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Suzanne Aussems
@suzanneaussems.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Warwick (@warwickpsych.bsky.social). Interested in #gesture, #language, #learning #evolution, #communication, #development, #Rstats, & #openscience.
Personal Webpage: https://suzanneaussems.github.io/
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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_...).
November 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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🎓 Warwick Sanctuary Scholarships – Autumn 2026 Entry

Interested in research in Psychology? Explore funding opportunities now!
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📅 Deadlines:
Course Apps – 8 Dec 2025
Scholarship Apps – 11 Dec 2025
#PhD #Scholarships #WarwickUni #PsychologyResearch #PostgradFunding
November 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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.
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.

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#OpenScience
October 6, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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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
October 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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ManyBabies 3: A Multi-Lab Study of Infant Algebraic Rule Learning: https://osf.io/ghrdt
August 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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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"
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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November 27, 2024 at 11:48 AM
Huge congratulations and very well-deservered! Very happy to be able to nominate your work for this award.
🌟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
July 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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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
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
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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
July 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Bright and early at the first day of ISGS10! @isgs2025.bsky.social with @teruniahamat.bsky.social and @sotarokita.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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!
July 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Giulia Palazzolo from @philoswarwick.bsky.social concludes the #LLGAwayDay with her analysis of the evolution of human syntax #BigQuestions @warwickpsych.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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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.
June 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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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
June 9, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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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 🐅😮
June 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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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
June 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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June 9, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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@suzanneaussems.bsky.social now neatly demonstrating her cool new wobble board study! #LLGAwayDay @warwickpsych.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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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
June 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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And here is a clue to the joke if you need it!
June 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Next up Annamaria Pinter, HoS at Applied Linguistics gives us a summary of her research @warwickpsych.bsky.social #LLGAwayDay
June 9, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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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
June 9, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Nick Chater joins us online to present his work on spontaneous communicative conventions with @mh-christiansen.bsky.social @warwickpsych.bsky.social #LLGAwayDay
June 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM