Blar i NTNU Open på forfatter "Baggio, Giosuè"
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Boon or burden? The role of compositional meaning in figurative language processing and acquisition
Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova; Milburn, Evelyn Arko; Vulchanov, Valentin; Baggio, Giosuè (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)We critically address current theories of figurative language, focusing on the role of literal or compositional meaning in the interpretation of non-literal expressions, including idioms and metaphors. Specifically, we ... -
Brain potentials predict learning, transmission and modification of an artificial symbolic system
Lumaca, Massimo; Baggio, Giosuè (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)It has recently been argued that symbolic systems evolve while they are being transmitted across generations of learners, gradually adapting to the relevant brain structures and processes. In the context of this hypothesis, ... -
Cultural transmission and evolution of melodic structures in multi-generational signaling games
Lumaca, Massimo; Baggio, Giosuè (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)It has been proposed that languages evolve by adapting to the perceptual and cognitive constraints of the human brain, developing, in the course of cultural transmission, structural regularities that maximize or optimize ... -
Developmental constraints on learning artificial grammars with fixed, flexible and free word order
Nowak, Iga; Baggio, Giosuè (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Human learning, although highly flexible and efficient, is constrained in ways that facilitate or impede the acquisition of certain systems of information. Some such constraints, active during infancy and childhood, have ... -
Formal semantics in the neurology clinic: Atypical understanding of aspectual coercion in ALS patients
Baggio, Giosuè; Granello, Giulia; Verriello, Lorenzo; Roberto, Eleopra (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease of the motor system with subtle adverse effects on cognition. It is still unclear whether ALS also affects language and semantics, and if so, what aspects ... -
From random to regular: Neural constraints on the emergence of isochronous rhythm during cultural transmission
Lumaca, Massimo; Haumann, Niels Trusbak; Vuust, Peter; Brattico, Elvira; Baggio, Giosuè (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)A core design feature of human communication systems and expressive behaviours is their temporal organization. The cultural evolutionary origins of this feature remain unclear. Here, we test the hypothesis that regularities ... -
Functional connectivity in human auditory networks and the origins of variation in the transmission of musical systems
Lumaca, Massimo; Kleber, Boris; Brattico, Elvira; Vuust, Peter; Baggio, Giosuè (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Music producers, whether original composers or performers, vary in their ability to acquire and faithfully transmit music. This form of variation may serve as a mechanism for the emergence of new traits in musical systems. ... -
Gamma oscillations as a neural signature of shifting times in narrative language
Brederoo, Sanne; Bos, Laura Simone; Dragoy, Olga; Bastiaanse, Roelien; Baggio, Giosuè (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-04-13)Verbs and other temporal expressions allow speakers to specify the location of events in time, as well as to move back and forth in time, shifting in a narrative between past, present and future. The referential flexibility ... -
Kripkeans of the world, unite!
Islam, Farjana; Baggio, Giosuè (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper revisits a study by Machery et al. (2004), suggesting that, in experimental versions of Kripke’s (1980) fictional cases on the use of proper names, Westerners are more likely than East Asian participants to show ... -
Music Evolution in the Laboratory: Cultural Transmission Meets Neurophysiology
Lumaca, Massimo; Ravignani, Andrea; Baggio, Giosuè (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)In recent years, there has been renewed interest in the biological and cultural evolution of music, and specifically in the role played by perceptual and cognitive factors in shaping core features of musical systems, such ... -
The time-course of sentence meaning composition: N400 effects of the interaction between context-induced and lexically-stored affordances
Cosentino, Erica; Baggio, Giosuè; Kontinen, Jarmo; Werning, Markus (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Contemporary semantic theories can be classified along two dimensions: (i) the way and time-course in which contextual factors influence sentence truth-conditions; and (ii) whether and to what extent comprehension involves ... -
Theory before the test: How to build high-verisimilitude explanatory theories in psychological science
van Rooij, Iris A.L.M.; Baggio, Giosuè (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Drawing on the philosophy of psychological explanation, we suggest that psychological science, by focusing on effects, may lose sight of its primary explananda: psychological capacities. We revisit Marr’s levels-of-analysis ... -
Theory development requires an epistemological sea change
van Rooij, Iris A.L.M.; Baggio, Giosuè (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020) -
Understanding Language Development in the Digital Age
Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova; Baggio, Giosuè; Cangelosi, Angelo; Smith, Linda B. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The digital age is changing our children’s lives and childhood dramatically. New technologies transform the way people interact with each other, the way stories are shared and distributed, and the way reality is presented ...