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Vanessa Wilson

@vd0ubleu.bsky.social

Researcher in comparative social cognition and individual differences. Lecturer in Psychology, University of Hull. Primarily but not exclusively primates.

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Nora Slania@noraslania.bsky.social · 4d ago

‼️Field work position ‼️ We are looking for a research assistant for chimpanzee field work in Cote d'Ivoire, starting November. 🐵🌳📹 Have field experience, speak French, and want to study chimps with us? Take a look and reach out!

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Linguist List@linguistlist.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Confs: Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning 2026

Confs: Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning 2026

The Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning Workshop (X-PPL) brings together the growing community of researchers working to expand the diversity of languages in the scope of psycholinguistic and neuroscience research. This research is driven by the recognition that structural/typological and socio-cultural diversity provides important and unique opportunities to see language processing and language learning mechanisms at work. The bulk of processing and acquisition research repr

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Manuel Bohn@elmanubohn.bsky.social · 8mo ago

This study was an amazing collaborative experience. I'm really really grateful to all the wonderful people who contributed and made this happen. It's the closest I have ever come to finding something like a "universal" in human cognition.

MPI-EVA Leipzig@mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Children around the world process #gaze in similar ways. Large cross-cultural study led by @elmanubohn.bsky.social & @dbmhaun.bsky.social finds common 'processing signature' of gaze following. @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social @leuphana.bsky.social tinyurl.com/278wxka3 & academic.oup.com/chidev/advan...

Vanessa Wilson@vd0ubleu.bsky.social · 11mo ago

New study out lead by @sarahbrocard.bsky.social: we found that chimpanzees and humans share similar sensitivity to prosocial behaviour, suggesting that species differences in prosociality are not grounded in ability to recognise actions, but in how they act on them. @cogcompneuch.bsky.social

@sarahbrocard.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🚨 New paper out! Using a touchscreen task, we explored how humans and chimpanzees perceive social interactions by comparing their responses to prosocial, neutral, and antisocial interactions. Check out more on 👉 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Vanessa Wilson@vd0ubleu.bsky.social · 11mo ago

It's been great to be a part of such a large scale collaborative project. A big thanks to Basel Zoo for letting us work with their birds! @cogcompneuch.bsky.social

ManyBirds Project@themanybirds.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🐦 Exciting news! Our new paper is out in PLOS Biology: “A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia.” Led by the #ManyBirds Project - 129 researchers, 82 institutions, 24 countries 🌍 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @themanybirds.bsky.social

Caroline Andrews@candrewsvl.bsky.social · last yr.

Our new paper on animacy effects in Basque comprehension is out! It's been fun shepherding this paper for the last couple years.  Congratulations to all the authors, but especially Aitor Ergurtzegi on publishing the last paper of his PhD! link.springer.com/article/10.3...

The effect of animacy on the agent preference: Self-paced reading evidence from Basque - Memory & Cognition

Language processing shows a tendency to prefer agents over other roles. For instance, when initial unmarked noun phrases (NPs) are ambiguous between agent and patient roles, there is a preference to i...

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

We're looking for equine stakeholders (horse owners, breeders, stable managers, vets etc) to fill in this short survey, to help us assess feasibility of a possible horse welfare tool. Please share! shorturl.at/PIG2s

Stakeholder Equine Choice Survey

Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey! Your input will help us understand your experience with horses and your perspective on a proposed welfare tool that provides horses with social c...

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

Insightful and depressing statistics from Tatsuya Amano on the negative impact of being a non-native English speaker on publication output.

ASAB@asab.org · 2y ago

Final plenary by @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social concerning the language barriers in science. The hurdles for non-native English speakers are significant! #ASABWinter2024 Also, our congratulations to Tatsuya for winning the @britishecolsoc.bsky.social Equality and Diversity Champion award this week!

Tatsuya in front of a slide showing a runners race track titled “Language barriers to the generation of evidence by non-native speakers” Text reads :50% of non-native English speakers often decide not to give an oral presentation; 30% of non-native English speakers often decide not to attend a conference; Presentation Need 94% more time to prepare and practice; Paper revision Frequency of language related revision is 12.5 times higher; Non-native Ask someone to edit their English for 75% or more of their papers; Values are for those with one publication Reading Need 91% more time to read a paper; Writing Need 51% more time to write a paper; Paper rejection Frequency of language related rejection is 2.6 times higher Amano et al (2023) PLOS Biology
NCCR Evolving Language@nccrlanguage.bsky.social · 2y ago

📰🐒According to a study by Vanessa Wilson @vd0ubleu.bsky.social and team, humans and apes alternate attention between the two subjects when observing someone interact with something. Learn more in the article from PLOS Biology, in DE, FR and EN on our website. evolvinglanguage.ch/great-apes-t...

Great apes visually track subject-object relationships like humans do - NCCR Evolving Language

When observing someone interact with something, humans and apes alternate attention between the two subjects. Great apes  track events with their eyes in the same way that humans do, according to a st...

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Sebastian Sauppe@sebastiansauppe.bsky.social · 2y ago

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

Moritz M. Daum@moritzdaum.bsky.social · 2y ago

#PaperAlert: Is there a pre-linguistic basis for event role attribution? @vd0ubleu.bsky.social from the @nccrlanguage.bsky.social and colleagues from the @kweltentdeckende.bsky.social lab just published a study in PLOS Biology on this question: 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...

journals.plos.org