Thanks to all mentors and mentees who participated in our @cogscisociety.bsky.social Mentorship Lunch at #CogSci2026 in Rio, and kudos to @iakankshagupta.bsky.social for stellar support of the event.
Penny Pexman
@pennypexman.bsky.social
Professor of Psychology and Vice President (Research) at Western University 🇨🇦
Hey #CogSci2026! I'm so honored to be receiving this year's Elman Prize! Please join @m2b2.bsky.social and me Friday 2-3:30pm in Gavea A for two joint talks: "Multilingualism in Cognitive Science" and "Multilingualism for Cognitive Science and Society" 1/4 @cogscisociety.bsky.social
Happening today! Looking forward to a big week of 🇨🇦 Cognitive Science.
Erez Freud@erezfreud.bsky.social · 9mo agoExciting update: The Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS) will host its 2026 Meeting at York University,(June 1–3, 2026), followed by the Cognition and Action Satellite Workshop (June 4–5). @jdcrawford.bsky.social @yorku-cian.bsky.social www.yorku.ca/research/cia...
Sign up as a Mentor or Mentee at #CogSci2026 The Mentoring Event brings together #CogSci Society members for conversations about academia, careers, work/life balance, international experiences, and more. Visit cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-mento... to learn more and sign up!
Building on established strength in neuroscience, #WesternU is partnering with nine European universities as part of NeurotechEU, opening new doors for student training and research collaborations across borders. @westernuresearch.bsky.social
Western partners with NeurotechEU to advance education and research
Building on established strength in neuroscience, Western is expanding international education and research collaborations through NeurotechEU.
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We're inviting nominations for the next Executive Editor of Topics in Cognitive Science (TopiCS). This role helps shape the journal's direction, guiding editorial priorities, policies, and the broader agenda of the field. Learn more and nominate at: cognitivesciencesociety.org/topics-journal/
🚨 New paper out in Pragmatics & Cognition with @pennypexman.bsky.social! We review #irony #training studies and show that even short‑term training improves children’s irony comprehension, highlighting metapragmatic knowledge as a key mechanism in irony #development. 🔗 doi.org/10.1075/pc.2...
🚨 New paper out! Our paper "Who gets it? Explaining variability in children’s written irony comprehension" is now published #OpenAccess in Journal of Child Language. With Tuomo Häikiö, Matti Laine & @pennypexman.bsky.social 🔗 dx.doi.org/10.1017/S030... @oulu.fi @utu.fi @aboakademi.bsky.social
Who gets it? Explaining variability in children’s written irony comprehension | Journal of Child Language | Cambridge Core
Who gets it? Explaining variability in children’s written irony comprehension
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The Cortex special issue on Conceptual Knowledge, co-edited by Emiko Muraki (@emij.bsky.social), Richard Binney (@rjbinney.bsky.social), Penny Pexman (@pennypexman.bsky.social) and myself is still accepting submissions. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Read the latest articles of Cortex at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
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🚀 Launched! Here’s our call for applicants to the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs Program at @westernu.ca. This is a remarkable opportunity for us to recruit outstanding scholars who are currently working internationally: www.uwo.ca/research/can...
Canada-Impact-Plus - Research - Western University
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1/5 New paper led by Peggy Liaw, with @pennypexman.bsky.social and @lorreggin.bsky.social on the development of name sound symbolism! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
The Canada Impact+ Research Chairs Program allows us to welcome outstanding, internationally based researchers to #WesternU to tackle some of today’s most pressing challenges. We look forward to connecting with scholars who are ready to go #AllinWesternU. www.uwo.ca/research/can...
Penny Pexman@pennypexman.bsky.social · 8mo ago🚀 Launched! Here’s our call for applicants to the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs Program at @westernu.ca. This is a remarkable opportunity for us to recruit outstanding scholars who are currently working internationally: www.uwo.ca/research/can...
🚀 Launched! Here’s our call for applicants to the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs Program at @westernu.ca. This is a remarkable opportunity for us to recruit outstanding scholars who are currently working internationally: www.uwo.ca/research/can...
Canada-Impact-Plus - Research - Western University
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@cjep.bsky.social paper on gender equity in cognitive science @nserc-resnet.bsky.social funding, highlighting progress in past 6 years. Led by @mcgillscience.bsky.social psych trainee Michelle Yang; co-authored w/ @pennypexman.bsky.social. A @wicscanada.bsky.social effort. doi.org/10.1037/cep0...
Today at #CSPC2025, @pennypexman.bsky.social moderated a panel on #climatechange causing increased #climatedisasters and what Canada can do to build #resilience. Thanks to @cssl.ca director Greg Kopp and our colleagues from government and industry for their perspectives and time!
Historian and #WesternU postdoctoral researcher Eric Story unveiled the story of two Canadian war amputees who trekked 2,000 km in 1923, helping to spark the disability-rights movement in Canada. #RemembranceDay @ca.theconversation.com
Expert insight: How two Canadian war amputees shaped disability rights activism - Western News
Canadian war amputees George Hincks and Marshall McDougal hiked more than 2,000 kilometres in 1923 to raise awareness of issues facing disabled veterans.
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Featured in The Guardian: “To make a credible [tsunami catastrophe] model, we need experience." #WesternU prof Katsu Goda explains his tsunami modelling research in Tofino, B.C.
Waiting for the tsunami: its big waves are loved by surfers – but this Canadian town is braced for disaster
How do you plan for an event whose timing is unknown? For residents of Tofino on Vancouver Island the threat is distant but signs of preparedness are everywhere
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Each year, we come together to honour all who have served our country in times of war, conflict, and peace. #WesternU has been associated with Canada's armed forces throughout our shared history, and many of our members serve in the Canadian Armed Forces. #LestWeForget #LdnOnt
We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025. mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max
Done! Daria successfully defended her PhD thesis! And that in front of an incredible jury who are the absolute top on this topic: @annaborghi.bsky.social , @pennypexman.bsky.social , @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social So proud of her! bravo of course also to Jo Ziegler and Núria Gala!
This morning, we connected over breakfast with Western Research staff, followed by updates from @pennypexman.bsky.social and a panel on AI in Research with Joanna Redden, Lyle Muller and @cribravo.bsky.social, moderated by @jamesshelley.com. Thanks, everyone, for a great start to the school year!
#WesternU’s new Pathogen Research Centre will position #LdnOnt as a national leader in virus transmission research and the development of vaccines and treatments for a range of diseases. @schulichmeddent.bsky.social
Western Pathogen Research Centre to advance study of infectious disease
Western has begun construction on the Pathogen Research Centre, which will position London as a national leader in the understanding of infectious diseases.
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Call for Papers for a new Special Issue of Cortex on Concept Knowledge The editors, Penny Pexman, Richard Binney, Veronica Diveica, and Emiko Muraki welcome original empirical research articles, as well as reviews and perspectives. The last date for submissions will be March 10th 2026.
The multidimensionality, variability and flexibility of concepts: Opening editorial
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How does the sound of names bias hiring decisions? From @westernu.ca Vice-President (Research) @pennypexman.bsky.social and her @carleton.ca colleague, @davidmsidhu.bsky.social in @ca.theconversation.com: theconversation.com/whats-in-a-n...
What’s in a name? How the sound of names can bias hiring decisions
New research shows that even the sound of a name can influence how job candidates are judged.
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Really looking forward to #AMLAP2025 in Prague this week. Big Data morning with @aggieerin.bsky.social and Emmanuel Keuleers looks 🔥 Full program here: amlap2025.ff.cuni.cz/program/
What’s in a name? How the sound of names can bias hiring decisions
What’s in a name? How the sound of names can bias hiring decisions
New research shows that even the sound of a name can influence how job candidates are judged.
theconversation.com
We are proud to share that @westernu.ca continues its collaboration with Canadian Nuclear Laboratories and Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) through the Academic Partnership Program. (1/2) #CNL #AECL #Nuclear #Innovation #Research
✨️Excited to share my first paper is out in Behavior Research Methods with @rjbinney.bsky.social and @pennypexman.bsky.social! We quantified the association of a word's meaning with reward, showing that it is a dimension relevant to semantic processing. 📄🔗Link: rdcu.be/eyqvn
Reward as a facet of word meaning: Ratings of motivation for 8,601 English words
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🧠 Just out with @pennypexman.bsky.social “Simulation in the ‘Blind’ Mind”. We found that even without conscious imagery (aphantasia), people still simulate sensorimotor info when processing language. 💭🔤