Professor Anna M. Borghi

Naming a Lego World. The Role of Language in the Acquisition of Abstract Concepts

• PLoS ONE
• January 2015

Embodiment Theory

• January 2015

Walking boosts your performance in making additions and subtractions

• Frontiers in Psychology
• December 2014

How do you hold your mouse? Tracking the compatibility effect between hand posture and ...

• Psychological Research
• October 2014

Nomina sunt consequentia rerum – Sound–shape correspondences with every-day objects fig...

• Journal of Memory and Language
• October 2014

The body and the fading away of abstract concepts and words: a sign language analysis

• Frontiers in Psychology
• July 2014

Learning to Manipulate and Categorize in Human and Artificial Agents

• Cognitive Science
• July 2014

Action and Language Integration: From Humans to Cognitive Robots

• Topics in Cognitive Science
• June 2014

Verb concepts from affordances

• Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Sys...
• June 2014

Affordances and contextual flexibility

• Physics of Life Reviews
• June 2014

I give you a cup, I get a cup: A kinematic study on social intention

• Neuropsychologia
• May 2014

Words as Social Tools: An Embodied View on Abstract Concepts

• January 2014

Language, Languages, and Abstract Concepts

• January 2014

Word Learning and Word Acquisition

• January 2014

The Problem of Definition

• January 2014

The WAT Proposal and the Role of Language

• January 2014

What Can Neuroscience Tell Us About Abstract Concepts

• January 2014

Embodied and Hybrid Theories of Abstract Concepts and Words

• January 2014

The Impact of Social Context and Language Comprehension on Behaviour: A Kinematic Inves...

• PLoS ONE
• December 2013

Visual context modulates potentiation of grasp types during semantic object categorization

• Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
• November 2013

A Marriage is an Artefact and not a Walk that We Take Together: An Experimental Study o...

• Review of Philosophy and Psychology
• June 2013

Perceiving object dangerousness: an escape from pain?

• Experimental Brain Research
• June 2013

Counting Is Easier while Experiencing a Congruent Motion

• PLoS ONE
• May 2013

Theories and computational models of affordance and mirror systems: An integrative review

• Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
• March 2013

Disentangling the sense of ownership from the sense of fairness

• Behavioral and Brain Sciences
• February 2013

Context and hand posture modulate the neural dynamics of tool–object perception

• Neuropsychologia
• February 2013

Heaven can wait. How religion modulates temporal discounting

• Psychological Research
• January 2013

Alice in Legoland: A behavioral study on abstract words

• January 2013

The embodied mind extended: using words as social tools

• Frontiers in Psychology
• January 2013

Are abstract action words embodied? An fMRI investigation at the interface between lang...

• Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
• January 2013

Keep Away from Danger: Dangerous Objects in Dynamic and Static Situations

• Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
• January 2013

Abstract and concrete phrases processing differentially modulates cortico-spinal excita...

• Brain Research
• December 2012

Grasping the pain: Motor resonance with dangerous affordances

• Consciousness and Cognition
• December 2012

One hand, two objects: Emergence of affordance in contexts

• Brain and Cognition
• October 2012

Which body for embodied cognition? Affordance and language within actual and perceived ...

• Consciousness and Cognition
• September 2012

Influence of numerical magnitudes on the free choice of an object position

• Cognitive Processing
• July 2012

Object Affordances Tune Observers' Prior Expectations about Tool-Use Behaviors

• PLoS ONE
• June 2012

Can object affordances impact on human social learning of tool use?

• Behavioral and Brain Sciences
• June 2012

Human and robotics hands grasping danger

• June 2012

Self, others, objects: How this triadic interaction modulates our behavior

• Memory & Cognition
• May 2012

Kids observing other kids’ hands: Visuomotor priming in children

• Consciousness and Cognition
• March 2012

How affordances associated with a distractor object affect compatibility effects: A stu...

• Psychological Research
• February 2012

Embodied and grounded cognition

• January 2012

Acting in perspective: the role of body and language as social tools

• Psychological Research
• December 2011

Religion and action control: Faith-specific modulation of the Simon effect but not Stop...

• Cognition
• August 2011

With hands I do not centre! Action- and object-related effects of hand-cueing in the li...

• Neuropsychologia
• August 2011

Affordances of distractors and compatibility effects: a study with the computational mo...

• Nature Precedings
• March 2011

Affordances of distractors and compatibility effects: a study with the computational mo...

• Nature Precedings
• March 2011

Objects, spatial compatibility, and affordances: A connectionist study

• Cognitive Systems Research
• March 2011

When objects are close to me: Affordances in the peripersonal space

• Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
• February 2011

Graspable Objects Shape Number Processing

• Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
• January 2011

Introduction to the Special Topic Embodied and Grounded Cognition

• Frontiers in Psychology
• January 2011

Abstract and Concrete Sentences, Embodiment, and Languages

• Frontiers in Psychology
• January 2011

Manipulating Objects and Telling Words: A Study on Concrete and Abstract Words Acquisition

• Frontiers in Psychology
• January 2011

Simon-Like and Functional Affordance Effects with Tools: The Effects of Object Perceptu...

• Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
• November 2010

God: Do I have your attention?

• Cognition
• October 2010

When Action Meets Emotions: How Facial Displays of Emotion Influence Goal-Related Behavior

• PLoS ONE
• October 2010

Grasping language – A short story on embodiment

• Consciousness and Cognition
• September 2010

A reinforcement learning model of reaching integrating kinematic and dynamic control in...

• August 2010

When affordances climb into your mind: Advantages of motor simulation in a memory task ...

• Brain and Cognition
• June 2010

The sense of body: A multidisciplinary approach to body representation

• Neuropsychologia
• February 2010

Categorization and action: What about object consistence?

• Acta Psychologica
• February 2010

Embodied cognition and beyond: Acting and sensing the body

• Neuropsychologia
• February 2010

Sentence comprehension: effectors and goals, self and others. An overview of experiment...

• Frontiers in Neurorobotics
• January 2010

TRoPICALS: A computational embodied neuroscience model of compatibility effects.

• Psychological Review
• January 2010

God: Do i have your attention?

• January 2010

Objects, Words and Actions: Some Reasons Why Embodied Models are Badly Needed in Cognit...

• January 2010

Conceptual information about size of objects in nouns

• The European Journal of Cognitive Psychology
• November 2009

How action and context priming influence categorization: A developmental study

• British Journal of Developmental Psychology
• September 2009

Moving hands, moving entities

• Brain and Cognition
• August 2009

Sentence comprehension and simulation of object temporary, canonical and stable afforda...

• Brain Research
• February 2009

Language comprehension and dominant hand motion simulation

• Human Movement Science
• February 2009

The Intersubjectivity of Embodiment

• Cognitive Semiotics
• January 2009

Language-induced motor activity in bi-manual object lifting

• Experimental Brain Research
• October 2008

Hand–object interaction in perspective

• Neuroscience Letters
• August 2008

Categorization and sensorimotor interaction with objects

• Brain and Cognition
• June 2008

Body image and body schema: The shared representation of body image and the role of dyn...

• Behavioral and Brain Sciences
• April 2007

Is a Large Nut Like An Apple? Studies with Real and Modified Sized Objects

• January 2007

Sentence comprehension and action: Effector specific modulation of the motor system

• Brain Research
• January 2007

Language Modulation of the Motor System: A Study on Weight Perception

• January 2007

Reaction to Positive and Negative Words: Attraction or Repulsion?

• January 2007

Comprehension of Sentences Implying Actions: Relevance of the Effector and of the Goal

• January 2007

Are visual stimuli sufficient to evoke motor information?

• Neuroscience Letters
• January 2007

8. Do we access object manipulability while we categorize? Evidence from reaction time ...

• January 2007

Action and hierarchical levels of categories: A connectionist perspective

• Cognitive Systems Research
• June 2005

Conceptual information on objects’ locations

• Brain and Language
• May 2005

Meaning and motor actions: Artificial life and behavioral evidence

• Behavioral and Brain Sciences
• April 2005

Putting words in perspective

• Memory & Cognition
• September 2004

Object concepts and action: Extracting affordances from objects parts

• Acta Psychologica
• January 2004

Situation bounded conceptual organization in children: from action to spatial relations

• Cognitive Development
• January 2003

La psicologia a Würzburg Il carattere teleonomico e selettivo del pensiero

• Axiomathes
• December 1995

Object Concepts and Action

139. Embodied cognition and word acquisition: The challenge of abstract words