| 2026 | ACL | Using Perspectival Words Is Harder Than Vocabulary Words for Humans - and Even More So for Multimodal Language Models. | Dota Tianai Dong, Yifan Luo, Po-Ya Angela Wang, Asli zyrek, Paula Rubio-Fernndez |
| 2026 | ACL | The Visual Iconicity Challenge: Evaluating Vision-Language Models on Sign Language Form-Meaning Mapping. | Onur Keles, Asli zyrek, Gerardo Ortega, Kadir Gkgz, Esam Ghaleb |
| 2025 | ACL | I see what you mean: Co-Speech Gestures for Reference Resolution in Multimodal Dialogue. | Esam Ghaleb, Bulat Khaertdinov, Asli zyrek, Raquel Fernndez |
| 2025 | CogSci | Blind Speakers' Path Gestures Are More Precise Than Those of Sighted and Blindfolded Speakers. | Ezgi Mamus, Mounika Kanakanti, Asli zyrek |
| 2025 | ICCV | SemGes: Semantics-Aware Co-Speech Gesture Generation Using Semantic Coherence and Relevance Learning. | Lanmiao Liu, Esam Ghaleb, Asli zyrek, Zerrin Yumak |
| 2024 | CogSci | Speakers align both their gestures and words not only to establish but also to maintain reference to create shared labels for novel objects in interaction. | Sho Akamine, Esam Ghaleb, Marlou Rasenberg, Raquel Fernndez, Antje Meyer, Asli zyrek |
| 2024 | CogSci | Analysing Cross-Speaker Convergence in Face-to-Face Dialogue through the Lens of Automatically Detected Shared Linguistic Constructions. | Esam Ghaleb, Marlou Rasenberg, Wim T. J. L. Pouw, Ivan Toni, Judith Holler, Asli zyrek, Raquel Fernndez |
| 2024 | CogSci | Children's visual attention when planning informative multimodal descriptions of object locations. | Dilay Z. Karadller, Asli zyrek, Ercenur nal |
| 2024 | CogSci | Differences in the gesture kinematics of blind, blindfolded, and sighted speakers. | Ezgi Mamus, Mounika Kanakanti, Asli zyrek |
| 2024 | CogSci | Kinematic modulations of iconicity in child-directed communication in Italian Sign Language. | Anita Slonimska, Alessio Di Renzo, Mounika Kanakanti, Emanuela Campisi, Asli zyrek |
| 2024 | ICMI | Learning Co-Speech Gesture Representations in Dialogue through Contrastive Learning: An Intrinsic Evaluation. | Esam Ghaleb, Bulat Khaertdinov, Wim T. J. L. Pouw, Marlou Rasenberg, Judith Holler, Asli zyrek, Raquel Fernndez |
| 2024 | WACV | Co-Speech Gesture Detection through Multi-Phase Sequence Labeling. | Esam Ghaleb, Ilya Burenko, Marlou Rasenberg, Wim T. J. L. Pouw, Peter Uhrig, Judith Holler, Ivan Toni, Asli zyrek, Raquel Fernndez |
| 2023 | CogSci | Space in Context: Communicative factors shape spatial language. | Myrto Grigoroglou, Barbara Landau, Anna Papafragou, Ercenur nal, Kevser Kirbasoglu, Dilay Z. Karadller, Beyza Smer, Asli zyrek, Barend Beekhuizen, Kenny R. Coventry, Piotr J. Barc, Lucy-Amber Roberts, Harmen Gudde |
| 2023 | CogSci | Lack of visual experience influences silent gesture productions for concepts across semantic categories. | Ezgi Mamus, Laura J. Speed, Gerardo Ortega, Asifa Majid, Asli zyrek |
| 2022 | CogSci | Universality and Diversity in Event Cognition and Language. | Yue Ji, Caroline Andrews, Sebastian Sauppe, Monique Flecken, Roberto Zariquiey, Itziar Laka, Moritz M. Daum, Ercenur nal, Anna Papafragou, Lilia Rissman, Saskia van Putten, Asifa Majid, Francie Manhardt, Asli zyrek, Arrate Isasi-Isasmendi, Martin Meyer, Balthasar Bickel |
| 2021 | CogSci | Spatial Language Use Predicts Spatial Memory of Children: Evidence from Sign, Speech, and Speech-plus-gesture. | Dilay Z. Karadller, Beyza Smer, Ercenur nal, Asli zyrek |
| 2021 | CogSci | Sensory Modality of Input Influences the Encoding of Motion Events in Speech But Not Co-Speech Gestures. | Ezgi Mamus, Laura J. Speed, Asli zyrek, Asifa Majid |
| 2021 | CogSci | Is it for all? Spatial abilities matter in processing gestures during the comprehension of spatial language. | Demet zer, Asli zyrek, Tilbe Gksun |
| 2021 | HCI | Semantically Related Gestures Move Alike: Towards a Distributional Semantics of Gesture Kinematics. | Wim T. J. L. Pouw, Jan de Wit, Sara Bgels, Marlou Rasenberg, Branka Milivojevic, Asli zyrek |
| 2020 | ICMI | From Hands to Brains: How Does Human Body Talk, Think and Interact in Face-to-Face Language Use? | Asli zyrek |
| 2019 | CogSci | Speaking but not Gesturing Predicts Motion Event Memory Within and Across Languages. | Marlijn ter Bekke, Asli zyrek, Ercenur nal |
| 2019 | CogSci | Effects of Blindfolding on Verbal and Gestural Expression of Path in Auditory Motion Events. | Ezgi Mamus, Lilia Rissman, Asifa Majid, Asli zyrek |
| 2017 | CogSci | Highly Proficient Bilinguals Maintain the Language-Specific Pragmatic Constraints on Pronouns: Evidence from Speech and Gesture. | Zeynep Azar, Ad Backus, Asli zyrek |
| 2017 | CogSci | Effects of Delayed Language Exposure on Spatial Language Acquisition by Signing Children and Adults. | Dilay Z. Karadller, Beyza Smer, Asli zyrek |
| 2017 | CogSci | Speakers' gestures predict the meaning and perception of iconicity in signs. | Gerardo Ortega, Annika Schiefner, Asli zyrek |
| 2016 | CogSci | Pragmatic relativity: Gender and context affect the use of personal pronouns in discourse differentially across languages. | Zeynep Azar, Ad Backus, Asli zyrek |
| 2016 | CogSci | Generalisable patterns of gesture distinguish semantic categories in communication without language. | Gerardo Ortega, Asli zyrek |
| 2014 | CogSci | Type of iconicity matters: Bias for action-based signs in sign language acquisition. | Gerardo Ortega, Beyza Smer, Asli zyrek |
| 2014 | CogSci | The Interplay between Joint Attention, Physical Proximity, and Pointing Gesture in Demonstrative Choice. | David Peeters, Zeynep Azar, Asli zyrek |
| 2014 | CogSci | Learning to Express Left-Right & Front-Behind in a Sign versus Spoken Language. | Beyza Smer, Pamela Perniss, Inge Zwitserlood, Asli zyrek |
| 2013 | CogSci | Here's not looking at you, kid! Unaddressed recipients benefit from co-speech gestures when speech processing suffers. | Judith Holler, Louise Schubotz, Spencer Kelly, Peter Hagoort, Manuela Schuetze, Asli zyrek |
| 2013 | CogSci | Getting to the Point: The Influence of Communicative Intent on the Kinematics of Pointing Gestures. | David Peeters, Mingyuan Chu, Judith Holler, Asli zyrek, Peter Hagoort |
| 2012 | CogSci | When gestures catch the eye: The influence of gaze direction on co-speech gesture comprehension in triadic communication. | Judith Holler, Spencer Kelly, Peter Hagoort, Asli zyrek |
| 2011 | CogSci | Does Space Structure Spatial Language? Linguistic Encoding of Space in Sign Languages. | Pamela Perniss, Inge Zwitserlood, Asli zyrek |