@caterinavillani.bsky.social
Cognitive scientist. Abstract Language, Categorization, and Social Interactions. Lover of sea, dance & cats 🍉🌈 https://www.caterinavillani.com/ 🤓 Research Assistant, @Freie Universität Berlin 🎓 Post-doc, @Abstraction_ERC project at @Unibo
Big paper release! ConversationAlign - methods for computing lexical and affective alignment between interlocutors in dyadic conversation transcripts. Open Access in Behavior Research Methods. link.springer.com/epdf/10.3758...
Had a great time chatting with Ava about our latest conversation research. If you're interested in what makes for a good conversation, check it out!
www.mindsmatterpodcast.com/s5-ep-01-you...
Spending time with @abstractionerc.bsky.social Team is always nourishing — intellectually during the talk, and physically right after, as this photo reveals.
📣 Abstraction seminars are back!
🗓️ 12 December, 10:30 (CET)
🎙️Prof.ssa Kristina S. Despot
🎓Metaphor literalization strategy: From concrete to abstract and back to concrete again
📍 Bologna
💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/B4H7R)
👉 Save the date & spread the word!
✨@abstractionerc.bsky.social
Don't miss this!!
📣 November's Abstraction seminar is all set too!
🗓️ 19 November, 11:30 - 12:30 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/xW7mF )
🎆 Join us, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word!
Happy with this popular science article about our work (with @lindadrijvers.bsky.social and @judithholler.bsky.social), showing that listeners use co-speech hand gestures to predict upcoming meaning ✋ www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Conversational turn-taking feels effortless, but it's a complex dance. We find social context—who you're talking to and what you're talking about—fundamentally changes conversational dynamics in both autistic & TD children. 1/
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... w @chrismmcox.bsky.social
📣 November's Abstraction seminar is all set too!
🗓️ 19 November, 11:30 - 12.30 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/xW7mF )
🎆 Join us, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word!
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@abstractionerc.bsky.social
📣 Abstraction seminars are back!
🗓️ 17 October, 10:00 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/RjrOU)
🎆 Join us for another seminar, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word!
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@abstractionerc.bsky.social
📣 Abstraction seminars are back!
🗓️ 16 October, 15:00 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/0fw5a)
🎆 Join us for a thought-provoking seminar, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word! ✨
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
📣The chapter "𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆: 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀"
w/@mariannabolog.bsky.social is now online & forthcoming in the #ElsevierEncyclopedia of Language & Linguistics
🔍 Theoretical overview, quantification tools, and behavioral evidence on specificity.
👉 Read: urly.it/31c4nm
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
No better way to finish my post-doc than with a new publication on #specificityeffect in semantic processing!
I’ll really miss the @abstractionerc.bsky.social team, but exciting projects are still underway. Thrilled and optimistic about what’s next! 💫
Navigating Open Research: A Guide for Early Career Researchers. Great work from the CONUL Research Group. Free to download zenodo.org/records/1702... #irishResearch #openResearch
@caterinavillani.bsky.social presenting our collaboration between @abstractionerc.bsky.social and PRIN 2022 Wemb at #Cogsci2025 in San Francisco: "Development of Linguistic- Mediated Abstraction: Insights from Word Ladders Task".
Well done! 💫
Because nothing says “ready to present” like literally wearing your findings at #CogSci2025
Ham Huang leveled up from poster session to superhero mode! 🦸
Kicking off #CogSci2025 at the iconic #InternetArchive with incredible speakers!
Big focus on LLMs— #McClelland asks: Are humans still smarter than AI? Yes: we learn from less data & generalize better!
Just in time for the @cogscisociety.bsky.social conference and the Rumelhart 25th Anniversary Event, the 2023 Rumelhart Prize Issue Honoring Nick Chater is out in TopiCS in Cognitive Science, edited by Mike Oaksford and me:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17568765...
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Getting ready for #COGSCI2025 in San Francisco!
📆 July 31st, 02:37pm
I’ll present a longitudinal study (w/@mariannabolog.bsky.social & @adeleloia.bsky.social) on how school-aged children build taxonomies using the #WordLadders task developed by @abstractionerc.bsky.social
Catch up with us there!
🌟 Had a great time presenting our poster at #ACL2025!
It was a great experience sharing our work with researchers interested in conceptual categories, #abstraction and #generalization, thanks for the insightful discussions and feedback!
wt @andreapdr.bsky.social @mariannabolog.bsky.social
#NLProc
🔊 New paper on #pragmatics!
Rising or falling nuclear accentual movement on the sentence-final word is the key #prosodic cue for distinguishing questions from statements in Italian.
👉 l1nq.com/I8G4d
W/@tomasellor.bsky.social @isabellaboux.bsky.social & #FPulvermüller at #FreieUniversitätBerlin.
Very proud and lucky to work with such a young, brilliant, and enthusiastic researcher. Well done @adeleloia.bsky.social
👏 👏 Next step: we'll bring this work to #CogSci2025🧠✨
Informal moment with @abstractionerc.bsky.social two new postdocs: Laura Occhipinti on the left and Paola Vernillo on the right, both with white shirts. Welcome!
It was such a pleasure to have you here and discuss how abstraction plays out in conversations! (interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...)
Thought-provoking and #openaccess, Andy Clark reflects on the challenges and potentials of emerging human-AI collaborations in his new commentary "Extending Minds with Generative AI", published by @natcomms.nature.com:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Kicked off my visiting week in #Aarhus with a great talk by @thaliawheatley.bsky.social and inspiring chats with the @interacting-minds.bsky.social group! Many thanks to @fusaroli.bsky.social for hosting me and to @abstractionerc.bsky.social for supporting my work on abstract language in dialogue!
The recordings from our @abstractionerc.bsky.social workshop are now online — definitely worth a listen!
▶️ site.unibo.it/abstraction/...
Video Credits: @grambelli.bsky.social
If you′re going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair 🌸 see you there!!!
We just played analogical word ladders here :-)
It was such a meaningful experience organizing this Workshop! Big thanks to @abstractionerc.bsky.social and all the speakers for your incredible talks and the rich discussions!
@annaborghi.bsky.social @fusaroli.bsky.social @dingemansemark.bsky.social @catemauri.bsky.social @bodowinter.bsky.social