Giosuè Baggio

About

I am Professor of Psycholinguistics in the Department of Language and Literature at NTNU and co-director of the Language Acquisition and Language Processing Lab.

I investigate cognitive and computational aspects of human language processing, language evolution, and the architecture of language in the brain, with forays into music cognition and evolution, language development, logic, and metascience.

I am author of the books Meaning in the Brain (MIT Press 2018) and Neurolinguistics (MIT Press Essential Knowledge series 2022).

I have an MSc from the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation in Amsterdam and a PhD from the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour in Nijmegen. Prior to joining NTNU in 2014, I was at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen and at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste.

Publications

2012

Baggio, Giosuè; van Lambalgen, Michiel; Hagoort, Peter. (2012) Language, linguistics and cognition. Elsevier
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Baggio, Giosuè; Fonseca, André. (2012) Complex dynamics of semantic memory access in reading. Journal of the Royal Society Interface
Academic article
Baggio, Giosuè; van Lambalgen, Michiel; Hagoort, Peter. (2012) The processing consequences of compositionality. Oxford University Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Baggio, Giosuè. (2012) Selective alignment of brain responses by task demands during semantic processing. Neuropsychologia
Academic 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
Academic article

2010

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

2009

Hagoort, Peter; Baggio, Giosuè; Willems, Roel. (2009) Semantic unification. MIT Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2008

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

2007

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

Journal publications

Baggio, Giosuè; Murphy, Elliot. (2024) On the referential capacity of language models: An internalist rejoinder to Mandelkern & Linzen. arXiv
Short communication
Baggio, Giosuè; De Santo, Aniello; Nuñez, Nancy Abigail. (2024) Plausibility and early theory in linguistics and cognitive science. Computational Brain & Behavior
Academic article
Bremnes, Heming Strømholt; Szymanik, Jakub; Baggio, Giosuè. (2024) The interplay of computational complexity and memory load during quantifier verification. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
Academic article
Lumaca, Massimo; Keller, Peter E; Baggio, Giosuè; Pando-Naude, Victor; Bajada, Claude J; Martinez, Mie A. (2024) Frontoparietal network topology as a neural marker of musical perceptual abilities. Nature Communications
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
Haukioja, Jussi Tapio; Toorman, Jeske; Baggio, Giosuè; Jylkka, Jussi. (2023) Are Natural Kind Terms Ambiguous?. Cognitive Science
Academic article
Abreu, Regina; Postarnak, Svetlana; Vulchanov, Valentin Ivanov; Baggio, Giosuè; Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova. (2023) The association between statistical learning and language development during childhood: A scoping review. Heliyon
Academic article
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
Calinescu, Lia; Ramchand, Gillian C; Baggio, Giosuè. (2023) How (not) to look for meaning composition in the brain: A reassessment of current experimental paradigms. Frontiers in Language Sciences
Academic article
Bremnes, Heming Strømholt; Szymanik, Jakub; Baggio, Giosuè. (2022) Computational complexity explains neural differences in quantifier verification. Cognition
Academic article
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
Book review
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
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
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
Academic article
Baggio, Giosuè. (2021) Compositionality in a parallel architecture for language processing. Cognitive Science
Academic article
Lumaca, Massimo; Brattico, Elvira; Baggio, Giosuè. (2021) Signaling games and music as a credible signal. Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Academic article
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
Book review
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
Academic article
Luzzi, Simona; Baldinelli, Sara; Ranaldi, Valentina; Fiori, Chiara; Plutino, Andrea; Fringuelli, Fabio Massimo. (2020) The neural bases of discourse semantic and pragmatic deficits in patients with frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Cortex
Academic article
Fritz, Isabella; Baggio, Giosuè. (2020) Meaning composition in minimal phrasal contexts: Distinct ERP effects of intensionality and denotation. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
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
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
Academic article
Islam, Farjana; Baggio, Giosuè. (2020) Kripkeans of the world, unite!. Journal of Semantics
Academic 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
Book review
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
Academic article
van Rooij, Iris A.L.M.; Baggio, Giosuè. (2020) Theory development requires an epistemological sea change. Psychological Inquiry
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
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
Book review
Michalon, Olivier; Baggio, Giosuè. (2019) Meaning-driven syntactic predictions in a parallel processing architecture: Theory and algorithmic modeling of ERP effects. Neuropsychologia
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
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
Academic article
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
Letter to the editor
Baggio, Giosuè. (2018) Andrea Moro, A brief history of the verb to be. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018. Pp. xvi + 288. Journal of Linguistics
Book review
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
Academic article
Lumaca, Massimo; Ravignani, Andrea; Baggio, Giosuè. (2018) Music evolution in the laboratory: Cultural transmission meets neurophysiology. Frontiers in Neuroscience
Academic article
Nowak, Iga; Baggio, Giosuè. (2017) Developmental constraints on learning artificial grammars with fixed, flexible and free word order. Frontiers in Psychology
Academic article
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
Book review
Lumaca, Massimo; Baggio, Giosuè. (2017) Cultural transmission and evolution of melodic structures in multi-generational signaling games. Artificial Life
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
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
Academic article
Baggio, Giosuè; Vicario, Carmelo. (2016) Language processing is not a race against time. Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Academic article
Baggio, Giosuè; Cherubini, Paolo; Pischedda, Doris; Blumenthal, Anna; Haynes, John Dylan; Reverberi, Carlo. (2016) Multiple neural representations of elementary logical connectives. NeuroImage
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
Academic article
Lumaca, Massimo; Baggio, Giosuè. (2016) Brain potentials predict learning, transmission and modification of an artificial symbolic system. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience
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
Academic article
Moreno, Maggie; Baggio, Giosuè. (2015) Role asymmetry and code transmission in signaling games: An experimental and computational investigation. Cognitive Science
Academic article
Baggio, Giosuè; van Lambalgen, Michiel; Hagoort, Peter. (2015) Logic as Marr's computational level: Four case studies. Topics in Cognitive Science
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
Academic article
Pavan, Andrea; Baggio, Giosuè. (2013) Linguistic representations of motion do not depend on the visual motion system. Psychological Science
Academic article
Pavan, Andrea; Skujevskis, Maris; Baggio, Giosuè. (2013) Motion words selectively modulate direction discrimination sensitivity for threshold motion. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Academic article
Baggio, Giosuè; Fonseca, André. (2012) Complex dynamics of semantic memory access in reading. Journal of the Royal Society Interface
Academic article
Baggio, Giosuè. (2012) Selective alignment of brain responses by task demands during semantic processing. Neuropsychologia
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
Academic article
Baggio, Giosuè; Choma, Travis; van Lambalgen, Michiel; Hagoort, Peter. (2010) Coercion and compositionality. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Academic article
Baggio, Giosuè; van Lambalgen, Michiel; Hagoort, Peter. (2008) Computing and recomputing discourse models: An ERP study. Journal of Memory and Language
Academic article
Baggio, Giosuè. (2008) Processing temporal constraints: An ERP study. Language Learning
Academic article
Baggio, Giosuè; van Lambalgen, Michiel. (2007) The processing consequences of the imperfective paradox. Journal of Semantics
Academic article

Books

Baggio, Giosuè. (2022) Neurolinguistics. MIT Press MIT Press
Academic monograph
Martin, Andrea E; Baggio, Giosuè. (2020) Towards mechanistic models of meaning composition. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Baggio, Giosuè. (2018) Meaning in the Brain. MIT Press MIT Press
Academic monograph

Part of book/report

Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova; Saldaña, David; Baggio, Giosuè. (2020) Word structure and word processing in developmental disorders. De Gruyter Mouton
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Baggio, Giosuè. (2020) Epistemic transfer between linguistics and neuroscience: Problems and prospects. Palgrave Macmillan
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Baggio, Giosuè; Stenning, Keith; van Lambalgen, Michiel. (2016) Semantics and cognition. Cambridge University Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Baggio, Giosuè; van Lambalgen, Michiel; Hagoort, Peter. (2012) Language, linguistics and cognition. Elsevier
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Baggio, Giosuè; van Lambalgen, Michiel; Hagoort, Peter. (2012) The processing consequences of compositionality. Oxford University Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Hagoort, Peter; Baggio, Giosuè; Willems, Roel. (2009) Semantic unification. MIT Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper