1/5 New paper led by Peggy Liaw, with @pennypexman.bsky.social and @lorreggin.bsky.social on the development of name sound symbolism!
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Happening today! Looking forward to a big week of 🇨🇦 Cognitive Science.
🚨 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
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...
We're inviting nominations for the next Executive Editor of Topics in Cognitive Science (TopiCS).
This role helps shape the journal's direction, guiding editorial priorities, policies, and the broader agenda of the field.
Learn more and nominate at: cognitivesciencesociety.org/topics-journal/
Read the latest articles of Cortex at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
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...
Veronica Diveica
Henri Olkoniemi
Henri Olkoniemi
Penny Pexman
Penny Pexman
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
Sign up as a Mentor or Mentee at #CogSci2026
The Mentoring Event brings together #CogSci Society members for conversations about academia, careers, work/life balance, international experiences, and more.
Visit cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-mento... to learn more and sign up!
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...
Erez Freud
Building on established strength in neuroscience, Western is expanding international education and research collaborations through NeurotechEU.
🚀 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...
