Rate My Professor Gabriella Vigliocco

Vigliocco's research explores the cognitive and neurobiological foundations of human communication in naturalistic, multimodal contexts, using psychological, neuroscientific, and computational approaches. Her interests encompass semantic representations grounded in sensorimotor and emotional experiences, iconicity in language processing across spoken and signed modalities, multimodal cues such as gestures and intonation in comprehension and acquisition, and social influences on learning abstract concepts. Major projects include the ECOLANG initiative, supported by an ERC Advanced Grant (2018-2024, €2.25 million) and ESRC funding. She has received the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2018) and is a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society and the Association for Psychological Science. Key publications feature 'The representation of abstract words: why emotion matters' (2011, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General), 'Coming of age: A review of embodiment and the neuroscience of semantics' (2012, Cortex), 'Iconicity as a general property of language: evidence from spoken and signed languages' (2010, Frontiers in Psychology), and 'Nouns and verbs in the brain' (2011, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews), amassing over 15,000 citations.