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Suzanne Aussems

@suzanneaussems.bsky.social

Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Warwick (@warwickpsych.bsky.social). Interested in #gesture, #language, #learning #evolution, #communication, #development, #Rstats, & #openscience. Personal Webpage: https://suzanneaussems.github.io/

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Susanne Fuchs@susfuchs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Considering the whole body, including #postural stability affects acoustics of #speech, but not #fluency related measures, see new work in JASA. Thanks for this team effort with Mingtong, Eric & @suzanneaussems.bsky.social. The corpus is #OA on doi.org/10.5281/zeno... pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...

Perturbing postural stability affects acoustic properties but not fluency of adult speech production during face-to-face interaction

Physical constraints, particularly those that challenge postural stability and control, may measurably influence speech production. This experimental study inve

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Warwick Psychology@warwickpsych.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Congratulations to Mingtong Li on a successful PhD viva! Her work, supervised by Dr. Suzanne Aussems and Prof. Sotaro Kita, examined how iconic temporal modulations in gesture and speech help learners interpret new verbs across development and what this reveals about iconicity comprehension.

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Simon Fisher@profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n

What enables human language? A biocultural framework

Explaining the origins of language is a key challenge in understanding ourselves as a species. We present an empirical framework that draws on synergies across fields to facilitate robust studies of l...

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Suzanne Aussems@suzanneaussems.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Very proud to share this important work by PhD student @teruniahamat.bsky.social who is leading the way in open science for developmental psychology. Interested in collaborating or learning more about our Databrary corpus? Please feel free to reach out and connect with us.

Teruni Ahamat@teruniahamat.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Excited to share my first PhD article, published in Scientific Data 👉 rdcu.be/eIRqD We present the Shared Book Reading Corpus: 44 caregiver-infant dyads, 3 camera views (headcams + overview), speech transcriptions & developmental measures. Access on Databrary for discovery & reuse! ✨ #OpenScience

Laura Schlingloff-Nemecz@laurasn.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Manybabies4 paper is out! Infants' Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large-Scale, Multi-Lab, Coordinated Replication Study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 1000 babies tested in 37 labs; "Overall, 49.34% of infants preferred Helpers over Hinderers in the social condition"

Infants’ Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large‐Scale, Multi‐Lab, Coordinated Replication Study

Evaluating whether someone's behavior is praiseworthy or blameworthy is a fundamental human trait. A seminal study by Hamlin and colleagues in 2007 suggested that the ability to form social evaluatio...

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Suzanne Aussems@suzanneaussems.bsky.social · last yr.

Huge congratulations and very well-deservered! Very happy to be able to nominate your work for this award.

Teruni Ahamat@teruniahamat.bsky.social · last yr.

🌟Deeply honoured to have been selected as the 1st-Place Winner in the Interdisciplinary category of the Warwick Open Research Awards 2025, for my open-approach work on infants’ comprehension of pointing gestures 👶👉 Excited to keep pushing for open, rigorous, and collaborative science!💡🔍 #OpenScience

Sotaro Kita@sotarokita.bsky.social · last yr.

Our paper tinyurl.com/4upbjayy showed children can create foundations of phonetics and phonology: discreteness of form units and duality of patterning. We analyzed handshapes in homesign (gesture by deaf children without linguistic input) and mothers' co-speech gesture.

Deaf homesigners can create the foundations of phonetics and phonology without an adult linguistic model

Children who are exposed to minimal linguistic input can nevertheless introduce linguistic features into their communication systems at the level of m…

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