Ilaria Gabbatore
Biographic Data
| ID | 3075765 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ilaria Gabbatore |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ilaria |
| FAMILY NAME | Gabbatore |
| SIGNATURE | GABBATORE I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9724-8066 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Cognitive reserve effects on discourse production processing in healthy aging
Aging is marked by physiological changes that significantly affect discourse production skills. Cognitive reserve (CR), the brain's ability to adapt and cope with age-related changes, was examined in relation to narrative discourse production in 105 healthy adults aged 61-84. Verbal working memory, sustained attention, and inhibitory control were also assessed. CR was selectively associated with multiple cognitive and discourse measures, particul…
Pragmatic and cognitive abilities in children and adolescents after pediatric brain tumor
Pediatric Brain Tumors (PBT) vary in type, grade, and location, and lead to different clinical outcomes and treatments. Standard interventions often include neurosurgery followed by chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy, which improve survival rates and reduce the risk of relapse, but can also lead to neurocognitive impairments. Although there has been increasing interest in the neuropsychological effects of PBT, pragmatic ability (i.e. the way people…
Assessment Battery for Communication (ABaCo): An Extension of Normative Data to Elderly Individuals
The aim of this study is to update and expand the normative data for the Assessment Battery for Communication (ABaCo) to include older adults. As the population continues to age, comprehensive assessments of pragmatic ability become increasingly important, as deficits in this area can significantly impair social functioning. The ABaCo is a validated instrument designed to evaluate communicative-pragmatic ability in individuals with brain injuries…
Beyond the Screen: Assessing Theory of Mind in Telepractice with the Theory of Mind Assessment Scale (Th.o.m.a.s.)
Telepractice (TP) refers to the use of telecommunication devices for remote psychological and medical assessment and treatment. To date, no study involving healthy adults has combined TP with Theory of Mind (ToM), that is, the ability to understand and attribute mental states and use this knowledge to explain actions and behavior. With this study we evaluated the feasibility and effectiveness of the Theory of Mind Assessment Scale (Th.o.m.a.s.) a…
Assessing communicative-pragmatic ability in telehealth: E-ABaCo in autistic individuals
These results confirm the potential usefulness of telehealth assessment procedures, and demonstrate the sensitivity and validity of e-ABaCo for conducting an effective assessment of pragmatic skills in on-line modality in autistic adolescents
Autistic children and control children use similar strategies when answering false belief questions
Difficulties in false belief reasoning are associated with autism spectrum. False belief tasks tend to be easy to administer and code, and thus are often used for testing purposes. However, the amount of information that can be gleaned from this type of assessment task goes beyond correct/wrong score attribution. Instead, fine-grained information may be derive from a detailed qualitative analysis of the content of the answers, as well as the stra…
Silent Finns and Talkative Italians? An investigation of communicative differences and similarities as perceived by parents in typically developing children
Effective communication is a fundamental aspect of children’s daily living, enabling interaction with adults and peers. A rich literature suggests that communicative abilities develop with age, while little is known about cross-cultural differences and similarities. This study presents a comparison of the communicative performance of Finnish ( n = 147) and Italian ( n = 147) typically developing children, aged 4–8 years old, as assessed by the wi…
Can Narrative Skills Improve in Autism Spectrum Disorder? A Preliminary Study with Verbally Fluent Adolescents Receiving the Cognitive Pragmatic Treatment
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition affecting social and communicative skills, including narrative ability, namely the description of real-life or fictive accounts of temporally and causally related events. With this study, we aimed to determine whether a communicative-pragmatic training, i.e., the version for adolescents of the Cognitive-Pragmatic Treatment, is effective in improving the narrative skills of 16 verbal…
Improvement of Communicative-pragmatic Ability in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder: The Adapted Version of the Cognitive Pragmatic Treatment
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex pathology that includes impaired social interaction abilities. Insufficient attention has been paid to programs specifically devoted to improving communicative-pragmatic skills. Moreover, the majority of studies have focused on children, while programs specifically developed for the adolescents are lacking.The present study aims to test the feasibility and acceptability of the adapted version of the Cog…
Social-pragmatic contextual comprehension in Italian preschool and school-aged children: A study using the Pragma test
Efficient communication requires the interplay of linguistic, cognitive and social skills, including the ability to make contextual inferences and to understand others’ intentions and emotions. The capacity to effectively use language in specific contexts (i.e., pragmatic ability) develops with age, and an assessment of this ability is important for understanding both typical and atypical development. The Pragma test was originally developed and …
Investigating pragmatic abilities in young Finnish adults using the Assessment Battery for Communication
Pragmatic communication refers to the ability to use language and other expressive means, i.e. non-verbal/extralinguistic means such as gestures and facial expressions, in order to convey and interpret meaning in a specific context. Pragmatic abilities are important in everyday life in interpersonal interactions as they affect the way people communicate and behave in social situations. Providing a comprehensive and accurate assessment of pragmati…
Assessment of pragmatic impairment in right hemisphere damage
A broad assessment of theory of mind in adolescence: The complexity of mindreading
Investigating pragmatic abilities in young Finnish adults using the Assessment Battery for Communication
Pragmatic communication refers to the ability to use language and other expressive means, i.e. non-verbal/extralinguistic means such as gestures and facial expressions, in order to convey and interpret meaning in a specific context. Pragmatic abilities are important in everyday life in interpersonal interactions as they affect the way people communicate and behave in social situations. Providing a comprehensive and accurate assessment of pragmati…
Assessment of pragmatic impairment in right hemisphere damage
Can Narrative Skills Improve in Autism Spectrum Disorder? A Preliminary Study with Verbally Fluent Adolescents Receiving the Cognitive Pragmatic Treatment
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition affecting social and communicative skills, including narrative ability, namely the description of real-life or fictive accounts of temporally and causally related events. With this study, we aimed to determine whether a communicative-pragmatic training, i.e., the version for adolescents of the Cognitive-Pragmatic Treatment, is effective in improving the narrative skills of 16 verbal…
Autistic children and control children use similar strategies when answering false belief questions
Difficulties in false belief reasoning are associated with autism spectrum. False belief tasks tend to be easy to administer and code, and thus are often used for testing purposes. However, the amount of information that can be gleaned from this type of assessment task goes beyond correct/wrong score attribution. Instead, fine-grained information may be derive from a detailed qualitative analysis of the content of the answers, as well as the stra…
A broad assessment of theory of mind in adolescence: The complexity of mindreading
Assessment of pragmatic impairment in right hemisphere damage
Investigating pragmatic abilities in young Finnish adults using the Assessment Battery for Communication
Pragmatic communication refers to the ability to use language and other expressive means, i.e. non-verbal/extralinguistic means such as gestures and facial expressions, in order to convey and interpret meaning in a specific context. Pragmatic abilities are important in everyday life in interpersonal interactions as they affect the way people communicate and behave in social situations. Providing a comprehensive and accurate assessment of pragmati…
Social-pragmatic contextual comprehension in Italian preschool and school-aged children: A study using the Pragma test
Efficient communication requires the interplay of linguistic, cognitive and social skills, including the ability to make contextual inferences and to understand others’ intentions and emotions. The capacity to effectively use language in specific contexts (i.e., pragmatic ability) develops with age, and an assessment of this ability is important for understanding both typical and atypical development. The Pragma test was originally developed and …
Improvement of Communicative-pragmatic Ability in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder: The Adapted Version of the Cognitive Pragmatic Treatment
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex pathology that includes impaired social interaction abilities. Insufficient attention has been paid to programs specifically devoted to improving communicative-pragmatic skills. Moreover, the majority of studies have focused on children, while programs specifically developed for the adolescents are lacking.The present study aims to test the feasibility and acceptability of the adapted version of the Cog…
Silent Finns and Talkative Italians? An investigation of communicative differences and similarities as perceived by parents in typically developing children
Effective communication is a fundamental aspect of children’s daily living, enabling interaction with adults and peers. A rich literature suggests that communicative abilities develop with age, while little is known about cross-cultural differences and similarities. This study presents a comparison of the communicative performance of Finnish ( n = 147) and Italian ( n = 147) typically developing children, aged 4–8 years old, as assessed by the wi…
Can Narrative Skills Improve in Autism Spectrum Disorder? A Preliminary Study with Verbally Fluent Adolescents Receiving the Cognitive Pragmatic Treatment
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition affecting social and communicative skills, including narrative ability, namely the description of real-life or fictive accounts of temporally and causally related events. With this study, we aimed to determine whether a communicative-pragmatic training, i.e., the version for adolescents of the Cognitive-Pragmatic Treatment, is effective in improving the narrative skills of 16 verbal…
Autistic children and control children use similar strategies when answering false belief questions
Difficulties in false belief reasoning are associated with autism spectrum. False belief tasks tend to be easy to administer and code, and thus are often used for testing purposes. However, the amount of information that can be gleaned from this type of assessment task goes beyond correct/wrong score attribution. Instead, fine-grained information may be derive from a detailed qualitative analysis of the content of the answers, as well as the stra…
Beyond the Screen: Assessing Theory of Mind in Telepractice with the Theory of Mind Assessment Scale (Th.o.m.a.s.)
Telepractice (TP) refers to the use of telecommunication devices for remote psychological and medical assessment and treatment. To date, no study involving healthy adults has combined TP with Theory of Mind (ToM), that is, the ability to understand and attribute mental states and use this knowledge to explain actions and behavior. With this study we evaluated the feasibility and effectiveness of the Theory of Mind Assessment Scale (Th.o.m.a.s.) a…
Assessing communicative-pragmatic ability in telehealth: E-ABaCo in autistic individuals
These results confirm the potential usefulness of telehealth assessment procedures, and demonstrate the sensitivity and validity of e-ABaCo for conducting an effective assessment of pragmatic skills in on-line modality in autistic adolescents
Cognitive reserve effects on discourse production processing in healthy aging
Aging is marked by physiological changes that significantly affect discourse production skills. Cognitive reserve (CR), the brain's ability to adapt and cope with age-related changes, was examined in relation to narrative discourse production in 105 healthy adults aged 61-84. Verbal working memory, sustained attention, and inhibitory control were also assessed. CR was selectively associated with multiple cognitive and discourse measures, particul…
Pragmatic and cognitive abilities in children and adolescents after pediatric brain tumor
Pediatric Brain Tumors (PBT) vary in type, grade, and location, and lead to different clinical outcomes and treatments. Standard interventions often include neurosurgery followed by chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy, which improve survival rates and reduce the risk of relapse, but can also lead to neurocognitive impairments. Although there has been increasing interest in the neuropsychological effects of PBT, pragmatic ability (i.e. the way people…
Assessment Battery for Communication (ABaCo): An Extension of Normative Data to Elderly Individuals
The aim of this study is to update and expand the normative data for the Assessment Battery for Communication (ABaCo) to include older adults. As the population continues to age, comprehensive assessments of pragmatic ability become increasingly important, as deficits in this area can significantly impair social functioning. The ABaCo is a validated instrument designed to evaluate communicative-pragmatic ability in individuals with brain injuries…
Psychology (8 works) · Cognition (7 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Autism (5 works) · Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (5 works) · Language Development and Disorders (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (4 works) · Behavioral and Psychological Studies (3 works)