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Bruno G. Bara     Bruno G. Bara

Md, Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology
Director of the Center for Cognitive Science
Coordinator of the doctorate in Cognitive Sciences
Director of the Schools of Cognitive Psychotherapy of Como and Torino
Full professor of Psychology of communication

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Conference Chair of the
XXVII Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

Research areas
  Mental Model of deduction  >  Reasoning
  Cognitive Pragmatics  >  Communication
  Neuropragmatics  >  Communication
  Attribution of intentionality  >  Metacognition
  Therapist/client relation  >  Psychophatology

Target paper to be commented

Bara, B.G. (2011).
Cognitive pragmatics: The mental processes of communication. Intercultural Pragmatics, 8-3, 443–485.
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Instructions
Readers should send their comments both to the author (bruno.bara@unito.it) and to the editor of the journal Intercultural Pragmatics: Istvan Kecskes (IKecskes@uamail.albany.edu). The piece should not be more than 10-12 double-spaced pages. If someone wants to write more, please contact the editor. Intercultural Pragmatics has the highest impact factor (0.929) out of the SEVEN journals of pragmatics.

Selected publications

Refereed Journals in English

Walter H., Ciaramidaro A., Adenzato M., Vasic N., Ardito R.B., Erk S., Bara B.G. (2009)
Dysfunction of the social brain in schizophrenia is modulated by intention type: An fMRI study. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, in press. doi:10.1093/scan/nsn047.

Angeleri R., Bosco F.M., Zettin M., Sacco K., Colle L., Bara B.G. (2008)
Communicative impairment in traumatic brain injury: A complete pragmatic assessment. Brain and Language, 107, 229-245.

Sacco K., Angeleri R., Bosco F.M., Colle L., Mate D., Bara B.G. (2008)
Assessment Battery for Communication? ABaCo: A new instrument for the evaluation of pragmatic abilities. Journal of Cognitive Science, 2, 111-157.

Ciaramidaro A., Adenzato M., Enrici I., Erk S., Pia L., Bara B.G., Walter H. (2007)
The intentional network: How the brain reads varieties of intentions. Neuropsychologia, 45, 3105-3133.

Becchio C., Adenzato M., Bara B.G. (2006)
How the brain understands intention: Different neural circuits identify the componential features of motor and prior intentions. Consciousness and Cognition, 15, 64-74.

Bosco F.M., Bucciarelli M., Bara B.G. (2006)
Recognition and repair of communicative failures: A developmental perspective. Journal of Pragmatics, 38, 9, 1398-1429.

Cutica I., Bucciarelli M., Bara B.G. (2006)
Neuropragmatics: Extralinguistic pragmatic ability is better preserved in left-hemisphere-damaged patients than in right-hemisphere-damaged patients. Brain and Language, 98, 12-25.

Bosco F.M., Bucciarelli M., Bara B.G. (2004)
The foundamental context categories in understanding communicative intention. Journal of Pragmatics, 36, 467-488.

Walter H., Adenzato M., Ciaramidaro A., Enrici I., Pia L., Bara B.G. (2004)
Understanding intentions in social interactions: The role of the anterior parancingulate cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 1854-1863. Special Issue on Social Cognitive Neuroscience.

Bucciarelli M., Colle L. & Bara G.B. (2003)
How children coprehend speech acts and communicative gestures. Journal of Pragmatics, 35, 207-241.

Bara B.G., Bucciarelli M. & Colle L. (2001)
Communicative abilities in autism: Evidence for attentional deficits. Brain and Language, 77, 216-240.

Bara B.G., Bucciarelli M. & Lombardo V. (2001)
Mental model theory of deduction: A unified computational approach. Cognitive Science, 25, 839-901.

Bara B.G., Bucciarelli M. & Geminiani G. (2000)
Development and decay of extra-linguistic communication. Brain and Cognition, 43, 1-3.

Bara B.G. & Tirassa M. (2000)
Neuropragmatics: Brain and communication. Brain and Language, 71, 10-14.

Bara B.G., Bosco F.M. & Bucciarelli M. (1999)
Developmental pragmatics in normal and abnormal children. Brain and Language, 68, 507-528.

Bara B.G., Tirassa M. & Zettin M. (1997)
Neuropragmatics: Neuropsychological constraints on formal theories of dialogue. Brain and Language, 59, 7-49.

Bara B.G., Bucciarelli M. & Johnson-Laird P.N. (1995)
Development of syllogistic reasoning. American Journal of Psychology, 2, 157-193.

Airenti G., Bara B.G. & Colombetti M.
(1993) Conversation and behaviour games in the pragmatics of dialogue. Cognitive Science, 17, 197-256.

Airenti G., Bara B.G. & Colombetti M.
(1993) Failure, exploitations and deceits in communication. Journal of Pragmatics, 20, 303-326.


Books

Bara B.G. (in press)
Cognitive Pragmatics. MIT Press, Cambridge MA.

Bara B.G. (2003)
Il sogno della permanenza. L'evoluzione della scrittura e del numero. Bollati Boringhieri, Torino.

Bara B.G. (2000)
Il metodo della scienza cognitiva. Un approccio evolutivo allo studio della mente. Bollati Boringhieri, Torino.

Bara B.G. (1999)
Pragmatica cognitiva. I processi mentali della comunicazione. Bollati Boringhieri, Torino.

Bara B.G. (1996)
Manuale di psicoterapia cognitiva. Bollati Boringhieri, Torino.

Bara B.G. (1995)
Cognitive science. A developmental approach to the simulation of the mind. Psychology Press, Hove, Uk.

Bara B.G. & Guida G. (1984)
Computational models of natural language processing. Elsevier Science, North-Holland, Amsterdam.


Editing

Bara, B.G., Barsalow, L. & Bucciarelli, M. (2005)
Eds. Proceedings of the XXVII Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Mahwah, New Jersey, USA.


Proceedings at international conferences

Angeleri R., Bosco F.M., Zettin M., Sacco K., Colle L., Bara B.G. (2008)
The Role of Cognitive Functions in Communication: The Case of Traumatic Brain Injury. In Sloutsky V., Love B., and McRae K. (Eds.) Proceedings of the XXX Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science (pp. pp. 805-810). Austin: Cognitive Science Society.

Vallana M., Bosco F.M., Angeleri R., Sacco K., Bara B.G. & Colle L. (2007)
Communicative Ability in Schizophrenic Patients: Executive Function, Theory of Mind and Mental Representations. In McNamara D., Trafton G., (Eds.) Proceedings at the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Nashville Cognitive Science Society, 1-6.

Angeleri R., Bosco F.M., Colle L., Sacco K., Zettin M., Bara B.G. (2006)
Pragmatic competence in closed head injury: Extralinguistic and paralinguistic aspects. Proceedings of the II Biennal Conference on Cognitive Science. Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Bara B.G., Adenzato M., Endici I., Ciaramidaro A., Pia L., Erk S., Walter H. (2006)
Reading other’s intentions: An fMRI study. In Sun R., Miyake N., (Eds.) Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference of the Cognitive Science in the Asian-Pacific Region. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ, 79-80.

Bara B.G. (2006)
Neuropragmatics: Behavioural and neuroimaging evidence for communicative intentions. Proceedings of the II Biennal Conference on Cognitive Science. Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Bara B.G., Barsalou L., Bucciarelli M. (Eds.) (2005)
Proceedings of the XXVII Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah NJ.

Bosco. F.M., Sacco K., Colle L., Angeleri R., Enrici I., Bo G., Bara B.G. (2004)
Simple and complex extralinguistics communicative acts. In Forbus K., Gentner D., Reiger D., (Eds.) Proceedings of the XXVI Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah NJ, 144-149.



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