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
- Higher order factors of sound symbolism External link Journal of Memory and Language, 125 DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2022.104323
- In search of different categories of abstract concepts: a fMRI adaptation study External link Scientific Reports, 11 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-02013-8
- Social interaction is a catalyst for adult human learning in online contexts. External link Current Biology, 31 (21), 4853-4859 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.08.045
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