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Wonderful talk by @jennysaffran.bsky.social on how infants learn words. We learned a lot about statistical learning, how statistical regularities enhance prediction, and about the attempts children make to maximize uncertainty. And about intriguing eye-tracking paradigms. Thank you, Jenny!

🏳️‍🌈 Excited to share the #preprint of the first Italian database of gender-inclusive role nouns (GIRN-I), featuring ratings on 9 semantic dimensions for nouns with gendered (feminine/masculine) and gender-inclusive (asterisk/schwa) desinences. 🏳️‍🌈 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Hai già visto questa petizione? Ex Mercati Generali: rimettere al centro i bisogni di Ostiense!

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The Marica De Vincenzi Foundation is inviting applications for its post-doctoral fellowship! The fellowship offers up to 2 years of post-doctoral support abroad for Italian psycholinguists. Spread the word! Deadline is 3/10 - see info here: nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

A new paper on interoceptive and exteroceptive experiences for concepts, with mouse tracking. Interoception counts for abstract concepts, but even more for concrete concepts of natural elements (e.g., ocean, forest). Thanks @laurabarca.bsky.social, S. Diana, D.C.Duarte, @giusiporciello.bsky.social.

2x CE related (evolving languages) PhD opportunity 🚨

Excellent initiative from our French colleagues

Hyperscanning offers excellent opportunities to investigate abstract concepts (e.g., freedom, pondering) in interactive situations and test the role of social interaction for them. This is the bulk of our work. Thank you @ileniafalcinelli.bsky.social @chiarafini.bsky.social @ballabrome.bsky.social

Interested in ecology and climate change? Younger and older adults intend these concepts differently. For older adults, they are more concrete than for younger ones. Thank you @ileniafalcinelli.bsky.social @chiarafini.bsky.social @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social project age.it @ballabrome.bsky.social

Interesting multidisciplinary conference on aging. We presented tuo posters: a. conversations on concrete and abstract concepts of younger and older adults; b. how younger and older adults represent ecological concepts. W/ @chiarafini.bsky.social @ileniafalcinelli.bsky.social @ballabrome.bsky.social

Very proud of the members of BALLAB who are presenting at conferences! @mattiagervasi at Embodied and Situated Language Processing (ESLP) on inner speech and action learning. @chiaradelivio.bsky.social at SWECOG25 on an interactive study on abstract and vague concepts.🙃 @ballabrome.bsky.social

Great presentation, excellent experimental work, outstanding supervisors, and a great committee! Thank you for inviting me. And yes, you should be proud! I believe that all people working on abstract concepts and semantic memory will benefit from this work. 👏

Wonderful talk by @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social at AISC, Italian Association of Cognitive Science, in Lucca, IMT, on "the worlds within words" - on the importance of considering diversity in language/culture, gender, age, and expertise in research on cognition. @ballabrome.bsky.social

AIP Sperimentale 2025, 31° Congresso annuale AIP Sperimentale 2025Benvenute e benvenuti nella pagina ufficiale del XXXI Congresso dell'Associazione Italiana di Psicologia - Sezione Sperimentale, che si terrà a Torino presso il Campus Luigi Einau...

Very proud of Angelo Mattia Gervasi's poster at AIP Sperimentale in Turin. The study shows that inner speech works as a silent coach, impacting action learning. With @claudiamazzuca and Claudio Brozzoli. @ballabrome.bsky.social
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AIP Sperimentale 2025, 31° Congresso annuale AIP Sperimentale 2025Benvenute e benvenuti nella pagina ufficiale del XXXI Congresso dell'Associazione Italiana di Psicologia - Sezione Sperimentale, che si terrà a Torino presso il Campus Luigi Einau...

Fantastic symposium on new methods and perspectives in semantic memory. Thanks to Eleonora Catricalà (IULM) for the invitation and to Eleonora, Luca Rinaldi (Pavia), and @mariamontefinese.bsky.social (Padua) for the great talks. @ballabrome.bsky.social indico.sissa.it/event/159/se...

ESCOP | Cognitive Psychology Conference View the latest information on the ESCOP 2025 Conference is Sheffield

Which is the sound of thought? A lot of fun discussions at the ESCOP symposium on inner speech. I presented a talk together with @chiaradelivio.bsky.social, Angelo Mattia Gervasi, and @cfernyhough.bsky.social, on inner speech as both an inner (cognitive) and social tool. @ballabrome.bsky.social

Interested in the relationship between cognition, technology, nature, and wellbeing? Check our editorial and the special issue on Topoi. Thank you @chiarafini.bsky.social @van90.bsky.social @dimitrisbolis.bsky.social
@agliotiSM @takahikoikenuma.bsky.social

A new paper on concepts and expertise - what do Italian chemists and laypeople think of water. Thanks to @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social @chiarafini.bsky.social @ileniafalcinelli.bsky.social Marta Arcovito @ballabrome.bsky.social

Quante storie da scrivere prima di diventare Scienza | il manifesto (Editoriale) C’è la Scienza. E poi c’è la scienza, con la minuscola. La prima ci affascina perché rappresenta il limite ultimo della nostra conoscenza e, a volte, come ogni frontiera, mette paura. La ...

La scienza è un cammino. Non è lineare, non è prevedibile, e riguarda tutti noi.

Non vi perdete per nessuna ragione #PecoreElettriche, il supplemento del il manifesto con storie di scienza curato da Andrea Capocci in edicola da oggi e per tutto il mese di luglio.

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PhD Call 📢📢📢
Are you interested in a PhD in Cognitive and Social Neuroscience? Join us! We are booking for highly motivated and inspired future researchers! Waiting for you in Rome!

🗓️ Deadline 19th June

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Vi porto a casa l’urna elettorale.
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Very proud of the PhD defense of @ileniafalcinelli.bsky.social. Her dissertation focuses on ecological concepts (e.g., pollution), with various tasks, in older and younger adults. This work shows how studies on abstract concepts can help improve pro-environmental behaviors. @ballabrome.bsky.social

A New Chapter for Perspectives on Psychological Science - Arturo E. Hernandez, 2025

Perspectives on Psychological Science returns—reimagined. More voices. Broader reach. Rigor with respect.
Read the relaunch editorial.

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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...
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So much fun! ci siamo divertite un sacco! 😀

Does reliance on the Internet lead to overestimating knowledge? How do younger and older adults conceive technological concepts? Do people tend to outsource knowledge more with technological concepts? With @chiarafini.bsky.social and @ileniafalcinelli.bsky.social. @ballabrome.bsky.social

Preprint (authors' version without final revisions and revised figures), see here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

The role of social interaction in the formation and use of abstract concepts Nature Reviews Psychology - The capability to use abstract concepts such as ‘justice’ is a key part of human cognition. In this Perspective, Borghi et al. highlight distinct levels of...

Very happy to share this Perspective w/@claudiamazzuca.bsky.social, @ideeverdi.bsky.social.
on abstract concepts and social interaction. We address vagueness and the relation of abstract concepts to knowledge outsourcing, crosscultural differences, and LLMs. @ballabrome.bsky.social
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