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Funny but aversive: A large-scale survey of the emotional response to Covid-19 humor in the Italian population during the lockdown by Bischetti, Luca, Canal, Paolo, Bambini, Valentina

“…•We studied the Covid-19 humor appreciation during Italy's lockdown in March 2020.•Humor inspired by Covid-19 showed a mark of aversiveness, but not of…”
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How do theory of mind and formal language skills impact metaphoric reference comprehension during children's school-age years by Petit, Nicolas, Bambini, Valentina, Bischetti, Luca, Prado, Jérôme, Noveck, Ira

“…Prior research has shown that school-aged children's metaphor comprehension becomes adultlike progressively. This has given rise to claims that the development…”
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Pragmatics and theory of mind in older adults’ humor comprehension by Bischetti, Luca, Ceccato, Irene, Lecce, Serena, Cavallini, Elena, Bambini, Valentina

“…Jokes understanding is an important part of people’s social life, especially in aging. However, little is known about older adults’ humor understanding and the…”
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Longitudinal associations between theory of mind and metaphor understanding during middle childhood by Del Sette, Paola, Bambini, Valentina, Bischetti, Luca, Lecce, Serena

“…•Metaphor accuracy is linked to inferential skills over time.•Specificity of mental interpretation of metaphors predicted later ToM.•The relationship between…”
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The relationship between metaphor skills and Theory of Mind in middle childhood: Task and developmental effects by Tonini, Elisabetta, Bischetti, Luca, Del Sette, Paola, Tosi, Eleonora, Lecce, Serena, Bambini, Valentina

“…Theoretical pragmatics in the post-Gricean tradition argued that metaphor requires understanding of how another person sees the world. Yet, it is unclear what…”
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Understanding with the body? Testing the role of verb relative embodiment across tasks at the interface of language and memory by Frau, Federico, Bischetti, Luca, Campidelli, Lorenzo, Tonini, Elisabetta, Muraki, Emiko J., Pexman, Penny M., Bambini, Valentina

“…•We investigated the role of bodily experience in Italian verb processing.•We present ratings and the results of three tasks at the language-memory…”
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N400 differences between physical and mental metaphors: The role of Theories of Mind by Canal, Paolo, Bischetti, Luca, Bertini, Chiara, Ricci, Irene, Lecce, Serena, Bambini, Valentina

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Interpreting Physical and Mental Metaphors: Is Theory of Mind Associated with Pragmatics in Middle Childhood? by Lecce, Serena, Ronchi, Luca, Del Sette, Paola, Bsichetti, Luca, Bambini, Valentina

“…We investigated the association between individual differences in metaphor understanding and Theory of Mind (ToM) in typically developing children. We…”
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Expressive Pragmatics and Prosody in Young Preschoolers are More Closely Related to Structural Language than to Mentalizing by Pronina, Mariia, Prieto, Pilar, Bischetti, Luca, Bambini, Valentina

“…Pragmatics lies at the point where language meets the social world and encompasses both the linguistic and the social dimensions of communication. However, the…”
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‘Honey, shall I change the baby? – Well done, choose another one’: ERP and time-frequency correlates of humor processing by Canal, Paolo, Bischetti, Luca, Di Paola, Simona, Bertini, Chiara, Ricci, Irene, Bambini, Valentina

“…•This study tested the two-step model of humor comprehension via EEG measures.•The incongruity detection step affects the Left Anterior Negativity and not the…”
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Assessment of pragmatic abilities and cognitive substrates (APACS) brief remote: a novel tool for the rapid and tele-evaluation of pragmatic skills in Italian by Bischetti, Luca, Pompei, Chiara, Scalingi, Biagio, Frau, Federico, Bosia, Marta, Arcara, Giorgio, Bambini, Valentina

“…Healthcare services require rapid assessment tools, as well as the possibility of using them flexibly in different contexts, such as those experienced during…”
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The costs of multimodal metaphors: comparing ERPs to figurative expressions in verbal and verbo-pictorial formats by Bambini, Valentina, Ranieri, Giacomo, Bischetti, Luca, Scalingi, Biagio, Bertini, Chiara, Ricci, Irene, Schaeken, Walter, Canal, Paolo

“…Psycholinguistic research on metaphor has focused on verbal material. Yet, metaphors frequently occur in a multimodal format, blending words and pictures to…”
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It is time to address language disorders in schizophrenia: A RCT on the efficacy of a novel training targeting the pragmatics of communication (PragmaCom) by Bambini, Valentina, Agostoni, Giulia, Buonocore, Mariachiara, Tonini, Elisabetta, Bechi, Margherita, Ferri, Ilaria, Sapienza, Jacopo, Martini, Francesca, Cuoco, Federica, Cocchi, Federica, Bischetti, Luca, Cavallaro, Roberto, Bosia, Marta

“…•We tested the efficacy of a novel treatment addressing pragmatics in schizophrenia.•The training was effective in improving global pragmatics and metaphor…”
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Beyond the motor account of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Verbal humour and its relationship with the cognitive and pragmatic profile by Bambini, Valentina, Bischetti, Luca, Bonomi, Chiara Giuseppina, Arcara, Giorgio, Lecce, Serena, Ceroni, Mauro

“…Background Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) was traditionally described as a disease restricted to the motor system. However, recent findings suggested that…”
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The cognitive architecture of verbal humor in schizophrenia by Agostoni, Giulia, Bischetti, Luca, Repaci, Federica, Bechi, Margherita, Spangaro, Marco, Ceccato, Irene, Cavallini, Elena, Fiorentino, Luca, Martini, Francesca, Sapienza, Jacopo, Buonocore, Mariachiara, D'Incalci, Michele Francesco, Cocchi, Federica, Guglielmino, Carmelo, Cavallaro, Roberto, Bosia, Marta, Bambini, Valentina

“…•We offer new evidence on verbal humor in schizophrenia based on a large sample size.•Verbal humor comprehension is impaired across joke types.•Verbal humor…”
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Deconstructing heterogeneity in schizophrenia through language: a semi-automated linguistic analysis and data-driven clustering approach by Bambini, Valentina, Frau, Federico, Bischetti, Luca, Cuoco, Federica, Bechi, Margherita, Buonocore, Mariachiara, Agostoni, Giulia, Ferri, Ilaria, Sapienza, Jacopo, Martini, Francesca, Spangaro, Marco, Bigai, Giorgia, Cocchi, Federica, Cavallaro, Roberto, Bosia, Marta

“…Previous works highlighted the relevance of automated language analysis for predicting diagnosis in schizophrenia, but a deeper language-based data-driven…”
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Towards a Fully Interpretable and More Scalable RSA Model for Metaphor Understanding by Carenini, Gaia, Bischetti, Luca, Schaeken, Walter, Bambini, Valentina

“…The Rational Speech Act (RSA) model provides a flexible framework to model pragmatic reasoning in computational terms. However, state-of-the-art RSA models are…”
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