Words like ‘this’ and ‘that’ or ‘here’ and ‘there’ occur in all languages. Published in PNASNews, researchers from Yale University and the MPI show that such ‘demonstrative’ words are used to direct listeners’ focus of attention and establish joint attention. mpi.nl/news/words-and…

Demonstratives as attention tools: Evidence of mentalistic representations in language. New paper by Jara-Ettinger & Rubio-Fernandez. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2….

Sharing the Emotion & Gesture paper again (with a correct link) 😊 ZeynepAslan Demet Özer Exploring Emotions Through Co-speech Gestures: The Caveats and New Directions journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…

📢 Save the date! The 10th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS) will be held on 9-11 July 2025 in Nijmegen, The Netherlands 👇Check out our website for more information 👇 isgs10.nl ISGS Donders Institute MaxPlanck-Psycholinguistics CLS

🚨 Job alert 🚨 I am looking for a PhD and Postdoc to join Center for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin) at Max Planck Institute for Human Development and work with me, Rui Mata, Marcel Binz, and Susann Fiedler on using LLMs to improve the generalizability in the behavioral and social sciences and other topics related to LLMs. The positions

Happy Monday everyone! 😊 Let’s kick off the week with a quick look at the latest updates and key upcoming deadlines from the #CogSci Society! 🧵👇

Check out our new paper with Bahar Koymen @SamuelRonfard Cagla Aydin on Turkish- and English-speaking children’s belief revision!! 😍🧵 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Join us in celebrating David Rumelhart, James McClelland, and Geoffrey Hinton — winners of the 2024 Golden Goose Award 👏👏👏 Learn more about their groundbreaking work and its lasting impact on science and society at cognitivesciencesociety.org/golden-goose-a… #GoldenGooseAward #CogSci

Know someone whose excellence in research and contributions to the CogSci community should be recognized? Nominate them to be Fellows of the Cognitive Science Society! Deadline: Nov 1st More info: cognitivesciencesociety.org/fellows/

📅Save the Date!📅 From 7 to 9 January 2025, the MPI and Radboud University will be hosting the Nijmegen Lectures. The lectures will be given by @fernandaedi and Victor Ferreira: mpi.nl/events/nijmege…

We’re looking for a part-time student assistant at MaxPlanck-Psycholinguistics to help w/ data collection on a new virtual reality experiment examining gesture in turn-taking. 🙌 This project is a collaboration between Multimodallang Dept @MPİ_NL & psychology of language dept. Apply: mpi.nl/career-educati…

"Temporal construal in sentence comprehension depends on linguistically encoded event structure" 📢New paper from: Elena Marx & Eva Wittenberg sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Come work with us! ru.nl/en/working-at/…

Ece Demir-Lira (Dr. Ece Demir-Lira) and I will guest edit a special issue on “Multimodal language, communication, and thinking” for the journal Cognitive Development. We accept letters of intent for both theoretical and empirical papers by Jan 15, 2025! sciencedirect.com/special-issue/…

Happy to share an online first appearance of our opinion paper on a Multimodal language framework approach to first language acquisition with @bkdalli and Dilay Z Karadöller journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…

📢 We are now accepting abstract submissions for #ISGS2025! 🗓️ Submission deadline: January 15, 2025 🌐Review the submission guidelines and other details from the website: isgs10.nl/abstract-submi… ISGS Multimodallang Dept @MPİ_NL MaxPlanck-Psycholinguistics Donders Institute CLS

We now have a PhD Position on the project 'Multimodal Signalling and Processing in Face-to-face Communication' open as well! Deadline 12th January. ru.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo…

The CogSci Society is thrilled to announce the appointment of Stephanie Denison as the incoming Executive Officer! We congratulate Stephanie on her new role, beginning in January 2025, and are excited to continue advancing the Society's mission under her leadership.

Introduction to #ISGS2025 and information about abstract submission in IS isgs10.nl

The CogSci Society is accepting nominations for 🌟Fellows of the Society 🌟 Fellows are individuals whose research has exhibited sustained excellence and had sustained impact on the #CogSci community. Visit cognitivesciencesociety.org/fellows/ and submit your nomination until November 1st!