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MariannaBolog @mariannabolog.bsky.social · 13d

📣 November's Abstraction seminar is all set too!
🗓️ 19 November, 11:30 - 12.30 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/xW7mF )
🎆 Join us, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word!
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MariannaBolog @mariannabolog.bsky.social · 21d

📣 Abstraction seminars are back!
🗓️ 17 October, 10:00 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/RjrOU)
🎆 Join us for another seminar, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word!
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MariannaBolog @mariannabolog.bsky.social · 27d

📣 Abstraction seminars are back!
🗓️ 16 October, 15:00 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/0fw5a)
🎆 Join us for a thought-provoking seminar, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word! ✨
@abstractionerc.bsky.social

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Caterina Villani @caterinavillani.bsky.social · 21d

📣The chapter "𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆: 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀"
w/@mariannabolog.bsky.social is now online & forthcoming in the #ElsevierEncyclopedia of Language & Linguistics
🔍 Theoretical overview, quantification tools, and behavioral evidence on specificity.
👉 Read: urly.it/31c4nm
@abstractionerc.bsky.social

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Caterina Villani @caterinavillani.bsky.social · Sep 6

No better way to finish my post-doc than with a new publication on #specificityeffect in semantic processing!

I’ll really miss the @abstractionerc.bsky.social team, but exciting projects are still underway. Thrilled and optimistic about what’s next! 💫

Tommaso Lamarra @tomlamarra.bsky.social · Sep 5

New Paper Alert 🚨🆕
"Specificity Effect in Concrete/Abstract Semantic Categorization Tasks"

doi.org/10.1007/s103...

We observed faster response times for specific words compared to general words in a semantic decision task, regardless of their level of concreteness.

Specificity effect in concrete/abstract semantic categorization task - Cognitive Processing

Concrete concepts (banana) are processed faster and more accurately than abstract ones (belief). This phenomenon, supported by empirical studies, is known as the concreteness effect. However, recent r...

doi.org

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Dermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · Sep 2

Navigating Open Research: A Guide for Early Career Researchers. Great work from the CONUL Research Group. Free to download zenodo.org/records/1702... #irishResearch #openResearch

Cover matter: Navigating Open Research A Guide for Early Career Researchers
From CONUL - consortium of national and university libraries #openResearch #irishResearch

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Adele Loia @adeleloia.bsky.social · Jul 31

@caterinavillani.bsky.social presenting our collaboration between @abstractionerc.bsky.social and PRIN 2022 Wemb at #Cogsci2025 in San Francisco: "Development of Linguistic- Mediated Abstraction: Insights from Word Ladders Task".

Well done! 💫

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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · Jul 30

Because nothing says “ready to present” like literally wearing your findings at #CogSci2025

Ham Huang leveled up from poster session to superhero mode! 🦸

A smiling researcher at CogSci 2025 stands indoors wearing their scientific poster draped like a cape, with charts, graphs, and text visible on the fabric. The background shows a spacious conference hall with people walking and blurred architectural details.

A research poster draped like a cape, showing charts, graphs, and text about collaborative memory and decision-making. The poster includes colorful data plots, grid diagrams, and sections labeled “Introduction,” “Results,” “Model Benchmark,” and “Conclusions.” The bottom includes the researcher’s contact information and social links

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Caterina Villani @caterinavillani.bsky.social · Jul 30

Kicking off #CogSci2025 at the iconic #InternetArchive with incredible speakers!

Big focus on LLMs— #McClelland asks: Are humans still smarter than AI? Yes: we learn from less data & generalize better!

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Morten H. Christiansen @mh-christiansen.bsky.social · Jul 28

Just in time for the @cogscisociety.bsky.social conference and the Rumelhart 25th Anniversary Event, the 2023 Rumelhart Prize Issue Honoring Nick Chater is out in TopiCS in Cognitive Science, edited by Mike Oaksford and me:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17568765...

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Caterina Villani @caterinavillani.bsky.social · Jul 29

Getting ready for #COGSCI2025 in San Francisco!
📆 July 31st, 02:37pm
I’ll present a longitudinal study (w/@mariannabolog.bsky.social & @adeleloia.bsky.social) on how school-aged children build taxonomies using the #WordLadders task developed by @abstractionerc.bsky.social
Catch up with us there!

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Giulia Rambelli @grambelli.bsky.social · Jul 28

🌟 Had a great time presenting our poster at #ACL2025!
It was a great experience sharing our work with researchers interested in conceptual categories, #abstraction and #generalization, thanks for the insightful discussions and feedback!
wt @andreapdr.bsky.social @mariannabolog.bsky.social
#NLProc

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Caterina Villani @caterinavillani.bsky.social · Jun 10

🔊 New paper on #pragmatics!
Rising or falling nuclear accentual movement on the sentence-final word is the key #prosodic cue for distinguishing questions from statements in Italian.

👉 l1nq.com/I8G4d

W/@tomasellor.bsky.social @isabellaboux.bsky.social & #FPulvermüller at #FreieUniversitätBerlin.

Rosario Tomasello @tomasellor.bsky.social · Jun 9

New publication on #experimentalpragmatics!

When do listeners recognize speaker´s #communicativefunction conveyed by #prosody?

Work led by @caterinavillani.bsky.social collab @isabellaboux.bsky.social and #FPulvermüller

shorturl.at/NDXFM

@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social

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Caterina Villani @caterinavillani.bsky.social · Jun 5

Very proud and lucky to work with such a young, brilliant, and enthusiastic researcher. Well done @adeleloia.bsky.social
👏 👏 Next step: we'll bring this work to #CogSci2025🧠✨

MariannaBolog @mariannabolog.bsky.social · Jun 5

@adeleloia.bsky.social presenting our joint collaboration between @abstractionerc.bsky.social and PRIN 2022 WEMB at the Phd CLUB international conference in Bologna today:
THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE-MEDIATED ABSTRACTION IN SCHOOL CHILDREN

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MariannaBolog @mariannabolog.bsky.social · Jun 4

Informal moment with @abstractionerc.bsky.social two new postdocs: Laura Occhipinti on the left and Paola Vernillo on the right, both with white shirts. Welcome!

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Interacting Minds Centre @interacting-minds.bsky.social · May 28

It was such a pleasure to have you here and discuss how abstraction plays out in conversations! (interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...)

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Diogo Pereira Henriques 鬼佬 🐯 📚 @diogo-ph22.bsky.social · May 22

Thought-provoking and #openaccess, Andy Clark reflects on the challenges and potentials of emerging human-AI collaborations in his new commentary "Extending Minds with Generative AI", published by @natcomms.nature.com:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Caterina Villani @caterinavillani.bsky.social · May 20

Kicked off my visiting week in #Aarhus with a great talk by @thaliawheatley.bsky.social and inspiring chats with the @interacting-minds.bsky.social group! Many thanks to @fusaroli.bsky.social for hosting me and to @abstractionerc.bsky.social for supporting my work on abstract language in dialogue!

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Caterina Villani @caterinavillani.bsky.social · Apr 16

The recordings from our @abstractionerc.bsky.social workshop are now online — definitely worth a listen!
▶️ site.unibo.it/abstraction/...

MariannaBolog @mariannabolog.bsky.social · Apr 16

The recordings of our @abstractionerc.bsky.social Workshop "Conversational Dynamics: How Abstraction and Abstractness Ebb and Flow in Interaction" are online (work in progress).
site.unibo.it/abstraction/...

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Caterina Villani @caterinavillani.bsky.social · Apr 7

Video Credits: @grambelli.bsky.social

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Caterina Villani @caterinavillani.bsky.social · Apr 4

If you′re going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair 🌸 see you there!!!

Adele Loia @adeleloia.bsky.social · Apr 4

🎉Our paper
"Development of Linguistic-Mediated Abstraction: Insight from Word Ladders task", led by @caterinavillani.bsky.social was accepted as a talk at CogSci 2025!
Great collab between @abstractionerc.bsky.social & PRIN 2022 "Wemb" project
See you in SF - July 30- August 2! 🌉
#CogSci2025

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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · Apr 3

We just played analogical word ladders here :-)

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Caterina Villani @caterinavillani.bsky.social · Apr 4

It was such a meaningful experience organizing this Workshop! Big thanks to @abstractionerc.bsky.social and all the speakers for your incredible talks and the rich discussions!
@annaborghi.bsky.social @fusaroli.bsky.social @dingemansemark.bsky.social @catemauri.bsky.social @bodowinter.bsky.social

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MariannaBolog @mariannabolog.bsky.social · Apr 3

Starting off our workshop on Conversational Dynamics: how abstraction and abstractness ebb and flow in interaction.
Join us!
@abstractionerc.bsky.social

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Caterina Villani @caterinavillani.bsky.social · Apr 2

❗❗ See you tomorrow ❗❗

𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐏 | 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐲𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬

🕘 9-18 (Rome Time)
📍 Aula Poeti, Str. Maggiore 45, Bologna
💻 online: shorturl.at/oEM7S

@annaborghi.bsky.social @bodowinter.bsky.social @dingemansemark.bsky.social @catemauri.bsky.social @fusaroli.bsky.social

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