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Frontiers | Beyond concreteness: why word specificity is the missing piece in theories on embodied language comprehension The concreteness effect has long been associated with embodied theories of language, which propose that concrete words are easier to process than abstract on...

New theoretical paper: “Beyond concreteness: why word specificity is the missing piece in theories on embodied language comprehension”
shorturl.at/6Rv3Y
Included in the special issue
"Rethinking the Embodiment of Language: Challenges and Future Horizons", led by V. Cuccio, V. Gallese & Y. Shtyrov.

📣 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!
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SEMINARI REGISTRATI Qui si trovano le registrazioni ed i materiali relativi ai seminari tenuti nell'ambito del progetto ABSTRACTION da invited speakers e collaboratori.

🌐 Il seminario della collega Valentina Cuccio è ora online!
È disponibile sul sito di Abstraction al link: site.unibo.it/abstraction/...

Se vi siete persi l’incontro o volete riascoltarlo con calma, potete trovarlo lì. Buona visione! 🎧✨

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In the Netherlands, when you walk into a pharmacy with a prescription, a pharmacist takes your medication and then, every single time, hands both the prescription and the medicine to a second pharmacist for a congruence check before you pay.
Peer review all the way down.
I find it brilliant!

E oggi ho condiviso con il centro interdipartimentale Alma AI e un gruppo di colleghe e colleghi giuristi capitanati da Monica Palmirani i risultati a grandi linee del gruppo @abstractionerc.bsky.social su studi che coinvolgono l'uso di LLMs. Questa settimana è decisamente densa :-)

Seeing this slide after completing my postdoc at @abstractionerc.bsky.social makes me emotional. Great talk of @mariannabolog.bsky.social at the workshop "Large and Small Language Models: stato dell’arte fra limiti e prospettive" at Unibo. Many works about abstraction and LLM are on the horizon! :)

Dopo il seminario di Valentina Cuccio con una delegazionedi Abstraction, nel magnifico chiostro del dipartimento di storia, San Giovanni in Monte, Bologna.

Prof. Valentina Cuccio kicks off her seminar asking whether there are any cross-cutting, neglected dimensions that can explain the concreteness effect. She elaborates on the modality of acquisition of concepts
@abstractionerc.bsky.social

Tavola rotonda all' ISTI-DAY, un'opportunità per discutere dei rischi, responsabilità e opportunità legate all'uso di GenAI per la ricerca.

Tomorrow I’m ready to hop on a train to Pisa right after my class, to take part in the round table at CNR ISTI, with top-notch computer scientists, to talk about the use and abuse of AI in research. I’ll be contributing the perspective of the humanities. Stay tuned!
www.isti.cnr.it/it/ricerca/i...

Alla scoperta dell'astrazione linguistica - final | PDF to Flipbook Created with the Heyzine flipbook maker

Per chi fosse interessato a leggere cosa fa il gruppo ABSTRACTION @erc.europa.eu , ecco il flipbook interattivo con gli studi condotti fino ad oggi (in lingua italiana).
heyzine.com/flip-book/61...
Il flipbook accompagna un video introduttivo, che trovate qui:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIqc...

📣 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

Today I officially took up my new position as Full Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bologna @unibo.it 🎉
Funny to think it all began when I was a kid, convinced everyone thought in Italian (of course!) and the others just had to translate into whatever language they spoke 😅.

Time flies! 🚀 @grambelli.bsky.social just wrapped up her 3-year postdoc with Abstraction_ERC and is already off exploring new research frontiers. Grateful that some projects still keep us collaborating: once an Abstractioner, always an Abstractioner! ☕✨Thanks for the amazing mug!!!

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I primi 2 seminari autunnali di @abstractionerc.bsky.social sono online!🥳
share.google/gGvHTdAA9O07...
👉Filippo Domaneschi
🎤Titolo: Concretely offensive: the processing f reclaimed slurs.
👉Veronica Repetti,
🎤Titolo: Concrete or abstract possession? Animacy, alienability, and syntactic structure.

Love this visual device: parents's discussions are shown not through words, only symbols, mostly pointing fingers.
From the child’s view, the words don’t matter; it’s adult stuff. What he perceives is the tone, the tension, the conflict.
A brilliant way to show how kids experience adult language.

Invited keynote at Rende, University of Calabria, went great!
On the role of context and abstraction mechanisms in the construction and interpretation of multimodal metaphors

Excited to kick off day 1 of the CIRM International Annual Conference on Metaphor and Multimodality at the University of Calabria in Rende: such a beautiful campus nestled in the hills. Enjoyed a lovely morning walk to get here! My invited keynote is scheduled for tomorrow morning.

In the seminar room this morning, there was this (rather distracting) writing on the wall: “Piume al vento” (“Feathers in the Wind"). 🦩 Quite exotic and mysterious, indeed 🙃

Veronica Repetti explaining variation in animacy, alienability and syntactic structure of concrete and abstract possession, this morning for the second @abstractionerc.bsky.social seminar.
All seminars are recorded and posted on site.unibo.it/abstraction/...

Filippo Domaneschi, director of the Lab of Language and Cognition presenting at @abstractionerc.bsky.social on the reclamation of slurs, discussing pragmatic and psycholinguistic aspects in relation to abstraction mechanisms

📣 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

I knew I hired well for @abstractionerc.bsky.social from day 1.
But seeing @tomlamarra.bsky.social presenting this morning his phd progress in front of faculty and this evening to the city, taking part to phd storytelling (part of EU Researchers' night) was a clear confirmation. Brilliant, Tom!

Excited to share that @abstractionerc.bsky.social has even reached #CambridgeUniversity and #TrinityCollege!

Yesterday, at the #XPrag2025 conference, I presented how speakers maximize the informativeness of their descriptions in naturalistic conversations.

Thanks for the insightful discussions!

Glad to be at #XPrag2025 at the #UniversityOfCambridge!
Day 1 was packed with fascinating talks and exciting discussions!

📣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

📣 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

Indeed our paper is doing great!!! I am not an expert in Australian top models, I admit, I prefer cognitive scientists from the USA overall :-)

Apparently I searched multiple times for our consensus paper using this string: "what do we mean when we say Reilly" 😅
@reilly-coglab.com

Prof Kristina Despot from the Institute of Croatian Language visiting the @abstractionerc.bsky.social group to establish collaborations on th use of figurative language and abstraction mechanims, and to brainstorm a fantastic ERC proposal :-)