Theory papers that summarize my thoughts on topics I am working on. In 1, 3, and 4, my colleagues and I outline a theory of abstract concepts (e.g., fantasy) that ascribes a special role to social interaction, both during the acquisition and use of abstract words. In 2, we propose that, due to the complexity of abstract concepts, people may need to engage in inner speech more when processing and using them. In 5, we propose that the environment may offer us different invitations to act (affordances), both stable and variable, which are endowed with different neural underpinnings and vary contextually.
Borghi, A.M., Mazzuca, C., Tummolini, L. (2025). The role of social interaction in the formation and use of abstract concepts. Nature Reviews Psychology. (Perspective). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-025-00451-z. view-only version https://rdcu.be/elbbT. Preprint (before the final edits from the editor) here: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/v6t95_v2.
Borghi, A.M., Fernyhough, C. (2023). Concepts, abstractness and inner speech. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, 378, 1870, 20210371. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0371.
Borghi, A.M. (2022). Concepts for which we need others more: The case of abstract concepts. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 31 (3), 238-246. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214221079625.
Borghi, A.M., Barca, L., Binkofski, F., Castelfranchi, C., Pezzulo, G., Tummolini, L. (2019). Words as social tools: Language, sociality and inner grounding in abstract concepts. Physics of Life Reviews, 29, 120-153, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2018.12.001.
Borghi, A.M., Riggio, L. (2015). Stable and variable affordances are both automatic and flexible. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9:351. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00351.
Review papers that are important to me. In 6, we summarize recent studies on inner speech, which we consider a cognitive tool that transforms our inner and social life. In 7, I outline recent studies that demonstrate how affordances are modulated by context, particularly the social context. For example, knowing that an object belongs to someone else leads to lower activation of its affordances. In 8, we provide an overview of current theories on abstract concepts, focusing on embodied and grounded ones —i.e., theories that emphasize the role of the body and experience in cognitive activity.
Fernyhough, C., Borghi, A.M. (2023). Inner speech as language process and cognitive tool. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 27, 12, 1180-1193. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661323002103.
7. Borghi, A.M. (2018). Affordances, context and sociality. Synthese. DOI: 10.1007/s11229-018-02044-1.
8. Borghi, A.M., Binkofski, F., Castelfranchi, C., Cimatti, F., Scorolli, C., Tummolini, L. (2017). The challenge of abstract words. Psychological Bulletin, 143(3):263-292. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/bul0000089.
Experimental papers - I selected some very recent work on abstract and concrete concepts, motor interaction, and ecological and technological concepts.
9. Mazzuca, C., Villani, C., Lamarra, T. Bolognesi, M., Borghi, A.M. (2025). Abstractness impacts conversational dynamics. Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106084.
10. Falcinelli, I., Fini, C., Mazzuca, C., Borghi, A.M. (2024). The TECo Database: Technological and Ecological Concepts at the Interface Between Abstractness and Concreteness. Collabra Psychology, 10 (1): 120327. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.120327.
11. Fini, C.,* Era V.*, Da Rold F., Candidi, M. Borghi, A.M. (2021). Abstract concepts in interaction: the need of others when guessing abstract concepts smooths dyadic motor interactions. Royal Society Open, 8, 201205201205. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201205.
12. Villani, C., Lugli, L., Liuzza, M.T., Nicoletti, R., Borghi, A.M. (2021). Sensorimotor and interoceptive dimensions in concrete and abstract concepts. Journal of Memory and Language, 116, 104173. 10.1016/j.jml.2020.104173 DOI OSF preprint: 10.17605/OSF.IO/YPX7S
ARTICLES IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS (n=179)
180. Costello, M. C., MacCormack, J. K., Paek, E. J., Jalloh, U., & Borghi, A. M. (2025). Evidence of Embodiment-based changes in older Adult Language. Psychological Research, 89(5), 151. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-025-02173-6
179. Borghi, A.M., Mazzuca, C., Tummolini, L. (2025). The role of social interaction in the formation and use of abstract concepts. Nature Reviews Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-025-00451-z
178. Mazzuca, C., Arcovito, M., Falcinelli, I., Borghi, A.M. (2025). Water is and is not H2O. Conceptualisations of water vary across chemists and laypeople. Cognitive Science. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cogs.70094.
177. Barca, L., Mazzuca, C., Borghi, A.M. (2025). Impact of pacifier use and parenting characteristics on toddlers' vocabulary development. Frontiers in Psychology, section Developmental Psychology. Front. Psychol. 16:1599801. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1599801
176. Barca, L., Diana, S., Coutiño Duarte, D., Porciello, G., Borghi, A.M. (accepted). Interoceptive grounding of conceptual knowledge: New insight from an interoceptive-exteroceptive categorization task of concepts. Psychological Research.
175. Fini, C., Falcinelli, I., Borghi, A.M. (2025). Technological concepts: object and tool of knowledge outsourcing at different ages. Topoi.
174. Gennaro, A., Kerusauskaite, S., Borghi, A.M., Salvatore, S. (2025, accepted). Low-dimensional meaning and management of uncertainty. Current psychology.
173. Mazzuca, C., Villani, C., Lamarra, T., Bolognesi, M. M., & Borghi, A. M. (2025). Abstractness Impacts Conversational Dynamics and Interactive Alignment. Cognition, 258, 106084. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027725000241
172. Granato, G., Costanzo, R., Borghi, A., Mattera, A., Carruthers, S., Rossell, S., & Baldassarre, G. (2025, accepted). An experimental and computational investigation of executive functions and inner speech in schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Scientific Reports.
171. Fini*, C., Era*, V., Cuomo, G., Falcinelli, I., Candidi, M., Liuzza, M.T., Winter, B., Borghi, A.M. (2025). Digital Connection, Real Bonding: Brief Online Chats Boost Interpersonal Closeness regardless of the conversational topic Heliyon, 11(4), e42546. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2025.e42526
170. Villani, C., De Muynck, G., Borghi, A.M., Lugli, L., Winter, B. (2025). Open hands, large numbers: Manual gestures influence random number generation. Psychological Research. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00426-025-02085-5.
169. Mazzuca, C., Fini, C., De Livio, C., Falcinelli, I., Maggio, F., Tummolini, L., Borghi, A.M. Words as Social Tools: A reprise. (2025). Words As social Tools: A reprise. Physics of Life Reviews, 52, 109-128.
168. Falcinelli, I., Fini, C., Mazzuca, C., Alessandri, G., Alivernini, F., Baiocco, R., ... & Borghi, A. M. (2024). What does “Internet” mean to us as we age? A multi-task investigation on the conceptualization of the technological domain across generations. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 16, 100531.
167. Borghi, A.M., De Livio, C., Gervasi, M., Mannella, F., Nolfi, S., Tummolini, L. (2024). Language as a cognitive and social tool at the time of Large Language Models (LLMs). Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 8, 179–198.
166. Borghi, A.M. (2024). Mechanistic explanation and the integration between language and action. Cognitive Neuroscience, Commentary of the article Davy Mougenot & Heath Matheson.Theoretical strategies for an embodied cognitive neuroscience: Mechanistic explanations of brain-body-environment systems.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17588928.2024.2403337
165. Falcinelli, I., Fini, C., Mazzuca, C., & Borghi, A.M. (2024). The green domain: a review on the conceptualization of geographical and geopolitical entities. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1389581.
164. Falcinelli, I., Fini, C., Mazzuca, C., & Borghi, A.M. (2024). The TECo Database: Technological and Ecological Concepts at the Interface between Abstractness and Concreteness. Collabra Psychology, 10(1).
163. Mirabella, M., Mazzuca, C., De Livio, C., Di Giannantonio, B., Rosati, F., Lorusso, M. M., Lingiardi, V., Borghi, A. M., & Giovanardi, G. (2024). The role of language in nonbinary identity construction: Gender words matter.. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. Advance online publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000729.
162. Filosa, L., Sommovigo, V., Tavolucci, S., Rosa, V., Alivernini, F., Baiocco, R., Borghi, A.M., Chirico, A., Fini, C., Palombi, T., Pistella, J., Lucidi, F. & Alessandri, G. (2024). Daily associations between global self‐esteem and self‐concept clarity and their relationships with subjective well‐being in a sample of adult workers. Journal of Personality.
161. Pistella, J., Baiocco, R., Antoniucci, C., Alessandri, G., Alivernini, F., Borghi, A. M., Filosa, L., Fini, C., Palombi, T., Tavolucci, S. & Lucidi, F. (2024). Older LGBT+ adults and physical activity: a systematic review of qualitative and quantitative data. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 1-26.
160. Baiocco, R., Antoniucci, C., Pistella, J., Alessandri, G., Alivernini, F., Borghi, A. M., Chirico, A., Filosa, L., Fini, C., Palombi, T., Rosati, F., Tavolucci, S. & Lucidi, F. (2024). Aging well in an aging society: physical health in older lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1369021.
159. Nico, D., Borghi, A.M., Tummolini, L., Daprati, E. (2024). Abstract concepts and simulated competition. Psychological Research, 88, 238–256. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-023-01843-7.
158. Borghi, A.M., De Livio, C., Falcinelli, I.. Gervasi, M. (2023). Beyond simple laboratory studies, toward interactive methods Commentary on the Review Article: Beyond simple laboratory studies: Developing sophisticated models to study rich behavior. Physics of Life Reviews, 47, 197-199. doi: 10.1016/j.plrev.2023.10.025
157. Gianelli, C., Kühne, K., Miklashevsky, A., Jeglinski-Mende, M., Canessa, N., & Borghi, A. M. (2023). COVID-19 and the perceived dangerousness of everyday objects: A behavioural online study in Italy and Germany. Collabra: Psychology, 9(1).
156. Banks, B., Borghi, A.M., Fargier, R., Fini, C., Jonauskaite, D., Mazzuca, C., Montalti, M., Villani, C., Woodin, G. (2023). Consensus Paper: Current Perspectives on Abstract Concepts and Future Research Directions. Journal of Cognition, 6(1):62. doi: 10.5334/joc.238. PMID: 37841672; PMCID: PMC10573588.
155. Fernyhough, C., Borghi, A.M. (2023). Inner speech as language process and cognitive tool. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 27, 12, 1180-1193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2023.08.014 1 -
154.Mazzuca, C., Borghi, A. M., van Putten, S., Lugli, L., Nicoletti, R., & Majid, A. (2023). Gender is conceptualized in different ways across cultures. Language and Cognition.
153. Fini, C., Tummolini, L., Dove, G., Borghi, A.M. (2023). Editorial: Insights in theoretical and philosophical psychology. Frontiers in psychology.
152. Borghi, A.M., Falcinelli, I, Fini, C, Gervasi, A., & Mazzuca, C (2023) How Do We Learn and Why Do We Use Abstract Concepts and Words. Front. Young Minds. 11:1138574. doi: 10.3389/frym.2023.1138574. https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2023.1138574
151. Borghi, A. M., Gervasi, A. M., & Brozzoli, C. (2023). Language as a means to reduce uncertainty: Comment on" An active inference model of hierarchical action understanding, learning and imitation" by R. Proietti, G. Pezzulo, A. Tessari. Physics of Life Reviews, 46, 261-263. DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2023.07.014 .
150. Mazzuca, C., Borghi, A. M., van Putten, S., Lugli, L., Nicoletti, R., & Majid, A. (2020). (in press). Gender is conceptualized in different ways across cultures. Language and Cognition.
149. Borghi A.M., Gervasi, A.M., Brozzoli, C. (2023). Language as a means to reduce uncertainty. Physics of Life Reviews. Ref.: Ms. No. PLREV-D-23-00108. Accepted on July 24, 2023.
148. Borghi, A.M., Falcinelli, I., Fini, C., Gervasi, A.M., Mazzuca, C. (accepted, in press). How do we learn and why do we use abstract concepts and words? Frontiers for Young Minds.
147. Borghi, A. M., Mazzuca, C., Gervasi, A. M., Mannella, F., & Tummolini, L. (2023). Grounded cognition can be multimodal all the way down. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1-5.
146. Borghi, A.M., & Mazzuca, C. (2023). Grounded Cognition, Linguistic Relativity, and Abstract Concepts. Topics in Cognitive Science. doi: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tops.12663.
145. Fini, C., Falcinelli, I., Cuomo, G., Era, V., Mazzuca, C., Candidi, M., Tummolini, L., Borghi, A.M. (2023). Breaking the ice in conversation: Abstract words prompt dialogues more easily than concrete words. Language and cognition, 34, 3.
144. Borghi, A. M., Osińska, A., Roepstorff, A., & Raczaszek-Leonardi, J. (2023). Concepts in interaction: social engagement and inner experiences. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 378(1870), 20210351. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2021.035.
143. Borghi, A.M., Fernyhough, C. (2023). Concepts, abstractness, and inner speech. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 378(1870), 20210371. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0371.
142. Borghi, A. M., Shaki, S., & Fischer, M. H. (2022). Abstract concepts: External influences, internal constraints, and methodological issues. Psychological Research, 86(8), 2370-2388.
141. Borghi, A. M., Shaki, S., & Fischer, M. H. (2022). Concrete constraints on abstract concepts. Psychological Research, 86(8), 2366-2369.
140. Bellagamba*, F., Borghi*, A.M., Mazzuca, C., Pecora, G., Ferrara, F., Fogel, A. (2022). Abstractness emerges progressively over the second year of life. Scientific report, 12, 20940. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25426-5.
139. Di Vincenzo, M., Palini, F., De Marsico, M., Borghi, A.M., Baldassarre, G. (2022). A natural human-drone embodied interface: empirical comparison with a traditional interface. Frontiers in Neurorobotics.https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2022.898859.
138. Villani, C., Orsoni, M., Lugli, L., Benassi, M., Borghi, A.M. (2022). Abstract concepts in conversation. Scientific report, 12: 17572. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-20785-5.
137. Paoletti, M., Fini, C., Filippini, C., Massari, G., DAbundo, E., Merla, A., Bellagamba, F., Borghi, A.M. (2022). Abstract concepts processing induces parasymphatetic activation: A thermal imaging study. Frontiers in Psychology. 13:932118. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.932118.
136. Granato, G., Borghi, A.M., Mattera, G., Baldassarre, G. (2022). A computational model of inner speech supporting flexible goal-directed behaviour in Autism. Scientific Report, 12, 14198. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18445-9. .
135. Borghi, A.M., Fini, C., & Mazzuca, C. (2022). Abstract Concepts, Social Interaction, and Beliefs. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.919808.
134. G. Pecora, Focaroli, V., Paoletti, M., Barca, L., Chiarotti, F., Borghi, A.M., Gasparini, C. Caravale, B., Bombaci, I., Gastaldi, S., Bellagamba, F. Addessi, E. (2022). Infant sleep and development: Concurrent and longitudinal relations during the first 8 months of life. Infant behavior and development, 67, 101719. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2022.101719,
133. Borghi, A.M. (2022). Concepts for which we need others more: The case of abstract concepts. Current directions in psychological science, 31(3), 238–246. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214221079625
News on APS – Association for Psychological Science. https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/new-content-from-current-directions-in-psychological-science-2022-july-15.html
132. D'Aversa, F., Lugli, L., Borghi, A.M., Barca, L. (2022). Implicit effect of abstract/concrete components in the categorization of Chinese words. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 34(5), 592–606. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20445911.2022.2049279.
131. Mazzuca, C., Falcinelli, I., Michalland. A.M., Tummolini, L., Borghi, A.M. (2022). Bodily, emotional, and public sphere at the time of COVID-19. An investigation on concrete and abstract concepts. Psychological research, 86, 2266–2277. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00426-021-01633-z.
130. Giocondo, F., Borghi, A. M., Baldassarre, G., & Caligiore, D. (2022). Emotions modulate affordances-related motor responses: a priming experiment. Frontiers in Psychology, 13.doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.701714.
129. Fini*, C., Zannino*, G., Orsoni, M., Carlesimo, G., Benassi, M., Borghi, A.M. (2022). Articulatory suppression delays processing of abstract concepts: The role of inner speech. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 75(7), 1343–1354. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17470218211053623.
128. Villani, C., D’Ascenzo, S., Borghi, A. M., Roversi, C., Benassi, M., Lugli, L. (2022). Is justice grounded? How expertise shapes conceptual representation of institutional concepts. Psychological Research, 1-17.
127. Dove, G., Barca, L., Tummolini, L., Borghi, A.M. (2022). Words have a weight: language as a source of inner grounding and flexibility in abstract concepts. Psychological Research, 86(8), 2451-2467.
126. Borghi, A. M., Mazzuca, C., Da Rold, F., Falcinelli, I., Fini, C., Michalland, A. H., & Tummolini, L. (2021). Abstract words as social tools: which necessary evidence? Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 613026.
125. Fini, C., Tummolini, L., Borghi, A.M. (2021). Contextual modulation of preferred social distance during the Covid-19 pandemic. Scientific Reports,11(1), 1-11.
124. Pezzuti, L., Dawe, J., Borghi, A.M. (2021). Does mastering of abstract concepts decline with age? Educational Gerontology, 47, 12, 527-542. IF: 1.389, CIT: 2.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03601277.2021.2008709
123. Mazzuca*, C., Fini*, C., Michalland, A.H., Falcinelli, I., Da Rold, F., Tummolini, L., Borghi, A.M. (2021). From affordances to abstract words: The flexibility of sensorimotor grounding. Brain Sciences, 11, 10, 1304,
https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11101304. IF 2021: 3.333, CIT: 23.
122. Mazzuca, C., Falcinelli, I., Michalland, A.H., Tummolini, L., Borghi, A.M. (2021). Differences and similarities in the conceptualization of COVID-19 and other diseases in the first Italian lockdown. Scientific Report, 11, 18303. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-97805-3.
121. Fini, C., Era, V., da Rold, F., Candidi, M., & Borghi, A.M. (2021). Abstract concepts in interaction: The need of others when guessing abstract concepts smooths dyadic motor interactions. Royal Society open, 8, 201205201205http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201205.
120. Papitto, G., Lugli, L., Borghi A. M. , Pellicano A., Binkofski F. (2021). Embodied negation and levels of concreteness: A TMS Study on German and Italian language processing
Brain Research, 147523, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2021.147523.
119. Mustile M., Giocondo, F., Caligiore, D. , Borghi, A. M., Kourtis, D. (2021). Motor inhibition to dangerous objects: Electrophysiological evidence for task-dependent aversive affordances. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 33 (5), 826-839. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01690.
118. Borghi, A.M. (2021). Affordances, context and sociality. Synthese, 199(5-6), 12485-12515. DOI: 10.1007/s11229-018-02044-1. IF 2021: 1.595, CIT: 22.
117. Villani, C., Lugli, L., Liuzza, M.T., Nicoletti, R., Borghi, A.M. (2021). Sensorimotor and interoceptive dimensions in concrete and abstract concepts. Journal of Memory and Language, 116, 104173. doi: 10.31234/osf.io/kn3vc.
116. Borghi, A.M., (2020). A future of words: Language and the challenge of abstract concepts. (special collection: The future of embodiment research. Challenges and opportunities.) Journal of Cognition, 3(1): 42, pp.1?18. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.134.
115. Granato, G., Borghi, A.M., Baldassarre, G. (2020). A computational model of language functions in flexible goal-directed behavior. Scientific Reports, 10, 21623 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78252-y..
114. Borghi, A.M., Tummolini, L. (2020). Touch me if you can: The intangible but grounded nature of abstract concepts. Commentary to Gilead, Trope & Liberman. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X19003091.
113. Ghandhari, M., Fini, C., DaRold, F., Borghi, A.M. (2020). Different kinds of embodied language: a comparison between Italian and Persian languages. Brain and Cognition, 142, 105581.
112. Foerster, F., Borghi, A.M., Goslin, J. (2020). Labels strengthen motor learning of new tools. Cortex, doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.04.006.
111. Mazzuca, C., Majid, A., Lugli, L., Nicoletti, R., Borghi, A.M. (2020). Gender is a multifaceted concept: Evidence that specific life experiences differentially shape the concept of gender. Language and Cognition, 12(4), 649-678.
110. Barca, L., Mazzuca, C., Borghi, A.M. (2020). Overusing the Pacifier during Infancy Sets a Footprint on Abstract Words Processing. Journal of Child Language,1–16, doi:10.1017/S0305000920000070.
109. Borghi, A.M., Barsalou, L. (2019). Perspective in the conceptualization of categories. Psychological Research, doi: 10.1007/s00426-019-01269-0.
108. Borghi, A.M., Barca, L., Binkofski, F., Castelfranchi, C., Pezzulo, G., Tummolini, L. (2019). Words as social tools: Flexibility, situatedness, language and sociality in abstract concepts. Reply to comments on “Words as social tools: Language, sociality and inner grounding in abstract concepts”. Physics of Life Reviews, 29:178-184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2019.06.004.
107. Villani, C., Lugli, L., Liuzza, M.T., Borghi, A.M. (2019). Varieties of abstract concepts and their multiple dimensions. Language and cognition, 11, 3, 403-430. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2019.23.
106. Borghi, A.M., Fini, C. (2019). Theories and explanations in psychology. Frontiers in psychology 10, 958.
105. Borghi, A.M., Barca, L., Binkofski, F., Castelfranchi, C., Pezzulo, G., Tummolini, L. (2019). Words as social tools: Language, sociality and inner grounding in abstract concepts. Physics of Life Reviews, 29, 120-153.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2018.12.001.
104. Fini, C., Borghi, A.M. (2019). Sociality to reach objects and to catch meaning: the case of concrete and abstract concepts. Frontiers in Psychology 10, 838.
103. Jin Z., Tirassa M., Borghi A.M. (2018). Editorial: Beyond Embodied Cognition: Intentionality, Affordance, and Environmental Adaptation. Frontiers in Psychology, section Cognition, 9:2659. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02659.
102. Mazzuca, C., Lugli, L., Benassi, M., Nicoletti, R., Borghi, A.M. (2018). Abstract, emotional and concrete concepts and the activation of mouth-hand effectors. PeerJ 6:e5987 http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5987.
101. Lugli, L., D'Ascenzo, S., Borghi, A.M., Nicoletti, R.(2018). Clock Walking and Gender: How Circular Movements Influence Arithmetic Calculations. Front Psychol. 9:1599. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01599.
100. Borghi, A.M., Barca, L., Binkofski, F., Tummolini, L. (2018). Varieties of abstract concepts: development, use and representation in the brain. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373, 20170121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0121.
99. Horoufchin, H., Bzdok, D., Buccino, G., Borghi, A.M., Binkofski, F. (2018). Action and object words are differentially anchored in the sensory motor system - A perspective on cognitive embodiment. Scientific Reports 8(1):6583. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-24475-z.
98. Setti, A., Borghi, A.M. (2018). Editorial: Embodied Cognition Over the Lifespan: Theoretical Issues and Implications for Applied Settings. Front. Psychol. 9:550. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00550.
97. Borghi, A.M., Barca, L., Binkofski, F., Tummolini, L. (2018). Abstract concepts, language and sociality: from acquisition to inner speech. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society : Biological Sciences, 5;373(1752). pii: 20170134. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0134.
96. Scorolli, C., Borghi, A.M., Tummolini, L. (2018). Cues of control modulate the ascription of object ownership. Psychological Research, 82(5):929-954. DOI: 10.1007/s00426-017-0871-9.
95. Barca, L., Mazzuca, C., Borghi, A.M. (2017). Pacifier overuse and conceptual relations of abstract and emotional concepts Frontiers in Psychology, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02014.
94. Borghi, A.M., Binkofski, F., Castelfranchi, C., Cimatti, F., Scorolli, C., Tummolini, L. (2017). The challenge of abstract words. Psychological Bulletin, 143(3):263-292. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/bul0000089.
93. Pellicano, A., Borghi, A.M., Binkofski, F. (2017). Editorial: Bridging the Theories of Affordances and Limb Apraxia. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 11:148. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00148.
92. Borghi, A.M., Setti, A. (2017) Abstract Concepts and Aging: An Embodied and Grounded Perspective. Front. Psychol. 8:430. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00430.
91. Marino, B., Borghi, A.M., Buccino, G., Riggio, L. (2017). Chained activation of the motor system during language understanding. Front. Psychol. 8:199. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00199.
90. Gianelli, C., Marzocchi M., Borghi A.M. (2017) Grasping the Agent’s Perspective: A Kinematics Investigation of Linguistic Perspective in Italian and German. Front. Psychol. 8:42. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00042.
89. Scerrati, E., Lugli, L., Borghi, A.M., Nicoletti, R. (2017). The multifold Modality-Switch Effect: What Happens When We See the Bees Buzzing After Hearing the Diamonds Glistening Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24(3), 798-803. DOI 10.3758/s13423-016-1150-2.
88. Borghi, A.M., Zarcone, E. (2016). Grounding abstractness: Abstract concepts and the activation of the mouth. Front. Psychol. 7:1498. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01498.
87. Lugli, L., Obertis, A., Borghi, A.M. (2017). Hitting is male, giving is female: Automatic imitation and complementarity during action observation. Psychological Research. DOI:
10.1007/s00426-016-0808-8.
86. Sakreida, K., Effner, I., Thill, S., Menz, M.M., Jirak, D., Eickhofff, C.R., Ziemke, T., Eickhoff, S.B., Borghi, A.M., Binkofski, F. (2016). Affordance processing in segregated parieto-frontal dorsal stream sub-pathways. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 69, 89-112.
85. Jacquet P.O., Roy A.C., Chambon V., Borghi, A.M., Salemme R., Farnè A.,& Reilly K.T. (2016). Changing ideas about others’ intentions: updating prior expectations tunes activity in the human motor system. Scientific Reports, 6:26995. DOI: 10.1038/srep26995.
84. Borghi, A.M. (2016). Commentary: “Weighty data: importance information influences estimated weight of digital information storage devices”. Front. Psychol. 7:709. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00709 83.
83. Scorolli, C., Daprati, E., Nico, D., Borghi, A.M. (2016). Reaching for objects or asking for them: Distance estimation in 7 to 15 years-old children . Journal of Motor Behavior, 48(2):183-91. doi: 10.1080/00222895.2015.1070787.
82. Natraj, N., Pella, I.M., Borghi, A.M., Wheaton, L.A. (2015). The visual encoding of tool-object affordances. Neuroscience (Section: Cognitive, Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience). pii: S0306-4522(15)00887-8. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.09.060.
81. Scorolli, C., & Borghi, A.M. (2015). Square bananas, blue horses: The relative weight of shape and color in concept recognition and representation. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:1542.
doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01542.
80. Scerrati E., Baroni G., Borghi A.M., Galatolo R., Lugli, L. and Nicoletti R. (2015). The modality-switch effect: Visually and aurally presented prime sentences activate our senses. Front. Psychol. 6:1668. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01668.
79. Marino, B., Borghi, A.M., Gemmi, L., Cacciari, C., Riggio, L. (2015). Neural Adaptation Effects in Conceptual Processing. Behavioral Sciences, 5 (3), 353-371. doi:10.3390/bs50x000x.
78. Borghi, A.M., Riggio, L. (2015). Stable and variable affordances are both automatic and flexible. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9:351. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00351.
77. Flumini, A., Barca, L., Borghi, A.M., & Pezzulo, G. (2015). How do you hold your mouse? Tracking the compatibility effect between hand posture and stimulus size, 79(6):928-38.. Psychological research, 1-11. doi: 10.1007/s00426-014-0622-0.
76. Granito, C., Scorolli, C., Borghi, A.M. (2015). Naming a Lego world. The role of language in the acquisition of abstract concepts. Plos One 10(1): e0114615. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0114615.
75. Anelli, F., Lugli, L., Baroni, G., Borghi, A.M., Nicoletti, R. (2014). Walking boosts your performance in making additions and subtractions. Frontiers in Psychology 5:1459. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01459.
74. Borghi A.M., Capirci O., Gianfreda G., Volterra V. (2014) The body and the fading away of abstract concepts and words: a sign language analysis. Front. Psychol. 5:811. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.0081172.
73. Flumini, A., Ranzini, M., Borghi, A.M. (2014). Nomina sunt consequentia rerum. –Sound–shape correspondences with every-day objects figures. Journal of Memory and Language, 76, 47-60.
72. Borghi, A.M., Cangelosi, A. (2014). Action language integration: from humans to cognitive robots. Topics in Cognitive Science;6(3), 344-58. doi: 10.1111/tops.12103.
71. Borghi, A.M. (2014). Affordances and contextual flexibility. Physics of Life Reviews, 11(2):267-8. doi: 10.1016/j.plrev.2014.01.009. Commentary of: van Elk, van Schie and Bekkering, Action Semantics: A unifying conceptual framework for the selective use of multimodal and modality-specific object knowledge.
70. Scorolli, C., Miatton, M., Wheaton, L., Borghi, A.M. (2014). I give you a cup, I get a cup: A kinematics study on social intention. Neuropsychologia, 57, 196-204. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.03.006.
69. Morlino, G., Gianelli, C., Borghi, A.M., Nolfi, S. (2015). Learning to manipulate and categorize in human and artificial agents. Cognitive Science, 39(1), 39-64. DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12130.
68. Kalénine, S., Shapiro, A. D., Flumini, A., Borghi, A.M., & Buxbaum, L. J. (2014). Visual context modulates potentiation of grasp types during semantic object categorization. Psychonomic bulletin & review, 21(3), 645-651. Doi: 10.3758/s13423-013-0536-7
67. Kalkan, S., Dag, N., Yuruten, O., Borghi, A.M., Sahin, E. (2014). Verb concepts from affordances. Interaction Studies 15:1, 1-37. doi: 10.1075/is.15.1.01kal. CIT: 21.
66. Gianelli, C., Lugli, L., Baroni, G., Nicoletti, R., & Borghi, A.M. (2013). The impact of social context and language comprehension on behaviour: A kinematic investigation. PLoS ONE, Volume 8(12): e85151. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085151.
65. Anelli, F., Nicoletti, R., Bolzani, R., Borghi, A.M. (2013). Keep away from danger: Dangerous objects in dynamic and static situations. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 344.. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00344.
64. Anelli, F., Ranzini, M., Nicoletti, R., Borghi, A.M. (2013). Perceiving object dangerousness: An escape from pain? Experimental Brain Research, 228, 457-466.
63. Roversi, C., Borghi, A.M., Tummolini, L. (2013). A Marriage is an Artefact and not a Walk that We Take Together: An Experimental Study on the Categorization of Artefacts. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 4, 3, 527-542.
62. Lugli, L., Baroni, G., Anelli, F., Borghi, A.M., & Nicoletti, R. (2013). Counting is Easier while Experiencing a Congruent Motion. Plos One, 8, 5, Article number 64500. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064500.
61. Borghi, A.M., Scorolli, C., Caligiore, D., Baldassarre, G. & Tummolini, L. (2013). The embodied mind extended: Words as social tools. Frontiers in Psychology 4:214. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00214.
60. Sakreida, K., Scorolli, C., Menz, M.M., Heim, S., Borghi, A.M., & Binkofski, F. (2013) Are abstract action words embodied? An fMRI investigation at the interface between language and motor cognition, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7:125. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00125.
59. Thill, S., Caligiore, D., Borghi, A.M., Ziemke, T., Baldassarre (2013). Theories and Computational Models of Affordance and Mirror Systems: An Integrative Review. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 37(3), 491-521. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.01.012.
58. Paglieri F., Borghi, A.M., Colzato L.S., Hommel B., Scorolli C. (2013). Heaven can wait: How religion modulates temporal discounting. Psychological Research, 77, 6, 738-747. Doi: 10.1007/s00426-012-0473-5.
57. Natraj, N., Poole, V., Mizelle, J.C., Flumini, A., Borghi, A.M., Wheaton, L. (2013). Context and Hand Posture Modulate the Neural Dynamics of Tool-Object Perception. Neuropsychologia, 51, 506-519. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.12.003.
56. Gianelli, C., Scorolli, C., Borghi, A.M. (2013). Acting in perspective: The role of body and of language as social tools. Psychological Research, 77, 1, 40-52.
55. Caligiore, D., Borghi, A.M., Parisi, D., Ellis, R., Cangelosi, A., Baldassarre, G. (2013). How affordances associated with a distractor object affect compatibility effects: A study with the computational model TRoPICALS. Psychological Research, 77, 1, 7-19. DOI: 10.1007/s00426-012-0424-1.
54.Tummolini, L. Scorolli, C., Borghi, A.M. (2013). Disentangling the sense of ownership from the sense of fairness. Commentary on Baumard, André and Sperber, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36, pp 101-102. doi:10.1017/S0140525X1200088X.
53. Scorolli, C., Jacquet, P., Binkofski, F., Nicoletti, R., Tessari, A., Borghi, A.M. (2012). Abstract and concrete phrases processing differently modulates cortico-spinal excitability. Brain Research, 1488, 60-71. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2012.10.004.
52. Anelli, F., Borghi, A.M., Nicoletti, R.(2012).Grasping the pain: Motor resonance with dangerous affordances. Consciousness & Cognition, 21, 1627-1639. Doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2012.09.001.
51. Ambrosini, E., Scorolli, C., Borghi, A.M., Costantini, M. (2012). Which body for embodied cognition? Affordance and language within actual and perceived reaching space. Consciousness and cognition, 21, 1551–1557.
50. Fusaroli, R., Demuru, P., Borghi, A.M. (2012). Introduction to the special issue. The intersubjectivity of embodiment. Cognitive semiotics, 4, 1, 1-5. ISBN: 978-87-995235-0-4.
49. Gianelli, C., Ranzini, M., Marzocchi M., Rettore Micheli L., Borghi, A.M. (2012). Influence of numerical magnitudes on the free choice of an object position. Cognitive Processing,13, 185-188. DOI 10.1007/s10339-012-0483-7.
48. Jacquet, P., Jambon, V., Borghi, A.M., Tessari, A. (2012). Object Affordances Tune Observers' Prior Expectations About Tool-Use Behaviors. PLoS ONE 7(6): e39629. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0039629.
47. Borghi, A.M., Flumini, A., Natraj, N., Wheaton, L.A. (2012). One hand, two objects: Emergence of affordance in contexts. Brain and Cognition, 80, (1), 64-73. Doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2012.04.007.
46.Lugli, L., Baroni, G., Gianelli, C., Borghi, A.M., Nicoletti, R. (2012). Self, others, objects: How this triadic interaction modulates our behavior. Memory and Cognition, 40, 1373-1386. DOI 10.3758/s13421-012-0218-0.
45. Liuzza, M.T., Setti, A., Borghi, A.M. (2012). Kids observing other kids’ hands: visuomotor priming in children. Consciousness & Cognition, 21, 383-392.
43. Jacquet, P., Binkofski, F., Tessari, A., Borghi, A.M. (2012). Can object affordances impact on human social learning of tool use? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 35, 227-228.Commentary to the target article The cognitive bases of human tool use by K. Vaesen.
42. Borghi, A.M. (2011). Simulating the elimination of simulation: The case of language comprehension. Commentary to T. Iachini, Mental imagery and embodied cognition. Journal of Mental Imagery, 3-4, 27-33.
41. Ranzini, M., Lugli, L., Anelli, M. Carbone, R., Nicoletti, R., Borghi, A.M. (2011). Graspable objects shape number processing. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5, art.147, doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00147.
40. Scorolli, C., Binkofski, F., Buccino, G., Nicoletti, R., Riggio, L., Borghi, A.M. (2011). Abstract and concrete sentences, embodiment, and languages. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 227. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00227.
39. Borghi, A.M., Pecher, D. (2011). Introduction to the special topic Embodied and Grounded Cognition. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 187. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00187.
38. Hommel, B., Colzato, L., Scorolli, C., Borghi, A.M., van den Wildenberg, L.P.M.(2011). Action control and religion: Faith-specific modulation of the Simon effect but not stop-signal performance. Cognition, 120, 177-185.
37. Borghi, A.M., Flumini, A., Cimatti, F., Marocco, D. & Scorolli, C. (2011).Manipulating objects and telling words: A study on concrete and abstract words acquisition. Frontiers in Psychology 2:15. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00015.
36. Borghi, A.M., Di Ferdinando, A., & Parisi, D. (2011). Objects, spatial compatibility, and affordances: A connectionist study. Cognitive Systems Research, 12, 33-44.
35. Costantini, M., Ambrosini, E., Scorolli, C., Borghi, A.M. (2011). When objects are close to me: Affordances in the peripersonal space. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 302-308. 2010. doi: 10.3758/s13423-011-0054-4.
34. Ranzini, M., Borghi, A.M., Nicoletti, R. (2011). With hands I do not centre! Action- and object-related effects of hand-cueing in the line bisection. Neuropsychologia, 49, 2918-2928. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.06.019.
33. Borghi, A.M., Cimatti, F.(2010). Embodied cognition and beyond: Acting and sensing the body. Neuropsychologia, 48, 763-773. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.10.029.
32. Pezzulo, G., Barca, L., Lamberti Bocconi, A., Borghi, A.M. (2010). When affordances climb into your mind: Advantages of Motor Simulation in a Memory Task Performed by Novice and Expert Rock Climbers. Brain and Cognition, 73, 68-73.
31. Colzato, L., van Beest, I., van den Wildenberg, W.P.M., Scorolli, C., Dorchin, S., Meiran, N., Borghi, A.M., Hommel, B. (2010). God, do I have your attention? Cognition, 117, 87-94. 32. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.07.003.
30. Ferri, F., Stoianov, I. P., Gianelli, C., D'Amico, L., Borghi, A.M., Gallese, V. (2010).When action meets emotions. How facial displays of emotion influence goal-related behavior. PLoS ONE 5 (10): e13126. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013126.
29. Caligiore, D., Borghi, A.M., Parisi, D., Baldassarre, G. (2010). TRoPICALS: An Embodied Neural-Network Model of Experiments on Compatibility Effects. Psychological Review, 117, 1188-228. 2010 doi: 10.1037/a0020887.
28. Jirak, D., Menz, M., Buccino, G., Borghi, A.M., & Binkofski, F. (2010). Grasping language. A short story on embodiment. Consciousness and Cognition, 19, 711-720.
27. Pellicano, A., Iani, C., Borghi, A.M., Rubichi, S., Nicoletti, R. (2010). Simon-like and functional affordance effects with tools: The effects of object perceptual discrimination and object action state. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 2190 — 2201.
26. Chersi, F., Thill, S., Ziemke, T., Borghi, A.M. (2010). Sentence processing: linking language to motor chains. Frontiers in neurorobotics, 4:4. doi: 10.3389/fnbot.2010.00004.
25. Borghi. A.M., Gianelli, C., Scorolli, C. (2010). Sentence comprehension: effectors and goals, self and others. An overview of experiments and implications for robotics. Frontiers in neurorobotics, 4:3. doi: 10.3389/fnbot.2010.00003.
24. Tessari, A., Tsakiris, M., Borghi, A.M., Serino, A. (2010). The sense of body: A multidisciplinary approach to body representation. Introduction to a special number on Neuropsychologia, 48, 643-644.
23. Anelli, F., Nicoletti, R., Borghi, A.M. (2010). Categorization and action. What about object consistence? Acta Psychologica, 133, 203-211.
22. Pellicano, A., Iani, C., Rubichi, S., Ricciarelli, P., Borghi, A.M., & Nicoletti, R. (2010). Real life motor training modifies spatial performance: The advantage of being drummers. American Journal of Psychology, 123, 169-179.
21. Borghi, A.M., Scorolli, C. (2009). Language comprehension and hand motion simulation. Human Movement Science, 28, 12-27.
20. Scorolli, C., Borghi, A.M., Glenberg, A.M. (2009). Language-induced motor activity in bimanual object lifting. Experimental Brain Research, 193, 43-53.
19. Borghi, A.M., Riggio, L. (2009). Sentence comprehension and simulation of objects temporary, canonical and stable affordances. Brain Research, 1253, 117-128. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.11.064.
18. Setti, A., Borghi, A.M., Tessari, A. (2009). Moving hands, moving entities. Brain and Cognition, 70, 253-258.
17. Setti, A., Caramelli, N., Borghi, A.M. (2009). Conceptual information about size of objects in nouns. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 21, 7, 1022-1044.
16. Kalénine, S., Bonthoux, F., Borghi, A.M. (2009). How action and context priming influence categorization: a developmental study. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 27, 717-730.
15. Freina, L., Baroni, G., Borghi, A.M., Nicoletti, R.(2009).Emotive Concept-Nouns and Motor Responses: Attraction or Repulsion? Memory and Cognition, 37, 493-499.
14. Bruzzo, A., Borghi, A.M., Ghirlanda, S. (2008). Hand-object interaction in perspective. Neuroscience Letters, 441, 61-5.
13. Passini, S., Strazzari, F., Borghi, A.M. (2008). Icon-function relationship in toolbar icons. Displays, 29, 521-525.
12. Iachini, T., Borghi, A.M., Senese, P. (2008). Categorization and sensorimotor interaction with objects. Brain and Cognition, 67, 31-43.
11. Borghi, A.M., Scorolli, C.(2008). Language and embodiment. Anthropology and Philosophy, 9 (1-2), pp. 7-23. ISBN 978-88-548-4093-5.
10. Borghi, A.M., Bonfiglioli, C., Lugli, L., Ricciardelli, P., Rubichi, S., Nicoletti, R. (2007). Are visual stimuli sufficient to evoke motor information? Studies with hand primes. Neuroscience Letters, 411, 17-21.
9. Scorolli, C., Borghi, A.M (2007). Sentence comprehension and action: Effector specific modulation of the motor system. Brain research, 1130, 119-124.
8. Tessari, A., Borghi, A.M. (2007). Body image and body schema: The shared representation of body image and the role of dynamic body schema in perspective and imitation. Commentary to the target-article 'Somatosensory processes subserving perception and action' by Dijkerman & de Haan. Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), 30, 2, 221-222.
7. Borghi, A.M., Scorolli, C. (2006). Object concepts and mental images. Anthropology & Philosophy, A&P, 7, 1-2, 64-74. ISBN 978-88-548-4093-5. (E-BOOK http://www.neotake.com/ebook/object-concepts-and-mental-images/demmddy.html)
6. Parisi, D., Borghi, A.M., Di Ferdinando, A. & Tsiotas, G. (2005). Meaning and motor actions: Behavioral and Artificial Life evidence. Commentary to the target article ‘From monkey-like action recognition to human language: An evolutionary framework for neurolinguistics’ by Michael A. Arbib. Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), 28,139-140.
5. Borghi, A.M., Caramelli, N., Setti, A. (2005). Conceptual information on objects’ locations. Brain and Language, 93, 140-151.
4. Borghi, A.M., Parisi, D., & Di Ferdinando, A. (2005). Action and hierarchical levels of categories: A connectionist perspective. Cognitive Systems Research, 6, 99-110.
3. Borghi, A.M. (2004). Object concepts and action: Extracting affordances from objects’ parts. Acta Psychologica, 115, 1, 69-96.
2. Borghi, A.M., Glenberg, A., Kaschak, M. (2004). Putting words in perspective. Memory and cognition,32, 863-873.
1. Borghi, A.M. & Caramelli, N. (2003). Situation bounded conceptual organization in children: From action to spatial relations. Cognitive Development, 18, 40-60.
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37. Gervasi, A. M., Mazzuca, C., Borghi, A., & Brozzoli, C. (2025). Interfering with inner speech during action encoding impacts their execution. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 47). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/13v0442r
36. Mazzuca, C., Villani, C., Lamarra, T., Bolognesi, M.M., & Borghi, A.M. (July, 2024). Abstract sentences elicit more uncertainty and curiosity than concrete sentences. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Rotterdam
35. Gervasi A.M., Borghi A.M., Mannella F., Tummolini L. (2022). Spatial demonstratives and physical control. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Rotterdam, Netherlands.
34. Falcinelli, I., Fini, C., Mazzuca, C., & Borghi, A.M. (2024). The TECo Database: Insights on The Semantic Organization of The Ecological Domain. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Rotterdam.
33. De Livio, C., Mazzuca, C., & Borghi, A.M. (2024). Perceived Vocal Congruence Varies Across Gender Identities. In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Rotterdam.
32.Borghi, A. M., Fini, C., & Mazzuca, C. (2023). Embodied, Embedded, Enacted Cognition. The Sage Handbook of Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience: Cognitive Systems, Development and Applications, 418-436. London: Sage.
31. Borghi, A.M. (2022). Merging affordances and abstract concepts. In Z. Djebbara (ed.). Affordances in everyday life. A multidisciplinary collection of essays. New York: Springer (pp.113-122). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08629-8.
30. Borghi, A.M., Fini, C., Tummolini, L. (2021). Abstract Concepts and Metacognition: Searching for Meaning in Self and Others. In: Robinson, M.D., Thomas, L.E. (eds) Handbook of Embodied Psychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78471-3_9.
29. Borghi, A.M. (2020). Embodiment and language. In F.Gomez-Paloma (ed). Embodiment and school. (pp. 29-39). Pensa Multimedia. ISBN 978-88-6760-764-8
28. De Bortoli Vizioli, A., Borghi, A.M., Tummolini, L. (2020). When me is mine: An embodied origin of psychological ownership? 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2020) - Developing a Mind: Learning in Humans, Animals, and Machines. paper 0587, 2473-79. ISBN:9781713818977
27. Mazzuca, C., Borghi, A.M. (2019). Abstract concepts and the activation of mouth-hand effectors 1. In M.Bolognesi, G.J.Steen (eds.). Perspectives on abstract concepts: Cognition, language and communication. John Benjamins. ISBN 978 90 272 0318 2 HB, 978 90 272 6253 3 EB
26. Scerrati, E., Lugli, L., Nicoletti, R., Borghi, A.M. (2019). Is the Acoustic Modality Relevant for Abstract Concepts? A Study with the Extrinsic Simon Task". In M.Bolognesi, G.J.Steen (eds.). Perspectives on abstract concepts: Cognition, language and communication 65, 101. John Benjamins.
25. C. Roversi, L. Pasqui, A.M. Borghi. (2017). Institutional Mimesis: An Experimental Study on the Grounding of Legal Concepts. In J. Stelmach, B. Brozek (eds.) Reason and Emotions in Law and Morality. Poland: Copernicus Center Press.
24. Mazzuca, C., Borghi, A.M. (2016). An Embodied and Grounded View on Concepts and its Possible Implications for Education. In F. Gomez Paloma (ed.): Embodied Cognition: Theories and Applications in Education Science. Nova Science.
23. Borghi, A.M. (2016). An Embodied and Grounded perspective on concepts. In Bianca, M., Piccari, P. (eds.). Epistemology of ordinary knowledge. (pp. 181-194). Cambridge Scholar. ISBN (10): 1-4438-8052-3; ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-8052-7.
22. Borghi, A.M., Caruana, F. (2015). Embodiment theories. In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd. Edition, vol. 7 (editor James Wright),Section of Cognitive Neuroscience (editor Stefano Cappa). Oxford: Elsevier. (pp. 420-426). ISBN: 9780080970868.
21. Flumini, A., Ranzini, M., Borghi, A.M. (2014). Sound-symbolic correspondences with figures of known entities. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, 2210-2215.
20. Borghi, A.M. (2013). Embodied cognition and word acquisition: The challenge of abstract words In: Cornelia Müller, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill & Jana Bressem (Eds.) Body-Language-Communication: An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science (HSK) 38/2 Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter: Mouton
19. Anelli, F., Nicoletti, R., Kalkan, S., Sahin, E., Borghi, A.M. (2012). Humans and robotics hands grasping danger. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), WCCI 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, pp. 1613-1620, ISBN: 978-1-4673-1489-3.
18. Borghi, A.M. (2012). Action language comprehension, affordances and goals. Action language comprehension, affordances and goals. In Yan Coello, Angela Bartolo (Eds). Language and action in cognitive neuroscience. Contemporary topics in cognitive neuroscience series (pp. 125-143). Psychology Press. ISBN: 978-1-84872-082-4.
17. Gianelli, C., Lugli, L., Baroni, G., Nicoletti, R., Borghi, A.M (2011). “The object is wonderful or prickly": how different object properties modulate behavior in a joint context. In: Kokinov, B., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Nersessian, N. J. (eds.) European Perspectives on Cognitive Science. © New Bulgarian University Press, 2011 ISBN 978-954-535-660-5 (Eurocogsci, paper 269). Database: Google Scholar.
16. Ambrosini, E., Scorolli, C., Borghi, A.M., Costantini, M. (2011). Experiencing objects. The role of the body. In: Kokinov, B., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Nersessian, N. J. (eds.) European Perspectives on Cognitive Science. © New Bulgarian University Press, 2011 ISBN 978-954-535-660-5 (Eurocogsci, paper 235, pp. 1-5) (best student award). Database: Google Scholar.
15. Pezzulo, G., Barca, L., Lamberti Bocconi, A., Borghi, A.M. (2010). Motor Simulation in a Memory Task: Evidence from Rock Climbing. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Cognition in flux. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 266-271). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
14. Caligiore, D., Guglielmelli, E., Borghi, A.M., Parisi, D., Baldassarre, G. (2010). A Reinforcement Learning Model of Reaching Integrating Kinematic and Dynamic Control in a Camera-Arm Robot. In 2010 IEEE 9th International Conference on Development and Learning, Proceedings of ICDL 2010, art. no. 5578840 , pp. 211-218. Database: Scopus, Google Scholar.
13. Borghi, A.M., Caligiore, D., & Scorolli, C. (2010). Objects, words, and actions. Some reasons why embodied models are badly needed in cognitive psychology. In V. Capecchi, M. Buscema, P. Cantucci & B. D’Amore (eds.). Applications of mathematics in models, artificial neural networks and arts. Mathematics and society. Berlin: Springer. Database: ISI web of Science, Google Scholar.
12. Gaudiello, I., Caligiore, D., Schiavone, G., Salerno, A., Sergi, F., Zollo, L., Guglielminelli, E., Parisi, D., Baldassarre, G., Nicoletti, R., Borghi, A. M. (2009). Effects on space representation of using a tool and a button. Cognitive Processing. Special Issue ICSC, 2009, (pp. 153-154). Springer. Data base: ISI Web of Science.
11. Borghi, A.M., & Cimatti, F. (2009). Words as tools and the problem of abstract words meanings. In N. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (eds.). Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2304-2309). Amsterdam: Cognitive Science Society. ISBN 978-0-9768318-5-3. Database: Google Scholar.
10. Caligiore, D., Borghi, A.M., Parisi, D., & Baldassarre, G. (2009). Affordances and compatibility effects: A neural-Network computational model. In J. Mayor, N. Ruh, K. Plunkett (Eds.). Connectionist models of behaviour and cognition II:. PROGRESS IN NEURAL PROCESSING Volume: 18 Pages: 15-26 DOI: 10.1142/9789812834232_0002.Singapore: WorldScientific. Database: Google Scholar.
9. Borghi, A., Bonfiglioli, C., Ricciardelli, P., Rubichi, S., & Nicoletti, R. (2007). Do we access object manipulability while we categorize? Evidence from reaction times studies. In A.C. Schalley and Khlentzos,D. (Eds.). Mental states: Evolution, function, nature (pp. 153-170). Amsterdam/Philandelphia: John Benjamins. Harbound ISBN 978 90 272 3102 4, Ebook ISBN 978 90 272 9121 9. Data base: Psycinfo, Google Scholar.
8. Bazzarin, V., Borghi, A., Tessari, A., Nicoletti, R. (2007). Is a small apple more like an apple or more like a cherry? In: S. Vosniadou & D.Kayser (eds.). Proceedings of the European Cognitive Science Conference, Delphi 2007. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 10: 184169696X ISBN 13: 9781841696966. Data base: Google Scholar.
7. Borghi, A., Bonfiglioli, C., Lugli, L., Ricciardelli, P., Rubichi, S. Nicoletti, R. (2005). Visual hand primes and manipulable objects. In: B.Bara, L. Barsalou, B. Bucciarelli (eds.) COGSCI2005. XXVII Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, N. J.:Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2005. p. 322-327. ISBN 0-9768318-1-3. Database: Google Scholar.
6. Tsiotas, G., Borghi, A. & Parisi, D. (2005). Objects and affordances: An Artificial Life simulation. In: B.Bara, L. Barsalou, B. Bucciarelli (eds.) COGSCI2005. XXVII Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, N. J.:Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2005. p. 2212-2217. ISBN 0-9768318-1-3. Database: Google Scholar.
5. Borghi, A.M., Di Ferdinando, A. e Parisi, D. (2003). Violation of category boundaries: A connectionist study with action-based categories. In F. Schmalhofer, R.M. Young & F. Katz, Proceedings of the Meeting of the European Society of Cognitive Science, Osnabrück 2003 (pp.61-66). London: Erlbaum. Database: Google Scholar.
4. Borghi, A.M. (2005). Object concepts and action. In D. Pecher & R.A. Zwaan (Eds). Grounding Cognition: The role of perception and action in memory, language, and thinking (pp. 8-34). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN-13 978-0-521-83464; ISBN-10 0-521-83464-3 (printed first as hardcopy, then also as ebook). Database: Google Scholar. SCOPUS
3. Borghi A., Di Ferdinando A., Parisi D. (2002). The role of perception and action in object categorization. In J.A. Bullinaria & W. Lowe (Eds), Connectionist Models of Cognition and Perception. Singapore: World Scientific, pp. 40-50. ISBN 981-238-037-x. Database: Google Scholar.
2. Di Ferdinando, A., Borghi, A.M., Parisi, D. (2002). The role of action in object categorization. In S. Haller & G. Simmons (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Flairs Conference, pp. 138-142, AAAI Press, Pensacola (FL). Database: Google Scholar.
1. Borghi, A. & Caramelli, N. (2001). Taxonomic relations and cognitive economy in conceptual organization. In Moore, J.D., & Stenning, K. (eds.), Proceedings of 23rd Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, London: Erlbaum, 98-103.
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Papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals in Italian (n. = 39)
39. Borghi, A.M., De Livio, C., Mannella, F., Tummolini, L., Nolfi, S. (2023). Exploring the prospects and challenges of Large Language Models for language learning and production. Sistemi intelligenti, XXXV, 2, 367-382, agosto 2023.
38. Borghi, A.M. (2023). Le piante e gli esseri umani, tra rappresentazione e cognizione. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, L, 2, 387-392.
37. Borghi, A.M. (2022). Domenico: Pensare chiaro, pensare forte. Sistemi intelligenti, XXXIV, 3, 551-578.DOI: 10.1422/105822.
36. Mirolli, M., Borghi, A.M., Delogu, C., Lettieri, N., Nolfi, S. (2022). Editoriale (numero speciale Domenico Parisi: Uno scienziato indisciplinato). Sistemi intelligenti, XXXIV, 3, 449-454. DOI: 10.1422/105812.
35. Borghi, A.M. (2022). Embodied e grounded cognition e oltre: Una rivoluzione all’inizio. Commento all’articolo target di Francesco Iani: Embodied Cognition: una rivoluzione a metà? Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 2, 423-427. DOI: 10.1421/105152
34. Falcinelli, I., Fini, C., Borghi, AM. (2021). Lavarsi le mani riduce il senso di colpa: Evidenze con un compito semantico implicito. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 1, 263-271. DOI: 10.1421/101241
33. Borghi, AM. (2019). Linguistic relativity and abstract words. Paradigmi, Rivista di critica filosofica, 3, 429-448, doi: 10.30460/95137.
32. Villani, C., Lugli, L., Liuzza, M.T., Borghi, A.M. (2019). Le sotto-categorie dei concetti astratti: uno studio empirico. Sistemi intelligenti, 31 (2), 235-252. DOI: 10.1422/93572
31. Borghi, A.M. (2018). Il mondo del machine learning: Implicazioni per la cognizione embodied e grounded. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, XLV, n. 1, 81-84.
30. Lugli, L., D'Ascenzo, S., Baroni, G., Borghi, A.M., Nicoletti, R. (2017). La direzione del movimento del corpo si riflette sulle operazioni di calcolo numerico. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 2,467-474, DOI: 10.1421/87350.
29. Mazzuca, C., Barca, L., Borghi, A.M. (2017). The Particularity of Emotional Words: A Grounded Approach. Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 8, 2, 124-133. Doi: 10.4453/rifp.2017/0010.
28. Cimatti, F., Flumini, A., Vittuari, M., Borghi, A.M. (2016). Odors, words and objects. RIFL- Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del linguaggio.1: 78-91, DOI 10.4396/20160606.
27. Borghi, A.M., Caramelli, N., Setti, A. (2016). How abstract is risk for workers? Expertise, context and introspection in abstract concepts. Reti-Saperi-Linguaggi - Italian Journal of Cognitive Science, 1/2016, 5 (9), 89-112, special issue "Mind and language in action"
26. Borghi, A.M., Cimatti, F. (2015). WAT (Words As social Tools): una prospettiva socio-corporea sulla cognizione umana. Sistemi intelligenti, 27(2), 361-372.
25. Scorolli, C., Borghi, A.M., Tummolini, L. (2015). Indici visivi e giudizi impliciti di proprietà: Uno studio sperimentale. Sistemi intelligenti, 1, 209-220, DOI: 10.1422/79695.
24. Paglieri, F., Scorolli, C., Borghi, A.M. (2013). Modelli evoluzionistici e differenze religiose: Alcuni problemi. Sistemi intelligenti, 25, 2, 355-361.
23. Borghi, A.M., Scorolli, C.(2012). Parole come strumenti che estendono il corpo. Sistemi intelligenti, 24, 1, 117-12620.
22. Liuzza, M.T., Cimatti, F., Borghi, A.M. (2012). Linguistic tools for embodied minds. RIFL, 6, 2, 43-58. doi: 104396/20120704.
21. Borghi, A.M., Cimatti, F. (2012). Words are not just words: the social acquisition of abstract words. RIFL - ISSN: 2036-6728. doi: . 10.4396/20120303.
20. Borghi, A.M., Caruana, F. (2011). Cognizione sociale. Editoriale sul numero speciale La Cognizione Sociale, Sistemi Intelligenti, 23, 2, 219-222. Database: Google Scholar. Issn 1120-9550.
19. Borghi, A.M., Gianelli, C., Lugli, L. (2011). La dimensione sociale delle affordance: Affordance tra io e altri. Sistemi intelligenti, 23, 2, 291-300, numero speciale La Cognizione sociale, a cura di A.M. Borghi & F. Caruana. Database: Google Scholar. Issn 1120-9550.
18. Lugli, L., Baroni, G., Gianelli, C., Borghi, A.M. (2011). L’importanza degli altri: Come il contesto relazionale influenza il sistema motorio. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 38, 703-710. Database: Google Scholar.
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14. Borghi, A.M., Nicoletti, R. (2008). Se leggo cappello mi muovo verso l’alto Movimento e comprensione di parole e frasi. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 3, 563-588. Database: Psychinfo, Google Scholar.
13. Sacchetti, S., Borghi, A.M. (2007). Concetti di oggetti e funzione: Ruolo della funzione canonica e effetti di contesto. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 34, 781-788. Database: Psychinfo, Google Scholar.
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10. Caramelli, N., Borghi, A.M., Setti, A. (2006). The identification of definition strategies in children of different ages. Linguistica Computazionale, 26, 155-177. ISSN 0392-6907 - ISBN 978-88-8147-576-6.
9. Caramelli, N., Borghi, A.M., Setti, A. (2006). The relational structure of conceptual knowledge in children of different ages. Linguistica Computazionale, 26, 179-196. ISSN 0392-6907 - ISBN 978-88-8147-576-6.
8. Borghi, A.M. & Iachini, T. (2003). Risposta a Cristiano Castelfranchi.Teorie e modelli, VIII, 2, 107-113. ISSN 0393-2834
7. Borghi, A. (2000). Le menzogne della mente. Recensione a Mente di Domenico Parisi. Ricerca e Futuro, 18, 107-108. ISSN 1593-4985.
6. Caramelli, N., Montanari, A., Borghi, A.M. (1998). La conoscenza extralinguistica nella comprensione delle metafore nei bambini. Età evolutiva, 59, 1, 108-114. Data base: Psychinfo, Google Scholar.
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4. Caramelli, N., Borghi, A. M. (1997a). L'organizzazione concettuale infantile: La struttura gerarchica delle categorie tra percezione e conoscenza. (Children’s conceptual organization: The role of thematic, taxonomic and partonomic relations). Ricerche di Psicologia, II, 21, 7-31. Data base: Psychinfo, Google Scholar.
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1. Caramelli, N., Borghi, A. (1994b). Problemi teorici dello studio dei concetti e dei processi di categorizzazione. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, XXI, 3, 339-366. Issn 0390-5394
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Book chapters in Italian (n. = 8)
8. Borghi, A.M. (2015). Il futuro è “embodied”. In G. Buccino e M. Mezzadri (eds.), Glottodidattica e Neuroscienze (pp. 31-49). Firenze: Cesati.
7. Borghi, A.M., Nicoletti, R.(2012). Movimento e azione. In Cubelli R. e Job. R.(Eds.) Psicologia dei processi cognitivi. Roma: Carocci (pp. 121-144). isbn 978-88-430-6160-0
6. Baroni, G., Pellicano, A., Borghi, A.M., Rumiati, R., e Nicoletti, R., (2012). Le nostre reazioni di fronte ai guadagni e alle perdite. In: G. Belleli e R. Di Schiena (a cura di) Decisioni ed emozioni: Come la psicologia spiega il conflitto tra ragione e sentimento. (pp. 64-84) Bologna, Il Mulino. ISBN 9788815234544
5. Borghi, A.M (2002). Violazioni logiche nei processi di categorizzazione e nelle generalizzazioni induttive basate su categorie. In G. Mucciarelli & G. Celani (Eds.). Quando il pensiero sbaglia. La fallacia tra psicologia e scienza. Torino: UTET, pp. 120-156. Data base: Google Scholar. ISBN: 8877507640 ISBN 13: 9788877507648
4. Borghi, A.M. (2002). Concetti e azione. In Borghi, A.M. & Iachini, T. (eds.). Scienze della mente. Bologna: Il Mulino, pp. 203-222.
3. Borghi, A.M., Iachini, T. (2002). Introduzione. In Borghi, A.M. & Iachini, T. (eds.). Scienze della mente. Bologna: Il Mulino, pp. 7-26.
2. Caramelli, N., Borghi, A.M. (2002). Sviluppi contemporanei. Immagini mentali. Concetti e categorizzazione. In Schönpflug W. e Schönpflug U. (a cura di), Istituzioni di psicologia generale, III italian edition edited by M. Olivetti Belardinelli e C. Fiorilli. Padova: Cedam, pp. 237-252. ISBN: 8813226667 ISBN 13: 9788813226664
1. Caramelli, N., Borghi, A.M. , Raffaelli, K.(1998) Come la descrizione linguistica di una storia cambia con l’età. In W. Battacchi, , M. Bosinelli, P.E. Ricci Bitti, G. Trombini (eds.), Le ragioni della psicologia - Saggio in onore di Renzo Canestrari. Milano: Angeli, 348-359. ISBN: 9788846407931