ReMap Lab

Excited to announce that our lab just received a new EEG system! This will open up new possibilities for studying cognitive maps and the brain's spatial/lingustic processing 🧠 @ERC_Research

Had a fantastic time in 🗽 NY at @Psychonomic_Soc! Inspiring discussions, new ideas, and great connections 🧑‍🔬 With @ERCbravenewword

Great and inspiring symposium on vector space models of semantic memory with @Daniele__Gatti and Francesca Rodio from the Lab, along with @RBonandrini and @_fsantacroce at @AIPsperimentale in Noto!

Results showed that blind individuals are more sensitive to this semantic index. This means that individuals lacking visual perceptual input exhibit an enhanced reliance on linguistic experiential priors.

We exploited DSMs to assess whether blind and sighted participants’ performance in a lexical decision task differently relied on semantic neighborhood density—a measure tackling the semantic density of a word with respect to neighbors’ words in its semantic space.

Daniele Gatti presenting new results on spatial-linguistic binding in processing novel words and in navgating novel spaces at @WoProc2024

Enjoying the #WoProc in Belgrade! Loving the workshops by @MarcoCiapparelli on minicons/LLMs and @aggieerin on the project management for scientific software📃

FMG utilizes data-driven computational approaches (but it is flexible enough to also use human-produced ratings) to establish item relationships by leveraging on the similarity between their representations populating a vector space 📐📏

Daniele Gatti and Giorgia Anceresi presenting our latest findings on spatial-linguistic regularities at the #LaPmeeting2024

Engaging and enlightening 2-day meeting in the wonderful Aula Golgi at @unipv delving into language and semantic memory with Fritz Guenther @MarelliMar @CrepaldiDavide @ECatricala @silviaserino1 @fabio_marson @devarda_a & many others

Not only does natural language embed a body map that retains key structural properties of the real body map, but this linguistic map also influences how individuals perceive distances between body parts!

🧐 Check this out! Despite the common belief that our mental representations of the body strongly originate from visual experience, we present evidence for a vision-independent body map extracted from natural language 👂👃🦵🦶✋ journalofcognition.org/artic…

🖱️Mouse trajectories reflected the response conflict and its temporal evolution, with a larger deviation for increasing word semantic relatedness 📈