A useful resource! A systematic-review database of neurostimulation evidence for the neurobiology of language. www.language-elements.org

This week at ELGGN in Montpellier I'm demoing www.language-elements.org, an AI tool to characterise brain regions by linguistic process, redefine terms like 'semantics', suggest intraop tasks for awake craniotomies. Synthesises ~200 papers/~600 processes/~6k participants. Sign up and playtest!

Delighted to see coverage of our recent publication in the @cogscisociety.bsky.social journal news. See a lay explanation within! cognitivesciencesociety.org/why-do-we-ge...

Why do we gesture when nobody can see us? - Cognitive Science Society

Welcome to CogSci Unpacked, an exciting blog series dedicated to summarizing academic papers from the Cognitive Science, a CSS Journal. Our goal is to bridge the gap between academia and the broader p...

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Happy to share another paper, the second from my PhD! This time a preprint. We find a really interesting relationship between metaphoric gesturing, lexical retrieval errors, and healthy ageing. This occurred during occlusion of gestures, contra 'pragmatic' accounts papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Delighted to share the first output of my PhD! Interactive gestures - ones we use to manage discourse and interact with interlocutors (v. understudied but highly prevalent) - are used even when the hands can't be seen, esp. during complex conversations! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Variation in Interactive Gestures by Visual Occlusion and Topic Complexity: Evidence for a Subconscious Theory of Gesture

Gestures are often categorized into types: iconics, metaphorics, and pantomimes (having representational relationships with spoken semantics), deictics (i.e., pointing), emblems (having their own con...

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Over the recent months, I've had lots of fun presenting main findings from my PhD's first phase! I thought I'd share some highlights :) 1. Evidence of separate reps in the brain of British Sign Language and English in an awake craniotomy patient, confirming reviews of unimodal bilingual patients

Here in beautifully leafy (and compared to the UK, wonderfully town-planned) Nijmegen for the @isgs2025.bsky.social conference! Find myself particularly taken by the suburban architecture for reasons I cannot yet explain. Excited for the event and to meet other researchers for the first time!

Delighted to see our paper in @cogscisociety.bsky.social! We look at how individuals from different backgrounds/LLMs approach the interpretation of colour metaphors they know or ones we made up ('novel'). Blog: cognitivesciencesociety.org/color-metaph... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Statistical or Embodied? Comparing Colorseeing, Colorblind, Painters, and Large Language Models in Their Processing of Color Metaphors

Can metaphorical reasoning involving embodied experience—such as color perception—be learned from the statistics of language alone? Recent work finds that colorblind individuals robustly understand a...

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Excited to announce my special session @lagbling.bsky.social 2025 conference! Title: Gesture and the Linguistic System. Deadline: 14th April 2025 Papers should treat gesture with (formal) linguistic analysis to elucidate its systemic properties as a part of language www.lagb.org.uk/lagb2025

📣Applications open for two new members! Our chair @GianlucaPorta5 and secretary @NevenaKlobucar will be soon leaving the committee 👋 and two new positions will be available! If you are interested in joining us, apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Application for Membership to the LAGB Postgraduate Student Committee (LAGBPSC)

The Linguistics Association of Great Britain Postgraduate Student Committee (LAGBPSC) is looking for UK-based postgraduate students to join the Committee. Priority will be given to applicants in their...

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Being a confederate in a psychology/conversation experiment is *really* hard. Conversing with people pretending you're naive to the experiment, acting as if everything's new each time, keeping the paradigm running smoothly, not getting drawn into debating people's terrible takes! I could never!!

Going from a purely academic to an academic-clinical position has posed personal challenges I never expected. Being confronted with a preference for pragmatism is very humbling for the conscientious perfectionism that academia culturally curates. Although perhaps this is just UG -> PhD anyway

Really excited to be heading to Barcelona for the 7th Mapping/Neuropsychological Assistance Workshop 2024 at the University Hospital of Bellvitge this week, then on to Cardiff for the Brain Box NIBS workshop! Super busy but can't think of a better way to learn these vital skills hands on!!

It was a pleasure to host Anna Marie Trester from the Linguistic Society of America for the first session of our Career Talks! You can find the recording on YouTube 🍿 www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVcp... 📌Next talk is on the 12th of December!

Fundamentals of Getting a Job as a Linguist - Careers Talk Series

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