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Gerard de Melo
Hi, I am Wim Pouw. I am a cognitive scientist at the Radboud University Nijmegen studying spoken language and its coordination between manual- and other bodily gestures and movements (e.g., respiration, head movements). My overall research program is about understanding how these multiple bodily systems can come to coordinate (e.g., synchronize) in a way that allows for novel or more stable communicative behavior to emerge. I believe that the study of spoken language and its coordination with the body is cr
At the VU University Amsterdam, I obtained my Bachelor degree in Psychology in 2009, Master degree (research master) in Social Psychology in 2011, and a second master degree in Theoretical Psychology in 2012. After my studies I enrolled as a PhD student under supervision of Professors Tamara van Gog, Rolf Zwaan, and Fred Paas at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). In this project we investigated the supporting role of hand movements in learning and problem solving. I defended my thesis on 16th of March,
In 2017, the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO) awarded my project a Rubicon grant for a 2-years research applying human movement analyses to hand-gesture, under supervision of Prof. James Dixon at the University of Connecticut. In 2019 I was awarded a 'Donders Fellowship' at University of Nijmegen (Donders Institute) to work under supervision of Prof. Asli Ozyurek on the large-scale study of multimodal language. In November 2020 NWO awarded me a personal career grant (VENI), allowing me
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