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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 7d

Posting on behalf of Tamar Gollan, who is not on Bluesky:

A postdoc position is open and available immediately in Dr. Tamar Gollan’s Laboratory of Aging Bilingualism at the University of California, San Diego, funded by NIH & NSF. See link for details!

psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...

psychiatry.ucsd.edu

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Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek @asliozyurek.bsky.social · Aug 25

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Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek @asliozyurek.bsky.social · Aug 24

👉🏽👉🏽We show experimentally that so called simple demonstratives are not simple at all but require both spatial and social computations including others attention states and pointing- it gets better when we find out there is cross linguistics diversity in how languages weigh & carve up these dimensions

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Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek @asliozyurek.bsky.social · Aug 24

Very proud of this paper

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · Aug 21

Spatial and social cognition jointly determine multimodal demonstrative reference: Experimental evidence from Turkish and Spanish. New paper by Paula Rubio-Fernandez, @madeleinelong.bsky.social & @asliozyurek.bsky.social.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

Spatial and social cognition jointly determine multimodal demonstrative reference: Experimental evidence from Turkish and Spanish

All languages in the world have demonstrative terms such as ‘this’ and ‘that’ in English, which have traditionally been treated as spatial words. Here…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek @asliozyurek.bsky.social · Jun 29

Haha yes multimodality feeds:)

Martina Mellana @martinamellana.bsky.social · Jun 29

Sharing a fun science outreach experience! At OFF TOPIC pub in Turin, in collaboration with CentroScienza, I served up some science bites about multimodal communication to diners who ordered from my special menu! 🗯️🍻

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Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek @asliozyurek.bsky.social · Jun 28

Wonderful research with many implications

Auditory-Visual Speech Association (AVISA) @avsp.bsky.social · Jun 27

The Power of Vision on Speech Recognition Among Older People pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/... "Older adults with reversible vision loss and mild-to-severe age-related hearing loss can improve their speech perception through vision recovery treatment"

The Power of Vision on Speech Recognition Among Older People

Objective: This study aimed to explore the relationship between visual acuity and speech recognition. Method: The study subjects finally includ...

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Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek @asliozyurek.bsky.social · Jun 17

Happy to see our new paper published signing children have an action bias even when expressing where an object is located 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · Jun 16

Action bias in describing object locations by signing children. New paper by @beyzasumer.bsky.social & @asliozyurek.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1075/sll.24008.sum

Action bias in describing object locations by signing children | John Benjamins

Abstract This study investigates the role of action bias in the acquisition of classifier constructions by deaf children acquiring Turkish Sign Language (TİD). While classifier handshapes are morpholo...

doi.org

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Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek @asliozyurek.bsky.social · May 22

There is still chance to get the best rate and attend our cutting edge conference on recent advances on multimodal language and gesture studies👍👍👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼@isgs2025

ISGS2025 @isgs2025.bsky.social · May 20

⏰ The deadline for EARLY BIRD registration for #ISGS2025 is approaching!

🗓️Register by May 31st to get the best rate for registration.

For more information & to register: isgs10.nl/registration

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Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek @asliozyurek.bsky.social · May 17

📣1st time accepted to #ACL2025!! with great collabs, contributing to our Multimodal Language Dept’s research&innovation track on Computational Multimodal Lang.
I see what you mean: Co-Speech Gestures for Reference Resolution in Multimodal Dialogue.E Ghaleb, B Khaertdinov, A Ozyurek, R Fernández

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Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek @asliozyurek.bsky.social · May 17

Fantastic !! Want to be bring your excellent research to Europe?

European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · May 16

Today, the ERC formally adopted a decision to increase its support for researchers moving to Europe.

On top of its normal grants, the ERC offers 'start-up' funding to help PIs establish laboratories / research teams in Europe.

This extra funding is now x2 (up to €2 million!)

europa.eu/!6Vdgmp

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Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek @asliozyurek.bsky.social · May 6

Please join us discussing current and future education of CogSci !! On May 7 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · May 5

Please join @asliozyurek.bsky.social, @tanialombrozo.bsky.social, Hannah Rohde and me **this Wednesday 12pm eastern**. What does the future of cogsci in higher ed look like? I promise it's not all bad news!! Register below!

Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · Apr 15

We're launching a new webinar series! Cognitive Science: Perspectives for Higher Education ✨

Join us May 7🗓️ to hear about the future of #CogSci education, from interdisciplinary challenges to innovative teaching and research.

Learn more and register at cognitivesciencesociety.org/higher-educa...

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ISGS2025 @isgs2025.bsky.social · Mar 31

📢Two #ISGS2025 pre-conference workshops at @mpi-nl.bsky.social on July 8

1️⃣ Multimodal Negation: Foundations and Dynamics

2️⃣ Multimodal Processing Pipeline

🔎Registration is handled separately and on a first-come-first-served basis. For more info: www.isgs10.nl/workshops

ISGS10 - Workshops

Pre-conference Workshops

www.isgs10.nl

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ISGS2025 @isgs2025.bsky.social · Apr 14

🎉We’re thrilled to announce our #ISGS2025 keynote speaker: Tilbe Göksun @tilbegoksun.bsky.social

Join us for her talk, “Multifunctionality of gesture use and processing across the lifespan: An individual differences approach”✨

🔎Learn more about her and her talk www.isgs10.nl/keynotes#h.4...

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ISGS2025 @isgs2025.bsky.social · Apr 21

🎉 We’re thrilled to announce our #ISGS2025 keynote speaker: Johanna Mesch!

Join us for her talk, “Tactile adaptations of gestures and emotions in deafblind communication” ✨

🔎 Learn more about her and her talk www.isgs10.nl/keynotes#h.9...

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ISGS2025 @isgs2025.bsky.social · Apr 28

🎉 We’re thrilled to announce our #ISGS2025 keynote speaker: Lorna Quandt @lornaquandt.bsky.social

Join us for her talk, “Embodied approaches to sign language:
From visuospatial cognition to virtual reality” ✨

🔎 Learn more about her and her talk www.isgs10.nl/keynotes#h.r...

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ISGS2025 @isgs2025.bsky.social · Apr 29

🚨 Reminder: Tomorrow (April 30) is the final deadline for presenters to register for ISGS2025!

Don’t miss your chance to be part of the program.
Register now 👉 www.isgs10.nl/registration

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Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek @asliozyurek.bsky.social · Apr 25

Sending this to our VR team:)

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Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek @asliozyurek.bsky.social · Apr 19

Congratulations!!

Tilbe Göksun @tilbegoksun.bsky.social · Apr 19

Here is the latest paper from our lab led by my former amazing graduate student Mert:

Spatial language development in preterm and full-term infants: The role of object exploration and parents’ spatial input

@mkobas.bsky.social @ecedemirlira.bsky.social

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

Spatial language development in preterm and full-term infants: The role of object exploration and parents’ spatial input

Infants learn object features and relations among objects by exploring them. Object exploration and parents’ verbal input related to these spatial cha…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Daniel Rück @danrueck.bsky.social · Apr 15

Canadian Association of University Teachers advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S. www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...

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Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek @asliozyurek.bsky.social · Apr 16

🙏🙏🙏

Lauren Gawne @superlinguo.bsky.social · Apr 16

I got to include some of my favourite work from @asliozyurek.bsky.social and her colleagues in Gesture: A Slim Guide - work I've been reading and inspired by since I began in Gesture Studies 💕

Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek @asliozyurek.bsky.social · Apr 14

Want to know all about gesture in an accessible way ? This is THAT book:) newbooksnetwork.com/gesture

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Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek @asliozyurek.bsky.social · Apr 14

Want to know all about gesture in an accessible way ? This is THAT book:) newbooksnetwork.com/gesture

Gestures and Emblems: A Discussion with Lauren Gawne - New Books Network

newbooksnetwork.com

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Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek @asliozyurek.bsky.social · Apr 12

Wonderful!!! We got so far 16 commentaries on our target paper and working on our response :) 🙏🙏to everyone for their responses!!

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Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek @asliozyurek.bsky.social · Apr 9

Join us on a webinar for challanges in higher education in cognitive science cognitivesciencesociety.org/higher-educa...

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Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek @asliozyurek.bsky.social · Apr 8

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Srishti @srishtiy.bsky.social · Apr 7

When we read the news, images can convey different things than text itself.

Unlike other works which look at text, we study this as a “multimodal” framing problem & analyze where text and images communicate different “frames”.

Checkout our paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2503.20960

@aicentre.dk

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Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek @asliozyurek.bsky.social · Apr 7

Excellent advisor !! Not to be missed

Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social · Apr 7

I'm now searching for new PhD students who are interested in studying how people's brains understand sequences of images like in comics. So, a mix of comics, cogneuro (EEG), and psycholinguistics (especially syntax/semantics). Please circulate to all who might be interested! tiu.nu/22739

Job opening: Two PhD positions for the neurocognition of the grammar of visual narratives (22739)

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