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Jenni Sander @jennisander.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It’s a wrap! Presented my favourite PhD study today at #ICIS2026 on how peripheral visual attention might help children learning a sign or spoken language solve the reference problem. @infantstudies.bsky.social

Jenni presenting on a podium next to a screen showing a scene from a head-mounted eye tracking camera, showing a busy scene with lots of toys. Title of the slide: “the reference problem” and a speech bubble saying “komkommer”. Jenni is gesturing to the slide and wearing white pants and a black top. People in the audience can be seen from behind

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The developmental trajectory of gaze and joint attention in native signing children. New paper by @jennisander.bsky.social & al. With @yayun23.bsky.social , @carorowland.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2026.101730

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Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Jenni Sander's PhD manuscript was approved yesterday (hooray!). To celebrate I thought I'd share a thread of her publications to date. Her work is on the challenge of reference - how children learn to connect novel labels with their referent objects - in both spoken and sign languages. 1/

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Jenni Sander @jennisander.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Really excited I was able to present my work at #BUCLD ! Thanks for everyone who attended my talk and asked great questions!

View onto the stage of an auditorium, title slide of my talk showing a child and a parent interact in sign. Title of the presentation: ‘Exploring visual pathways for label-object mapping in signing and speaking children’ and a video-recording of me presenting in the corner of the screen

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Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Coming to CogSci 2025 - where do we look when watching sign language? Deaf signers look at the face (tho novice hearer-speakers look at the hands), showing how the language faculty adapts to different modalities. Led by @jennisander.bsky.social & Patrick Trettenbrein escholarship.org/uc/item/0183...

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Deaf Signers Adapt Their Eye Gaze Behaviour When Processing an Unknown Sign Language

Author(s): Sander, Jennifer; Meister, Nina-Kristin; Finkbeiner, Thomas A.; Rowland, Caroline F; Steinbach, Markus; Friederici, Angela D.; Zaccarella, Emiliano; Trettenbrein, Patrick C. | Abstract: Sig...

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wimpouw @wimpouw.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Our @dondersinst.bsky.social funded collaboration project EnvisionBoxBaby is in full swing. Leveraging object detection for eye tracking-object dynamics. With @babajideowoyele.bsky.social @Davide Ahmar, @sabinehunnius.bsky.social @carorowland.bsky.social @yayun23.bsky.social

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Jenni Sander @jennisander.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I am excited to share the abstract video to our study on Joint Attention in Signing Caregiver-Child Dyads! youtu.be/M8EUU1_p4so

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Sander, Rowland & Lieberman 2025 video abstract

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Jenni Sander @jennisander.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Exciting news - three years after visiting @amymlieberman.bsky.social in Boston for 6 wonderful weeks, our project on joint attention and sign familiarity in ASL has been published!

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Dan Wuori @danwuori.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Watch and learn. 👀 🧠 I’ve written often about how infants learn language not just with their ears, but with their eyes. But I’ve rarely run across a better video example than this lovely moment shared to IG by seanandcaitlin. (Thread 🧵)

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Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

In 2025 I’m writing threads summarising papers by my amazing team here at MPI-PL. No.4: Sander, Zhang & Rowland on learning in multimodal interaction:Commentary on Karadöller, Sümer & Özyürek @yayun23.bsky.social @jennisander.bsky.social @mpi-nl.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/

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Jenni Sander @jennisander.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Together with @carorowland.bsky.social and @yayun23.bsky.social I wrote a commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek: Language acquisition occurs in multimodal social interaction Find it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

1st results from the 1st ever Sign Language of the Netherlands CDI. Results for children's comprehension and production, reliably correlate with age. All the work of the extraordinary Jenni Sander and Dilys Eikelboom @jennisander.bsky.social

2 line graphs with vocabulary on y axis and age on x axis, with a line showing growth with age, together with points indicating individual children

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Jenni Sander @jennisander.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

In case you missed my poster at #TISLR15 today, find me tomorrow or send me a message and let’s have a chat! We are able to show that signing children do indeed get parallel input of object and object labels on a regular base and that bimodal bilingual children’s show modality specific patterns!

Jenni presenting her poster, wearing a blazer and jeans. Several people stand in front of the poster and the poster title is: “Through the Eyes of the Learner: Examining Attentional Dynamics in Signed Caregiver-Child Interactions using Head-Mounted Eye-Tracking”

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

You can now find a starter pack with our researchers, alumni and collaborative partners currently on Bluesky. Please dm us to add to the pack. go.bsky.app/rthUcG

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