👀 👂 How does the brain merge what we hear & see? @lindadrijvers.bsky.social got an ERC Starting Grant (≈ €1.5M) for HANDWAVE, studying how we integrate audiovisual signals. Vital for understanding language disorders & improving diagnostics.👇 www.ru.nl/en/research/...

The physical book copies have arrived: www.routledge.com/Introduction...

Please help me learn! I see people using CI for hypothesis testing (whether 95% CIs for slope cover 0), but Nicenboim, Schad &Vasishth say in their fantastic book that "just by looking at the [CIs], we cannot make inferences about whether a null hypothesis can be rejected". Why is this the case?

Our conversation analysis software is now on CRAN! Reach out with any questions. We hope it’s useful for all you language and social interaction folks out there.

Children are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/ www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social

At this point, I might as well -- Here's an infographic showing different ways to include age as a predictor. The top shows two extremes, just as a plain old numerical predictor (imposes linear trajectory) vs. categorical predictor (imposes nothing whatsoever). And then three solutions in between!

Sho presents his work validating dynamic time warping to a rapt #ISGS2025 audience. Lots of engagement afterwards #ProudSupervisor

Are you at #ISGS2025 today? Come see my talk in the kinematics session! I'll present my PhD work validating dynamic time warping (DTW) as a measure of gesture form similarity with manual ratings. We show that DTW can be an efficient, useful proxy for gesture form similarity!

Excited to present at ISGS25 this Thursday morning in Nijmegen! Together with @shariceclough.bsky.social , we’ll be sharing our work on the role of gesture in narrative recall across Alzheimer’s, MCI, and healthy aging. Looking forward to great discussions! 💪🏻🧠🗣️ #ISGS25

Let's say you want to include age as a predictor in your model. How do you do that? Here's an illustration of three options -- it's for a paper I'm working on (so if you feel like anything could be tweaked...).

We're hiring! Join us to work at the intersection of social interaction and language technology. Postdoc and PhD positions in my Futures of Language research group, based at Radboud University in Nijmegen, NL Read more: markdingemanse.net/futures/news... #linguistics #interaction #sts #emca #hci

Two nice papers now added to my primer of what to read about theory in cognitive science ... docs.google.com/document/d/1... 1/

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

📣 Calling early-career cognitive scientists in the Asia-Pacific! The CogSci Asia-Pacific Meetup Kickoff is coming: 📍 Dec 6–7, 2025 | Tokyo 🌱 Retreat-style event, community building, and cross-cultural exchange. Details: sites.google.com/view/cogsci-... #CogSci2025 #CognitiveScience

Absolutely. I also did this with all the figures I created for my textbook! osf.io/geqb6/

Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.

#NextGenSci asked young scientists to write a rule that all principal investigators should be required to follow to improve the experience of young scientists in their lab. Check out their answers on #NationalHigherEducationDay: scim.ag/45zsFEr

The Causal Bandits episode with me is finally up! We talked about a hodge-podge of causal inference and methods issues. I already got one positive testimonial from my boss who listened to the first half and liked it!

“As the presenter, assume that most questions are designed to help you. The questioner may well be trying to help you make your points more clearly, develop your claims, or provide helpful ideas for future work. Take every question as an opportunity to learn and think. Try not to be defensive”

"Human voice aligns with whole-body kinetics" is now published! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.... Headline: Muscles that control arm movement affect the voice! The EMG, acoustic, ground-reaction force, kinematics dataset is also fully open and FAIR reviewed: github.com/WimPouw/kine...

my lab (lacns.github.io) at @mpi-nl.bsky.social and @dondersinst.bsky.social is recruiting for two PhD and two postdoctoral positions funded by an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator - come join us! PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa... Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa... (please share widely)

Summer Workshop Alert‼️ The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan organizes on July 1 a hands-on DeepLabCut workshop led by Drs. Mackenzie and Alexander Mathis. Applications are open at www.oist.jp/conference/d...

How do we build theory in cogsci? traditional physics w its rich data and experimental possibilities is often used as parangon. We argue historical sciences provide an equally rich source: "Lessons for Theory from Scientific Domains Where Evidence is Sparse or Indirect": doi.org/10.1007/s421... 🧵 1/

Please join @asliozyurek.bsky.social, @tanialombrozo.bsky.social, Hannah Rohde and me **this Wednesday 12pm eastern**. What does the future of cogsci in higher ed look like? I promise it's not all bad news!! Register below!

It's bonkers that in academic science we spend hours obsessing over the wording of a paper, but often only one person has seen the code that produced the results! 2/N

Interested in the evolution of human language and in understanding the pressures that shape languages today? Come do a PhD with me! Fully funded PhD position available in my group @mpi-nl.bsky.social, application deadline June 2nd: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

If anyone is interested in using WhisperX to transcribe speech, this tutorial is for you!! In this tutorial, I provide an easy-to-use pipeline where you will get a time-aligned transcript as a Praat TextGrid file, a TSV file, and a subtitle file🙌 github.com/ShoAkamine/w...

>The earliest statisticians would spend hours thinking about their assumptions and models because the computations themselves might have taken days. Today we call those people Bayesians

New R package almost birthed - SemanticDistance - computes two semantic distance metrics (experiential and embedding) for any rolling chunk size (ngram-to-ngram, word-to-word, turn-to-turn, ngram-to-word). You give it your language sample. It does the rest, including lemmatize and stopword omit

I'm now searching for new PhD students who are interested in studying how people's brains understand sequences of images like in comics. So, a mix of comics, cogneuro (EEG), and psycholinguistics (especially syntax/semantics). Please circulate to all who might be interested! tiu.nu/22739

Inaugural post on bsky: The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus, providing audiovisual recordings and annotations of multimodal communicative behaviours by English-speaking adults in dyadic interaction with a child or another adult is now available rdcu.be/eblMF

Inspired by my reading this week, I wrote a list of the resources I think every cognitive science researcher should read/listen to about theory development. It's in this google.doc (feel free to add your own suggestions) and in the thread below. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Update: Our biomechanics EMG/Posture study on voice and upper limb kinetics has been accepted at Proceedings B. We show that moving the arms (while manipulating mass) recruits (postural) muscles that interact with the voice through respiratory interactions. Postprint: wimpouw.com/files/Pouwet...

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! 😍

This paper combining corpus and experimental avatar studies from Paul’s PhD work is finally out, demonstrating systematic relations between verbal repair formats and eyebrow movements, as well an influence of addressees’ eyebrow furrows on speakers’ speech.

📢 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

I wrote a quick tutorial for a student on how to use to R to get Whisper to automatically transcribe your audio. I figured others might find it useful too. #linguistics joeystanley.com/blog/whisper/

My book ‘Looking Ahead. The New Science of the Predictive Mind’ is available from today. Cambridge has provided a temporary promo code, if you enter HUETT24 and order via the CUP website you get 20% off any version (hardback, paperback, or ebook) www.cambridge.org/de/universit...

Autistic individuals benefit from gestures during degraded speech comprehension. Final version by Sara Mazzini, Noor Seijdel & @lindadrijvers.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/13623613241286570

I completely re-worked my course "Introduction to Bayesian statistics with brms" and taught it for the 1st time this week. It is meant as a tutorial for ecologists, but should be general enough for other sciences as well github.com/benjamin-ros... #stats #Rstats #brms #Stan #Bayesian

Opening Social Interactions: The Coordination of Approach, Gaze, Speech, and Handshakes During Greetings onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... "Despite the importance of greetings for opening social interactions, their multimodal coordination processes remain poorly understood" 🚶‍♂️👀 🙂 👀 🤝👅 🎵👂😄

How hard is cognitive science? 🎬📽🍿 Video: m.youtube.com/watch?v=2bdK... 📖 Paper version: psyarxiv.com/k79nv/ Summary in #PaperThread below 🧵 1/n

🚨New preprint 🚨 What are the neural systems of being mimicked? Do choice and motor mimicry have similar effects? And finally, where the social glue might be located in the brain? osf.io/preprints/ps...

New research reveals that like humans and other social mammals, cats tend to mirror the faces of their companions—a key component to getting along. scim.ag/3PBDsom

How do we understand each other in conversation? A thread based on my recent IACS4 plenary, covering a critical perspective on interactive linguistic alignment - the tendency to re-use each other's linguistic forms. 1/

Join us as we celebrate Ruth Byrne, Seana Coulson, Adele Goldberg, Arthur Graesser, Ping Li, and Asli Ozyurek – our esteemed ✨Cognitive Science Society Fellows of 2025!✨ Visit cognitivesciencesociety.org/fellows to learn more!

I couldn’t move for a postdoc. Fellowship reviewers shouldn’t have penalized me for it www.science.org/content/arti...

OK, here is a very rough draft of a tutorial for #Bayesian #SEM using #brms for #rstats. It needs work, polish, has a lot of questions in it, and I need to add a references section. But, I think a lot of folk will find this useful, so.... jebyrnes.github.io/bayesian_sem... (use issues for comments!)

You can now find a starter pack with our researchers, alumni and collaborative partners currently on Bluesky. Please dm us to add to the pack. go.bsky.app/rthUcG

Conversation. New chapter by Kobin H. Kendrick & @judithholler.bsky.social doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.3c00b537