Pubblicazioni

Words as social tools (WAT): A reprise

2025 - PHYSICS OF LIFE REVIEWS

Mazzuca, Claudia; Fini, Chiara; De Livio, Chiara; Falcinelli, Ilenia; Maggio, Fernando; Tummolini, Luca; Borghi, Anna M.

The grounding of concrete and abstract language: consolidated evidence, open issues, and new challenges.

2024 - The Routledge handbook of embodied cognition

Scorolli, Claudia; Mazzuca, Claudia

Abstract sentences elicit more uncertainty and curiosity than concrete sentences

2024 - Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Mazzuca, Claudia; Villani, Caterina; Lamarra, Tommaso; Marcella Bolognesi, Marianna; Borghi, Anna M.

What does âInternetâ mean to us as we age? A multi-task investigation on the conceptualization of the technological domain across generations

2024 - COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR REPORTS

Falcinelli, Ilenia; Fini, Chiara; Mazzuca, Claudia; Alessandri, Guido; Alivernini, Fabio; Baiocco, Roberto; Chirico, Andrea; Filosa, Lorenzo; Palombi, Tommaso; Pistella, Jessica; Tavolucci, Simone; Lucidi, Fabio; Borghi, Anna M.

Concepts, abstractness and inner speech

2023 - PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS - ROYAL SOCIETY. BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Borghi, A. M.; Fernyhough, C.

Abstract concepts and simulated competition

2023 - PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Nico, Daniele; Borghi, Anna M.; Tummolini, Luca; Daprati, Elena

How Do We Learn and Why Do We Use Abstract Concepts and Words

2023 - FRONTIERS FOR YOUNG MINDS

Borghi, Anna; Falcinelli, Ilenia; Fini, Chiara; Gervasi, ANGELO MATTIA; Mazzuca, Claudia

Consensus Paper: Current Perspectives on Abstract Concepts and Future Research Directions

2023 - JOURNAL OF COGNITION

Banks, B.; Borghi, A. M.; Fargier, R.; Fini, C.; Jonauskaite, D.; Mazzuca, C.; Montalti, M.; Villani, C.; Woodin, G.

The Freedom of Words: Abstractness and the Power of Language

2023 -

Borghi, ANNA MARIA

Concepts, abstractness and inner speech

2023 - PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS - ROYAL SOCIETY. BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Borghi, A. M.; Fernyhough, C.

Grounded Cognition, Linguistic Relativity, and Abstract Concepts

2023 - TOPICS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE

Borghi, A. M.; Mazzuca, C.

From speed to car and back. An exploratory study about associations between abstract nouns and images

2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 CLASP Conference on (Dis)embodiment

Cerini, Ludovica; DI PALMA, Eliana; Lenci, Alessandro

Concepts for Which We Need Others More: The Case of Abstract Concepts

2022 - CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Borghi, A. M.

Abstract Concepts, Social Interaction, and Beliefs

2022 - FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY

Borghi, A. M.; Fini, C.; Mazzuca, C.

Abstract concepts in interaction: the need of others when guessing abstract concepts smooths dyadic motor interactions

2021 - ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE

Fini, C.; Era, V.; Da Rold, F.; Candidi, M.; Borghi, A. M.

Abstract words as social tools: which necessary evidence?

2021 - FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY

Borghi, Anna M.; Mazzuca, Claudia; Da Rold, Federico; Falcinelli, Ilenia; Fini, Chiara; Michalland, Arthur-Henri; Tummolini, Luca

From affordances to abstract words: the flexibility of sensorimotor grounding

2021 - BRAIN SCIENCES

Mazzuca, C.; Fini, C.; Michalland, A. H.; Falcinelli, I.; Da Rold, F.; Tummolini, L.; Borghi, A. M.

Articulatory suppression delays processing of abstract words: The role of inner speech

2021 - THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

Fini, Chiara; Daniele Zannino, Gian; Orsoni, Matteo; A Carlesimo, Giovanni; Benassi, Mariagrazia; M Borghi, Anna

Gender is a multifaceted concept: Evidence that specific life experiences differentially shape the concept of gender

2020 - LANGUAGE AND COGNITION

Mazzuca, C.; Majid, A.; Lugli, L.; Nicoletti, R.; Borghi, A. M.

Different kinds of abstract concept. Le sotto-categorie dei concetti astratti: uno studio empirico

2019 - SISTEMI INTELLIGENTI

Villani, C.; Lugli, L.; Liuzza, M. T.; Borghi, A. M.

Varieties of abstract concepts: development, use and representation in the brain

2018 - PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS - ROYAL SOCIETY. BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Borghi Anna, M.; Barca, Laura; Binkofski, Ferdinand; Tummolini, Luca

Abstract concepts, language and sociality. From acquisition to inner speech

2018 - PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS - ROYAL SOCIETY. BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Borghi Anna, M.; Barca, Laura; Binkofski, Ferdinand; Tummolini, Luca

Abstract, emotional and concrete concepts and the activation of mouth-hand effectors

2018 - PEERJ

Mazzuca, Claudia; Lugli, Luisa; Benassi, Mariagrazia; Nicoletti, Roberto; Borghi, Anna M.

The challenge of abstract concepts

2017 - PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Borghi, Anna M; Binkofski, Ferdinand; Castelfranchi, Cristiano; Cimatti, Felice; Scorolli, Claudia; Tummolini, Luca

Abstract concepts and aging. An embodied and grounded perspective

2017 - FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY

Borghi, ANNA MARIA; Setti, Annalisa