Adele Loia

Can GPT replace human raters of metaphors? Our new work with @vmangiaterra.bsky.social @cbarattieri.bsky.social
@al-azary.bsky.social Across 687 Italian & English metaphors, GPT shows strong validity & reliability, but stumbles when meaning becomes sensorimotor ➡️ arxiv.org/abs/2512.12444 #NEPLab

📍IUSS Pavia | Seminar by @daniovadia.bsky.social
"AI and Ethics of Research"

A very interesting discussion on what it means to use AI in research today: opportunities, epistemic limits, and human responsibility in the age of generative models.

We're kicking off the Symposium on Humor Research!
A day dedicated to exploring the power of humor, coordinated by Luca Bischetti.Through diverse perspectives and engaging discussions, we aim to go beyond Aristotle to better understand why humor plays such a vital role in human experience #Humor

Big thanks to @mariannabolog.bsky.social and the @abstractionerc.bsky.social, my two years as a research fellow with them were truly formative and taught me how to do research collaboratively and creatively

New chapter ✨
I've started my PhD in Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics at IUSS Pavia, within the ERC project PROMENADE, on sentence and metaphor structures with Valentina Bambini.
Excited to dive into such an inspiring, interdisciplinary, and innovative research environment!🧠 #PhDlife

"The Role of Language in Human and Machine Intelligence" 🧠

A dense and thought-provoking symposium at #CogSci2025. Between brain, AI and LLMs: language emerges as both a key and a challenge for understanding intelligence, human and artificial.

@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! 💫

Jay McClelland's reflection on David Rumelhart's scientific legacy was a quiet highlight of #cogsci2025
A thought-provoking moment that brought back deep questions about the relationship between LLMs and the human mind.

Ready for #CogSci2025!

📍See you in San Francisco.

🗓️On July 31st at 2:37pm
@caterinavillani.bsky.social will present our longitudinal study on how children build word hierarchies using the #WordLadders task 💫

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!

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🧠✨

@adeleloia.bsky.social presenting our joint collaboration between @abstractionerc.bsky.social and PRIN 2022 WEMB at the Phd CLUB international conference in Bologna today:
THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE-MEDIATED ABSTRACTION IN SCHOOL CHILDREN

🎉Our paper
"Development of Linguistic-Mediated Abstraction: Insight from Word Ladders task", led by @caterinavillani.bsky.social was accepted as a talk at CogSci 2025!
Great collab between @abstractionerc.bsky.social & PRIN 2022 "Wemb" project
See you in SF - July 30- August 2! 🌉
#CogSci2025

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

We just played analogical word ladders here :-)

So we have this forest room for coffee breaks, which is an amazing immersive experience

The workshop on abstract concepts work in interacion is almost starting! A great event organized by @abstractionerc.bsky.social @caterinavillani.bsky.social @mariannabolog.bsky.social Follow online: shorturl.at/oEM7S

📢 ABSTRACTION presents:

A workshop with brilliant speakers who will discuss language, conversations, and social interaction!
🗓️ April 3rd | 9-18 (Rome time)
📍 In person: Bologna, IT
💻 From remote: shorturl.at/oEM7S
🔴 Limited in-person seats–Register by March 21st (see the flyer)

Don’t miss it!

Impromptu cross legs pic, after lunch, in the sun. At Lilec, Dep of Modern Languages, @Unibo.
@MariannaBolog @claudia_collac @AdeleLoia @CaterinaVillan8

Collecting linguistic data on class 2 out of 8, today and tomorrow full immersion at Imola IC7.
ABSTRACTION project with @CaterinaVillan8 @MariannaBolog and @AdeleLoia

Lunch with Abstraction_ERC after Tony Veale's talk here in Bologna

Aperitivo at Cantinella del Sole, with invoted speaker Tony Veale (Abstraction advisory board) and nice jazz music in the background.
Taking about LLMs ability to perform abstractions and create analogies.