Interested in ecology and climate change? Younger and older adults intend these concepts differently. For older adults, they are more concrete than for younger ones. Thank you @ileniafalcinelli.bsky.social @chiarafini.bsky.social @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social project age.it @ballabrome.bsky.social

If you are interested, you can read more about the study on ecological concepts led by @ileniafalcinelli.bsky.social at osf.io/preprints/os...; for details about the conversations study led by @chiarafini.bsky.social please get in touch with her!

Snapshots from today's conference (age.it) in Neaples where Italian experts on aging have gathered to discuss their results. Below @annaborghi.bsky.social presenting studies investigating how abstractness impacts ecological concepts and conversation dynamics across different age cohorts

Very proud of the members of BALLAB who are presenting at conferences! @mattiagervasi at Embodied and Situated Language Processing (ESLP) on inner speech and action learning. @chiaradelivio.bsky.social at SWECOG25 on an interactive study on abstract and vague concepts.🙃 @ballabrome.bsky.social

🙌Finally out our Editorial on Topoi! 💫 @annaborghi.bsky.social @van90.bsky.social @dimitrisbolis.bsky.social @agliotiSM @takahikoikenuma.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🤩https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article-abstract/35/7/bhaf196/8209466

Very proud of the PhD defense of @ileniafalcinelli.bsky.social. Her dissertation focuses on ecological concepts (e.g., pollution), with various tasks, in older and younger adults. This work shows how studies on abstract concepts can help improve pro-environmental behaviors. @ballabrome.bsky.social

🦾🖥️⌨️🧑🧓 Just out our paper on technological concepts on our SI in Topoi. link.springer.com /article/10.1007/s11245-025-10206-3

Very happy to share this Perspective w/@claudiamazzuca.bsky.social, @ideeverdi.bsky.social. on abstract concepts and social interaction. We address vagueness and the relation of abstract concepts to knowledge outsourcing, crosscultural differences, and LLMs. @ballabrome.bsky.social rdcu.be/elbbT

On the 25th of February we are hosting an exciting online conference with plenty of brilliant speakers that will discuss with us about concepts, language, consciousness and politicisation. Don’t miss it! Link here: www.youtube.com/live/QDTBFWc...

🙌 We are conducting and innovative study on how abstract and concrete concepts are represented in aphantasic people! We are looking for 16 pps between the ages of 40 and 50, english mother tongue. Write to [email protected]. thanks for helping and for sharing this!🤗☄️

🚁ALERT!! 🧨💥Can you believe that just five minutes of online written conversation 🖥️—no matter the topic—can be enough to create a psychological intersubjective space? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...