Judith Holler
Biographic Data
| ID | 85634 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith Holler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith |
| FAMILY NAME | Holler |
| SIGNATURE | HOLLER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2381-2699 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Recent advances in reproducibility and replicability in cartography and geographic information science: Introduction to a special issue
Using open geographic information science practices to create cascading improvements in research quality and to support discovery
Multimodal information density is highest in question beginnings, and early entropy is associated with fewer but longer visual signals
Contains fulltext : 316222.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Dyadic differences in empathy scores are associated with kinematic similarity during conversational question–answer pairs
During conversation, speakers coordinate and synergize their behaviors at multiple levels, and in different ways. The extent to which individuals converge or diverge in their behaviors during interaction may relate to interpersonal differences relevant to social interaction, such as empathy as measured by the empathy quotient (EQ). An association between interpersonal difference in empathy and interpersonal entrainment could help to throw light o…
Opening Social Interactions: The Coordination of Approach, Gaze, Speech, and Handshakes During Greetings
Despite the importance of greetings for opening social interactions, their multimodal coordination processes remain poorly understood. We used a naturalistic, lab‐based setup where pairs of unacquainted participants approached and greeted each other while unaware their greeting behavior was studied. We measured the prevalence and time course of multimodal behaviors potentially culminating in a handshake, including motor behaviors (e.g., walking, …
A Survey of Researcher Perceptions of Replication in Geography
Information distribution patterns in naturalistic dialogue differ across languages
The natural ecology of language is conversation, with individuals taking turns speaking to communicate in a back-and-forth fashion. Language in this context involves strings of words that a listener must process while simultaneously planning their own next utterance. It would thus be highly advantageous if language users distributed information within an utterance in a way that may facilitate this processing–planning dynamic. While some studies h…
A Framework for Moving Beyond Computational Reproducibility: Lessons from Three Reproductions of Geographical Analyses of Covid‐19
Despite recent calls to make geographical analyses more reproducible, formal attempts to reproduce or replicate published work remain largely absent from the geographic literature. The reproductions of geographic research that do exist typically focus on computational reproducibility—whether results can be recreated using data and code provided by the authors—rather than on evaluating the conclusion and internal validity and evidential value of t…
Visual bodily signals and conversational context benefit the anticipation of turn ends
The typical pattern of alternating turns in conversation seems trivial at first sight. But a closer look quickly reveals the cognitive challenges involved, with much of it resulting from the fast-paced nature of conversation. One core ingredient to turn coordination is the anticipation of upcoming turn ends so as to be able to ready oneself for providing the next contribution. Across two experiments, we investigated two variables inherent to face…
Reproducible Research Practices and Barriers to Reproducible Research in Geography: Insights from a Survey
The number of reproduction and replication studies undertaken across the sciences continues to rise, but such studies have not yet become commonplace in geography. Existing attempts to reproduce geographic research suggest that many studies cannot be fully reproduced, or are simply missing components needed to attempt a reproduction. Despite this suggestive evidence, a systematic assessment of geographers' perceptions of reproducibility and use o…
Interactionally Embedded Gestalt Principles of Multimodal Human Communication
Natural human interaction requires us to produce and process many different signals, including speech, hand and head gestures, and facial expressions. These communicative signals, which occur in a variety of temporal relations with each other (e.g., parallel or temporally misaligned), must be rapidly processed as a coherent message by the receiver. In this contribution, we introduce the notion of interactionally embedded, affordance-driven gestal…
The multimodal facilitation effect in human communication
During face-to-face communication, recipients need to rapidly integrate a plethora of auditory and visual signals. This integration of signals from many different bodily articulators, all offset in time, with the information in the speech stream may either tax the cognitive system, thus slowing down language processing, or may result in multimodal facilitation. Using the classical shadowing paradigm, participants shadowed speech from face-to-face…
Confronting the Climate Crisis: Slow Geographies and Relational Approaches to International Research
Greenhouse gas emissions have continued to rise despite domestic and international efforts to mitigate climate change. Recent scholarship has expressed concerns that academic careers require considerable amounts of air travel. These trends raise a series of ethical dilemmas for academic geographers who conduct international field research. Building on work on slow geographies and slow scholarship, we argue for more relational approaches and under…
Timing in conversation is dynamically adjusted turn by turn in dyadic telephone conversations
Conversational turn taking in humans involves incredibly rapid responding. The timing mechanisms underpinning such responses have been heavily debated, including questions such as who is doing the timing. Similar to findings on rhythmic tapping to a metronome, we show that floor transfer offsets (FTOs) in telephone conversations are serially dependent, such that FTOs are lag-1 negatively autocorrelated. Finding this serial dependence on a turn-by…
Individual differences in working memory and semantic fluency predict younger and older adults' multimodal recipient design in an interactive spatial task
Aging appears to impair the ability to adapt speech and gestures based on knowledge shared with an addressee (common ground-based recipient design) in narrative settings. Here, we test whether this extends to spatial settings and is modulated by cognitive abilities. Younger and older adults gave instructions on how to assemble 3D-models from building blocks on six consecutive trials. We induced mutually shared knowledge by either showing speaker …
Given-New Effects on the Duration of Gestures and of Words in Face-to-Face Dialogue
The given-new contract entails that speakers must distinguish for their addressee whether references are new or already part of their dialogue. Past research had found that, in a monologue to a listener, speakers shortened repeated words. However, the notion of the given-new contract is inherently dialogic, with an addressee and the availability of co-speech gestures. Here, two face-to-face dialogue experiments tested whether gesture duration als…
Aging and working memory modulate the ability to benefit from visible speech and iconic gestures during speech-in-noise comprehension
When comprehending speech-in-noise (SiN), younger and older adults benefit from seeing the speaker’s mouth, i.e. visible speech. Younger adults additionally benefit from manual iconic co-speech gestures. Here, we investigate to what extent younger and older adults benefit from perceiving both visual articulators while comprehending SiN, and whether this is modulated by working memory and inhibitory control. Twenty-eight younger and 28 older adult…
Teaching critical open GIS
Key Messages Teaching critical open GIS has the potential to disrupt common GIS representations and bridge the divide between GIS and non‐GIS human geography curricula. Open‐source GIS creates opportunities for critical GIS to effectively and affectively engage with GIS technology at the level of code
Multimodal Language Processing in Human Communication
Eye Blinking as Addressee Feedback in Face-To-Face Conversation
Does blinking function as a type of feedback in conversation? To address this question, we built a corpus of Dutch conversations, identified short and long addressee blinks during extended turns, and measured their occurrence relative to the end of turn constructional units (TCUs), the location where feedback typically occurs. Addressee blinks were indeed timed to the end of TCUs. Also, long blinks were more likely than short blinks to occur duri…
Gaze Direction Signals Response Preference in Conversation
In this article, we examine gaze direction in responses to polar questions using both quantitative and conversation analytic (CA) methods. The data come from a novel corpus of conversations in which participants wore eye-tracking glasses to obtain direct measures of their eye movements. The results show that while most preferred responses are produced with gaze toward the questioner, most dispreferred responses are produced with gaze aversion. We…
Adaptation policy and adaptation realities: Local social organization and cross-scale networks for climate adaptation on Mount Kilimanjaro
Handling agents and patients: Representational cospeech gestures help children comprehend complex syntactic constructions
Gesture is an important precursor of children's early language development, for example, in the transition to multiword speech and as a predictor of later language abilities. However, it is unclear whether gestural input can influence children's comprehension of complex grammatical constructions. In Study 1, 3- (M = 3 years 5 months) and 4-year-old (M = 4 years 6 months) children witnessed 2-participant actions described using the infrequent obje…
Associations among play, gesture and early spoken language acquisition
The present study investigated the developmental interrelationships between play, gesture use and spoken language development in children aged 18–31 months. The children completed two tasks: (i) a structured measure of pretend (or ‘symbolic’) play and (ii) a measure of vocabulary knowledge in which children have been shown to gesture. Additionally, their productive spoken language knowledge was measured via parental report. The results indicated …
An experimental investigation of how addressee feedback affects co-speech gestures accompanying speakers’ responses
Gaze Direction Signals Response Preference in Conversation
In this article, we examine gaze direction in responses to polar questions using both quantitative and conversation analytic (CA) methods. The data come from a novel corpus of conversations in which participants wore eye-tracking glasses to obtain direct measures of their eye movements. The results show that while most preferred responses are produced with gaze toward the questioner, most dispreferred responses are produced with gaze aversion. We…
An experimental investigation of how addressee feedback affects co-speech gestures accompanying speakers’ responses
Pragmatic aspects of representational gestures: Do speakers use them to clarify verbal ambiguity for the listener
Two studies are reported that investigate how speakers use gesture in association with verbal ambiguity in two communicational situations characteristic of everyday talk. The first study uses a design that mimics a speaker’s self-repair initiated by the listener, while the second study involves speakers producing longer stretches of speech involving lexical ambiguity, without the listener interacting verbally with the speaker. The findings of bot…
The Effect of Common Ground on How Speakers Use Gesture and Speech to Represent Size Information
Past research has investigated the impact of mutual knowledge on communication by focusing mainly on verbal communication. This study uses a wider focus, which includes speech and gesture. Speakers completed a referential communication task with recipients who did or did not share with them knowledge about the size of certain entities. The results showed that when such common ground exists between interlocutors, speakers' use of gesture and speec…
Eye Blinking as Addressee Feedback in Face-To-Face Conversation
Does blinking function as a type of feedback in conversation? To address this question, we built a corpus of Dutch conversations, identified short and long addressee blinks during extended turns, and measured their occurrence relative to the end of turn constructional units (TCUs), the location where feedback typically occurs. Addressee blinks were indeed timed to the end of TCUs. Also, long blinks were more likely than short blinks to occur duri…
How iconic gestures and speech interact in the representation of meaning: Are both aspects really integral to the process
Article How iconic gestures and speech interact in the representation of meaning: Are both aspects really integral to the process? was published on September 18, 2003 in the journal Semiotica (volume 2003, issue 146)
A Survey of Researcher Perceptions of Replication in Geography
Reproducible Research Practices and Barriers to Reproducible Research in Geography: Insights from a Survey
The number of reproduction and replication studies undertaken across the sciences continues to rise, but such studies have not yet become commonplace in geography. Existing attempts to reproduce geographic research suggest that many studies cannot be fully reproduced, or are simply missing components needed to attempt a reproduction. Despite this suggestive evidence, a systematic assessment of geographers' perceptions of reproducibility and use o…
Given-New Effects on the Duration of Gestures and of Words in Face-to-Face Dialogue
The given-new contract entails that speakers must distinguish for their addressee whether references are new or already part of their dialogue. Past research had found that, in a monologue to a listener, speakers shortened repeated words. However, the notion of the given-new contract is inherently dialogic, with an addressee and the availability of co-speech gestures. Here, two face-to-face dialogue experiments tested whether gesture duration als…
Handling agents and patients: Representational cospeech gestures help children comprehend complex syntactic constructions
Gesture is an important precursor of children's early language development, for example, in the transition to multiword speech and as a predictor of later language abilities. However, it is unclear whether gestural input can influence children's comprehension of complex grammatical constructions. In Study 1, 3- (M = 3 years 5 months) and 4-year-old (M = 4 years 6 months) children witnessed 2-participant actions described using the infrequent obje…
A micro-analytic investigation of how iconic gestures and speech represent core semantic features in talk
Author: Holler, Judith et al.; Genre: Journal Article; Issued: 2002; Open Access; Keywords: co-speech gesture, gesture production, semantic feature approach, gesture-speech interaction; Title: A micro-analytic investigation of how iconic gestures and speech represent core semantic features in talk
Teaching critical open GIS
Key Messages Teaching critical open GIS has the potential to disrupt common GIS representations and bridge the divide between GIS and non‐GIS human geography curricula. Open‐source GIS creates opportunities for critical GIS to effectively and affectively engage with GIS technology at the level of code
Adaptation policy and adaptation realities: Local social organization and cross-scale networks for climate adaptation on Mount Kilimanjaro
A micro-analytic investigation of how iconic gestures and speech represent core semantic features in talk
Author: Holler, Judith et al.; Genre: Journal Article; Issued: 2002; Open Access; Keywords: co-speech gesture, gesture production, semantic feature approach, gesture-speech interaction; Title: A micro-analytic investigation of how iconic gestures and speech represent core semantic features in talk
Pragmatic aspects of representational gestures: Do speakers use them to clarify verbal ambiguity for the listener
Two studies are reported that investigate how speakers use gesture in association with verbal ambiguity in two communicational situations characteristic of everyday talk. The first study uses a design that mimics a speaker’s self-repair initiated by the listener, while the second study involves speakers producing longer stretches of speech involving lexical ambiguity, without the listener interacting verbally with the speaker. The findings of bot…
How iconic gestures and speech interact in the representation of meaning: Are both aspects really integral to the process
Article How iconic gestures and speech interact in the representation of meaning: Are both aspects really integral to the process? was published on September 18, 2003 in the journal Semiotica (volume 2003, issue 146)
The Effect of Common Ground on How Speakers Use Gesture and Speech to Represent Size Information
Past research has investigated the impact of mutual knowledge on communication by focusing mainly on verbal communication. This study uses a wider focus, which includes speech and gesture. Speakers completed a referential communication task with recipients who did or did not share with them knowledge about the size of certain entities. The results showed that when such common ground exists between interlocutors, speakers' use of gesture and speec…
An experimental investigation of how addressee feedback affects co-speech gestures accompanying speakers’ responses
Associations among play, gesture and early spoken language acquisition
The present study investigated the developmental interrelationships between play, gesture use and spoken language development in children aged 18–31 months. The children completed two tasks: (i) a structured measure of pretend (or ‘symbolic’) play and (ii) a measure of vocabulary knowledge in which children have been shown to gesture. Additionally, their productive spoken language knowledge was measured via parental report. The results indicated …
Adaptation policy and adaptation realities: Local social organization and cross-scale networks for climate adaptation on Mount Kilimanjaro
Handling agents and patients: Representational cospeech gestures help children comprehend complex syntactic constructions
Gesture is an important precursor of children's early language development, for example, in the transition to multiword speech and as a predictor of later language abilities. However, it is unclear whether gestural input can influence children's comprehension of complex grammatical constructions. In Study 1, 3- (M = 3 years 5 months) and 4-year-old (M = 4 years 6 months) children witnessed 2-participant actions described using the infrequent obje…
Eye Blinking as Addressee Feedback in Face-To-Face Conversation
Does blinking function as a type of feedback in conversation? To address this question, we built a corpus of Dutch conversations, identified short and long addressee blinks during extended turns, and measured their occurrence relative to the end of turn constructional units (TCUs), the location where feedback typically occurs. Addressee blinks were indeed timed to the end of TCUs. Also, long blinks were more likely than short blinks to occur duri…
Gaze Direction Signals Response Preference in Conversation
In this article, we examine gaze direction in responses to polar questions using both quantitative and conversation analytic (CA) methods. The data come from a novel corpus of conversations in which participants wore eye-tracking glasses to obtain direct measures of their eye movements. The results show that while most preferred responses are produced with gaze toward the questioner, most dispreferred responses are produced with gaze aversion. We…
Multimodal Language Processing in Human Communication
Teaching critical open GIS
Key Messages Teaching critical open GIS has the potential to disrupt common GIS representations and bridge the divide between GIS and non‐GIS human geography curricula. Open‐source GIS creates opportunities for critical GIS to effectively and affectively engage with GIS technology at the level of code
Aging and working memory modulate the ability to benefit from visible speech and iconic gestures during speech-in-noise comprehension
When comprehending speech-in-noise (SiN), younger and older adults benefit from seeing the speaker’s mouth, i.e. visible speech. Younger adults additionally benefit from manual iconic co-speech gestures. Here, we investigate to what extent younger and older adults benefit from perceiving both visual articulators while comprehending SiN, and whether this is modulated by working memory and inhibitory control. Twenty-eight younger and 28 older adult…
Confronting the Climate Crisis: Slow Geographies and Relational Approaches to International Research
Greenhouse gas emissions have continued to rise despite domestic and international efforts to mitigate climate change. Recent scholarship has expressed concerns that academic careers require considerable amounts of air travel. These trends raise a series of ethical dilemmas for academic geographers who conduct international field research. Building on work on slow geographies and slow scholarship, we argue for more relational approaches and under…
Timing in conversation is dynamically adjusted turn by turn in dyadic telephone conversations
Conversational turn taking in humans involves incredibly rapid responding. The timing mechanisms underpinning such responses have been heavily debated, including questions such as who is doing the timing. Similar to findings on rhythmic tapping to a metronome, we show that floor transfer offsets (FTOs) in telephone conversations are serially dependent, such that FTOs are lag-1 negatively autocorrelated. Finding this serial dependence on a turn-by…
Individual differences in working memory and semantic fluency predict younger and older adults' multimodal recipient design in an interactive spatial task
Aging appears to impair the ability to adapt speech and gestures based on knowledge shared with an addressee (common ground-based recipient design) in narrative settings. Here, we test whether this extends to spatial settings and is modulated by cognitive abilities. Younger and older adults gave instructions on how to assemble 3D-models from building blocks on six consecutive trials. We induced mutually shared knowledge by either showing speaker …
Given-New Effects on the Duration of Gestures and of Words in Face-to-Face Dialogue
The given-new contract entails that speakers must distinguish for their addressee whether references are new or already part of their dialogue. Past research had found that, in a monologue to a listener, speakers shortened repeated words. However, the notion of the given-new contract is inherently dialogic, with an addressee and the availability of co-speech gestures. Here, two face-to-face dialogue experiments tested whether gesture duration als…
Interactionally Embedded Gestalt Principles of Multimodal Human Communication
Natural human interaction requires us to produce and process many different signals, including speech, hand and head gestures, and facial expressions. These communicative signals, which occur in a variety of temporal relations with each other (e.g., parallel or temporally misaligned), must be rapidly processed as a coherent message by the receiver. In this contribution, we introduce the notion of interactionally embedded, affordance-driven gestal…
The multimodal facilitation effect in human communication
During face-to-face communication, recipients need to rapidly integrate a plethora of auditory and visual signals. This integration of signals from many different bodily articulators, all offset in time, with the information in the speech stream may either tax the cognitive system, thus slowing down language processing, or may result in multimodal facilitation. Using the classical shadowing paradigm, participants shadowed speech from face-to-face…
Information distribution patterns in naturalistic dialogue differ across languages
The natural ecology of language is conversation, with individuals taking turns speaking to communicate in a back-and-forth fashion. Language in this context involves strings of words that a listener must process while simultaneously planning their own next utterance. It would thus be highly advantageous if language users distributed information within an utterance in a way that may facilitate this processing–planning dynamic. While some studies h…
A Framework for Moving Beyond Computational Reproducibility: Lessons from Three Reproductions of Geographical Analyses of Covid‐19
Despite recent calls to make geographical analyses more reproducible, formal attempts to reproduce or replicate published work remain largely absent from the geographic literature. The reproductions of geographic research that do exist typically focus on computational reproducibility—whether results can be recreated using data and code provided by the authors—rather than on evaluating the conclusion and internal validity and evidential value of t…
Visual bodily signals and conversational context benefit the anticipation of turn ends
The typical pattern of alternating turns in conversation seems trivial at first sight. But a closer look quickly reveals the cognitive challenges involved, with much of it resulting from the fast-paced nature of conversation. One core ingredient to turn coordination is the anticipation of upcoming turn ends so as to be able to ready oneself for providing the next contribution. Across two experiments, we investigated two variables inherent to face…
Reproducible Research Practices and Barriers to Reproducible Research in Geography: Insights from a Survey
The number of reproduction and replication studies undertaken across the sciences continues to rise, but such studies have not yet become commonplace in geography. Existing attempts to reproduce geographic research suggest that many studies cannot be fully reproduced, or are simply missing components needed to attempt a reproduction. Despite this suggestive evidence, a systematic assessment of geographers' perceptions of reproducibility and use o…
Using open geographic information science practices to create cascading improvements in research quality and to support discovery
Multimodal information density is highest in question beginnings, and early entropy is associated with fewer but longer visual signals
Contains fulltext : 316222.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Psychology (21 works) · Cognitive psychology (18 works) · Computer Science (18 works) · Communication (17 works) · Hearing Impairment and Communication (15 works) · Linguistics (15 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (14 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (14 works) · Gesture (12 works) · Artificial Intelligence (9 works)