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Dr Chiara Gambi

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Associate Prof @warwickpsych.bsky.social . Works on language, prediction, joint action and is curious about curiosity. She/her

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Dr Chiara Gambi @gambichiara.bsky.social · Jul 23

📣📣📣🎉🎉🎉 Our very first Stage 1 RR is accepted in principle at Developmental Science!!! All thanks to the hard work of @eddonnellan.bsky.social brilliant collab with @katemessenger.bsky.social and of course funding from @leverhulme.ac.uk Data collection starting soon! Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.bsky.social · 11h

Conversational turn-taking feels effortless, but it's a complex dance. We find social context—who you're talking to and what you're talking about—fundamentally changes conversational dynamics in both autistic & TD children. 1/

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Social Context Matters for Turn‐Taking Dynamics: A Comparative Study of Autistic and Typically Developing Children

Engaging in fluent conversation is a surprisingly complex task that requires interlocutors to promptly respond to each other in a way that is appropriate to the social context. In this study, we dise...

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 23h

Open immediately -- postdoc, speech motor control and speech motor neuroscience w/ C. Niziolek + B. Parrell, U. Wisconsin Madison blab.wisc.edu/join-the-lab/ [see Postdoctoral researchers tab]

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Sotaro Kita @sotarokita.bsky.social · Sep 1

Our article on a groundbreaking positive action programme for Black researchers at the University of Warwick, the Warwick PATHWAY programme, which we developed. It provides undergraduate research bursary, PhD studentship and postdoc fellowships, also creates a community. tinyurl.com/23tyep92

Warwick PATHWAY Programme: A positive action programme to facilitate Black researchers’ careers | Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal

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ofeher.bsky.social @ofeher.bsky.social · 26d

New paper in Language and Cognition! Although interaction can amplify individual biases and learners like simplicity, participants in interaction do not converge on category-based conditioned linguistic systems, instead they favour lexical conditioning despite the increased memory demands.

Interaction does not lead to spontaneous category-based conditioning in an artificial language | Language and Cognition | Cambridge Core

Interaction does not lead to spontaneous category-based conditioning in an artificial language - Volume 17

www.cambridge.org

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Suzanne Aussems @suzanneaussems.bsky.social · 9d

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 · 13d

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

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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 2d

Excited about starting a PhD in Psychology? 🎓 Don't miss out on the opportunity to apply for the ESRC Midlands Graduate School DTP Open competition! The deadline is on 13th January 2026. Apply now to fund your academic journey:

ESRC PhD Studentships in the Social Sciences in the Midlands Graduate School at Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership

Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 6d

The time course of phonological encoding: Insights from time-resolved MVPA. New paper by @glicalzi.bsky.social , Antje S. Meyer & @stan-vd-burght.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0546-25.2025
Paper: tinyurl.com/yjw47vzz

The Time Course of Phonological Encoding: Insights from Time-Resolved MVPA

To produce a word, speakers need to decide which concept to express, select an appropriate item from the mental lexicon, and spell out its phonological form. The temporal dynamics of these processes r...

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Kristof Strijkers @strijkers.bsky.social · 9d

More exciting work by Elin Runnqvist together with Christian Kell:

In this theory paper they propose a unified framework showing how abstract language monitoring and concrete speech motor control are intertwined.

@cnrs.fr @univ-amu.fr @ilcb.bsky.social LPL

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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wimpouw @wimpouw.bsky.social · 8d

At this workshop today about where hand gestures get their rhythm from - participants can join online.

sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/veranstaltun...

Poster for this event: https://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/veranstaltungen/internationale-tagungen-workshops/beatology

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 9d

In case you missed it: our latest report explores a growing crisis in universities.

In many regions, students risk losing access to vital humanities, social science and arts subjects. Swipe to see our key findings and recommendations.

Key finding 1:
Cold spots have emerged in the North, South West and East of England, as well as parts of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Key finding 1:
Cold spots have emerged in the North, South West and East of England, as well as parts of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Key finding 2:
The biggest loss of provision is at lower-tariff levels. This is concerning given strong links between attainment and socioeconomic disadvantage.

Key finding 3:
Languages, Linguistics, Anthropology, Classics and Theology are among the hardest hit. If trends continue, English, History, Drama and Celtic studies – including Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh – could follow.

As we await the post-16 White Paper, we’re calling for:
- An urgent review of higher education funding
- Regulators to monitor provision with an ‘at-risk’ regional register and subject premium
- Government to help universities collaborate effectively with clearer guidance about competition law

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 12d

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

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Dr Chiara Gambi @gambichiara.bsky.social · 14d

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 15d

🚨Open immediately!! (rolling application review)🚨: Postdoc w/ the amazing Tamar Gollan, Uni. Cal. San Diego, bilingual speech production and cognitive control in aging and Alzheimer’s disease psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...

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andrea e. martin @andreaeyleen.bsky.social · 16d

Ode to the original language model, or:
Give me literally Anything* instead of Large Language Models (LLMs)
*(no predictive coding either!)

By Lady Byronadrea LLMartin 1/n

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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · 16d

Times is running out! ⏳

Submit your 5-min video for the CogSci Mind Challenge by Oct 17 📅

Question: How do different minds (humans, animals, AI) learn language, if at all?

💰Prizes up to $1000!
👉 Don’t miss it: cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-mind-...

#CogSciMindChallenge

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Psychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · 19d

Cohen’s & Fleiss’ kappa assume each subject has one category. @filipmoons Filip Moons & Ellen Vandervieren introduce a generalized Fleiss’ kappa that handles multiple categories per subject, supports hierarchies & weights, and works with missing data.

Resources for Research

This section provides brief summaries of selected resources for research that have been published in journals of the Psychonomic Society, typically Behavior Research Methods. These resources consis…

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 19d

Brain signal variability is reduced during self-face processing irrespective of emotional facial expressions: Evidence from multiscale entropy analysis. New paper by Miguel Rubianes & al. with @lindadrijvers.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2025.08.007

Dr Chiara Gambi @gambichiara.bsky.social · 19d

Such cool work!

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 19d

Prior expectations guide multisensory integration during face-to-face communication. New paper by Giulia Mazzi & al. with @ambrafer.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013468

Prior expectations guide multisensory integration during face-to-face communication

Author summary Face-to-face communication is complex: what we say is coupled with bodily signals, offset in time, which may or may not work in concert to convey meaning. Yet, the brain rapidly determi...

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 19d

From age two, children use pronouns to predict who will speak next in conversation. New paper by Imme Lammertink & al. with @carorowland.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2025.106358

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 19d

Repetition leads to short-term reduction of word frequency and name agreement effects: Evidence from a Dutch two-session picture naming experiment. New paper by Caitlin Decuyper , Ruth E Corps and Antje S Meyer.
doi.org/10.1177/17470218251365517

Repetition leads to short-term reduction of word frequency and name agreement effects: Evidence from a Dutch two-session picture naming experiment - Caitlin Decuyper, Ruth E Corps, Antje S Meyer, 2025

Word frequency (WF) and name agreement (NA) affect a word’s accessibility during speech production. Speakers are faster to name pictures with high-frequency (e....

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European Society for Cognitive Psychology @escop.bsky.social · 19d

The Italian Reproducibility Network (ITRN) is looking for people who'd like to share their experience with the discovery of Open Science - how this changed your way of doing science, or seeing science, what kind of challenges you had to face and overcome, etc.

ESCOP - Share your Open Science experience

ESCOP is a dynamic scientific society that provides a venue within which current research in cognitive psychology and neighboring disciplines can be presented, discussed and encouraged.

www.escop.eu

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 19d

Deadline Nov 1: Asst prof (tenure track), Computational Neuroscience and Cognition, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester apply.interfolio.com/173951

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European Society for Cognitive Psychology @escop.bsky.social · 21d

Call for papers on conflict adaptation across single- and multi-tasking paradigms in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory & Cognition

The deadline for initial submissions is 1 October 2026.

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European Society for Cognitive Psychology @escop.bsky.social · 23d

Funded PhD Candidate positions at the BCBL, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain

The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language is offering funded 5 PhD positions to work on various projects.
Application deadline: 1 November 2025

Job offers

At BCBL we encourage the professional development of all our team members. Find out about our current offers to participate in international research projects.

www.bcbl.eu

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