Laura Baiocco

PhD Candidate in Psychology at @uarizona
Investigating all things metaphor 👩‍💻

[Laura Baiocco @lbbaiocco]

Just presented a poster at the Arizona Alzheimer’s Consortium Conference about our project on Primary Progressive Aphasia! We found preserved metaphor comprehension in semantic variant of PPA despite literal impairment. @Vicky_T_Lai

[Laura Baiocco @lbbaiocco]

and that 2) a good amount of experiments in the literature have found a late negativity effect (~500-1,000ms) for metaphors compared to literal controls, especially when metaphors were novel or presented during tasks that required reanalysis of stimulus.

[Laura Baiocco @lbbaiocco]

Very excited about our new paper out! @Vicky_T_Lai, Dr. Kielar, and I wrote a scoping review on ERP correlates of metaphor comprehension in neurotypical adults. Full paper: https://t.co/Nd6YvQQhQE

[Laura Baiocco @lbbaiocco]

Among other things, we found that 1) N400 effects for metaphors compared to literal language seem to be only reliably found when they are novel and presented with little to no context, +

[Laura Baiocco @lbbaiocco]

So honored and excited for this 🤩🎉 Can’t wait to share my results at the next event!

[Researching and Applying Metaphor Association @RaAMmetaphor]

Congratulations to Laura Baiocco, Aleksandra Żukowska, and Carina Rasse for winning this year’s RaAM grants! We’re excited to see your projects come to life!

[Laura Baiocco @lbbaiocco]

We found that metaphor processing is influenced by emotionality at the 450-850 ms time window after word onset. However, this emotional metaphor processing is also impacted by the type of task participants are asked to perform. https://t.co/LCZSHq6A9Q

[Laura Baiocco @lbbaiocco]

My first paper with the University of Arizona is out! This was my Master's project, published in collaboration with Valeria Pfeifer and my advisor @Vicky_T_Lai 😀 https://t.co/LCZSHq6A9Q

[Laura Baiocco @lbbaiocco]

traveling in Italy to discuss metaphors at RaAM. I think I like this little life

[Valentina Bambini @VBambini]

Metaphors we live by! Wonderful guests at #NEPLab in these days to discuss new avenues in metaphor studies. Thank you @Vicky_T_Lai and @JeannetteL16! And stay tuned for joint publications! @IussPavia