Suzanne Aussems

Photo of Mingtong Li

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.

Recruiting a #PhD student interested in cognitive psychology (language, memory) and AI. Come join me at
@warwickpsych.bsky.social. Overseas students are welcome.
Feel free to reach out to me to enquire. #PhD #Fellowship #academia #apply. Deadline in mid-March

warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/psyc...

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Psychonomic Bulletin & Review covers a broad spectrum of topics in human cognitive psychology. An official publication of The Psychonomic ...

link.springer.com/journal/13423

Happy New Year! I am deligthed to announce that I will be serving as Associate Editor for Psychonomic Bulletin & Review in the new year. @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social

What enables human language? A biocultural framework Explaining the origins of language is a key challenge in understanding ourselves as a species. We present an empirical framework that draws on synergies across fields to facilitate robust studies of l...

Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n

Flyer for a study at the University of Warwick. Text reads: Language learning study. Does guessing words help you learn? We are looking for 4-year-olds for a fun study to help find out how children learn new words and how sentences are put together. Calling mini scientists! Recruiting 4-year-olds now! Help Warwick Research with Kids group with exciting new research! 3 sessions either on the University of Warwick campus or at home. you receive 3 books and a £25 voucher. Interested? Email Ed at ed.donnellan@warwick.ac.uk for more info, or scan the QR code to register your interest in taking part. The QR code directs to a qualtrics survey available at https://warwick.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6XbQRngMAUrOEIK

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_...).

🎓 Warwick Sanctuary Scholarships – Autumn 2026 Entry

Interested in research in Psychology? Explore funding opportunities now!
🔗 warwick.ac.uk/servic...

📅 Deadlines:
Course Apps – 8 Dec 2025
Scholarship Apps – 11 Dec 2025
#PhD #Scholarships #WarwickUni #PsychologyResearch #PostgradFunding

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.

Access on Databrary for discovery & reuse! ✨

#OpenScience

ManyBabies 3: A Multi-Lab Study of Infant Algebraic Rule Learning: https://osf.io/ghrdt

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...

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"

Congratulations 👏🏼🎉

📌

Huge congratulations and very well-deservered! Very happy to be able to nominate your work for this award.

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…

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.

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!

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

Bright and early at the first day of ISGS10! @isgs2025.bsky.social with @teruniahamat.bsky.social and @sotarokita.bsky.social

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!

I find it interesting that humans probably just miss the f in 'of' leading to a count that only includes the f in the content words of the sentence, but AI got a different wrong count, so maybe comparing human vs AI performance as well as the explanation of the answer could show how humanlike AI is.

Good points. I like the letter f question, which funnily enough AI got wrong when prompted.

Giulia Palazzolo from @philoswarwick.bsky.social concludes the #LLGAwayDay with her analysis of the evolution of human syntax #BigQuestions @warwickpsych.bsky.social

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.

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

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 🐅😮

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

Work with @susfuchs.bsky.social

@suzanneaussems.bsky.social now neatly demonstrating her cool new wobble board study! #LLGAwayDay @warwickpsych.bsky.social

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