Professor of Psychology and Vice President (Research) at Western University 🇨🇦
Penny Pexman
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Happening today! Looking forward to a big week of 🇨🇦 Cognitive Science.
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🚨 New paper out in Pragmatics & Cognition with @pennypexman.bsky.social!
We review #irony #training studies and show that even short‑term training improves children’s irony comprehension, highlighting metapragmatic knowledge as a key mechanism in irony #development.
🔗 doi.org/10.1075/pc.2...
🚨 New paper out!
Our paper "Who gets it? Explaining variability in children’s written irony comprehension" is now published #OpenAccess in Journal of Child Language.
With Tuomo Häikiö, Matti Laine & @pennypexman.bsky.social
🔗 dx.doi.org/10.1017/S030...
@oulu.fi @utu.fi @aboakademi.bsky.social
Building on established strength in neuroscience, #WesternU is partnering with nine European universities as part of NeurotechEU, opening new doors for student training and research collaborations across borders.
@westernuresearch.bsky.social
The Cortex special issue on Conceptual Knowledge, co-edited by Emiko Muraki (@emij.bsky.social), Richard Binney (@rjbinney.bsky.social), Penny Pexman (@pennypexman.bsky.social) and myself is still accepting submissions.
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
🚀 Launched! Here’s our call for applicants to the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs Program at @westernu.ca. This is a remarkable opportunity for us to recruit outstanding scholars who are currently working internationally:
www.uwo.ca/research/can...
1/5 New paper led by Peggy Liaw, with @pennypexman.bsky.social and @lorreggin.bsky.social on the development of name sound symbolism!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
The Canada Impact+ Research Chairs Program allows us to welcome outstanding, internationally based researchers to #WesternU to tackle some of today’s most pressing challenges. We look forward to connecting with scholars who are ready to go #AllinWesternU.
www.uwo.ca/research/can...
Exciting update: The Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS) will host its 2026 Meeting at York University,(June 1–3, 2026), followed by the Cognition and Action Satellite Workshop (June 4–5).
@jdcrawford.bsky.social @yorku-cian.bsky.social
www.yorku.ca/research/cia...
🚀 Launched! Here’s our call for applicants to the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs Program at @westernu.ca. This is a remarkable opportunity for us to recruit outstanding scholars who are currently working internationally:
www.uwo.ca/research/can...
