My lab at Colgate explores why and how people use their bodies when they speak, think and learn.

Colgate University
Joined July 2016
We’re hiring a full-time Lab Manager for our BRCS Lab at @colgateuniv. Support EEG, tDCS, eye tracking, AR/VR, and psychophysics research in Hamilton, NY. $26–28/hr. Apply: [higheredjobs.com/search/deta…] #EEG #NeuroscienceJobs
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👉 New paper in Brain and Language: self-oriented pointing and labeling shapes visual processing in non-additive ways (ERP evidence). Inspired by Japanese shisa kankō (“point-and-call”). @GestureSociety Free-access link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mkjs…
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In an era of AI translation, why bother learning another language? We explore that question in Colgate’s Research Magazine: @colgateuniv news.colgate.edu/researchmag…
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👉 Job Alert: We're hiring a Lab Manager for the Brain Recording & Cognitive Science Lab at @colgateuniv! Great opportunity for recent grads looking for research experience before grad school. Know someone? Please share! careers.colgate.edu/postings…
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👉 @colgateuniv is hiring for a tenure-stream position in (human) cognitive psychology. If you know of candidates who care equally about research and teaching, please encourage them to apply by October 13. apply.interfolio.com/132575 #AcademicJobs #HigherEdJobs @cogsci_soc
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I confess, I sort of like an earnest #ZoomWave. @GestureSociety: Does anyone have any non-anecdotal data on how its prevalence changed during and since COVID? 👋
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This may be first direct test that 🙌 & 🗣️ movements can be rapidly and stably linked in motor memory. Result have implications for evolutionary ties between hands & mouths, co-speech gesture facilitation of communication, & contextual based motor learning. + Nice figures. 🥳🍾
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Academic freedom and free expression can thrive through care and understanding on campus. A heartfelt thank you to @JohnHMcWhorter for working with us to make this visit to @colgateuniv a big success. #AcademicFreedom #HigherEducation
Opinion | Preparing the Campus for a Controversial Speaker: Spencer D. Kelly and Yukari Hirata offer a case study for how they worked to build receptivity among students, faculty and staff to a controversial invited speaker. #HigherEd bit.ly/3C2pm8P
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🙏I know that other @GestureSociety researchers are interested in bridging emotion and cognition, so I'm excited to see where this goes!
Exploring the emotional functions of co-speech hand gesture in language and communication onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Nice write up of some interesting work on language and social categories by @ahbailey04. I feel luck to have worked with April on her senior thesis at @colgateuniv! Language of the Common Man | Colgate Magazine news.colgate.edu/magazine/20…
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👋! @colgateuniv's Brain Recording & Cognitive Science Lab is hiring a Lab Manager. Past RAs have gone on to PhD programs, so if you any know undergrads on that track, send them our way. @GestureSociety @jneurolang @VSSMtg @CogCompNeuro @cogsci_soc careers.colgate.edu/postings…
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I just want to thank my Board for all their hard work these past years! ISGS is such a great society because our members care so much.
We also thank retiring board members @MorgensternAli1 @sdk_lab @GoksunTilbe @sotarokita @kensycoop and welcome the new board! @lizmwakefield @NaomiSweller @ortega_ger #mariannegullberg #isgs9
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Looking forward to this!
Please join us next week (22 June, 16:00 CET, Weds) in this semester's last #NGC Virtual Colloquim talk by @sdk_lab , currently President of @GestureSociety Please sign up here clicking the right talk button nijmegengesturecentre.org/ev… @JudithHoller
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Always excited to learn what cool new stuff @CoulsonSeana is up to. What a great way to round out the ISGS plenaries. Can't wait until July!
📣📣📣 Last but not least: Plenary speakers #5 is Prof. @CoulsonSeana from @UCSanDiego. Seana’s talk is about „Understanding Gestures“. For more information about #ISGS9 see isgs9conference.wixsite.com/…
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I've been reading more of Diane's work on multimodal prosody for a paper I am writing, and I look forward to her plenary. What a line up! cognet.mit.edu/book/prosodic…
📣📣📣Round 4 of our plenary speakers goes to Prof. Diane Brentari from @UChicago. Diane will talk about “What we learn by comparing sign language and gesture”. For more information about #ISGS9 see isgs9conference.wixsite.com/…
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Thrilled to have @WingCheeSo give a plenary at ISGS 2022! Check out the cool work that she and her colleagues are doing as part the ISGS Hub in Hong Kong (@GestureHK): isgshkhub.wixsite.com/home/w…
📣📣📣 The next round of our plenary speakers goes to Prof. @WingCheeSo from @HKUniversity. Catherine' talk is about how „Robots teach children with autism gestural communication skills: From theory to research and to practice“. For more information see isgs9conference.wixsite.com/…
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No ISGS conference in Chicago would be complete without SGM. Too bad we can't be in Hyde Park to see where the magic happens. Maybe after Susan's talk, we can take a cab to Jimmy's Woodlawn Tap?
📣📣📣Round 2 of our plenary speakers goes to Prof. Susan Goldin-Meadow from @UChicago. Susan will talk about “The Mind Hidden in Our Hands”. For more information about #ISGS9 see isgs9conference.wixsite.com/…
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Outside of @UChicago, Mike Tomasello was one of the two biggest influences on my formative development in grad school. (Liz Bates was the other.) So excited!
📣📣📣Here we go! One of our plenary speakers at #ISGS9 in Chicago is Prof. Mike Tomasello from Duke University. 📣📣📣Mike will talk about "Communication Before Language". For more information about #ISGS9 see isgs9conference.wixsite.com/…
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