Henri Olkoniemi

The abstract submission deadline for the pre-Psychonomics symposium on individual differences in cognition (SIDIC), to be held on Nov. 20, is due on Friday, August 1, TWO DAYS FROM TODAY!

Here's the direct link to the abstract submission information:
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🚨 New preprint!
With @lehtorituomo.bsky.social, Matti Laine, & @pennypexman.bsky.social

🔍 We analyzed data from two eye-tracking studies to explore individual differences in how #children process and comprehend written #irony. We showed that empathy and working memory mattered — gender didn't.

Lukijan mielipide | Donald Trump hyökkää ankarasti Harvardia vastaan, samoja merkkejä on myös Suomessa Vapaa tiede ei ole tutkijayhteisön etuoikeus, vaan koko yhteiskunnan turva.

”Vapaa tiede ei ole tutkijayhteisön etuoikeus, vaan koko yhteiskunnan turva. Vain kriittinen ja riippumaton tutkimus voi paljastaa rakenteellisia ongelmia, tuottaa uusia näkökulmia ja auttaa tekemään parempia päätöksiä.”

Osuva ja tärkeä puheenvuoro tieteen vapaudesta.

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Tuoreen Academic Freedom Indexin mukaan Suomi kuuluu maihin, joissa tieteen vapaus on vähentynyt huomattavasti viime vuosikymmenen aikana. Suomi kuuluu enää 20−30% parhaimmistoon ja edellä on sellaisia maita kuten Sierra Leone ja Vanuatu. 1/ academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Yliopisto-opettaja, psykologia, kasvatustieteiden ja psykologian tiedekunta Haemme nyt Oulun yliopiston kasvatustieteiden tiedekuntaan, psykologian yksikköön  Yliopisto-opettajaa  määräaikaiseen 50 % työsuhteeseen ajalle 11.8.2025 – 30.4.2027.   Työtehtävät Ylio

Etsimme uutta työkaveria!

Haussa on yliopisto-opettaja määräaikaiseen työsuhteeseen (50 %) ajalle 11.8.2025 – 30.4.2027.

Jos kiinnostui, tutustu tarkempaan hakuilmoitukseen täältä: oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/fi/what:job/...

Uudessa tutkimuksessamme @holkoniemi.bsky.social ja @pennypexman.bsky.social kanssa opetimme metapragmaattista tietoutta 10-vuotiaille suomalaille lapsille ja mittasimme heidän kirjoitetun ironian ymmärrystään. 1/4

#ironia #IronianYmmärtäminen #katseenseuranta

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Sounds like a follow up study! 😂

Happy to share that our paper 📝 "Learning irony in school: Effects of metapragmatic training" is now out in Journal of Child Language! 🎉

We show that metapragmatic knowledge plays a crucial role in development of irony comprehension, and it can be effectively trained.

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Call for papers: Taking possession of the mind: Retrospectives on the wide-ranging study of attention A call for papers from the journal Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale. This special issue will include a collection of theoretical and review papers, including meta-analyses, synthesizing a wide range of topics under William James’ umbrella of attention.

New Special Issue call on ATTENTION in the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology (CJEP), @cjep.bsky.social!

#attention
#cognition
#neuroscience
#development
#psychology

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Researchers rush to preserve government health data Journalists have long relied on federal health data for their reporting. We include several tips that they can use to help researchers preserve the data.

Harvardin julkaisu antaa tutkijoille käytännön ohjeita, miten pelastaa tutkimusdata Trumpin hallinnon hyökkäykseltä tutkimusta vastaan. USA:n tiedeyhteisölle on annettava äänekäs tuki myös Euroopasta.

Ja oltava hereillä, ettei jouduta samalle polulle.

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Could we please make the Finnish idiom 'climb a tree ass first' a globally well-known expression? It's so much better than 'put the cart before the horse'. Thank you for your assistance!

Let me clarify a thing about the doctoral swords in Finland.

They are not meant for the faculty meetings.

New preprint with @holkoniemi.bsky.social, on why verbal irony is challenging for children, and what we can learn from the fact that training helps:

Hear, hear!

A graph titled "Cost of Transport" showing the relationship between body weight (in kilograms) and energy consumption for distance traveled (calories per gram per kilometer) for various animals and machines. It highlights that a person on a bicycle ranks first in efficiency.

A person on a bicycle is by far the most energy-efficient among animals and machines per distance traveled relative to body weight. The bicycle is magic.

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Winter is here! #bikecommuting #ScienceWithArcticAttitude

🙋🏼‍♂️ Could you add me, please? Thanks!

🙋🏼‍♂️Could you please add me to the list? Thank you!

Call for special issues The Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology is now issuing an open call for special issue proposals for original research papers that advance understanding of the field of experimental psychology.

Encouraging #cognition folks to consider the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology (@cjep.bsky.social) as an outlet for their work.

This includes an open call for Special Issues on topics relevant to experimental #cognitive #psychology or #neuroscience.

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I feel seen.

Helsingin yliopisto | Tutkijoiden vapputempaus hymyilyttää: kaljanjuontia ja tutkimusten googlausta Professori Johanna Kaakinen ja aivotutkija Katri Saarikivi haluavat lisätä suomalaisten ymmärrystä tieteestä hauskalla tempauksellaan.

”Tutkijat Johanna Kaakinen ja Katri Saarikivi haluavat vappuaaton tempauksellaan lisätä suomalaisten ymmärrystä ja luottamusta tieteellistä tutkimusta kohtaan.
Samalla tieteentekijät juovat olutta.”

#Tiedetaivas

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Last, my heartfelt thanks to all who contributed to the special issue!

Commentary on the special issue: new approaches to figurative language research The papers in this Special Issue showcase some of the current work that aims to understand how people attribute meaning when speakers employ figurative language. Figurative language serves various ...

The second commentary, by Heather Ferguson, places the papers in the context of current topics in the field of social communication and takes a broader view of methodological approaches to studying contemporary issues.

Selective View of the Last 50 Years of the Experimental Psycholinguistics of Idiom, Metaphor, and Irony: A Commentary The aim of this commentary is to situate and comment on the four excellent articles in this special issue within the arc of the last 50 years of experimental psycholinguistic research on idioms, me...

The special issue concludes with two insightful commentaries: The first commentary is written by Albert Katz, which neatly contextualizes the articles of the special issue with the last 50 years of figurative language research.

The role of social status in sarcasm interpretation: Evidence from the United Kingdom and China We investigated the effect of culture and social status on sarcasm interpretation. Two hundred U.K. participants and 200 Chinese participants read scenarios in which the final comment could be eith...

In the fourth article, Zhu & Filik examined the interpretation of sarcasm among participants from both the UK and China.

The costs of multimodal metaphors: comparing ERPs to figurative expressions in verbal and verbo-pictorial formats Psycholinguistic research on metaphor has focused on verbal material. Yet, metaphors frequently occur in a multimodal format, blending words and pictures to convey meaning. Here we compared verbal ...

The third article presents an innovative ERP study conducted by Bambini et al., who examine the electrical brain activity elicited by verbal and multimodal metaphors.

Idiom meaning selection following a prior context: eye movement evidence of L1 direct retrieval and L2 compositional assembly Past work has suggested that L1 readers retrieve idioms (i.e., spill the tea) directly vs. matched literal controls (drink the tea) following unbiased contexts, whereas L2 readers process idioms mo...

In the second article, Senaldi & Titone, use eye-tracking to explore how both L1 and L2 English readers employ direct memory access versus compositional analysis to disambiguate the figurative and literal meanings of ambiguous idioms.

Comprehending irony in text: evidence from scanpaths Eyetracking studies have shown that readers reread ironic phrases when resolving their meaning. Moreover, it has been shown that the timecourse of processing ironic meaning is affected by reader’s ...

In the first article, @holkoniemi.bsky.social et al. employ scanpath analysis to investigate how individual differences in working memory capacity impact the processing of irony at the whole text level.

Introduction to the special issue on new approaches to figurative language research The use and interpretation of figurative expressions (e.g., irony, idiom, and metaphor) is an integral part of everyday human communication. Thus, the ability to comprehend figurative language unde...

The special issue starts with our introduction showcasing the articles and commentaries.

I’m delighted to share with you that the Discourse Processes special issue titled “New Approaches to Figurative Language Research,” co-edited by Ruth Filik and myself, is out now!

Here’s a brief overview of the content in this special issue 👇