@article{GianelliLugliBaronietal.2013,
  author    = {Gianelli, Claudia and Lugli, Luisa and Baroni, Giulia and Nicoletti, Roberto and Borghi, Anna M.},
  title     = {The impact of social context and language comprehension on behaviour - a kinematic investigation},
  series = {PLoS one},
  volume    = {8},
  journal   = {PLoS one},
  number    = {12},
  publisher = {PLoS},
  address   = {San Fransisco},
  issn      = {1932-6203},
  doi       = {10.1371/journal.pone.0085151},
  pages     = {10},
  year      = {2013},
  abstract  = {We investigated whether and how comprehending sentences that describe a social context influences our motor behaviour. Our stimuli were sentences that referred to objects having different connotations (e.g., attractive/ugly vs smooth/prickly) and that could be directed towards the self or towards "another person" target (e The object is ugly/smooth. Bring it to you/Give it to another person"). Participants judged whether each sentence was sensible or non-sensible by moving the mouse towards or away from their body. Mouse movements were analysed according to behavioral and kinematics parameters. In order to enhance the social meaning of the linguistic stimuli, participants performed the task either individually (Individual condition) or in a social setting, in co-presence with the experimenter. The experimenter could either act as a mere observer (Social condition) or as a confederate, interacting with participants in an off-line modality at the end of task execution (Joint condition), Results indicated that the different roles taken by the experimenter affected motor behaviour and are discussed within an embodied approach to language processing and joint actions.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{GianelliRanziniMarzocchietal.2012,
  author    = {Gianelli, Claudia and Ranzini, Mariagrazia and Marzocchi, Michele and Micheli, Leticia Rettore and Borghi, Anna M.},
  title     = {Influence of numerical magnitudes on the free choice of an object position},
  series = {Cognitive processing : international quarterly of cognitive science},
  volume    = {13},
  journal   = {Cognitive processing : international quarterly of cognitive science},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Heidelberg},
  issn      = {1612-4782},
  doi       = {10.1007/s10339-012-0483-7},
  pages     = {S185 -- S188},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {The link between numerical magnitude and mechanisms of spatial orienting has been underlined in an increasing number of studies. Similarly, the relationship between numerical magnitude and grasping actions has started to be investigated. The present study focuses on the influence of numerical magnitude processing in the free choice of the position of an object. Participants were presented with a digit (1-9 without 5) and were required to decide whether it was smaller or larger than 5. Then, they had to grasp a small cube and change its position before vocally responding "higher" or "lower". Results showed that in the initial phase of the grasp movement, the grip aperture was modulated by the numerical magnitude. Moreover, participants shifted the position of the cube more leftward with smaller digits compared with larger ones, and they tended to position the object closer to themselves with smaller digits compared with larger ones. These results extend the previous findings indicating that the processing of magnitude is tightly related to the mechanisms of spatial orienting that subserve action execution.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{BorghiShakiFischer2022,
  author    = {Borghi, Anna M. and Shaki, Samuel and Fischer, Martin H.},
  title     = {Abstract concepts: external influences, internal constraints, and methodological issues},
  series = {Psychological research : an international journal of perception, attention, memory, and action},
  volume    = {86},
  journal   = {Psychological research : an international journal of perception, attention, memory, and action},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Heidelberg},
  issn      = {0340-0727},
  doi       = {10.1007/s00426-022-01698-4},
  pages     = {2370 -- 2388},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {There is a longstanding and widely held misconception about the relative remoteness of abstract concepts from concrete experiences. This review examines the current evidence for external influences and internal constraints on the processing, representation, and use of abstract concepts, like truth, friendship, and number. We highlight the theoretical benefit of distinguishing between grounded and embodied cognition and then ask which roles do perception, action, language, and social interaction play in acquiring, representing and using abstract concepts. By reviewing several studies, we show that they are, against the accepted definition, not detached from perception and action. Focussing on magnitude-related concepts, we also discuss evidence for cultural influences on abstract knowledge and explore how internal processes such as inner speech, metacognition, and inner bodily signals (interoception) influence the acquisition and retrieval of abstract knowledge. Finally, we discuss some methodological developments. Specifically, we focus on the importance of studies that investigate the time course of conceptual processing and we argue that, because of the paramount role of sociality for abstract concepts, new methods are necessary to study concepts in interactive situations. We conclude that bodily, linguistic, and social constraints provide important theoretical limitations for our theories of conceptual knowledge.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{BorghiShakiFischer2022,
  author    = {Borghi, Anna M. and Shaki, Samuel and Fischer, Martin H.},
  title     = {Concrete constraints on abstract concepts-editorial},
  series = {Psychological research : an international journal of perception, attention, memory, and action},
  volume    = {86},
  journal   = {Psychological research : an international journal of perception, attention, memory, and action},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Heidelberg},
  issn      = {0340-0727},
  doi       = {10.1007/s00426-022-01685-9},
  pages     = {2366 -- 2369},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {This special issue, "Concrete constraints of abstract concepts", addresses the role of concrete determinants, both external and internal to the human body, in acquisition, processing and use of abstract concepts while at the same time presenting to the readers an overview of methods used to assess their representation.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{GianelliRanziniMarzocchietal.2012,
  author    = {Gianelli, Claudia and Ranzini, Mariagrazia and Marzocchi, Michele and Micheli, Leticia Rettore and Borghi, Anna M.},
  title     = {Influence of numerical magnitudes on the free choice of an object position},
  series = {Cognitive processing : international quarterly of cognitive science},
  volume    = {13},
  booktitle = {Cognitive processing : international quarterly of cognitive science},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Heidelberg},
  issn      = {1612-4782},
  pages     = {S41 -- S41},
  year      = {2012},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{GianelliMarzocchiBorghi2017,
  author    = {Gianelli, Claudia and Marzocchi, Michele and Borghi, Anna M.},
  title     = {Grasping the Agent's Perspective},
  series = {Frontiers in psychology},
  volume    = {8},
  journal   = {Frontiers in psychology},
  publisher = {Frontiers Research Foundation},
  address   = {Lausanne},
  issn      = {1664-1078},
  doi       = {10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00042},
  pages     = {13},
  year      = {2017},
  language  = {en}
}