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Grand Challenge — Conversational Facial Signals: A Paper Discussion

GMT (UK)

A discussion of Trujillo & Holler's (2024) paper on how conversational facial signals combine into compositional meanings that change the interpretation of speaker intentions — with both authors joining us.

Host

  • Chaona Chen — University of Glasgow

Speakers

  • James Trujillo — Universiteit van Amsterdam
    “Conversational facial signals combine into compositional meanings”
  • Judith Holler — Donders Centre for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour & MPI for Psycholinguistics

Agenda

  • 14:00–14:01 Welcome (Limor Raviv / MOSAIC)
  • 14:01–14:05 Introduction (Chaona Chen)
  • 14:05–14:35 Summary of the paper (James Trujillo)
  • 14:35–15:00 Author Q&A with Judith and James
  • 15:00–15:30 Open discussion

This session discussed a recently published paper, with both authors joining us:

Trujillo, J. P., & Holler, J. (2024). Conversational facial signals combine into compositional meanings that change the interpretation of speaker intentions. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 2286.

The session began with a brief presentation of the paper by James, setting the stage for a methods walkthrough and Q&A directly with the authors. It then moved into a group discussion, inviting participants to share their perspectives on the study of facial and eye signals — facial expressions, gaze patterns, and blinking — and their impact on language interpretation and processing.