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Anna M. Borghi publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anna M. Borghi sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 264 publications — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Anna M. Borghi D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anna M. Borghi sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Anna M. Borghi is affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome in Italy and has an extensive publication record primarily within the field of psychology. Their research spans various subfields including social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, and sociology and political science.

The scientist's work has been published frequently in several journals, notably:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Psychological Research
  • Scientific Reports
  • Language and Cognition
  • Physics of Life Reviews

Their recent papers include:

  • "A Future of Words: Language and the Challenge of Abstract Concepts" (2020, Journal of Cognition)
  • "Sensorimotor and interoceptive dimensions in concrete and abstract concepts" (2020, Journal of Memory and Language)
  • "Words have a weight: language as a source of inner grounding and flexibility in abstract concepts" (2020, Psychological Research)
  • "Concepts for Which We Need Others More: The Case of Abstract Concepts" (2022, Current Directions in Psychological Science)
  • "Inner speech as language process and cognitive tool" (2023, Trends in Cognitive Sciences)

Co-authorship has played a significant role in their research output, with frequent collaborators including:

  • Chiara Fini
  • Claudia Mazzuca
  • Ilenia Falcinelli
  • Luca Tummolini
  • Luisa Lugli

The main research topics addressed in their work involve:

  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Embodied and Extended Cognition

Among book publications, Anna M. Borghi has a contribution with Cambridge University Press, notably the book titled The Freedom of Words published in 2023. This reflects an extension of their research interests into scholarly monographs.

Best Publications

  • The challenge of abstract concepts.

    Anna M. Borghi;Ferdinand Binkofski;Cristiano Castelfranchi;Felice Cimatti

  • Embodied Cognition and beyond: Acting and Sensing the Body.

    Anna M. Borghi;Felice Cimatti

  • Putting words in perspective.

    Anna M. Borghi;Arthur M. Glenberg;Michael P. Kaschak

  • The Perspective Matters! Multisensory Integration in Ego-Centric Reference Frames Determines Full-Body Ownership

    Valeria Ivanova Petkova;Mehrnoush Khoshnevis;H. Henrik Ehrsson

  • Words as Social Tools: An Embodied View on Abstract Concepts

    Anna M. Borghi;Ferdinand Binkofski

  • Words as social tools: Language, sociality and inner grounding in abstract concepts.

    Anna M. Borghi;Anna M. Borghi;Laura Barca;Ferdinand Binkofski;Cristiano Castelfranchi

  • Theories and computational models of affordance and mirror systems: an integrative review.

    Serge Thill;Daniele Caligiore;Anna M. Borghi;Tom Ziemke

  • Grasping language--a short story on embodiment.

    Doreen Jirak;Mareike M. Menz;Giovanni Buccino;Anna M. Borghi

  • Varieties of abstract concepts and their multiple dimensions

    Caterina Villani;Luisa Lugli;Marco Tullio Liuzza;Anna M. Borghi

  • Sentence comprehension and action: Effector specific modulation of the motor system

    Claudia Scorolli;Anna Maria Borghi

  • Sentence comprehension and simulation of object temporary, canonical and stable affordances.

    Anna M. Borghi;Lucia Riggio

  • Are abstract action words embodied? An fMRI investigation at the interface between language and motor cognition

    Katrin Sakreida;Claudia Scorolli;Mareike M. Menz;Stefan Heim

  • When objects are close to me: Affordances in the peripersonal space

    Marcello Costantini;Ettore Ambrosini;Claudia Scorolli;Anna M. Borghi;Anna M. Borghi

  • TRoPICALS: A Computational Embodied Neuroscience Model of Compatibility Effects.

    Daniele Caligiore;Anna M. Borghi;Domenico Parisi;Gianluca Baldassarre

  • Words as tools and the problem of abstract words meanings

    Anna M. Borghi;Felice Cimatti

  • Manipulating objects and telling words: a study on concrete and abstract words acquisition.

    Anna M. Borghi;Andrea Flumini;Felice Cimatti;Davide Marocco

  • One hand, two objects: emergence of affordance in contexts.

    Anna M. Borghi;Andrea Flumini;Nikhilesh Natraj;Lewis A. Wheaton

  • Simon-like and functional affordance effects with tools: the effects of object perceptual discrimination and object action state.

    Antonello Pellicano;Cristina Iani;Anna M. Borghi;Sandro Rubichi

  • Varieties of abstract concepts: development, use and representation in the brain.

    Anna M. Borghi;Anna M. Borghi;Laura Barca;Ferdinand Binkofski;Luca Tummolini

  • Stable and variable affordances are both automatic and flexible

    Anna M. Borghi;Lucia Riggio

Frequent Co-Authors

Ferdinand Binkofski
Ferdinand Binkofski RWTH Aachen University
Domenico Parisi
Domenico Parisi National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Gianluca Baldassarre
Gianluca Baldassarre National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Arthur M. Glenberg
Arthur M. Glenberg Arizona State University
Giovanni Buccino
Giovanni Buccino Magna Graecia University
Giovanni Pezzulo
Giovanni Pezzulo National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Bernhard Hommel
Bernhard Hommel Shandong Normal University
Angelo Cangelosi
Angelo Cangelosi University of Manchester
Asifa Majid
Asifa Majid University of York

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