Gabriella Vigliocco
Research carried out in my laboratory concerns psychological and neural mechanisms of human language use with a special emphasis on how conceptual and linguistic information are integrated. Our most important contributions to date include development of a theoretical framework for sentence production, and development of explicit computational models of lexical semantic representation informed by cognitive science and neuroscience. At present, our two main projects address: (1) the relationship between language and thought in spoken and signed languages; (2) the representation of abstract knowledge.
Meet the researcher
Professor Gabriella Vigliocco’s research explores issues surrounding language in a social context: How can language enable humans to share experiences? How do children learn to associate words with meaning? And how is this accomplished in the brain?
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Recent publications
- Italian Age of Acquisition Norms for a Large Set of Words (ItAoA) External link Frontiers in Psychology DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00278
- Modeling the Structure and Dynamics of Semantic Processing External link Cognitive Science DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12690
- Learning abstract words and concepts: insights from developmental language disorder. External link Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 373 (1752) DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0140
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