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
- Learning from others is good, with others is better: the role of social interaction in human acquisition of new knowledge External link Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 378 (1870) DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0357
- I don’t see what you’re saying: The maluma/takete effect does not depend on the visual appearance of phonemes as they are articulated External link Psychonomic Bulletin and Review DOI: 10.3758/s13423-022-02224-8
- Prosodic modulations in child-directed language and their impact on word learning External link Developmental Science DOI: 10.1111/desc.13357
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