Our new review paper (w/Anna Kuhlen) is out emphasising the cognitive complexities involved in everyday face-to-face conversation and a call for scaling up traditional psycholinguistic paradigms to better capture these complexities, esp multimodality, addressee responses and multiparty interactions.

Motion lines and circumfixing lines appearing for living and non-living characters in comics panels

Data showing that inanimate entities receive more motion lines than animates across different types of comics

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/...

I absolutely agree, these are really interesting questions and points, and I hope lots of future research will embark on trying to find answers!

Facial clues to conversational intentions It has long been known that we use words to perform speech acts foundational to everyday conversation, such as requesting, informing, proposing, or co…

New review out on facial signalling in conversation, making the argument that the notion of ‘speech acts’ is outdated due to its unimodal focus, especially in the light of the fundamental contributions of the face towards social action communication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!
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It was great to have you! Thank you so much for coming to Nijmegen, for your very inspiring talk, and for your wonderful contributions to Marlijn‘s defense!

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 - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Facial signals shape predictions about the nature of upcoming conversational responses

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

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/...

PhD Position: Multimodal Signalling and Processing in Face-to-face Communication at the Donders Centre for Cognition 1. Introduction How do we communicate our intentions to one another in conversational face-to-face interaction? What role do visual bodily signals play in this process, and how do they interact with l

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.
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Postdoc Position: Multimodal Signalling in Face-to-Face Communication at the Donders Centre for Cognition 1. Introduction How do we communicate our intentions to one another in conversational face-to-face interaction? What role do visual bodily signals play in this process, and how do they interact with l

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.
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Interesting work, looking forward to read it!

SHaPS People

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...

Great, include me please :) thanks!

2 weeks left to submit an abstract!

Save your spot in the program and meet #multimodalists from around the world in Groningen!

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communication at Oxford!

great! please add me, thanks!

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...