Maria Alessandra Umiltà
Biographic Data
| ID | 6269317 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Alessandra Umiltà |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria Alessandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Umiltà |
| SIGNATURE | UMILTÀ M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Parma |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0180-6818 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The physiological mechanisms underlying consumer preferences towards organic food
The role of motor inhibition in implicit negation processing
Several studies demonstrated that explicit forms of negation processing (e.g., “I don’t know”) recruits motor inhibitory mechanisms. However, whether this is also true for implicit negation, in which the negative meaning is implicated but not explicitly lexicalized in the sentence (e.g., “I ignore”), has never been studied before. Two Go/No-Go studies, which differed only for the time-windows to respond to the Go stimulus, were carried out. In ea…
Is motor inhibition involved in the processing of sentential negation? An assessment via the Stop-Signal Task
In the last decades, the embodied approach to cognition and language gained momentum in the scientific debate, leading to evidence in different aspects of language processing. However, while the bodily grounding of concrete concepts seems to be relatively not controversial, abstract aspects, like the negation logical operator, are still today one of the main challenges for this research paradigm. In this framework, the present study has a twofold…
Visual exploration of emotional body language
Hearing Sounds, Understanding Actions
Many object-related actions can be recognized by their sound. We found neurons in monkey premotor cortex that discharge when the animal performs a specific action and when it hears the related sound. Most of the neurons also discharge when the monkey observes the same action. These audiovisual mirror neurons code actions independently of whether these actions are performed, heard, or seen. This discovery in the monkey homolog of Broca's area migh…
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Hearing Sounds, Understanding Actions
Many object-related actions can be recognized by their sound. We found neurons in monkey premotor cortex that discharge when the animal performs a specific action and when it hears the related sound. Most of the neurons also discharge when the monkey observes the same action. These audiovisual mirror neurons code actions independently of whether these actions are performed, heard, or seen. This discovery in the monkey homolog of Broca's area migh…
Visual exploration of emotional body language
Is motor inhibition involved in the processing of sentential negation? An assessment via the Stop-Signal Task
In the last decades, the embodied approach to cognition and language gained momentum in the scientific debate, leading to evidence in different aspects of language processing. However, while the bodily grounding of concrete concepts seems to be relatively not controversial, abstract aspects, like the negation logical operator, are still today one of the main challenges for this research paradigm. In this framework, the present study has a twofold…
The role of motor inhibition in implicit negation processing
Several studies demonstrated that explicit forms of negation processing (e.g., “I don’t know”) recruits motor inhibitory mechanisms. However, whether this is also true for implicit negation, in which the negative meaning is implicated but not explicitly lexicalized in the sentence (e.g., “I ignore”), has never been studied before. Two Go/No-Go studies, which differed only for the time-windows to respond to the Go stimulus, were carried out. In ea…
The physiological mechanisms underlying consumer preferences towards organic food
Psychology (5 works) · Action Observation and Synchronization (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Neuroscience (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Cognitive science (2 works) · Communication (2 works) · Embodied cognition (2 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works)