Publications by authors named "Giorgia Anceresi"

Article Synopsis
  • The study explores how different experiences, such as visual or auditory, influence the understanding of language and semantic knowledge in humans.
  • Researchers reanalyzed data from a previous study focusing on early blind versus sighted participants during an auditory lexical decision task.
  • Findings revealed that early blind individuals responded faster to words with high semantic neighborhood density, suggesting that the absence of visual experience enhances sensitivity to language patterns, illustrating the connection between perception and language comprehension.
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When mentally exploring maps representing large-scale environments (e.g., countries or continents), humans are assumed to mainly rely on spatial information derived from direct perceptual experience (e.

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Maternal bonding is key for infant development and well-being. Research to date focused on prenatal bonding experience, with fewer studies looking at the postnatal period. Moreover, evidence suggests significant associations among maternal bonding, maternal mental health, and infant temperament.

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