XPRAG is growing up! When it turned 20, we celebrated with a workshop www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nuP... and a SI in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Now that it's turning 25, @irastamon.bsky.social @richardbreheny.bsky.social & Nicole Gotzner are giving us a journal!

Ira Noveck@irastamon.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Depending on how you count, this announcement has been two plus or 25 years in the making.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Impoverished articulation of perceptual processes in #schizophrenia is linked to the structure of #cerebellum For a special issue in Neuropsychologia edited by @valentinabambini.bsky.social & team!

Cerebellum as a neural substrate for impoverishment in early psychosis

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New theme issue of #PhilTransB on #pragmatics and Theory of Mind edited by @valentinabambini.bsky.social and colleagues. Read the articles: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

Link to access the paper: tinyurl.com/mt43f7vk Proud to have this article as part of the themed issue on the relationship between pragmatics and theory of mind edited by @valentinabambini.bsky.social Serena Lecce & Mikhail Kissine! Full issue here: tinyurl.com/32vczrm3

Ten years of using the APACS test: a multistudy cross-diagnostic analysis of pragmatic profiles and their relationship with Theory of Mind | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Pragmatic impairments are largely documented, yet rarely considered in clinical practice, also owing to a poor characterization of pragmatic profiles across conditions, as well as some overlap with theory of mind (ToM) in the conceptualization of ...

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Published in the special issue edited by @valentinabambini.bsky.social #SLecce & #MKissine Full issue: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202... #neuropragmatics #brain #pragmatictheories #xprag

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1932

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A big thank you also to the Scientific Administrators of #XPRAG.it, @valentinabambini.bsky.social and @filippodomaneschi, for this picture at #TrinityCollege, and for the great recent conversations! Can't wait for the next conference in Genoa in 2026! 🎉 #XPRAG.it2026

Veronica Mangiaterra, Hamad Al-Azary, Chiara Barattieri di San Pietro, Paolo Canal, Valentina Bambini Can GPT replace human raters? Validity and reliability of machine-generated norms for metaphors https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12444

Congratulations to Chiara Pompei, Serena Lecce, Paola Del Sette, Elena Didoni, Luca Bischetti & Valentina Bambini on publication of The Role of Metaphor in Children's Persuasive Communication in the LDR Special Issue on Development of Metaphor Comprehension. ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/8...

New chapter ✨ I've started my PhD in Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics at IUSS Pavia, within the ERC project PROMENADE, on sentence and metaphor structures with Valentina Bambini. Excited to dive into such an inspiring, interdisciplinary, and innovative research environment!🧠 #PhDlife

We are thrilled to announce that the Italian Agency for the Evaluation of Research has given our journal a rating of “A” for Linguistics publications. This is a major milestone for our journal! Thanks to @escholarship.bsky.social , Valentina Bambini, and Federico Frau for their support!

Fascinating talk by Valentina Bambini on metaphors and figurative language in schizophrenia, reporting from the PROMENADE project #MEIMI2025 #philsky #philpsy #epistemicinjustice

🗓️💬 Delighted to be invited as a keynote alongside @valentinabambini.bsky.social for the upcoming #PsycholinguisticsInFlanders (PiF) meeting — renamed #PsycholinguisticsInPavia (PiP) for a 🔆 edition! 🧑‍🎓➰A full-circle moment, as PiF was the very first academic conference I attended as a MA student.

European Society for Cognitive Psychology@escop.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Psycholinguistics in Flanders Pavia, Italy 12-13 MAY 2026 (please not that the date in the previous post was incorrect) Abstract submission deadline: 20 February 2026 Early registration deadline: 31 March 2026 Registration deadline: 1 May 2026 sites.google.com/view/pifpavia

Can GPT replace human raters of metaphors? Our new work with @vmangiaterra.bsky.social @cbarattieri.bsky.social @al-azary.bsky.social Across 687 Italian & English metaphors, GPT shows strong validity & reliability, but stumbles when meaning becomes sensorimotor ➡️ arxiv.org/abs/2512.12444 #NEPLab

Delighted to share that I’m starting a new role as Jr Assistant Professor (RTDa) at IUSS within the #DIALOG project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social–as part of @valentinabambini.bsky.social's unit🎉 No better way to celebrate than with Italian pastries & the amazing support of the #NEPLab team🍰🤍

Today, with @jeannettel.bsky.social and @meridethgattis.bsky.social!

Federico Frau@federicofrau.bsky.social · last yr.

Today, we double our IUSS Linguistics Seminars, with two talks covering topics from metaphor and emotional experience, to communication and connection in development (ft Jeannette Littlemore & Merideth Gattis) 🤩 ➡️ 3-7pm, CEST Zoom link: iusspavia.zoom.us/my/br.salade... #NEPLab

The Laboratory of Neurolinguistics and Experimental Pragmatics meets the father of Experimental Pragmatics! @irastamon.bsky.social thanks for the visit! #NEPLab