Cognitive scientist in language processing & multimodal communication @EdinburghUni | Science communicator @MPI_NL TalkLing | Illustrator

Joined October 2020
Late to the party, but I have moved to Bluesky🦋- find me @naominota.bsky.social!
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📽️ 4% of people have #aphantasia – no mental imagery at all. When they close their eyes, they see… nothing. Laura Speed studied what it’s like to live without mental images and explains at @UniversiteitNL (turn on YT subs): youtube.com/watch?v=6xWcwXJM… @Radboud_Uni @RU_Letteren
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This afternoon's @PsylingCoffee @EdinburghUni speaker is Yevheniy Skyra @MPI_NL, discussing an eye-tracking study on thematic role assignment in German and Russian. Join us on campus at 1PM (BST) in S38 (7 GS) or email [email protected] to join via Teams!
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Job alert! We are now looking for a PhD student starting Sept 2025, for a project on visual relations between people and objects, using behavior, EEG, fMRI, and ANNs. Bonus: The project involves a collaboration with the brilliant @ljuba_pi. Please forward or get in touch! 🧠🎓
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Come work as a postdoctoral researcher in our research group at KU Leuven in Belgium and help us unravel the visual factors underlying aesthetic image preferences! kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsit…
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My first first-author paper has been published in Cognitive Development! 🥳 I am grateful to my advisor @GoksunTilbe and brilliant co-authors @DilayKaradoller @oedemir @Isildogan_
A new paper from our lab on math development led by my amazing grad student Begüm in collaboration with Ece's lab! @begum_yilmaz_ @oedemir @DilayKaradoller @Isildogan_ @KuLanguage sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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New #scienceblog! ✍️This one honours the @edfringe @CODIfringe show "Do You Know What Comes Next?" that @Muzna_Shehzad and I presented last summer.
📝New blog post!📝 By 2050, around 2.5 billion people worldwide are expected to be impacted by hearing loss. In this blog @NaomiNota explores what’s really important in understanding spoken language, and speculates on sound solutions of the future! mpi-talkling.mpi.nl/?p=2382&…
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Come work with us😊📝 3 PhDs on multimodal Conversation Analysis with Prof. Lorenza Mondada at the University of Basel from beginning of 2025. Deadline to apply is 01.12.2024. Use the online recruiting tool to apply: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stelle… Please spread the word! #EMCA
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Short #scienceblog about lessons from performing an outreach show at the @CODIfringe festival by @Muzna_Shehzad nottingham.ac.uk/research/gr… @EdinburghUni @UniofNottingham 🦻👀
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Next @PsylingCoffee @EdinburghUni speaker will be Orhun Uluşahin @MPI_NL ! Please join us to learn about talker representation in production and perception on campus in s38 (7GS) at 2PM (BST) October 23rd, or ask [email protected] for the Teams link. All welcome!
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ELAN is an essential tool for multimodal conversation analysis. It's used for close observation and multimodal transcription, among other things. I've made a series of short videos that demonstrate its most useful features. The links to the videos are in the thread below. 👇
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Come see our team in action at #AMLaP 🎉 @ruthcorps @Geneva_Rhona Margaret Swanson Lauren Hadley and Martin Pickering 🔍 Friday PM: Dive into prediction & accented speech at poster #485 🧠 Saturday AM: Explore prediction & cognitive load at poster #255
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Just out: “Non-invasive #EEG in awake #cats” sciencedirect.com/science/ar… — The first base is secured to move to inter-species #hyperscanning recordings! :) #DogsNext #StayTuned
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The role of answer content and length when preparing answers to questions. New paper by @ruthcorps & Martin J. Pickering doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-6…
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1 in 5 UK adults struggle with hearing loss. Current hearing aids amplify sound, but miss the mark in decoding speech. In "Do you know what comes next?" (Wed, @StandComedyClub) @naominota & @Muzna_Shehzad explore the future of hearing aids. Book tickets: edin.ac/4clpRLa
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You might have already noticed that I love talking about statistics -- now I get to do it on stage at the Fringe Festival! As part of the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas, I have the honour of performing two shows (one solo show and one joint show with @Dr_KLef) at the Stand 5!
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