May 27, 2025 - Interacting Minds Centre Seminar. Aarhus University, Danmark.
Title: Constructing Meaning: the role of abstractness and specificity in language and dialogue
April 3rd, 2025 - Organiser and speaker at ABSTRACTION ERC project Workshop “Conversational Dynamics: How Abstraction and Abstractness Ebb and Flow in Interaction”. Bologna, Italy.
Title: Abstractness and Specificity in Dialogue.
May 24-27, 2024 - Traincrease H2020 Closing Conference. Kazimierz Dolny, Poland.
Title: Abstractness and Specificity in Social Interaction.
March 27, 2024 - Psycholinguistic Coffee Seminar, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Title: Varieties of abstract concepts and their use in conversation.
Title: Numbers and Gestures: Exploring the Random Number Generation Task
January 31-February 4, 2022 - Intensive Study Program Recognise.
Online Seminar: Legal reasoning and cognitive science
Title: Embodied cognition and legal concepts.
March 30, 2021 - Recognise Seminar, online.
Title: Is Justice Grounded? Legal Theory Meets Embodied Cognition.
February 3, 2021 - Colloquium: Progress in Brain Language Research
Brain Language Laboratory, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Title: Varieties of abstract concepts. A multiple grounded perspective.
March 29, 2019 - Workshop "Abstract Concepts differ: Number, Emotion, and Dangerous things", organized by Prof. Martin Fisher and Anna M. Borghi, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Title: Italian norms for different kinds of abstract concepts on many dimensions.
March 15, 2018 - Organizer and speaker at Brain Awareness Week Event: Words and Meaning: theoretical and clinical application perspective, Aphasia Centre CIRP, Turin, Italy.
Title: Pensare a “tazza” e “libertà”: diversi tipi di concetti?
October 12-13, 2017 - Neural Mechanisms Workshop, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
Title: L’Embodied Cognition e la sfida dei concetti astratti.
CLiC.it, Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics. Cagliari, September 24-26
Poster: Predotti, A., Rambelli, G., Villani, C., Bolognesi, M.M. How Humans and LLMs Organize Conceptual Knowledge: Exploring Subordinate Categories in Italian
SLE, the 58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Bordeaux, France, August 26-29.
Talk: Lamarra T., Villani, C., Bolognesi, M.M. Ambiguity of abstraction: semantic information affects words processing.
COGSCI, Cognitive Science Society. San Francisco, USA, July 29-August 2.
Talk: Villani, C., Adele, L., Bolognesi, M.M. Development of Linguistic-Mediated Abstraction: Insights from Word Ladders task.
ACL, Association for Computational Linguistics. Vienna, Austria, July 27-August 1.
Talk: Predotti, A., Rambelli, G., Villani, C., Bolognesi, M.M. How Humans and LLMs Organize Conceptual Knowledge: Exploring Subordinate Categories in Italian
AISC, Associazione Italiana di Scienze Cognitive. Rome, Italy, September 18-20.
Talk: Lamarra, T., Villani C., Mazzuca C., Borghi A.M, Bolognesi M. How does sentence specificity shape uncertainty and curiosity in conversational dynamics?
XPRAG.it, 5th Experimental Pragmatics in Italy Conference. Venice, Italy, September 26-27.
Talk: Villani, C., Mazzuca, C., Lamarra, T., Bolognesi, M.M., Borghi, A.M. Abstractness and Social Interaction: insights from sentences processing.
Poster: Lamarra T., Villani C., Mazzuca C., Borghi A.M, Bolognesi, M.M. How does sentence specificity shape uncertainty and curiosity in conversational dynamics?
AIP, Associazione Italiana di Psicologia Sperimentale. Noto, Italy, Sepember, 23-25.
Poster: De Muynck, G., Borghi, A.M., Villani, C., Lugli, L., Winter, B. Do Hand Gestures interact with Random Number Generation?
COGSCI, Cognitive Science Society. Rotterdam, Netherlands, July 24-27.
Talk: Mazzuca, C., Villani, C., Lamarra, T., Bolognesi, M.M., Borghi, A.M. Abstract Sentences elicit more Uncertainty and Curiosity than Concrete Sentences.
AISC, Associazione Italiana di Scienze Cognitive. Genova, Italy, December 14-17.
Talk: Villani, C., Rambelli, G., Bolognesi, M.M. Exploring subordinate categories organization in Human and Artificial cognition.
ESLP, Embodied and Situated Language Processing Conference. Messina, Italy, September 29-30.
Talk: Villani, C., Loia, A., Bolognesi, M. M. The semantic content of concrete, abstract, specific, and generic concepts.
Poster: Lamarra, T., Villani, C., Bolognesi, M.M. Lexical decision and semantic processing latencies for words that vary in concreteness and specificity
XPRAG, Experimental Pragmatics. Paris, September 20-22.
Talk: Tomasello, R., Villani, C., Boux, I., Pulvermüller, F. The time course of speech act recognition conveyed by prosody: A gating study.
AIP, Associazione Italiana di Psicologia Sperimentale. Lucca, Italy, September 18-20.
Talk: Villani C., Loia A., Bolognesi, M.M. Il contenuto semantico di concetti specifici, generici, astratti e concreti.
Mini-talk: Lamarra, T., Villani C., Bolognesi M.M. Lexical Decision e semantic processing per parole che variano in concretezza e in specificità.
ESPL, Embodied and Situated Language Processing Conference. Online, September 20.
Talk: Villani, C., Orsoni, M., Lugli, L., Benassi, M., Borghi, A.M. How do people talk about abstract and concrete concepts? A conversational paradigm.
CILC5, Conference on Interactive, Language & Cognition. Online, September 15-19.
Talk: Villani, C., Orsoni, M., Lugli, L., Benassi, M., Borghi, A.M. “Using abstract and concrete concepts in interactive contexts: A conversational study.
AIP, Associazione Italiana di Psicologia Sperimentale. Online, September 9-10.
Talk: Villani, C., Orsoni, M., Lugli, L., Benassi, M., Borghi, A.M. Conversazioni astratte e concrete: quali differenze.
Talk: D'Ascenzo, S., Villani, C., Scerrati., E., Lugli, L., Ricciardelli, P., Nicoletti, R. Se indossi la mascherina seguirò il tuo sguardo! Come il COVID-19 ha influenzato la nostra attenzione sociale.
Talk: Scerrati, E., D'Ascenzo, S., Villani, C., Nicoletti, R., Lugli, L. Effetti di priming affettivo durante la pandemia: differenze individuali.
AIP, Associazione Italiana di Psicologia Sperimentale, Online, September 2-4.
Talk: Villani, C., D’Ascenzo, S., Borghi, A.M., Roversi, C., Benassi, M., Lugli, L. Un’indagine sui concetti istituzionali. Il ruolo delle esperienze individuali nella rappresentazione concettuale.
AISC, Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences. Rome, Italy, December 11-13.
Talk: Villani, C., Lugli, L., Liuzza, M.T., Nicoletti, R., Borghi, A.M. Exploring the differences between kinds of abstract concepts: evidence with and interference paradigm.
AIP, Associazione Italiana di Psicologia Sperimentale. Milan, Italy, September 18-20.
Talk: Villani, C., Lugli, L., Liuzza, MT., Nicoletti, R., Borghi, A.M. Esperienze sensorimotorie, linguistiche e interocettive durante l’elaborazione di concetti concreti e astratti.
AISC, Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences. IUSS Pavia, Italy, December 17-19.
Talk: Villani, C., Lugli, L., Liuzza, M.T., Borghi, A.M. Linguistic, social and interoceptive experiences during the processing of abstract concepts.
AISC, Italian Association of Cognitive Science. Bologna, Italy, December 14-16.
Talk: Villani, C., Lugli, L., Liuzza, M.T., Borghi, A.M. Different Kinds of Abstract Concepts.
AIP, Associazione Italiana di Psicologia Sperimentale. Bari, Italy, September 20-22.
Talk: Villani, C., Lugli, L., Borghi, A.M. Concetti astratti: un dominio omogeneo o eterogeneo? Uno studio sulle differenze fine-grained delle sotto-categorie dei concetti astratti.
ESCoP, European Society for Cognitive Psychology. Potsdam, Germany, September 3-6.
Poster: Villani, C., Lugli, L., Borghi, A.M. A taxonomy of Italian Abstract concepts.