Body Action Language Lab

New #OpenAccess paper from our lab by @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social just out, showing that expertise affects conceptualisation. We found chemists essentialize more than laypeople the category of water. w/ @chiarafini.bsky.social, @ileniafalcinelli.bsky.social, Marta Arcovito, @annaborghi.bsky.social.

26.08.2025 12:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🎓🎉 Huge congratulations to our @ileniafalcinelli.bsky.social for successfully defending her PhD in Psychology and Social Neuroscience today, after years of dedication and brilliance, investigating ecological concepts in younger and older adults ! 🥂💫 #PhD

21.05.2025 12:19 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Wonderful talk by Claudia Gianelli today at Sapienza. On open science, meta-science, collaborative research, and the challenges of replicability for embodied cognition. I learned a lot, thank you, Claudia! archivio.unime.it/it/persona/c...
@ballabrome.bsky.social

19.05.2025 16:01 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Image showing the BALLAB banner for the Game Festival

Image showing some of the objects used for the Game Festival, like a 3D model of the brain, a pack of spaghetti, and pictures of living vs. non living entities.

Anna and Chiara playing the "Losing Categories" game with two young future scientist!

Anna and Chiara explaining how the brain works with the help of our 3D model

📷 Game Festival - Festa del Gioco #Garbatella

A joyful day of discovery where our little scientists explored the wonders of the senses, categories, joint action, and open science! Through hands-on experiments, they reminded us how powerful learning through play can be 🧠

@scuolaliberatutti

19.05.2025 15:03 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

A new publication from our lab! @chiarafini.bsky.social, @ileniafalcinelli.bsky.social and @annaborghi.bsky.social explored knowledge outsourcing about technological concepts in different ages in a Special Issue in Topoi. Here the link: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 💻👧👵

14.05.2025 12:19 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Excited to share our new work by @annaborghi.bsky.social @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social and @ideeverdi.bsky.social! We dive into abstract concepts in social interaction—exploring vagueness, knowledge outsourcing, cross-cultural variation, and the role of LLMs.
rdcu.be/elbbT

08.05.2025 14:59 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

BallaB - NEWS Talk: Prof. Ferdinand Binkofski (Aachen University) Parallel networks for object interaction and affordances Aula Magna, Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, and Health Studies, Sapienza Un...

The registration link is available here 👇

sites.google.com/view/annabor...

17.04.2025 15:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We were honored to host Ferdinand Binkofski (Aachen University) for a fascinating talk on object interaction, affordances, and tool use, highlighting their distinct neural pathways across the dorsal and ventral streams 🧠.
A truly insightful event at #Sapienza!

17.04.2025 15:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

About yesterday workshop on conversational dynamics and abstraction in interaction. Thanks to everyone who organised, joined and contributed to the discussion.
@annaborghi.bsky.social @abstractionerc.bsky.social @caterinavillani.bsky.social @mariannabolog.bsky.social

04.04.2025 12:19 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Inner speech is not a simulation of language but an act of speaking: Comment on “The Sound of Thought: Form Matters – The Prosody of Inner Speech” by Hamutal Kreiner, Zohar Eviatar

Our commentary on the article "The sound of thought" on #innerspeech is now online! Inner speech is not a simulation of language but an act of speaking. Thank you @chiaradelivio.bsky.social and @cfernyhough.bsky.social
@ballabrome.bsky.social
link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

24.03.2025 02:04 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Participants Recruiting for Mental Imagery Study Here is what you should know about it: Your partecipation would be divided in 3 steps: Compiling an Informed Consent Form + 2 easy questionnaires (this step takes about 5 mins): your result will tel...

🔬 Participate in Our Mental Imagery Study!
🧠💡 We are looking for English-speaking volunteers aged 50+ to take part in our online study on mental imagery!
🔍💭 If you’d like to contribute, write to us or fill out this form 👉 forms.gle/BirmV4GRjTHs...
@ballabrome.bsky.social @agliotilab

20.03.2025 16:34 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

14.03.2025 17:07 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

🚀 Exciting discussions on #Gender & #EcologicalConcepts in cognition & politics at the Feb 25 conference! 💡 Talks by @Emma Renström, @annalisa-setti.bsky.social, & @glupyan.bsky.social, hosted by our lab @ballabrome.bsky.social & #ProjectDeCo.

📺 Watch here: www.youtube.com/live/QDTBFWc...

05.03.2025 09:12 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Cervello | NEUROspritz | Roma Neuroscienza e divertimento. Eventi divulgativi per mettere a disposizioni i lavori di ricercatori al grande pubblico. Neurospritz onlus

Grazie per la bellissima serata su
*Evoluzione e Cervello*
27 febbraio, 8pm
Tullio Barni in “Carbonio e/o Silicio“
Anna Borghi in “Cervello in azione“
NEUROGames con Marco Iosa
#mercatocentraleroma
neurospritz.wixsite.com/neurospritz is great!
@ballabrome.bsky.social

28.02.2025 08:41 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Join the conference tomorrow!

🗓 February 25 | 3:15–6:00 PM CET
💡 Gender & Ecological Concepts: (un)consciousness, cognition, and politics

www.youtube.com/live/QDTBFWc...

w/
@Emma Renström
@annalisa-setti.bsky.social
@glupyan.bsky.social

Be part of the conversation—participate & spread the word!

24.02.2025 11:47 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

With @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social @caterinavillani.bsky.social @TommasoLamarra @mariannabolog.bsky.social @annaborghi.bsky.social

19.02.2025 16:45 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.

Does sentences’ abstractness affect conversation dynamics? In three preregistered studies with @abstractionerc.bsky.social we found this is so, with abstract sentences eliciting more uncertainty and curiosity than concrete sentences. Just out on Cognition!
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

19.02.2025 16:38 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 3

On the 25th of February we are hosting an exciting online conference with plenty of brilliant speakers that will discuss with us about concepts, language, consciousness and politicisation. Don’t miss it!

Link here: www.youtube.com/live/QDTBFWc...

17.02.2025 17:59 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Participants needed for neuroscience study! 🧠
Are you 40-45 years old, English native speaker, and interested in how the brain represents abstract and concrete concepts, especially in aphantasia? We are recruiting 16 participants for our study, help us uncover new insights!

13.02.2025 14:42 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

w/ @mtliuzza.bsky.social @bodowinter.bsky.social @annaborghi.bsky.social @IleniaFalcinelli @ClaudiaMazzuca @GiovannaCuomo @MattiaGervasi @van90.bsky.social @MatteoCandidi

11.02.2025 16:45 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🚀 Exciting news to kick off our BlueSky journey!

Thrilled to announce that the latest work from @chiarafini.bsky.social is finally out 📖 showing how even digital connections can transform into real, meaningful bonds.

11.02.2025 16:41 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0