MariannaBolog
@mariannabolog.bsky.social
Linguist (Semantics, Cognition, Computation)
PI of ABSTRACTION (ERC-2021-STG-101039777)
https://linktr.ee/mariannabolognesi
PI of ABSTRACTION (ERC-2021-STG-101039777)
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MariannaBolog
@mariannabolog.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Word Ladders is a free mobile app developed by @Abstraction_ERC to collect linguistic data
site.unibo.it/abstraction/en
Join more than 3400 players to help us study the role of language in Abstraction.
Download:
Android 👉 shorturl.at/kqAOS
Apple 👉 shorturl.at/buIS2
site.unibo.it/abstraction/en
Join more than 3400 players to help us study the role of language in Abstraction.
Download:
Android 👉 shorturl.at/kqAOS
Apple 👉 shorturl.at/buIS2
Per chi fosse interessato a leggere cosa fa il gruppo ABSTRACTION @erc.europa.eu , ecco il flipbook interattivo con gli studi condotti fino ad oggi (in lingua italiana).
heyzine.com/flip-book/61...
Il flipbook accompagna un video introduttivo, che trovate qui:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIqc...
heyzine.com/flip-book/61...
Il flipbook accompagna un video introduttivo, che trovate qui:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIqc...
Alla scoperta dell'astrazione linguistica - final | PDF to Flipbook
Created with the Heyzine flipbook maker
heyzine.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Per chi fosse interessato a leggere cosa fa il gruppo ABSTRACTION @erc.europa.eu , ecco il flipbook interattivo con gli studi condotti fino ad oggi (in lingua italiana).
heyzine.com/flip-book/61...
Il flipbook accompagna un video introduttivo, che trovate qui:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIqc...
heyzine.com/flip-book/61...
Il flipbook accompagna un video introduttivo, che trovate qui:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIqc...
Reposted by MariannaBolog
📣 November's Abstraction seminar is all set too!
🗓️ 19 November, 11:30 - 12.30 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/xW7mF )
🎆 Join us, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word!
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@abstractionerc.bsky.social
🗓️ 19 November, 11:30 - 12.30 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/xW7mF )
🎆 Join us, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word!
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September 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
📣 November's Abstraction seminar is all set too!
🗓️ 19 November, 11:30 - 12.30 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/xW7mF )
🎆 Join us, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word!
✨
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
🗓️ 19 November, 11:30 - 12.30 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/xW7mF )
🎆 Join us, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word!
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@abstractionerc.bsky.social
Today I officially took up my new position as Full Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bologna @unibo.it 🎉
Funny to think it all began when I was a kid, convinced everyone thought in Italian (of course!) and the others just had to translate into whatever language they spoke 😅.
Funny to think it all began when I was a kid, convinced everyone thought in Italian (of course!) and the others just had to translate into whatever language they spoke 😅.
November 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Today I officially took up my new position as Full Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bologna @unibo.it 🎉
Funny to think it all began when I was a kid, convinced everyone thought in Italian (of course!) and the others just had to translate into whatever language they spoke 😅.
Funny to think it all began when I was a kid, convinced everyone thought in Italian (of course!) and the others just had to translate into whatever language they spoke 😅.
Time flies! 🚀 @grambelli.bsky.social just wrapped up her 3-year postdoc with Abstraction_ERC and is already off exploring new research frontiers. Grateful that some projects still keep us collaborating: once an Abstractioner, always an Abstractioner! ☕✨Thanks for the amazing mug!!!
October 31, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Time flies! 🚀 @grambelli.bsky.social just wrapped up her 3-year postdoc with Abstraction_ERC and is already off exploring new research frontiers. Grateful that some projects still keep us collaborating: once an Abstractioner, always an Abstractioner! ☕✨Thanks for the amazing mug!!!
I primi 2 seminari autunnali di @abstractionerc.bsky.social sono online!🥳
share.google/gGvHTdAA9O07...
👉Filippo Domaneschi
🎤Titolo: Concretely offensive: the processing f reclaimed slurs.
👉Veronica Repetti,
🎤Titolo: Concrete or abstract possession? Animacy, alienability, and syntactic structure.
share.google/gGvHTdAA9O07...
👉Filippo Domaneschi
🎤Titolo: Concretely offensive: the processing f reclaimed slurs.
👉Veronica Repetti,
🎤Titolo: Concrete or abstract possession? Animacy, alienability, and syntactic structure.
a gazelle is looking at a bowl of popcorn ..
ALT: a gazelle is looking at a bowl of popcorn ..
media.tenor.com
October 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I primi 2 seminari autunnali di @abstractionerc.bsky.social sono online!🥳
share.google/gGvHTdAA9O07...
👉Filippo Domaneschi
🎤Titolo: Concretely offensive: the processing f reclaimed slurs.
👉Veronica Repetti,
🎤Titolo: Concrete or abstract possession? Animacy, alienability, and syntactic structure.
share.google/gGvHTdAA9O07...
👉Filippo Domaneschi
🎤Titolo: Concretely offensive: the processing f reclaimed slurs.
👉Veronica Repetti,
🎤Titolo: Concrete or abstract possession? Animacy, alienability, and syntactic structure.
Love this visual device: parents's discussions are shown not through words, only symbols, mostly pointing fingers.
From the child’s view, the words don’t matter; it’s adult stuff. What he perceives is the tone, the tension, the conflict.
A brilliant way to show how kids experience adult language.
From the child’s view, the words don’t matter; it’s adult stuff. What he perceives is the tone, the tension, the conflict.
A brilliant way to show how kids experience adult language.
October 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Love this visual device: parents's discussions are shown not through words, only symbols, mostly pointing fingers.
From the child’s view, the words don’t matter; it’s adult stuff. What he perceives is the tone, the tension, the conflict.
A brilliant way to show how kids experience adult language.
From the child’s view, the words don’t matter; it’s adult stuff. What he perceives is the tone, the tension, the conflict.
A brilliant way to show how kids experience adult language.
Invited keynote at Rende, University of Calabria, went great!
On the role of context and abstraction mechanisms in the construction and interpretation of multimodal metaphors
On the role of context and abstraction mechanisms in the construction and interpretation of multimodal metaphors
October 22, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Invited keynote at Rende, University of Calabria, went great!
On the role of context and abstraction mechanisms in the construction and interpretation of multimodal metaphors
On the role of context and abstraction mechanisms in the construction and interpretation of multimodal metaphors
Excited to kick off day 1 of the CIRM International Annual Conference on Metaphor and Multimodality at the University of Calabria in Rende: such a beautiful campus nestled in the hills. Enjoyed a lovely morning walk to get here! My invited keynote is scheduled for tomorrow morning.
October 21, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Excited to kick off day 1 of the CIRM International Annual Conference on Metaphor and Multimodality at the University of Calabria in Rende: such a beautiful campus nestled in the hills. Enjoyed a lovely morning walk to get here! My invited keynote is scheduled for tomorrow morning.
In the seminar room this morning, there was this (rather distracting) writing on the wall: “Piume al vento” (“Feathers in the Wind"). 🦩 Quite exotic and mysterious, indeed 🙃
October 17, 2025 at 10:08 AM
In the seminar room this morning, there was this (rather distracting) writing on the wall: “Piume al vento” (“Feathers in the Wind"). 🦩 Quite exotic and mysterious, indeed 🙃
Veronica Repetti explaining variation in animacy, alienability and syntactic structure of concrete and abstract possession, this morning for the second @abstractionerc.bsky.social seminar.
All seminars are recorded and posted on site.unibo.it/abstraction/...
All seminars are recorded and posted on site.unibo.it/abstraction/...
October 17, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Veronica Repetti explaining variation in animacy, alienability and syntactic structure of concrete and abstract possession, this morning for the second @abstractionerc.bsky.social seminar.
All seminars are recorded and posted on site.unibo.it/abstraction/...
All seminars are recorded and posted on site.unibo.it/abstraction/...
Filippo Domaneschi, director of the Lab of Language and Cognition presenting at @abstractionerc.bsky.social on the reclamation of slurs, discussing pragmatic and psycholinguistic aspects in relation to abstraction mechanisms
October 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Filippo Domaneschi, director of the Lab of Language and Cognition presenting at @abstractionerc.bsky.social on the reclamation of slurs, discussing pragmatic and psycholinguistic aspects in relation to abstraction mechanisms
📣 November's Abstraction seminar is all set too!
🗓️ 19 November, 11:30 - 12.30 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/xW7mF )
🎆 Join us, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word!
✨
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
🗓️ 19 November, 11:30 - 12.30 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/xW7mF )
🎆 Join us, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word!
✨
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
📣 November's Abstraction seminar is all set too!
🗓️ 19 November, 11:30 - 12.30 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/xW7mF )
🎆 Join us, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word!
✨
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
🗓️ 19 November, 11:30 - 12.30 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/xW7mF )
🎆 Join us, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word!
✨
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
I knew I hired well for @abstractionerc.bsky.social from day 1.
But seeing @tomlamarra.bsky.social presenting this morning his phd progress in front of faculty and this evening to the city, taking part to phd storytelling (part of EU Researchers' night) was a clear confirmation. Brilliant, Tom!
But seeing @tomlamarra.bsky.social presenting this morning his phd progress in front of faculty and this evening to the city, taking part to phd storytelling (part of EU Researchers' night) was a clear confirmation. Brilliant, Tom!
“What do I mean by simulating through language?” 🤔
At #GenerAzioni, @tomlamarra.bsky.social satisfied our curiosity in one of the most beautiful places in the city.
Science is better when shared 💡
Thank you UniBo, and well done Tom! 👏
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
At #GenerAzioni, @tomlamarra.bsky.social satisfied our curiosity in one of the most beautiful places in the city.
Science is better when shared 💡
Thank you UniBo, and well done Tom! 👏
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I knew I hired well for @abstractionerc.bsky.social from day 1.
But seeing @tomlamarra.bsky.social presenting this morning his phd progress in front of faculty and this evening to the city, taking part to phd storytelling (part of EU Researchers' night) was a clear confirmation. Brilliant, Tom!
But seeing @tomlamarra.bsky.social presenting this morning his phd progress in front of faculty and this evening to the city, taking part to phd storytelling (part of EU Researchers' night) was a clear confirmation. Brilliant, Tom!
Reposted by MariannaBolog
Excited to share that @abstractionerc.bsky.social has even reached #CambridgeUniversity and #TrinityCollege!
Yesterday, at the #XPrag2025 conference, I presented how speakers maximize the informativeness of their descriptions in naturalistic conversations.
Thanks for the insightful discussions!
Yesterday, at the #XPrag2025 conference, I presented how speakers maximize the informativeness of their descriptions in naturalistic conversations.
Thanks for the insightful discussions!
September 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Excited to share that @abstractionerc.bsky.social has even reached #CambridgeUniversity and #TrinityCollege!
Yesterday, at the #XPrag2025 conference, I presented how speakers maximize the informativeness of their descriptions in naturalistic conversations.
Thanks for the insightful discussions!
Yesterday, at the #XPrag2025 conference, I presented how speakers maximize the informativeness of their descriptions in naturalistic conversations.
Thanks for the insightful discussions!
Reposted by MariannaBolog
Glad to be at #XPrag2025 at the #UniversityOfCambridge!
Day 1 was packed with fascinating talks and exciting discussions!
Day 1 was packed with fascinating talks and exciting discussions!
September 18, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Glad to be at #XPrag2025 at the #UniversityOfCambridge!
Day 1 was packed with fascinating talks and exciting discussions!
Day 1 was packed with fascinating talks and exciting discussions!
Reposted by MariannaBolog
📣The chapter "𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆: 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀"
w/@mariannabolog.bsky.social is now online & forthcoming in the #ElsevierEncyclopedia of Language & Linguistics
🔍 Theoretical overview, quantification tools, and behavioral evidence on specificity.
👉 Read: urly.it/31c4nm
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
w/@mariannabolog.bsky.social is now online & forthcoming in the #ElsevierEncyclopedia of Language & Linguistics
🔍 Theoretical overview, quantification tools, and behavioral evidence on specificity.
👉 Read: urly.it/31c4nm
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM
📣The chapter "𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆: 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀"
w/@mariannabolog.bsky.social is now online & forthcoming in the #ElsevierEncyclopedia of Language & Linguistics
🔍 Theoretical overview, quantification tools, and behavioral evidence on specificity.
👉 Read: urly.it/31c4nm
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
w/@mariannabolog.bsky.social is now online & forthcoming in the #ElsevierEncyclopedia of Language & Linguistics
🔍 Theoretical overview, quantification tools, and behavioral evidence on specificity.
👉 Read: urly.it/31c4nm
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
📣 Abstraction seminars are back!
🗓️ 17 October, 10:00 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/RjrOU)
🎆 Join us for another seminar, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word!
✨
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
🗓️ 17 October, 10:00 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/RjrOU)
🎆 Join us for another seminar, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word!
✨
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 10:21 AM
📣 Abstraction seminars are back!
🗓️ 17 October, 10:00 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/RjrOU)
🎆 Join us for another seminar, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word!
✨
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
🗓️ 17 October, 10:00 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/RjrOU)
🎆 Join us for another seminar, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word!
✨
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
Apparently I searched multiple times for our consensus paper using this string: "what do we mean when we say Reilly" 😅
@reilly-coglab.com
@reilly-coglab.com
September 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Apparently I searched multiple times for our consensus paper using this string: "what do we mean when we say Reilly" 😅
@reilly-coglab.com
@reilly-coglab.com
Prof Kristina Despot from the Institute of Croatian Language visiting the @abstractionerc.bsky.social group to establish collaborations on th use of figurative language and abstraction mechanims, and to brainstorm a fantastic ERC proposal :-)
September 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Prof Kristina Despot from the Institute of Croatian Language visiting the @abstractionerc.bsky.social group to establish collaborations on th use of figurative language and abstraction mechanims, and to brainstorm a fantastic ERC proposal :-)
Excited to share that I contributed to an article just published in #Nature. My role was on the cognitive side, as part of a collaboration evolved from a fantastic #Dagstuhl seminar.
Collective works like these are crucial windows into where our communities are going!
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Collective works like these are crucial windows into where our communities are going!
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
September 16, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Excited to share that I contributed to an article just published in #Nature. My role was on the cognitive side, as part of a collaboration evolved from a fantastic #Dagstuhl seminar.
Collective works like these are crucial windows into where our communities are going!
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Collective works like these are crucial windows into where our communities are going!
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Reposted by MariannaBolog
📣 Abstraction seminars are back!
🗓️ 16 October, 15:00 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/0fw5a)
🎆 Join us for a thought-provoking seminar, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word! ✨
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
🗓️ 16 October, 15:00 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/0fw5a)
🎆 Join us for a thought-provoking seminar, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word! ✨
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 11:44 AM
📣 Abstraction seminars are back!
🗓️ 16 October, 15:00 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/0fw5a)
🎆 Join us for a thought-provoking seminar, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word! ✨
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
🗓️ 16 October, 15:00 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/0fw5a)
🎆 Join us for a thought-provoking seminar, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word! ✨
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
📣 Abstraction seminars are back!
🗓️ 16 October, 15:00 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/0fw5a)
🎆 Join us for a thought-provoking seminar, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word! ✨
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
🗓️ 16 October, 15:00 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/0fw5a)
🎆 Join us for a thought-provoking seminar, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word! ✨
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 11:44 AM
📣 Abstraction seminars are back!
🗓️ 16 October, 15:00 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/0fw5a)
🎆 Join us for a thought-provoking seminar, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word! ✨
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
🗓️ 16 October, 15:00 (CEST)
📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/0fw5a)
🎆 Join us for a thought-provoking seminar, details in the figure!
👉 Save the date & spread the word! ✨
@abstractionerc.bsky.social
Thrilled to see our research featured on PsyPost 🚀
Trump vs. Harris, 2024 debate: sharp contrasts and surprising overlaps 👉 www.psypost.org/study-finds-...
Trump vs. Harris, 2024 debate: sharp contrasts and surprising overlaps 👉 www.psypost.org/study-finds-...
Study finds Trump and Harris used distinct rhetoric in 2024—but shared more similarities than expected
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris framed the 2024 presidential debate in starkly different terms, according to a new study—but their language also showed surprising overlap in tone, emotional content, an...
www.psypost.org
September 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Thrilled to see our research featured on PsyPost 🚀
Trump vs. Harris, 2024 debate: sharp contrasts and surprising overlaps 👉 www.psypost.org/study-finds-...
Trump vs. Harris, 2024 debate: sharp contrasts and surprising overlaps 👉 www.psypost.org/study-finds-...
Reposted by MariannaBolog
New Paper Alert 🚨🆕
"Specificity Effect in Concrete/Abstract Semantic Categorization Tasks"
doi.org/10.1007/s103...
We observed faster response times for specific words compared to general words in a semantic decision task, regardless of their level of concreteness.
"Specificity Effect in Concrete/Abstract Semantic Categorization Tasks"
doi.org/10.1007/s103...
We observed faster response times for specific words compared to general words in a semantic decision task, regardless of their level of concreteness.
Specificity effect in concrete/abstract semantic categorization task - Cognitive Processing
Concrete concepts (banana) are processed faster and more accurately than abstract ones (belief). This phenomenon, supported by empirical studies, is known as the concreteness effect. However, recent r...
doi.org
September 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
New Paper Alert 🚨🆕
"Specificity Effect in Concrete/Abstract Semantic Categorization Tasks"
doi.org/10.1007/s103...
We observed faster response times for specific words compared to general words in a semantic decision task, regardless of their level of concreteness.
"Specificity Effect in Concrete/Abstract Semantic Categorization Tasks"
doi.org/10.1007/s103...
We observed faster response times for specific words compared to general words in a semantic decision task, regardless of their level of concreteness.