A state-of-the-art behavioral neuroscience lab equipped with 40 operant cages for rats and 20 for mice, enabling advanced studies on learning, memory, decision-making, motivation, addiction, anxiety, and cognitive flexibility. The setup supports high-throughput experiments with automated data collection and customizable protocols for pharmacological, genetic, and environmental manipulations.
In this exploratory study, we investigated whether and to what extent individual differences in cognitive and personality variables are associated with spoken idiom comprehension in context. Language unimpaired participants were enrolled in a cross-modal lexical decision study in which semantically ambiguous Italian idioms (i.e., strings with both a literal and an idiomatic interpretation as, for instance, break the ice), predictable or unpredictable before the string offset, were embedded in idiom-biasing contexts.
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