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Ercenur Ünal @ercenurunal.bsky.social · 7h

Know someone whose excellence in research and contributions to the CogSci community should be recognized? Nominate them to be a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society!

Deadline: Nov 1
More info: cognitivesciencesociety.org/fellows/

Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · 8d

The CogSci Society is accepting nominations for 🌟Fellows of the Society🌟

Fellows are individuals whose research has exhibited sustained excellence and had sustained impact on the #CogSci community.

Visit cognitivesciencesociety.org/fellows/ and submit your nomination until November 1st!

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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · 8d

The CogSci Society is accepting nominations for 🌟Fellows of the Society🌟

Fellows are individuals whose research has exhibited sustained excellence and had sustained impact on the #CogSci community.

Visit cognitivesciencesociety.org/fellows/ and submit your nomination until November 1st!

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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · Jul 31

Huge congratulations to the brilliant Nora Newcombe, recipient of the 2025 David E. Rumelhart Prize! 🏅#CogSci2025

Nora S. Newcombe and Robert Glushko stand together smiling on stage at CogSci 2025. Nora wears the Rumelhart Prize medal around her neck

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ISGS2025 @isgs2025.bsky.social · Jul 10

We had a fantastic start to #ISGS2025 and we are ready for Day2!

⏰ Check out today’s detailed schedule: www.isgs10.nl/conference-p...

Highlights include:

🌟 Keynote by Johanna Mesch

🔍Symposia, talk and poster sessions

🌟 Keynote by Mark Turner

🕺🏽Conference Dinner & Dancing

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ISGS2025 @isgs2025.bsky.social · Jul 9

Full room for Tilbe Göksun’s keynote on multifunctionality of gesture processing & use with an individual differences approach #ISGS2025

@tilbegoksun.bsky.social

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

We're pleased to announce an in-person event celebrating 25 years of the Rumelhart Prize at #CogSci2025

Join us to celebrate the impact of the Rumelhart Prize on Cognitive Science!

🗓️ July 30, 2025
📍The Internet Archive, San Francisco

Learn more at cognitivesciencesociety.org/rumelhart-25...

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · Feb 25

Gesture reduces mapping difficulties in the development of spatial language depending on the complexity of spatial relations. New paper by @ercenurunal.bsky.social & al. with @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social , Beyza Sümer, @asliozyurek.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Gesture Reduces Mapping Difficulties in the Development of Spatial Language Depending on the Complexity of Spatial Relations

In spoken languages, children acquire locative terms in a cross-linguistically stable order. Terms similar in meaning to in and on emerge earlier than those similar to front and behind, followed by l...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · Feb 23

The Cognitive Science Society's Broadening Participation Grant is entering its 3rd year, funding initiatives that expand global participation in Cognitive Science!

We're excited to share updates on our 2024 recipients—each with a dedicated blog post. Follow along! 🧵👇 #CogSci

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Ercenur Ünal @ercenurunal.bsky.social · Feb 24

New paper in Cognitive Science!

We show evidence for the joint role of cognitive complexity & modality of expression for the development of spatial language.

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

New paper out !!Children use spatial gestures to complement speech more for complex than simpler spatial relations - gestures might reduce mapping difficulties of complex spatial concepts to arbitrary speech symbols - in Cognitive Science !! @ercenurunal.bsky.social @dilaykaradoller @beyzasumer

Gesture Reduces Mapping Difficulties in the Development of Spatial Language Depending on the Complexity of Spatial Relations

In spoken languages, children acquire locative terms in a cross-linguistically stable order. Terms similar in meaning to in and on emerge earlier than those similar to front and behind, followed by l...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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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

www.isgs10.nl

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ISGS2025 @isgs2025.bsky.social · Dec 20

Introduction to #ISGS2025 in IS

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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · Dec 6

We’re pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 #CogSciMindChallenge 🧠🧩

🥇Ryan Rhodes - Rutgers University
🥈John Hollander and Zoey Sanders - Arkansas State University
🥉Nidhi Sinha - Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

🏅Raunak Pillai - New York University

Check out their amazing videos ⬇️

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Ercenur Ünal @ercenurunal.bsky.social · Nov 11

Call for submissions open for 10th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies at Nijmegen, the Netherlands on July 9-11 2025

Submission guidelines and more info: www.isgs10.nl/abstract-sub...

Deadline: January 15,2025

ISGS10 - Abstract Submission

Abstract Submission

www.isgs10.nl

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Ercenur Ünal @ercenurunal.bsky.social · Oct 23

Hi, I’m chairing the fellows committee. Unfortunately we don’t accept self-nominations.

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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · Oct 10

⏰Deadline approaching!

Just 3 weeks left to recognize leading researchers by nominating them as Fellows of the Cognitive Science Society.

Deadline is November 1st! 🗓️
Don’t miss out!

cognitivesciencesociety.org/fellows/

Only 3 weeks left to submit nominations for Fellows of the Cognitive Science Society!

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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · Oct 7

Join us in celebrating David Rumelhart, James McClelland, and Geoffrey Hinton — winners of the 2024 Golden Goose Award 👏👏👏

Learn more about their groundbreaking work and its lasting impact on science and society at cognitivesciencesociety.org/golden-goose-award

#GoldenGooseAward #CogSci

Four men in formal attire stand in a grand marble hall, each holding the Golden Goose Award trophy – a golden spiral design resembling a goose. From left to right, we have Karl Rumelhart and Peter Rumelhart, James McClelland, Geoffrey Hinton. They are smiling and posing together. The background features classical architecture with columns and arches, adding to the formal atmosphere of the event. (photo by Linnea Farnsworth)

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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · Aug 5

📣 We’re seeking candidates to fill the position of Executive Officer!

The Executive Officer serves as a member of the Society’s Executive Committee, and plays a central role in helping the Governing Board implement their vision.

Learn more and apply at cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-jobs/

We are looking for a new Executive Officer

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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · Jul 25

Huge congratulations to the brilliant Nora Newcombe, recipient of the 2025 David E. Rumelhart Prize!

Visit the #RumelhartPrize page to learn more cognitivesciencesociety.org/rumelhart-pr...

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Ercenur Ünal @ercenurunal.bsky.social · Jul 23

On my way to Rotterdam for #CogSci2024!

We have two talks on Thursday morning session (and in great company) 👇🏻

and three posters on Friday poster session (381, 391 & 461)

If you’re interested in event cognition or multimodal language check them out!

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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · Jul 13

#Symposium at #CogSci2024

Don’t miss the Rumelhart Symposium honoring the #RumelhartPrize winner @AlisonGopnik, and discover groundbreaking research inspired by her work!

🗣️ Tamar Kushnir (chair), Caren Walker, Tom Griffiths, Willem Frankenhuis, and Laura Schulz.

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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · Jul 11

We’re excited to announce our #keynote speaker Andrea E. Martin at #CogSci2024! In just a couple of weeks, join us for her talk on ✨Dynamics between Minds✨

To learn more about her and the other awesome speakers, hop over to cognitivesciencesociety.org/speakers/

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Ercenur Ünal @ercenurunal.bsky.social · Jul 9

Our new paper ‘Asymmetries in encoding event roles: Evidence from language and cognition’ is now out in Cognition 🎉 (w. A Papafragou & J Trueswell)

We show new evidence for homologies between cognition and language for representation of event participants

doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · May 5

As #CogSci2024 approaches, mark these upcoming deadlines!

🧑‍💻 May 10 - Deadline for camera ready submissions.
cognitivesciencesociety.org/submissions/

🤝 May 17 - Deadline for Mentoring Program cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-2024-... and Affinity Groups cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-2024-...

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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · Apr 17

Meet the highly anticipated plenary speakers of #CogSci2024 🤩

Morgan Barense, is a Full Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto. She is also Director of the Toronto Neuroimaging Facility, and PI of the Memory and Perception Lab. 🧵👇

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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · Mar 10

Huge congratulations to Isabelle Dautriche sblldtrch.bsky.social, recipient of the 2024 Lila R. Gleitman Prize!

Learn about all her scientific achievements at cognitivesciencesociety.org/gleitman-prize/

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