Franco Fabbro
Biographic Data
| ID | 460177 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Franco Fabbro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Franco |
| FAMILY NAME | Fabbro |
| SIGNATURE | FABBRO F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Udine |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3476-6867 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Role of Personality in Language Learning
Personality is connected to the affective system, memory, and numerous aspects of cognition, including language. This article aims to: 1) review, in a narrative fashion, how certain personality traits influence verbal expression and second language acquisition; and 2) explore the possibility that different languages (L1, L2, L3, etc.) may affect the personalities of bilinguals or multilinguals in distinct ways. In particular, it presents a case s…
Biological and Neuroscientific Foundations of Philosophy: Towards a New Paradigm
Biological and Neuroscientific Foundations of Philosophy is an authoritative text addressing both academicians and students, and it proposes an integrated and holistic view of scientific study and presents a new paradigm by which to study philosophy. It highlights, in a systematic and sufficiently simple manner, the fundamental role of neuroscience, neuropsychology and biology within philosophical reflection. Written by an expert in neuroscience,…
The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Affect, Fear, and Personality of Primary School Children Measured During the Second Wave of Infections in 2020
In relation to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, a large body of research has identified a negative impact on individuals' affectivity, frequently documented by increased prevalence of anxiety and depression symptoms. For children, this research was less extensive, was mainly based on caregivers' reports and neglected personality assessment. In order to measure the impact of the pandemic, and the fears it caused, on primary school children's affect…
Psychotherapeutic Techniques for Distressing Memories: A Comparative Study between EMDR, Brainspotting, and Body Scan Meditation
Overall, results showed beneficial effects of single sessions of EMDR, BSP, or BSM in the processing of healthy adults' distressing memories. Study limitations and suggestions for future research are discussed
The Nature and Function of Languages
Several studies in philosophy, linguistics and neuroscience have tried to define the nature and functions of language. Cybernetics and the mathematical theory of communication have clarified the role and functions of signals, symbols and codes involved in the transmission of information. Linguistics has defined the main characteristics of verbal communication by analyzing the main tasks and levels of language. Paleoanthropology has explored the r…
Clinical application of mindfulness-oriented meditation in children with ADHD: A preliminary study on sleep and behavioral problems
OBJECTIVE: High incidence of sleep problems in children and adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has been described. Mindfulness meditation has emerged as a novel approach to sleep disturbances and insomnia remediation. This preliminary study tested the efficacy of Mindfulness-Oriented Meditation (MOM) training on sleep quality and behavioral problems in children with ADHD. DESIGN: Twenty-five children with ADHD aged 7…
Differential effects of mindfulness meditation conditions on repetitive negative thinking and subjective time perspective: A randomized active-controlled study
Objective Preliminary findings suggest that different kinds of meditation could work on diverse cognitive and psychological processes. The present study aimed at disentangling the effects of three mindfulness techniques on mental rumination and subjective time perspective. Design: 75 young healthy participants were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: mindful breathing, body scan, observing-thoughts meditation and an active control condit…
Inter-brain co-activations during mindfulness meditation. Implications for devotional and clinical settings
Clinical Application of Mindfulness-Oriented Meditation: A Preliminary Study in Children with ADHD
Mindfulness-oriented meditation (MOM) is a self-regulatory training used for attentional and behavioral problems. With its focus on attention, MOM is a promising form of training that is gaining empirical support as a complementary or alternative intervention for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In this study, we tested the preliminary efficacy of MOM training in children with ADHD, by comparing its efficacy with an active control…
Positive Impact of Mindfulness Meditation on Mental Health of Female Teachers during the Covid-19 Outbreak in Italy
The Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent public health measures were shown to impact negatively on people's mental health. In particular, women were reported to be at higher risk than men of developing symptoms of stress/anxiety/depression, and resilience was considered a key factor for positive mental health outcomes. In the present study, a sample of Italian female teachers ( n = 66, age: 51.5 ± 7.9 years) was assessed with self-report instruments …
Impact of early second-language acquisition on the development of first language and verbal short-term and working memory
The present study aimed at investigating whether L2 learning affects phonological short-term and working memory and first language (L1) development. The performance of a group of 31 4- to-5-year-old sequential bilinguals attending an International School on tasks assessing phonological short-term and working memory and linguistic performance in L1 was compared to that of a group of 31 age-matched monolinguals. The bilingual group outperformed mon…
The Assertive Brain: Anterior Cingulate Phosphocreatine plus Creatine Levels Correlate With Self-Directedness in Healthy Adolescents
Despite various advances in the study of the neurobiological underpinnings of personality traits, the specific neural correlates associated with character and temperament traits are not yet fully understood. Therefore, this study aims to fill this gap by exploring the biochemical basis of personality, which is explored with the temperament and character inventory (TCI), during brain development in a sample of adolescents. Twenty-six healthy adole…
A pilot study on the relationships between language, personality and attachment styles: A linguistic analysis of descriptive speech
The present exploratory study investigated possible relationships between language and personality, attachment styles, and mindfulness disposition. Sixty-three participants were assessed through the Big-Five inventory questionnaire, the Attachment Style Questionnaire, and the Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale, and then they were asked to look at a picture story and describe it. Narrations were analyzed through a multilevel approach: the numbe…
Grosjean, François Li, Ping: The Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism
Medial orbital gyrus modulation during spatial perspective changes: Pre- vs. post-8weeks mindfulness meditation
Mindfulness meditation exercises the ability to shift to an "observer perspective". That means learning to observe internally and externally arising stimulations in a detached perspective. Both before and after attending a 8-weeks mindfulness training (MT) participants underwent an fMRI experiment (serving as their own internal control) and solved a own-body mental transformation task, which is used to investigate embodiment and perspective takin…
Effects of an 8-week meditation program on the implicit and explicit attitudes toward religious/spiritual self-representations
The Benefit of Expanding the Cultural, Scientific and Religious Frontiers of Historical Jesus Research
This article reviews Gesù il ‘Nazareno’. Indagine storica ( Jesus the Nazarene: A Historical Investigation ) by Rinaldo Fabris. It compares this volume with the main studies of the historical Jesus that have been published in the past fifteen years. A brief description of each of its thirteen chapters is accompanied by a discussion of the main strengths and weaknesses of the book
Mental spatial transformations of objects and bodies: Different developmental trajectories in children from 7 to 11 years of age
Despite the large body of knowledge on adults suggesting that 2 basic types of mental spatial transformation--namely, object-based and egocentric perspective transformations--are dissociable and specialized for different situations, there is much less research investigating the developmental aspects of such spatial transformation systems. Here, an "own body transformation" paradigm and a letter transformation task were employed in a group of chil…
Impaired configural body processing in anorexia nervosa: Evidence from the body inversion effect
Patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) suffer from severe disturbances of body perception. It is unclear, however, whether such disturbances are linked to specific alterations in the processing of body configurations with respect to the local processing of body part details. Here, we compared a consecutive sample of 12 AN patients with a group of 12 age-, gender- and education-matched controls using an inversion effect paradigm requiring the visual …
Nonparellel recovery of languages in a quadrilingual aphasic patient
This case study aims to investigate whether the treatment of only one language (L2) of a multilingual fluent aphasic(L1 Slovenian, L2 Italian, L3 Friulian, L4 English) results in a parallel improvement of all languages and whether the hypothesized benefits of rehabilitation last four years after the end of treatment. After a first assessment by means of the Aachener Aphasie Test (AAT) and the Bilingual Aphasia Test(BAT), the patient has been trea…
Focalized Attention on Input vs. Output during Simultaneous Interpretation: Possibly a Waste of Effort
Afin d'établir dans quelle mesure I'attention peut être focalisée soit sur le message de départ ou soit sur le message d'arrivée, 16 sujets-interprètes ont interprété des textes simples et des textes techniques sous quatre conditions: en adoptant leurs propres stratégies; en focalisant leur attention sur le message de départ; en focalisant leur attention sur le message d'arrivée; en n'interprétant qu'une voix lorsqu'ils entendent deux messages si…
Concise Encyclopedia of Language Pathology
Section headings and selected papers: Speech and Language in Normal Speakers. Acoustics of speech (H.J. Wakita). Speech perception (D.W. Massaro). Neuromuscular aspects of speech (H. Hirose). The neurophysiology of speech (V.L. Gracco, K.G. Munhall). Babbling in hearing and deaf infants (C. Stoel-Gammon). Acquisition of Vocabulary (M.D. Barrett). Language development and brain development (J.L. Locke). Sociolinguistics and language pathology (L. …
Conscious monitoring of attention during simultaneous interpretation
This study addresses for the first time on an experimental level the question of whether different modalities of conscious monitoring of attention (normal condition, attention focalization on the input, attention focalization on the output, condition with two voices) may affect the number and the type of mistakes made by simultaneous interpreters in different situations. The major results of the study are the following: (i) While the overall numb…
Verbal Memory During Simultaneous Interpretation: Effects of Phonological Interference
In the present experimental study, the role of working memory and long-term memory during simultaneous interpretation has been investigated in order to verify and explain reduced recall for verbal material after simultaneous interpretation. In a group of advanced student interpreters, recall of short stories after simultaneous interpretation from L1 into L2, and vice versa, was significantly worse than recall of similar short stories after listen…
Conscious monitoring of attention during simultaneous interpretation
This study addresses for the first time on an experimental level the question of whether different modalities of conscious monitoring of attention (normal condition, attention focalization on the input, attention focalization on the output, condition with two voices) may affect the number and the type of mistakes made by simultaneous interpreters in different situations. The major results of the study are the following: (i) While the overall numb…
Focalized Attention on Input vs. Output during Simultaneous Interpretation: Possibly a Waste of Effort
Afin d'établir dans quelle mesure I'attention peut être focalisée soit sur le message de départ ou soit sur le message d'arrivée, 16 sujets-interprètes ont interprété des textes simples et des textes techniques sous quatre conditions: en adoptant leurs propres stratégies; en focalisant leur attention sur le message de départ; en focalisant leur attention sur le message d'arrivée; en n'interprétant qu'une voix lorsqu'ils entendent deux messages si…
Mental spatial transformations of objects and bodies: Different developmental trajectories in children from 7 to 11 years of age
Despite the large body of knowledge on adults suggesting that 2 basic types of mental spatial transformation--namely, object-based and egocentric perspective transformations--are dissociable and specialized for different situations, there is much less research investigating the developmental aspects of such spatial transformation systems. Here, an "own body transformation" paradigm and a letter transformation task were employed in a group of chil…
Impaired configural body processing in anorexia nervosa: Evidence from the body inversion effect
Patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) suffer from severe disturbances of body perception. It is unclear, however, whether such disturbances are linked to specific alterations in the processing of body configurations with respect to the local processing of body part details. Here, we compared a consecutive sample of 12 AN patients with a group of 12 age-, gender- and education-matched controls using an inversion effect paradigm requiring the visual …
Grosjean, François Li, Ping: The Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism
Verbal Memory During Simultaneous Interpretation: Effects of Phonological Interference
In the present experimental study, the role of working memory and long-term memory during simultaneous interpretation has been investigated in order to verify and explain reduced recall for verbal material after simultaneous interpretation. In a group of advanced student interpreters, recall of short stories after simultaneous interpretation from L1 into L2, and vice versa, was significantly worse than recall of similar short stories after listen…
Conscious monitoring of attention during simultaneous interpretation
This study addresses for the first time on an experimental level the question of whether different modalities of conscious monitoring of attention (normal condition, attention focalization on the input, attention focalization on the output, condition with two voices) may affect the number and the type of mistakes made by simultaneous interpreters in different situations. The major results of the study are the following: (i) While the overall numb…
Concise Encyclopedia of Language Pathology
Section headings and selected papers: Speech and Language in Normal Speakers. Acoustics of speech (H.J. Wakita). Speech perception (D.W. Massaro). Neuromuscular aspects of speech (H. Hirose). The neurophysiology of speech (V.L. Gracco, K.G. Munhall). Babbling in hearing and deaf infants (C. Stoel-Gammon). Acquisition of Vocabulary (M.D. Barrett). Language development and brain development (J.L. Locke). Sociolinguistics and language pathology (L. …
Nonparellel recovery of languages in a quadrilingual aphasic patient
This case study aims to investigate whether the treatment of only one language (L2) of a multilingual fluent aphasic(L1 Slovenian, L2 Italian, L3 Friulian, L4 English) results in a parallel improvement of all languages and whether the hypothesized benefits of rehabilitation last four years after the end of treatment. After a first assessment by means of the Aachener Aphasie Test (AAT) and the Bilingual Aphasia Test(BAT), the patient has been trea…
Focalized Attention on Input vs. Output during Simultaneous Interpretation: Possibly a Waste of Effort
Afin d'établir dans quelle mesure I'attention peut être focalisée soit sur le message de départ ou soit sur le message d'arrivée, 16 sujets-interprètes ont interprété des textes simples et des textes techniques sous quatre conditions: en adoptant leurs propres stratégies; en focalisant leur attention sur le message de départ; en focalisant leur attention sur le message d'arrivée; en n'interprétant qu'une voix lorsqu'ils entendent deux messages si…
Effects of an 8-week meditation program on the implicit and explicit attitudes toward religious/spiritual self-representations
The Benefit of Expanding the Cultural, Scientific and Religious Frontiers of Historical Jesus Research
This article reviews Gesù il ‘Nazareno’. Indagine storica ( Jesus the Nazarene: A Historical Investigation ) by Rinaldo Fabris. It compares this volume with the main studies of the historical Jesus that have been published in the past fifteen years. A brief description of each of its thirteen chapters is accompanied by a discussion of the main strengths and weaknesses of the book
Mental spatial transformations of objects and bodies: Different developmental trajectories in children from 7 to 11 years of age
Despite the large body of knowledge on adults suggesting that 2 basic types of mental spatial transformation--namely, object-based and egocentric perspective transformations--are dissociable and specialized for different situations, there is much less research investigating the developmental aspects of such spatial transformation systems. Here, an "own body transformation" paradigm and a letter transformation task were employed in a group of chil…
Impaired configural body processing in anorexia nervosa: Evidence from the body inversion effect
Patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) suffer from severe disturbances of body perception. It is unclear, however, whether such disturbances are linked to specific alterations in the processing of body configurations with respect to the local processing of body part details. Here, we compared a consecutive sample of 12 AN patients with a group of 12 age-, gender- and education-matched controls using an inversion effect paradigm requiring the visual …
Medial orbital gyrus modulation during spatial perspective changes: Pre- vs. post-8weeks mindfulness meditation
Mindfulness meditation exercises the ability to shift to an "observer perspective". That means learning to observe internally and externally arising stimulations in a detached perspective. Both before and after attending a 8-weeks mindfulness training (MT) participants underwent an fMRI experiment (serving as their own internal control) and solved a own-body mental transformation task, which is used to investigate embodiment and perspective takin…
Grosjean, François Li, Ping: The Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism
Impact of early second-language acquisition on the development of first language and verbal short-term and working memory
The present study aimed at investigating whether L2 learning affects phonological short-term and working memory and first language (L1) development. The performance of a group of 31 4- to-5-year-old sequential bilinguals attending an International School on tasks assessing phonological short-term and working memory and linguistic performance in L1 was compared to that of a group of 31 age-matched monolinguals. The bilingual group outperformed mon…
The Assertive Brain: Anterior Cingulate Phosphocreatine plus Creatine Levels Correlate With Self-Directedness in Healthy Adolescents
Despite various advances in the study of the neurobiological underpinnings of personality traits, the specific neural correlates associated with character and temperament traits are not yet fully understood. Therefore, this study aims to fill this gap by exploring the biochemical basis of personality, which is explored with the temperament and character inventory (TCI), during brain development in a sample of adolescents. Twenty-six healthy adole…
A pilot study on the relationships between language, personality and attachment styles: A linguistic analysis of descriptive speech
The present exploratory study investigated possible relationships between language and personality, attachment styles, and mindfulness disposition. Sixty-three participants were assessed through the Big-Five inventory questionnaire, the Attachment Style Questionnaire, and the Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale, and then they were asked to look at a picture story and describe it. Narrations were analyzed through a multilevel approach: the numbe…
Clinical Application of Mindfulness-Oriented Meditation: A Preliminary Study in Children with ADHD
Mindfulness-oriented meditation (MOM) is a self-regulatory training used for attentional and behavioral problems. With its focus on attention, MOM is a promising form of training that is gaining empirical support as a complementary or alternative intervention for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In this study, we tested the preliminary efficacy of MOM training in children with ADHD, by comparing its efficacy with an active control…
Positive Impact of Mindfulness Meditation on Mental Health of Female Teachers during the Covid-19 Outbreak in Italy
The Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent public health measures were shown to impact negatively on people's mental health. In particular, women were reported to be at higher risk than men of developing symptoms of stress/anxiety/depression, and resilience was considered a key factor for positive mental health outcomes. In the present study, a sample of Italian female teachers ( n = 66, age: 51.5 ± 7.9 years) was assessed with self-report instruments …
Clinical application of mindfulness-oriented meditation in children with ADHD: A preliminary study on sleep and behavioral problems
OBJECTIVE: High incidence of sleep problems in children and adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has been described. Mindfulness meditation has emerged as a novel approach to sleep disturbances and insomnia remediation. This preliminary study tested the efficacy of Mindfulness-Oriented Meditation (MOM) training on sleep quality and behavioral problems in children with ADHD. DESIGN: Twenty-five children with ADHD aged 7…
Differential effects of mindfulness meditation conditions on repetitive negative thinking and subjective time perspective: A randomized active-controlled study
Objective Preliminary findings suggest that different kinds of meditation could work on diverse cognitive and psychological processes. The present study aimed at disentangling the effects of three mindfulness techniques on mental rumination and subjective time perspective. Design: 75 young healthy participants were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: mindful breathing, body scan, observing-thoughts meditation and an active control condit…
Inter-brain co-activations during mindfulness meditation. Implications for devotional and clinical settings
The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Affect, Fear, and Personality of Primary School Children Measured During the Second Wave of Infections in 2020
In relation to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, a large body of research has identified a negative impact on individuals' affectivity, frequently documented by increased prevalence of anxiety and depression symptoms. For children, this research was less extensive, was mainly based on caregivers' reports and neglected personality assessment. In order to measure the impact of the pandemic, and the fears it caused, on primary school children's affect…
Psychotherapeutic Techniques for Distressing Memories: A Comparative Study between EMDR, Brainspotting, and Body Scan Meditation
Overall, results showed beneficial effects of single sessions of EMDR, BSP, or BSM in the processing of healthy adults' distressing memories. Study limitations and suggestions for future research are discussed
The Nature and Function of Languages
Several studies in philosophy, linguistics and neuroscience have tried to define the nature and functions of language. Cybernetics and the mathematical theory of communication have clarified the role and functions of signals, symbols and codes involved in the transmission of information. Linguistics has defined the main characteristics of verbal communication by analyzing the main tasks and levels of language. Paleoanthropology has explored the r…
Biological and Neuroscientific Foundations of Philosophy: Towards a New Paradigm
Biological and Neuroscientific Foundations of Philosophy is an authoritative text addressing both academicians and students, and it proposes an integrated and holistic view of scientific study and presents a new paradigm by which to study philosophy. It highlights, in a systematic and sufficiently simple manner, the fundamental role of neuroscience, neuropsychology and biology within philosophical reflection. Written by an expert in neuroscience,…
The Role of Personality in Language Learning
Personality is connected to the affective system, memory, and numerous aspects of cognition, including language. This article aims to: 1) review, in a narrative fashion, how certain personality traits influence verbal expression and second language acquisition; and 2) explore the possibility that different languages (L1, L2, L3, etc.) may affect the personalities of bilinguals or multilinguals in distinct ways. In particular, it presents a case s…
Psychology (18 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Cognition (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Meditation (6 works) · Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions (6 works) · Neuroscience (6 works)