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Claudia Mazzuca (she/her)

@claudiamazzuca.bsky.social
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Post-Doc CogSci @Sapienza University of Rome @ballabrome.bsky.social. Interested in concepts, language, culture, and perception; soft spot for #rstats, #OpenScience, gender studies & dinosaurs🏳️‍🌈

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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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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 · 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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Claudia Mazzuca (she/her) @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
👶Thanks @jennysaffran.bsky.social for a fantastic talk—rich with insights into how early experience shapes learning and what it reveals about the foundations of language.👶
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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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Claudia Mazzuca (she/her) @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Great to see this brilliant work led by @ileniafalcinelli.bsky.social finally published and #OA. Our results add further layers to the study of conceptual abstractness, showing differences in the representation of technological&ecological concepts across two age cohorts (65yo+ and younger adults)👵
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Body Action Language Lab @ballabrome.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
If you are interested, you can read more about the study on ecological concepts led by @ileniafalcinelli.bsky.social at osf.io/preprints/os...; for details about the conversations study led by @chiarafini.bsky.social please get in touch with her!
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Claudia Mazzuca (she/her) @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Truly honoured to have been given the chance to present my work in my first keynote talk as the 2024 winner of Best Young Researcher from the Italian Association of Cognitive Science at #AISC2025 in the wonderful IMT of Lucca
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anna borghi @annaborghi.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Wonderful talk by @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social at AISC, Italian Association of Cognitive Science, in Lucca, IMT, on "the worlds within words" - on the importance of considering diversity in language/culture, gender, age, and expertise in research on cognition. @ballabrome.bsky.social
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Claudia Mazzuca (she/her) @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
🧪🧑‍🔬 Do chemists think of water differently from laypeople? In this #preregistered #OpenAccess study we find that this is partly so, showing that their conceptual representation of water is more “essentialised” compared to that of laypeople onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Water Is and Is Not H2O, Depending on Who You Ask: Conceptualizations of Water Vary Across Chemists and Laypeople
Conceptual representations can be shaped by multiple factors, including expertise. In this study, we tested whether the concept of water is represented differently across laypeople and chemists, focu...
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Claudia Mazzuca (she/her) @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Our new paper is now online at @natrevpsychol.nature.com, with some of our latest perspectives on conceptual #abstractness and its relation with #vagueness and social interaction. Check it out at rdcu.be/elbbT
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The role of social interaction in the formation and use of abstract concepts
Nature Reviews Psychology - The capability to use abstract concepts such as ‘justice’ is a key part of human cognition. In this Perspective, Borghi et al. highlight distinct levels of...
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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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Claudia Mazzuca (she/her) @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
🗣️New paper out and #openaccess in Cognition w/@abstractionerc.bsky.social on conversation dynamics afforded by abstract vs concrete sentences. Some insights on interactive repairs too and their relation with abstractness. Thanks to all the people that collaborated to this exciting project! 🗣️
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