PUBLICATIONS
RECENT publications
Volumes (in English):
Borghi, A.M. (2023). The freedom of Words. Abstractness and the Power of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Articles and chapters (in English):
32. 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. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000729.
31.Borghi, A. M., De Livio, C., Falcinelli, I., & Gervasi, A. 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
30. 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.
29. 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.
28. 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, edited by G. Boyle, pp. 418-435.
27. Mazzuca, C., Borghi, A., Van Putten, S., Lugli, L., Nicoletti, R., & Majid, A. (2023). Gender is conceptualized in different ways across cultures. Language and Cognition, 1-27. doi:10.1017/langcog.2023.40
26. Fini, C., Caruana, F., Borghi, A.M. (2023). Editorial: Rising ideas in theoretical and philosophical psychology. Frontiers in Psychology 14:1269309. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1269309/full
25. Fini, C., Tummolini, L., Dove, G., & Borghi, A. M. (2023). Editorial: Insights in theoretical and philosophical psychology. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1268864. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1268864/full
24. Borghi A, Falcinelli I, Fini C, Gervasi A and Mazzuca C (2023) How Do We Learn and Why Do We Use Abstract Concepts and Words. Frontiers for Young Minds. 11:1138574. doi: 10.3389/frym.2023.1138574. https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2023.1138574
23. 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. (accepted for publication in July 2023). link OSF preprint: 10.31219/osf.io/zw8q9.
22. 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 .
21. Borghi, A.M., Mazzuca, C., Gervasi, A.M., Mannella, F., & Tummolini, L. (2023). Grounded cognition is multimodal all the way down. Language, cognition and neuroscience. DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2023.2210238. (Commentary of the paper by F. Calzavarini, 2023).
20. Borghi, A.M., Mazzuca, C. (2023). Grounded Cognition, Linguistic Relativity, and Abstract Concepts. Topics in Cognitive Science. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12663. (Commentary of the paper by D. Kemmerer, 2022).
19. Nico, D., Borghi, A.M., Tummolini, L., Daprati, E. (2023). Abstract concepts and simulated competition. Psychological Research, doi. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-023-01843-7.
18. Fini, C., Falcinelli, I., Cuomo, G., Era, V., Candidi, M., Tummolini, L., Mazzuca, C., Borghi, A.M. (2023, published online). Breaking the ice in conversation:: Abstract words prompt dialogs more easily than concrete words.Language and cognition, 1-22. doi:10.1017/langcog.2023.3.
17. 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: Biological Sciences, 378, 1870. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0351.
16. 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.
15. Fini, C., Bardi, L., Bolis, D., Fusaro, M., Lisi, M. P., Michalland, A. H., & Era, V. (2023). The social roots of self development: from a bodily to an intellectual interpersonal dialogue. Psychological Research, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-022-01785-6.
14. 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
13. Borghi, A. M., Shaki, S., & Fischer, M. H. (2022). Abstract concepts: External influences, internal constraints, and methodological issues. Psychological Research, 86(8), 2370-2388. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-022-01698-4
12. Paoletti*, M., Fini*, C., Filippini, C., Massari, G., DAbundo, E., Bellagamba, F., Borghi, A.M. (2022). Abstract concepts and prosocial behavior in children: A thermal imaging study. Frontiers in Psychology. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.932118
11. 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
10. 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 concept. Psychological research, 86, 2266–2277. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00426-021-01633-z.
9.Fini, C.*, Zannino, G.D.*, Orsoni, M., Carlesimo, G.A., Benassi, M., Borghi, A.M. (2021). Articulatory suppression delays processing of abstract words: the role of inner speech. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. doi:10.1177/17470218211053623
8. 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
7. 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.
6. Mazzuca, C., Falcinelli, I., Michalland, A.H., Tummolini, L., Borghi, A.M., (2021). Differences and similarities in the conceptualization of Covid-19 during the first Italian lockdown. Scientific Report, 11, 18303. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-97805-3
5. 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
4a. 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.
4b. 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.
3. 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.
2. 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.
1. Borghi, A.M. (2018). Affordances, context and sociality. Synthese. DOI: 10.1007/s11229-018-02044-1.
Selected books
Borghi, A.M. (in press). The freedom of words: On abstractness and the power of language. Cambridge, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Borghi, A.M., Binkofski, F. (2014). Words as social tools: an embodied view on abstract concepts. New York/ Berlin: Springer.
Caruana, F., Borghi, A.M. (2016). Il cervello in azione. Bologna: Il mulino.
Embodied and grounded cognition, theory
1. Borghi, A.M., Fini, C. (2019). Theories and explanations in psychology. Frontiers in psychology 10, 958.
2. 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.
3. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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
7. 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.
8. 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.
Kinds of concepts: numbers, gender, ownership
1. Lugli, L., D'Ascenzo, 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.
2. Mazzuca, C., Majid, A., Lugli, L., Nicoletti, R., Borghi, A.M. (2020, in press). Gender is a multifaceted concept: Evidence that specific life experiences differentially shape the concept of gender. Language and Cognition.
3. 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
4. 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.
5. 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. Scopus: 2-s2.0-84877763854.
6.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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. De Bortoli Vizioli, A., Borghi, A.M., Tummolini, L. (2020). When me is mine: An embodied origin of psychological ownership? Cogsci Proceedings.
cognitive processes and cultures
1. 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. Scopus: 2-s2.0-84872465631. Doi: 10.1007/s00426-012-0473-5
2. 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.
3. 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
Affordances
29. Michalland, A., Falcinelli, I., Liuzza, M.T., Tummolini, L., Borghi, A.M. (2021). Affordances in the CoviD-19 pandemic: the case of objects touched by unknown people - preregistered report - accepted in principle, Royal Society Open Science.
28. Gianelli, C., Kuehne, K., Miklashevsky, A., Mende, M.A., Canessa, N., Borghi, A.M. (2021). COVID-19 and the perceived dangerousness of everyday objects: a behavioral online study in Italy and Germany - preregistered report - accepted in principle, Collabra.
27. 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. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01690
26. 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.
25. Borghi, A.M. (2018). Affordances, context and sociality. Synthese. DOI: 10.1007/s11229-018-02044-1.
24. 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
23. 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.
22. 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.
21. 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.
20. 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
19. 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.
18. 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.
17. 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 to van Elk, van Schie and Bekkering, Action Semantics: A unifying conceptual framework for the selective use of multimodal and modality-specific object knowledge.
16. 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.
15. Anelli, F., Ranzini, M., Nicoletti, R., Borghi, A.M. (2013). Perceiving object dangerousness: An escape from pain? Experimental Brain Research, 228, 457-466. Scopus: 2-s2.0-84878457953. DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3577-2.
14. 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.. DOI: 13.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.01.012. Scopus: 2-s2.0-84874511220. ISI WOS:000317548100020
12. 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.
11. 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.
10. 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.
9. 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.
8. 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.
7. 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
6. 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.
5. Borghi, A.M., Di Ferdinando, A., & Parisi, D. (2011). Objects, spatial compatibility, and affordances: A connectionist study. Cognitive Systems Research, 12, 33-44.35.
4. 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.
3. 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.
2. 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.
1. 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.
Language grounding, inner speech, the power of language
16. Granato, G., Borghi, A.M., Baldassarre, G. (2020). A computational model of language functions in flexible goal-directed behavior. Scientific report, 10 (1), 1-13. link to the psyarxiv preprint, preprint doi: 10.31234/osf.io/kn3vc
15. Foerster, F., Borghi, A.M., Goslin, J. (2020). Labels strengthen motor learning of new tools. Cortex, doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.04.006.
14. 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. Science Reports 8(1):6583. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-24475-z.
13. 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
12. 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
11. 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.
10. Scerrati, E., Lugli, L., Borghi, A.M., Nicoletti, R. (in press). The multifold Modality-Switch Effect: What Happens When We See the Bees Buzzing After Hearing the Diamonds Glistening Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, DOI 10.3758/s13423-016-1150-2..
9. 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.
8. 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
7. 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.
6. Flumini, A., Ranzini, M., Borghi, A.M. (2014). < i> Nomina sunt consequentia rerum</i>–Sound–shape correspondences with every-day objects figures. Journal of Memory and Language, 76, 47-60.
5. 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.
4. 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.
3.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.
2. 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. Database: PUBMED, Google Scholar.
1. 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.
categorization (abstract concepts in a separate section)
6. Mazzuca, C., Falcinelli, I., Michalland, A. H., Tummolini, L., & Borghi, A. M. (2021, preprint under review). Conceptual flexibility and the meaning of Covid-19: evidence from the first Italian lockdown. https://psyarxiv.com/4ndb8/
5. Borghi, A.M., Barsalou, L. (2021). Perspective in the conceptualization of categories. Psychological Research, 85, 697–719 doi: 10.1007/s00426-019-01269-0.
4. 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
3.Morlino, G., Gianelli, C., Borghi, A.M., Nolfi, S. (2014). Learning to manipulate and categorize in human and artificial agents. Cognitive Science. DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12130.
2. 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.
1. Anelli, F., Nicoletti, R., Borghi, A.M. (2010). Categorization and action. What about object consistence? Acta Psychologica, 133, 203-211.
Abstract concepts
35. Fini, C., Falcinelli, I., Cuomo, G., Era, V., Mazzuca, C., Candidi, M., Tummolini, L., Borghi, A.M. (in press, 2023). Breaking the ice in conversation:: Abstract words prompt dialogues more easily than concrete words.Language and cognition.
34. 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.
33. Borghi, A.M. (2022). Concepts for which we need others more: The case of abstract concepts. accepted on Current Directions in Psychological Science, 31 (3), 238-246. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214221079625
32. Borghi, A. M., Shaki, S., & Fischer, M. H. (2022). Abstract concepts: External influences, internal constraints, and methodological issues. Psychological Research, 86(8), 2370-2388. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-022-01698-4
31. D’Aversa, M., Lugli, L., Borghi, A.M., Barca, L. (2022). Implicit effect of abstract/concrete components in the categorization of Chinese words, Journal of Cognitive Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2022.2049279
30. Fini, C.*, Zannino, G.D.*, Orsoni, M., Carlesimo, G.A., Benassi, M., Borghi, A.M. (2021). Articulatory suppression delays processing of abstract words: the role of inner speech. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. doi:10.1177/17470218211053623
29. 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
28. 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
27. Mazzuca, C., Falcinelli, I., Michalland, A.H., Tummolini, L., Borghi, A.M., (2021). Differences and similarities in the conceptualization of Covid-19 during the first Italian lockdown. Scientific Report, 11, 18303. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-97805-3
26. Villani, C., D’Ascenzo, S., Borghi, A. M., Roversi, C., Benassi, M., & Lugli, L. (2021). Is justice grounded? How expertise shapes conceptual representation of institutional concepts. Psychological Research, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01492-8
25. 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, 104-173. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2020.104173
24. Borghi, A. M., Mazzuca, C., Da Rold, F., Falcinelli, I., Fini, C., Michalland, A. H., & Tummolini, L. (2020). Abstract Words as Social Tools: Which Necessary Evidence?. Frontiers in Psychology, 11. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.613026
23. Dove, G., Barca, L., Tummolini, L., & Borghi, A. M. (2020). Words have a weight: language as a source of inner grounding and flexibility in abstract concepts. Psychological Research, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-020-01438-6
22. Borghi, A. M. (2020). A Future of Words: Language and the Challenge of Abstract Concepts. Journal of Cognition, 3(1), 42. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/joc.134
21. 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
20. Gandhari, 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2020.105581
19. 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
18. 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. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2019.06.004
17. 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, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2019.23.
16. Borghi, AM. (2019). Linguistic relativity and abstract words. Paradigmi, Rivista di critica filosofica, 3, 429-448, doi: 10.30460/95137.
15. 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, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2018.12.001.
14. Fini, C., Borghi, A.M. (2018). Sociality to reach objects and to catch meaning: the case of concrete and abstract concepts. Frontiers in Psychology 10, 838
13. 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.
12. 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
11. 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.
10. 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.
9. 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.
8. 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
7. 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.
6. 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.
5. 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.
4. 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
3. 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.
2. 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.
1. 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.
Motor resonance, action intention, action representation
1. 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.
2. 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
3. Lugli, L., Obertis, A., Borghi, A.M. (2016).Hitting is male, giving is female: Automatic imitation and complementarity during action observation. Psychological Research. DOI:10.1007/s00426-016-0808-8
4. Liuzza, M.T., Setti, A., Borghi, A.M. (2012). Kids observing other kids’ hands: visuomotor priming in children. Consciousness & Cognition, 21, 383-392.
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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.