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Sharice Clough, PhD @shariceclough.bsky.social · Jul 14

It was such a pleasure to help organize #ISGS10 in Nijmegen! Some photo highlights from talks on tools & educational resources for kinematic analysis of gesture, the role of gesture in narrative recall in typical & ayptical aging w/ @martinamellana.bsky.social, & multiparty audience design in TBI.

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ISGS2025 @isgs2025.bsky.social · Jul 11

🌟The closing session of #ISGS2025 has officially concluded—thank you to all our speakers, presenters and attendees!

See you at ISGS11 in Hong Kong 🌟

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wimpouw @wimpouw.bsky.social · Jun 20

We are looking forward to our next EnvisionBox summerschool next week at the University of Amsterdam. We are also very pleased with the poster (with new logo for envisionbox)!
@jamestrujillo.bsky.social
@babajideowoyele.bsky.social @skadava.bsky.social

A brightly colored poster with geometric figures, with speakers for this summerschool. David Pugnon, Marianne de Heer Kloots, Antonio Rueda-Toicen, and Organizers, James Trujillo, Sarka Kadava, Babajide Owoyele, Wim Pouw

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Sharice Clough, PhD @shariceclough.bsky.social · Jun 17

Excited to share this viewpoint on why studying group audience design processes in TBI can lead to new clinical and scientific insights about communication difficulties after brain injury. Will be followed up soon w/ empirical papers examining adaptation across speech, gesture, and gaze modalities!

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · Jun 17

Multiparty Communication: A New Direction in Characterizing the Impact of Traumatic Brain Injury on Social Communication. New publication by Kekes-Szabo, @shariceclough.bsky.social, Brown-Schmidt & Duff. doi.org/10.1044/2025....

Multiparty Communication: A New Direction in Characterizing the Impact of Traumatic Brain Injury on Social Communication

Purpose: The purpose of this viewpoint is to advocate for increased study of common ground and audience design processes in multiparty communicat...

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · Jun 17

Multiparty Communication: A New Direction in Characterizing the Impact of Traumatic Brain Injury on Social Communication. New publication by Kekes-Szabo, @shariceclough.bsky.social, Brown-Schmidt & Duff. doi.org/10.1044/2025....

Multiparty Communication: A New Direction in Characterizing the Impact of Traumatic Brain Injury on Social Communication

Purpose: The purpose of this viewpoint is to advocate for increased study of common ground and audience design processes in multiparty communicat...

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ISGS2025 @isgs2025.bsky.social · Jun 13

📢 We are thrilled to announce that the full program for #ISGS2025 is now available on our website: isgs10.nl

✨Explore the detailed schedule featuring latest advancements in multimodal language research ✨

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Marlijn ter Bekke @marlijnterbekke.bsky.social · Apr 23

🧠 In an EEG experiment, we recorded brain activity while participants listened to the questions. Gestures led to signals of 𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 before the upcoming target word (i.e., alpha and beta power decreases), and 𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙚𝙧 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 of the target word once it was heard (i.e., less negative N400) ✔️

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Judith Holler @judithholler.bsky.social · Apr 23

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 · Apr 23

🎉 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

Co-Speech Hand Gestures Are Used to Predict Upcoming Meaning - Marlijn ter Bekke, Linda Drijvers, Judith Holler, 2025

In face-to-face conversation, people use speech and gesture to convey meaning. Seeing gestures alongside speech facilitates comprehenders’ language processing, ...

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Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek @asliozyurek.bsky.social · Mar 30

📣 📣Acceptance letters sent for #ISGS2025 “From motion to meaning: innovations in multimodal language research”
🆕check out 2 preconference workshops &come in early 🆕
🗓️ You will get the BEST RATE if you register before May 31
🔎 For more information: isgs10.nl

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ISGS2025 @isgs2025.bsky.social · Mar 20

📢 We are excited to announce that registration for #ISGS2025 IS OPEN!

🗓️ You will get the BEST RATE if you register before May 31

🔎 For more information: isgs10.nl/registration

@mpi-nl.bsky.social @asliozyurek.bsky.social

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Sharice Clough, PhD @shariceclough.bsky.social · Mar 24

Congrats again!!! 👏👏🤩

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Marlijn ter Bekke @marlijnterbekke.bsky.social · Mar 24

Hora est! 🎓 On Friday I successfully defended my PhD thesis "On how gestures facilitate prediction and fast responding during conversation", which can be found here (lnkd.in/eewcJYyt). It was an absolutely fantastic day! 😍

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · Feb 19

Come work with us! Our department is hiring an associate/assistant prof in language and speech technology www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
#interspeech #speech #SpeechTech #SpeechScience

Associate/Assistant Professor: Language and Speech Technology | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a Associate/Assistant Professor: Language and Speech Technology at the Faculty of Arts? Check our vacancy!

www.ru.nl

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Sharice Clough, PhD @shariceclough.bsky.social · Feb 18

More to come on this front soon! Congratulations @martinamellana.bsky.social 🙌

Martina Mellana @martinamellana.bsky.social · Feb 18

Finally submitted my Master’s thesis carried out at @mpi-nl.bsky.social with @shariceclough.bsky.social ! 🎉🥳
We found that individuals with MCI rely on the gesture modality as a meaningful communicative resource and that information conveyed through gesture remained stable over time.

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · Feb 11

Spatial working memory is critical for gesture processing: Evidence from gestures with varying semantic links to speech. New paper by Demet Özer, @asliozyurek.bsky.social & Tilbe Göksun
doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02642-4

Spatial working memory is critical for gesture processing: Evidence from gestures with varying semantic links to speech - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Gestures express redundant or complementary information to speech they accompany by depicting visual and spatial features of referents. In doing so, they recruit both spatial and verbal cognitive reso...

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Dr Abi Roper @abracabadger.com · Feb 7

The #BASConf25 abstract submission portal is open!

Submit your abstracts for presentations, panels, lightning talks, or posters here:
blogs.city.ac.uk/bas2025/subm...

• Submission Deadline: 17 Mar 2025, 9AM UK
• Notification of Acceptance: 2 May 2025
• Conference: 18-20 August 2025

#aphasia

Submit an Abstract | British Aphasiology Society International Conference 2025

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Feb 6

This article--on the systematic dismantling of the NIH, NSF, and CDC--is a must-read not only for researchers and clinicians but for anyone who has ever gotten a vaccine, taken medication, read the results of a research study, or gotten tested for Covid, flu, or STIs.
www.science.org/content/blog...

Revised and Extended: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

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Rachel Ryskin @ryskin.bsky.social · Feb 6

🚨 New open-access paper out now in PB&R: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

We (w/ Ted Gibson, @swathikiran.bsky.social) explore how individuals with aphasia interpret sentences & whether their comprehension difficulties stem from increased expectations of noise in language input. 🧵👇

Noisy-channel language comprehension in aphasia: A Bayesian mixture modeling approach - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Individuals with “agrammatic” receptive aphasia have long been known to rely on semantic plausibility rather than syntactic cues when interpreting sentences. In contrast to early interpretations of th...

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Professor Leanne Togher @leannetogher.bsky.social · Jan 30

Come and join our next IBIA webinar: Advancing Communication Partner Training following Brain Injury: Past, Present, and Future by @petraavramovic.bsky.social

Feb 6, 2023, 3 PM EST/Feb 7, 2025, 7 AM AEDT

Social Cognition, Communication and Affect SIG

www.internationalbrain.org/meetings-and...

Webinar Series & CME Credits - International Brain Injury Association

The International Brain Injury Association (IBIA) is dedicated to the development and support of multidisciplinary medical and clinical professionals, advocates, policy makers, consumers and others wh...

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ISGS2025 @isgs2025.bsky.social · Jan 24

⏰ONE WEEK left to submit your abstracts for #ISGS2025

Deadline: January 31

Don’t miss our great line up of keynote speakers and three days full of the latest multimodal language research!

ISGS2025 @isgs2025.bsky.social · Jan 6

📢DEADLINE EXTENSION!!!

🗓️ Submission deadline for #ISGS2025 has been extended to January 31, 2025

🔎 For submission guidelines, see: www.isgs10.nl/abstract-sub...

@mpi-nl.bsky.social @asliozyurek.bsky.social

ISGS10 - Abstract Submission

Abstract Submission

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · Jan 24

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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Brielle Stark, PhD {she} @briellestark.bsky.social · Jan 13

Loving the influx to BSky! Follow us and the #aphasia to join the conversation!

go.bsky.app/PW5JHmQ

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Jan 10

Eleanor Maguire, who died 4 January at age 54, pioneered the famous London taxi-driver study and naturalistic approaches for studying spatial and episodic memory in people.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

www.thetransmitter.org/memory/remem...

Remembering Eleanor Maguire, ‘trailblazer’ of human memory

Maguire, mastermind of the famous London taxi-driver study, broadened the field and championed the importance of spatial representations in memory.

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · Jan 11

We wouldn’t have complex language if it weren’t for interactive repair.

Last year around this time our review 'Interactive repair and the foundations of language' came out doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... (PDF pure.mpg.de/pubman/item/...)

I blogged about it here ideophone.org/interactive-... #langsky

Redirecting

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Sharice Clough, PhD @shariceclough.bsky.social · Jan 10

New preprint w/ Melissa Evans, Melissa Duff, & Sarah Brown-Schmidt. Using a temporal contiguity analysis, we showed that when adults w/ TBI retell stories, they make larger jumps between story details & demonstrate overall reduced temporal organization than non-injured peers. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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