Professor Anna M. Borghi
Universita degli Studi di Bologna
Professor, Psychology
Italy
My co-authors include
Professor Angelo Cangelosi
Dr Riccardo Fusaroli
Dr Cristina Iani
My Publications
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