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PhD Cognitive Science University of Bologna
Masters Psychology University of Padua
Bachelors Psychology University of Padua

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According to Wikipedia, Anna M. Borghi is a cognitive psychologist known for her work on embodied cognition and embodied language comprehension. She is Associate Professor of Psychology at the Sapienza University of Rome and an associate researcher at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology, Italian Research Council. Borghi serves as Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Psychology .

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Embodied cognition and beyond: Acting and sensing the body (2010) (282)
The challenge of abstract concepts. (2017) (279)
Putting words in perspective (2004) (242)
Theories and computational models of affordance and mirror systems: An integrative review (2013) (190)
Words as Social Tools: An Embodied View on Abstract Concepts (2014) (180)
Grasping language – A short story on embodiment (2010) (168)
When objects are close to me: Affordances in the peripersonal space (2011) (138)
Sentence comprehension and simulation of object temporary, canonical and stable affordances (2009) (135)
Sentence comprehension and action: Effector specific modulation of the motor system (2007) (133)
Simon-Like and Functional Affordance Effects with Tools: The Effects of Object Perceptual Discrimination and Object Action State (2010) (123)
Words as tools and the problem of abstract words meanings (2009) (123)
TRoPICALS: a computational embodied neuroscience model of compatibility effects. (2010) (121)
Manipulating Objects and Telling Words: A Study on Concrete and Abstract Words Acquisition (2011) (112)
Stable and variable affordances are both automatic and flexible (2015) (112)
One hand, two objects: Emergence of affordance in contexts (2012) (112)
Words as social tools: Language, sociality and inner grounding in abstract concepts. (2019) (111)
Are visual stimuli sufficient to evoke motor information? Studies with hand primes (2007) (108)
Sentence Processing: Linking Language to Motor Chains (2010) (103)
Are abstract action words embodied? An fMRI investigation at the interface between language and motor cognition (2013) (99)
When affordances climb into your mind: Advantages of motor simulation in a memory task performed by novice and expert rock climbers (2010) (98)
Object concepts and action: extracting affordances from objects parts. (2004) (94)
Grounding Cognition: Object Concepts and Action (2005) (89)
Varieties of abstract concepts: development, use and representation in the brain (2018) (76)
The embodied mind extended: using words as social tools (2013) (72)
Introduction to the Special Topic Embodied and Grounded Cognition (2011) (72)
Varieties of abstract concepts and their multiple dimensions (2019) (71)
Abstract and Concrete Sentences, Embodiment, and Languages (2011) (67)
Grasping the pain: Motor resonance with dangerous affordances (2012) (66)
God: Do I have your attention? (2010) (64)
Abstract and concrete phrases processing differentially modulates cortico-spinal excitability (2012) (60)
Visual context modulates potentiation of grasp types during semantic object categorization (2014) (56)
Grounding Abstractness: Abstract Concepts and the Activation of the Mouth (2016) (55)
Situation bounded conceptual organization in children: from action to spatial relations (2003) (54)
Acting in perspective: the role of body and language as social tools (2013) (53)
How affordances associated with a distractor object affect compatibility effects: A study with the computational model TRoPICALS (2013) (50)
Abstract concepts, language and sociality: from acquisition to inner speech (2018) (49)
When Action Meets Emotions: How Facial Displays of Emotion Influence Goal-Related Behavior (2010) (48)
Which body for embodied cognition? Affordance and language within actual and perceived reaching space (2012) (48)
Emotive concept nouns and motor responses: Attraction or repulsion? (2009) (47)
Language comprehension and dominant hand motion simulation. (2009) (47)
Naming a Lego World. The Role of Language in the Acquisition of Abstract Concepts (2015) (45)
Context and hand posture modulate the neural dynamics of tool–object perception (2013) (44)
Hand–object interaction in perspective (2008) (44)
Language-induced motor activity in bi-manual object lifting (2009) (42)
I give you a cup, I get a cup: A kinematic study on social intention (2014) (40)
Kids observing other kids’ hands: Visuomotor priming in children (2012) (40)
Counting Is Easier while Experiencing a Congruent Motion (2013) (39)
Pacifier Overuse and Conceptual Relations of Abstract and Emotional Concepts (2017) (38)
Heaven can wait. How religion modulates temporal discounting (2013) (38)
Graspable Objects Shape Number Processing (2011) (37)
Religion and action control: Faith-specific modulation of the Simon effect but not Stop-Signal performance (2011) (36)
Action language comprehension , affordances and goals . In (2011) (36)
Action language comprehension , affordances and goals . In (2011) (36)
The body and the fading away of abstract concepts and words: a sign language analysis (2014) (34)
A Marriage is an Artefact and not a Walk that We Take Together: An Experimental Study on the Categorization of Artefacts (2013) (34)
Sensorimotor and interoceptive dimensions in concrete and abstract concepts (2020) (33)
A Future of Words: Language and the Challenge of Abstract Concepts (2020) (33)
Object Affordances Tune Observers' Prior Expectations about Tool-Use Behaviors (2012) (33)
Walking boosts your performance in making additions and subtractions (2014) (32)
Action and object words are differentially anchored in the sensory motor system - A perspective on cognitive embodiment (2018) (31)
Keep Away from Danger: Dangerous Objects in Dynamic and Static Situations (2013) (31)
Verb concepts from affordances (2014) (30)
Abstract, emotional and concrete concepts and the activation of mouth-hand effectors (2018) (29)
Language comprehension: Action, affordances and goals (2012) (29)
The visual encoding of tool–object affordances (2015) (28)
Words are not just words: the social acquisition of abstract words (2012) (27)
Words have a weight: language as a source of inner grounding and flexibility in abstract concepts (2020) (27)
THE ROLE OF PERCEPTION AND ACTION IN OBJECT CATEGORISATION (2002) (26)
Perceiving object dangerousness: an escape from pain? (2013) (25)
Abstract concepts in interaction: the need of others when guessing abstract concepts smooths dyadic motor interactions (2020) (25)
Self, others, objects: How this triadic interaction modulates our behavior (2012) (24)
Gender is a multifaceted concept: evidence that specific life experiences differentially shape the concept of gender (2020) (24)
Categorization and action: what about object consistence? (2010) (24)
Categorization and sensorimotor interaction with objects (2008) (23)
Affordances, context and sociality (2018) (23)
Sociality to Reach Objects and to Catch Meaning (2019) (23)
How action and context priming influence categorization: A developmental study. (2009) (23)
With hands I do not centre! Action- and object-related effects of hand-cueing in the line bisection (2011) (22)
Real-life motor training modifies spatial performance: the advantage of being drummers. (2010) (22)
The Problem of Definition (2014) (21)
The Problem of Definition (2014) (21)
Icon-function relationship in toolbar icons (2008) (20)
Conceptual information on objects’ locations (2005) (20)
Influence of numerical magnitudes on the free choice of an object position (2012) (19)
How do you hold your mouse? Tracking the compatibility effect between hand posture and stimulus size (2015) (19)
Conceptual information about size of objects in nouns (2009) (19)
Cues of control modulate the ascription of object ownership (2018) (18)
Sentence Comprehension: Effectors and Goals, Self and Others. An Overview of Experiments and Implications for Robotics (2010) (18)
Overusing the pacifier during infancy sets a footprint on abstract words processing. (2020) (17)
Action and Language Integration: From Humans to Cognitive Robots (2014) (17)
OBJECT CONCEPTS AND EMBODIMENT : WHY SENSORIMOTOR AND COGNITIVE PROCESSES CANNOT BE SEPARATED (2006) (16)
Abstract Concepts and Metacognition: Searching for Meaning in Self and Others (2021) (16)
The modality-switch effect: visually and aurally presented prime sentences activate our senses (2015) (16)
Visual hand primes and manipulable objects (2005) (15)
Chained Activation of the Motor System during Language Understanding (2017) (15)
A reinforcement learning model of reaching integrating kinematic and dynamic control in a simulated arm robot (2010) (15)
Changing ideas about others’ intentions: updating prior expectations tunes activity in the human motor system (2016) (15)
From Affordances to Abstract Words: The Flexibility of Sensorimotor Grounding (2021) (14)
Reaching for Objects or Asking for Them: Distance Estimation in 7- to 15-Year-Old Children (2016) (13)
TRoPICALS : A Computational Embodied Neuroscience Model of Experiments on Compatibility Effects (2010) (13)
8. Do we access object manipulability while we categorize? Evidence from reaction time studies (2007) (13)
The sense of body: A multidisciplinary approach to body representation (2010) (13)
Theories and Explanations in Psychology (2019) (13)
Disentangling the sense of ownership from the sense of fairness. (2013) (13)
Abstract Concepts and Aging: An Embodied and Grounded Perspective (2017) (13)
A computational model of language functions in flexible goal-directed behaviour (2020) (12)
Objects and Affordances: An Artificial Life Simulation (2005) (12)
Labels strengthen motor learning of new tools (2020) (12)
Concepts for Which We Need Others More: The Case of Abstract Concepts (2022) (12)
Objects, spatial compatibility, and affordances: A connectionist study (2011) (12)
AFFORDANCES AND COMPATIBILITY EFFECTS: A NEURAL-NETWORK COMPUTATIONAL MODEL (2009) (12)
Embodied and grounded cognition (2012) (12)
Different kinds of embodied language: A comparison between Italian and Persian languages (2020) (12)
The Intersubjectivity of Embodiment (2012) (11)
Articulatory suppression delays processing of abstract words: The role of inner speech (2021) (11)
Square bananas, blue horses: the relative weight of shape and color in concept recognition and representation (2015) (11)
Editorial: Bridging the Theories of Affordances and Limb Apraxia (2017) (10)
Nomina sunt consequentia rerum - Sound-shape correspondences with every-day objects figures (2014) (10)
Learning to Manipulate and Categorize in Human and Artificial Agents (2015) (10)
Sentence Comprehension: Effectors and Goals, Self and Others. An Overview of Experiments and Implications for Robotics (2010) (9)
Language and embodiment (2008) (9)
Action and hierarchical levels of categories: A connectionist perspective (2005) (9)
Moving hands, moving entities (2009) (9)
Differences and similarities in the conceptualization of COVID-19 and other diseases in the first Italian lockdown (2021) (8)
Is justice grounded? How expertise shapes conceptual representation of institutional concepts (2021) (8)
“The object is wonderful or prickly": how different object properties modulate behavior in a joint context. (2011) (8)
Bodily, emotional, and public sphere at the time of COVID-19. An investigation on concrete and abstract concepts (2021) (8)
The Identification of Definition Strategies in Children of Different Ages. (2006) (8)
The Impact of Social Context and Language Comprehension on Behaviour: A Kinematic Investigation (2013) (8)
Human and robotics hands grasping danger (2012) (7)
Gender at the interface of culture and language: Conceptual variation between Italian, Dutch, and English (2020) (7)
Developing the Ability to Manipulate Objects : A Comparative Study with Human and Artificial Agents (2010) (6)
The Multilevel Modality-Switch Effect: What Happens When We See the Bees Buzzing and Hear the Diamonds Glistening (2017) (6)
Contextual modulation of preferred social distance during the Covid-19 pandemic (2021) (6)
Abstract and concrete concepts in conversation (2021) (6)
Clock Walking and Gender: How Circular Movements Influence Arithmetic Calculations (2018) (6)
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". (2019) (6)
Perspective in the conceptualization of categories (2019) (6)
Affordances of distractors and compatibility effects: a study with the computational model TRoPICALS (2011) (6)
The Peculiarity of Emotional Words: A Grounded Approach (2017) (6)
Is a small apple more like an apple or more like a cherry ? (2007) (6)
Hitting is male, giving is female: automatic imitation and complementarity during action observation (2017) (6)
139. Embodied cognition and word acquisition: The challenge of abstract words (2014) (5)
Meaning and motor actions: Behavioral and Artificial Life evidence (2005) (5)
Action control and religion : Faith-specific modulation of the Simon effect but not stop-signal performance (2011) (5)
The WAT Proposal and the Role of Language (2014) (5)
Neural pathways of stable and variable affordances: a coordinate-based meta-analysis (2013) (5)
Linguistic Relativity and Abstract Words (2019) (5)
Motor Inhibition to Dangerous Objects: Electrophysiological Evidence for Task-dependent Aversive Affordances (2021) (5)
From Affordances to Abstract Words: The Flexibility of the Sensorimotor Grounding (2021) (5)
Objects, Words and Actions: Some Reasons Why Embodied Models are Badly Needed in Cognitive Psychology (2010) (5)
Abstract Words as Social Tools: Which Necessary Evidence? (2021) (5)
Editorial: Embodied Cognition Over the Lifespan: Theoretical Issues and Implications for Applied Settings (2018) (5)
Grasping the Agent’s Perspective: A Kinematics Investigation of Linguistic Perspective in Italian and German (2017) (5)
Predicting functional impairment trajectories in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a probabilistic, multifactorial model of disease progression (2022) (5)
Different Kinds of Abstract Concepts (2018) (4)
Concepts, abstractness and inner speech (2021) (4)
The Role of Action in Object Categorization (2002) (4)
An Embodied and Grounded Perspective on Concepts (2015) (4)
Meaning and motor actions: Artificial life and behavioral evidence (2005) (4)
Cognition in context: Evidence on affordances and verbal language (2014) (4)
Taxonomic relations and cognitive economy in conceptual organization (2001) (4)
Can object affordances impact on human social learning of tool use? (2012) (3)
How abstract is risk for workers? Expertise, context and introspection in abstract concepts (2016) (3)
Institutional mimesis: An experimental study on the grounding of legal concepts (2017) (3)
Touch me if you can: The intangible but grounded nature of abstract concepts (2020) (3)
Affordances and contextual flexibility: Comment on "Action semantics: A unifying conceptual framework for the selective use of multimodal and modality-specific object knowledge" by Michiel van Elk, Hein van Schie and Harold Bekkering. (2014) (3)
Infant sleep and development: Concurrent and longitudinal relations during the first 8 months of life (2021) (3)
Simulating the elimination of simulation : the case of language comprehension (2011) (3)
Embodied negation and levels of concreteness: A TMS study on German and Italian language processing (2021) (3)
When me is mine: An embodied origin of psychological ownership? (2020) (3)
Autism and Inner Speech: A Computational Model of Language Functions in Autistic Flexible Behaviour (2021) (3)
The Relational Structure of Conceptual Knowledge in CHildren of Different Ages. (2006) (2)
From ‘mommy’ to ‘like’: tackling the emergence of abstractness during the second year of life using an ecological approach (2021) (2)
How Affordances Associated with a distractor Object Can Cause Compatibility Effects: A Study with the Computational Model TRoPICALS (2015) (2)
Conceptual flexibility and the meaning of Covid-19: evidence from the first Italian lockdown (2021) (2)
Infant sleep and development: Concurrent and longitudinal relations during the first 8 months of life. (2022) (2)
Chapter 2. Abstract concepts and the activation of mouth-hand effectors (2019) (2)
Category learning through action: A study with human and artificial agents (2012) (2)
Experiencing Objects : the Role of the Body (2011) (2)
ROSSI: Emergence of communication in Robots through Sensorimotor and Social Interaction (2008) (2)
Bodily, emotional, and public sphere at the time of COVID-19. An investigation on concrete and abstract concepts (2022) (1)
Language, Languages, and Abstract Concepts (2014) (1)
Embodied cognition and language comprehension: motor chains and social aspects (2011) (1)
Abstract words processing induces parasympathetic activation: A thermal imaging study (2022) (1)
Abstract Concepts, Social Interaction, and Beliefs (2022) (1)
Odors, words and objects (2016) (1)
Implicit effect of abstract/concrete components in the categorization of Chinese words (2022) (1)
Neural Adaptation Effects in Conceptual Processing (2015) (1)
Bridging the Theories of Affordances and Limb Apraxia (2017) (1)
Editorial: Beyond Embodied Cognition: Intentionality, Affordance, and Environmental Adaptation (2018) (1)
Emotions Modulate Affordances-Related Motor Responses: A Priming Experiment (2022) (1)
Acting in perspective: the role of body and language as social tools (2011) (1)
Superordinate level concepts and scenes Conceptual information on objects ’ locations (2004) (1)
Embodied cognition, una nuova psicologia [Embodied cognition: A new psychology] (2013) (1)
Abstract concepts: external influences, internal constraints, and methodological issues (2022) (1)
How abstract is risk for workers ? (2016) (1)
Visual cues and implicit judgments of ownership: An experimental study (2015) (1)
Body image and body schema: The shared representation of body image and the role of dynamic body schema in perspective and imitation (2007) (1)
Intentionality of movement: Mirror neuron system and theory of mind (2011) (1)
The Particularity of Emotional Words : 3 A Grounded Approach (2017) (1)
Action and object words are differentially anchored in the sensory motor system - A perspective on cognitive embodiment (2018) (1)
Does mastering of abstract words decline with age? (2021) (1)
The role of social dimension during abstract concepts processing: a kinematic study of human-avatar motor interaction (2020) (1)
Linguistic tools for embodied minds (2012) (0)
Perceiving object dangerousness: an escape from pain? (2013) (0)
WAT (Words As social Tools): A social and embodied perspective on human cognition (2015) (0)
No Embodied Cognition? No party. Risposta ai commenti (2013) (0)
Special session: Dynamic interactions between visual experiences, actions and word learning (2014) (0)
Concepts in interaction: social engagement and inner experiences (2022) (0)
Running head: Abstractness in aging (2021) (0)
How affordances associated with a distractor object affect compatibility effects: A study with the computational model TRoPICALS (2012) (0)
Cues of control modulate the ascription of object ownership (2017) (0)
Accepted in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience for the Research Topic : Numerical cognition : Recent findings on the neural base of numerical processing and development Title : Graspable objects shape number processing (2011) (0)
Running head: EMOTIVE CONCEPT-NOUNS (2009) (0)
Seeing the Bees Buzz and Hearing the Diamonds Glisten: The Effect of the Mode of Presentation of Stimuli on the Modality-Switch Effect (2016) (0)
Does the direction of the whole body movement influence calculation processing (2017) (0)
Heaven can wait. How religion modulates temporal discounting (2013) (0)
Gender is a multifaceted concept (2020) (0)
Object concepts and mental images (2006) (0)
Violation of Category Boundaries: A Connectionist Study with Action-Based Categories (2019) (0)
Information about Motion in Concepts of Different Ontological Kinds (2019) (0)
AN EMBODIED AND GROUNDED VIEW ON CONCEPTS AND ITS POSSIBLE IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION (2017) (0)
Commentary: Weighty data: importance information influences estimated weight of digital information storage devices (2016) (0)
Whashing your hands reduced your guilt: Evidence with an implicit semantic task (2021) (0)
Seizure prediction and control in epilepsy M / PSI 02 (2008) (0)
Motor Simulation in a Memory Task: Evidence from Rock Climbing (2010) (0)
The role of head noun in conceptual combination. (2004) (0)
Language comprehension influences perception. (2007) (0)
Motor Inhibition to Dangerous Objects: Electrophysiological Evidence for Task-dependent Aversive Affordances. (2021) (0)
Visual context modulates potentiation of grasp types during semantic object categorization (2013) (0)
Body movements affect Counting (2013) (0)
A Highly Interdisciplinary Approach to Action and Language Integration in Natural and Artificial Cognitive Agents (2015) (0)
Tracking the compatibility effect of hand grip and stimulus size (2015) (0)
Language is embodied in the motor system – evidence from Metaanalysis (2010) (0)
Abstract concepts: an example of how language enhances cognition (2019) (0)
The social dimension of affordances: affordances between self and others (2011) (0)
A computational model of inner speech supporting flexible goal-directed behaviour in Autism (2022) (0)
When I read "hat" I tend to move upwards: movement and comprehension of words and sentences (2008) (0)
Breaking the ice in a conversation: abstract words prompt dialogs more easily than concrete ones (2023) (0)
Embodied and Hybrid Theories of Abstract Concepts and Words (2014) (0)
Correction to: ‘Concepts in interaction: social engagement and inner experiences’ (2022) by Borghi et al. (2023) (0)
Embodied and situated language processing (2013) (0)
Bulbar watershed ischemic stroke: the comma-shaped sign—a case series (2021) (0)
Giant somatosensory evoked potentials in benign epilepsy with rolandic spikes (1995) (0)
What Can Neuroscience Tell Us About Abstract Concepts (2014) (0)
Embodied Cognition. A new psychology (2013) (0)
Tracking the compatibility effect of hand grip and stimulus size (2015) (0)
Abstractness emerges progressively over the second year of life (2022) (0)
Revus, 32 | 2017 (2018) (0)
Abstract and concrete sentences in German and Italian (2010) (0)
Neural Network Learning of Context-Dependent Affordances (2022) (0)
How do you hold your mouse? Tracking the compatibility effect between hand posture and stimulus size (2014) (0)
Words as Tools that Extend Our Body (2012) (0)
Child Neuropsychology, Volume 21, 2015, List of Reviewers (2015) (0)
Sound-symbolic correspondences with figures of known entities (2014) (0)
Hitting is male, giving is female: automatic imitation and complementarity during action observation (2016) (0)
Science teacher education programs in Europe: Differences and similarities (2003) (0)
The importance of the «others»: the effect of the relational context on the motor system (2011) (0)
Affordances, context and sociality (2018) (0)
Word Learning and Word Acquisition (2014) (0)
A Marriage is an Artefact and not a Walk that We Take Together: An Experimental Study on the Categorization of Artefacts (2013) (0)
The Multilevel Modality-Switch Effect: What Happens When We See the Bees Buzzing and Hear the Diamonds Glistening (2016) (0)
The world of machine learning: Implications for embodied and grounded cognition (2018) (0)
Chapter 5. Is the acoustic modality relevant for abstract concepts? (2019) (0)
1 2 Cues of control modulate the ascription of object ownership 3 (2017) (0)
A Natural Human-Drone Embodied Interface: Empirical Comparison With a Traditional Interface (2022) (0)
Perspective in the conceptualization of categories (2019) (0)
D'Aversa et al., (2021). Categorization of Chinese words_preprint (2021) (0)
Word Learning and Word Acquisition (2014) (0)
Self, others, objects: How this triadic interaction modulates our behavior (2012) (0)
To appear on the International Encyclopedia on Social and Behavioral Neuroscience, 2 nd . edition(editor (2013) (0)
Influence of numerical magnitudes on the free choice of an object position (2012) (0)
Concrete constraints on abstract concepts—editorial (2022) (0)
Analysis of paroxysmal EEG activities in epileptic negative myoclonus (1995) (0)
Motion and action in animate and inanimate objects (2007) (0)
Memory and Cognition. Running Head: Perspective and Words Putting Words in Perspective (2004) (0)

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