It was wonderful to celebrate Asifa Majid yesterday in the Elman symposium and catch up with fantastic colleagues #CogSci2024

This piece is worth reading and thinking about. I increasingly have the feeling: where is the theory? smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/a-lot-of-dev…

Our conference topic is: Motion to meaning: Innovations in multimodal language research

📢 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

I've very excited to be joining the Radboud Young Academy!

I did something scary and talked about my research IN DUTCH! :O Sorry for the many taalfoutjes but I'm so glad I made myself do it :)

Some people have no imagination at all: #aphantasia 💭 Psychologist Dr Laura Speed (CLS) became fascinated by this. She researched it and Universiteit van Nederland summarised her research in a video 📽 Watch it here (in Dutch): edu.nl/bjvxu Faculty of Arts - Radboud University

Colleagues on campus...Next week I'm giving a talk about my aphantasia research in the CLS Talks series Sep 19 4pm Erasmusgebouw ru.nl/en/about-us/ev…

Our Elman symposium celebrating Asifa Majid is available to watch online: underline.io/events/465/ses…

Culture shapes how we describe facial expressions. Cool new work from Ewelina Wnuk! shorturl.at/VTav6

New paper with Sussex Colour Group Simeon Floyd We find color discrimination and preferences are broadly aligned with the color statistics of natural scenes, but group differences are NOT related to color statistics as predicted under efficient coding frameworks doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…

Human memories can be distorted by photos edited by artificial intelligence, raising concerns over what might happen if such AI manipulation becomes an automatic feature of smartphones. newscientist.com/article/244817…

Curious about careers beyond academia? Join us for our online event, "Women's Journey in Chemosensory Research," on October 28. Hear inspiring stories and gain valuable insights from two accomplished women in olfactory science. RSVP here: tinyurl.com/mr24zf92

Group sequential analysis is a technique to collect data in batches, analyze the data after each batch, and decide to continue or not – all while controlling your Type 1 error rate. It provides a lot of flexibility, while maintaining rigour. >

I can’t imagine a more interesting lab to do a postdoc in! Please apply and help spread this position.

'Misschien wel duizend' medewerkers en studenten uit Nijmegen demonstreren volgende week in Utrecht - Vox magazine voxweb.nl/nieuws/misschi…

On 14 November, a national demonstration against the Dutch Cabinet’s cuts to the higher education budget and against the long-term studying penalty will take place. Radboud Young Academy supports these protests. Read more: ru.nl/radboudya

I'm happy to announce that I've received an NWO Open XS grant to continue working on aphantasia for the next year. Happy new year!

Our new paper is out! Data from people with aphantasia suggests that mental imagery and mental simulation are separate processes rdcu.be/eqAFJ