My first elephant (and PhD) study supervised by awesome Angela Stoeger & Cat Hobaiter is out🚨! TLDR - We found that 🐘 greet by appropriately targeting visual, tactile, and acoustic gestures at their audience and by combining calls and gestures go.nature.com/3JW50Cm🧵 1/12

I am excited to share our #CogSci2024 preprint “Why does Joint Attention Predict Vocabulary Acquisition? The Answer Depends on What Coding Scheme you Use” together with Melis Çetinçelik Yayun Zhang Dr Caro Rowland and Zara Harmon! 🎉 osf.io/kvad5

Visual bodily signals and conversational context benefit the anticipation of turn ends. New paper by Marlijn ter Bekke & al. -Stephen C. Levinson, Judith Holler - doi.org/10.1016/j.cogn…

A new study by Marlijn ter Bekke @judithholler et al. shows that listeners can better anticipate when a current speaker will stop talking when they can see them, especially their torso, hands and arms, suggesting a beneficial role for hand gestures. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Great nuanced work on the expressibility of concepts in gesture, vocalizations or both by Šárka Kadavá 🥳

👂 👄 The Concise Language Paradigm (CLaP) 👏 is out in Springer Nature :) Really enjoyed contributing since my BA, with the uncommonly kind Vitoria Piai and Natascha Roos Includes correlates of behavior, alpha-beta power, and linguistically modulated VEPs rdcu.be/dH4tL

Gestures speed up responses to questions. Final version by Marlijn ter Bekke , Linda Drijvers & Judith Holler doi.org/10.1080/232737…

Gestures speed up responses to questions tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Marlijn ter Bekke Linda Drijvers & Judith Holler tested whether co-speech hand gestures speed up responses to yes/no-questions -> n=60 & pre-registered 👏

How does event structure at the scale of months and years affect what you remember? In this paper, Sami Yousif, Sarah Hye-yeon Lee, Brynn Sherman, & Anna Papafragou study people's memories of popular television shows like Game of Thrones to find out! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🎟🎟🎟 Last tickets available for Highlights in the Language Sciences Conference July 8-11. If you haven't already registered, make sure to do so quickly because there are only a few tickets left for this packed conference. 👉 hils2024.nl

"How people are able to understand each other even when talking about novel things and without a fully shared vocabulary (what we call communicative alignment) is challenging to explain computationally."

ISGS10 is happening next year in Nijmegen / The Netherlands - curious about it already? Check the website below 👇👇👇👇👇 isgs10.nl

Congratulations to Katharina Menn Recipient of the #SNL2024 Dissertation Award sponsored by Brain and Language. Find out more: neurolang.org/2024/dissertat…