Publications

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Books

• Vecchi, T., & Gatti, D. (2020). Memory as Prediction. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, USA 
• Cattaneo, Z. & Vecchi, T. (2011). Blind Vision: The neuroscience of visual impairment. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, USA 
• Vecchi, T. & Bottini, G. (Eds.) (2006). Imagery and spatial cognition: Methods, models and clinical assessment. John Benjamins Publishers: Amsterdam and Philadelphia, The Netherlands/USA 
• Cornoldi, C., & Vecchi, T. (2003). Visuo-spatial working memory and individual differences. Psychology Press: Hove and New York, UK/USA

 

Books in Italian

• Gatti, D., & Vecchi, T. (2020). Che cos’è la memoria (What is memory). Carocci: Roma 
• Gatti, D., & Vecchi, T. (2019). Memoria (Memory). Carocci: Roma 
• Schön, D, Akiva-Kabiri, L., & Vecchi, T (IInd edition 2018). Psicologia della musica (Psychology of music). Carocci: Roma.  (translated in Spanish: Psicologiá de la musica.  Alianza Editorial: Madrid, 2019)

Scientific Articles

•          Gatti, D., Rinaldi, L., Marelli, M., Mazzoni, G., & Vecchi, T. (2022). Decomposing the semantic processes underpinning veridical and false memories. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151, 363-389

• Gatti, D., Marelli, M., Vecchi, T., Rinaldi, L. (2022). Spatial Representations Without Spatial Computations.Psychological Science, 2022, 33(11), pp. 1947–1958

• Gatti, D., Rinaldi, L., Marelli, M., Vecchi, T. (2022). Cerebellar involvement in distributional semantic learning: Insights from a combined TMS-computational approach. Brain Stimulation, 15(4), pp. 999–1001

• Gatti, D., Stagnitto, S.M., Basile, C., ...Rinaldi, L., Lecce, S. (2022). Individual differences in theory of mind correlate with the occurrence of false memory: A study with the DRM task, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221135178

• Gatti, D., Marelli, M., Mazzoni, G., Vecchi, T., Rinaldi, L. (2022). Hands-on false memories: a combined study with distributional semantics and mouse-tracking. Psychological Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-022-01710-x

• Rodella, C., Bernini, S., Panzarasa, S., ...Tassorelli, C., Bottiroli, S. (2022). A double-blind randomized controlled trial combining cognitive training (CoRe) and neurostimulation (tDCS) in the early stages of cognitive impairment. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 34(1), pp. 73–8     

•          Cristea, I.A., Vecchi, T., Cuijpers, P. (2021). Top-down and Bottom-up Pathways to Developing Psychological Interventions. JAMA Psychiatry, 78(6), pp. 593–594

  ·         Gatti, D., Vecchi, T., Mazzoni, G. (2021). Cerebellum and semantic memory: A TMS study using the DRM paradigm. Cortex, 135, pp. 78–91

  ·         Cerami, C., Crespi, C., Bottiroli, S., ...Vecchi, T., Tassorelli, C. (2021). High perceived isolation and reduced social support affect headache impact levels in migraine after the Covid-19 outbreak: A cross sectional survey on chronic and episodic patients. Cephalalgia, 41(14), pp. 1437–1446

  ·         Gatti, D., Rinaldi, L., Ferreri, L., Vecchi, T. (2021). The human cerebellum as a hub of the predictive brain. Brain Sciences, 11(11), 1492.

  ·         Cavallini, E., Rosi, A., van Vugt, F.T., ...Vecchi, T., Lecce, S. (2021). Closeness to friends explains age differences in positive emotional experience during the lockdown period of COVID-19 pandemic. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 33(9), pp. 2623–2631

  ·         Ferrari, C., Vecchi, T., Sciamanna, G., Pisani, A., Natoli, S. (2021). Facemasks and face recognition: Potential impact on synaptic plasticity. Neurobiology of Disease, 153, 105319

  ·         Cerami, C., Canevelli, M., Santi, G.C., ...Vecchi, T., Crespi, C. (2021). Identifying Frail Populations for Disease Risk Prediction and Intervention Planning in the Covid-19 Era: A Focus on Social Isolation and Vulnerability. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 626682

  ·         Circi, R., Gatti, D., Russo, V., Vecchi, T. (2021). The foreign language effect on decision-making: A meta-analysis. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 28(4), pp. 1131–1141

  ·         Cerami, C., Galandra, C., Santi, G.C., ...Vecchi, T., Crespi, C. (2021). Risk-Aversion for Negative Health Outcomes May Promote Individual Compliance to Containment Measures in Covid-19 Pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 666454

  ·         Bottiroli, S., Bernini, S., Cavallini, E., ...Vecchi, T., Sandrini, G., Tassorelli, C. (2021). The Smart Aging Platform for Assessing Early Phases of Cognitive Impairment in Patients With Neurodegenerative Diseases. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 635410

  ·         Rosi, A., van Vugt, F.T., Lecce, S., ...Vecchi, T., Cavallini, E. (2021). Risk Perception in a Real-World Situation (COVID-19): How It Changes From 18 to 87 Years Old. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 646558

  ·         Bernini, S., Stasolla, F., Panzarasa, S., ...Vecchi, T., Tassorelli, C., Bottiroli, S. (2021). Cognitive Telerehabilitation for Older Adults With Neurodegenerative Diseases in the COVID-19 Era: A Perspective Study. Frontiers in Neurology, 11, 623933

  ·         Gatti, D., Vecchi, T. (2021). Memory and prediction: The role of forgetfulness | Il futuro nella memoria: ricordo, dimenticanza e previsione. Ricerche di Psicologia, 44(1), pp. 35–44

  ·         Rodella, C., Bernini, S., Panzarasa, S., ...Vecchi, T., Tassorelli, C., Bottiroli, S. (2021). A double-blind randomized controlled trial combining cognitive training (CoRe) and neurostimulation (tDCS) in the early stages of cognitive impairment. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 2021

•      Gatti, D., Rinaldi, L., Cristea, I., Vecchi, T. (2021). Probing cerebellar involvement in cognition through a meta-analysis of TMS evidence. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 14777

•          Galandra, C., Cerami, C., Santi, G.C., ...Vecchi, T., Crespi, C. (2020). Job loss and health threatening events modulate risk-taking behaviours in the Covid-19 emergency. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 22236

•          Gatti, D., Van Vugt, F., Vecchi, T. (2020).  A causal role for the cerebellum in semantic integration: a transcranial magnetic stimulation study. Scientific Reports, 2020, 10(1), 18139

  ·         Rinaldi, L., Ciricugno, A., Merabet, L.B., Vecchi, T., Cattaneo, Z. (2020). The effect of blindness on spatial asymmetries. Brain Sciences, 10(10), pp. 1–14, 662

  ·         Vecchi, T. (2020).  Is the future of psychology open to discussion? | LA PSICOLOGIA DEL FUTURO DIPENDE DA NOI?. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 47(3-4), pp. 1089–1094

  ·         Lega, C., Cattaneo, Z., Ancona, N., Vecchi, T., Rinaldi, L. (2020). Instrumental expertise and musical timbre modulate the spatial representation of pitch. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73(8), pp. 1162–1172

  ·         Cerami, C., Santi, G.C., Galandra, C., ...Vecchi, T., Crespi, C. (2020). Covid-19 Outbreak In Italy: Are We Ready for the Psychosocial and the Economic Crisis? Baseline Findings From the PsyCovid Study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, 556

  ·         Gatti, D., Vecchi, T. (2020). Memory and cerebellum. Confinia Cephalalgica, 30(3), pp. 137–138

  ·         Vecchi, T. (2020). Mind and brain. Integrate knowledge to understand the behavior | Mente e cervello*. Integrare le conoscenze per comprendere il comportamento. Confinia Cephalalgica, 30(1), pp. 58–67

  ·         Ciricugno, A., Rinaldi, L., Vecchi, T., Merabet, L.B., Cattaneo, Z. (2020). The role of binocular vision in driving pseudoneglect in visual and haptic bisection: Evidence from strabismic and monocular blind individuals. Multisensory Research, 33(4-5), pp. 549–567

• Rosi A, Cavallini E, Gamboz N, Vecchi T, Van Vugt FT, Russo R. (2019). The Impact of Failures and Successes on Affect and Self-Esteem in Young and Older Adults. Frontiers in Psychology 2019 Aug 6;10:1795. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01795. eCollection 2019.
• Allegri N, Mennuni S, Rulli E, Vanacore N, Corli O, Floriani I, De Simone I, Allegri M, Govoni S, Vecchi T, Sandrini G, Liccione D, Biagioli E. (2019). Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on Neuropsychological Effects of Long-Term Use of Opioids in Patients With Chronic Noncancer Pain. Pain Practice, 19(3):328-343. doi: 10.1111/papr.12741. Epub 2018
• Vallarino M, Rapisarda F, Scott J, Vecchi T, Barbato A, D'Avanzo B. (2019). Experiences of Mental Healthcare Reported by Individuals Diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder: An Italian Qualitative Study. Community Mental Health Journal, 55(1):129-136. doi: 10.1007/s10597-018-0311-3. Epub 2018
• Ferrari C, Oldrati V, Gallucci M, Vecchi T, Cattaneo Z. (2018). The role of the cerebellum in explicit and incidental processing of facial emotional expressions: A study with transcranial magnetic stimulation. Neuroimage, 169:256-264. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.12.026.
• Rinaldi L, Vecchi T, Fantino M, Merabet LB, Cattaneo Z. (2018). The ego-moving metaphor of time relies on visual experience: No representation of time along the sagittal space in the blind. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 147(3):444-450. doi: 10.1037/xge0000373.
• Rinaldi L, Merabet LB, Vecchi T, Cattaneo Z. (2018). The spatial representation of number, time, and serial order following sensory deprivation: A systematic review. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 90:371-380. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev. 2018.04.021.
• Ferrari C, Cattaneo Z, Oldrati V, Casiraghi L, Castelli F, D'Angelo E, Vecchi T. (2018). TMS over the cerebellum interferes with short-term memory of visual sequences. Scientific Reports, 8(1):6722. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-25151-y.
• Peviani V, Magnani FG, Ciricugno A, Vecchi T, Bottini G. (2018). Rubber Hand Illusion survives Ventral Premotor area inhibition: A rTMS study. Neuropsychologia, 120:18-24. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.09.017.
• Cattaneo Z, Lega C, Rinaldi L, Fantino M, Ferrari C, Merabet LB, Vecchi T. (2018). The Spatial Musical Association of Response Codes does not depend on a normal visual experience: A study with early blind individuals. Attention Perception and Psychophysics. 80(4):813-821. doi: 10.3758/s13414-018-1495-x. 
• Rosi A, Del Signore F, Canelli E, Allegri N, Bottiroli S, Vecchi T, Cavallini E. (2018). The effect of strategic memory training in older adults: who benefits most? International Psychogeriatrics. 30(8):1235-1242. doi: 10.1017/S1041610217002691. [Epub ahead of print]
• Bottiroli S, Tassorelli C, Lamonica M, Zucchella C, Cavallini E, Bernini S, Sinforiani E, Pazzi S, Cristiani P, Vecchi T, Tost D, Sandrini G. (2017). Smart Aging Platform for Evaluating Cognitive Functions in Aging: A Comparison with the MoCA in a Normal Population. Frontiers Aging Neuroscience. 2017 Nov 21;9:379. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2017.00379. eCollection 2017.
• Ferrari C, Gamond L, Gallucci M, Vecchi T, Cattaneo Z. (2017). An Exploratory TMS Study on Prefrontal Lateralization in Valence Categorization of Facial Expressions. Experimental Psychology, 64(4):282-289. doi: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000363.
• Ferrari C, Vecchi T, Merabet LB, Cattaneo Z. ()2017). Blindness and social trust: The effect of early visual deprivation on judgments of trustworthiness. Consciousness and Cognition, 55:156-164. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2017.08.005.
• Bottiroli S, Cavallini E, Dunlosky J, Vecchi T, Hertzog C. (2017). Self-guided strategy-adaption training for older adults: Transfer effects to everyday tasks. Archives Gerontolology and Geriatrics.72:91-98. doi: 10.1016/j.archger.2017.05.015.
• Gamond L, Vecchi T, Ferrari C, Merabet LB, Cattaneo Z.(2017). Emotion processing in early blind and sighted individuals. Neuropsychology, 31(5):516-524. doi: 10.1037/neu0000360.
• Allegri N, Rossi F, Del Signore F, Bertazzoni P, Bellazzi R, Sandrini G, Vecchi T, Liccione D, Pascale A, Govoni S. (2017). Drug prescription appropriateness in the elderly: an Italian study. Clinical Intervention Aging. 2017 Feb 10;12:325-333. doi: 10.2147/CIA.S109125. eCollection 2017. Erratum in: Clin Interv Aging. 2017 Dec 15;12 :2131.
• Ferrari C, Nadal M, Schiavi S, Vecchi T, Cela-Conde CJ, Cattaneo Z. (2017). The dorsomedial prefrontal cortex mediates the interaction between moral and aesthetic valuation: a TMS study on the beauty-is-good stereotype. Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience; 12(5):707-717. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsx002.
• Ferrari C, Vecchi T, Todorov A, Cattaneo Z. (2016). Interfering with activity in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex via TMS affects social impressions updating. Cognitive Affective Behavioral Neuroscience. 16(4):626-34. doi: 10.3758/s13415-016-0419-2.
• Lega C, Vecchi T, D'Angelo E, Cattaneo Z. (2016). A TMS investigation on the role of the cerebellum in pitch and timbre discrimination. Cerebellum and Ataxias, 2;3:6. doi: 10.1186/s40673-016-0044-4. eCollection 2016.
• Bottiroli S, Cavallini E, Ceccato I, Vecchi T, Lecce S. (2016). Theory of Mind in aging: Comparing cognitive and affective components in the faux pas test. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 62:152-62. doi: 10.1016/j.archger.2015.09.009.
• Ferrari C, Lega C, Vernice M, Tamietto M, Mende-Siedlecki P, Vecchi T, Todorov A, Cattaneo Z. (2016). The Dorsomedial Prefrontal Cortex Plays a Causal Role in Integrating Social Impressions from Faces and Verbal Descriptions. Cerebral Cortex. 26(1):156-65. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhu186
• Cavallini E, Bianco F, Bottiroli S, Rosi A, Vecchi T, Lecce S. (2015). Training for generalization in Theory of Mind: a study with older adults. Frontiers Psychology; 6:1123. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01123. eCollection 2015.
• Rinaldi L, Vecchi T, Fantino M, Merabet LB, Cattaneo Z. (2015). The effect of hand movements on numerical bisection judgments in early blind and sighted individuals. Cortex; 71:76-84. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2015.06.005.
• Cattaneo Z, Lega C, Ferrari C, Vecchi T, Cela-Conde CJ, Silvanto J, Nadal M. (2015).  The role of the lateral occipital cortex in aesthetic appreciation of representational and abstract paintings: a TMS study.. Brain and Cognition. 95:44-53. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2015.01.008.
• Bonino D, Ricciardi E, Bernardi G, Sani L, Gentili C, Vecchi T, Pietrini P. (2015). Spatial imagery relies on a sensory independent, though sensory sensitive, functional organization within the parietal cortex: a fMRI study of angle discrimination in sighted and congenitally blind individuals. Neuropsychologia, 68:59-70. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.01.004.
• Zucchella C, Sinforiani E, Tassorelli C, Cavallini E, Tost-Pardell D, Grau S, Pazzi S, Puricelli S, Bernini S, Bottiroli S, Vecchi T, Sandrini G, Nappi G. (2014). Serious games for screening pre-dementia conditions: from virtuality to reality? A pilot project. Functional Neurolology., 29(3):153-8.
• Cavallini E, Bottiroli S, Capotosto E, De Beni R, Pavan G, Vecchi T, Borella E. (2015). Self-help memory training for healthy older adults in a residential care center: specific and transfer effects on performance and beliefs. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry., 30(8):870-80. doi: 10.1002/gps.4230
• Renzi C, Ferrari C, Schiavi S, Pisoni A, Papagno C, Vecchi T, Antal A, Cattaneo Z. (2015). The role of the occipital face area in holistic processing involved in face detection and discrimination: A tDCS study. Neuropsychology. 29(3):409-16. doi: 10.1037/neu0000127. Erratum in: Neuropsychology. 2015 May;29(3):432.
• Cattaneo Z., Renzi C., Bona S., Merabet L.B., Carbon C.C., Vecchi T. (2014). Hemispheric asymmetry in discriminating faces differing for featural or configural (second-order relations) aspects.. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 21, 363-369. DOI 10.3758/s13423-013-0484-2
• Lega, C., Cattaneo, Z., Merabet, L., Vecchi, T., & Cucchi, S. (2014). The effect of musical expertise on the representation of space. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Apr 24;8:250. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00250 
• Renzi, C., Vecchi, T., D’Angelo, E., Silvanto, J., & Cattaneo, Z. (2014). Phosphene induction by cerebellar transcranial magnetic stimulation. Clinical Neurophysiology, 125, 2132-2133. doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2014.01.031.
• Cattaneo, Z., Renzi, C., Casali, S., Silvanto, J., Vecchi, T., Papagno, C., & D’Angelo, E. (2014). Cerebellar vermis plays a causal role in visual motion discrimination. Cortex, 58, 272-280. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.01.012.
• Bottiroli, S., Vecchi, T.,  Campanella, F.,  Varetta, A., Gallotti, M.C., Perego, E., Tenconi, M.T., Cavallini, E. (2014). Executive functioning in older adult outpatients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus: A preliminary study. Clinical Gerontologist, 37(2), 91-107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07317115.2013.868846
• Cattaneo, Z., Schiavi, S., Lega, C., Renzi, C., Tagliaferri, M., Boehringer, J, Carbon, C.-C., & Vecchi T. (2014). Biases in spatial bisection induced by viewing male and female faces (2014). Experimental Psychology, 61, 368-377. doi: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000256.
• Bottiroli S., Rosi A., Russo R., Vecchi T., Cavallini E. (2014). The cognitive effects of listening to background music on older adults: processing speed improves with upbeat music, while memory seems to benefit from both upbeat and downbeat music. Frontiers Aging Neuroscience. 2014 Oct 15;6:284. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00284. eCollection 2014.
• Cattaneo, Z., Bona, S., Bauer, C., Silvanto, J., Herbert, A.M., Vecchi, T., & Merabet, L. (2014). Symmetry detection in visual impairment: Behavioral evidence and neural correlates. Symmetry, 6, 427-443.
• Cattaneo Z., Vecchi, T., Fantino, M., Herbert, A.M., & Merabet, L.B. (2013). The effect of vertical and horizontal symmetry on memory for tactile patterns in late blind individuals. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics¸75, 375-382.
• Cattaneo, Z., Vecchi, T., Monegato, M., Pece, A., Merabet, L.B., & Carbon C.C. (2013). Strabismic amblyopia affects relational but not featural and Gestalt processes of faces. Vision Research, 80, 19-30.
• Bona, S., Cattaneo, Z., Vecchi, T., Soto, D., & Silvanto, H. (2013). Metacognition of visual short-term memory: dissociation between objective and subjective components of VSTM. Frontiers in Psychology, 4:62. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00062.
• Renzi, C., Schiavi, S., Carbon, C:C., Vecchi, T., Silvanto, H., & Cattaneo, Z. (2013). Processing of featural and configural aspects is lateralized in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex: a TMS study. Neuroimage, 74, 45-51 
• Ricciardi, E., Handjaras, G., Bonino, D., Vecchi, T., Fadiga, L., & Pietrini, P. (2013) Beyond motor scheme: a supramodal distributed representation in the action-observation network. PLOS One, 8(3):e58632. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058632.
• Renzi, C., Riccardi, E., Bonino, D., Handjaras, G., Vecchi, T., Pietrini, P. (2013). The effects of visual control and distance in modulating peripersonal spatial representation. PLOS One, 8(3):e59460. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059460.
• Renzi, C., Cattaneo, Z., Vecchi, T., & Cornoldi, C. (2013) Mental imagery and blindness. In S. Lacey & R. Lawson (Eds.), Multisensory imagery (pp. 115-130). Springer: New York, USA
• Bottiroli S, Cavallini E, Dunlosky J, Vecchi T, Hertzog C. (2013). The importance of training strategy adaptation: a learner-oriented approach for improving older adults' memory and transfer. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 19(3):205-18
• Salillas, E., Semenza, C., Basso, D., Vecchi, T., & Siegal, M. (2012). Single pulse TMS induced disruption to right and left parietal cortex on addition and multiplication. Neuroimage, 59, 3159-3165. 
• Basso, D., Pavan, A., Ricciardi, E., Fagioli, S., Vecchi, T., Miniussi, C., & Pietrini, P. (2012). Touching motion: rTMS on the human middle temporal complex interferes with tactile speed processing. Brain Topography, 25, 389-398. 
• Cattaneo, Z., Lega, C., Vecchi, T., & Vallar, G. (2012). Listening to white noise counteracts visual and haptic pseudoneglect. Perception, 41, 1395-1398. 
• Ricciardi, E., Basso, D., Sani, L. Bonino, D., Vecchi, T., Pietrini, P., & Miniussi, C. (2011). Functional inhibition of the human middle temporal cortex affects non-visual motion perception: a repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation study during tactile speed discrimination. Experimental Biology and Medicine, 236, 138-144
• Cattaneo, Z., Fantino, M., Silvanto, J., Vallar, G., & Vecchi, T. (2011). Tapping effects on numerical bisection. Experimental Brain Research, 208, 21-28
• Cattaneo, Z., Fantino, M., Tinti, C., Pascual-Leone, A., Silvanto, J., Vecchi T. (2011). Spatial biases in peripersonal space in sighted and blind individuals revealed by a haptic line bisection paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 37, 1110-1121
• Renzi, C., Vecchi, T., Silvanto, J., & Cattaneo, Z. (2011). Overlapping representations of numerical magnitude and motion direction in the posterior parietal cortex: A TMS-adaptation study. Neuroscience Letters, 490, 145-149 
• Cattaneo, Z., Fantino, M., Silvanto, J., Tinti, C., & Vecchi, T. (2011). Blind individuals show pseudoneglect in bisecting numerical intervals, Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, 73, 1021-1028 
• Cavallini E., Dunlosky J., Bottiroli S., Hertzog C., Vecchi T. (2010). Promoting transfer in memory training for older adults. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 22, 314-323.
• Cattaneo, Z., Devlin, J.T., Salvini, F., Vecchi, T., & Silvanto, J. (2010). The causal role of category-specific neuronal representations in the left ventral premotor cortex (PMv) in semantic processing. Neuroimage, 49, 2728-2734
• Cattaneo, Z., Fantino, M., Tinti, C., Silvanto, J. & Vecchi, T. (2010). Crossmodal interaction between the mental number line and peripersonal haptic space in sighted and blind individuals. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, 72, 885-890. 
• Cattaneo, Z., Fantino, M., Silvanto, J., Tinti, C., Pascual-Leone, A., Vecchi T. (2010). Simmetry perception in the blind. Acta Psychologica, 134, 398-402.
• Cavallini, E., Cornoldi, C., & Vecchi, T. (2009). The effects of age and professional expertise on working memory performance. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23, 382-395.
• Cattaneo, Z., Devlin, J.T., Vecchi, T., & Silvanto, J. (2009). Dissociable neural representations of grammatical gender in Broca's area investigated by the combination of satiation and TMS. Neuroimage, 47, 700-704.
• Ricciardi, E. Bonino, D., Sani L., Vecchi, T., Guazzelli M., Haxby J.V., Fadiga L., Pietrini P. (2009). Do we really need vision? How blind people “see” the actions of others. Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 9719-9724.
• Salillas, E., Basso, D., Baldi, M., Semenza, C. & Vecchi, T. (2009). Motion on numbers: Transcranial magnetic stimulaton on VIPS alters both numerical and motion processes. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, 2129-2138. 
• Cattaneo, Z., Rota, F., Walsh, V., Vecchi, T., & Silvanto, J. (2009). TMS-Adaptation Reveals Abstract Letter Selectivity in the Left Posterior Parietal Cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 19, 2321-2325. 
• Cattaneo, Z, Vecchi, T., Pascual-Leone, A. Silvanto, J. (2009) Contrasting early visual cortical activation states involved in visual imagery and short-term memory. European Journal of Neuroscience, 30, 1393-1400. 
• Akiva-Kabiri, L., Vecchi, T., Granot, R., Basso, D., & Schon, D. (2009). Memory for tonal pitches: A “music length-effect” hypothesis. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1169, 266-269. 
• Boso, M., Gosselin, N., Comelli, M., Vecchi, T., Barale, F., Peretz, I., Politi, P. (2009). Exploring musical taste in severe autistic subjects. Preliminary data. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1169, 332-335.
• Cattaneo, Z., Rosen, M., Vecchi, T., & Pelz, J.B. (2008) Monitoring eye movements to investigate the picture superiority effect in spatial memory. Perception, 37, 34-49.
• Cattaneo, Z., & Vecchi, T. (2008). Supramodality effects in visual and haptic spatial processes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory ad Cognition, 34, 631-642. 
• Bottiroli, S., Cavallini, E., & Vecchi, T. (2008). Long-term effects of memory training in the elderly: A longitudinal study. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 47, 277-289.
• Cattaneo, Z., Vecchi, T., Cornoldi, C., Mammarella, I., Bonino, D., Ricciardi, E., & Pietrini, P., (2008). Imagery and spatial processes in visual impairment. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 32, 1346-1360.
• Cattaneo, Z., Bhatt, E., Merabet, L., Pece, A., & Vecchi T. (2008). The influence of reduced visual acuity on age-related decline in spatial working memory: an investigation. Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition, 15, 687-702.
• Cattaneo, Z., Bhatt, E., Merabet, L & Vecchi T. (2008). Effects of complete monocular deprivation in visuo-spatial memory. Brain Research Bulletin, 77, 112-116.
• Cattaneo, Z., Rota, F., Vecchi, T., & Silvanto, J. (2008). Using state-dependency of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to investigate letter selectivity in the left posterior parietal cortex: a comparison of TMS-priming and TMS-adaptation paradigms. European Journal of Neuroscience, 28, 1924-1929.
• Bonino D., Ricciardi E, Sani L, Gentili C, Vanello N, Guazzelli M, Vecchi T, Pietrini P. (2008). Tactile Spatial Working Memory Activates the Dorsal Extrastriate Cortical Pathway in Congenitally Blind Individuals. Archives Italiennes de Biologie, 146, 133-148.
• Cattaneo, Z., Vecchi, T., Monegato, M., Pece, A., & Cornoldi, C. (2007). Effects of late visual impairment on mental representations activated by visual and tactile stimuli. Brain Research, 1148, 170-176.
• Dunlosky, J., Cavallini, E., Roth, H., McGuire, C.L., Hertzog, C., & Vecchi, T. (2007). Do Self-Monitoring Interventions Improve Older Adults’ Learning? Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 62B, Special Issue 1, 70-76.
• Monegato, M., Cattaneo, Z., Pece, A., & Vecchi, T., (2007). Comparing the effects of congenital and late visual impairments on visuospatial mental abilities. Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 101, 278-295.
• Cattaneo, Z., Postma, A., & Vecchi, T. (2007). The picture superiority effect in working memory for spatial and temporal order. Psychologia, 50, 102-109.
• Cattaneo, Z., Postma, A., & Vecchi T. (2006). Gender Differences in Memory for Object and Word locations: The Role of Stimulus Transformations. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59, 904-919.
• Ricciardi, E., Bonino, D., Gentili, C., Sani, L., Pietrini, P., & Vecchi, T. (2006). Neural correlates of spatial working memory: A fMRI study comparing visual and tactile processes. Neuroscience, 139, 339-349.
• Vecchi, T., Cattaneo, Z., Monegato, M., Pece, A., Cornoldi, C., & Pietrini P. (2006). Why Cyclops could not compete with Ulysses: monocular vision and mental images. NeuroReport, 17, 723-726.
• Basso, D., Vecchi, T., Akiva-Kabiri, L., Baschenis, I., Boggiani, E., & Bisiacchi, P.S. (2006). Handedness effects on Interhemispheric Transfer Time: A TMS study. Brain Research Bulletin, 70, 228-232. 
• Cattaneo, Z., Fastame, M.C., Cornoldi, C., & Vecchi, T. (2006). Working memory, imagery and visuo-spatial mechanisms. In T. Vecchi & G. Bottini (Eds.), Imagery and spatial cognition: Methods, models and clinical assessment, 101-137. John Benjamins Publishers: Amsterdam and Philadelphia, The Netherlands/USA.
• Logie, R.H. & Vecchi, T. (2006). Motor components in visuo-spatial processes. In T. Vecchi & G. Bottini (Eds.), Imagery and spatial cognition: Methods, models and clinical assessment, pp. 173-184. John Benjamins Publishers: Amsterdam and Philadelphia, The Netherlands/USA
• Cavallini, E., & Vecchi, T. (2006). Visuo-spatial working memory and aging. In T. Vecchi & G. Bottini (Eds.), Imagery and spatial cognition: Methods, models and clinical assessment, 187-201. John Benjamins Publishers: Amsterdam and Philadelphia, The Netherlands/USA. 
• Vecchi, T., Richardson, J.T.E., & Cavallini, E. (2005). Passive storage versus active processing in working memory: Evidence from age-related variations in performance. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 17, 521-539.
• Pietrini, P., Ricciardi, E., Gentili, C., Bonino, D., Vanello, N., Sani, L., Danti, S., Guazzelli, M., Bicchi, A., Vecchi, T., & Haxby, J.V. (2005). Oltre le immagini sensoriali: la rappresentazione degli oggetti nella via visiva ventrale. Neurological Sciences, 26:S81–S83.
• Bosco, A., Longoni, A.M., & Vecchi, T. (2004). Gender effects in spatial orientation: cognitive profiles and mental strategies . Applied Cognitive Psychology, 18, 519-532.
• Cavallini, E., Fastame, M.C., Palladino, P., Rossi, S., & Vecchi, T. (2004). Visuo-spatial span and cognitive functions: A theoretical analysis of the “Corsi” task. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 23, 217-224.
• Vecchi, T., Tinti, C., & Cornoldi, C. (2004) Spatial memory and integration processes in congenital blindness. NeuroReport, 15, 2787-2790.
• Cavallini, E., Pagnin, A., & Vecchi, T. (2003). Aging and everyday memory: The beneficial effect of memory training. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 37, 241-257.
• Palladino, P, Mammarella, N., & Vecchi, T. (2003). Modality-specific effects in inhibitory mechanisms: The interaction of peripheral and central components in working memory. Brain and Cognition, 53, 263-267.
• Cornoldi, C., Fastame, M.C., & Vecchi, T. (2003). Congenital blindness and spatial mental imagery. In Y. Hatwell, A. Streri & E. Gentaz (Eds.), Touching for knowing, pp. 173-187. John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam-Philadelphia.
• Richardson, J.T.E., & Vecchi, T. (2002). A jigsaw-puzzle imagery task for assessing active visuospatial processes in old and young people. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments & Computers, 34, 69-82.
• Vecchi, T. (2001). Visuo-spatial processing in congenitally blind people: Is there a gender-related preference? Personality and Individual Differences, 30, 1361-1370.
• Cornoldi, C., & Marconi, F., & Vecchi T. (2001). Visuospatial working memory in Turner's syndrome. Brain & Cognition, 46, 90-94. 
• Vecchi T., Phillips, L.H., & Cornoldi, C. (2001). Individual differences in visuo-spatial working memory: The effects of age, gender and blindness. In M. Denis, C. Cornoldi, R.H. Logie, De Vega, M. & Engelkamp, J. (Eds.), Imagery, language and visuo-spatial thinking, pp.29-58. Psychology Press, Hove.
• Vecchi, T., & Richardson, J.T.E. (2001). Measures of visuospatial short-term memory: The Knox Cube Imitation Test and the Corsi Blocks Test compared. Brain & Cognition. 46, 291-295.
• Vecchi, T., & Richardson, J.T.E. (2000). Active processing in visuo-spatial working memory. Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive, 19, 3-32. 
• Cornoldi, C., Rigoni, F., Venneri, A., & Vecchi, T. (2000). Passive and active visuo-spatial memory: Double dissociation in developmental learning disabilities. Brain and Cognition, 43, 117-120
• Cornoldi, C., & Vecchi, T. (2000). Mental imagery in blind people: The role of passive and active visuo-spatial processes. In M. Heller (Ed.), Touch, representation, and blindness, pp.143-181. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Girelli, L., Luzzatti, C., Annoni, G., & Vecchi, T. (1999). Progressive decline of numerical skills in Alzheimer type dementia: A case study. Brain and Cognition, 40, 132-136.
• Vecchi, T., & Cornoldi, C. (1999). Passive storage and active manipulation in visuo-spatial working memory: Further evidence from the study of age differences. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 11, 391-406.
• Vecchi, T., Saveriano, V., & Paciaroni, L. (1998/1999). Storage and processing working memory functions in Alzheimer-type dementia. Behavioural Neurology, 11, 227-231.
• Vecchi, T. (1998). Visuo-spatial imagery in congenitally totally blind people. Memory,6, 91-102.
• Luzzatti, C., Vecchi, T., Agazzi, D., Cesa-Bianchi, M., & Vergani, C. (1998). A neurological dissociation between preserved visual and impaired spatial processing in mental imagery. Cortex, 34, 461-469.
• Vecchi, T., & Girelli, L. (1998). Gender differences in visuo-spatial processing: The importance of distinguishing between passive storage and active manipulation. Acta Psychologica, 99, 1-16.
• Mazzoni, G., Cornoldi, C., Tomat, L., & Vecchi, T. (1997). Remembering the grocery shopping list: biases in metacognitive judgement. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 11, 253-267.
• Vecchi, T., Monticelli, M., & Cornoldi, C. (1995). Visuo-spatial working memory: structures and variables affecting a capacity measures. Neuropsychologia, 33, 1549-1564 (contributo apparso anche in M. Behrmann, S.M. Kosslyn & M. Jeannerod (Eds.), The neuropsychology of mental imagery, Oxford University Press: Oxford).