Semantic spaces and navigation

We study how the meaning of concrete words is constructed, stored and retrieved in the brain. Great work with Manuela Piazza (CIMeC) and collaborators. Please visit her research page for a thorough description.

References:

Borghesani V, Buiatti M, Eger E, Piazza M, 

Conceptual and Perceptual Dimensions of Word Meaning Are Recovered Rapidly and in Parallel during Reading, 

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, doi:10.1162/jocn_a_01328 (2018).

Borghesani V, Pedregosa F, Buiatti M, Amadon A, Eger E, Piazza M,

Word meaning in the ventral visual path: a perceptual to conceptual gradient of semantic coding

NeuroImage 143, 128-140 (2016)

Viganò S, Rubino V, Di Soccio A, Buiatti M, Piazza M,

Grid-like and distance codes for representing word meaning in the human brain.

NeuroImage, 117876 (2021).

Viganò S, Rubino V, Buiatti M, Piazza M, 

The neural representation of absolute direction during mental navigation in conceptual spaces. 

Communications Biology 4, 1294 (2021).