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Giosuè Baggio

Giosuè Baggio

Professor of Psycholinguistics
Department of Language and Literature
Faculty of Humanities

giosue.baggio@ntnu.no
+4773596472 Bygg 5, 5543A, Dragvoll
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About

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  • Professor of Psycholinguistics, Department of Language and Literature, NTNU
  • Principal Investigator, Language Acquisition and Language Processing Lab, NTNU
  • Governing Board, The Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC)
  • Elected Member, The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (DKNVS)

Competencies

  • Cognitive linguistics
  • Formal linguistics
  • Neurolinguistics
  • Psycholinguistics

Research

Research areas

  • Parallelism between meaning and grammar in the architecture of language
  • Computational and neural aspects of semantic and pragmatic processing
  • Computational and neural aspects of logical reasoning and verification
  • Evolution and development of semantic and pragmatic processing
  • Fundamental vs contingent limitations of semantics in machines
  • Problems and prospects for integrative theories of language

Research groups and networks

  • Language Acquisition and Language Processing Lab
  • Formal Explorations of Structural Topics (ForEST)
  • Agency, Action and Embodiment (AAE)
  • Neurolinguistics in Sweden

Semantic Pre-activation in a Potts Latching Network: Modelling the N400

The Research Council of Norway | Researcher Project with International Mobility | Project supervisor | 2020-2024

Origins of Semantic Composition in Early Cognitive Development

The Research Council of Norway | Researcher Project for Young Talents | Project manager | 2016-2021

Publications

Neurolinguistics

MIT Press 2022 | ISBN 9780262543262

Towards mechanistic models of meaning composition

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 2020 | ISBN 9781782524366

Meaning in the Brain

MIT Press 2018 | ISBN 9780262038126
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2023

  • Lumaca, Massimo; Bonetti, Leonardo; Brattico, Elvira; Baggio, Giosuè; Ravignani, Andrea; Vuust, Peter. (2023) High-fidelity transmission of auditory symbolic material is associated with reduced right–left neuroanatomical asymmetry between primary auditory regions. Cerebral Cortex.
    Academic article
  • Nefdt, Ryan, M.; Baggio, Giosuè. (2023) Notational variants and cognition: The case of dependency grammar. Erkenntnis: An International Journal of Scientific Philosophy.
    Academic article

2022

  • Baggio, Giosuè. (2022) Neurolinguistics. MIT Press. 2022. ISBN 9780262543262.
    Scientific monography
  • Baggio, Giosuè. (2022) Ronald J. Planer and Kim Sterelny, From signal to symbol: The evolution of language. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021, xx + 272 pp. Language and Cognition. volum 14 (3).
    Review
  • Bremnes, Heming Strømholt; Szymanik, Jakub; Baggio, Giosuè. (2022) Computational complexity explains neural differences in quantifier verification. Cognition. volum 223.
    Academic article

2021

  • Baggio, Giosuè. (2021) Book Review: Derek Ball & Brian Rabern (Eds.), The Science of Meaning. Essays on the Metatheory of Natural Language Semantics. Oxford University Press. Hardback, pp. 432 + vii. Journal of Logic, Language and Information. volum 30 (4).
    Review
  • Baggio, Giosuè. (2021) Compositionality in a parallel architecture for language processing. Cognitive Science. volum 45 (5).
    Academic article
  • Fritz, Isabella; Baggio, Giosuè. (2021) Neural and behavioural effects of typicality, denotation and composition in an adjective–noun combination task. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. volum 37 (5).
    Academic article
  • Lumaca, Massimo; Baggio, Giosuè; Vuust, Peter. (2021) White matter variability in auditory callosal pathways contributes to variation in the cultural transmission of auditory symbolic systems. Brain Structure and Function. volum 226.
    Academic article
  • Lumaca, Massimo; Brattico, Elvira; Baggio, Giosuè. (2021) Signaling games and music as a credible signal. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. volum 44.
    Academic article
  • Lumaca, Massimo; Vuust, Peter; Baggio, Giosuè. (2021) Network Analysis of Human Brain Connectivity Reveals Neural Fingerprints of a Compositionality Bias in Signaling Systems. Cerebral Cortex. volum 32 (8).
    Academic article
  • van Rooij, Iris A.L.M.; Baggio, Giosuè. (2021) Theory before the test: How to build high-verisimilitude explanatory theories in psychological science. Perspectives on Psychological Science. volum 16 (4).
    Academic article

2020

  • Baggio, Giosuè. (2020) Epistemic transfer between linguistics and neuroscience: Problems and prospects. The Philosophy and Science of Language. Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Baggio, Giosuè. (2020) Morten H. Christiansen & Nick Chater, Creating Language: Integrating Evolution, Acquisition, and Processing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016. Pp. xiv + 330. Nordic Journal of Linguistics. volum 43 (1).
    Review
  • Calinescu, Lia; Giskes, Anna; Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova; Baggio, Giosuè. (2020) Embedding (im)plausible clauses in propositional attitude contexts: Modulatory effects on the N400 and late components. Journal of Neurolinguistics. volum 53.
    Academic article
  • Fritz, Isabella; Baggio, Giosuè. (2020) Meaning composition in minimal phrasal contexts: Distinct ERP effects of intensionality and denotation. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. volum 35 (10).
    Academic article
  • Islam, Farjana; Baggio, Giosuè. (2020) Kripkeans of the world, unite!. Journal of Semantics. volum 37 (2).
    Academic article
  • Luzzi, Simona; Baldinelli, Sara; Ranaldi, Valentina; Fiori, Chiara; Plutino, Andrea; Fringuelli, Fabio Massimo; Silvestrini, Mauro; Baggio, Giosuè; Reverberi, Carlo. (2020) The neural bases of discourse semantic and pragmatic deficits in patients with frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Cortex. volum 128.
    Academic article
  • Martin, Andrea E; Baggio, Giosuè. (2020) Towards mechanistic models of meaning composition. 2020. ISBN 9781782524366.
    Scientific anthology
  • Morgan, Elena Usai; Van der Meer, Audrey; Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova; Blasi, Damián; Baggio, Giosuè. (2020) Meaning before grammar: A review of ERP experiments on the neurodevelopmental origins of semantic processing. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. volum 27 (3).
    Academic article
  • Olstad, Anne Marte Haug; Fritz, Isabella; Baggio, Giosuè. (2020) Composition decomposed: Distinct neural mechanisms support processing of nouns in modification and predication contexts. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory and Cognition. volum 46 (11).
    Academic article
  • van Rooij, Iris A.L.M.; Baggio, Giosuè. (2020) Theory development requires an epistemological sea change. Psychological Inquiry. volum 31 (4).
    Academic article
  • Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova; Saldaña, David; Baggio, Giosuè. (2020) Word structure and word processing in developmental disorders. Word Knowledge and Word Usage: A Cross-disciplinary Guide to the Mental Lexicon.
    Academic chapter/article

2019

  • Lumaca, Massimo; Kleber, Boris; Brattico, Elvira; Vuust, Peter; Baggio, Giosuè. (2019) Functional connectivity in human auditory networks and the origins of variation in the transmission of musical systems. eLIFE. volum 8.
    Academic article
  • Martin, Andrea E; Baggio, Giosuè. (2019) Modelling meaning composition from formalism to mechanism. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences. volum 375 (1791).
    Academic article
  • Michalon, Olivier; Baggio, Giosuè. (2019) Meaning-driven syntactic predictions in a parallel processing architecture: Theory and algorithmic modeling of ERP effects. Neuropsychologia. volum 131.
    Academic article
  • Morgan, Elena Usai; Baggio, Giosuè. (2019) Language in Our Brain: The Origins of a Uniquely Human Capacity, by Angela D. Friederici. Journal of Language Evolution. volum 4 (1).
    Review
  • Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova; Milburn, Evelyn Arko; Vulchanov, Valentin; Baggio, Giosuè. (2019) Boon or burden? The role of compositional meaning in figurative language processing and acquisition. Journal of Logic, Language and Information. volum 28 (2).
    Academic article

2018

  • Baggio, Giosuè. (2018) Andrea Moro, A brief history of the verb to be. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018. Pp. xvi + 288. Journal of Linguistics. volum 54 (4).
    Review
  • Baggio, Giosuè. (2018) Meaning in the Brain. MIT Press. 2018. ISBN 9780262038126.
    Scientific monography
  • Lumaca, Massimo; Baggio, Giosuè. (2018) Signaling games and the evolution of structure in language and music: A reply to Ravignani and Verhoef (2018). Artificial Life. volum 24 (2).
    Letter to the editor
  • Lumaca, Massimo; Haumann, Niels Trusbak; Vuust, Peter; Brattico, Elvira; Baggio, Giosuè. (2018) From random to regular: Neural constraints on the emergence of isochronous rhythm during cultural transmission. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience. volum 13 (8).
    Academic article
  • Lumaca, Massimo; Ravignani, Andrea; Baggio, Giosuè. (2018) Music evolution in the laboratory: Cultural transmission meets neurophysiology. Frontiers in Neuroscience. volum 12.
    Academic article

2017

  • Baggio, Giosuè; Bremnes, Heming Strømholt. (2017) Book review: Jakub Szymanik, Quantifiers and Cognition. Logical and Computational Perspectives. Studia Logica: An International Journal for Symbolic Logic. volum 105 (5).
    Review
  • Cosentino, Erica; Baggio, Giosuè; Kontinen, Jarmo; Werning, Markus. (2017) The time-course of sentence meaning composition: N400 effects of the interaction between context-induced and lexically-stored affordances. Frontiers in Psychology. volum 8.
    Academic article
  • Lumaca, Massimo; Baggio, Giosuè. (2017) Cultural transmission and evolution of melodic structures in multi-generational signaling games. Artificial Life. volum 23 (3).
    Academic article
  • Nowak, Iga; Baggio, Giosuè. (2017) Developmental constraints on learning artificial grammars with fixed, flexible and free word order. Frontiers in Psychology. volum 8.
    Academic article

2016

  • Baggio, Giosuè; Cherubini, Paolo; Pischedda, Doris; Blumenthal, Anna; Haynes, John Dylan; Reverberi, Carlo. (2016) Multiple neural representations of elementary logical connectives. NeuroImage. volum 135.
    Academic article
  • Baggio, Giosuè; Granello, Giulia; Verriello, Lorenzo; Roberto, Eleopra. (2016) Formal semantics in the neurology clinic: Atypical understanding of aspectual coercion in ALS patients. Frontiers in Psychology. volum 7.
    Academic article
  • Baggio, Giosuè; Stenning, Keith; van Lambalgen, Michiel. (2016) Semantics and cognition. The Cambridge Handbook of Formal Semantics.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Baggio, Giosuè; Vicario, Carmelo. (2016) Language processing is not a race against time. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. volum 39.
    Academic article
  • Lumaca, Massimo; Baggio, Giosuè. (2016) Brain potentials predict learning, transmission and modification of an artificial symbolic system. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience. volum 11 (12).
    Academic article
  • Nowak, Iga; Baggio, Giosuè. (2016) The emergence of word order and morphology in compositional languages via multi-generational signaling games. Journal of Language Evolution. volum 1 (2).
    Academic article

2015

  • Baggio, Giosuè; van Lambalgen, Michiel; Hagoort, Peter. (2015) Logic as Marr's computational level: Four case studies. Topics in Cognitive Science. volum 7 (2).
    Academic article
  • Brederoo, Sanne; Bos, Laura Simone; Dragoy, Olga; Bastiaanse, Roelien; Baggio, Giosuè. (2015) Gamma oscillations as a neural signature of shifting times in narrative language. PLOS ONE. volum 10 (4).
    Academic article
  • Fonseca, André; Boboeva, Vezha; Brederoo, Sanne; Baggio, Giosuè. (2015) Disrupting morphosyntactic and lexical semantic processing has opposite effects on the sample entropy of neural signals. Brain Research. volum 1604.
    Academic article
  • Moreno, Maggie; Baggio, Giosuè. (2015) Role asymmetry and code transmission in signaling games: An experimental and computational investigation. Cognitive Science. volum 39 (5).
    Academic article

2013

  • Pavan, Andrea; Baggio, Giosuè. (2013) Linguistic representations of motion do not depend on the visual motion system. Psychological Science. volum 24 (2).
    Academic article
  • Pavan, Andrea; Skujevskis, Maris; Baggio, Giosuè. (2013) Motion words selectively modulate direction discrimination sensitivity for threshold motion. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. volum 7.
    Academic article

2012

  • Baggio, Giosuè. (2012) Selective alignment of brain responses by task demands during semantic processing. Neuropsychologia. volum 50 (5).
    Academic article
  • Baggio, Giosuè; Fonseca, André. (2012) Complex dynamics of semantic memory access in reading. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. volum 9 (67).
    Academic article
  • Baggio, Giosuè; van Lambalgen, Michiel; Hagoort, Peter. (2012) Language, linguistics and cognition. Philosophy of Linguistics.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Baggio, Giosuè; van Lambalgen, Michiel; Hagoort, Peter. (2012) The processing consequences of compositionality. The Oxford Handbook of Compositionality.
    Academic chapter/article

2011

  • Baggio, Giosuè; Hagoort, Peter. (2011) The balance between memory and unification in semantics: A dynamic account of the N400. Language and Cognitive Processes. volum 26 (9).
    Academic article

2010

  • Baggio, Giosuè; Choma, Travis; van Lambalgen, Michiel; Hagoort, Peter. (2010) Coercion and compositionality. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. volum 22 (9).
    Academic article

2009

  • Hagoort, Peter; Baggio, Giosuè; Willems, Roel. (2009) Semantic unification. The Cognitive Neurosciences, 4th Edition.
    Academic chapter/article

2008

  • Baggio, Giosuè. (2008) Processing temporal constraints: An ERP study. Language Learning. volum 58.
    Academic article
  • Baggio, Giosuè; van Lambalgen, Michiel; Hagoort, Peter. (2008) Computing and recomputing discourse models: An ERP study. Journal of Memory and Language. volum 59 (1).
    Academic article

2007

  • Baggio, Giosuè; van Lambalgen, Michiel. (2007) The processing consequences of the imperfective paradox. Journal of Semantics. volum 24 (4).
    Academic article

Scientific articles

  • Lumaca, Massimo; Bonetti, Leonardo; Brattico, Elvira; Baggio, Giosuè; Ravignani, Andrea; Vuust, Peter. (2023) High-fidelity transmission of auditory symbolic material is associated with reduced right–left neuroanatomical asymmetry between primary auditory regions. Cerebral Cortex.
    Academic article
  • Nefdt, Ryan, M.; Baggio, Giosuè. (2023) Notational variants and cognition: The case of dependency grammar. Erkenntnis: An International Journal of Scientific Philosophy.
    Academic article
  • Bremnes, Heming Strømholt; Szymanik, Jakub; Baggio, Giosuè. (2022) Computational complexity explains neural differences in quantifier verification. Cognition. volum 223.
    Academic article
  • Baggio, Giosuè. (2021) Compositionality in a parallel architecture for language processing. Cognitive Science. volum 45 (5).
    Academic article
  • Fritz, Isabella; Baggio, Giosuè. (2021) Neural and behavioural effects of typicality, denotation and composition in an adjective–noun combination task. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. volum 37 (5).
    Academic article
  • Lumaca, Massimo; Baggio, Giosuè; Vuust, Peter. (2021) White matter variability in auditory callosal pathways contributes to variation in the cultural transmission of auditory symbolic systems. Brain Structure and Function. volum 226.
    Academic article
  • Lumaca, Massimo; Brattico, Elvira; Baggio, Giosuè. (2021) Signaling games and music as a credible signal. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. volum 44.
    Academic article
  • Lumaca, Massimo; Vuust, Peter; Baggio, Giosuè. (2021) Network Analysis of Human Brain Connectivity Reveals Neural Fingerprints of a Compositionality Bias in Signaling Systems. Cerebral Cortex. volum 32 (8).
    Academic article
  • van Rooij, Iris A.L.M.; Baggio, Giosuè. (2021) Theory before the test: How to build high-verisimilitude explanatory theories in psychological science. Perspectives on Psychological Science. volum 16 (4).
    Academic article
  • Calinescu, Lia; Giskes, Anna; Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova; Baggio, Giosuè. (2020) Embedding (im)plausible clauses in propositional attitude contexts: Modulatory effects on the N400 and late components. Journal of Neurolinguistics. volum 53.
    Academic article
  • Fritz, Isabella; Baggio, Giosuè. (2020) Meaning composition in minimal phrasal contexts: Distinct ERP effects of intensionality and denotation. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. volum 35 (10).
    Academic article
  • Islam, Farjana; Baggio, Giosuè. (2020) Kripkeans of the world, unite!. Journal of Semantics. volum 37 (2).
    Academic article
  • Luzzi, Simona; Baldinelli, Sara; Ranaldi, Valentina; Fiori, Chiara; Plutino, Andrea; Fringuelli, Fabio Massimo; Silvestrini, Mauro; Baggio, Giosuè; Reverberi, Carlo. (2020) The neural bases of discourse semantic and pragmatic deficits in patients with frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Cortex. volum 128.
    Academic article
  • Morgan, Elena Usai; Van der Meer, Audrey; Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova; Blasi, Damián; Baggio, Giosuè. (2020) Meaning before grammar: A review of ERP experiments on the neurodevelopmental origins of semantic processing. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. volum 27 (3).
    Academic article
  • Olstad, Anne Marte Haug; Fritz, Isabella; Baggio, Giosuè. (2020) Composition decomposed: Distinct neural mechanisms support processing of nouns in modification and predication contexts. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory and Cognition. volum 46 (11).
    Academic article
  • van Rooij, Iris A.L.M.; Baggio, Giosuè. (2020) Theory development requires an epistemological sea change. Psychological Inquiry. volum 31 (4).
    Academic article
  • Lumaca, Massimo; Kleber, Boris; Brattico, Elvira; Vuust, Peter; Baggio, Giosuè. (2019) Functional connectivity in human auditory networks and the origins of variation in the transmission of musical systems. eLIFE. volum 8.
    Academic article
  • Martin, Andrea E; Baggio, Giosuè. (2019) Modelling meaning composition from formalism to mechanism. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences. volum 375 (1791).
    Academic article
  • Michalon, Olivier; Baggio, Giosuè. (2019) Meaning-driven syntactic predictions in a parallel processing architecture: Theory and algorithmic modeling of ERP effects. Neuropsychologia. volum 131.
    Academic article
  • Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova; Milburn, Evelyn Arko; Vulchanov, Valentin; Baggio, Giosuè. (2019) Boon or burden? The role of compositional meaning in figurative language processing and acquisition. Journal of Logic, Language and Information. volum 28 (2).
    Academic article
  • Lumaca, Massimo; Haumann, Niels Trusbak; Vuust, Peter; Brattico, Elvira; Baggio, Giosuè. (2018) From random to regular: Neural constraints on the emergence of isochronous rhythm during cultural transmission. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience. volum 13 (8).
    Academic article
  • Lumaca, Massimo; Ravignani, Andrea; Baggio, Giosuè. (2018) Music evolution in the laboratory: Cultural transmission meets neurophysiology. Frontiers in Neuroscience. volum 12.
    Academic article
  • Cosentino, Erica; Baggio, Giosuè; Kontinen, Jarmo; Werning, Markus. (2017) The time-course of sentence meaning composition: N400 effects of the interaction between context-induced and lexically-stored affordances. Frontiers in Psychology. volum 8.
    Academic article
  • Lumaca, Massimo; Baggio, Giosuè. (2017) Cultural transmission and evolution of melodic structures in multi-generational signaling games. Artificial Life. volum 23 (3).
    Academic article
  • Nowak, Iga; Baggio, Giosuè. (2017) Developmental constraints on learning artificial grammars with fixed, flexible and free word order. Frontiers in Psychology. volum 8.
    Academic article
  • Baggio, Giosuè; Cherubini, Paolo; Pischedda, Doris; Blumenthal, Anna; Haynes, John Dylan; Reverberi, Carlo. (2016) Multiple neural representations of elementary logical connectives. NeuroImage. volum 135.
    Academic article
  • Baggio, Giosuè; Granello, Giulia; Verriello, Lorenzo; Roberto, Eleopra. (2016) Formal semantics in the neurology clinic: Atypical understanding of aspectual coercion in ALS patients. Frontiers in Psychology. volum 7.
    Academic article
  • Baggio, Giosuè; Vicario, Carmelo. (2016) Language processing is not a race against time. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. volum 39.
    Academic article
  • Lumaca, Massimo; Baggio, Giosuè. (2016) Brain potentials predict learning, transmission and modification of an artificial symbolic system. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience. volum 11 (12).
    Academic article
  • Nowak, Iga; Baggio, Giosuè. (2016) The emergence of word order and morphology in compositional languages via multi-generational signaling games. Journal of Language Evolution. volum 1 (2).
    Academic article
  • Baggio, Giosuè; van Lambalgen, Michiel; Hagoort, Peter. (2015) Logic as Marr's computational level: Four case studies. Topics in Cognitive Science. volum 7 (2).
    Academic article
  • Brederoo, Sanne; Bos, Laura Simone; Dragoy, Olga; Bastiaanse, Roelien; Baggio, Giosuè. (2015) Gamma oscillations as a neural signature of shifting times in narrative language. PLOS ONE. volum 10 (4).
    Academic article
  • Fonseca, André; Boboeva, Vezha; Brederoo, Sanne; Baggio, Giosuè. (2015) Disrupting morphosyntactic and lexical semantic processing has opposite effects on the sample entropy of neural signals. Brain Research. volum 1604.
    Academic article
  • Moreno, Maggie; Baggio, Giosuè. (2015) Role asymmetry and code transmission in signaling games: An experimental and computational investigation. Cognitive Science. volum 39 (5).
    Academic article
  • Pavan, Andrea; Baggio, Giosuè. (2013) Linguistic representations of motion do not depend on the visual motion system. Psychological Science. volum 24 (2).
    Academic article
  • Pavan, Andrea; Skujevskis, Maris; Baggio, Giosuè. (2013) Motion words selectively modulate direction discrimination sensitivity for threshold motion. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. volum 7.
    Academic article
  • Baggio, Giosuè. (2012) Selective alignment of brain responses by task demands during semantic processing. Neuropsychologia. volum 50 (5).
    Academic article
  • Baggio, Giosuè; Fonseca, André. (2012) Complex dynamics of semantic memory access in reading. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. volum 9 (67).
    Academic article
  • Baggio, Giosuè; Hagoort, Peter. (2011) The balance between memory and unification in semantics: A dynamic account of the N400. Language and Cognitive Processes. volum 26 (9).
    Academic article
  • Baggio, Giosuè; Choma, Travis; van Lambalgen, Michiel; Hagoort, Peter. (2010) Coercion and compositionality. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. volum 22 (9).
    Academic article
  • Baggio, Giosuè. (2008) Processing temporal constraints: An ERP study. Language Learning. volum 58.
    Academic article
  • Baggio, Giosuè; van Lambalgen, Michiel; Hagoort, Peter. (2008) Computing and recomputing discourse models: An ERP study. Journal of Memory and Language. volum 59 (1).
    Academic article
  • Baggio, Giosuè; van Lambalgen, Michiel. (2007) The processing consequences of the imperfective paradox. Journal of Semantics. volum 24 (4).
    Academic article

Journal publications

  • Baggio, Giosuè. (2022) Ronald J. Planer and Kim Sterelny, From signal to symbol: The evolution of language. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021, xx + 272 pp. Language and Cognition. volum 14 (3).
    Review
  • Baggio, Giosuè. (2021) Book Review: Derek Ball & Brian Rabern (Eds.), The Science of Meaning. Essays on the Metatheory of Natural Language Semantics. Oxford University Press. Hardback, pp. 432 + vii. Journal of Logic, Language and Information. volum 30 (4).
    Review
  • Baggio, Giosuè. (2020) Morten H. Christiansen & Nick Chater, Creating Language: Integrating Evolution, Acquisition, and Processing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016. Pp. xiv + 330. Nordic Journal of Linguistics. volum 43 (1).
    Review
  • Morgan, Elena Usai; Baggio, Giosuè. (2019) Language in Our Brain: The Origins of a Uniquely Human Capacity, by Angela D. Friederici. Journal of Language Evolution. volum 4 (1).
    Review
  • Baggio, Giosuè. (2018) Andrea Moro, A brief history of the verb to be. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018. Pp. xvi + 288. Journal of Linguistics. volum 54 (4).
    Review
  • Lumaca, Massimo; Baggio, Giosuè. (2018) Signaling games and the evolution of structure in language and music: A reply to Ravignani and Verhoef (2018). Artificial Life. volum 24 (2).
    Letter to the editor
  • Baggio, Giosuè; Bremnes, Heming Strømholt. (2017) Book review: Jakub Szymanik, Quantifiers and Cognition. Logical and Computational Perspectives. Studia Logica: An International Journal for Symbolic Logic. volum 105 (5).
    Review

Books

  • Baggio, Giosuè. (2022) Neurolinguistics. MIT Press. 2022. ISBN 9780262543262.
    Scientific monography
  • Martin, Andrea E; Baggio, Giosuè. (2020) Towards mechanistic models of meaning composition. 2020. ISBN 9781782524366.
    Scientific anthology
  • Baggio, Giosuè. (2018) Meaning in the Brain. MIT Press. 2018. ISBN 9780262038126.
    Scientific monography

Part of book/report

  • Baggio, Giosuè. (2020) Epistemic transfer between linguistics and neuroscience: Problems and prospects. The Philosophy and Science of Language. Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova; Saldaña, David; Baggio, Giosuè. (2020) Word structure and word processing in developmental disorders. Word Knowledge and Word Usage: A Cross-disciplinary Guide to the Mental Lexicon.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Baggio, Giosuè; Stenning, Keith; van Lambalgen, Michiel. (2016) Semantics and cognition. The Cambridge Handbook of Formal Semantics.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Baggio, Giosuè; van Lambalgen, Michiel; Hagoort, Peter. (2012) Language, linguistics and cognition. Philosophy of Linguistics.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Baggio, Giosuè; van Lambalgen, Michiel; Hagoort, Peter. (2012) The processing consequences of compositionality. The Oxford Handbook of Compositionality.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Hagoort, Peter; Baggio, Giosuè; Willems, Roel. (2009) Semantic unification. The Cognitive Neurosciences, 4th Edition.
    Academic chapter/article

Teaching

Current courses

  • Language and Cognition (SPRÅK3300; 7.5 credits; coordinator, instructor, examiner)
  • Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (NEVR3003; 7.5 credits; instructor)
  • Introduction to Neuroscience (NEVR2010; 15 credits; instructor)

Academic supervision

  • Matteo Radaelli (PhD candidate; co-supervisor Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa)
  • Jeske Toorman (PhD candidate; main supervisor Jussi Haukioja, NTNU)
  • Joe Collins (postdoctoral fellow; co-supervisor Alessandro Treves, SISSA)
  • Lia Călinescu (PhD candidate; co-supervisor Gillian Ramchand, UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
  • Heming Strømholt Bremnes (PhD candidate; co-supervisor Jakub Szymanik, University of Trento)

Media

Finding language in the brain

The MIT Press Reader | 2022

Fundamental forces of the mind

Babel — The Language Magazine | 2019

Norway puts plans for ‘corporate’ universities on ice

Times Higher Education | 2019

Il senso per la musica

Le Scienze — Mente & Cervello | 2017

We should offer training in quantitative methods to all humanities students

Universitetsavisa | 2017

Premiare il potenziale di crescita, non solo la produttività media dei dipartimenti universitari

Menabò di Etica e Economia | 2017

Nordic higher education in decline?

Times Higher Education | 2016

Universities need a REF that rewards potential

Times Higher Education | 2016
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