Asli Ozyurek

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My research in general investigates the relations between meaningful bodily actions, language, cognition, and communication. The underlying question is to what extent our bodily actions interact with or shape language, its processing, and use in communication. I investigate this question in two domains of human communicative behavior in which body and language are closely related:

• gestures that speakers use spontaneously
• sign languages (established or emerging) used by deaf people

I use an interdisciplinary approach (linguistic and psychological) and a combination of methods and techniques such as linguistic analysis, comparative (developmental, cross-linguistic) and experimental methods as well as brain imaging (ERP, fMRI).
 
My research is funded by NIH (National Institutes of Health, USA), VIDI-NWO (Dutch Science Foundation) as well as ERC (European Research Council) Starting Grant for the next 5 years (see more on Research).

I coordinate Nijmegen Gesture Center as well as Gesture and Sign Language Topic Meetings of the Donders Center for Cognition, Brain, and Behavior of the Radboud University Nijmegen.