Valentina Bambini
Biographic Data
| ID | 88347 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valentina Bambini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valentina |
| FAMILY NAME | Bambini |
| SIGNATURE | BAMBINI V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5770-228X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Are theory of mind and metaphor comprehension causally related? A training study in middle childhood
The main aim of this study was to investigate the existence and the direction of a causal relationship between theory of mind (ToM) and metaphor comprehension during middle childhood. To this purpose, we used a compelling training design, involving 53 typically developing children (25 M, pre-training Mage = 9 years; 3 months, SD = 0;4, age-range = 8;9-9;10) who were randomly assigned either to a ToM or a metaphor comprehension training (MetaCom) …
Emotional engagement in a humor-understanding reading task
Understanding with the body? Testing the role of verb relative embodiment across tasks at the interface of language and memory
Multiple representation accounts of conceptual knowledge argue that information associated with sensory-motor experience, in addition to pure linguistic information, contributes to word processing. A number of issues, however, remain under-investigated, including the extent to which these dimensions affect verb processing (rather than nouns), especially in languages other than English, and their role across different tasks along the language-memo…
Weighing the role of social cognition and executive functioning in pragmatics in the schizophrenia spectrum
The costs of multimodal metaphors
sponsorship: The EEG data were obtained under the agreement between Scuola Normale Superiore and Scuola Universitaria IUSS Pavia (2018-2020) for the realization of experiments on figurative language, and were collected at the Laboratorio SMART, section Elite, of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. In the final stages, this work received support from the European Research Council under the EU's Horizon Europe programme, ERC Consolidator Grant "P…
Expressive Pragmatics and Prosody in Young Preschoolers are More Closely Related to Structural Language than to Mentalizing
Pragmatics lies at the point where language meets the social world and encompasses both the linguistic and the social dimensions of communication. However, the relationship between pragmatic abilities, other language skills, and socio-cognitive aspects such as mentalizing is still a matter of wide debate. This study sets out to investigate the status of pragmatic abilities by testing from a developmental angle their relationship with other lingui…
The relationship between metaphor skills and Theory of Mind in middle childhood
Efficacy and benefits of the MetaCom training to promote metaphor comprehension in typical development
Although metaphors are essential tools in everyday communication and educational settings, the literature lacks evidence of effective training tools to promote metaphor comprehension in typical development. Grounding in theoretical pragmatics, we developed a novel metaphor comprehension training (MetaCom) for school-age children that focuses on inferential and contextual aspects of metaphors. The effects of the MetaCom were tested against a contr…
How to improve social communication in aging
Funny but aversive
Modulating "Surprise" with Syntax
Interpreting physical and mental metaphors
We investigated the association between individual differences in metaphor understanding and Theory of Mind (ToM) in typically developing children. We distinguished between two types of metaphors and created a Physical and Mental Metaphors task, echoing a similar distinction for ToM. Nine-year-olds scored lower than older age-groups in ToM as well as in the interpretation of mental, but not physical, metaphors. Moreover, nine-year-olds (but not o…
Time Course and Neurophysiological Underpinnings of Metaphor in Literary Context
Several theoretical proposals tried to account for the meaning open-endedness of metaphors in literature and for the effortful process they trigger in readers. However, very few experiments have tackled the neurophysiological underpinnings of literary metaphor. Here we used Event-Related brain Potentials (ERPs) to explore the temporal dynamics of comprehending metaphors from Italian poems and novels (e.g., grass of velvet), presented in their ori…
Behavioral and Neural Evidence on Pragmatic Processing
Event Abstract Back to Event Behavioral and Neural Evidence on Pragmatic Processing: A Foreword to XPRAG.it Valentina Bambini1* and Filippo Domaneschi2 1 Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia (IUSS), Italy 2 Università di Genova, Department of Educational Sciences - Psychology Unit, Italy Pragmatics is the study of language in context, an area of linguistic research emerged from the traditions of philosophy of language and linguistic…
On Cultural Constraints on Pirahã Grammar
Corpus di italiano parlato
Funny but aversive
Time Course and Neurophysiological Underpinnings of Metaphor in Literary Context
Several theoretical proposals tried to account for the meaning open-endedness of metaphors in literature and for the effortful process they trigger in readers. However, very few experiments have tackled the neurophysiological underpinnings of literary metaphor. Here we used Event-Related brain Potentials (ERPs) to explore the temporal dynamics of comprehending metaphors from Italian poems and novels (e.g., grass of velvet), presented in their ori…
The costs of multimodal metaphors
sponsorship: The EEG data were obtained under the agreement between Scuola Normale Superiore and Scuola Universitaria IUSS Pavia (2018-2020) for the realization of experiments on figurative language, and were collected at the Laboratorio SMART, section Elite, of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. In the final stages, this work received support from the European Research Council under the EU's Horizon Europe programme, ERC Consolidator Grant "P…
On Cultural Constraints on Pirahã Grammar
Modulating "Surprise" with Syntax
Behavioral and Neural Evidence on Pragmatic Processing
Event Abstract Back to Event Behavioral and Neural Evidence on Pragmatic Processing: A Foreword to XPRAG.it Valentina Bambini1* and Filippo Domaneschi2 1 Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia (IUSS), Italy 2 Università di Genova, Department of Educational Sciences - Psychology Unit, Italy Pragmatics is the study of language in context, an area of linguistic research emerged from the traditions of philosophy of language and linguistic…
Corpus di italiano parlato
On Cultural Constraints on Pirahã Grammar
Behavioral and Neural Evidence on Pragmatic Processing
Event Abstract Back to Event Behavioral and Neural Evidence on Pragmatic Processing: A Foreword to XPRAG.it Valentina Bambini1* and Filippo Domaneschi2 1 Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia (IUSS), Italy 2 Università di Genova, Department of Educational Sciences - Psychology Unit, Italy Pragmatics is the study of language in context, an area of linguistic research emerged from the traditions of philosophy of language and linguistic…
Interpreting physical and mental metaphors
We investigated the association between individual differences in metaphor understanding and Theory of Mind (ToM) in typically developing children. We distinguished between two types of metaphors and created a Physical and Mental Metaphors task, echoing a similar distinction for ToM. Nine-year-olds scored lower than older age-groups in ToM as well as in the interpretation of mental, but not physical, metaphors. Moreover, nine-year-olds (but not o…
Time Course and Neurophysiological Underpinnings of Metaphor in Literary Context
Several theoretical proposals tried to account for the meaning open-endedness of metaphors in literature and for the effortful process they trigger in readers. However, very few experiments have tackled the neurophysiological underpinnings of literary metaphor. Here we used Event-Related brain Potentials (ERPs) to explore the temporal dynamics of comprehending metaphors from Italian poems and novels (e.g., grass of velvet), presented in their ori…
How to improve social communication in aging
Funny but aversive
Modulating "Surprise" with Syntax
Efficacy and benefits of the MetaCom training to promote metaphor comprehension in typical development
Although metaphors are essential tools in everyday communication and educational settings, the literature lacks evidence of effective training tools to promote metaphor comprehension in typical development. Grounding in theoretical pragmatics, we developed a novel metaphor comprehension training (MetaCom) for school-age children that focuses on inferential and contextual aspects of metaphors. The effects of the MetaCom were tested against a contr…
Expressive Pragmatics and Prosody in Young Preschoolers are More Closely Related to Structural Language than to Mentalizing
Pragmatics lies at the point where language meets the social world and encompasses both the linguistic and the social dimensions of communication. However, the relationship between pragmatic abilities, other language skills, and socio-cognitive aspects such as mentalizing is still a matter of wide debate. This study sets out to investigate the status of pragmatic abilities by testing from a developmental angle their relationship with other lingui…
The relationship between metaphor skills and Theory of Mind in middle childhood
Weighing the role of social cognition and executive functioning in pragmatics in the schizophrenia spectrum
The costs of multimodal metaphors
sponsorship: The EEG data were obtained under the agreement between Scuola Normale Superiore and Scuola Universitaria IUSS Pavia (2018-2020) for the realization of experiments on figurative language, and were collected at the Laboratorio SMART, section Elite, of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. In the final stages, this work received support from the European Research Council under the EU's Horizon Europe programme, ERC Consolidator Grant "P…
Are theory of mind and metaphor comprehension causally related? A training study in middle childhood
The main aim of this study was to investigate the existence and the direction of a causal relationship between theory of mind (ToM) and metaphor comprehension during middle childhood. To this purpose, we used a compelling training design, involving 53 typically developing children (25 M, pre-training Mage = 9 years; 3 months, SD = 0;4, age-range = 8;9-9;10) who were randomly assigned either to a ToM or a metaphor comprehension training (MetaCom) …
Emotional engagement in a humor-understanding reading task
Understanding with the body? Testing the role of verb relative embodiment across tasks at the interface of language and memory
Multiple representation accounts of conceptual knowledge argue that information associated with sensory-motor experience, in addition to pure linguistic information, contributes to word processing. A number of issues, however, remain under-investigated, including the extent to which these dimensions affect verb processing (rather than nouns), especially in languages other than English, and their role across different tasks along the language-memo…
Psychology (14 works) · Linguistics (11 works) · Cognitive psychology (10 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (9 works) · Cognition (8 works) · Action Observation and Synchronization (5 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Metaphor (5 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (5 works) · Pragmatics (5 works)