What makes for a great conversation? Dr. Sebastian Spear shares his research using hyperscanning (neuroimaging on multiple brains at once) to study people's brains during real conversations. We discus...

Researchers now have fascinating insights into how our brains function while we communicate — and our hand gestures hold the key.

Engaging in fluent conversation is a surprisingly complex task that requires interlocutors to promptly respond to each other in a way that is appropriate to the social context. In this study, we dise...

IMC Tuesday Seminar: Talk by Caterina Villani, Research fellow, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Bologna

YouTube video by ERC project ABSTRACTION

Several studies suggest that numerical cognition interacts with spatial cognition. Here, we explored spatial-numerical associations through the lens of manual gestures. We asked English and Italian pa...

We study the relationship between objects, concepts, and language from an embodied & grounded cognition perspective—Led by Anna Borghi https://sites.google.com/view/annaborghilab @Sapienza Universit...

Conversation topics may vary in abstractness. This might impact the effort required by speakers to reach a common ground and, ultimately, an interacti…