Gabriella Vigliocco is an Italian experimental psychologist who conducts research in the field of psycholinguistics, focusing on psychological factors and neural mechanisms underlying people's ability to produce and understand language[1].
She attended graduate school at Universita degli Studi di Trieste where she obtained her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology in 1995 under the advisement of Carlo Semenza.
[11] Vigliocco has held grants from the James S. McDonnell Foundation,[12] Leverhulme Trust,[13] European Research Council,[14] and the Economic and Social Research Council[15] to study a wide range of topics, including semantic fields, early language acquisition, iconicity, and social influences on learning.
Outside of her academic work, Vigliocco enjoys spending time with her son and family, cooking, reading, and going to classical music concerts.
[4] Vigliocco's interdisciplinary work combines research methods from cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and computational modeling in an effort to understand how humans learn and use language.
[4] Through her research, Vigliocco highlights the importance of using gesture in language development, noting how contextual information is lost when communicating in non-face-to-face modalities.