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  • Emotion, language, and aesthetic perception: The impact of a powerful read, Lancaster Psychology Research Showcase Series, online, June 2021. Watch here
  • Language that conveys emotion, and aesthetic feelings, Departmental Seminar, Psychology Department, Northumbria University, December 2019
  • Emotion, language and aesthetic perception: the impact of a powerful read. Keynote speaker at the Romantic Novelists Conference, Lancaster University, July 2019
  • Metaphor, emotion and the brain. Department of English, Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt, Austria, January 2019
  • Neural approaches to the study of emotion evoked by (figurative) language. Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences (CISA), Geneva, October 2018
  • Metaphor, emotion and multilingualism. Creative multilingualism, University of Oxford, May 2018
  • Why are figurative expressions more engaging than their literal counterparts? Psychology Department, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, May 2017
  • Emotional valence and arousal affect written word recognition in an interactive way: behavioural and neurophysiological evidence. Computational Linguistics Lab, University of Pisa, Italy, March 2016
  • Figurative language plays an important role in evoking emotion: neuroscientific evidence. Computational Linguistics Lab, University of Pisa, Italy, March 2016
  • Neuroscientific evidence for a role of figurative language in engaging our interlocutors. Psychology Department, University of Melbourne, August 2015
  • Beyond sweet! A variety of conventional metaphors are more emotionally engaging than literal paraphrases. The University of Hong Kong, August 2015

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