🥳PAPER OUT on Journal of Child Language📰 How does communicative-pragmatic ability develop in children with cochlear implants? We explored the skills of deaf and hard-of-hearing children and typically developing hearing peers Fondazione Compagnia San Paolo #TRAPEZIO #CHEOPS lc.cx/wce55-

🎉NEW PAPER OUT! How do pragmatic and cognitive skills evolve in the same person over time? Longitudinal study now out in Scientific Reports, funded by Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca. #PRIN2022 #ACTIVELY #aging #pragmatics 🔗nature.com/articles/s4159…

📣✨ The GIPSI Research Group at #AIP2025! Federica Simonelli presents the results on the effectiveness of the Advanced Cognitive Pragmatic Treatment, Riccardo Conterio on longitudinal pragmatic decline & SCD in healthy aging. #PRIN2022 #NextGenerationEU #ACTIVELY Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca

📣✨ The GIPSI Research Group at #AIP2025! Giorgia Vegna presents preliminary results on pragmatic ability in healthy older adults above vs. below the MoCA cut-off. 🧠 Funded by @mur_gov #PRIN2022PNRR #NextGenerationEU #SMOOTH

📣The GIPSI group at the 31st #AIP2025 Experimental Conference! Ilaria Traetta presents new results on the effectiveness of Cognitive Pragmatic Training in telepractice (@CPT) in autistic adolescents. Funded by Fondazione CRT, in collaboration with Associazione Mente e Cervello.

🥳 The 31st Conference of AIP has just come to a close! Pictured is Arianna Boldi, research fellow of the group, with her poster on cognitive functions in healthy aging. 📷 This work was supported by Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca – #PRIN2022 #NextGenerationEU #Actively project #AIP2025

GIPSI Research Group at #XPRAG2025! Giorgia Vegna presents “Multilevel procedure for the assessment of pragmatic ability in aging: insights from Cognitive Impairment based on MoCA and cognitively unimpaired controls”. Funded by @mur_gov #PRIN2022PNRR #NextGenerationEU #SMOOTH

#XPRAG2025 Our PI Francesca Bosco with Andrea Marini, PI of #PRIN2022PNRR #SMOOTH in collaboration with GIPSI. He presented “A preliminary assessment of the efficacy of a cognitive training to improve narrative skills in healthy aging”. 🔬Funded by @mur_gov #NextGenerationEU

The #XPrag2025 has just ended! 📸 Ilaria Traetta from the GIPSI group presents the Cognitive Pragmatic Treatment in telepractice (@CPT), in improving pragmatic ability in autistic adolescents. 🔬 Supported by Fondazione CRT in collaboration with Associazione Mente e Cervello.

🥳Paper out on Philosophical Transactions B! 📚 How does pragmatic ability develop in children? We investigated its complex relationship with inferential ability, ToM & EFs. Funded by Fondazione CRT, full text: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.109…

Yesterday, Ariele Merlini PhD student at the GIPSI - Research Group presented the group’s main contributions on irony at the 1st #GRISU Symposium on Humor, organized and chaired by Dott. Luca Bischetti at IUSS Pavia. #GRISU #Pragmatics #Irony #Humor

Can an LLM assess pragmatic ability? 🤖 Dr. Arianna Boldi compared GPT-4o with a human coder on pragmatics tasks- showing where AI matches human judgment and where clinical insight is still key. #NeuroMI #milanobicocca Funded by Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca #PRIN2022 #NextGenerationEU #ACTIVELY

📣 New insights into tele-assessment of pragmatic ability!   📸  Ilaria Traetta, from the GIPSI group, presented new evidence on the effectiveness of e-ABaCo for assessing pragmatic ability in healthy adults at the LLC Poster Day 2025. 💬💡 Supported by Fondazione CRT

📚LLC Poster Day 2025 closes with Ariele Merlini’s work on developmental pathways of pragmatic comprehension, inferential ability, EFs and ToM. 📝 Founded by Fondazione CRT and thanks to Mente e Cervello Association #LLC2025 #pragmatics #inferences

🥳Congratulations to Dr. Agata Marchetti for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis in Neuroscience! 👏 🎓 Thesis title: “Pragmatic and cognitive abilities in atypical development: assessment and analysis of different expressive means.”   #PhDDefense #Neuroscience #Pragmatics

📍Giorgia Vegna presented at #ASCIC25 in Sweden her poster “Communication, Social Appropriateness and Cognitive Vulnerability in Subclinical Aging. Can Multimodal Pragmatic Difficulty Reflect Emerging Cognitive Changes?” Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca #NextGenerationEU #PRINPNRR22 #SMOOTH

🥳New paper out! Can GPT-4o assess pragmatic ability? In our new study by Boldi et al. (2025), GPT-4o shows potential as a supervised text-only coder in healthy aging pragmatic assessment. Funded by Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca, project #PRIN2022 #Actively #NextGenerationEU

Federica Simonelli presented at the 3rd #AGCONF in London her poster “Long-term improvements in older adults’ pragmatic communication: a controlled evaluation of the Advanced Cognitive Pragmatic Treatment.” Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca #PRIN2022 #NextGenerationEU #ACTIVELY

📢 PAPER OUT on Sage Open! 🧠 Can we assess Theory of Mind via telepractice? Our new study demonstrates the effectiveness of telepractice and reliability of the Theory of Mind Assessment Scale (Th.o.m.a.s.) for remote ToM assessment. Funded by Fondazione CRT #Telepractice #ToM

#PubblicEngagement. Yesterday, in the second lesson of the course “Communicative and Cognitive Abilities Across the Lifespan: Is There More Beyond Words?" at University of the Third Age, we explored mindfulness in communication. Thanks Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca- #PRIN22 #ACTIVELY project