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🗣️👋 Our member @ingridvilag.bsky.social joined Prof. Pilar Prieto (ICREA–UPF) and @juliafloritpons.bsky.social (UPF) in El Periódico to discuss how speech, gesture, and bodily expression are key to early language learning and inclusion, underscoring the central role of orality in education. ✨🧒

🧒 Interested in multimodal communication in early childhood? 🧠 The @comparative-minds.bsky.social research group is looking for a new PhD student to join a project integrating linguistics, human development, and cross-cultural psychology. Come join us in lovely Girona! www.udg.edu/ca/grupsrece...

🎓💡 Do you want to pursue a PhD with us? We aim to sponsor a candidate for an Inphinit Predoctoral Retaining Fellowship, a competitive call for predoctoral fellowships awarded by La Caixa. 📅 Deadline for application: 14/11/2025. More information here: www.udg.edu/ca/grupsrece...

Our co-PI Dr. Miquel Llorente shares a heartfelt reflection on Jane Goodall in elDiario.es ✨ Goodall transformed how we understand chimpanzees —and ourselves— while inspiring generations to take action for a more sustainable and compassionate world. 🌍 📰 www.eldiario.es/sociedad/reg...

New book alert! 📚 Prof. Héctor Marín Manrique explores the evolutionary roots of conformity in "El cerebro… ¿tu peor enemigo?" (Editorial Adarve, 2025). Discover how the human brain can sometimes act against our own best interests. #Neuroscience #Psychology #Behavior #HumanMind

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We are pleased to announce the establishment of ISGS-Catalonia, a hub of the International Society of Gesture studies (ISGS) based in Catalonia. Our inaugural event will feature alecture by Prof. Sotaro Kita on September 26, 2025 at 12:30 pm (GMT+2).

Excited to share that ISGS-Catalonia is now officially established! 🎉😁 This new hub of the International Society of Gesture Studies (ISGS), coordinated by a steering group from 5 Catalan universities, aims to promote gesture research locally and internationally. 🌍 (website coming soon!)

🚨 New paper in Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans! Dr. Llorente and Dr. Castelain, in collaboration with Dr. Guitton, propose viewing robots as “technological primates”, suggesting that primatology offers a unifying framework to study robot psychology and social interactions. 🐒🤖

Excited to be part of this project! 🥳

Your baby knows your voice, even before they enter the world. Thread 🧵

We are in the 10th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies #ISGS2025! @jiali-li.bsky.social presented about the impact of character viewpoint gestures in adults. A study in collaboration with Pilar Prieto and @ingridvilag.bsky.social

Fabulous blog about screentime from Gonzales, Golinkoff & Hirsh-Pasek here 1/ childandfamilyblog.com/children-and...

📍 Host Institution: Universitat de Girona (UdG), Spain 🌐 Research Group: Comparative Minds – More info on EURAXESS euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting... 🗓️ Internal deadline to express interest: 1 Jul 2025 - 16:00h

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🔍 Our main lines of research: - Comparative Psychology and Animal Behavior 🦧 - Socio-cognitive Development and Communication 💬👩🏽‍🤝‍👨🏾 - Multimodal Language Development and Learning 🗣️🤚🏻 - Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠

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Today, @jiali-li.bsky.social is presenting at the the International Workshop on Multimodal Language. The study, in collaboration with @ingridvilag.bsky.social, Sara Coego and Pilar Prieto, investigates the differences in gesture and speech in child-directed and adult-directed speech in narratives.