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Aarhus University: Aarhus, DK

2020-12-01 to present | Postdoctoral Researcher (Interacting Minds Centre)
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Roberta Rocca

The University of Texas at Austin: Austin, TX, US

2019-12-01 to 2022-07-31 | Postdoctoral Researcher (Department of Psychology)
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Roberta Rocca

Aarhus University: Aarhus, DK

2016-09-01 to 2019-11-01 | PhD Student (Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics; Interacting Minds Centre)
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Roberta Rocca

Education and qualifications (3)

University of Trento: Trento, IT

2014-09-01 to 2016-07-20 | MSc in Cognitive Science (CIMEC - Centre for Mind/Brain Sciences)
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University College London: London, London, GB

2016-04-01 to 2016-07-01 | Research Assistant (Department of Experimental Psychology)
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Roberta Rocca

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics: Nijmegen, NL

2015-08-01 to 2016-03-31 | Research Assistant (Language and Cognition Department)
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Funding (1)

DCOMM - Deictic Communication

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Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (EU, DK)
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Roberta Rocca

Works (26)

Multimodal Pre-Training of Vision Models Yields Better Embeddings for Visual Art

Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications
2025-03-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Louise Brix Pilegaard Hansen; Jan Kostkan; Roberta Rocca; Kristoffer Nielbo
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Social Context Matters for Turn-Taking Dynamics: A Comparative Study of Autistic and Typically Developing Children

2024-11-06 | Preprint
Contributors: Christopher Martin Mikkelsen Cox; Riccardo Fusaroli; Yngwie Asbjørn Nielsen; Sunghye Cho; Roberta Rocca; Arndis Simonsen; Azia Knox; Meg Lyons; Mark Liberman; Christopher Cieri et al.
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Social Context Matters for Turn-Taking Dynamics: A Comparative Study of Autistic and Typically Developing Children

2024-11-06 | Preprint
Contributors: Christopher Martin Mikkelsen Cox; Riccardo Fusaroli; Yngwie Asbjørn Nielsen; Sunghye Cho; Roberta Rocca; Arndis Simonsen; Azia Knox; Meg Lyons; Mark Liberman; Christopher Cieri et al.
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Communicating Europe: a computational analysis of the evolution of the European Commission’s communication on Twitter

Journal of Computational Social Science
2024-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Roberta Rocca; Katharina Lawall; Manos Tsakiris; Laura Cram
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This and That in Depression: Cross-linguistic Semantic Effects

2024-08-17 | Preprint
Contributors: Line Kruse; Roberta Rocca; Emanuela Todisco; Cordula Vesper; Peter Thestrup Waade; Mikkel Wallentin
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Inferring Depression and Its Semantic Underpinnings from Simple Lexical Choices

Depression and Anxiety
2024-03-28 | Journal article
Contributors: Line Kruse; Roberta Rocca; Mikkel Wallentin; Carlos Carona
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The effect of diversity and social interaction on cognitive search: An agent-based simulation

2024-01-18 | Preprint
Contributors: Roberta Rocca; Kristian Tylén
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Speech- and text-based classification of neuropsychiatric conditions in a multidiagnostic setting

Nature Mental Health
2023-11-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Lasse Hansen; Roberta Rocca; Arndis Simonsen; Ludvig Olsen; Alberto Parola; Vibeke Bliksted; Nicolai Ladegaard; Dan Bang; Kristian Tylén; Ethan Weed et al.
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Inferring depression and its semantic underpinnings from simple lexical choices

2023-09-09 | Preprint
Contributors: Line Kruse; Mikkel Wallentin; Roberta Rocca
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Communicating Europe: A computational analysis of the evolution of the European Commission’s communication on Twitter

2023-05-18 | Preprint
Contributors: Roberta Rocca; Katharina Lawall; Manos Tsakiris; Laura Cram
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Studying psychosis using Natural Language Generation: A review of emerging opportunities

2023-01-13 | Preprint
Contributors: Lena Palaniyappan; David Benrimoh; Alban Voppel; Roberta Rocca
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●Repeat after me? Both Children with and without Autism Commonly Align Their Language with That of Their Caregivers

2023-01-12 | Preprint
Contributors: Riccardo Fusaroli; Ethan Weed; Roberta Rocca; deborah fein; Letitia Naigles
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Neuroscout, a unified platform for generalizable and reproducible fMRI research

eLife
2022-08-30 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2050-084X
Contributors: Roberta Rocca
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Neuroscout, a unified platform for generalizable and reproducible fMRI research

2022-04-08 | Preprint
Contributors: Alejandro de la Vega; Roberta Rocca; Ross W. Blair; Christopher J. Markiewicz; Jeff Mentch; James D. Kent; Peer Herholz; Satrajit S. Ghosh; Russell A. Poldrack; Tal Yarkoni
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Caregiver linguistic alignment to autistic and typically developing children

2021-11-19 | Preprint
Contributors: Riccardo Fusaroli; Ethan Weed; Roberta Rocca; deborah fein; Letitia Naigles
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Putting Psychology to the Test: Rethinking Model Evaluation Through Benchmarking and Prediction

Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
2021-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Roberta Rocca; Tal Yarkoni
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The Semantics of Spatial Demonstratives in Spanish: A Demonstrative Choice Task Study

2021-04-23 | Other
Contributors: Emanuela Todisco; Roberta Rocca; Mikkel Wallentin
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This is for you: Social modulations of proximal vs. distal space in collaborative interaction

Scientific Reports
2019-10-18 | Journal article
Contributors: Roberta Rocca; Mikkel Wallentin; Cordula Vesper; Kristian Tylén
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Language beyond the language system: dorsal visuospatial pathways support processing of demonstratives and spatial language during naturalistic fast fMRI

2019-05-27 | Other
Contributors: Roberta Rocca; Kenny R. Coventry; Kristian Tylén; Marlene Staib; Torben E. Lund; Mikkel Wallentin
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This shoe, that tiger: Semantic properties reflecting manual affordances of the referent modulate demonstrative use

PLOS ONE
2019-01-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Roberta Rocca; Søren Wichmann; Kristian Tylén; Mikkel Wallentin
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Lateralized imagery for sentence content: Testing grammar, gender and demonstrative

40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
2018 | Conference poster
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Roberta Rocca

Spatial attention and perceptual-motor representations of demonstratives: a fast fMRI study using naturalistic auditory stimuli,

SNL 2018 – Conference of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language
2018 | Conference poster
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Roberta Rocca

This and that back in context: grounding demonstrative reference in manual and social affordances.

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
2018 | Journal article
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Roberta Rocca

Here and There around the brain: The role of extra-linguistic spatial representations in the comprehension of spatial deictics

2017 | Conference poster
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Roberta Rocca

A cross-cultural study on gestural transfer in Italian, Dutch and English

Annual Juniorendag of the Dutch Society for Applied Linguistics
2016 | Conference paper
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Roberta Rocca

Gesturing in L2: Evidence for cross-linguistic transfer in the visual modality

TWISTx Conference, Leiden
2016 | Conference paper
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Peer review (1 review for 1 publication/grant)

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