Very proud of the members of BALLAB who are presenting at conferences! @mattiagervasi at Embodied and Situated Language Processing (ESLP) on inner speech and action learning. @chiaradelivio.bsky.social at SWECOG25 on an interactive study on abstract and vague concepts.🙃 @ballabrome.bsky.social

🙌Finally out our Editorial on Topoi! 💫
@annaborghi.bsky.social @van90.bsky.social @dimitrisbolis.bsky.social
@agliotiSM @takahikoikenuma.bsky.social

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🤩https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article-abstract/35/7/bhaf196/8209466

Very proud of the PhD defense of @ileniafalcinelli.bsky.social. Her dissertation focuses on ecological concepts (e.g., pollution), with various tasks, in older and younger adults. This work shows how studies on abstract concepts can help improve pro-environmental behaviors. @ballabrome.bsky.social

@ballabrome.bsky.social @annaborghi.bsky.social @ileniafalcinelli.bsky.social

How does technology itself function as a tool for knowledge outsourcing, and what are the implications of this for our metacognitive and behavioral processes when attempting to acquire new meanings? If you are intrigued by these topics, have a look 🌠

How do older adults understand and interpret terms like "smartphone" or "Wi-Fi"? In what ways do people outsource knowledge about technology?

🦾🖥️⌨️🧑🧓
Just out our paper on technological concepts on our SI in Topoi.
link.springer.com

/article/10.1007/s11245-025-10206-3

Very happy to share this Perspective w/@claudiamazzuca.bsky.social, @ideeverdi.bsky.social.
on abstract concepts and social interaction. We address vagueness and the relation of abstract concepts to knowledge outsourcing, crosscultural differences, and LLMs. @ballabrome.bsky.social
rdcu.be/elbbT

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...

🙌 We are conducting and innovative study on how abstract and concrete concepts are represented in aphantasic people! We are looking for 16 pps between the ages of 40 and 50, english mother tongue. Write to [email protected]. thanks for helping and for sharing this!🤗☄️

In this preregistered study, we strictly adhere to all open science principles. Check our work in Heliyon 🚁

@van90.bsky.social @annaborghi.bsky.social @bodowinter.bsky.social @ballabrome.bsky.social

Take-home message: Technology-mediated communication has the potential to bridge both spatial and temporal distances in just a few minutes of written exchange.

The more we experience a conversation as pleasant and intimate, and recognize the other person as actively engaged, the closer we feel to one another.💭💭

🚁ALERT!! 🧨💥Can you believe that just five minutes of online written conversation 🖥️—no matter the topic—can be enough to create a psychological intersubjective space?

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...