A5059111780- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Language Development and Disorders
- Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
- Education Practices and Challenges
- Second Language Learning and Teaching
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- Parkinson's Disease and Spinal Disorders
- Machine Learning in Healthcare
- Values and Moral Education
- Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Mental Health via Writing
- Medical and Biological Sciences
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Neurological disorders and treatments
- Child and Animal Learning Development
Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia
2021-2025
Syntax (Italy)
2021
Pragmatics is key to communicating effectively, and its assessment in vulnerable populations of paramount importance. Although tools exist for this purpose, they are often effortful time-consuming, with complex scoring procedures, which hampers their inclusion clinical practice. To address these issues, we present the Brief Assessment Pragmatic Abilities Cognitive Substrates (APACS Brief), a rapid (10 min), easy-to-use freely distributed tool evaluating pragmatics Italian, inspired by...
Research on metaphor has steadily increased over the last decades, as this phenomenon opens a window into range of processes in language and cognition, from pragmatic inference to abstraction embodied simulation. At same time, demand for rigorously constructed extensively normed experimental materials well. Here, we present Figurative Archive, an open database 997 metaphors Italian enriched with rating corpus-based measures (from familiarity lexical frequency), derived by collecting stimuli...
Previous works highlighted the relevance of automated language analysis for predicting diagnosis in schizophrenia, but a deeper language-based data-driven investigation clinical heterogeneity through illness course has been generally neglected. Here we used semiautomated multidimensional linguistic innovatively combined with machine-driven clustering technique to characterize speech 67 individuals schizophrenia. Clusters were then compared psychopathological, cognitive, and functional...
Physical Restraint (PR) is a coercive procedure used in emergency psychiatric care to ensure safety life-threatening situations. Because of its traumatic nature, studies emphasize the importance considering patient's subjective experience. We pursued this aim by overcoming classic qualitative approaches and innovatively applying multilayered semiautomated language analysis corpus narratives about PR collected from 99 individuals across seven mental health services Italy. Compared reference...
Lack of abstract thinking, known as concretism, is a well-known psychopathological feature schizophrenia, reflecting the tendency to adhere concrete aspects stimuli and figurative language comprehension difficulties. Inspired by similarity between 'concretism' defined in psychopathology 'concreteness' linguistics, namely semantic dimension linked perceptual experience, we tested novel hypothesis that impairment deriving meanings related at level, involving concreteness. We analysed speech...
When girls are pearls, do they have rare gracious attributes, or beautiful? It is well known that not only metaphors open to different interpretations but also these might vary across individuals, even with the same cultural context. However, literature lacks a description of which patterns interpretation emerge individuals and factors drive them. Previous evidence suggests interpreters differently recruit sensorimotor sociocognitive strategies interpret metaphors. Here, we tested importance...
When girls are pearls, does it mean that they beautiful or pleasant? Not only metaphors open to different interpretations but also these might vary across individuals, even with the same cultural context. However, literature lacks a description of which patterns interpretation emerge individuals and factors drive them. Here, we investigated role multimodality, intended as contribution dimensions experience-based information, explain individual variability in metaphor interpretation. We...
Pragmatic impairments are largely documented, yet rarely considered in clinical practice, also due to a poor characterization of pragmatic profiles across conditions, as well some overlap with theory mind (ToM) the conceptualization pragmatics. Here we present outcome 10-year program that started creating novel test, Assessment Abilities and Cognitive substrates (APACS), evolved using it – along ToM assessment seven groups (i.e., amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple right-hemisphere...
Research on metaphor has steadily increased over the last decades, as this phenomenon opens a window into range of processes in language and cognition, from pragmatic inference to abstraction embodied simulation. At same time, demand for rigorously constructed extensively normed experimental materials well. Here, we present Figurative Archive, an open database 997 metaphors Italian enriched with rating corpus-based measures (from familiarity lexical frequency), derived by collecting stimuli...
Research on metaphor has steadily increased over the last decades, as this phenomenon opens a window into range of processes in language and cognition, from pragmatic inference to abstraction embodied simulation. At same time, demand for rigorously constructed extensively normed experimental materials well. Here, we present Figurative Archive, an open database 997 metaphors Italian enriched with rating corpus-based measures (from familiarity lexical frequency), derived by collecting stimuli...
This study examines the pragmatic abilities of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a conversational agent based on multi-layer Transformer network GPT-3.5. To do so, we administered language battery to assess expressive and receptive skills compared results with human performance. ChatGPT were mostly human-like but revealed weaknesses in domains Gricean maxim quantity, text-based inferences, physical metaphors, humor comprehension. On one hand, these findings suggest that at least part linguistic competence,...
Lack of abstract thinking, known as concretism, is a well-known psychopathological feature schizophrenia, reflecting the tendency to adhere concrete aspects stimuli and difficulties in understanding figurative language. Inspired by similarity between “concretism” defined psychopathology “concreteness” linguistics, namely semantic dimension linked perceptual experience, we tested novel hypothesis that impairment deriving meanings related at level, involving concreteness. We analyzed speech...
We present the overview of a decade-long research program bridging experimental pragmatics and developmental psychology targeting relationship between individual differences in metaphor skills Theory Mind (ToM). developed Physical Mental Metaphors task used it alongside Strange Stories series studies involving neurotypical children throughout middle childhood. A meta-analysis conducted on our work, including 500 aged 8-12, showed that ToM are significantly associated, even when controlling...
Pragmatic impairments are largely documented, yet rarely considered in clinical practice, also due to a poor characterization of pragmatic profiles across conditions, as well some overlap with theory mind (ToM) the conceptualization pragmatics. Here we present outcome 10-year program that started creating novel test, Assessment Abilities and Cognitive substrates (APACS), evolved using it – along ToM assessment seven groups (i.e., amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple right-hemisphere...
Abstract Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition affecting social and communicative skills, including narrative ability, namely the description of real-life or fictive accounts temporally causally related events. With this study, we aimed to determine whether communicative-pragmatic training, i.e., version for adolescents Cognitive-Pragmatic Treatment, effective in improving skills 16 verbally fluent with ASD. We used multilevel approach assess pre- post-training...
Healthcare services require rapid assessment tools, as well the possibility of using them flexibly in different contexts, such those experienced during COVID-19 pandemic, that favor remote interaction over traditional care. These needs become especially challenging when assessing language and communication skills, for which few tools exist. This work aimed to develop evaluate psychometric properties a novel test tele-assessment pragmatic skills Italian-speaking individuals, including an...
Physical Restraint (PR) is a coercive procedure used in emergency psychiatric care to ensure safety life-threatening situations. Because of its traumatic nature, studies emphasize the importance considering patient's subjective experience, till now mostly limited qualitative approaches. We pursued this aim by innovatively applying multilayered semiautomated language analysis corpus narratives about PR collected from 99 individuals across seven mental health services Italy. Compared reference...
Physical Restraint (PR) is a coercive procedure used in emergency psychiatric care to ensure safety life-threatening situations. Because of its traumatic nature, studies emphasize the importance considering patient's subjective experience, till now mostly limited qualitative approaches. We pursued this aim by innovatively applying multilayered semiautomated language analysis corpus narratives about PR collected from 99 individuals across seven mental health services Italy. Compared reference...
We present the overview of a decade-long research program bridging experimental pragmatics and developmental psychology targeting relationship between individual differences in metaphor skills Theory Mind (ToM). developed Physical Mental Metaphors task used it alongside Strange Stories series studies involving neurotypical children throughout middle childhood. A meta-analysis conducted on our work, including 500 aged 8-12, showed that ToM are significantly associated, even when controlling...
Multiple representation accounts of conceptual knowledge argue that information associated with sensory-motor experience contributes to word processing in addition pure linguistic information. A number issues, however, remain under-investigated, including the extent which these dimensions affect verb (rather than nouns), especially languages other English, and their role across different tasks along language-memory continuum. Here, we collected ratings for a verb-specific dimension linked...
CITE AS Bischetti, Frau, & Bambini (2024). Neuropragmatics. In M. J. Ball, N. Müller, E. Spencer (Eds.), The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics, 2nd Edition (pp. 41-54). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119875949.ch4