It was such a pleasure to help organize #ISGS10 in Nijmegen! Some photo highlights from talks on tools & educational resources for kinematic analysis of gesture, the role of gesture in narrative recall in typical & ayptical aging w/ @martinamellana.bsky.social, & multiparty audience design in TBI.

🌟The closing session of #ISGS2025 has officially concluded—thank you to all our speakers, presenters and attendees! See you at ISGS11 in Hong Kong 🌟

We are looking forward to our next EnvisionBox summerschool next week at the University of Amsterdam. We are also very pleased with the poster (with new logo for envisionbox)! @jamestrujillo.bsky.social @babajideowoyele.bsky.social @skadava.bsky.social

Excited to share this viewpoint on why studying group audience design processes in TBI can lead to new clinical and scientific insights about communication difficulties after brain injury. Will be followed up soon w/ empirical papers examining adaptation across speech, gesture, and gaze modalities!

Multiparty Communication: A New Direction in Characterizing the Impact of Traumatic Brain Injury on Social Communication. New publication by Kekes-Szabo, @shariceclough.bsky.social, Brown-Schmidt & Duff. doi.org/10.1044/2025....

📢 We are thrilled to announce that the full program for #ISGS2025 is now available on our website: isgs10.nl ✨Explore the detailed schedule featuring latest advancements in multimodal language research ✨

🧠 In an EEG experiment, we recorded brain activity while participants listened to the questions. Gestures led to signals of 𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 before the upcoming target word (i.e., alpha and beta power decreases), and 𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙚𝙧 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 of the target word once it was heard (i.e., less negative N400) ✔️

Very proud of this part of @marlijnterbekke.bsky.social’s PhD work being out, our first work combining avatars, gestures and EEG! 🎉

📣 📣Acceptance letters sent for #ISGS2025 “From motion to meaning: innovations in multimodal language research” 🆕check out 2 preconference workshops &come in early 🆕 🗓️ You will get the BEST RATE if you register before May 31 🔎 For more information: isgs10.nl

📢 We are excited to announce that registration for #ISGS2025 IS OPEN! 🗓️ You will get the BEST RATE if you register before May 31 🔎 For more information: isgs10.nl/registration @mpi-nl.bsky.social @asliozyurek.bsky.social

Hora est! 🎓 On Friday I successfully defended my PhD thesis "On how gestures facilitate prediction and fast responding during conversation", which can be found here (lnkd.in/eewcJYyt). It was an absolutely fantastic day! 😍

Come work with us! Our department is hiring an associate/assistant prof in language and speech technology www.ru.nl/en/working-a... #interspeech #speech #SpeechTech #SpeechScience

More to come on this front soon! Congratulations @martinamellana.bsky.social 🙌

Spatial working memory is critical for gesture processing: Evidence from gestures with varying semantic links to speech. New paper by Demet Özer, @asliozyurek.bsky.social & Tilbe Göksun doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02642-4

The #BASConf25 abstract submission portal is open! Submit your abstracts for presentations, panels, lightning talks, or posters here: blogs.city.ac.uk/bas2025/subm... • Submission Deadline: 17 Mar 2025, 9AM UK • Notification of Acceptance: 2 May 2025 • Conference: 18-20 August 2025 #aphasia

This article--on the systematic dismantling of the NIH, NSF, and CDC--is a must-read not only for researchers and clinicians but for anyone who has ever gotten a vaccine, taken medication, read the results of a research study, or gotten tested for Covid, flu, or STIs. www.science.org/content/blog...

🚨 New open-access paper out now in PB&R: link.springer.com/article/10.3... We (w/ Ted Gibson, @swathikiran.bsky.social) explore how individuals with aphasia interpret sentences & whether their comprehension difficulties stem from increased expectations of noise in language input. 🧵👇

Come and join our next IBIA webinar: Advancing Communication Partner Training following Brain Injury: Past, Present, and Future by @petraavramovic.bsky.social Feb 6, 2023, 3 PM EST/Feb 7, 2025, 7 AM AEDT Social Cognition, Communication and Affect SIG www.internationalbrain.org/meetings-and...

⏰ONE WEEK left to submit your abstracts for #ISGS2025 Deadline: January 31 Don’t miss our great line up of keynote speakers and three days full of the latest multimodal language research!

Facial signals shape predictions about the nature of upcoming conversational responses. New paper by @alexemmendorfer.bsky.social & @judithholler.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-85192-y

Loving the influx to BSky! Follow us and the #aphasia to join the conversation! go.bsky.app/PW5JHmQ

Eleanor Maguire, who died 4 January at age 54, pioneered the famous London taxi-driver study and naturalistic approaches for studying spatial and episodic memory in people. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/memory/remem...

We wouldn’t have complex language if it weren’t for interactive repair. Last year around this time our review 'Interactive repair and the foundations of language' came out doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... (PDF pure.mpg.de/pubman/item/...) I blogged about it here ideophone.org/interactive-... #langsky

New preprint w/ Melissa Evans, Melissa Duff, & Sarah Brown-Schmidt. Using a temporal contiguity analysis, we showed that when adults w/ TBI retell stories, they make larger jumps between story details & demonstrate overall reduced temporal organization than non-injured peers. osf.io/preprints/ps...