keuleers, Marc Brysbaert, Marco Marelli
Behavior Research Methods
2025

Multilingual computational models reveal shared brain responses to 21 languages

Andrea G. de Varda, Saima Malik-Moraleda, Greta Tuckute, Evelina Fedorenko
bioRxiv
2025

Comparing Human-Only, AI-Assisted, and AI-Led Teams on Assessing Research Reproducibility in Quantitative Social Science

Abel Brodeur, et al. (incl. Andrea G. de Varda)
CEPR / I4R Discussion Paper
2024

Meaning Beyond Lexicality: Capturing Pseudoword Definitions with Language Models

Andrea G. de Varda, Davide Gatti, Marco Marelli, Fritz Günther
Computational Linguistics
2024

Cloze probability, predictability ratings, and computational estimates for 205 English sentences, aligned with existing EEG and reading time data

Andrea G. de Varda, Marco Marelli, Simona Amenta
Behavior Research Methods
2023

Data-driven cross-lingual syntax: An agreement study with massively multilingual models

Andrea G. de Varda, Marco Marelli
Computational Linguistics
2022

A Cross-Modal and Cross-lingual Study of Iconicity in Language: Insights From Deep Learning

Andrea G. de Varda, Carlo Strapparava
Cognitive Science

Conference Proceedings

2025

The BERT Model Family and Encoder-Only Transformers

M. Ciapparelli, Andrea G. de Varda
Elsevier Reference Module
2024

Word Semantic Similarity Norms

Andrea G. de Varda, M. Ciapparelli
Elsevier Reference Module
2024

The emergence of semantic units in massively multilingual models

Andrea G. de Varda, Marco Marelli
LREC-COLING
2024

Locally biased transformers better align with human reading times

Andrea G. de Varda, Marco Marelli
CMCL Workshop
2023

Scaling in cognitive modelling: A multilingual approach to human reading times

Andrea G. de Varda, Marco Marelli
ACL (Short Papers)
2022

Multilingualism encourages recursion: a transfer study with mBERT

Andrea G. de Varda, Roberto Zamparelli
SIGTYP Workshop
2022

The effects of surprisal across languages: Results from native and non-native reading

Andrea G. de Varda, Marco Marelli
Findings of ACL AACL-IJCNLP
2021

Phonovisual Biases in Language: Is the Lexicon Tied to the Visual World?

Andrea G. de Varda, Carlo Strapparava
IJCAI
2021

A layered bridge from sound to meaning: Investigating cross-linguistic phonosemantic correspondences

Andrea G. de Varda, Carlo Strapparava
CogSci
2020

Phonological Layers of Meaning: A Computational Exploration of Sound Iconicity

Andrea G. de Varda, Carlo Strapparava
CLiC-it (CEUR)