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Bruno G. Bara
Researcher at University of Turin
Publications - 70
Citations - 3182
Bruno G. Bara is an academic researcher from University of Turin. The author has contributed to research in topics: Theory of mind & Pragmatics. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 70 publications receiving 2921 citations.
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Understanding Intentions in Social Interaction: The Role of the Anterior Paracingulate Cortex
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that distinct areas of the neural system underlying theory of mind are specialized in processing distinct classes of social stimuli, and this result suggests that the anterior PCC is also involved in the ability to predict future intentional social interaction, based on an isolated agent's behavior.
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The intentional network: how the brain reads varieties of intentions.
Angela Ciaramidaro,Angela Ciaramidaro,Mauro Adenzato,Ivan Enrici,Susanne Erk,Lorenzo Pia,Lorenzo Pia,Bruno G. Bara,Henrik Walter +8 more
TL;DR: The results demonstrate the progressive recruitment of the ToM network along the theoretical dimensions introduced in the present paper, including a novel theoretical distinction among varieties of intention, which differ by the nature of an individual's pursued goal and by the social interaction's temporal dimension.
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How children comprehend speech acts and communicative gestures
TL;DR: This paper investigated the ability of children to comprehend direct, indirect, deceitful, and ironic communicative acts and found that participants performed equally well in speech acts and in communicative gestures.
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Communicative impairment in traumatic brain injury: a complete pragmatic assessment.
TL;DR: Performance by TBI patients was worse than that of controls on all scales and showed a trend of increasing difficulty in understanding and producing different pragmatic phenomena, i.e., standard communication acts, deceits and ironies.