Bilde av Gallo, Federico
Bilde av Gallo, Federico
Institutt for språk og kultur federico.gallo@uit.no +4777644468 Tromsø You can find me here

Federico Gallo


Job description

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Psycholinguistics of Language Representation (PoLaR) lab, Center for Language, Brain and Learning (C-LaBL), Department of Language and Culture


  • Federico Gallo, Toms Voits, Jason Rothman, Jubin Aboutalebi, Yury Shtyrov, Andriy Myachykov :
    Experience-dependent neuroplasticity in the hippocampus of bilingual young adults
    eNeuro 2025 ARKIV / DOI
  • Federico Gallo, Liliia Terekhina, Jubin Aboutalebi, Yury Shtyrov, Andriy Myachykov :
    Cognitive efficiency and expertise-dependent automaticity in the working memory performance of bilinguals
    Brain and Cognition 2025 ARKIV / DOI
  • Jubin Aboutalebi, Federico Gallo, Davide Fedeli, Elise Houdayer, Federica Zangrillo, Daniele Emedoli et al.:
    On the brain struggles to recognize basic facial emotions with face masks: an fMRI study
    Frontiers in Psychology 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • Federico Gallo, Andriy Myachykov, Jubin Aboutalebi, Vincent Francesco Deluca, Jason Ellis, Jason Rothman et al.:
    Bilingualism, sleep, and cognition: An integrative view and open research questions
    Brain and Language 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • Federico Gallo, Beatriz Bermúdez-Margaretto, Anastasia Malyshevskaya, Yury Shtyrov, Hamutal Kreiner, Mikhail Pokhoday et al.:
    Lexico-Semantic Attrition of Native Language: Evidence From Russian–Hebrew Bilinguals
    Language Learning 2024 ARKIV / DOI

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    Publikasjoner utenom Cristin

    2024

    Kadieva, D., Ulanov, M., Shestakova, A., Agranovich, O., Blank, I., & Gallo, F. (2024). Neurostructural Consequences of Obstetric Brachial Plexus Palsy in Childhood. Accepted in Neuroscience Insights on 12 August 2024.

     

    Gallo, F. & Abutalebi, J. (in press). Neuroimaging of Cognitive Reserve in Bilinguals. In E. Andrews & S. Kiran (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Language and Brain. Cambridge University Press.

     

    Abutalebi, J., Bellini, C., Gallo, F. & Del Maschio, N. (2024). Brain and Bilingualism. In J. Grafman (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Human Brain, 2nd Edition. Elsevier. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-820480-1.00124-8

     

    Abutalebi, J., Gallo, F., Fedeli, D., Houdayer, E., Zangrillo, F., Emedoli, D., Spina, A., Bellini, C., Del Maschio, N., Iannaccone, S. & Alemanno, F. (2024) On the brain struggles to recognize basic facial emotions with face masks: an fMRI study. Frontiers in Psychology. 15:1339592.

     

    Gallo, F., Terekhina, L., Shtyrov, Y., & Myachykov, A. (2024). Neuroplasticity and cognitive reserve effects in the Caudate Nucleus of young bilingual adults. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 27(1), 107-116.

     

    2023

    Gallo, F., Myachykov, A., Nelyubina, M., Shtyrov, Y., Kubiak, J., Terekhina, L., & Abutalebi, J. (2023). Linguistic distance dynamically modulates the effects of bilingualism on executive performance in aging. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1–10.

     

    Maddock, J., Gallo, F., Wolters, F. J., Stafford, J., Marseglia, A., Dekhtyar, S., ... & SHARED Consortium. (2023). Social health and change in cognitive capability among older adults: findings from four European longitudinal studies. Gerontology.

     

    Gallo, F., Terekhina, L., Shtyrov, Y., & Myachykov, A. (2023). Neuroplasticity and cognitive reserve effects in the Caudate Nucleus of young bilingual adults. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-10.

     

    Gallo, F., & Abutalebi, J. (2023). The unique role of bilingualism among cognitive reserve-enhancing factors. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-8.

     

    2022

    Malyshevskaya, A., Gallo, F., Scheepers, C., Shtyrov, Y., & Myachykov, A. (2022). Mapping of individual time units in horizontal space. Language and Cognition, 1-21.

     

    Bermúdez-Margaretto, B.*, Gallo, F.*, Novitskiy, N., Myachykov, A., Petrova, A., & Shtyrov, Y. (2022). Ultra-rapid and automatic interplay between L1 and L2 semantics in late bilinguals: EEG evidence. Cortex, 151, 147-161.

    *The authors share first-authorship

     

    Gallo, F., DeLuca, V., Prystauka, Y., Voits, T., Rothman, J., & Abutalebi, J. (2022). Bilingualism and Aging: Implications for (Delaying) Neurocognitive Decline. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16, 819105.

     

    Gallo, F., Kubiak, J., & Myachykov, A. (2022). Add Bilingualism to the Mix: L2 Proficiency Modulates the Effect of Cognitive Reserve Proxies on Executive Performance in Healthy Aging. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 780261.

     

    2021

    Bermúdez-Margaretto, B., Gallo, F., Pokhoday, M., Shtyrov, Y., Kreiner, H., & Myachykov, A. (2021). Understanding Language Attrition through Orthography. Languages, 6(4), 199.

     

    Gallo, F., Kalpouzos, G., Laukka, E. J., Wang, R., Qiu, C., Bäckman, L., Marseglia, A., Fratiglioni, L., & Dekhtyar, S. (2021). Cognitive Trajectories and Dementia Risk: A Comparison of Two Cognitive Reserve Measures. Frontiers In Aging Neuroscience, 13, 737736.

     

    Malyshevskaya, A., Gallo, F., Shtyrov, Y., & Myachykov, A. (2021). Horizontal spatial biases in time-related words: A line bisection study. In Cognitive Processing (Vol. 22, No. SUPPL 1, pp. 29-29). Germany: Springer Heidelberg.

     

    Gallo, F., Myachykov, A., & Shtyrov, Y. (2021). Bilingualism and Reserve: Etiology of Successful Aging. In Advances in Cognitive Research, Artificial Intelligence and Neuroinformatics: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Cognitive Sciences, Intercognsci-2020, October 10-16, 2020, Moscow, Russia (Vol. 1358, pp. 75-75). Springer Nature.

     

    Gallo, F., Ramanujan, K., Shtyrov, Y., & Myachykov, A. (2021). Attriters and Bilinguals: What's in a Name?. Frontiers In Psychology, 12, 558228.

     

    Gallo, F., Bermudez-Margaretto, B., Shtyrov, Y., Abutalebi, J., Kreiner, H., Chitaya, T., ... & Myachykov, A. (2021). First language attrition: what it is, what it isn't, and what it can be. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 513, 686388.

     

    Gallo, F., Novitskiy, N., Myachykov, A., & Shtyrov, Y. (2021). Individual differences in bilingual experience modulate executive control network and performance: Behavioral and structural neuroimaging evidence. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 24, 293-304.

     

    2020

    Gallo, F., Myachykov, A., Shtyrov, Y., & Abutalebi, J. (2020). Cognitive and brain reserve in bilinguals: field overview and explanatory mechanisms. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 4, 127-143.

    2018

    Del Maschio, N., Sulpizio, S., Gallo, F., Fedeli, D., Weekes, B.S., & Abutalebi, J. (2018). Neuroplasticity across the lifespan and aging effect in bilinguals and monolinguals. Brain and Cognition, 125, 118-126.


    Research interests

    My research focuses on the neural and cognitive consequences of bilingualism and how these lead to the prevention and mitigation of cognitive aging.





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