Valentina Pescuma @valentinapescuma.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Grateful to my co-authors, who handled several of the final steps of this work during my extended leave. 010
Valentina Pescuma @valentinapescuma.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Using an artificial language learning paradigm, we show that animacy acts as a privileged organizing dimension: when multiple contrasts compete, grammatical distinctions are structured more strongly around animacy than color. 100
Valentina Pescuma @valentinapescuma.bsky.social · 26/01/2026New preprint from a very interesting project led by Francesca Franzon, with @davidecrepaldi.bsky.social , @alessia-zampieri.bsky.social, and me. osf.io/preprints/ps...osf.ioOSF 111
Valentina Pescuma @valentinapescuma.bsky.social · 22/08/2025The dataset includes over 240K fixations and 150K word-level metrics, with saccade, fixation, and (word) interest area reports. Preprint osf.io/preprints/os..., data osf.io/hx2sj/. Work conducted with @davidecrepaldi.bsky.social and Maria Ktori. (2/2)osf.ioOSF 011
Valentina Pescuma @valentinapescuma.bsky.social · 22/08/2025We’re very happy to launch EyeReadIt, a database of eye movements in Italian developing and skilled readers. 141 kids (grades 3–6) plus 33 adults read six passages from children books, for a total of 1566 word tokens and 762 word types. (1/2) 170
