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
- Iconicity emerges and is maintained in spoken language Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
- Word learning in two languages: neural overlap and representational differences Neuropsychologia
- Linking language to sensory experience: onomatopoeia in early language development. External link Dev Sci, e13066-e13066 DOI: 10.1111/desc.13066
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