Link to the videos of past seminars: https://www.youtube.com/@MbsVectorSpaceLab

Events

Upcoming events

Psycholinguistics in Flanders (PiF) goes to Pavia, University of Pavia, Italy, 2026. 12th – 13th May 2026
Link to the Conference: https://sites.google.com/view/pifpavia/home

Past events

Roberto Bottini, CIMeC – Centro Interdipartimentale Mente/Cervello, University of Trento, Italy. BraveNewWord Seminar – University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan (italy). “From structure to action. A new perspective on conceptual space and cognitive maps.“
Date: 15th April at 3.:30 PM

Jamie Reilly, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA. BraveNewWord Seminar – University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan (italy). “A Left/Right Cortical Hemispheric Dissociation between Local vs. Global Semantic Processing During Auditory Narrative Comprehension“
Date: 9th March at 3.:0 PM
Link to the Seminar video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoW3HkW8PMo

Giovanni Cassani, Assistant Professor, CSAI Department, Tilburg University, Tilburg (NL). BraveNewWord Seminar – University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan (italy). “A cue horgous meets a scary timfil: how do people and LLMs interpret novel words in context?“
Date: 19th Jan at 2:00 PM
Link to the Seminar Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZysVlqWT6o

Hisieh, CY (Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL)), 2025. BraveNewWord Seminar – University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan (Italy). “Making sense from the parts: What Chinese compounds tell us about reading”
Date: 27th Oct 2025 at 2:00 PM
Link to the Seminar video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7DHox_6duE

Giulia Loca, Simona Amenta, Marco Marelli. Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. Can we ground novel words? Mapping perceptual features from language-based representations to human intuitions. Embodied and Situated Language Processing Conference (ESLP 2025), Aix-en-Provence, France.

Iva Šaban, Luca Rinaldi, Marco Marelli. Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. What if “mooff” is round and “mottie” small? Computational insight into sound symbolism in pseudowords. Embodied and Situated Language Processing Conference (ESLP 2025), Aix-en-Provence, France.

Marco Petilli, Francesca Rodio, Daniele Gatti, Marco Marelli, Luca Rinaldi. Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. Multimodal memory traces determine false memory formation. Embodied and Situated Language Processing Conference (ESLP 2025), Aix-en-Provence, France.

Fabio Marson, Marco Ciapparelli, Marco Marelli. Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. What language sees is what vision tells: Insights from non-human primates on the representations induced by data-driven semantic models. Embodied and Situated Language Processing Conference (ESLP 2025), Aix-en-Provence, France.

Jing Chen, Emmanuele Chersoni, Marco Marelli, Chu-Ren Huang. Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. Using large language models to predict sensory information: A case study of nominal compounds in Mandarin. Embodied and Situated Language Processing Conference (ESLP 2025), Aix-en-Provence, France.

Kumar, A. (Assistant Professor of Psychology, Bowdoin College, Maine, USA), 2025. BraveNewWord Seminar – University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan (Italy). “Exploring form-meaning interactions in novel word learning and memory search”
Date: 11th Sep 2025 at 2:00 PM
Link to the Seminar video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJTskXEy0GI

Baayen, H. (Professor of Quantitative Linguistics, University of Tübingen, Germany), 2025. BraveNewWord Seminar – University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan (Italy). “A computational approach to morphological productivity using the Discriminative Lexicon Model”
Date: 8th Sep 2025 at 2:00 PM
Link to the Seminar video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2YXb6WHCi4

Marson, F., Loca, G., Ciapparelli, M., & Marelli, M. (University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy), 2025. AMLaP 2025 Conference (Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing), Prague (Czech Republic). “Context-based encoding of novel meanings after minimal exposure to natural text: an EEG study on integration of linguistic chimeras”
Date: 6th Sep 2025

Boleda, G. (ICREA Research Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain), 2025. BraveNewWord Seminar – University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan (Italy). “Words are weird? On the role of lexical ambiguity in language.”
Link to the seminar video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2YXb6WHCi4

Savic, O. (Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, San Sebastián, Spain), 2025. BraveNewWord Seminar – University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan (Italy). “The Power of Words: The contribution of co-occurrence regularities of word use to the development of semantic organization.”

Marson, F, 2024. Embodied and Situated Language Processing – ESLP2024, Berlin (Germany). “Electrophysiological correlates of context-based semantic integration of linguistic chimeras.”

Bonandrini, R, 2024. XXX Congress of the Italian Psychological Association – Experimental Section, Noto (Italy). “The impact of information entropy in meaning extraction from orthographic units.”

Bonandrini, R, 2024. The International Meeting on Quantifying Semantic-Orthographic Regularities Across Languages, Munich (Germany). “Entropy of semantic vs. orthographic information in meaning induction from familiar and novel words.”

Loca, G, 2024. 30th AMLaP: Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Edinburgh (Scotland). “Be the wapple of my eye: predicting the sensorimotor pattern of novel words from language-based representations.”

Dirk Wulff, Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Berlin), 15th July 2024. Seminar at University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan (Italy). “Using embeddings to automate jingle—jangle detection and tackle taxonomic incommensurability”
Link to the seminar video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgthqKS1M0g&t=2s

Loca, G., Amenta, S., & Marelli, M. (2024, 4-6 luglio). Can we ground nonwords? A first data-driven insight on the potential sensorimotor features of novel words. WoProc 2024: The International Word Processing Conference, Università di Belgrado, Belgrado, Serbia.

Fabio Marson, Rolando Bonandrini, Simona Amenta, Marco Marelli. Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. Effects of individual differences on the semantic processing of nonwords: new insights from the English crowdsourcing project. WoProc 2024: The International Word Processing Conference, Università di Belgrado, Belgrado, Serbia.

Rolando Bonandrini, Lucia Giorgione, Alessia Mazzucchelli, Camilla Defendi, Gianpaolo Basso, Simona Amenta, Simone Sulpizio, Marco Marelli, Marco Tettamanti. Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. An FMRI study on the role of morphology in written novel word processing. WoProc 2024: The International Word Processing Conference, Università di Belgrado, Belgrado, Serbia.

Iva Šaban, Simona Amenta, Fabio Marson, Rolando Bonandrini, Marco Marelli. Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. EPLEP: English pseudoword lexicon project – A new resource for future studies on pseudoword processing” WoProc 2024: The International Word Processing Conference, Università di Belgrado, Belgrado, Serbia.

Marcel Binz, Institute for Human-Centered AI, Helmholtz Munich, 20th June 2024. Seminar at University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan (Italy). “Building foundation models of human cognition”
Link to the seminar video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SknOXBD5gQ&t=441s

Bonandrini, R, Giorgione, L, Basso, G, Amenta, S, Sulpizio, S, Marelli, M, Tettamanti, M, 2024. European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology, Bressanone (Italy). “Meaningable gobbledygooks in the brain: an fMRI study on the role of morphology in reading novel words.”