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Body Action Language Lab @ballabrome.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

FIS3 project LINKAGES (Learning and usIng coNcepts: Knowledge exchAnging and enGaging in innEr and Social dynamics) funded by MUR to @annaborghi.bsky.social will start on Sept30, and will last for 5 years! Experiments and models on concepts, abstractness, vagueness, inner speech, and social dynamics

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Claudia Mazzuca (she/her) @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Yesterday at the conference of the International Ass. of Cognitive Semiotics I presented preliminary results from an exciting interdisciplinary project comparing #concreteness across 3 French-speaking communities (France, Niger & Côte d’Ivoire)

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Body Action Language Lab @ballabrome.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

👏@annaborghi.bsky.social 's talk on the relation between vagueness, abstractness, and social interaction concluded our contributions for IACS6 with a summary of the latest projects going on in the lab, spanning from interactive studies to more classic experiments, with new theoretical insights👏

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Body Action Language Lab @ballabrome.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

🗣️Congratulations to @chiaradelivio.bsky.social for such a clear and beautifully presented talk just delivered at IACS6, showcasing results from two innovative studies on the relation between inner speech and abstractness/vagueness🗣️

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Body Action Language Lab @ballabrome.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

🌈Honoured to take part to the International Day against #homolesbobitransphobia with @chiaradelivio.bsky.social presenting her work on voice congruence perception in transgender & gender non-conforming identities at the Dept. of European, Italian and Intercultural studies of Sapienza Univ. of Rome🌈

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Body Action Language Lab @ballabrome.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Amazing talk last Friday from @louiseconnell.bsky.social on the importance of both sensorimotor and linguistic features for conceptual representations.

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Body Action Language Lab @ballabrome.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

🤐Articulatory suppression is a paradigm widely employed in different research strands—but how consistent are the methods?🤐 Our new open-access review in Frontiers in Psychology examines the last 10 years of methodological choices www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

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Frontiers | Variability and methodological choices in articulatory suppression tasks: a review

Researchers often examine the role of overt language and inner speech in cognition by using articulatory suppression as a form of verbal interference. The hy...

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Body Action Language Lab @ballabrome.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Thanks @jamiereilly.bsky.social for such an exciting talk @ISTC-CNR, full of promising insights on the relation between concreteness and aging. Cherry on top: an #opensource R's package for analysing conversation alignment through different semantic dimensions.

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Body Action Language Lab @ballabrome.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Today we had the pleasure of hosting @jennysaffran.bsky.social @ISTC-CNR, who gave an inspiring talk on statistical learning in language acquisition. Her research shows how children progressively “learn to understand”, rather than passively absorbing linguistic inputs.

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anna borghi @annaborghi.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

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.

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Body Action Language Lab @ballabrome.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Hot off the press our latest opinion paper in which we offer a novel perspective on abstract concepts, highlighting the potentialities of hyperscanning research to investigate the role of social interaction in their acquisition and use. Check it out: doi.org/10.3389/fnin...

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Frontiers | Abstractness and social interaction through a new lens: the potentialities of hyperscanning in naturalistic settings

People constantly use concepts, allowing them to capture similar and different elements between objects and situations (Reilly et al., 2024), as mental short...

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Body Action Language Lab @ballabrome.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Snapshots from today's conference (age.it) in Neaples where Italian experts on aging have gathered to discuss their results. Below @annaborghi.bsky.social presenting studies investigating how abstractness impacts ecological concepts and conversation dynamics across different age cohorts

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Body Action Language Lab @ballabrome.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

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.

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Body Action Language Lab @ballabrome.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

🎓🎉 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

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anna borghi @annaborghi.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

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

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Body Action Language Lab @ballabrome.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

📷 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

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

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Body Action Language Lab @ballabrome.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

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

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Body Action Language Lab @ballabrome.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

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!

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Body Action Language Lab @ballabrome.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

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

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anna borghi @annaborghi.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

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...

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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

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anna borghi @annaborghi.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

🔬 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

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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...

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Body Action Language Lab @ballabrome.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

🚀 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...

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anna borghi @annaborghi.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

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

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Cervello | NEUROspritz | Roma

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

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Body Action Language Lab @ballabrome.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

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!

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Body Action Language Lab @ballabrome.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

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...

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Body Action Language Lab @ballabrome.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

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...

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Body Action Language Lab @ballabrome.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

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!

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Body Action Language Lab @ballabrome.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

🚀 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.

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