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Chiara De Livio (she/her) @chiaradelivio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I am delighted to share that our paper, "Insegnare parole concrete e astratte alla tua bambina/o: un compito interattivo con le famiglie," has been awarded the Vittorio Girotto Prize for Best Paper by the Italian Association for Cognitive Science.

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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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Claudia Mazzuca (she/her) @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Today’s poster session at #PiF Pavia with our study describing GIRN-I, the first Italian database for gender-inclusive role nouns. @annaborghi.bsky.social @chiaradelivio.bsky.social

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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 · 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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Claudia Mazzuca (she/her) @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

🏳️‍🌈 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...

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anna borghi @annaborghi.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

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

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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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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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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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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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