Biografia

Anna Borghi has a Master’s in Philosophy and a PhD in Psychology. After being a faculty member at the University of Bologna, she moved to Sapienza in 2017, where she is professor of General Psychology. Since 2001, she is also associate researcher at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italian National Research Council, Rome.  

She investigates sensorimotor and social aspects of cognition and behavior in young adults, children, and older adults. Research in her lab (BALLAB, Body, Action, and Language Lab) concerns the relationship between body and social interaction with concepts (particularly abstract concepts) and language (including inner speech).  

Her research received funding from the European Community, FARBB, Sapienza University, PRIN, and PNRR. 

She has been chief editor of the specialty Frontiers in Philosophical and Theoretical Psychology and is associate editor of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Band Psychological Research. 

Anna has authored ten books and over 200 chapters and articles, some published in prestigious journals (e.g., Current Directions in Psychological Science, Synthese, Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Review, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Trends in Cognitive Science-TICS). She recently wrote the monograph The freedom of words: On abstractness and the power of language, Cambridge University Press. 

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