In a new paper, @anakrajinovic.bsky.social, @cogirmak.bsky.social, and I show that living vs. non-living entities are marked differently for motion in graphics. This is similar to spoken languages, so we propose a possible universal across modalities onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New review out on facial signalling in conversation, making the argument that the notion of ‘speech acts’ is outdated due to its unimodal focus, especially in the light of the fundamental contributions of the face towards social action communication www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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

Early bird registration and pre-conference workshop registrations now open! www.isgs10.nl

Super proud of @marlijnterbekke.bsky.social who was awarded her PhD on Friday based on a wonderful thesis and a stellar defense! Congratulations dr ter Bekke!!! 💐🍾🥳

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.

Very happy that this is out, and congrats on your first publication, Ari! 🥳🥳

Very happy that this new paper with @jamestrujillo.bsky.social is now out, suggesting that visual signals contribute information especially during question beginnings in Dutch face-to-face conversation.

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

@judithholler.bsky.social and I have written an entry on 'Conversation' for the new Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science edited by Mike Frank and @asifamajid.bsky.social. Happy to have contributed to such a fantastic resource! oecs.mit.edu/pub/gx9ypm4x...

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

Writing a grant is great for developing ideas, but does your proposal actually affect whether or not you get funded? Turns out, your full proposal does not affect your ranking much! Whaat? 😯 Simsek et al. 2024: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In our new paper 📝 @plos.bsky.social PLOS Biology, we use #eyetracking to study how great apes understand who-does-what-to-whom — surprisingly similar to human adults! Thus suggests that the event cognition basis for language was present in our common ancestor. ➡️ journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Come join us as a PhD student 🧑‍🎓 on NWO project 'Multimodal Signalling in Face-to-Face Communication' at the Donders Centre for Cognition. Deadline 12th January! Dutch language proficiency advantageous. ru.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Come join us as a post-doc on NWO project 'Multimodal Signalling in Face-to-Face Communication' 😃 at the Donders Centre for Cognition. Deadline 8th December! Dutch language proficiency required. ru.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Interesting work, looking forward to read it!

We have funded PhD studentships available in Speech Hearing and Phonetic Sciences (SHaPS) at UCL for UK students only, please contact a potential supervisor in SHaPS to agree on a PhD project first: www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/researc...

2 weeks left to submit an abstract! Save your spot in the program and meet #multimodalists from around the world in Groningen!

Come shape the study of English language and communication at Oxford!

You can sign up now for the new workshop on 'Behavioral Dynamics in Social Interactions' in Krakow 2-4th of May. Follow the link through here to apply: envisionbox.org/krakow_flyer...