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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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Ambra Ferrari @ambrafer.bsky.social · 15d

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 Prior expectations guide multisensory integration during face-to-face communication

Out now in @plos.org Computational Biology
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
w/ @giuliamz.bsky.social et al. @cimecunitrento.bsky.social

🧠🧪 #psychscisky #neuroskyence
TL;DR 🧵👇

Binding problem in face-to-face communication

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Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social · Sep 4

👀 👂 How does the brain merge what we hear & see? @lindadrijvers.bsky.social got an ERC Starting Grant (≈ €1.5M) for HANDWAVE, studying how we integrate audiovisual signals.

Vital for understanding language disorders & improving diagnostics.👇

www.ru.nl/en/research/...

ERC Starting Grants for research into language, money circulation and medieval songs | Radboud University

Three researchers at Radboud University will receive a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). They will receive a grant of rougly 1.5 million euros.

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ROLSI journal @rolsi-journal.bsky.social · 29d

New issue of ROLSI out online: a Special Issue of articles exploring the use of coding in conversation analysis

www.tandfonline.com/toc/hrls20/c...

Research on Language and Social Interaction

Counting practices and actions: Coding social interaction. Volume 58, Issue 3 of Research on Language and Social Interaction

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ROLSI journal @rolsi-journal.bsky.social · 29d

The articles in the Special Issue on Coding, now out online:

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Sara De Felice @saradefelice.bsky.social · Jul 23

How do our brains and bodies support social learning in real time?

We take an ecological and multimodal neuroscience approach to study mutual prediction and social coordination when learning with others.

It took 5 full years for this one! Full open-access pre-print: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Marlijn ter Bekke @marlijnterbekke.bsky.social · Jul 16

I had a lot of fun last week organising @isgs2025.bsky.social in my role as chair of the local support team! Thanks to all attendees and organizers for making the conference such a great success 🫶

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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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ISGS2025 @isgs2025.bsky.social · Jul 7

📢 We will announce the winner of the Student Poster Prize at the closing session of #ISGS2025 on Friday 🏆

Don’t miss it — join us as we celebrate outstanding student research! ✨

Keep an eye on our website to stay in the loop and catch all the updates www.isgs10.nl/home

ISGS10

10th Conference of the ISGS 9-11 July 2025 Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · Jul 7

We're hiring! Join us to work at the intersection of social interaction and language technology. Postdoc and PhD positions in my Futures of Language research group, based at Radboud University in Nijmegen, NL

Read more: markdingemanse.net/futures/news...

#linguistics #interaction #sts #emca #hci

Aerial photograph of Radboud University campus with the Erasmus tower in the foreground: tallest building in Nijmegen & home to the Futures of Language project. Source: RU

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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 · Jun 5

🚨 Great PhD opportunity to work with James McQueen and Orhun Ulusahin on the NWO-funded project ’Plugging talkers in: A new solution to the variability problem in human speech recognition’! Deadline 13th of June 📅

www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

PhD Position at the Donders Centre for Cognition: Talker Variability in Speech Recognition | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!

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Gabriella Vigliocco @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social · May 15

NEW PREPRINT
Iconic gestures are produced before the associated words and support prediction, but how does this work in children learning words?
Check out our new paper led by @marinewang.bsky.social @eddonnellan.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · May 8

Co-speech hand gestures are used to predict upcoming meaning. Final version by @marlijnterbekke.bsky.social , @lindadrijvers.bsky.social & @judithholler.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/09567976251331041

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · Apr 29

You do not need to be Dutch to sign. If you simply care to preserve programs that have been leaders in rigor and reform in psychology, then signal your support for them to continue to thrive.

Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · Apr 28

An open letter supporting the international bachelor’s psychology programs threatened for cuts. Proceeding with these cuts would damage some of the most important and impactful psychology departments globally. #supportdutchpsychology

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Against Language Barriers: A Call to Protect International Education in Dutch Academia

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Limor Raviv 🐘🤗🦒🍄🦄 @limorraviv.bsky.social · Apr 30

Interested in the evolution of human language and in understanding the pressures that shape languages today? Come do a PhD with me! Fully funded PhD position available in my group @mpi-nl.bsky.social, application deadline June 2nd:
www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

Fully funded 4-year PhD position in Language Evolution | Max Planck InstituteMax Planck Institute for psycholinguistics

www.mpi.nl

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · Apr 28

Dyadic differences in empathy scores are associated with kinematic similarity during conversational question-answer pairs. Final version by @jamestrujillo.bsky.social , Rebecca M. K. Dyer & @judithholler.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2025.2467605

Dyadic differences in empathy scores are associated with kinematic similarity during conversational question–answer pairs

During conversation, speakers coordinate and synergize their behaviors at multiple levels, and in different ways. The extent to which individuals converge or diverge in their behaviors during inter...

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · Apr 28

Multimodal information density is highest in question beginnings, and early entropy is associated with fewer but longer visual signals. Final version by @jamestrujillo.bsky.social & @judithholler.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2024.2413314

Multimodal information density is highest in question beginnings, and early entropy is associated with fewer but longer visual signals

When engaged in spoken conversation, speakers convey meaning using both speech and visual signals, such as facial expressions and manual gestures. An important question is how information is distri...

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Sho Akamine @shoakamine.bsky.social · Apr 25

If anyone is interested in using WhisperX to transcribe speech, this tutorial is for you!! In this tutorial, I provide an easy-to-use pipeline where you will get a time-aligned transcript as a Praat TextGrid file, a TSV file, and a subtitle file🙌
github.com/ShoAkamine/w...

GitHub - ShoAkamine/whisperx_tutorial

Contribute to ShoAkamine/whisperx_tutorial development by creating an account on GitHub.

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

In face-to-face conversations, speakers use hand movements to signal meaning. But do listeners actually use these gestures to predict what someone might say next? A study using virtual avatars showed that listeners used the avatar’s gestures to predict upcoming speech. www.mpi.nl/news/listene...

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

Co-speech hand gestures are used to predict upcoming meaning. New paper by @marlijnterbekke.bsky.social , @lindadrijvers.bsky.social & @judithholler.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/09567976251331041

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

thanks, I'll take a look at this paper! and yes, I love your idea of manipulating the gesture timing - I think important next steps are to find out how much gesture people need to see before they can start predicting and how the results generalize to more natural gesture-speech timing ☺️

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

thank you!! 😊

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Auditory-Visual Speech Association (AVISA) @avsp.bsky.social · Apr 22

Co-Speech Hand Gestures Are Used to Predict Upcoming Meaning journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... A Cloze experiment showed that gestures improved explicit predictions of upcoming target words. An EEG experiment showed that gestures reduced alpha & beta power - indicating anticipation

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

🤖 Moreover, our study shows that even gestures produced by a virtual avatar facilitate language processing. If we want artificial agents (like robots or avatars) to be readily understood, and in a human-like way, they should not only communicate with speech, but also with meaningful hand gestures 🫱

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

Conclusion: iconic gestures help people predict upcoming meaning in speech. To really understand how we predict language during everyday conversation, we need to think beyond speech—our bodies are part of the message too 🙋

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