From mode adoption to saluting a dead kitten

There has been some research in what can be broadly described as humor performance in the reactions to humorous turns (be they punch lines or jab lines). Two areas that have received particular attention are (1) the reactions to irony, which have been shown to range from mode adoption (i.e., when the respondent adopts the ironical mode and responds with irony to the irony) to treating the irony as a “literal” statement and reacting to it ignoring its ironical intention; and (2) failed humor, ...

Thinking About Innovation: The Case of Autonomous Vehicles

Un approccio neurolinguistico allo studio della malattia di Parkinson

La Neurolinguistica è una disciplina che analizza la relazione tra il linguaggio e il cervello, al fine di comprendere e descrivere le strutture neurobiologiche a sostegno delle funzioni linguistiche. Si tratta di una branca di studi a vocazione prettamente interdisciplinare, nata dall’incontro tra le Scienze del Linguaggio e altre discipline, quali la Neurologia, la Psicologia e le Neuroscienze cognitive, che si occupano di indagare, da prospettive diverse, il sistema nervoso dell’essere uma...

Towards a New Design Methodology for Vertical Traffic Calming Devices

With increasing emphasis on new soft mobility in urban areas, it becomes more and more important to provide effective speed control measures for vehicular traffic. Among those, the ones based on vehicle vertical deflection, namely vertical traffic calming measures, are historically the most widespread. However, since the basic operating principle of these devices is related to the vertical dynamic response due to the interaction between the moving vehicle and the road profile, different vehic...