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44
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World Ranking
4084
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Asli Ozyurek is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and focuses on research primarily within the fields of Psychology and Computer Science. Their work extensively covers experimental and cognitive psychology, developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, language and linguistics, as well as human-computer interaction.

Their research topics notably include hearing impairment and communication, language, metaphor, and cognition, hand gesture recognition systems, language, discourse, and communication strategies, multisensory perception and integration, tactile and sensory interactions, and speech and dialogue systems.

Ozyurek has contributed to a number of publications, some of which are as follows:

  • The role of iconicity and simultaneity for efficient communication: The case of Italian Sign Language (LIS), 2020, Cognition
  • Speakers exhibit a multimodal Lombard effect in noise, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • The multimodal nature of communicative efficiency in social interaction, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Aging and working memory modulate the ability to benefit from visible speech and iconic gestures during speech-in-noise comprehension, 2020, Psychological Research
  • Differences in the production and perception of communicative kinematics in autism, 2021, Autism Research

Frequent co-authors with whom Asli Ozyurek has collaborated include Judith Holler, Marlou Rasenberg, Wim Pouw, Esam Ghaleb, and Raquel Fernández.

Their research outputs have appeared frequently in various venues, including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Cognitive Science
  • Cognition
  • Scientific Reports
  • Psychological Research

In 2019, Asli Ozyurek was recognized as a Member of the Academia Europaea.

Best Publications

  • What does cross-linguistic variation in semantic coordination of speech and gesture reveal? Evidence for an interface representation of spatial thinking and speaking

    Sotaro Kita;Asli Özyürek

  • Children Creating Core Properties of Language: Evidence from an Emerging Sign Language in Nicaragua

    Ann Senghas;Sotaro Kita;Asli Ozyurek

  • Two Sides of the Same Coin Speech and Gesture Mutually Interact to Enhance Comprehension

    Spencer D. Kelly;Asli Ozyurek;Eric Maris

  • When Language Meets Action: The Neural Integration of Gesture and Speech

    Roel M. Willems;Aslı Özyürek;Peter Hagoort

  • The natural order of events: How speakers of different languages represent events nonverbally

    Susan Goldin-Meadow;Wing Chee So;Asli Ozyurek;Carolyn Mylander

  • On-line Integration of Semantic Information from Speech and Gesture: Insights from Event-related Brain Potentials

    Aslı Özyürek;Roel M. Willems;Sotaro Kita;Peter Hagoort

  • Demonstratives in Space and Interaction: Data from Lao Speakers and Implications for Semantic Analysis

    N. J. Enfield

  • Language-specific and universal influences in children’s syntactic packaging of Manner and Path: A comparison of English, Japanese, and Turkish

    Shanley Allen;Aslı Özyürek;Sotaro Kita;Amanda Brown

  • Do Speakers Design Their Cospeech Gestures for Their Addressees? The Effects of Addressee Location on Representational Gestures

    Asli Ozyurek

  • Differential roles for left inferior frontal and superior temporal cortex in multimodal integration of action and language

    Roel M. Willems;Aslı Özyürek;Peter Hagoort

  • Hearing and seeing meaning in speech and gesture: insights from brain and behaviour

    Aslı Özyürek

  • The role of synchrony and ambiguity in speech-gesture integration during comprehension

    Boukje Habets;Sotaro Kita;Zeshu Shao;Zeshu Shao;Asli Özyurek;Asli Özyurek

  • Development of Cross-Linguistic Variation in Speech and Gesture: Motion Events in English and Turkish

    Asli Ozyurek;Sotaro Kita;Shanley Allen;Amanda Brown

  • Relations between syntactic encoding and co-speech gestures: Implications for a model of speech and gesture production

    Sotaro Kita;Asli Ozyurek;Shanley Allen;Amanda Brown

  • How does linguistic framing of events influence co-speech gestures? Insights from crosslinguistic variations and similarities

    Asli Ozyurek;Sotaro Kita;Shanley Allen;Reyhan Furman

  • Spatial language facilitates spatial cognition: Evidence from children who lack language input.

    Deidre Gentner;Asli Ozyurek;Ozge Gurcanli;Susan Goldin-Meadow

  • Expressing manner and path in English and Turkish: Differences in speech, gesture, and conceptualization

    Asli Ozyurek;Sotaro Kita

  • Seeing and hearing meaning: Erp and fmri evidence of word versus picture integration into a sentence context

    Roel M. Willems;Aslı Özyürek;Peter Hagoort

  • Visual context enhanced: The joint contribution of iconic gestures and visible speech to degraded speech comprehension

    Linda Drijvers;Asli Özyürek;Asli Özyürek

  • Learning to use demonstratives in conversation: what do language specific strategies in Turkish reveal?

    Aylin C. Küntay;Asli Ozyurek

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Hagoort
Peter Hagoort Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Judith Holler
Judith Holler Max Planck Society
Sotaro Kita
Sotaro Kita University of Warwick
Ole Jensen
Ole Jensen University of Oxford
Susan Goldin-Meadow
Susan Goldin-Meadow University of Chicago
Roel M. Willems
Roel M. Willems Radboud University
Ivan Toni
Ivan Toni Radboud University
Harold Bekkering
Harold Bekkering Radboud University
Stephen C. Levinson
Stephen C. Levinson Radboud University
Dedre Gentner
Dedre Gentner Northwestern University

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