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Above & beyond language

[more coming soon] Language & task demands How does language contribute to the human ability to quickly adapt to novel tasks demands? Is it thanks to higher order semantic representations, grounded in sensorimotor information, that bypass idiosyncratic lower-level aspects? Performing task-appropriate behaviors requires (at a minimum) three stages: linguistic processing, semantic understanding, and sensorimotor implementation of the instructions received. Thus, it should be possible to track the corresponding spatiotemporal shift in representational content across cortical areas: from low level linguistic features to high-level semantics and sensorimotor control signals.

December 21, 2021 Read
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Concepts across languages & cultures

Conceptual spaces and semantic typology [more coming soon]

December 20, 2021 Read
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Concepts & words across people

Ontogeny and phylogeny of individual differences [more coming soon]

December 19, 2021 Read
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Losing words & concepts

We investigate which neural substrate are critical for language and semantic processing. So far we have focused on: the role played by the left and right anterior temporal lobe (ATL) in, respectively, verbal and nonverbal semantic (Borghesani et al., Cortex, 2019; Borghesani et al., NeuroImage:Clinical, 2020; Borghesani et al., Aphasiology, 2019) how ATL damage can be (partially) compensated by the over recruitment of spared dorsal and posterior areas (Borghesani et al.

December 17, 2021 Read