Francesco Ferretti
Biographic Data
| ID | 3592440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francesco Ferretti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francesco |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferretti |
| SIGNATURE | FERRETTI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roma Tre University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2109-7297 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The role of visual perception in narrative scene construction
Previous research suggests that imagery processes grounded in visual experience are crucial for narrative comprehension, particularly for creating mental models of story events. Visual impairments offer a unique lens to explore this issue, but research is limited. This pilot study investigates the role of visual perception in narrative processing by comparing 20 children with varying visual impairments to 20 sighted peers. Participants listened t…
Tracking narrative voice (first-vs. third-person) in externally focalized narratives
This event-related potentials (ERP) study investigated the neural processing of narrative voice, operationalized as grammatical person, in short, externally focalized narratives. Thirty-six participants read three-sentence stories written in the first or third person, in which discourse congruence was manipulated by means of action verbs that were either congruent or incongruent with the preceding discourse context. ERPs were time-locked to the t…
The story effect
Introduction This study investigates the psychological mechanisms underlying narrative persuasion in climate change communication, focusing on narrative voice (first- versus third-person), narrative transport, character identification, and individual predispositions. Methods In an online experiment with 143 Italian participants, readers were randomly assigned to one of two groups based on the narrative version they read: a first-person or a third…
Which mindreading for ostensive communication? An event-related potentials study of how the brain processes communicative and informative intentions
Comprehending stories in pantomime. A pilot study with typically developing children and its implications for the narrative origin of language
How do we comprehend linguistic and visual narratives? A study in children with typical development
The present study investigated the comprehension of narrative with reference to global coherence, i.e., the global representation of story meaning and connectedness, across two different expressive modalities: stories conveyed through written language and stories conveyed through sequences of images. Two cognitive abilities possibly underpinning such comprehension were assessed: Central Coherence (CC) and Theory of Mind (ToM). Two groups of child…
Narrative pantomime
Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate
Evolution of conventional communication. A cross-cultural study of pantomimic re-enactments of transitive events
Tracking the global footprint of fisheries
More than half the fish in the sea As the human population has grown in recent decades, our dependence on ocean-supplied protein has rapidly increased. Kroodsma et al. took advantage of the automatic identification system installed on all industrial fishing vessels to map and quantify fishing efforts across the world (see the Perspective by Poloczanska). More than half of the world's oceans are subject to industrial-scale harvest, spanning an are…
Mental Time Travel and language evolution
Philosophy of Language and Cognitive Sciences in Italy
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Biology, Culture and Coevolution
The main intent of this paper is to give an account of the relationship between bio-cognition and culture in terms of coevolution, analysing religious beliefs and language evolution as case studies. The established view in cognitive studies is that bio-cognitive systems constitute a constraint for the shaping and the transmission of religious beliefs and linguistic structures. From this point of view, religion and language are by-products or exap…
Against linguistic Cartesianism
Una replica
Nel suo commento a Perché non siamo speciali, Marco Mazzone sottolinea la difficoltŕ di dar conto della flessibilitŕ del comportamento umano all'interno di una prospettiva modularista del mentale. La mia replica si basa sull'analisi del ruolo dell'intelligenza nei processi di produzione-comprensione linguistica. In particolare, la mia idea č che l'intelligenza, piuttosto che una specifica facoltŕ, sia una proprietŕ della mente come un tutto. Da c…
L'origine del linguaggio puň attendere
Starting from a discussion of Sylvain Auroux's new book (L'origine des langues... 2007), the paper develops a critique of the anti-naturalistic approach to the study of language. The rejection of the quest for language origin as a theory unsusceptible to scientific empirical treatment is an aspect of the idealistic consequences of anti-naturalist positions. A survey is presented of recent literature on the subject. In our opinion, evolutionary th…
Nella testa del traduttore
This paper analyses the process of translating by using the conceptual tools involved in two different models of linguistic comprehension: the code model and the inferential model. If communication is described as a process of coding and decoding the same thought in the same code, then translation into a different code becomes impossible. But linguistic communication, instead of a process of coding and decoding, can be considered an inferential p…
L'origine del linguaggio puň attendere
Starting from a discussion of Sylvain Auroux's new book (L'origine des langues... 2007), the paper develops a critique of the anti-naturalistic approach to the study of language. The rejection of the quest for language origin as a theory unsusceptible to scientific empirical treatment is an aspect of the idealistic consequences of anti-naturalist positions. A survey is presented of recent literature on the subject. In our opinion, evolutionary th…
Nella testa del traduttore
This paper analyses the process of translating by using the conceptual tools involved in two different models of linguistic comprehension: the code model and the inferential model. If communication is described as a process of coding and decoding the same thought in the same code, then translation into a different code becomes impossible. But linguistic communication, instead of a process of coding and decoding, can be considered an inferential p…
Una replica
Nel suo commento a Perché non siamo speciali, Marco Mazzone sottolinea la difficoltŕ di dar conto della flessibilitŕ del comportamento umano all'interno di una prospettiva modularista del mentale. La mia replica si basa sull'analisi del ruolo dell'intelligenza nei processi di produzione-comprensione linguistica. In particolare, la mia idea č che l'intelligenza, piuttosto che una specifica facoltŕ, sia una proprietŕ della mente come un tutto. Da c…
Biology, Culture and Coevolution
The main intent of this paper is to give an account of the relationship between bio-cognition and culture in terms of coevolution, analysing religious beliefs and language evolution as case studies. The established view in cognitive studies is that bio-cognitive systems constitute a constraint for the shaping and the transmission of religious beliefs and linguistic structures. From this point of view, religion and language are by-products or exap…
Against linguistic Cartesianism
Philosophy of Language and Cognitive Sciences in Italy
n'est autorise que dans les limites des conditions gnrales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas chant, des conditions gnrales de la licence souscrite par votre tablissement. Toute autre reproduction ou reprsentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manire que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord pralable et crit de l'diteur, en dehors des cas prvus par la lgislation en vigueur en France. Il est prcis que son stockage dans une base d…
Mental Time Travel and language evolution
Tracking the global footprint of fisheries
More than half the fish in the sea As the human population has grown in recent decades, our dependence on ocean-supplied protein has rapidly increased. Kroodsma et al. took advantage of the automatic identification system installed on all industrial fishing vessels to map and quantify fishing efforts across the world (see the Perspective by Poloczanska). More than half of the world's oceans are subject to industrial-scale harvest, spanning an are…
Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate
Evolution of conventional communication. A cross-cultural study of pantomimic re-enactments of transitive events
How do we comprehend linguistic and visual narratives? A study in children with typical development
The present study investigated the comprehension of narrative with reference to global coherence, i.e., the global representation of story meaning and connectedness, across two different expressive modalities: stories conveyed through written language and stories conveyed through sequences of images. Two cognitive abilities possibly underpinning such comprehension were assessed: Central Coherence (CC) and Theory of Mind (ToM). Two groups of child…
Narrative pantomime
Comprehending stories in pantomime. A pilot study with typically developing children and its implications for the narrative origin of language
The role of visual perception in narrative scene construction
Previous research suggests that imagery processes grounded in visual experience are crucial for narrative comprehension, particularly for creating mental models of story events. Visual impairments offer a unique lens to explore this issue, but research is limited. This pilot study investigates the role of visual perception in narrative processing by comparing 20 children with varying visual impairments to 20 sighted peers. Participants listened t…
Tracking narrative voice (first-vs. third-person) in externally focalized narratives
This event-related potentials (ERP) study investigated the neural processing of narrative voice, operationalized as grammatical person, in short, externally focalized narratives. Thirty-six participants read three-sentence stories written in the first or third person, in which discourse congruence was manipulated by means of action verbs that were either congruent or incongruent with the preceding discourse context. ERPs were time-locked to the t…
The story effect
Introduction This study investigates the psychological mechanisms underlying narrative persuasion in climate change communication, focusing on narrative voice (first- versus third-person), narrative transport, character identification, and individual predispositions. Methods In an online experiment with 143 Italian participants, readers were randomly assigned to one of two groups based on the narrative version they read: a first-person or a third…
Which mindreading for ostensive communication? An event-related potentials study of how the brain processes communicative and informative intentions
Linguistics (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Cognition (6 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (6 works) · Narrative (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Cognitive science (4 works) · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition (4 works)