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

New #OpenAccess paper from our lab by @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social just out, showing that expertise affects conceptualisation. We found chemists essentialize more than laypeople the category of water. w/ @chiarafini.bsky.social, @ileniafalcinelli.bsky.social, Marta Arcovito, @annaborghi.bsky.social.

🎓🎉 Huge congratulations to our @ileniafalcinelli.bsky.social for successfully defending her PhD in Psychology and Social Neuroscience today, after years of dedication and brilliance, investigating ecological concepts in younger and older adults ! 🥂💫 #PhD

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

📷 Game Festival - Festa del Gioco #Garbatella A joyful day of discovery where our little scientists explored the wonders of the senses, categories, joint action, and open science! Through hands-on experiments, they reminded us how powerful learning through play can be 🧠 @scuolaliberatutti

A new publication from our lab! @chiarafini.bsky.social, @ileniafalcinelli.bsky.social and @annaborghi.bsky.social explored knowledge outsourcing about technological concepts in different ages in a Special Issue in Topoi. Here the link: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 💻👧👵

Excited to share our new work by @annaborghi.bsky.social @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social and @ideeverdi.bsky.social! We dive into abstract concepts in social interaction—exploring vagueness, knowledge outsourcing, cross-cultural variation, and the role of LLMs. rdcu.be/elbbT

We were honored to host Ferdinand Binkofski (Aachen University) for a fascinating talk on object interaction, affordances, and tool use, highlighting their distinct neural pathways across the dorsal and ventral streams 🧠. A truly insightful event at #Sapienza!

About yesterday workshop on conversational dynamics and abstraction in interaction. Thanks to everyone who organised, joined and contributed to the discussion. @annaborghi.bsky.social @abstractionerc.bsky.social @caterinavillani.bsky.social @mariannabolog.bsky.social

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

🚀 Exciting discussions on #Gender & #EcologicalConcepts in cognition & politics at the Feb 25 conference! 💡 Talks by @Emma Renström, @annalisa-setti.bsky.social, & @glupyan.bsky.social, hosted by our lab @ballabrome.bsky.social & #ProjectDeCo. 📺 Watch here: 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

Join the conference tomorrow! 🗓 February 25 | 3:15–6:00 PM CET 💡 Gender & Ecological Concepts: (un)consciousness, cognition, and politics www.youtube.com/live/QDTBFWc... w/ @Emma Renström @annalisa-setti.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social Be part of the conversation—participate & spread the word!

Does sentences’ abstractness affect conversation dynamics? In three preregistered studies with @abstractionerc.bsky.social we found this is so, with abstract sentences eliciting more uncertainty and curiosity than concrete sentences. Just out on Cognition! authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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...

Participants needed for neuroscience study! 🧠 Are you 40-45 years old, English native speaker, and interested in how the brain represents abstract and concrete concepts, especially in aphantasia? We are recruiting 16 participants for our study, help us uncover new insights!

🚀 Exciting news to kick off our BlueSky journey! Thrilled to announce that the latest work from @chiarafini.bsky.social is finally out 📖 showing how even digital connections can transform into real, meaningful bonds.