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    Words have a weight: Language as a source of inner grounding and flexibility in abstract concepts.Guy Dove, Laura Barca, Luca Tummolini & Anna M. Borghi - 2020 - Psychological Research 1 (Advanced Online Publication):1-17.
    The role played by language in our cognitive lives is a topic at the centre of contemporary debates in cognitive (neuro)science. In this paper we illustrate and compare two theories that offer embodied explanations of this role: the WAT (words as social tools) and the LENS (language is an embodied neuroenhancement and scaffold) theories. WAT and LENS differ from other current proposals, because they connect the impact of the neurologically realized language system on our cognition to the ways in which (...)
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    Perception and misperception of bodily symptoms from an active inference perspective: Modelling the case of panic disorder.Domenico Maisto, Laura Barca, Omer Van den Bergh & Giovanni Pezzulo - 2021 - Psychological Review 128 (4):690-710.
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    The Peculiarity of Emotional Words: A Grounded Approach.Claudia Mazzuca, Laura Barca & Anna Maria Borghi - 2017 - Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia 8 (2):124-133.
    : This work focuses on emotional concepts. We define concepts as patterns of neural activation that re-enact a given external or internal experience, for example the interoceptive experience related to fear. Concepts are mediated and expressed through words. In the following, we will use “words” to refer to word meanings, assuming that words mediate underlying concepts. Since emotional concepts and the words that mediate them are less related to the physical environment than concrete ones, at first sight they might be (...)
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    Social epistemic actions.Giovanni Pezzulo, Laura Barca, Domenico Maisto & Francesco Donnarumma - 2020 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 43.
    We consider the ways humans engage in social epistemic actions, to guide each other's attention, prediction, and learning processes towards salient information, at the timescale of online social interaction and joint action. This parallels the active guidance of other's attention, prediction, and learning processes at the longer timescale of niche construction and cultural practices, as discussed in the target article.
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    The sensorimotor and social sides of the architecture of speech.Giovanni Pezzulo, Laura Barca & Alessando D'Ausilio - 2014 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 37 (6):569-570.
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    The influence of communication mode on written language processing and beyond.Laura Barca & Giovanni Pezzulo - 2017 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 40.
    Empirical evidence suggests a broad impact of communication mode on cognition at large, beyond language processing. Using a sign language since infancy might shape the representation of words and other linguistic stimuli – for example, incorporating in it the movements and signs used to express them. Once integrated into linguistic representations, this visuo-motor content can affect deaf signers’ linguistic and cognitive processing.
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    Active inference and cognitive-emotional interactions in the brain.Giovanni Pezzulo, Laura Barca & Karl J. Friston - 2015 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 38.
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