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 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
- The left inferior frontal gyrus: A neural crossroads between abstract and concrete knowledge External link NeuroImage, 175, 449-459 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.04.021
- Learning and Processing Abstract Words and Concepts: Insights From Typical and Atypical Development. External link Topics in cognitive science DOI: 10.1111/tops.12347
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