Judith Holler
@judithholler.bsky.social
Leader of the Communication in Social Interaction (CoSI) research lab (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour & Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) https://www.cosilab.nl/ https://www.mpi.nl/people/holler-judith https://www.ru.nl/en/p
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In a new paper, @anakrajinovic.bsky.social, @cogirmak.bsky.social, and I show that living vs. non-living entities are marked differently for motion in graphics. This is similar to spoken languages, so we propose a possible universal across modalities onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
May 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
In a new paper, @anakrajinovic.bsky.social, @cogirmak.bsky.social, and I show that living vs. non-living entities are marked differently for motion in graphics. This is similar to spoken languages, so we propose a possible universal across modalities onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
New review out on facial signalling in conversation, making the argument that the notion of ‘speech acts’ is outdated due to its unimodal focus, especially in the light of the fundamental contributions of the face towards social action communication www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Facial clues to conversational intentions
It has long been known that we use words to perform speech acts foundational to everyday conversation, such as requesting, informing, proposing, or co…
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May 12, 2025 at 7:10 AM
New review out on facial signalling in conversation, making the argument that the notion of ‘speech acts’ is outdated due to its unimodal focus, especially in the light of the fundamental contributions of the face towards social action communication www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Very proud of this part of @marlijnterbekke.bsky.social’s PhD work being out, our first work combining avatars, gestures and EEG! 🎉
🎉 New paper out today! We used virtual avatars and EEG to show that listeners use meaningful gestures to predict what someone might say next 🧠👋
Read it here in Psychological Science 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0956..., with @lindadrijvers.bsky.social and @judithholler.bsky.social
Read it here in Psychological Science 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0956..., with @lindadrijvers.bsky.social and @judithholler.bsky.social
Co-Speech Hand Gestures Are Used to Predict Upcoming Meaning - Marlijn ter Bekke, Linda Drijvers, Judith Holler, 2025
In face-to-face conversation, people use speech and gesture to convey meaning. Seeing gestures alongside speech facilitates comprehenders’ language processing, ...
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April 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Very proud of this part of @marlijnterbekke.bsky.social’s PhD work being out, our first work combining avatars, gestures and EEG! 🎉
Early bird registration and pre-conference workshop registrations now open!
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March 31, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Early bird registration and pre-conference workshop registrations now open!
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Super proud of @marlijnterbekke.bsky.social who was awarded her PhD on Friday based on a wonderful thesis and a stellar defense! Congratulations dr ter Bekke!!! 💐🍾🥳
March 24, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Super proud of @marlijnterbekke.bsky.social who was awarded her PhD on Friday based on a wonderful thesis and a stellar defense! Congratulations dr ter Bekke!!! 💐🍾🥳
This paper combining corpus and experimental avatar studies from Paul’s PhD work is finally out, demonstrating systematic relations between verbal repair formats and eyebrow movements, as well an influence of addressees’ eyebrow furrows on speakers’ speech.
Eyebrow movements as signals of communicative problems in human face-to-face interaction. New paper by Paul Hömke, Stephen C. Levinson, Alexandra K. Emmendorfer & @judithholler.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241632
doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241632
Eyebrow movements as signals of communicative problems in human face-to-face interaction | Royal Society Open Science
Repair is a core building block of human communication, allowing us to address problems
of understanding in conversation. Past research has uncovered the basic mechanisms
by which interactants signal ...
doi.org
March 21, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This paper combining corpus and experimental avatar studies from Paul’s PhD work is finally out, demonstrating systematic relations between verbal repair formats and eyebrow movements, as well an influence of addressees’ eyebrow furrows on speakers’ speech.
Very happy that this is out, and congrats on your first publication, Ari! 🥳🥳
Our paper has been published open access!
(My first publication!)
This project was part of my MSc thesis with @jamestrujillo.bsky.social & @judithholler.bsky.social.
We explored the relationship between dyadic differences in EQ scores, and kinematic & prosodic similarity🧵
doi.org/10.1080/0163...
(My first publication!)
This project was part of my MSc thesis with @jamestrujillo.bsky.social & @judithholler.bsky.social.
We explored the relationship between dyadic differences in EQ scores, and kinematic & prosodic similarity🧵
doi.org/10.1080/0163...
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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February 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Very happy that this is out, and congrats on your first publication, Ari! 🥳🥳
Very happy that this new paper with @jamestrujillo.bsky.social is now out, suggesting that visual signals contribute information especially during question beginnings in Dutch face-to-face conversation.
Excited to have another paper coming out from my postdoc time with @judithholler.bsky.social !
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We looked at how visual signals, like facial expressions and hand gestures, are associated with the the amount of linguistic information, in spoken conversations 🧵
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We looked at how visual signals, like facial expressions and hand gestures, are associated with the the amount of linguistic information, in spoken conversations 🧵
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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February 3, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Very happy that this new paper with @jamestrujillo.bsky.social is now out, suggesting that visual signals contribute information especially during question beginnings in Dutch face-to-face conversation.
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Facial signals shape predictions about the nature of upcoming conversational responses. New paper by @alexemmendorfer.bsky.social & @judithholler.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-85192-y
doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-85192-y
Facial signals shape predictions about the nature of upcoming conversational responses - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Facial signals shape predictions about the nature of upcoming conversational responses
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January 24, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Facial signals shape predictions about the nature of upcoming conversational responses. New paper by @alexemmendorfer.bsky.social & @judithholler.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-85192-y
doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-85192-y
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@judithholler.bsky.social and I have written an entry on 'Conversation' for the new Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science edited by Mike Frank and @asifamajid.bsky.social. Happy to have contributed to such a fantastic resource! oecs.mit.edu/pub/gx9ypm4x...
December 16, 2024 at 9:15 AM
@judithholler.bsky.social and I have written an entry on 'Conversation' for the new Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science edited by Mike Frank and @asifamajid.bsky.social. Happy to have contributed to such a fantastic resource! oecs.mit.edu/pub/gx9ypm4x...
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Conversation. New chapter by Kobin H. Kendrick &
@judithholler.bsky.social
doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.3c00b537
@judithholler.bsky.social
doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.3c00b537
Conversation
doi.org
December 5, 2024 at 10:49 AM
Conversation. New chapter by Kobin H. Kendrick &
@judithholler.bsky.social
doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.3c00b537
@judithholler.bsky.social
doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.3c00b537
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Writing a grant is great for developing ideas, but does your proposal actually affect whether or not you get funded?
Turns out, your full proposal does not affect your ranking much! Whaat? 😯
Simsek et al. 2024: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Turns out, your full proposal does not affect your ranking much! Whaat? 😯
Simsek et al. 2024: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
December 5, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Writing a grant is great for developing ideas, but does your proposal actually affect whether or not you get funded?
Turns out, your full proposal does not affect your ranking much! Whaat? 😯
Simsek et al. 2024: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Turns out, your full proposal does not affect your ranking much! Whaat? 😯
Simsek et al. 2024: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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In our new paper 📝 @plos.bsky.social PLOS Biology, we use #eyetracking to study how great apes understand who-does-what-to-whom — surprisingly similar to human adults! Thus suggests that the event cognition basis for language was present in our common ancestor. ➡️ journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
November 27, 2024 at 6:25 PM
In our new paper 📝 @plos.bsky.social PLOS Biology, we use #eyetracking to study how great apes understand who-does-what-to-whom — surprisingly similar to human adults! Thus suggests that the event cognition basis for language was present in our common ancestor. ➡️ journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Come join us as a PhD student 🧑🎓 on NWO project 'Multimodal Signalling in Face-to-Face Communication' at the Donders Centre for Cognition. Deadline 12th January! Dutch language proficiency advantageous.
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PhD Position: Multimodal Signalling and Processing in Face-to-face Communication at the Donders Centre for Cognition
1. Introduction How do we communicate our intentions to one another in conversational face-to-face interaction? What role do visual bodily signals play in this process, and how do they interact with l
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November 19, 2024 at 11:04 AM
Come join us as a PhD student 🧑🎓 on NWO project 'Multimodal Signalling in Face-to-Face Communication' at the Donders Centre for Cognition. Deadline 12th January! Dutch language proficiency advantageous.
ru.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
ru.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Come join us as a post-doc on NWO project 'Multimodal Signalling in Face-to-Face Communication' 😃 at the Donders Centre for Cognition. Deadline 8th December! Dutch language proficiency required.
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ru.varbi.com/what:job/job...
Postdoc Position: Multimodal Signalling in Face-to-Face Communication at the Donders Centre for Cognition
1. Introduction How do we communicate our intentions to one another in conversational face-to-face interaction? What role do visual bodily signals play in this process, and how do they interact with l
ru.varbi.com
November 19, 2024 at 10:59 AM
Come join us as a post-doc on NWO project 'Multimodal Signalling in Face-to-Face Communication' 😃 at the Donders Centre for Cognition. Deadline 8th December! Dutch language proficiency required.
ru.varbi.com/what:job/job...
ru.varbi.com/what:job/job...
Interesting work, looking forward to read it!
When measuring brain responses, this recent paper finds that when placed after sentences, face emoji are more congruent than non-face emoji: "Face emojis vs. Non-face emojis: Exploring neural mechanisms in text processing": www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 18, 2024 at 10:57 AM
Interesting work, looking forward to read it!
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We have funded PhD studentships available in Speech Hearing and Phonetic Sciences (SHaPS) at UCL for UK students only, please contact a potential supervisor in SHaPS to agree on a PhD project first: www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/researc...
SHaPS People
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November 18, 2024 at 10:46 AM
We have funded PhD studentships available in Speech Hearing and Phonetic Sciences (SHaPS) at UCL for UK students only, please contact a potential supervisor in SHaPS to agree on a PhD project first: www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/researc...
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2 weeks left to submit an abstract!
Save your spot in the program and meet #multimodalists from around the world in Groningen!
Save your spot in the program and meet #multimodalists from around the world in Groningen!
#12ICOM - Call for Papers now open! #cfp
Join us for the 12th International Conference on Multimodality at the University of Groningen, "The Multimodal Multiverse" from October 29-31, 2025!
All details, submissions rules and options:
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Join us for the 12th International Conference on Multimodality at the University of Groningen, "The Multimodal Multiverse" from October 29-31, 2025!
All details, submissions rules and options:
bit.ly/12ICOM
12ICOM Groningen
Submissions are open! | deadline 1 Dec '24
12th International Conference on Multimodality in Groningen
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November 15, 2024 at 6:50 AM
2 weeks left to submit an abstract!
Save your spot in the program and meet #multimodalists from around the world in Groningen!
Save your spot in the program and meet #multimodalists from around the world in Groningen!
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Come shape the study of English language and
communication at Oxford!
communication at Oxford!
Come join us in Oxford! Or encourage your friends to apply, so you can visit them here! We are looking to fill the Professorship in Language and Communication, a senior professor position. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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November 14, 2024 at 12:27 PM
Come shape the study of English language and
communication at Oxford!
communication at Oxford!
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You can sign up now for the new workshop on 'Behavioral Dynamics in Social Interactions' in Krakow 2-4th of May.
Follow the link through here to apply: envisionbox.org/krakow_flyer...
Follow the link through here to apply: envisionbox.org/krakow_flyer...
February 26, 2024 at 5:51 PM
You can sign up now for the new workshop on 'Behavioral Dynamics in Social Interactions' in Krakow 2-4th of May.
Follow the link through here to apply: envisionbox.org/krakow_flyer...
Follow the link through here to apply: envisionbox.org/krakow_flyer...