So much happening this week! I was beyond excited to present our vision language model bencmarking study on sign iconicity @MPI_NL in Nijmegen, and then I traveled to Prague for #AMLaP2025 to report our Turkish good-enough parsing studies with L1 & L2 speakers and LLMs.
What contagious crying and comforting in infants tell us about the roots of emotional connection
We wrote a piece in Psyche Magazine about our research on #empathy in infants :)
psyche.co/ideas/were-learnin…
#ICCV2025 is deeply committed to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion within our community. As part of this commitment, travel support is available to help broaden participation.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until August 20, 2025 (anywhere on Earth).
NeurIPS is pleased to officially endorse EurIPS, an independently-organized meeting taking place in Copenhagen this year, which will offer researchers an opportunity to additionally present their accepted NeurIPS work in Europe, concurrently with NeurIPS.
Read more in our blog post and on the EurIPS website:
blog.neurips.cc/2025/07/16/n…eurips.cc/
Our PI Tilbe Göksun was a keynote speaker at the 10th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies! 🎉 We thank @isgs2025 for this amazing organization!
📢 We are thrilled to announce that the full program for #ISGS2025 is now available on our website: isgs10.nl
✨Explore the detailed schedule featuring latest advancements in multimodal language research ✨
@GestureSociety
Signs from large sign languages are perceived as more iconic than signs from small sign languages (although this is only true for nonsocial signs) = the larger the comunity, the more iconicity
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Amazing especially Looking into multimodal signals for compositionality -inspired by work from @juditholler and James Trujillo on multimodal signalling👍👍( not necessarily reflected in the title :))
✉️ Decision letters for #ISGS2025 are out!
We are looking forward to the symposia, talks and posters presenting the the latest multimodal language research in Nijmegen!
🔎For information about conference registration: isgs10.nl/registration
The new ChatGPT 4o image generation is transformative for multimodal conversation analysis. It creates anonymized illustrations in any style while preserving relevant details of embodied conduct—useful when you lack ethical approval to include frame grabs in publications.
🚨 New lab paper!🚨
Dream study of mine for 20 yrs not possible until now thanks to NIH 🧠 funding & 1st-author lead @m_seeber
We tracked hippocampal activity as people walked memory-guided paths & imagined them again. Did brain patterns reappear?🧵👇
nature.com/articles/s41562-0…
My book ‘Looking Ahead. The New Science of the Predictive Mind’ is available from today. Cambridge has provided a temporary promo code, if you enter HUETT24 and order via the CUP website you get 20% off any version (hardback, paperback, or ebook)
cambridge.org/de/universityp…
ALT Pictures of Lise Meitner Group leaders: Sofie Valk, Flore Kunst, Anna-Maria Meister, Maria Sokolova, Heidi Colleran, Nathalie Feiner und Ulrike Kraft.