Ecological Language: A multimodal approach to language and the brain

Project Information

ECOLANG

Grant agreement ID: 743035

DOI

10.3030/743035

Project closed

EC signature date 4 October 2017

Start date 1 January 2018

End date 30 June 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 243 584,00

EU contribution

€ 2 243 584,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
United Kingdom

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Publications

Conference proceedings (10)

The impact of speakers' multimodal behaviours on adults' learning of semantic information: A corpus-based investigation.

Author(s): Christopher Edwards, Francesco Cabiddu, Harriet Hill-Payne, Ed Donnellan, Yan Gu, Gabriella Vigliocco
Published in: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Issue 46, 2024
Publisher: Cognitive Science Society

The impact of caregivers' multimodal behaviours on children’s word learning: A corpus-based investigation.

Author(s): Ed Donnellan, Antonia Jordan-Barros, Niki Theofilogiannakou, Gwen Brekelmans, Margherita Murgiano, Yasamin Motamedi, Beata Grzyb, Yan Gu, Gabriella Vigliocco
Published in: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Issue 45, 2023
Publisher: Cognitive Science Society

Child-directed speech: the impact of variations in speaking-rate on word learning

Author(s): Jinyu Shi, Yan Gu, Beata Grzyb, Gabriella Vigliocco
Published in: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Issue 42, 2020
Publisher: Cognitive Science Society

Timing relationships between representational gestures and speech: A corpus based investigation

Author(s): Ed Donnellan, Emir Levent Özder, Hillarie Man, Beata Grzyb, Yan Gu, Gabriella Vigliocco
Published in: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Issue 44, 2022
Publisher: Cognitive Science Society

Are words equally surprising in audio and audio-visual comprehension?

Author(s): Pranava Madhyastha,Ye Zhang, Gabriella Vigliocco
Published in: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Issue 45, 2023
Publisher: Cognitive Science Society
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2307.07277

Onomatopoeia, gestures, actions and words:How do caregivers use multimodal cues in their communication to children?

Author(s): Gabriella Vigliocco, Yasamin Motamedi, Margherita Murgiano, Elizabeth Wonnacott, Chloe Marshall, Pamela Perniss
Published in: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Issue 41, 2019
Publisher: Cognitive Science Soceity

What Predicts Adult Word Learning in Naturalistic Interactions? A Corpus Study

Author(s): Francesco Cabiddu, Christopher Edwards, Harriet Hill-Payne, Ed Donnellan, Yan Gu, Gabriella Vigliocco
Published in: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Issue 46, 2024
Publisher: Cognitive Science Society

How Speech and Representational Gestures Align in Child-Directed Language: a Corpus-based Study

Author(s): Yumeng Wang, Ed Donnellan, Gabriella Vigliocco
Published in: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Issue 45, 2023
Publisher: Cognitive Science Society

Electrophysiological signatures of second language multimodal comprehension

Author(s): Ye Zhang, Rong Ding, Diego Frassinelli, Jyrki Tuomainen, Sebastian Klavinskis-Whiting, Gabriella Vigliocco
Published in: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Issue 43, 2021
Publisher: Cognitive Science Society

The impact of child-directed language on children’s lexical development

Author(s): Shiyu Dong, Yan Gu, Gabriella Vigliocco
Published in: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Issue 43, 2021
Publisher: Cognitive Science Society

Peer reviewed articles (22)

Social interaction is a catalyst for adult human learning in online contexts

Author(s): Sara De Felice, Gabriella Vigliocco, Antonia F. de C. Hamilton
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 31, 2023, Page(s) 4853-4859.e3, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.08.045

The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus of adult-child and adult-adult Language

Author(s): Yan Gu, Ed Donnellan, Beata Grzyb, Gwen Brekelmans, Margherita Murgiano, Ricarda Brieke, Pamela Perniss, Gabriella Vigliocco
Published in: Scientific Data, Issue 12, 2025, ISSN 2052-4463
Publisher: Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-025-04405-1

Communicative efficiency in multimodal language directed at children and adults.

Author(s): Beata Grzyb, Stefan L. Frank, Gabriella Vigliocco
Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Issue 153, 2024, Page(s) 1904-1919, ISSN 0096-3445
Publisher: American Psychological Association
DOI: 10.1037/xge0001588

Language development beyond the here‐and‐now: Iconicity and displacement in child‐directed communication

Author(s): Yasamin Motamedi, Margherita Murgiano, Beata Grzyb, Yan Gu, Viktor Kewenig, Ricarda Brieke, Ed Donnellan, Chloe Marshall, Elizabeth Wonnacott, Pamela Perniss, Gabriella Vigliocco
Published in: Child Development, Issue bimonthly, 2024, ISSN 0009-3920
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.14099

The role of iconic gestures and mouth movements in face-to-face communication

Author(s): Anna Krason, Rebecca Fenton, Rosemary Varley, Gabriella Vigliocco
Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Issue 29, 2022, Page(s) 600-612, ISSN 1069-9384
Publisher: Psychonomic Society Inc.
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-021-02009-5

Understanding discourse in face-to-face settings: The impact of multimodal cues and listening conditions (in press)

Author(s): Anna Krason, Rosemary Varley, Gabriella Vigliocco
Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024, ISSN 0278-7393
Publisher: American Psychological Association

Ecological Brain: Reframing the Study of Human Behaviour and Cognition (in press)

Author(s): Gabriella Vigliocco, Laura Convertino, Sara De Felice, Lara Gregorians, Viktor Kewenig, Marie A. E. Mueller, Sebastijan Veselic, Mirco Musolesi, Andrew Hudson-Smith, Nick Tyler, Eirini Flouri, and Hugo Spiers
Published in: Royal Society Open Science, 2024, ISSN 2054-5703
Publisher: Royal Society Open Science

Learning <i>from</i> others is good, <i>with</i> others is better: the role of social interaction in human acquisition of new knowledge

Author(s): Sara De Felice, Antonia F. de C. Hamilton, Marta Ponari, Gabriella Vigliocco
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 378, 2024, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0357

I don’t see what you’re saying: The maluma/takete effect does not depend on the visual appearance of phonemes as they are articulated

Author(s): David M. Sidhu, Gabriella Vigliocco
Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin &amp; Review, Issue 30, 2023, Page(s) 1521-1529, ISSN 1069-9384
Publisher: Psychonomic Society Inc.
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-022-02224-8

Multimodal comprehension in left hemisphere stroke patients

Author(s): Gabriella Vigliocco, Anna Krason, Harrison Stoll, Alessandro Monti, Laurel J. Buxbaum
Published in: Cortex, Issue 133, 2021, Page(s) 309-327, ISSN 0010-9452
Publisher: Masson Publishing
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.09.025

Iconicity emerges and is maintained in spoken language.

Author(s): David Vinson, Matthew Jones, David M. Sidhu, Alex Lau-Zhu, Julio Santiago, Gabriella Vigliocco
Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Issue 150, 2024, Page(s) 2293-2308, ISSN 0096-3445
Publisher: American Psychological Association
DOI: 10.1037/xge0001024

Mouth and facial informativeness norms for 2276 English words

Author(s): Anna Krason, Ye Zhang, Hillarie Man, Gabriella Vigliocco
Published in: Behavior Research Methods, Issue 56, 2024, Page(s) 4786-4801, ISSN 1554-3528
Publisher: Springer Publishing
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-023-02216-z

More than words: word predictability, prosody, gesture and mouth movements in natural language comprehension

Author(s): Ye Zhang, Diego Frassinelli, Jyrki Tuomainen, Jeremy I. Skipper, Gabriella Vigliocco
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 288/1955, 2021, Page(s) 20210500, ISSN 0962-8452
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0500

The role of multimodal cues in second language comprehension

Author(s): Ye Zhang, Rong Ding, Diego Frassinelli, Jyrki Tuomainen, Sebastian Klavinskis-Whiting, Gabriella Vigliocco
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 13, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-47643-2

When Abstract Becomes Concrete: Naturalistic Encoding of Concepts in the Brain

Author(s): Viktor Kewenig, Gabriella Vigliocco, Jeremy I Skipper
Published in: eLife, 2024, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications

Consensus Paper: Situated and Embodied Language Acquisition

Author(s): Lorraine D. Reggin, Ligia E. Gómez Franco, Oleksandr V. Horchak, David Labrecque, Nadia Lana, Laura Rio, Gabriella Vigliocco
Published in: Journal of Cognition, Issue 6, 2023, ISSN 2514-4820
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
DOI: 10.5334/joc.308

Situating Language in the Real-World: Authors’ Reply to Commentaries

Author(s): Margherita Murgiano, Yasamin Motamedi, Gabriella Vigliocco
Published in: Journal of Cognition, Issue 4/1, 2021, ISSN 2514-4820
Publisher: Ubiquity
DOI: 10.5334/joc.181

Effects of Iconicity in Recognition Memory

Author(s): David M. Sidhu, Nareg Khachatoorian, Gabriella Vigliocco
Published in: Cognitive Science, Issue 47, 2024, ISSN 0364-0213
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/cogs.13382

Situating Language in the Real-World: The Role of Multimodal Iconicity and Indexicality

Author(s): Margherita Murgiano, Yasamin Motamedi, Gabriella Vigliocco
Published in: Journal of Cognition, Issue 4/1, 2021, ISSN 2514-4820
Publisher: Ubiquity
DOI: 10.5334/joc.113

Benefit of visual speech information for word comprehension in post-stroke aphasia

Author(s): Anna Krason, Gabriella Vigliocco, Marja-Liisa Mailend, Harrison Stoll, Rosemary Varley, Laurel J. Buxbaum
Published in: Cortex, Issue 165, 2023, Page(s) 86-100, ISSN 0010-9452
Publisher: Masson Publishing
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2023.04.011

What We Mean When We Say Semantic: A multidiscilpinary semantic glossary (in press)

Author(s): Jamie Reilly, Cory Shain, Valentina Borghesani, Philipp Kuhnke, Gabriella Vigliocco, Jonathan E. Peelle, Bradford Mahon, Laurel Buxbaum, Asifa Majid, Marc Brysbaert, Anna M. Borghi, Simon De Deyne, Guy Dove, Liuba Papeo, Penny M. Pexman, David Poeppel, Gary Lupyan, Paulo Boggio, Gregory Hickock, Laura Gwilliams, Leonardo Fernandino, Daniel Mirman, Evangelia G. Chrysikou, Chaleece Sandberg, Sebasti
Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 2024, ISSN 1069-9384
Publisher: Psychonomic Society Inc.
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/xrnb2

Prosodic modulations in child‐directed language and their impact on word learning

Author(s): Jinyu Shi, Yan Gu, Gabriella Vigliocco
Published in: Developmental Science, Issue 26, 2023, ISSN 1363-755X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/desc.13357

Other (1)

Explain with, rather than explain to: How explainees shape their own learning (in press)

Author(s): Josephine Beryl Fisher, Katharina Rohlfing, Ed Donnellan, Angela Grimminger, Yan Gu, Gabriella Vigliocco
Published in: Interaction Studies, 2024
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Book chapters (1)

Beyond robotic speech: mutual benefits to cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence from the study of multimodal communication.

Author(s): Grzyb, Beata; Vigliocco, Gabriella
Published in: Human-Like Machine Intelligence, 2020
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/h5dxy