With interdisciplinary collaborators, our lab publishes widely on how humans learn, represent and process meaning from language.
Research Areas
Selected papers from some of our research themes.
Social interaction in learning
De Felice, S; Hamilton, AFDC; Ponari, M; Vigliocco, G; (2023) Learning from others is good, with others is better: the role of social interaction in human acquisition of new knowledge. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 378 (1870) , Article 20210357. .
De Felice, S; Vigliocco, G; Hamilton, AFDC; (2021) Social interaction is a catalyst for adult human learning in online contexts. Current Biology , 31 (21) pp. 4853-4859. .
Iconicity
Motamedi, Yasamin; Murgiano, Margherita; Grzyb, Beata; Gu, Yan; Kewenig, Viktor; Brieke, Ricarda; Donnellan, Ed; ... Vigliocco, Gabriella; (2024) Language development beyond the here-and-now: Iconicity and displacement in child-directed communication. Child Development .
Sidhu, David M; Khachatoorian, Nareg; Vigliocco, Gabriella; (2023) Effects of Iconicity in Recognition Memory. Cognitive Science, 47 (11) , Article e13382. .
Motamedi, Y., Murgiano, M., Grzyb, B., Gu, Y., Kewenig, V., Brieke, R., … Vigliocco, G. (2022). Language development beyond the here-and-now: iconicity and displacement in child-directed communication.
Multimodality and Aphasia
Krason, A., Vigliocco, G., Mailend, M-L., Stoll, H., Varley, R., Buxbaum, L. (2023). Benefit of visual speech information for word comprehension in post-stroke aphasia. Cortex, 165 pp. 86-100. .
Vigliocco, G., Krason, A., Stoll, H., Monti, A. & Buxbaum, L. (2020). Multimodal comprehension in left hemisphere stroke patients. Cortex.