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Dr. Borghi is also an associate researcher at the Laboratory of Autonomous Robotics and Artificial Life (LARAL) (http://laral.istc.cnr.it), Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC), National Reserch Council (CNR), Rome. She obtained her PhD in Psychology with a dissertation on the role of perception and action in categorization. Dr. Borghi is currently the coordinator of an FP7 project ROSSI (Emergence of communication in Robots through Sensorimotor and Social Interaction). Dr. Borghi's main area of research is embodied cognition and the interaction between knowledge and perception and action. Her current interests focus on the relationships between object concepts and action, the role of affordances in categorization, the grounding of language in sensorimotor processes. She works using both experimental methods and computer simulations.