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Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bologna.

She obtained her PhD in Philosophy of Language, Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Bologna with a dissertation on the role of both sensory-motor and linguistic-social experience on language comprehension.

 

Her work focuses on grounding of language in sensorimotor processes, as well as on language as a tool which modifies human's way to interact with the world. She works using experimental methods (behavioral, kinematics) and occasionally brain imaging techniques (TMS, fMRI).

e-mail: claudia.scorolli2@unibo.it

 

Per gli studenti del C.I.– C.d.L. Specialistica in Scienze della Riabilitazione, a.a. 2011/2012, Facoltą di Medicina e Chirurgia dell’Universitą di Udine:

*        3 dicembre 2011  > ;

*        14 gennaio 2012  > .

 

Academic Curriculum

(updated December 10, 2011)

Complete Academic Curriculum

  • 2011, November – Current Position: Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bologna, Department of Psychology - European Project FP7. Project: “Social Tools and Ownership: body-schema re-coding?”.
  • 2009, November – 2011, October: Post-doc researcher at the University of Bologna, Department of Psychology. European Project FP7: Emergence of Communication in Robots through Sensorimotor and Social Interaction, Rossi, coordinator: Professor Anna M. Borghi. Post-doctoral Project: “Embodied Theories of language comprehension and body space: words as tools”.
  • 2010, February: enrolment at the professional Psychologists’ Register of Emilia-Romagna. N. 6311, Section A.
  • 2009, March – October: fellowship, European Project FP7 Rossi. Project: “Language comprehension: sensory-motor system and social aspects”.
  • 2006 – 2009: PhD Program in Philosophy of Language, Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences - XXI cycle -, at the Department of Communication Disciplines, University of Bologna, supervised by Professor Anna M. Borghi and Professor Roberto Nicoletti. Dissertation title: “Language and Embodiment: sensory-motor and linguistic-social experience. Evidence on sentence comprehension”.
  • 2008, September – December; 2009, April – May: Visiting Scientist at the Department of Neurology, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein in Lübeck and at the Department of Neurology, Universitätsklinikum, Hamburg-Eppendorf, UKE, in Hamburg, to conduct a behavioral study and an fMRI study on concrete vs. abstract language – supervised by Professor Ferdinand Binkofski.
  • 2005 – 2006: Cognitive Ergonomics Project, SPINNER 2005: Emilia-Romagna Region’s Initiative financed by European Social Fund.
  • 2004 – 2005: post-lauream formative practice at the Psychology Department of the University of Bologna: Project on atypical sexual preferences – supervised by Professor Stefano Ghirlanda; Project on the relation between perception, concepts and action – supervised by Professor A. M. Borghi.
  • 2004: degree in General-Experimental Psychology at the University of Bologna. Dissertation title: Virtual Reality tools use for psychopathological syndromes treatment, supervised by Professor Gianni Brighetti.

 

Publications

  • Gianelli, C., Scorolli, C., & Borghi, A.M. (in press). Acting in perspective: The role of body and language as social tools. Psychological Research, special issue on Vision, Action and Language Unified by Embodiment.
  • Borghi, A.M., & Scorolli, C. (in press) Le parole, utensili che estendono il nostro corpo – Words as tools that extend our body. Sistemi Intelligenti, special issue on Extended Mind.
  • Scorolli, C., Daprati, E., Nico, D., & Borghi, A.M. (2011) Catching objects through words. Proceedings of the 17th Meeting of The European Society for Cognitive Psychology.
  • Scorolli, C., Binkofski F., Buccino G., Nicoletti R., Riggio L. and Borghi A.M. (2011) Abstract and concrete sentences, embodiment, and languages. Frontiers in Cognition, 2,227. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00227
  • Hommel, B., Colzato, L.S., Scorolli, C., Borghi, A.M., & van den Wildenberg, W.P.M. (in press). Action control and religion: Faith-specific modulation of the Simon effect but not stop-signal performance. Cognition.
  • Costantini, M., Ambrosini, E., Scorolli, C. & Borghi, A. (2011). When objects are close to me: affordances in the peripersonal space. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 302-308.
  • Ambrosini, E., Scorolli, C., Borghi, A.M., Costantini, M. (2011).Experiencing objects. The role of the body. In: Kokinov, B., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Nersessian, N. J. (eds.) European Perspectives on Cognitive Science. © New Bulgarian University Press, 2011 ISBN 978-954-535-660-5 (Eurocogsci, paper 235). (best student award)
  • Borghi, A., Flumini, A., Cimatti, F., Marocco, D. & Scorolli, C. (2011). Manipulating objects and telling words: A study on concrete and abstract words acquisition. Frontiers in Cognition 2:15. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00015, special issue on Embodied and Grounded Cognition (editors: A.M. Borghi, D. Pecher).
  • Scorolli, C. (2011). Our Words Have a Weight. Motor and Perceptual Resonance through Language Grounding. In R. K. Mishra & N. Srinivasan (Eds.), Language and Cognition: State of the Art. Munich: Lincom Europa.
  • Scorolli, C. (2010). Il ruolo della corteccia motoria primaria nell’elaborazione di frasi contenenti parole concrete e astratte. In Sistemi Intelligenti, 3, 397-406, Il Mulino.
  • Borghi, A., Gianelli, C., & Scorolli, C. (2010). Sentence comprehension: effectors and goals, self and others. An overview of experiments and implications for robotics. Frontiers in neurorobotics, 4, 1-8.
  • Colzato, L.S., van Beest, I., van den Wildenberg, W.P.M., Scorolli, C., Dorchin, S., Meiran, N., Borghi, A.M., & Hommel, B. (2010). God: Do I have your attention? Cognition, 117, 87-94. 32
  • Scorolli, C., Borghi, A.M., & Nicoletti, R. (2009). Embodiment and language: cross-linguistic evidence on abstract and concrete sentences. Proceedings of the XVIth   meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology.
  • Colzato, L., Scorolli, C., van den Wildenberg, W., Borghi A., & Hommel B. (2009). Losing the big picture: How religion may control visual attention. Proceedings of the XVIth   meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology.
  • Scorolli, C. (2009). Language and Embodiment: sensory-motor and linguistic-social experience. Evidence on sentence comprehension. AMS Tesi di Dottorato.
  • Borghi, A., Giannelli, C., & Scorolli, C. Cognizione embodied e simulazione motoria: studi sul linguaggio, in Cervello, Linguaggio, Societą, Atti del Convegno 2008 di Codisco, A cura di Valentina Cardella e Domenica Bruni, Roma: Squilibri. (p. 37-47)
  • Scorolli, C. Effetti del linguaggio sul sollevamento bi-manuale di un oggetto, in Cervello, Linguaggio, Societą, Atti del Convegno 2008 di Codisco, A cura di Valentina Cardella e Domenica Bruni, Roma: Squilibri. (p. 355-367)
  • Scorolli, C., Borghi, A.M., & Glenberg, A. (2009). Language-Induced Motor Activity in bi-manual Object Lifting. Experimental Brain Research, 193, 43-53.
  • Borghi, A.M., & Scorolli, C. (2009). Sentence comprehension and hand motion simulation. Human Movement Science, 28, 12-27.
  • Borghi, A.M., Caligiore, D., & Scorolli, C. (2010). Objects, words, and actions. Some reasons why embodied models are badly needed in cognitive psychology. In V. Capecchi, M. Buscema, P. Contucci, B. D'Amore (Eds.), Applications of Mathematics in Models, Artificial Neural Networks and Arts. Mathematics and Society Springer.
  • Scorolli, C., & Borghi, A.M. (2008). Language and Embodiment, Anthropology and Philosophy, A&P, 9, 1-2, 7-23.
  • Scorolli, C., & Borghi, A.M. (2007). Sentence comprehension and action: Effector specific modulation of the motor system. Brain Research, 1130, 119-124.
  • Scorolli, C., & Borghi, A.M. (2007). Comprehension of sentences implying actions: relevance of the effector and of the goal. Proceedings of the XVth   meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology.
  • Scorolli, C., Glenberg, A., Borghi, A.M., & Setti, A. (2007). Effects of language on weight perception and evaluation. Proceedings of the XVth   meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology.
  • Borghi, A.M., & Scorolli, C. (2006). Object concepts and mental images, Anthropology and Philosophy, A&P, 7, 1-2, 64-74.
  • Scorolli, C., Ghirlanda, S., Enquist, M., Zattoni, S., & Jannini, E. A. (2007). Relative Prevalence of Different Fetishes. International Journal of Impotence Research, 19, 432-437.
  • Ghirlanda, S., & Scorolli, C. (2006). La sessualitą atipica in prospettiva etologica. Rivista di Sessuologia, 30(1).
  • Scorolli, C., Zattoni, S., & Ghirlanda, S. (2006). La sessualitą atipica su Internet. Rivista di Sessuologia, 30(1), 1-17.

 

Teaching

  • 2011/12: General Psychology, C.I. C8 Rehabilitation and Learning, C.d.L. Rehabilitation Sciences, a.a. 2010/2011, at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Udine.
  • 2010/11: General Psychology, C.I. C8 Rehabilitation and Learning, C.d.L. Rehabilitation Sciences, a.a. 2010/2011, at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Trieste.
  • 2009: USL Bologna, Servizio Sanitario Regionale Emilia-Romagna: Seminar  “From action to language thorough gestures: the role of co-verbal gestures in typical and atypical development”. November, 27, Bologna.
  • 2009: Kinematics Lab. Possible application of kinematics method to the study of: a. reaching and grasping movement; b. motor system activation during language comprehension. February – March, 2009, Cognitive Psycology Course, Professor Anna M. Borghi. Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, laurea degree course on Sciences of Communication, University of Bologna.
  • 2008: Kinematics Lab. Summer School ‘The Sense Of Body’. June, 20, 2008, Department of Psychology University of Bologna.

 

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