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Valentina Bambini @valentinabambini.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

XPRAG is growing up! When it turned 20, we celebrated with a workshop www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nuP... and a SI in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Now that it's turning 25, @irastamon.bsky.social @richardbreheny.bsky.social & Nicole Gotzner are giving us a journal!

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Lena Palaniyappan @lenapl.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Impoverished articulation of perceptual processes in #schizophrenia is linked to the structure of #cerebellum For a special issue in Neuropsychologia edited by @valentinabambini.bsky.social & team!

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Cerebellum as a neural substrate for impoverishment in early psychosis

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 16/08/2025

New theme issue of #PhilTransB on #pragmatics and Theory of Mind edited by @valentinabambini.bsky.social and colleagues. Read the articles: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

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Tommaso Lamarra @tomlamarra.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

A big thank you also to the Scientific Administrators of #XPRAG.it, @valentinabambini.bsky.social and @filippodomaneschi, for this picture at #TrinityCollege, and for the great recent conversations! Can't wait for the next conference in Genoa in 2026! 🎉 #XPRAG.it2026

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arxiv cs.CL @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Veronica Mangiaterra, Hamad Al-Azary, Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, Paolo Canal, Valentina Bambini Can GPT replace human raters? Validity and reliability of machine-generated norms for metaphors arxiv.org/abs/2512.12444

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Language Development Research @langdevres.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Congratulations to Chiara Pompei, Serena Lecce, Paola Del Sette, Elena Didoni, Luca Bischetti & Valentina Bambini on publication of The Role of Metaphor in Children's Persuasive Communication in the LDR Special Issue on Development of Metaphor Comprehension. ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/8...

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Adele Loia @adeleloia.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

New chapter ✨ I've started my PhD in Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics at IUSS Pavia, within the ERC project PROMENADE, on sentence and metaphor structures with Valentina Bambini. Excited to dive into such an inspiring, interdisciplinary, and innovative research environment!🧠 #PhDlife

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Glossa Psycholinguistics @glossapsycholx.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

We are thrilled to announce that the Italian Agency for the Evaluation of Research has given our journal a rating of “A” for Linguistics publications. This is a major milestone for our journal! Thanks to @escholarship.bsky.social , Valentina Bambini, and Federico Frau for their support!

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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 22/10/2025

Fascinating talk by Valentina Bambini on metaphors and figurative language in schizophrenia, reporting from the PROMENADE project #MEIMI2025 #philsky #philpsy #epistemicinjustice

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BogaertsLab @bogaertslab.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

🗓️💬 Delighted to be invited as a keynote alongside @valentinabambini.bsky.social for the upcoming #PsycholinguisticsInFlanders (PiF) meeting — renamed #PsycholinguisticsInPavia (PiP) for a 🔆 edition! 🧑‍🎓➰A full-circle moment, as PiF was the very first academic conference I attended as a MA student.

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Valentina Bambini @valentinabambini.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Can GPT replace human raters of metaphors? Our new work with @vmangiaterra.bsky.social @cbarattieri.bsky.social @al-azary.bsky.social Across 687 Italian & English metaphors, GPT shows strong validity & reliability, but stumbles when meaning becomes sensorimotor ➡️ arxiv.org/abs/2512.12444 #NEPLab

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Federico Frau @federicofrau.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Delighted to share that I’m starting a new role as Jr Assistant Professor (RTDa) at IUSS within the #DIALOG project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social–as part of @valentinabambini.bsky.social's unit🎉 No better way to celebrate than with Italian pastries & the amazing support of the #NEPLab team🍰🤍

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Valentina Bambini @valentinabambini.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The Laboratory of Neurolinguistics and Experimental Pragmatics meets the father of Experimental Pragmatics! @irastamon.bsky.social thanks for the visit! #NEPLab

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