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Suzanne Aussems

@suzanneaussems.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Warwick (@warwickpsych.bsky.social). Interested in #gesture, #language, #learning #evolution, #communication, #development, #Rstats, & #openscience. Personal Webpage: suzanneaussems.github.io

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
New preprint! 🎉 I analysed 1660 papers from 4 psychology journals and found materials sharing went from 9% of papers in 2015 to 82% in 2025, and these materials *do* get downloaded — a median of 135 times each. BUT shared code is often hard to run. doi.org/10.31234/osf... Let's walk through it 🧵
Two-panel figure. Panel a is a flow diagram tracking 1,611 empirical psychology articles from publication year (545 in 2015, 552 in 2020, 514 in 2025) to repository-link type: 785 link an OSF project, 85 link another platform, and 741 link no repository. Of those with an OSF link, download counts were retrieved for 670 and not retrieved for 115. Panel b is a line chart of the share of empirical papers linking OSF across 2015, 2020 and 2025. The overall rate, shown as a dashed black line, rises from 9% to 57% to 82%. All four journals rise steeply and end close together: Psychological Science 92%, JESP 89%, JML 83%, Cognition 76%, with Psychological Science highest throughout.Three-panel figure. Panel a: ridgeline plot of downloads per file by material type on a log scale, with the percentage never downloaded labelled for each — archive 16% of 545 files, documents 20% of 2,970, code 12% of 3,471, other 17% of 1,646, data 21% of 10,051, media 35% of 2,120, images 35% of 4,102. Most files cluster between 1 and 10 downloads, with long right tails past 100. Panel b: ridgeline plot of downloads per paper by journal, log scale, with dashed median lines; Psychological Science is highest, then JESP, JML and Cognition. Panel c: stacked bars showing, for documents, data and code separately, the share of papers by download band (0, 1–10, 11–100, more than 100) in 2015, 2020 and 2025. The share exceeding 100 downloads falls sharply over time in all three types, from roughly two-thirds in 2015 to a quarter or less in 2025, as the 1–10 band grows.Four-panel figure. Panel a: statistical languages detected among 333 papers with retrievable code — R 88%, SPSS 12%, Stata 4%, SAS 1%. Panel b: code red flags among those 333 papers — 34% hard-code an absolute path, 40% reference a missing file — above documentation among 672 OSF-linked papers — 21% have a README, 30% are documented by README, description or wiki. Panel c: among 562 Elsevier papers with no repository link, 44% (245) host at least one journal supplementary file but only 14% (77) host data, code or an archive. Panel d: composition of those 448 hosted files — documents 52%, data 21%, media 9%, other 7%, archive 6%, code 3%, images 1%. The code panels are green, the journal-supplement panels blue.Coefficient plot (download predictors)

Dot-and-whisker plot of three standardised predictors of OSF download volume, each with a 95% confidence interval. Repository size (number of files) has the largest effect at about 0.76, citations about 0.38, and altmetric attention about 0.12. All three intervals sit entirely above zero, so each predicts more downloads, with repository size roughly twice the effect of citations and six times that of attention. X-axis: standardised effect, −0.2 to 1.0.
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Suzanne Aussems @suzanneaussems.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
From 16 November, the Open Science Framework is phasing out projects, so no more editable project pages to share materials, data, and analysis scripts. I'd be curious to hear suggestions for alternatives. www.cos.io/osf-changes
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OSF Changes | Center for Open Science
We are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shif...
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Suzanne Aussems @suzanneaussems.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Very excited to participate in #cls2026 at UCL London today. If you're here too, please come to Teruni's (@teruniahamat.bsky.social) talk on caregiver language and gesture input and infants' vocabulary at 1.30pm in UUK Boardroom
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Susanne Fuchs @susfuchs.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Considering the whole body, including #postural stability affects acoustics of #speech, but not #fluency related measures, see new work in JASA. Thanks for this team effort with Mingtong, Eric & @suzanneaussems.bsky.social. The corpus is #OA on doi.org/10.5281/zeno... pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...
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Perturbing postural stability affects acoustic properties but not fluency of adult speech production during face-to-face interaction
Physical constraints, particularly those that challenge postural stability and control, may measurably influence speech production. This experimental study inve
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Susanne Fuchs @susfuchs.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
New #OA corpus doi.org/10.5281/zeno... by Mingtong Li, Jiahao Eric Yang, @suzanneaussems.bsky.social. In short: 60 adults (30 pairs) play an interactive word guessing game. What is special: The clue giver is in situations under postural (in)stability (standing on the ground or on a wobble board)!!
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Tomorrow's seminar speaker is Prof. Lazaros Andronis from the Warwick Medical School, hosted by @suzanneaussems.bsky.social. He will present his talk "From hours and minutes to pounds and pennies. Using choice experiments to estimate the monetary value of children's and young people's time."
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Congratulations to Mingtong Li on a successful PhD viva! Her work, supervised by Dr. Suzanne Aussems and Prof. Sotaro Kita, examined how iconic temporal modulations in gesture and speech help learners interpret new verbs across development and what this reveals about iconicity comprehension.
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Matthew Mak @matthewmakpsy.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Recruiting a #PhD student interested in cognitive psychology (language, memory) and AI. Come join me at @warwickpsych.bsky.social. Overseas students are welcome. Feel free to reach out to me to enquire. #PhD #Fellowship #academia #apply. Deadline in mid-March warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/psyc...
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PhD Fellowship in Psychology - Dr Matthew Mak
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Suzanne Aussems @suzanneaussems.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Happy New Year! I am deligthed to announce that I will be serving as Associate Editor for Psychonomic Bulletin & Review in the new year. @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n
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What enables human language? A biocultural framework
Explaining the origins of language is a key challenge in understanding ourselves as a species. We present an empirical framework that draws on synergies across fields to facilitate robust studies of l...
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
At the Warwick Babylab we have an exciting new study about 4-year-olds' language learning. If you are keen to take part with your 4-year-old, please register your interest using this form and we'll get in touch with more information (warwick.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...).
Flyer for a study at the University of Warwick. Text reads: Language learning study. Does guessing words help you learn? We are looking for 4-year-olds for a fun study to help find out how children learn new words and how sentences are put together. Calling mini scientists! Recruiting 4-year-olds now! Help Warwick Research with Kids group with exciting new research! 3 sessions either on the University of Warwick campus or at home. you receive 3 books and a £25 voucher. Interested? Email Ed at ed.donnellan@warwick.ac.uk for more info, or scan the QR code to register your interest in taking part. The QR code directs to a qualtrics survey available at https://warwick.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6XbQRngMAUrOEIK
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
🎓 Warwick Sanctuary Scholarships – Autumn 2026 Entry Interested in research in Psychology? Explore funding opportunities now! 🔗 warwick.ac.uk/servic... 📅 Deadlines: Course Apps – 8 Dec 2025 Scholarship Apps – 11 Dec 2025 #PhD #Scholarships #WarwickUni #PsychologyResearch #PostgradFunding
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Suzanne Aussems @suzanneaussems.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Very proud to share this important work by PhD student @teruniahamat.bsky.social who is leading the way in open science for developmental psychology. Interested in collaborating or learning more about our Databrary corpus? Please feel free to reach out and connect with us.
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Teruni Ahamat @teruniahamat.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Excited to share my first PhD article, published in Scientific Data 👉 rdcu.be/eIRqD We present the Shared Book Reading Corpus: 44 caregiver-infant dyads, 3 camera views (headcams + overview), speech transcriptions & developmental measures. Access on Databrary for discovery & reuse! ✨ #OpenScience
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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
ManyBabies 3: A Multi-Lab Study of Infant Algebraic Rule Learning: osf.io/ghrdt
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Laura Schlingloff-Nemecz @laurasn.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The Manybabies4 paper is out! Infants' Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large-Scale, Multi-Lab, Coordinated Replication Study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 1000 babies tested in 37 labs; "Overall, 49.34% of infants preferred Helpers over Hinderers in the social condition"
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Infants’ Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large‐Scale, Multi‐Lab, Coordinated Replication Study
Evaluating whether someone's behavior is praiseworthy or blameworthy is a fundamental human trait. A seminal study by Hamlin and colleagues in 2007 suggested that the ability to form social evaluatio...
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Suzanne Aussems @suzanneaussems.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Huge congratulations and very well-deservered! Very happy to be able to nominate your work for this award.
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Sotaro Kita @sotarokita.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Our paper tinyurl.com/4upbjayy showed children can create foundations of phonetics and phonology: discreteness of form units and duality of patterning. We analyzed handshapes in homesign (gesture by deaf children without linguistic input) and mothers' co-speech gesture.
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Deaf homesigners can create the foundations of phonetics and phonology without an adult linguistic model
Children who are exposed to minimal linguistic input can nevertheless introduce linguistic features into their communication systems at the level of m…
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Suzanne Aussems @suzanneaussems.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
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!
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Teruni Ahamat @teruniahamat.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Had some great discussions today at poster session 2 at ISGS 2025 on my work studying caregiver iconic gestures produced during shared book reading with infants! @isgs2025.bsky.social
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Suzanne Aussems @suzanneaussems.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Bright and early at the first day of ISGS10! @isgs2025.bsky.social with @teruniahamat.bsky.social and @sotarokita.bsky.social
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Suzanne Aussems @suzanneaussems.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Just arrived at the MPI in Nijmegen for the MULTIDATA workshop and it's nice to see so many gesture colleagues here. Excited about this pre-conference workshop and the full @isgs2025.bsky.social programme!
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Giulia Palazzolo from @philoswarwick.bsky.social concludes the #LLGAwayDay with her analysis of the evolution of human syntax #BigQuestions @warwickpsych.bsky.social
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Another set of great talks from our 1st year PGRs at today's Department Seminar! Marie Stracke (@mariestracke.bsky.social), Elsie Wu (@elsiewu.bsky.social), Chunxi Liang (@chunxi-liang.bsky.social) and Zilan Zou (@zilanzou.bsky.social) each shared insights into their current research.
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Nick Chater now introducing the idea of social tinkering and spontaneous order and their role in the origin of language @mh-christiansen.bsky.social #LLGAwayDay @warwickpsych.bsky.social
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Here is what 2 years of fieldwork looks like! 🙌 also 👏 to Ani’s husband for taking on the lead acting role in the project and posing as a 🐅😮
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
PhD student Marie Stracke @mariestracke.bsky.social working with @warwicklng.bsky.social @suzanneaussems.bsky.social on growing up with a dialect in Bavaria #LLGAwayDay @warwickpsych.bsky.social
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Work with @susfuchs.bsky.social
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
@suzanneaussems.bsky.social now neatly demonstrating her cool new wobble board study! #LLGAwayDay @warwickpsych.bsky.social
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
And now Chris Strelluf from Applied Linguistics on testing the limits of linguistic plasticity with admittedly the best title yet! #LinguisticsSky can you spot the insider joke? #LLGAwayDay @warwickpsych.bsky.social
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
And here is a clue to the joke if you need it!
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Next up Annamaria Pinter, HoS at Applied Linguistics gives us a summary of her research @warwickpsych.bsky.social #LLGAwayDay
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
And @eddonnellan.bsky.social takes us to the end of the first session with a whistle-stop tour of all things prediction error! #LLGAwayDay @warwickpsych.bsky.social
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Nick Chater joins us online to present his work on spontaneous communicative conventions with @mh-christiansen.bsky.social @warwickpsych.bsky.social #LLGAwayDay
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Ying Guo is now presenting her work on how mood affects silent gesture interpretation @warwickpsych.bsky.social #LLGAwayDay 🙂☹️
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
PhD student Yibai Zhu is up next: here is a sneak peek 🫣 at her novel joint action paradigm! @warwickpsych.bsky.social #LLGAwayDay
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Today is #LLGAwayDay @warwickpsych.bsky.social! The room is full and PhD student @kirstyrgreen.bsky.social kicks us off with a talk on iconicity
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Having lots of fun with @kirstyrgreen.bsky.social experimental stimuli! Will try and upload a video later @warwickpsych.bsky.social #LLGAwayDay
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Next up is @cyberming.bsky.social with her work on iconic gesture speed @warwickpsych.bsky.social #LLGAwayDay
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
And here are some examples of @cyberming.bsky.social speed manipulation! #LLGAwayDay
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Next up @teruniahamat.bsky.social presenting preliminary data from her brand new corpus of shared book reading in 13-14 mo! @warwickpsych.bsky.social #LLGAwayDay
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Suzanne Aussems @suzanneaussems.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Today is a very exciting day, full of research talks by postgrads, postdocs, and faculty working on the topic of language across the University of Warwick #LLGAwayDay @warwickpsych.bsky.social
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Dr Chiara Gambi @gambichiara.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Really proud of the WaRKs team today! We showcased the eyetracker at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social Resonate Festival @warwickpsych.bsky.social and spoke to lots of families about our research #language #development 👏🥰
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Metascience 2025 is fully booked in London, but everyone can register for the 10 virtual symposia that will be held from June 16 through June 27. Register now! metascience.info/virtual-symp...
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Virtual pre-conference symposia - Metascience
In the two weeks leading up to the conference, Metascience 2025 will host a series of ten pre-conference virtual symposia. These sessions will be free to attend and held on Zoom.
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Suzanne Aussems @suzanneaussems.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Our department recently acquired a Near-Infrared Spectroscopy ( #NIRS ) system, which has only been used with adults so far. I'm keen to explore its use with infants. Any colleagues with experience in this area, or suggestions for best practices? #AcademicChatter #DevSci
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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Marie Stracke exploring the effects of growing up with a dialect on children’s acquisition of the standard variety @dieterwolke.bsky.social @suzanneaussems.bsky.social An exciting new use of the Bavarian Longitudinal Study data
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
We're still accepting apps for our research scientist position with LEVANTE (levante-network.org). This position is ideal for folks wanting to be the interface between a cool scientific project and an awesome team of software developers. Think of it as a technical product manager, but for science!
We are seeking a Research Scientist for a large-scale project on developmental data collection with children ages 2-12 called LEVANTE (Learning Variability Network Exchange). LEVANTE is a global research network to improve our understanding of variability in learning and development through coordinated data collection. The project is funded by the Jacobs Foundation; learn more at http://levante-network.org.

This position is a mix of scientific work and work with a software development team: we are looking for someone to act as the interface between the scientific goals of the project and our team of ~6 software engineers who work to implement different aspects of our web platform including researcher management, tasks and surveys, and data processing. We expect the role to be ideal for someone with technical experience from their scientific work and an interest in building good tools for other scientists through software development. 

This position is appropriate for recent PhD grads and candidates with postdoctoral experience; exact title and compensation will be relative to experience post-PhD. The RS will contribute to – and have the opportunity to lead on – research products including papers and presentations. The LEVANTE team is a large and lively group pushing the boundaries of cross-cultural developmental measurement through a combination of technical innovation and psychometrics. The RS will also be part of the Language and Cognition Lab at Stanford, a broad interdisciplinary group interested in using data to understand human development. 
Requirements for the position include:
- some kind of scientific software development experience (examples include developing experiments, computational models, or complex data analyses)
- theoretical knowledge of psychology or a related discipline (e.g., cognitive science, neuroscience), ideally doing behavioral measurements of some kind 
- project management experience on a technical or scientific project with multiple participants

Additional optional qualifications include:
- experience with modern database-backed web applications 
- experience with measure development or psychometrics
- R data analysis experience

Applicants should submit a current CV, a short (~1 page) coverletter stating their qualifications for the position, and a link to a github account (preferred) or other code sample.
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Suzanne Aussems @suzanneaussems.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Postgraduates, this is a very exciting Summer School programme for Methods in Social Sciences, in Lugano Switzerland, August 2025. Check out courses by @thomhills.bsky.social and @lukaszwalasek.bsky.social www.usi.ch/en/education...
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Workshops / Programme
The academic programme for the 29th edition of the Summer School is ready - minor changes can still occur. Registration: Registrations for the Summer School is now OPEN! Places are assigned on a first...
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Suzanne Aussems @suzanneaussems.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
🚨🙋🏻‍♀️💬Check out this exciting work by @cyberming.bsky.social showing that adults use a modality-independent mechanism for interpreting iconic speech and gesture cues. Very proud supervisor. Bonus, it's #OpenAccess ! #AcademicChatter #NewPaper #Gesture #Speech #Multimodality
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