Lamarra T., Villani C., & Bolognesi, M. M. (2025). Specificity effect in abstract/concrete categorization task. Cognitive Processing. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-025-01286-5
Villani C., Boux, I.P., Pulvermüller, F., & Tomasello, R. (2025). The time course of speech act recognition conveyed by speech prosody: A gating study. Language, Cognition & Neuroscience. 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2025.2506641
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Mazzuca, C., Villani, C., Lamarra, T., Bolognesi, M. M., & Borghi, A. M. (2025). Abstractness impacts conversational dynamics. Cognition, 258, 106084. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106084
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Villani, C., De Muynck, G., Borghi, A.M., Lugli, L., & Winter, B. (2025). Open hands, large numbers: manual gestures influence random number generation. Psychological Research 89, 55. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-025-02085-5
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Villani, C., D’Ascenzo, S., Ubertone, M., Benassi, M.G., Borghi, A.M., Roversi, C., & Lugli, L. (2024). Abstract concepts and expertise: the case of institutional concepts. Scientific Report, 14, 25874. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-77308-7
Villani C., Loia A., & Bolognesi M.M. (2024). The semantic content of specific, generic, abstract, and concrete concepts. Language and Cognition, 16(4):867-894. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2023.64
Banks, B., Borghi, A.M., Fargier, R., Fini, C., Jonauskaite, D., Mazzuca, C., Montalti, M., Villani, C., & Woodin, G. (2023). Consensus Paper: Current Perspectives on Abstract Concepts and Future Research Directions. Journal of Cognition, 6(1), 62. pp. 1–26. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.238
Roversi, C., Ubertone, M., Villani, C., D’Ascenzo, S., & Lugli, L. (2023). Alice in Wonderland: Experimental jurisprudence on the internal point of view. Jurisprudence, 14(2), 143-170. https://doi.org/10.1080/20403313.2022.2109884
Villani, C., D’Ascenzo, S., Borghi, A.M., Roversi, C., Benassi, M., & Lugli, L. (2022). Is justice grounded? How expertise shapes representation of institutional concepts. Psychological Research, 86(8), 2434-2450. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01492-8
Villani, C., Orsoni, M., Lugli, L. Benassi M., & Borghi A.M. (2022). Abstract and concrete concepts in conversation. Scientific Report, 12, 17572. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-20785-5
Villani, C., D’Ascenzo, S., Scerrati, E., Ricciardelli, P., Nicoletti, R., & Lugli, L. (2022). Wearing the face mask affects our social attention over space, Frontiers in Psychology. 13:923558. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.923558
Scerrati, E., D'Ascenzo, S., Nicoletti, R., Villani, C., & Lugli, L. (2022). Assessing interpersonal proximity evaluation in the COVID-19 era: Evidence from the affective priming task. Frontiers in psychology, 13, 901730. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.901730
D’Ascenzo, S., Scerrati, E., Villani, C., Galatolo, R., Lugli, L., & Nicoletti, R. (2022). Does social distancing affect the processing of brand logos? Brain and Behavior, 12, e2501. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.2501
Scerrati, E., Marzola, G., Villani, C., Lugli, L., & D’Ascenzo, S. (2021). Nuovi scenari per gli esperimenti in psicologia: la modalità online, Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 48(4), 843-863. https://dx.doi.org/10.1421/104144
D’Ascenzo, S., Scerrati, E., Villani, C., & Lugli, L. (2021). Processi cognitivi e pandemia: l’influenza del distanziamento sociale sull’elaborazione di loghi commerciali, Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 48(2), 577-585. https://dx.doi.org/10.1421/102710
Villani, C., Lugli, L., Liuzza, M.T., Nicoletti, R., & Borghi, A.M. (2021). Sensorimotor and interoceptive dimensions in concrete and abstract concepts. Journal of Memory and Language, 116, 104173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2020.104173
Villani, C., & Lugli, L. (2020). L’effetto Simon e il suo decorso temporale con stimoli linguistici non spaziali, Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 47(1), 305-314. https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1421/96612
Villani, C., Lugli, L., Liuzza, M.T., & Borghi, A.M. (2019). Varieties of abstract concepts and their multiple dimensions. Language and Cognition, 11(3), 403-430. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2019.23
Villani, C., Lugli, L., Liuzza, M.T., & Borghi, A.M. (2019). Le sottocategorie dei concetti astratti: uno studio empirico. Sistemi intelligenti, 31(2), 235-252. https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1422/93572.
Villani, C. (2018). L’Embodied Cognition e la sfida dei concetti astratti. Un approccio multidimensionale. Rivista Italiana di Filosofia e Psicologia, 9(3), 239-253. https://doi.org/10.4453/rifp.2018.0024
Villani, C., Loia, A., & Bolognesi, M.M. (2025). Development of Language-mediated Abstraction in Children: Insights from a Word Ladders Task. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 47. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0d54k9v9
Pedrotti, A., Rambelli, G., Villani, C., & Bolognesi, M.M. (2025). How Humans and LLMs Organize Conceptual Knowledge: Exploring Subordinate Categories in Italian. In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1 Long Papers), pages 4464–4482.
Mazzuca, C.*, Villani, C*., Lamarra, T., Bolognesi, M. M., & Borghi, A.M. (2024). Abstract Sentences elicit more Uncertainty and Curiosity than Concrete Sentences. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 46).
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Villani, C., & Bolognesi, M. M. (2025). Specificity: Metrics and Norms. In Reference module in Social Science. Elsevier.
Ubertone, M., Borghi, A. M., Villani, C., & Lugli, L. (2023). Embodied Cognition and Legal Concepts. In Diritto & Questioni Publiche, Legal Reasoning and Cognitive Science: Topics and Perspectives. Recognise. Special Publication (pp. 103-118). https://www.dirittoequestionipubbliche.org/page/2023_dq-recognise/d-02-Ubertone-Borghi-et-al.pdf