👋 PhD opportunities for African women in STEM 👩‍🎓. Check it out 👀, distribute 📨, and get in touch ✍️with us www.upf.edu/web/mrg if interested. www.upf.edu/web/phd-engi...

Extraordinary resource! "Comprehensive recordings from 621,733 neurons in 297 brain areas of 139 mice (12 labs) performing a decision-making task with sensory, motor & cognitive components: a public dataset to understand how computations distributed across & within brain areas drive behaviour."👇🧪

Our new paper about the second international conference on research culture at Univ. of Warwick, IRCC2024, with 250 in-person and 250 on-line participants. Find out what themes were discussed. tinyurl.com/2m43yty3 And, IRCC2025 tinyurl.com/y9jexub7 will be on 17-Sept-2025.

Our paper on the vision of the National Centre for Research Culture at the University of Warwick, which we founded in 2023. It aims to coordinate sector-wide effort to improve research culture, making our universities optimal places for researchers and research excellence. tinyurl.com/y4yuvx8p

Our article on a groundbreaking positive action programme for Black researchers at the University of Warwick, the Warwick PATHWAY programme, which we developed. It provides undergraduate research bursary, PhD studentship and postdoc fellowships, also creates a community. tinyurl.com/23tyep92

🌟Deeply honoured to have been selected as the 1st-Place Winner in the Interdisciplinary category of the Warwick Open Research Awards 2025, for my open-approach work on infants’ comprehension of pointing gestures 👶👉 Excited to keep pushing for open, rigorous, and collaborative science!💡🔍 #OpenScience

Very grateful to the organisers for pulling off such a wonderful three days. We had a great time at #ISGS10 @isgs2025.bsky.social and are already looking forward to ISGS11 in Hong Kong!

Our paper tinyurl.com/4upbjayy showed children can create foundations of phonetics and phonology: discreteness of form units and duality of patterning. We analyzed handshapes in homesign (gesture by deaf children without linguistic input) and mothers' co-speech gesture.

Autistic and neurotypical adults use different neural mechanisms to integrate AV speech, but benefit equally in word recognition 🧠 📜New paper in Autism Research (OA):📜 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... w/ @mrgbcn.bsky.social, @sotarokita.bsky.social, & @mireiatorralba.bsky.social 🙏

@sotarokita.bsky.social, along with Marie Sams and Rika Nair, reflects on the International Research Culture Conference 2024 and looks ahead to this year’s conference: wrap.warwick.ac.uk/i... 1/2

Thrilled to see my first publication out in PB&R with @sotarokita.bsky.social and @suzanneaussems.bsky.social! Adults interpret novel verbs using iconic speed cues in speech prosody and hand gesture, with a small but reliable link across modalities. Open access: link.springer.com/10.3758/s134...

Our new paper on our ability to judge iconicity (similarity) between information in different modalities. People interpret iconicity in speech and hand gesture using the same general-purpose modality‑independent process. <https://tinyurl.com/2y3775nf>

I am a psychologist and linguist at the University of Warwick @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social. I am interested in the role of gesture in communication and thinking, the role of iconicity in language, and language development. I am also interested in how to improve research culture.

Our paper with Suzanne Aussems found no evidence that 14–17-month-old infants use iconic speech and gesture cues to interpret word meanings. In a special issue on Iconicity and Sound Symbolism in JASA. doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

A new paper of mine about how a good research culture looks like. exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/ex... In the proceedings of International Research Culture Conference 2023 (held at the University of Warwick)[email protected]

A new paper by Rika Nair and me about why we founded an international research culture conference. exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/ex.... In the proceedings of International Research Culture Conference 2023 (held at the University of Warwick). @exchangesjournal.bsky.social

Our new paper: Audio-visual integration in multimodal communication leads to stronger alpha suppression than in unimodal versions of the communication. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Our new paper on seeds of language-like generativity in bird vocal communication. Pied babblers can interpret a novel sequence of calls in a compositional way, just as humans can understand a sentence we have never heard before. <https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rspb.2024.0922>

Our new paper by my PhD student Kirsty Green @KirstGreen on iconic gestures produced by infants. Infants are not just imitating their parent's gestures, but they often use interactional materials from preceding contexts to create iconic gestures. tinyurl.com/5n8afnjc

Our new paper <https://tinyurl.com/mr8fj7nm> showed that (orally trained) Deaf and hard of hearing people can detect bouba-kiki sound symbolism, but their performance is worse when their tongue movement was suppressed. This provide evidence for articulatory basis for sound symbolism.