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Congratulations to Kirsty Green on passing her viva! Kirsty’s PhD, supervised by Prof. Sotaro Kita, explored how iconicity - when a word or gesture resembles what it means - supports early communication. She found caregivers using iconic words sparked greater engagement from infants.
12.12.2025 13:24 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Congratulations to Mingtong Li on a successful PhD viva! Her work, supervised by Dr. Suzanne Aussems and Prof. Sotaro Kita, examined how iconic temporal modulations in gesture and speech help learners interpret new verbs across development and what this reveals about iconicity comprehension.
05.12.2025 13:28 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations Kirsty! 🥳
03.10.2025 20:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Co-authors: Jiahao Yang, @sotarokita.bsky.social and @suzanneaussems.bsky.social
02.10.2025 16:19 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
ManyBabies 3: A Multi-Lab Study of Infant Algebraic Rule Learning: https://osf.io/ghrdt
28.08.2025 12:31 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Thrilled to see my PhD supervisor, Dr Suzanne Aussems @suzanneaussems.bsky.social , promoted to Associate Professor! 🥳An exceptional researcher, dedicated mentor, and invaluable member of our department 🌟
14.08.2025 10:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you so much Susanne! ☺️
17.07.2025 22:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you so much Nicole! 😊
17.07.2025 14:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you very much for the kind words and for all your support! 💗
17.07.2025 11:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks so much Ingrid! ☺️
16.07.2025 12:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you Marie! 🥰
15.07.2025 10:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you Joel! ☺️
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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
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!
12.07.2025 10:19 — 👍 21 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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
10.07.2025 15:17 — 👍 20 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Had a wonderful time presenting my poster on infants’ understanding of index-finger and thumb pointing gestures at ISGS 2025! @isgs2025.bsky.social
09.07.2025 15:11 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bright and early at the first day of ISGS10! @isgs2025.bsky.social with @teruniahamat.bsky.social and @sotarokita.bsky.social
09.07.2025 07:43 — 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Next up @teruniahamat.bsky.social presenting preliminary data from her brand new corpus of shared book reading in 13-14 mo! @warwickpsych.bsky.social #LLGAwayDay
09.06.2025 09:04 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0