Mingtong Li
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cyberming.bsky.social
Mingtong Li
@cyberming.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Developmental Psychlogy at University of Warwick. Interested in early language development, multimodal communication, and iconicity. She/Her/Hers
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At last week's @primatesocietygb.bsky.social conference it was discussed at length how we need to be supporting the local communities and helping where we can and only a few days later @dranipermana.bsky.social is trying to do just that! Please share or get in touch with her to see how you can help.
#Sumatra is underwater. My friends, field staff and village has been cut off and destroyed.

I am still processing how best to help but for now, please share this link to #donate 🙏

#fieldwork
#indonesia
#orangutan
#research
#sumatraflood
#banjir
#donasi
December 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Very grateful to the organisers for pulling off such a wonderful three days. We had a great time at #ISGS10 @isgs2025.bsky.social and are already looking forward to ISGS11 in Hong Kong!
July 12, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Big thanks to the amazing organizers! So happy I got to share my PhD research on how children and adults use iconic gesture speed to figure out verb referents. Spoilers: 3-year-olds picked up only on the fast gestures, but not the slow ones, unlike adults 👋 #LLGAwayDay
June 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Thrilled to see my first publication out in PB&R with @sotarokita.bsky.social and @suzanneaussems.bsky.social! Adults interpret novel verbs using iconic speed cues in speech prosody and hand gesture, with a small but reliable link across modalities.

Open access: link.springer.com/10.3758/s134...
Adults interpret iconicity in speech and gesture via the same modality-independent process - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Iconicity is the resemblance or similarity between the form of a signal and its meaning. In two studies, we investigated whether adults interpret iconicity in speech and gesture via a modality-indepen...
link.springer.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM