Research Centres

Director: Prof. Luigi Rizzi

Activities

• The Interdepartmental Centre for Cognitive Studies of Language (CISCL) coordinates theoretical, descriptive and experimental studies of language from an interdisciplinary perspective of the cognitive sciences.
• Organizes cycles of workshops on specific lines of research.
• Participates in FIRB, COST, PRIN, ESF projects.
• Hosts research performed for PhD theses in the cognitive sciences referring to language.
• Hosts Italian and foreign visiting scholars and visiting students who present projects in the lines of research of the CISCL.
• Hosts student internships.

Organisation of operative units

• Centre for linguistic documentation (coordinator A. Belletti, room 326): Collection and cataloguing of preprints, theses and other unpublished documents related to linguistics, collection and availability of bodies of work of natural production of those learning a first and second language, of bilingual speakers and of various forms of language pathology.
• Laboratory for Experimental Linguistics and Syntactic Cartography (coordinator L. Rizzi, room 312): cartographic research on the fine structural mapping of syntactic structures; experimental research on L1 and L2 acquisition and on adult comprehension/production; simulative experiments in computational linguistics.
• Sector of the Philosophy of Language (coordinator G. Usberti, room 324)

Director: Prof. Alessandro Innocenti

The Interuniversity Centre for Experimental Economics (LabSi) was founded in 2008 by the University of Siena, the University of Florence, the Second University of Naples and the University of Salerno.

The Centre aims to:

a) promote the use and diffusion of experimental methods in economics through the involvement of scholars with different scientific skills from the fields of economics, cognitive sciences, cognitive psychology and business organisation;

b) develop and coordinate experimental research activity by providing scholars and researchers with the tools needed to perform laboratory research in the economic and cognitive sciences;

c) train specialised staff to ensure the guidance and collaboration needed to prepare and process experimental data;

d) organise conferences, workshops, seminars and didactic activity relative to the use of laboratory methods in the economic and cognitive sciences;

e) stipulate contracts and agreements for research projects and scientific collaboration with public and private institutions.

The Centre’s administrative and organisational headquarters are located at the University of Siena. Its activities are performed at the contracting Universities, and are organised based on the plans and programmes developed by the technical-scientific Committee.