Ingrid Vilà-Giménez

New book alert! 📚 Prof. Héctor Marín Manrique explores the evolutionary roots of conformity in "El cerebro… ¿tu peor enemigo?" (Editorial Adarve, 2025). Discover how the human brain can sometimes act against our own best interests.

#Neuroscience #Psychology #Behavior #HumanMind

ISGS-Catalonia Online Lecture Series Registration for Online Talks and Mailing List

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Poster announcing an online talk by Prof. Sotaro Kita of the University of Warwick taking place on Friday 26th September at 12:30pm (GMT+2). The title of the talk is Gesture, Language, and Thought. It is part of the online lecture series organised by ISGS Catalonia a hub of the International Society for Gesture Studies. The talk is hosted by the Prosody and Gesture Study Group at University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona and is also broadcasted online. Registration is possible by clicking on a link in the post.

We are pleased to announce the establishment of ISGS-Catalonia, a hub of the International Society of Gesture studies (ISGS) based in Catalonia. Our inaugural event will feature alecture by Prof. Sotaro Kita on September 26, 2025 at 12:30 pm (GMT+2).

🎤 Inaugural lecture:
Gesture, Language and Thought – Prof. Sotaro Kita @sotarokita.bsky.social, University of Warwick

📅 September 26, 2025 | 12:30 pm (GMT+2)
📍 Universitat Pompeu Fabra & online (hybrid)

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Excited to share that ISGS-Catalonia is now officially established! 🎉😁 This new hub of the International Society of Gesture Studies (ISGS), coordinated by a steering group from 5 Catalan universities, aims to promote gesture research locally and internationally. 🌍
(website coming soon!)

🚨 New paper in Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans! Dr. Llorente and Dr. Castelain, in collaboration with Dr. Guitton, propose viewing robots as “technological primates”, suggesting that primatology offers a unifying framework to study robot psychology and social interactions. 🐒🤖

Excited to be part of this project! 🥳

Your baby knows your voice, even before they enter the world.

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Congratulations!!! 😁

We are in the 10th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies #ISGS2025!

@jiali-li.bsky.social presented about the impact of character viewpoint gestures in adults. A study in collaboration with Pilar Prieto and @ingridvilag.bsky.social

Children & Digital Technology | The Controversies In this guide we discuss and make practical recommendations for parents on children's use of digital technology.

Fabulous blog about screentime from Gonzales, Golinkoff & Hirsh-Pasek here 1/ childandfamilyblog.com/children-and...

MSCA-PF-2025: Comparative Minds Research Group_Universitat de Girona

📍 Host Institution: Universitat de Girona (UdG), Spain

🌐 Research Group: Comparative Minds – More info on EURAXESS euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting...

🗓️ Internal deadline to express interest: 1 Jul 2025 - 16:00h

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🔍 Our main lines of research:
- Comparative Psychology and Animal Behavior 🦧
- Socio-cognitive Development and Communication 💬👩🏽‍🤝‍👨🏾
- Multimodal Language Development and Learning 🗣️🤚🏻
- Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠

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Today, @jiali-li.bsky.social is presenting at the the International Workshop on Multimodal Language.
The study, in collaboration with @ingridvilag.bsky.social, Sara Coego and Pilar Prieto, investigates the differences in gesture and speech in child-directed and adult-directed speech in narratives.