Anna Borghi Explained

Anna Borghi
Occupation:Associate Professor of Psychology
Citizenship:Italian
Workplaces:Sapienza University of Rome
Alma Mater:University of Bologna

Anna M. Borghi is a cognitive psychologist known for her work on embodied cognition and embodied language comprehension.[1] She is Associate Professor of Psychology at the Sapienza University of Rome and an associate researcher at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology, Italian Research Council.[2] Borghi serves as Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Psychology (area: Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology).[3]

Biography

Borghi received her Laurea in Philosophy in 1987 and her PhD in Experimental Psychology in 1997 from the University of Bologna.[4] Her dissertation was titled Struttura e funzione nella concettualizzazione: il ruolo della percezione, del linguaggio e della conoscenza [Structure and function in categorization: the role of perception, language and knowledge]. Much of Borghi's early work was focused on how conceptual categories are structured,[5] [6] with her later work centering around embodied cognition.[7]

After her PhD work, she completed a post doctorate fellowship and collaborated with Laurence Barsalou at Emory University, and subsequently with Arthur Glenberg at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The collaboration with Glenberg resulted in well cited paper "Putting Words in Perspective", where the authors presented evidence that there was a link between conceptual knowledge and action.

Research

Borghi's research investigates how language and concepts are grounded in bodily states and motor systems.[8] Specifically, Borghi has focused on the role that affordance perception has in language comprehension[9] and conceptualization.[10] [11] Borghi has also explored how affordances are more generally processed by the human visual system, and has argued that affordances should be understood as sensorimotor representations of possible actions one can take towards an object.[12] [13]

Borghi and her collaborators are responsible for the Words as Social Tools hypothesis,[14] which claims that language serves as a tool to develop abstract concepts. This hypothesis emphasizes the social nature of concepts and argues for specific neural correlates for abstract concepts, such as areas associated with social cognition and motor areas representing the mouth.[15] The Words as Social Tools hypothesis has received praise from some researchers for recognizing the role of language in cognition[16] and the social role of abstract concepts,[17] but has received criticism for some specific components of the theory, such as the role of mouth motor representations,[18] and the underutilization of the mirror neuron system.[19]

Books

Representative papers

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: People Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione. 2021-03-04. www.istc.cnr.it. en.
  2. Web site: BallaB - MEMBERS. 2021-03-04. sites.google.com. en-US.
  3. Web site: Frontiers in Psychology. 2021-03-20. www.frontiersin.org. en.
  4. Web site: Anna Borghi - Home page. 2021-03-09. laral.istc.cnr.it.
  5. Borghi. Anna. Caramelli. Nicoletta. 1996. Superordinate and basic level concepts in different contexts. International Journal of Psychology. 31. 3–4. 1656.
  6. Caramelli. Nicoletta. Borghi. Anna. 1997. The hierarchical structure of categories: perception vs cognition. Ricerche di Psicologia. 21. 7–46.
  7. Borghi. Anna M.. Cimatti. Felice. February 2010. Embodied cognition and beyond: Acting and sensing the body. Neuropsychologia. en. 48. 3. 763–773. 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.10.029. 19913041. 13157947.
  8. Book: Grounding cognition : the role of perception and action in memory, language, and thinking. 2010. Cambridge University Press. Diane Pecher, Rolf A. Zwaan. 978-0-521-16857-1. Cambridge. 620112599.
  9. Borghi. Anna M.. Riggio. Lucia. 2009-02-09. Sentence comprehension and simulation of object temporary, canonical and stable affordances. Brain Research. en. 1253. 117–128. 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.11.064. 19073156. 11461603. 0006-8993.
  10. Borghi. Anna M. 2004-01-01. Object concepts and action: Extracting affordances from objects parts. Acta Psychologica. en. 115. 1. 69–96. 10.1016/j.actpsy.2003.11.004. 14734242. 0001-6918.
  11. Borghi. Anna M.. Glenberg. Arthur M.. Kaschak. Michael P.. 2004-09-01. Putting words in perspective. Memory & Cognition. en. 32. 6. 863–873. 10.3758/BF03196865. 15673175. 1532-5946. free.
  12. Borghi. Anna M.. Riggio. Lucia. 2015. Stable and variable affordances are both automatic and flexible. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. English. 9. 351. 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00351. 1662-5161. 4473001. 26150778. free.
  13. Borghi. Anna M.. Flumini. Andrea. Natraj. Nikhilesh. Wheaton. Lewis A.. 2012-10-01. One hand, two objects: Emergence of affordance in contexts. Brain and Cognition. en. 80. 1. 64–73. 10.1016/j.bandc.2012.04.007. 22634033. 6056117. 0278-2626.
  14. Book: Borghi, Anna M.. Words as social tools : an embodied view applied to abstract concepts. 2014. Ferdinand Binkofski. 978-1-4614-9539-0. New York. 873949348.
  15. Borghi. Anna M.. Barca. Laura. Binkofski. Ferdinand. Castelfranchi. Cristiano. Pezzulo. Giovanni. Tummolini. Luca. 2019-07-01. Words as social tools: Language, sociality and inner grounding in abstract concepts. Physics of Life Reviews. en. 29. 120–153. 10.1016/j.plrev.2018.12.001. 30573377. 2019PhLRv..29..120B. 58542571. 1571-0645.
  16. Dove. Guy. 2019. Language influences social cognition. Physics of Life Reviews. en. 29. 169–171. 10.1016/j.plrev.2019.03.007. 30905555. 85500714.
  17. Falandays. J. Ben. Spivey. Michael J.. 2019-07-01. Abstract meanings may be more dynamic, due to their sociality: Comment on "Words as social tools: Language, sociality and inner grounding in abstract concepts" by Anna M. Borghi et al.. Physics of Life Reviews. en. 29. 175–177. 10.1016/j.plrev.2019.02.011. 30857866. 2019PhLRv..29..175F. 75136679. 1571-0645.
  18. Desai. Rutvik H.. 2019-07-01. Access and content of abstract concepts: Comment on "Words as social tools: Language, sociality, and inner grounding in abstract concepts" by Anna M. Borghi et al.. Physics of Life Reviews. en. 29. 166–168. 10.1016/j.plrev.2019.03.010. 30905556. 2019PhLRv..29..166D. 85497456. 1571-0645.
  19. Glenberg. Arthur M.. 2019-07-01. Turning social tools into tools for action: Comment on "Words as social tools: Language, sociality and inner grounding in abstract concepts" by Anna M. Borghi et al.. Physics of Life Reviews. en. 29. 172–174. 10.1016/j.plrev.2019.02.009. 30857867. 2019PhLRv..29..172G. 75136726. 1571-0645.

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