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Email:

olga.capirci@istc.cnr.it

Telephone:

+ 39 06 44161519

Fax:

+ 39 06 44161513

Address:

Via Nomentana 56 - 00161 Rome - Italy

Group membership:

Language and Communication Across Modalities Laboratory

Additional details

Profile

Position:

Research Director

Olga Capirci is currently Research Director at the CNR’s Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Coordinator of LACAM (Language and Communication Across Modalities Laboratory), Coordinator of the Action, Gesture, and Sign language (AG&S) Research Unit. She has been working at ISTC since 1992 and most of her work to date has been dedicated to the study of the co-development of language and perceptuo-motor processes, conceiving language acquisition as semantically driven and embodied. In particular, her research has contributed to enhancing the relevance of a multimodal approach to communication; considering different modalities of expression (e.g. speech, gesture, signs) in children with typical and atypical development (e.g. deaf children, Down syndrome, Williams syndrome, and autistic spectrum disorders) at different ages and within different interaction contexts and cognitive tasks (e.g. interaction with caregivers, lexical naming tasks, narration tasks). She has also conducted extensive research on the study of how caregivers’ production of gesture and speech can vary in relation to the child's cognitive status, developmental level, and language ability. Her current efforts are focused on the study of the progression from action to language - spoken and signed - and on the continuity from gesture to sign. She is author of over 60 publications both national and international, member of the International Society for Gesture Studies, member of the Directive board of “Italian Psychologist Association” (AIP), member of the ISTC’ Institute Committee and Ethic Committee, member of the Editorial Board of the peer-reviewed, open access journal Child Development Research.

Tags:

gesture

Iconicity

intentional action

italian sign language

mother-child interaction

motor behavior

multimodal communicative development

Publications

Contributo in atti di convegno

2006

La gestualità nel racconto di bambini con sindrome di Williams

Guidarelli, B., Capirci, O., Langher, V.

Source: XV Congresso Nazionale AIRIPA su I disturbi dellApprendimento, Roma (italia), 2006

2005

Gesti e parole: sviluppo tipico, atipico e indici di rischio.

Capirci, O., Caselli, M.C., Volterra, V

Source: Update on Specific Language Impairment., Urbino, 2005

Gesti e parole: sviluppo tipico, atipico ed indici di rischio.

Capirci, O., Caselli, M.C., Volterra, V.

Source: Update on Specific Language Impairment, Urbino, 2005

Gesture and Speech: The emergence and development of a strong and changing partnership

Capirci, O.

Source: Gesture in the Mediterranean: Recent Research in Southern Europe., Procida, 2005

The role of gesture in lexical and narrative abilities of children with Williams syndrome

Bello, A., Capirci, O., Volterra, V.

Source: X International Congress For the Study of Child Language, Berlino, 2005

The role of gesture in lexical and narrative abilities of children with Williams syndrome.

Bello, A.* Capirci O., Volterra V

Source: X International Congress For the Study of Child Language, Berlin, 2005

2004

From Actions to Language through gestures: a longitudinal perspective

Capirci, O., Contaldo, A., Caselli, M.C., Volterra, V.

Source: Gestural communication in nonhuman and human primates workshop, Leipzig, Germany, 2004

Articolo

2005

From Action to language through gesture: a longitudinal perspective

Capirci, O., Contaldo, A., Caselli, M.C., Volterra, V.

Source: Gesture (Amsterdam. Print) 5 (2005): 155–177. doi:10.1075/gest.5.1.12cap, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Capirci, O.; Contaldo, A.; Caselli, M.C.; Volterra, V./titolo:From Action to language through gesture: a longitudinal perspective/doi:10.1075/gest.5.1.12cap/rivista:Gesture (Amsterdam. Print)/anno:2005/pagina_da:155/pagina_a:177

2004

La sindrome di Williams. Una rassegna di studi

Capirci, O., Pirchio, S.

Source: 3 (2004): 367–399., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Capirci, O., Pirchio, S./titolo:La sindrome di Williams. Una rassegna di studi/doi:/rivista:/anno:2004/pagina_da:367/pagina_a:399/intervallo_pagine:367–399/volume:3

La sindrome di Williams: profili Neuropsicologici

Bello, A., Capirci, O., Stefanini, S., Volterra, V.

Source: 3 (2004): 485–503., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Bello, A., Capirci, O., Stefanini, S., Volterra, V./titolo:La sindrome di Williams: profili Neuropsicologici/doi:/rivista:/anno:2004/pagina_da:485/pagina_a:503/intervallo_pagine:485–503/volume:3

Lexical production in children with Williams syndrome: Spontaneous use of gesture in a naming task.

Bello, A., Capirci, O., Volterra, V.

Source: Neuropsychologia (Print) 42 (2004): 201–213. doi:10.1016/S0028-3932(03)00172-6, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Bello, A.; Capirci, O.; Volterra, V./titolo:Lexical production in children with Williams syndrome: Spontaneous use of gesture in a naming task./doi:10.1016/S0028-3932(03)00172-6/rivista:Neuropsychologia (Print)/anno:2004/pagina_

Contributo in volume

2005

Le rôle des gestes dans l'acquisition du langage chez les enfants entendants, les enfants non entendants et les enfants au développement atypique

Volterra, V., Caselli, M.C., Capirci, O., Pirchio, S

Source: , 2005

Projects

"CABINA DI REGIA” per il piano cittadino. Secondo piano territoriale cittadino ex legge 285/97

Project Funding:

Other - National

Project Timeframe:

31 May 2003 to 29 May 2004

Olga Capirci

Additional details

2006

La gestualità nel racconto di bambini con sindrome di Williams

2005

Gesti e parole: sviluppo tipico, atipico e indici di rischio.

Gesti e parole: sviluppo tipico, atipico ed indici di rischio.

Gesture and Speech: The emergence and development of a strong and changing partnership

The role of gesture in lexical and narrative abilities of children with Williams syndrome

The role of gesture in lexical and narrative abilities of children with Williams syndrome.

2004

From Actions to Language through gestures: a longitudinal perspective

2005

From Action to language through gesture: a longitudinal perspective

2004

La sindrome di Williams. Una rassegna di studi

La sindrome di Williams: profili Neuropsicologici

Lexical production in children with Williams syndrome: Spontaneous use of gesture in a naming task.

2005

Le rôle des gestes dans l'acquisition du langage chez les enfants entendants, les enfants non entendants et les enfants au développement atypique

2004

Language in preschool Italian children with Williams and Down syndrome

Lo sviluppo cognitivo: linfanzia predice ladolescenza?

Lo sviluppo linguistico: ladolescenza ricapitola linfanzia?

"CABINA DI REGIA” per il piano cittadino. Secondo piano territoriale cittadino ex legge 285/97