Anna M. Borghi
Email:
anna.borghi@istc.cnr.it
Telephone:
+39 06 49936279
Address:
1) Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, Via S. Martino della Battaglia 44, 00185 Roma
2) Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università di Bologna, Viale Berti Pichat 5, 40127 Bologna
Personal website:
Profile
Position:
Associate Researcher
Keywords:
- embodiment;
Short profile:
Anna Borghi is associate professor in Psychology at the University of Bologna.
Since 2001 she is also associate researcher at ISTC.
She obtained her PhD in Psychology with a dissertation on the role of perception and action in categorization. She is currently coordinator of the FP7 project ROSSI (Emergence of communication in RObots through Sensorimotor and Social Interaction).
Her research interests concern the interaction between objects, language, and action. Starting from an embodied and grounded cognition perspective, her work focuses on categorization, on affordances, on how language is grounded in perception, action, and emotional systems, on language as a tool which modifies human's way to interact with the world and human's sense of body. She works using experimental methods (behavioral, kinematics) and occasionally brain imaging techniques (TMS, fMRI); she's also interested in computational models and computer simulations.
Web-page: http://laral.istc.cnr.it/borghi/
Publications
Journal articles | |
| 2012 | |
Caligiore D., Borghi A. M., Parisi D., Ellis R., Cangelosi A., Baldassarre G. How affordances associated with a distractor object affect compatibility effects: A study with the computational model TRoPICALS. In: Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung, [Online First 11 February 2012]    | |
| 2011 | |
| Borghi A. M., Di Ferdinando A., Parisi D. Objects, spatial compatibility, and affordances: A connectionist study. In: Cognitive Systems Research, vol. 12 pp. 33 - 34. Elsevier, 2011. | |
| Ranzini M., Borghi A. M., Nicoletti R. With hands I don't centre! Action- and object-related effects of hand-cueing in the line bisection. In: Neuropsychologia, vol. 49 pp. 2918 - 2928. Elsevier, 2011. | |
| 2010 | |
| Caligiore D., Borghi A. M., Parisi D., Baldassarre G. TRoPICALS: a computational embodied neuroscience model of compatibility effects. In: Psychological Review, vol. 117 pp. 1188 - 1228. 2010. | |
| 2005 | |
| Borghi A. M., Parisi D., Di Ferdinando A. Action and hierarchical levels of categories: A connectionist perspective. In: Cognitive Systems Research, vol. 6 pp. 99 - 110. 2005. | |
| Parisi D., Borghi A. M., Di Ferdinando A., Tsiotas G. Meaning and motor actions: Behavioral and Artificial Life evidence. Commentary to the target article 'From monkey-like action recognition to human language: An evolutionary framework for neurolinguistics' by Michael A. Arbib. In: BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES, vol. 28 pp. 35 - 36. 2005. | |
Books/Monographs | |
| 2002 | |
| Borghi A. M. Scienze della mente. Bologna: Il mulino, 2002. | |
Contribution to Book/Monograph | |
| 2010 | |
| Borghi A. M., Caligiore D., Scorolli C. Objects, words, and actions. Some reasons why embodied models are badly needed in cognitive psychology. In: Applications of Mathematics in Models, Artificial Neural Networks and Arts. pp. 99 - 112. V. Capecchi, M. Buscema, P. Contucci, B. D'Amore (eds.). Berlin: Springer, 2010. | |
| Caligiore D., Guglielmelli E., Borghi A., Parisi D., Baldassarre G. A reinforcement learning model of reaching integrating kinematic and dynamic control in a simulated arm robot. In: IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning. pp. 211 - 218. Kuipers B., Shultz T., Stoytchev A., Yu C (eds.). Piscataway: IEEE, 2010. | |
| 2009 | |
| Caligiore D., Borghi A. M., Parisi D., Baldassarre G. Affordances and compatibility effects: a neural-network computational model. In: Connectionist models of behavior and cognition II - Proceedings of the 11th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop. pp. 15 - 26. Mayor J., Ruh N., Plunkett K (eds.). Singapore: World Scientific, 2009. | |
| 2005 | |
| Tsiotas G., Borghi A. M., Parisi D. Objects and affordances: An Artificial Life simulation. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005. | |
| 2003 | |
| Borghi A. M., Di Ferdinando A., Parisi D. Violation of Category Boundaries: a Connectionist Study with Action-based Categories. London: Erlbaum, 2003. | |
| 2002 | |
| Borghi A. M. Borghi, A.M (2002). Violazioni logiche nei processi di categorizzazione e nelle generalizzazioni induttive basate su categorie. In G. Mucciarelli & G. Celani (Eds.). Quando il pensiero sbaglia. La fallacia tra psicologia e scienza. In: Quando il pensiero sbaglia. La fallacia tra psicologia e scienza. G. Mucciarelli, G. Celani (eds.). Torino: UTET, 2002. | |
| Borghi A. M., Di Ferdinando A., Parisi D. The role of perception and action in object categorization. Singapore: World Scientific, 2002. | |
Proceedings | |
| 2010 | |
| Morlino G., Gianelli C., Borghi A. M., Nolfi S. Developing the Ability to Manipulate Objects: A Comparative Study with Humans and Artificial Agents. In: EPIROB10 - Tenth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (Lund, ). Proceedings, pp. 169 - 170. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 2010. | |
| 2005 | |
| Tsiotas G., Borghi A. M., Parisi D. Tipo di prensione ed effetti di compatibilità : una simulazione connessionista. In: II Workshop Italiano di Vita Artificiale, CNR. (Roma,, ). Atti, 2005. | |
| 2002 | |
| Borghi A. M., Parisi D. The role of action in object categorization. In: Proceedings of the 15th International FLAIRS Conference (Pensacola (FL) , AAAI Press, ). Proceedings, S. Haller and G. Simmons (eds.). 2002. | |
| Borghi A. M., Parisi D. The role of perception and action in object categorisation. In: Proceedings of the seventh neural computation and psychology workshop: connectionist models of cognition and perception (Singapore, World Scientific, ). Proceedings, J. A. Bullinaria and W. Lowe (eds.). 2002. | |
| 2001 | |
| Borghi A. M. Taxonomic relations and cognitive economy in conceptual organization. In: In Moore, J.D., & Stenning, K. (eds.), Proceedings of 23rd Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (London: Erlbaum, ). Proceedings, 2001. | |
Abstracts | |
| 2011 | |
| Caligiore D., Borghi A. M., Parisi D., Ellis R., Cangelosi A., Baldassarre G. Affordances of distractors and compatibility effects: a study with the computational model TRoPICALS. In: CoSyNe 2011 - Computational and Systems Neuroscience 2011 (Salt Lake City, UT, USA, 24-28 February 2011). Abstract, 2011. | |
| 2009 | |
| Gaudiello I., Caligiore D., Schiavone G., Salerno A., Sergi F., Zollo L., Guglielmelli E., Parisi D., Baldassarre G., Nicoletti R., Borghi A. M. Effects on space representation of using a tool and a button. In: Cognitive Processing. Abstract, vol. 10 (2) pp. 153 - 154. Springer, 2009. | |