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    Emotion words, regardless of polarity, have a processing advantage over neutral words.Stavroula-Thaleia Kousta, David P. Vinson & Gabriella Vigliocco - 2009 - Cognition 112 (3):473-481.
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    Integrating experiential and distributional data to learn semantic representations.Mark Andrews, Gabriella Vigliocco & David Vinson - 2009 - Psychological Review 116 (3):463-498.
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    How does emotional content affect lexical processing?David Vinson, Marta Ponari & Gabriella Vigliocco - 2014 - Cognition and Emotion 28 (4):737-746.
  4. Reconciling Embodied and Distributional Accounts of Meaning in Language.Mark Andrews, Stefan Frank & Gabriella Vigliocco - 2014 - Topics in Cognitive Science 6 (3):359-370.
    Over the past 15 years, there have been two increasingly popular approaches to the study of meaning in cognitive science. One, based on theories of embodied cognition, treats meaning as a simulation of perceptual and motor states. An alternative approach treats meaning as a consequence of the statistical distribution of words across spoken and written language. On the surface, these appear to be opposing scientific paradigms. In this review, we aim to show how recent cross-disciplinary developments have done much to (...)
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    Effects of semantic context in the naming of pictures and words.Markus F. Damian, Gabriella Vigliocco & Willem J. M. Levelt - 2001 - Cognition 81 (3):B77-B86.
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    Learning and Processing Abstract Words and Concepts: Insights From Typical and Atypical Development.Gabriella Vigliocco, Marta Ponari & Courtenay Norbury - 2018 - Topics in Cognitive Science 10 (3):533-549.
    The Affective grounding hypothesis suggests that affective experiences play a crucial role in abstract concepts’ processing (Kousta et al. 2011). Vigliocco and colleagues test the role of affective experiences as well as the role of language in learning words denoting abstract concepts, comparing children with typical and atypical development. They conclude that besides the affective experiences also language plays a critical role in the processing of words referring to abstract concepts.
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    Separating hierarchical relations and word order in language production: is proximity concord syntactic or linear?Gabriella Vigliocco & Janet Nicol - 1998 - Cognition 68 (1):13-29.
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    Eye Movements Reveal the Dynamic Simulation of Speed in Language.Laura J. Speed & Gabriella Vigliocco - 2014 - Cognitive Science 38 (2):367-382.
    This study investigates how speed of motion is processed in language. In three eye-tracking experiments, participants were presented with visual scenes and spoken sentences describing fast or slow events (e.g., The lion ambled/dashed to the balloon). Results showed that looking time to relevant objects in the visual scene was affected by the speed of verb of the sentence, speaking rate, and configuration of a supporting visual scene. The results provide novel evidence for the mental simulation of speed in language and (...)
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    Subject-verb agreement in Spanish and English: Differences in the role of conceptual constraints.Gabriella Vigliocco, Brian Butterworth & Merrill F. Garrett - 1996 - Cognition 61 (3):261-298.
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    Semantic distance effects on object and action naming.Gabriella Vigliocco, David P. Vinson, Markus F. Damian & Willem Levelt - 2002 - Cognition 85 (3):B61-B69.
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    Making Sense of the Hands and Mouth: The Role of “Secondary” Cues to Meaning in British Sign Language and English.Pamela Perniss, David Vinson & Gabriella Vigliocco - 2020 - Cognitive Science 44 (7):e12868.
    Successful face‐to‐face communication involves multiple channels, notably hand gestures in addition to speech for spoken language, and mouth patterns in addition to manual signs for sign language. In four experiments, we assess the extent to which comprehenders of British Sign Language (BSL) and English rely, respectively, on cues from the hands and the mouth in accessing meaning. We created congruent and incongruent combinations of BSL manual signs and mouthings and English speech and gesture by video manipulation and asked participants to (...)
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    Modeling the Structure and Dynamics of Semantic Processing.Armand S. Rotaru, Gabriella Vigliocco & Stefan L. Frank - 2018 - Cognitive Science 42 (8):2890-2917.
    The contents and structure of semantic memory have been the focus of much recent research, with major advances in the development of distributional models, which use word co‐occurrence information as a window into the semantics of language. In parallel, connectionist modeling has extended our knowledge of the processes engaged in semantic activation. However, these two lines of investigation have rarely been brought together. Here, we describe a processing model based on distributional semantics in which activation spreads throughout a semantic network, (...)
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    Semantic similarity and grammatical class in naming actions.Gabriella Vigliocco, David P. Vinson & Simona Siri - 2005 - Cognition 94 (3):B91-B100.
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    The Hidden Markov Topic Model: A Probabilistic Model of Semantic Representation.Mark Andrews & Gabriella Vigliocco - 2010 - Topics in Cognitive Science 2 (1):101-113.
    In this paper, we describe a model that learns semantic representations from the distributional statistics of language. This model, however, goes beyond the common bag‐of‐words paradigm, and infers semantic representations by taking into account the inherent sequential nature of linguistic data. The model we describe, which we refer to as a Hidden Markov Topics model, is a natural extension of the current state of the art in Bayesian bag‐of‐words models, that is, the Topics model of Griffiths, Steyvers, and Tenenbaum (2007), (...)
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    Effects of Iconicity in Recognition Memory.David M. Sidhu, Nareg Khachatoorian & Gabriella Vigliocco - 2023 - Cognitive Science 47 (11):e13382.
    Iconicity refers to a resemblance between word form and meaning. Previous work has shown that iconic words are learned earlier and processed faster. Here, we examined whether iconic words are recognized better on a recognition memory task. We also manipulated the level at which items were encoded—with a focus on either their meaning or their form—in order to gain insight into the mechanism by which iconicity would affect memory. In comparison with non‐iconic words, iconic words were associated with a higher (...)
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  16. Inferring a probabilistic model of semantic memory from word association norms.Mark Andrews, David Vinson & Gabriella Vigliocco - 2008 - In B. C. Love, K. McRae & V. M. Sloutsky (eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society. pp. 1941--1946.
     
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  17. When Skunks are Similar to Giraffes and when they are not: Grammatical Gender Effects on Bilingual Cognition.Stavroula-Thaleia Kousta, David P. Vinson & Gabriella Vigliocco - 2007 - In McNamara D. S. & Trafton J. G. (eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society. pp. 64--70.
     
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    Italian Age of Acquisition Norms for a Large Set of Words.Maria Montefinese, David Vinson, Gabriella Vigliocco & Ettore Ambrosini - 2019 - Frontiers in Psychology 10.
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    Constructing Semantic Models From Words, Images, and Emojis.Armand S. Rotaru & Gabriella Vigliocco - 2020 - Cognitive Science 44 (4):e12830.
    A number of recent models of semantics combine linguistic information, derived from text corpora, and visual information, derived from image collections, demonstrating that the resulting multimodal models are better than either of their unimodal counterparts, in accounting for behavioral data. Empirical work on semantic processing has shown that emotion also plays an important role especially in abstract concepts; however, models integrating emotion along with linguistic and visual information are lacking. Here, we first improve on visual and affective representations, derived from (...)
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    Contact points between lexical retrieval and sentence production.Gabriella Vigliocco & Marco Zorzi - 1999 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (1):58-59.
    Speakers retrieve words to use them in sentences. Errors in incorporating words into sentential frames are revealing with respect to the lexical units as well as the lexical retrieval mechanism; hence they constrain theories of lexical access. We present a reanalysis of a corpus of spontaneously occurring lexical exchange errors that highlights the contact points between lexical and sentential processes.
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  21. Speech production.Gabriella Vigliocco & David P. Vinson - 2003 - In L. Nadel (ed.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Nature Publishing Group.
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    Comprehending Sentences With the Body: Action Compatibility in British Sign Language?David Vinson, Pamela Perniss, Neil Fox & Gabriella Vigliocco - 2017 - Cognitive Science 41 (S6):1377-1404.
    Previous studies show that reading sentences about actions leads to specific motor activity associated with actually performing those actions. We investigate how sign language input may modulate motor activation, using British Sign Language sentences, some of which explicitly encode direction of motion, versus written English, where motion is only implied. We find no evidence of action simulation in BSL comprehension, but we find effects of action simulation in comprehension of written English sentences by deaf native BSL signers. These results provide (...)
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    Compositional semantics and the lemma dilemma.Marco Zorzi & Gabriella Vigliocco - 1999 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (1):60-61.
    We discuss two key assumptions of Levelt et al.'s model of lexical retrieval: (1) the nondecompositional character of concepts and (2) lemmas as purely syntactic representations. These assumptions fail to capture the broader role of lemmas, which we propose as that of lexical–semantic representations binding (compositional) semantics with phonology (or orthography).
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    Dissociation between regular and irregular in connectionist architectures: Two processes, but still no special linguistic rules.Marco Zorzi & Gabriella Vigliocco - 1999 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (6):1045-1046.
    Dual-mechanism models of language maintain a distinction between a lexicon and a computational system of linguistic rules. In his target article, Clahsen provides support for such a distinction, presenting evidence from German inflections. He argues for a structured lexicon, going beyond the strict lexicon versus rules dichotomy. We agree with the author in assuming a dual mechanism; however, we argue that a next step must be taken, going beyond the notion of the computational system as specific rules applying to a (...)
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