What we mean when we say semantic: Toward a multidisciplinary semantic glossary

J Reilly, C Shain, V Borghesani, P Kuhnke… - Psychonomic bulletin & …, 2024 - Springer
Tulving characterized semantic memory as a vast repository of meaning that underlies
language and many other cognitive processes. This perspective on lexical and conceptual …

Grounded cognition, linguistic relativity, and abstract concepts

AM Borghi, C Mazzuca - Topics in cognitive science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Kemmerer's paper convincingly claims that the grounded cognition model (GCM) entails
linguistic relativity. Here, we underline that tackling linguistic relativity and cultural …

What we mean when we say semantic: A multidisciplinary semantic glossary

J Reilly, C Shain, V Borghesani… - … Bulletin and Review, 2024 - eprints.whiterose.ac.uk
Tulving (1972) characterized semantic memory as a vast repository of meaning that
underlies language and many other cognitive processes. This perspective on lexical and …

[HTML][HTML] What does “Internet” mean to us as we age? A multi-task investigation on the conceptualization of the technological domain across generations

I Falcinelli, C Fini, C Mazzuca, G Alessandri… - Computers in Human …, 2024 - Elsevier
Technological progress is increasing rapidly, and keeping up is particularly challenging for
older adults. Thus, adapting technological innovations to human needs has become urgent …

The TECo database: Technological and ecological concepts at the interface between abstractness and concreteness

I Falcinelli, C Fini, C Mazzuca… - Collabra: Psychology, 2024 - online.ucpress.edu
Ecology and Technology are two keywords of the era we inhabit. Knowing how people
represent these domains is essential to inform adequate interventions aimed at promoting …

Words as Social Tools (WAT): a reprise

C Mazzuca, C Fini, C De Livio, I Falcinelli… - Physics of Life …, 2024 - Elsevier
The paper presents new evidence collected in the last five years supporting the Words As
social Tools proposal on abstract concepts. We discuss findings revolving around three …

tDCS of right-hemispheric Wernicke's area homologue affects contextual learning of novel lexicon

D Gnedykh, D Tsvetova, N Mkrtychian… - … of Learning and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Numerous studies have shown robust evidence of the right hemisphere's involvement in the
language function, for instance in the processing of intonation, grammar, word meanings …

[PDF][PDF] A social route to abstractness

AM Borghi, C Mazzuca, L Tummolini - 2024 - osf.io
Abstractness, ie, the capability to form and use abstract concepts, like “fantasy”, is pivotal to
human 8 cognition. Abstract concepts come in different kinds and are characterized by …

Abstractness Impacts Conversational Dynamics and Interactive Alignment

C Mazzuca, C Villani, T Lamarra… - Available at SSRN …, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
Conversation topics may vary in abstractness. This might impact the effort required by
speakers to reach a common ground and, ultimately, an interactive alignment. In fact, people …

Abstract concepts and simulated competition

D Nico, A M. Borghi, L Tummolini, E Daprati - Psychological Research, 2024 - Springer
To better understand the social determinants of conceptual knowledge we devised a task in
which participants were asked to judge the match between a definition (expressed in …