Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek
Director,Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics; Multimodal Language Dept.Turkish expat studied in the US; lives @Netherlands,works for the German Max Planck Society - mpi.nl/people/ozyurek-asli - I am more active on Linkedin:)
- We are thrilled to have you join @MLD @mpi-nl.bsky.social supporting / enhancing our research . Good luck with the move !!
- Some news: After 10 years as a Senior Lecturer, this is my last day of work in UK academia. I will start a new position as Lab Manager in the Multimodal Language Dept at @mpi-nl.bsky.social in February. I am delighted to be back at the MPI and to work with @asliozyurek.bsky.social again! 😊 1/
- Reposted by Prof. Dr. Asli OzyurekPosting on behalf of Tamar Gollan, who is not on Bluesky: A postdoc position is open and available immediately in Dr. Tamar Gollan’s Laboratory of Aging Bilingualism at the University of California, San Diego, funded by NIH & NSF. See link for details! psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...
- Very proud of this paper
- Spatial and social cognition jointly determine multimodal demonstrative reference: Experimental evidence from Turkish and Spanish. New paper by Paula Rubio-Fernandez, @madeleinelong.bsky.social & @asliozyurek.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....
- 👉🏽👉🏽We show experimentally that so called simple demonstratives are not simple at all but require both spatial and social computations including others attention states and pointing- it gets better when we find out there is cross linguistics diversity in how languages weigh & carve up these dimensions
- Haha yes multimodality feeds:)
- Wonderful research with many implications
- The Power of Vision on Speech Recognition Among Older People pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/... "Older adults with reversible vision loss and mild-to-severe age-related hearing loss can improve their speech perception through vision recovery treatment"
- Happy to see our new paper published signing children have an action bias even when expressing where an object is located 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
- Action bias in describing object locations by signing children. New paper by @beyzasumer.bsky.social & @asliozyurek.bsky.social doi.org/10.1075/sll.24008.sum
- There is still chance to get the best rate and attend our cutting edge conference on recent advances on multimodal language and gesture studies👍👍👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼@isgs2025
- ⏰ The deadline for EARLY BIRD registration for #ISGS2025 is approaching! 🗓️Register by May 31st to get the best rate for registration. For more information & to register: isgs10.nl/registration
- 📣1st time accepted to #ACL2025!! with great collabs, contributing to our Multimodal Language Dept’s research&innovation track on Computational Multimodal Lang. I see what you mean: Co-Speech Gestures for Reference Resolution in Multimodal Dialogue.E Ghaleb, B Khaertdinov, A Ozyurek, R Fernández
- Fantastic !! Want to be bring your excellent research to Europe?
- Today, the ERC formally adopted a decision to increase its support for researchers moving to Europe. On top of its normal grants, the ERC offers 'start-up' funding to help PIs establish laboratories / research teams in Europe. This extra funding is now x2 (up to €2 million!) europa.eu/!6Vdgmp
- Please join us discussing current and future education of CogSci !! On May 7 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
- Please join @asliozyurek.bsky.social, @tanialombrozo.bsky.social, Hannah Rohde and me **this Wednesday 12pm eastern**. What does the future of cogsci in higher ed look like? I promise it's not all bad news!! Register below!
- Reposted by Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek📢Two #ISGS2025 pre-conference workshops at @mpi-nl.bsky.social on July 8 1️⃣ Multimodal Negation: Foundations and Dynamics 2️⃣ Multimodal Processing Pipeline 🔎Registration is handled separately and on a first-come-first-served basis. For more info: www.isgs10.nl/workshops
- Reposted by Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek🎉We’re thrilled to announce our #ISGS2025 keynote speaker: Tilbe Göksun @tilbegoksun.bsky.social Join us for her talk, “Multifunctionality of gesture use and processing across the lifespan: An individual differences approach”✨ 🔎Learn more about her and her talk www.isgs10.nl/keynotes#h.4...
- Reposted by Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek🎉 We’re thrilled to announce our #ISGS2025 keynote speaker: Johanna Mesch! Join us for her talk, “Tactile adaptations of gestures and emotions in deafblind communication” ✨ 🔎 Learn more about her and her talk www.isgs10.nl/keynotes#h.9...
- Reposted by Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek🎉 We’re thrilled to announce our #ISGS2025 keynote speaker: Lorna Quandt @lornaquandt.bsky.social Join us for her talk, “Embodied approaches to sign language: From visuospatial cognition to virtual reality” ✨ 🔎 Learn more about her and her talk www.isgs10.nl/keynotes#h.r...
- Reposted by Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek🚨 Reminder: Tomorrow (April 30) is the final deadline for presenters to register for ISGS2025! Don’t miss your chance to be part of the program. Register now 👉 www.isgs10.nl/registration
- Congratulations!!
- Here is the latest paper from our lab led by my former amazing graduate student Mert: Spatial language development in preterm and full-term infants: The role of object exploration and parents’ spatial input @mkobas.bsky.social @ecedemirlira.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Prof. Dr. Asli OzyurekCanadian Association of University Teachers advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S. www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...
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- I got to include some of my favourite work from @asliozyurek.bsky.social and her colleagues in Gesture: A Slim Guide - work I've been reading and inspired by since I began in Gesture Studies 💕
- Want to know all about gesture in an accessible way ? This is THAT book:) newbooksnetwork.com/gesture
- Wonderful!!! We got so far 16 commentaries on our target paper and working on our response :) 🙏🙏to everyone for their responses!!
- Our commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek paper: "Promoting a multimodal first language acquisition framework" @ecedemirlira.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/eprint/9PHBG... @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social @asliozyurek.bsky.social
- Join us on a webinar for challanges in higher education in cognitive science cognitivesciencesociety.org/higher-educa...
- When we read the news, images can convey different things than text itself. Unlike other works which look at text, we study this as a “multimodal” framing problem & analyze where text and images communicate different “frames”. Checkout our paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2503.20960 @aicentre.dk
- Excellent advisor !! Not to be missed
- I'm now searching for new PhD students who are interested in studying how people's brains understand sequences of images like in comics. So, a mix of comics, cogneuro (EEG), and psycholinguistics (especially syntax/semantics). Please circulate to all who might be interested! tiu.nu/22739
- Reposted by Prof. Dr. Asli OzyurekThis week, my Somerville constituent Rümeysa Öztürk was abducted in broad daylight by DHS officials and sent to Louisiana to be locked in a detention center. She has not been charged with any crime.
- 📣 📣Acceptance letters sent for #ISGS2025 “From motion to meaning: innovations in multimodal language research” 🆕check out 2 preconference workshops &come in early 🆕 🗓️ You will get the BEST RATE if you register before May 31 🔎 For more information: isgs10.nl
- Congratulations Chinmaya!!
- Congratulations Onur
- I’ll be at #HSP2025 at the University of Maryland @UofMaryland, College Park, to present my MA thesis work on using pose estimation to detect phonetic reduction in Turkish Sign Language from March 27 to 29. Would love to meet and chat if you are in the area!
- This looks amazing !!
- Call for papers 👀 🧪 The Emoji Workshop🤩🫶🏽 to take place August 29 2025, University of Oslo **Abstract submission deadline: May 16** The workshop will be accompanied by a panel discussion on ‘Emoji meaning: stability and variation’ www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/...
- Was a great defense💥💥💥👏👏👏
- Hora est! 🎓 On Friday I successfully defended my PhD thesis "On how gestures facilitate prediction and fast responding during conversation", which can be found here (lnkd.in/eewcJYyt). It was an absolutely fantastic day! 😍
- Reposted by Prof. Dr. Asli OzyurekIn Dresden today for the #LinguisTikTok conference organized by @fussballinguist.bsky.social and @coldamber.bsky.social. Happy to take part and say something about the multimodal complexity of TikTok as a platform and the videos evolving. Might say something about multimodal film/AV analysis.
- Reposted by Prof. Dr. Asli OzyurekHere is the coverage of the latest developments in Turkey in The New York Times with my contribution. I explained to them why this moment is a turning point for Turkish democracy. I also explained the rhetoric of the current situation in Turkey: Whereas Erdogan wants www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/w...
- Excellent paper from @judithholler.bsky.social et al 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
- Eyebrow movements as signals of communicative problems in human face-to-face interaction. New paper by Paul Hömke, Stephen C. Levinson, Alexandra K. Emmendorfer & @judithholler.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241632
- Reposted by Prof. Dr. Asli OzyurekWorking memory needs pointers www.cell.com/trends/cogni... #neuroscience
- Reposted by Prof. Dr. Asli OzyurekWell that pretty much does it for holding scientific conferences in the US. This is some serious Dear Leader type move. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- Reposted by Prof. Dr. Asli OzyurekTime for the kick off event of #LILI, the Leuven Interdisciplinary Language Institute Inaugural talk by @asliozyurek.bsky.social who reminded us how multimodal language actually is and how we may expect an increasing shift towards multimodal media in the future 🙌🙌 #LILI_KUL
- Reposted by Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek📢 We are excited to announce that registration for #ISGS2025 IS OPEN! 🗓️ You will get the BEST RATE if you register before May 31 🔎 For more information: isgs10.nl/registration @mpi-nl.bsky.social @asliozyurek.bsky.social
- Thank you Catherine for a great commentary !!
- Reposted by Prof. Dr. Asli OzyurekRelevance of prosodic focus and lexical stress for discourse comprehension in Turkish: Evidence from psychometric and electrophysiological data. Final version by Hatice Zora, Barış Kabak & Peter Hagoort doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_02262 Paper: tinyurl.com/4k5zf9h3
- Thanks for the great commentary @neilcohn.bsky.social !! We can discuss original and commentary in our joint reading club @ercenurunal.bsky.social coming weeks
- Here's the original review paper on "First-language acquisition in a multimodal language framework"by @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social and @asliozyurek.bsky.social which is highly recommended doi.org/10.1177/0142...
- Ready for my keynote for kick off event Leuven Interdisciplinary Language Institute 20 March !!
- We know communication partner training is extremely important for carers of people w #aphasia, but what about other interventions? Our PhD candidate @nelsonjslp.bsky.social conducted a review. There are lots of promising approaches! Most with exploratory evidence only. doi.org/10.1080/0963...
- Reposted by Prof. Dr. Asli OzyurekWe're pleased to announce an in-person event celebrating 25 years of the Rumelhart Prize at #CogSci2025 Join us to celebrate the impact of the Rumelhart Prize on Cognitive Science! 🗓️ July 30, 2025 📍The Internet Archive, San Francisco Learn more at cognitivesciencesociety.org/rumelhart-25...
- Today!!! InScience - International Science Film Festival Nijmegen Hasan Dikyuva &Ezgi Mamus, @MaxPlanck Inst Multimodal Lang Dept lnkd.in/dXqCve7E are going to talk about technology , accessibility & inclusivity relations for deaf and blind individuals at LUX cafe lnkd.in/dyjcqTJC
- We are grateful to Eve Clark for her commentary on our target artcle!! journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- Here is another great commentary on our target article by Neil Cohn & Joost Schilperoord journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Here is another great commentary on our target article by Neil Cohn & Joost Schilperoord journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- The commentary discusses an original review paper by @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social, Beyza Sümer & @asliozyurek.bsky.social which I would highly recommend to gesture, sign, and language acquisition researchers: doi.org/10.1177/0142...
- Wonderful !! Amazing commentaries are coming in for our target article that proposes a multimodal language framework (MLF) approach to language acquisition. This is one of the first ones👇🏼👇🏼we’re preparing our response to these amazing views:) let the multimodal discussions for first lang acq start
- Interested in multimodal communication? Read my commentary in First Language here: doi.org/10.1177/0142... #NewPaper
- This is an amazing paper congratulations !!
- 🚨 New lab paper!🚨 A dream study of mine for nearly 20 yrs not possible until now thanks to NIH 🧠 funding & 1st-author lead @seeber.bsky.social We tracked hippocampal activity as people walked memory-guided paths & imagined them again. Did brain patterns reappear?🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Prof. Dr. Asli OzyurekThis seems to be flying under the radar due to NIH 🧪vaccine grant terminations, but it is just as wild. These projects respond to national security needs or they wouldn’t be funded by DOD. DARPA will b next if not already impacted.
- The U.S. Department of Defense is ending all of its funding for social science research, stopping 91 ongoing studies related to threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation. scim.ag/4hqu6HA
- Reposted by Prof. Dr. Asli OzyurekReposting this on this 'special' day because of reasons.
- Reposted by Prof. Dr. Asli OzyurekCool postdoc position in language evolution in Toruń www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas...
- 3rd 📝 of Giusy’s PhD published 👏, where we show with EEG that we predict our partner’s words, even if that partner is a humanoid robot. With Elin Runnqvist, @noelnguyen.bsky.social and the boss 😉 @cristinabaus.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- Reposted by Prof. Dr. Asli OzyurekPlease note that the abstract submission deadline for the final conference has been moved to the 7th of March! We are looking forward to receiving your abstracts and to seeing you in Tartu! @mpi-nl.bsky.social @unitartupress.bsky.social @dondersinst.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social
- Same issues in cross linguistic research :)
- 1/ 🧵 🚨New paper!🚨 Cross-cultural research is expanding in the social sciences — but are we measuring what we think we are? Our recent paper argues that construct validity is an overlooked challenge, especially in developmental research. Let’s break it down. 🌍 🧠 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Reposted by Prof. Dr. Asli OzyurekNEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics. At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek"Results showed that index-finger pointing at 1;0 significantly predicted metaphor comprehension at 9;0" #language #gesture #research
- More benefits of early gesture use by children !! To later Theory of Mind !! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- More benefits of early gesture use by children !! To later Theory of Mind !! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Prof. Dr. Asli OzyurekOn Friday 14 March, we open our doors for an exclusive event as part of the InScience Film Festival. Visitors can join guided tours through our research labs, meet robot Furhat, create DNA bracelets and learn more about the MPI and our work. More info via: www.insciencefestival.nl/en/vertoning...
- Great paper !! How do LLMs shape the way we write? Res shows that LLM-assisted writing is making language more uniform, reducing linguistic diversity, and altering how personal traits are expressed through text. These have profound implications for identity, culture, fairness (lnkd.in/gkK_EfwV)
- Reposted by Prof. Dr. Asli OzyurekMore tragic news about NIH and NIH science. Grant system is frozen and intramural program is being slashed. All will claw back on treatments and cures for cancer and other human diseases. This can’t be what the public wants. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
- Looking forward to kick off the new and shiny Leuven Interdisciplinary Language Institute at the opening day as keynote !! Join us in Leuven March 20 lnkd.in/ekUygwXg
- ANY characteristics of a woman is considered as a handicap for leadership !!!👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
- Reminded of this today. We found, there’s always a reason why women are “never quite right” for leadership roles". Something to remember when trying to conform to views on leadership, ladies. People are going to judge you anyway. So be bold/ stick to your values www.fastcompany.com/90889985/new...
- Reposted by Prof. Dr. Asli OzyurekCongrats to Italy for funding lots of philosophy of cognitive science and philosophy of science. And congrats to my friends who got some of these grants!
- Reposted by Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek
- Interesting !!
- new pre-print: LLMs as a synthesis between symbolic and continuous approaches to language arxiv.org/abs/2502.11856
- New paper out !!Children use spatial gestures to complement speech more for complex than simpler spatial relations - gestures might reduce mapping difficulties of complex spatial concepts to arbitrary speech symbols - in Cognitive Science !! @ercenurunal.bsky.social @dilaykaradoller @beyzasumer
- Reposted by Prof. Dr. Asli OzyurekVery proud of this latest paper, which shows that reading two unrelated words in a meaningful sentence will push these words closer in semantic space—an effect observed 5min, 20min, and 12 hrs after initial exposure. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Horror continues….
- Reposted by Prof. Dr. Asli OzyurekThe abrupt end of USAID-funded clinical trials is profoundly unethical | It’s also dangerous to the health of thousands of trial participants | By Ruth R. Faden and Nancy Kass | www.statnews.com/2025/02/16/u...
- Would you like to work at Max Planck Society tenured? A new round of the Lise Meitner Excellence Program for #tenuretrack group leaders opened today - pls consider applying! The program aims to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists. mpg.de/lise-meitner-e… #LiseMeitnerGroups
- Reposted by Prof. Dr. Asli OzyurekProud to see this review at Kirkus! w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
- Reposted by Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek"People worldwide should be able to realize the full potential and benefits of human genetics and genomics research." @geneticssociety.bsky.social respond to the proposed cuts to NIH-funded research support. 🧪🧬👇
- New paper out with a fantastic team @demetozer and @tilbegoksun.bsky.socia enhanced spatial working meme facilitates gesture processing especially when gestures adds information to speech Psychonomic Review and Bulletin !!
- Our recent paper led by Demet Özer with Aslı Özyürek! @asliozyurek.bsky.social @kudilvebilis.bsky.social Spatial working memory is critical for gesture processing: Evidence from gestures with varying semantic links to speech link.springer.com/article/10.3...
