Wim Pouw Research Fellow, Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour Resident at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: November-December 2023 Research topic at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: »Expressing Experiences and Experiencing Expressions: Interrogating the Representational Model of Communication« Project outline: In my stay I want to get a better understanding of the possibilities of communication that are based on non-representational ways of thinking about language and a wider ecology of animal versus AI communication. For example, we can see that some signals that human and non-human animals emit, may be seen as impredicative, where utterances in their dynamic unfolding shape the experience that is being expressed and they thereby also express what is being experienced. Or some utterances that are produced at the boundaries of our capacities (shouting, whispering) may have meaning in virtue of operating at the boundaries of the body; they present rather than represent. In my planned investigation of these basic utterances, which may be thought of as the »gestural« rather than the »linguistic« interpretation of multimodal communication, I will work together with Cornelia Ebert where we seek to bring these intuitions into more precise focus and explore the use of different operationalizations of complexity within this context. (Wim Pouw) Research partner: Wim Pouw follows the invitation of Cornelia Ebert, Professor of linguistics/semantics, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and Goethe Fellow at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften. Cornelia Ebert is one of the coordinators of the DFG Priority Programme »Visual Communication. Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Perspectives« (ViCom). Scholarly profile of Wim PouwWim Pouw is a cognitive scientist at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour at Radboud University Nijmegen studying sound production and its coordination with body movements. He has Master degrees in social psychology as well as theoretical psychology, and received his PhD in cognitive science at Erasmus University Rotterdam, in March 2017. He has subsequently conducted research at various institutes, including the Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action at the University of Connecticut in 2018–2020. His expertise lies in quantitative approaches of body movement analysis (e.g., motion tracking methodology, time series analysis) with tracking of acoustics. He combines a wide range of theoretical (radical embodied cognitive science, dynamical systems, evolutionary biology) and methodological (e.g., data science, movement science, bioacoustics, computer vision, phonetics) interests in his research. Wim Pouw is also a member of the DFG Priority Programme »Visual Communication. Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Perspectives« (ViCom).Website: Main areas of research: Multimodal Communication; Vocalization; Respiration; surface EMG; Movement science; Language in InteractionSelected publications:
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