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.

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics@mpi-nl.bsky.social · 5mo ago

In this new review in Nature Reviews Psychology our researchers Judith Holler and Anna K. Kuhlen argue that conversation is not simply one person speaking while another listens. It is more like a partnership between minds. www.mpi.nl/news/why-con...

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/...

New review out on facial signalling in conversation, making the argument that the notion of ‘speech acts’ is outdated due to its unimodal focus, especially in the light of the fundamental contributions of the face towards social action communication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...

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…

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Very proud of this part of @marlijnterbekke.bsky.social’s PhD work being out, our first work combining avatars, gestures and EEG! 🎉

Marlijn ter Bekke@marlijnterbekke.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉 New paper out today! We used virtual avatars and EEG to show that listeners use meaningful gestures to predict what someone might say next 🧠👋 Read it here in Psychological Science 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0956..., with @lindadrijvers.bsky.social and @judithholler.bsky.social

Early bird registration and pre-conference workshop registrations now open! www.isgs10.nl

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10th Conference of the ISGS 9-11 July 2025 Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek@asliozyurek.bsky.social · last yr.

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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!!! 💐🍾🥳

Marlijn ter Bekke@marlijnterbekke.bsky.social · last yr.

A huge thanks to my supervisors @lindadrijvers.bsky.social and @judithholler.bsky.social for all their support over the years, and thanks to @asliozyurek.bsky.social , @predictivebrain.bsky.social, @gambichiara.bsky.social, Sara Bögels and @davidpeeters.bsky.social for their great questions.

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.

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics@mpi-nl.bsky.social · last yr.

Eyebrow movements as signals of communicative problems in human face-to-face interaction. New paper by Paul Hömke, Stephen C. Levinson, Alexandra K. Emmendorfer & @judithholler.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241632

Very happy that this is out, and congrats on your first publication, Ari! 🥳🥳

Ari Dyer@aridyer.bsky.social · last yr.

Our paper has been published open access! (My first publication!) This project was part of my MSc thesis with @jamestrujillo.bsky.social & @judithholler.bsky.social. We explored the relationship between dyadic differences in EQ scores, and kinematic & prosodic similarity🧵 doi.org/10.1080/0163...

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.

James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · 2y ago

Excited to have another paper coming out from my postdoc time with @judithholler.bsky.social ! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... We looked at how visual signals, like facial expressions and hand gestures, are associated with the the amount of linguistic information, in spoken conversations 🧵

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

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

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@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. New chapter by Kobin H. Kendrick & @judithholler.bsky.social doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.3c00b537

Conversation

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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/...

Humans and great apes visually track event roles in similar ways

Are only humans capable of tracking agent/patient roles during events, a cognitive foundation of syntax? This study shows that great apes, like human adults but unlike infants, differentiate agents fr...

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Vanessa Wilson@vd0ubleu.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hot off the press! Is there a pre-linguistic basis for event role attribution? In our new paper out in PLoS Biology, we take a comparative eye tracking approach to explore temporal gaze distribution to agents and patients in dyadic interactions tinyurl.com/mryk7kmb

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. ru.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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

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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. ru.varbi.com/what:job/job...

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

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Interesting work, looking forward to read it!

Neil Cohn@neilcohn.bsky.social · 2y ago

When measuring brain responses, this recent paper finds that when placed after sentences, face emoji are more congruent than non-face emoji: "Face emojis vs. Non-face emojis: Exploring neural mechanisms in text processing": www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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...

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2 weeks left to submit an abstract! Save your spot in the program and meet #multimodalists from around the world in Groningen!

Janina Wildfeuer@neous.bsky.social · 2y ago

#12ICOM - Call for Papers now open! #cfp Join us for the 12th International Conference on Multimodality at the University of Groningen, "The Multimodal Multiverse" from October 29-31, 2025! All details, submissions rules and options: bit.ly/12ICOM

Come shape the study of English language and communication at Oxford!

Colin Phillips@colinphillips.bsky.social · 2y ago

Come join us in Oxford! Or encourage your friends to apply, so you can visit them here! We are looking to fill the Professorship in Language and Communication, a senior professor position. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... .

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...