Interesting multidisciplinary conference on aging. We presented tuo posters: a. conversations on concrete and abstract concepts of younger and older adults; b. how younger and older adults represent ecological concepts. W/ @chiarafini.bsky.social @ileniafalcinelli.bsky.social @ballabrome.bsky.social

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

Great presentation, excellent experimental work, outstanding supervisors, and a great committee! Thank you for inviting me. And yes, you should be proud! I believe that all people working on abstract concepts and semantic memory will benefit from this work. 👏

Wonderful talk by @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social at AISC, Italian Association of Cognitive Science, in Lucca, IMT, on "the worlds within words" - on the importance of considering diversity in language/culture, gender, age, and expertise in research on cognition. @ballabrome.bsky.social

Very proud of Angelo Mattia Gervasi's poster at AIP Sperimentale in Turin. The study shows that inner speech works as a silent coach, impacting action learning. With @claudiamazzuca and Claudio Brozzoli. @ballabrome.bsky.social indico.sissa.it/event/159/se...

Fantastic symposium on new methods and perspectives in semantic memory. Thanks to Eleonora Catricalà (IULM) for the invitation and to Eleonora, Luca Rinaldi (Pavia), and @mariamontefinese.bsky.social (Padua) for the great talks. @ballabrome.bsky.social indico.sissa.it/event/159/se...

Which is the sound of thought? A lot of fun discussions at the ESCOP symposium on inner speech. I presented a talk together with @chiaradelivio.bsky.social, Angelo Mattia Gervasi, and @cfernyhough.bsky.social, on inner speech as both an inner (cognitive) and social tool. @ballabrome.bsky.social

Interested in the relationship between cognition, technology, nature, and wellbeing? Check our editorial and the special issue on Topoi. Thank you @chiarafini.bsky.social @van90.bsky.social @dimitrisbolis.bsky.social @agliotiSM @takahikoikenuma.bsky.social

A new paper on concepts and expertise - what do Italian chemists and laypeople think of water. Thanks to @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social @chiarafini.bsky.social @ileniafalcinelli.bsky.social Marta Arcovito @ballabrome.bsky.social

La scienza è un cammino. Non è lineare, non è prevedibile, e riguarda tutti noi. Non vi perdete per nessuna ragione #PecoreElettriche, il supplemento del il manifesto con storie di scienza curato da Andrea Capocci in edicola da oggi e per tutto il mese di luglio.

That’s the correct link : www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

PhD Call 📢📢📢 Are you interested in a PhD in Cognitive and Social Neuroscience? Join us! We are booking for highly motivated and inspired future researchers! Waiting for you in Rome! 🗓️ Deadline 19th June Useful links👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 phd.uniroma1.it/web/concorso... phd.uniroma1.it/web/pagina.a...

#Referendum #referendum2025 #lavoro #sfruttamento #rider Vi porto a casa l’urna elettorale. Oggi per @mm-repubblica-bot.bsky.social

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

Perspectives on Psychological Science returns—reimagined. More voices. Broader reach. Rigor with respect. Read the relaunch editorial. #PsychScience #OpenScience #EditorInChief @psychscience.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/eprint/QWMMC...

Wonderful talk by Claudia Gianelli today at Sapienza. On open science, meta-science, collaborative research, and the challenges of replicability for embodied cognition. I learned a lot, thank you, Claudia! archivio.unime.it/it/persona/c... @ballabrome.bsky.social

Does reliance on the Internet lead to overestimating knowledge? How do younger and older adults conceive technological concepts? Do people tend to outsource knowledge more with technological concepts? With @chiarafini.bsky.social and @ileniafalcinelli.bsky.social. @ballabrome.bsky.social

Preprint (authors' version without final revisions and revised figures), see here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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

Amiche e amici di Roma, questo venerdì sarò alla libreria Tomo a presentare Tecnopanico!

Interesting discussion at #cnr, May 7, on research as a collective practice. Occasion: presentation of Waves of trust: science, technology and society in honor of Rino Falcone, eds Sapienza, F. Contucci, F. Paglieri, @ideeverdi.bsky.social. www.dsu.cnr.it/event/rifles... @ballabrome.bsky.social

Very interesting talk by Ferdinand Binkofski, Aachen University, on interaction with objects, #affordances and tools and their brain representation - different paths within the dorsal and ventral streams At #Sapienza, @ballabrome.bsky.social

A lot of fun 🙃 today at the beautiful Teatro Ateneo #Sapienza! Talking with journalists, researchers, and students, on active aging - brain, language, affectivity, and work in older adults. THE AGE OF ROCK, news.uniroma1.it/08042025_0845 project ageit.eu/wp/ @ballabrome.bsky.social

Thank you SO MUCH @caterinavillani.bsky.social @mariannabolog.bsky.social @abstractionerc.bsky.social for the WONDERFUL workshop on conversational dynamics and @bodowinter.bsky.social @dingemansemark.bsky.social @fusaroli.bsky.social @catemauri.bsky.social @caterinavillani.bsky.social for the talks🍀

Our commentary on the article "The sound of thought" on #innerspeech is now online! Inner speech is not a simulation of language but an act of speaking. Thank you @chiaradelivio.bsky.social and @cfernyhough.bsky.social @ballabrome.bsky.social link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🔬 Participate in Our Mental Imagery Study! 🧠💡 We are looking for English-speaking volunteers aged 50+ to take part in our online study on mental imagery! 🔍💭 If you’d like to contribute, write to us or fill out this form 👉 forms.gle/BirmV4GRjTHs... @ballabrome.bsky.social @agliotilab

Se sei madrelingua italiana, hai tra 18 e 64 anni, e vuoi partecipare ad una RICERCA SUL LINGUAGGIO (durata circa 30 minuti), clicca qui e segui i link: GRAZIE GRAZIE GRAZIE @ballabrome.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/annabor...

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Great talks on #gender and #ecologicalconcepts among cognition and politics on Feb 25. Talks by @Emma Renström @annalisa-setti.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social. Project DeCo, Democratizing Concepts. @ballabrome.bsky.social Listen to the talks at this YouTube link www.youtube.com/live/QDTBFWc...

Grazie per la bellissima serata su *Evoluzione e Cervello* 27 febbraio, 8pm Tullio Barni in “Carbonio e/o Silicio“ Anna Borghi in “Cervello in azione“ NEUROGames con Marco Iosa #mercatocentraleroma neurospritz.wixsite.com/neurospritz is great! @ballabrome.bsky.social

Looking forward! Thank you @caterinavillani.bsky.social, @mariannabolog.bsky.social and @abstractionerc.bsky.social for organizing it!

Tomorrow, February 25, 3.15-6 pm CET. Gender and ecological concepts, between cognition and politics. With Emma Renström, @annalisa-setti.bsky.social, @glupyan.bsky.social. Participate and spread! Link here: www.youtube.com/live/QDTBFWc...

The deadline for abstract submission and early bird registration for the 7th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Cognitive Science of Culture (SCSC) in Zurich is coming up soon. culturalcogsci.org/AnnualMeetin...

Outwards movements elicit larger #numbers, inward movements smaller numbers in a random number generation task. A link between bodily movements and numerical #abstractconcepts. Thank you SO MUCH, @caterinavillani.bsky.social @bodowinter.bsky.social Glenn De Muynck and Luisa Lugli, for this work!

Thank you, @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social @caterinavillani.bsky.social @tommasolamarra and @mariannabolog.bsky.social

Sentences with abstract concepts are more associated with uncertainty expressions, and the tendency to be curious and continue interacting. A study in collaboration, now on Cognition - @ballabrome.bsky.social and @abstractionerc.bsky.social.

🔬👀 Have a vision for your field? Consider creating a dedicated journal issue on an emerging topic, method, or new scientific avenue @royalsociety.org @royalsocietypublishing.org As a #PhilTransB Editorial Board member, v open to proposal ideas: psychology, neuroscience, cognitive sci all welcome!

#Gender and #ecological #concepts: how do people think of them? How do they become politicized? What is the role of language in structuring them? Exciting talks by Riccardo Manzotti, Emma Renstroem, @glupyan.bsky.social, and Annalisa Setti. www.youtube.com/live/QDTBFWc... February 25 2.30-6p CET

We are conducting a study on how abstract and concrete concepts are represented in aphantasic people. We miss 16 native English-speaking participants, aged between 40 and 50. If you are interested, please write to [email protected]. Thanks for helping and for sharing this!

People feel closer after 5 minutes of online written conversation, no matter whether the topic is concrete or abstract. Thank you, @chiarafini.bsky.social, Vanessa Era, @mtliuzza.bsky.social, @bodowinter.bsky.social, and all coauthors. @ballabrome.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚁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...

📢 Are you an early career researcher, interested in how science is communicated, reported, & the evolution of the scientific ecosystem? Applications are open for the Royal Society Publishing Early Career Researcher Advisory Panel. Find out more: ow.ly/MaTk50U71W3 #ECRs #ResearchCulture #AcademicSky

Thursday January 16th, we are talking about #openscience in psychology and clinical psychology. Join us! Giovedì 16 gennaio parliamo di #openscience in psicologia con un focus sulla psicologia clinica. Vieni, venite!

A new paper in which we re-assess the Words as Social Tools (WAT) proposal on abstract concepts in light of new evidence on social interaction, conceptual flexibility, inner speech, and knowledge outsourcing. Body Action Language Lab - BALLAB_Rome. doi.org/10.1016/j.pl...

On language, social interaction, and abstract concepts. I have to thank a lot of people ... for collaborations, discussions, insights. cambridge.org/core/books/f...