Imagine that you step outside your door and you find an alien in underpants. Sure, it is unlikely. Still, just few words can get you to imagine an alien in underpants outside your front door! How can words do that?
Our research focuses on the cognitive and neurobiological basis of human communication and how through communication humans can learn about new objects and ideas – including imaginary worlds. More specifically we are interested in how we learn and process language in real-word settings, how our semantic knowledge interfaces with perception, action and emotion and how these systems are recruited during language learning.
We use tools from psychology, cognitive neuroscience and computational modelling. We seek converging evidence from different languages and different populations: adults, children, deaf individuals using British Sign Language, as well as individuals who have developed aphasia or apraxia after brain damage.
Principal investigator
So proud of you Marie: the first @ECOLOGICALBRAIN PhD!!! https://t.co/lvdLZGrLta
— Language&Cognition (@UCLanguageLab) December 30, 2022
Review paper led by @Sara_De_Felice and in collaboration with @antoniahamilton and @EmEmLab! Typically we (children and adults) learn in social contexts, here we review and discuss the role of interaction in facilitating learning @royalsociety https://t.co/nUpAirqgAq
— Language&Cognition (@UCLanguageLab) December 26, 2022
Gabriella elected Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society
New theoretical paper (and commentaries) out: Murgiano, Motamedi & Vigliocco (2021). Situating language in the real-world. Journal of Cognition
EEG reveals that the brain uses all multimodal cues in comprehension: Zhang et al (2021). More than words. Proceedings of the Royal Soc B