Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies*

Titles

Future Robots: Towards a robotic science of human beings

Domenico Parisi

Subjects Artificial Intelligence | Consciousness research | Evolution of language

[Advances in Interaction Studies, 7] 2014. xii, 489 pp. |

Consciousness in Interaction: The role of the natural and social context in shaping consciousness

Edited by Fabio Paglieri

Subjects Consciousness research | Interaction Studies

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 86] 2012. xix, 403 pp. | edited volume

Bonsignori, Chiara, Elena Tomasuolo, Pasquale Rinaldi & Virginia Volterra 2025 Action depiction in gestures and signs: A comparative semiotic approach

Keywords: action verbs | LIS | gestures | comparative semiotics | iconicity | depicting constructions

Sign Language & Linguistics | Online First Publication, 24 pp. | article

Paglieri, Fabio 2025 Large Language Models, argumentation, and healthcare: A socio-cognitive perspective

Keywords: Large Language Models | generative Artificial Intelligence | chatbots | argumentative practice | doctor-patient interactions | healthcare training

Journal of Argumentation in Context 14:3 pp. 321–365 | article

Wille, Beatrijs, Hilde Nyffels & Olga Capirci 2023 The road to language through gesture: The longitudinal case of parent-child interactions in deaf children

Keywords: Flemish Sign Language | dyadic interactions | parent-child communication | Language acquisition | cross-modal | deafness

Gesture 22:1 pp. 39–61 | article

Capirci, Olga, Morgana Proietti & Virginia Volterra 2023 Searching for the roots of signs in children’s early gestures

Keywords: gestures | signs | consistency | form execution | representational strategies | picture naming game (PiNG)

Gesture 21:2/3 pp. 201–238 | article

Volterra, Virginia, Maria Roccaforte, Alessio Di Renzo & Sabina Fontana 2022 Italian Sign Language from a cognitive and socio-semiotic perspective: Implications for a general language theory

In: Italian Sign Language from a Cognitive and Socio-semiotic Perspective: Implications for a general language theory, Volterra, Virginia, Maria Roccaforte, Alessio Di Renzo & Sabina Fontana[Gesture Studies, 9] p.  ff.

Volterra, Virginia, Olga Capirci, Pasquale Rinaldi & Laura Sparaci 2020 From action to spoken and signed language through gesture: Some basic developmental issues for a discussion on the evolution of the human language-ready brain

Keywords: child development | communication | multimodality | actions | gestures | words | signs

In: How the Brain Got Language – Towards a New Road Map, Arbib, Michael A. (ed.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 112] pp. 216–238

Volterra, Virginia, Olga Capirci, Pasquale Rinaldi & Laura Sparaci 2018 From action to spoken and signed language through gesture: Some basic developmental issues for a discussion on the evolution of the human language-ready brain

Keywords: child development | communication | multimodality | actions | gestures | words | signs

Interaction Studies 19:1/2 pp. 216–238 | article

Volterra, Virginia, Olga Capirci, Maria Cristina Caselli, Pasquale Rinaldi & Laura Sparaci 2017 Developmental evidence for continuity from action to gesture to sign/word

Keywords: language | gesture | sign language | motor actions | children | development

Language, Interaction and Acquisition 8:1 pp. 13–41 | article

Capobianco, Micaela, Elena Antinoro Pizzuto & Antonella Devescovi 2017 Gesture–speech combinations and early verbal abilities: New longitudinal data during the second year of age

Keywords: pointing | deictic gestures | supplementary and complementary combinations | early verbal skills | prevention

Interaction Studies 18:1 pp. 55–76 | article

Sulpizio, Simone, Giacomo Spinelli & Cristina Burani 2017 STRESYL: An Italian Stress-in-Syllables database for reading research

Keywords: syllable | syllabic structure | stress | database | Italian orthography

Written Language & Literacy 20:1 p. 80 | article

Nolfi, Stefano 2013 Emergence of communication and language in evolving robots

In: New Perspectives on the Origins of Language, Lefebvre, Claire, Bernard Comrie & Henri Cohen (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 144] pp. 533–554

Miceli, Maria & Cristiano Castelfranchi 2012 Coherence of conduct and the self-image

In: Consciousness in Interaction: The role of the natural and social context in shaping consciousness, Paglieri, Fabio (ed.) [Advances in Consciousness Research, 86] pp. 151–178

Paglieri, Fabio 2012 Introduction: What does it mean to study consciousness in interaction?

In: Consciousness in Interaction: The role of the natural and social context in shaping consciousness, Paglieri, Fabio (ed.) [Advances in Consciousness Research, 86] pp. ix–xx

Paglieri, Fabio 2012 Ulysses’ will: Self-control, external constraints, and games

In: Consciousness in Interaction: The role of the natural and social context in shaping consciousness, Paglieri, Fabio (ed.) [Advances in Consciousness Research, 86] pp. 179–206

Castelfranchi, Cristiano 2012 “My mind”: Reflexive sociality and its cognitive tools

In: Consciousness in Interaction: The role of the natural and social context in shaping consciousness, Paglieri, Fabio (ed.) [Advances in Consciousness Research, 86] pp. 125–150

Capirci, Olga, Carla Cristilli, V. De Angelis & Maria Graziano 2011 Chapter 14. Learning to use gesture in narratives: Developmental trends in formal and semantic gesture competence

In: Integrating Gestures: The interdisciplinary nature of gesture, Stam, Gale & Mika Ishino (eds.) [Gesture Studies, 4] pp. 187–200 | open access

Capirci, Olga, Annarita Contaldo, Maria Cristina Caselli & Virginia Volterra 2008 From action to language through gesture: A longitudinal perspective

Keywords: actions | gestures | language development | words

In: Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates, Liebal, Katja, Cornelia Müller & Simone Pika (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 10] pp. 139–159

Antinoro Pizzuto, Elena & Micaela Capobianco 2008 The link and differences between deixis and symbols in children’s early gestural-vocal system

Keywords: deictic | early language | gestures | representational | vocalizations | words

In: Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates, Liebal, Katja, Cornelia Müller & Simone Pika (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 10] pp. 161–179

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.