Sotaro Kita
@sotarokita.bsky.social
Born and raised in Japan. Lived in the US, and the Netherlands. Now, I am teaching psychology in a British university. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/psych/people/skita/skita
Our paper describing a new video corpus of infant-parent interaction, which researchers can freely access from Databrary. 44 dyads of shared book reading sessions, captured by three cameras: head-mounted cameras on the infant and the parent, and an overview camera. tinyurl.com/yzs38uwz
September 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Our paper describing a new video corpus of infant-parent interaction, which researchers can freely access from Databrary. 44 dyads of shared book reading sessions, captured by three cameras: head-mounted cameras on the infant and the parent, and an overview camera. tinyurl.com/yzs38uwz
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👋 PhD opportunities for African women in STEM 👩🎓. Check it out 👀, distribute 📨, and get in touch ✍️with us www.upf.edu/web/mrg if interested. www.upf.edu/web/phd-engi...
PhD in Information and Communication Technologies - Dorcas Muthoni PhD Fellowship
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September 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
👋 PhD opportunities for African women in STEM 👩🎓. Check it out 👀, distribute 📨, and get in touch ✍️with us www.upf.edu/web/mrg if interested. www.upf.edu/web/phd-engi...
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Extraordinary resource! "Comprehensive recordings from 621,733 neurons in 297 brain areas of 139 mice (12 labs) performing a decision-making task with sensory, motor & cognitive components: a public dataset to understand how computations distributed across & within brain areas drive behaviour."👇🧪
A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour - Nature
The International Brain Laboratory presents a brain-wide electrophysiological map obtained from pooling data from 12 laboratories that performed the same standardized perceptual decision-making task i...
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September 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Extraordinary resource! "Comprehensive recordings from 621,733 neurons in 297 brain areas of 139 mice (12 labs) performing a decision-making task with sensory, motor & cognitive components: a public dataset to understand how computations distributed across & within brain areas drive behaviour."👇🧪
Our new paper about the second international conference on research culture at Univ. of Warwick, IRCC2024, with 250 in-person and 250 on-line participants. Find out what themes were discussed. tinyurl.com/2m43yty3 And, IRCC2025 tinyurl.com/y9jexub7 will be on 17-Sept-2025.
‘One Year On’: Reflections on the International Research Culture Conference 2024 (IRCC24)
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September 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Our new paper about the second international conference on research culture at Univ. of Warwick, IRCC2024, with 250 in-person and 250 on-line participants. Find out what themes were discussed. tinyurl.com/2m43yty3 And, IRCC2025 tinyurl.com/y9jexub7 will be on 17-Sept-2025.
Our paper on the vision of the National Centre for Research Culture at the University of Warwick, which we founded in 2023. It aims to coordinate sector-wide effort to improve research culture, making our universities optimal places for researchers and research excellence. tinyurl.com/y4yuvx8p
The National Centre for Research Culture at the University of Warwick: Vision and current activities
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September 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Our paper on the vision of the National Centre for Research Culture at the University of Warwick, which we founded in 2023. It aims to coordinate sector-wide effort to improve research culture, making our universities optimal places for researchers and research excellence. tinyurl.com/y4yuvx8p
Our article on a groundbreaking positive action programme for Black researchers at the University of Warwick, the Warwick PATHWAY programme, which we developed. It provides undergraduate research bursary, PhD studentship and postdoc fellowships, also creates a community. tinyurl.com/23tyep92
Warwick PATHWAY Programme: A positive action programme to facilitate Black researchers’ careers
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September 1, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Our article on a groundbreaking positive action programme for Black researchers at the University of Warwick, the Warwick PATHWAY programme, which we developed. It provides undergraduate research bursary, PhD studentship and postdoc fellowships, also creates a community. tinyurl.com/23tyep92
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🌟Deeply honoured to have been selected as the 1st-Place Winner in the Interdisciplinary category of the Warwick Open Research Awards 2025, for my open-approach work on infants’ comprehension of pointing gestures 👶👉
Excited to keep pushing for open, rigorous, and collaborative science!💡🔍 #OpenScience
Excited to keep pushing for open, rigorous, and collaborative science!💡🔍 #OpenScience
July 15, 2025 at 7:48 AM
🌟Deeply honoured to have been selected as the 1st-Place Winner in the Interdisciplinary category of the Warwick Open Research Awards 2025, for my open-approach work on infants’ comprehension of pointing gestures 👶👉
Excited to keep pushing for open, rigorous, and collaborative science!💡🔍 #OpenScience
Excited to keep pushing for open, rigorous, and collaborative science!💡🔍 #OpenScience
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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!
July 12, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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!
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.
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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July 14, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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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Autistic and neurotypical adults use different neural mechanisms to integrate AV speech, but benefit equally in word recognition 🧠
📜New paper in Autism Research (OA):📜
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@mrgbcn.bsky.social, @sotarokita.bsky.social, & @mireiatorralba.bsky.social 🙏
📜New paper in Autism Research (OA):📜
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@mrgbcn.bsky.social, @sotarokita.bsky.social, & @mireiatorralba.bsky.social 🙏
April 30, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Autistic and neurotypical adults use different neural mechanisms to integrate AV speech, but benefit equally in word recognition 🧠
📜New paper in Autism Research (OA):📜
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... w/
@mrgbcn.bsky.social, @sotarokita.bsky.social, & @mireiatorralba.bsky.social 🙏
📜New paper in Autism Research (OA):📜
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... w/
@mrgbcn.bsky.social, @sotarokita.bsky.social, & @mireiatorralba.bsky.social 🙏
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@sotarokita.bsky.social, along with Marie Sams and Rika Nair, reflects on the International Research Culture Conference 2024 and looks ahead to this year’s conference: wrap.warwick.ac.uk/i...
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May 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM
@sotarokita.bsky.social, along with Marie Sams and Rika Nair, reflects on the International Research Culture Conference 2024 and looks ahead to this year’s conference: wrap.warwick.ac.uk/i...
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Thrilled to see my first publication out in PB&R with @sotarokita.bsky.social and @suzanneaussems.bsky.social! Adults interpret novel verbs using iconic speed cues in speech prosody and hand gesture, with a small but reliable link across modalities.
Open access: link.springer.com/10.3758/s134...
Open access: link.springer.com/10.3758/s134...
Adults interpret iconicity in speech and gesture via the same modality-independent process - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Iconicity is the resemblance or similarity between the form of a signal and its meaning. In two studies, we investigated whether adults interpret iconicity in speech and gesture via a modality-indepen...
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May 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Thrilled to see my first publication out in PB&R with @sotarokita.bsky.social and @suzanneaussems.bsky.social! Adults interpret novel verbs using iconic speed cues in speech prosody and hand gesture, with a small but reliable link across modalities.
Open access: link.springer.com/10.3758/s134...
Open access: link.springer.com/10.3758/s134...
Our new paper on our ability to judge iconicity (similarity) between information in different modalities. People interpret iconicity in speech and hand gesture using the same general-purpose modality‑independent process. <https://tinyurl.com/2y3775nf>
May 17, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Our new paper on our ability to judge iconicity (similarity) between information in different modalities. People interpret iconicity in speech and hand gesture using the same general-purpose modality‑independent process. <https://tinyurl.com/2y3775nf>
I am a psychologist and linguist at the University of Warwick @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social. I am interested in the role of gesture in communication and thinking, the role of iconicity in language, and language development. I am also interested in how to improve research culture.
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January 15, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I am a psychologist and linguist at the University of Warwick @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social. I am interested in the role of gesture in communication and thinking, the role of iconicity in language, and language development. I am also interested in how to improve research culture.
Our paper with Suzanne Aussems found no evidence that 14–17-month-old infants use iconic speech and gesture cues to interpret word meanings. In a special issue on Iconicity and Sound Symbolism in JASA. doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
Do 14–17-month-old infants use iconic speech and gesture cues to interpret word meanings?
This experimental study investigated whether infants use iconicity in speech and gesture cues to interpret word meanings. Specifically, we tested infants' sensi
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January 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Our paper with Suzanne Aussems found no evidence that 14–17-month-old infants use iconic speech and gesture cues to interpret word meanings. In a special issue on Iconicity and Sound Symbolism in JASA. doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
A new paper of mine about how a good research culture looks like. exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/ex... In the proceedings of International Research Culture Conference 2023 (held at the University of Warwick).@exchangesjournal.bsky.social
Five Adjectives to Convey What Good Research Culture Looks Like: A tool for effective and efficient communication
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January 15, 2025 at 11:21 AM
A new paper of mine about how a good research culture looks like. exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/ex... In the proceedings of International Research Culture Conference 2023 (held at the University of Warwick).@exchangesjournal.bsky.social
A new paper by Rika Nair and me about why we founded an international research culture conference. exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/ex.... In the proceedings of International Research Culture Conference 2023 (held at the University of Warwick). @exchangesjournal.bsky.social
Why Do We Need an International Research Culture Conference? : Lessons from IRCC23 and future directions
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January 15, 2025 at 11:19 AM
A new paper by Rika Nair and me about why we founded an international research culture conference. exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/ex.... In the proceedings of International Research Culture Conference 2023 (held at the University of Warwick). @exchangesjournal.bsky.social
Our new paper: Audio-visual integration in multimodal communication leads to stronger alpha suppression than in unimodal versions of the communication. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Multisensory integration of speech and gestures in a naturalistic paradigm
We explored brain mechanisms underlying multisensory integration (MSI) of audio-visual speech and gestures in an ecologically valid context. Audio-visual versus only audio or visual trials triggered ...
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January 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Our new paper: Audio-visual integration in multimodal communication leads to stronger alpha suppression than in unimodal versions of the communication. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Our new paper on seeds of language-like generativity in bird vocal communication. Pied babblers can interpret a novel sequence of calls in a compositional way, just as humans can understand a sentence we have never heard before. <https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rspb.2024.0922>
January 15, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Our new paper on seeds of language-like generativity in bird vocal communication. Pied babblers can interpret a novel sequence of calls in a compositional way, just as humans can understand a sentence we have never heard before. <https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rspb.2024.0922>
Our new paper by my PhD student Kirsty Green
@KirstGreen on iconic gestures produced by infants. Infants are not just imitating their parent's gestures, but they often use interactional materials from preceding contexts to create iconic gestures. tinyurl.com/5n8afnjc
January 15, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Our new paper by my PhD student Kirsty Green
@KirstGreen on iconic gestures produced by infants. Infants are not just imitating their parent's gestures, but they often use interactional materials from preceding contexts to create iconic gestures. tinyurl.com/5n8afnjc
Our new paper <https://tinyurl.com/mr8fj7nm> showed that (orally trained) Deaf and hard of hearing people can detect bouba-kiki sound symbolism, but their performance is worse when their tongue movement was suppressed. This provide evidence for articulatory basis for sound symbolism.
January 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Our new paper <https://tinyurl.com/mr8fj7nm> showed that (orally trained) Deaf and hard of hearing people can detect bouba-kiki sound symbolism, but their performance is worse when their tongue movement was suppressed. This provide evidence for articulatory basis for sound symbolism.