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Overview

Gabriella Vigliocco is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the field of psychology, with particular emphasis on experimental and cognitive psychology, developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and social psychology.

The scientist's work covers several core topics, including language, metaphor, and cognition; multisensory perception and integration; hearing impairment and communication; action observation and synchronization; neurobiology of language and bilingualism; child and animal learning development; and language, discourse, and communication strategies.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Viktor Kewenig, Jeremy I Skipper, Anna Krason, Margherita Murgiano, and Sara De Felice. These collaborations have contributed to a diverse range of publications across multiple venues.

Vigliocco has contributed multiple papers to leading academic journals. Some recent publications include:

  • Learning from others is good, with others is better: the role of social interaction in human acquisition of new knowledge (2022, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • The role of emotional valence in learning novel abstract concepts (2020, Developmental Psychology)
  • Situating Language in the Real-World: The Role of Multimodal Iconicity and Indexicality (2020, Journal of Cognition)
  • More than words: word predictability, prosody, gesture and mouth movements in natural language comprehension (2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • What we mean when we say semantic: Toward a multidisciplinary semantic glossary (2024, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review)

Their work has been published frequently in several notable scholarly venues, including:

  • Journal of Cognition
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Cognitive Science
  • Developmental Science
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General

The range of research topics and venues reflects Vigliocco's interdisciplinary engagement with multiple areas within psychology and cognitive science.

Best Publications

  • The representation of abstract words: why emotion matters

    Stavroula-Thaleia Kousta;Gabriella Vigliocco;David P. Vinson;Mark Andrews

  • Coming of age: a review of embodiment and the neuroscience of semantics.

    Lotte Meteyard;Sara Rodriguez Cuadrado;Bahador Bahrami;Bahador Bahrami;Bahador Bahrami;Gabriella Vigliocco

  • Iconicity as a general property of language: evidence from spoken and signed languages

    Pamela M. Perniss;Robin L. Thompson;Gabriella Vigliocco

  • Nouns and verbs in the brain: A review of behavioural, electrophysiological, neuropsychological and imaging studies

    Gabriella Vigliocco;David P. Vinson;Judit Druks;Horacio Barber

  • Emotion words, regardless of polarity, have a processing advantage over neutral words.

    Stavroula-Thaleia Kousta;David P. Vinson;Gabriella Vigliocco

  • Representing the Meanings of Object and Action Words: The Featural and Unitary Semantic Space Hypothesis.

    Gabriella Vigliocco;David P Vinson;William Lewis;Merrill F Garrett

  • The Neural Representation of Abstract Words: The Role of Emotion

    Gabriella Vigliocco;Stavroula Thaleia Kousta;Pasquale Anthony Della Rosa;David P. Vinson

  • Integrating Experiential and Distributional Data to Learn Semantic Representations

    Mark Andrews;Gabriella Vigliocco;David Vinson

  • Effects of semantic context in the naming of pictures and words

    Markus F Damian;Gabriella Vigliocco;Willem J.M Levelt

  • Grammatical Gender Is on the Tip of Italian Tongues

    Gabriella Vigliocco;Tiziana Antonini;Merrill F. Garrett

  • Toward a theory of semantic representation

    Gabriella Vigliocco;Lotte Meteyard;Mark Andrews;Stavroula Kousta

  • The ERP response to the amount of information conveyed by words in sentences.

    Stefan L. Frank;Stefan L. Frank;Leun J. Otten;Giulia Galli;Gabriella Vigliocco

  • The bridge of iconicity: from a world of experience to the experience of language

    Pamela Perniss;Gabriella Vigliocco

  • Noun and verb differences in picture naming: past studies and new evidence.

    Simone Mätzig;Judit Druks;Jackie Masterson;Gabriella Vigliocco

  • The interplay of meaning, sound, and syntax in sentence production.

    Gabriella Vigliocco;Robert J. Hartsuiker

  • Constructing Subject-Verb Agreement in Speech: The Role of Semantic and Morphological Factors

    G. Vigliocco;B. Butterworth;C. Semenza

  • Subject-verb agreement in Spanish and English: Differences in the role of conceptual constraints

    Gabriella Vigliocco;Brian Butterworth;Merrill F. Garrett

  • Subject-Verb Agreement Errors in French and English: The Role of Syntactic Hierarchy.

    Julie Franck;Gabriella Vigliocco;Janet Nicol

  • Language as a multimodal phenomenon: implications for language learning, processing and evolution

    Gabriella Vigliocco;Pamela Perniss;David Vinson

  • Separating hierarchical relations and word order in language production: is proximity concord syntactic or linear?

    Gabriella Vigliocco;Janet Nicol

Frequent Co-Authors

David P. Vinson
David P. Vinson University College London
Bahador Bahrami
Bahador Bahrami Max Planck Society
Courtenay Frazier Norbury
Courtenay Frazier Norbury University College London
Chloe Marshall
Chloe Marshall University College London
Brian Butterworth
Brian Butterworth University College London
Carlo Semenza
Carlo Semenza University of Padua
Willem J. M. Levelt
Willem J. M. Levelt Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Rutvik H. Desai
Rutvik H. Desai University of South Carolina
Marco Zorzi
Marco Zorzi University of Padua
Jeffrey S. Bowers
Jeffrey S. Bowers University of Bristol

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