Kensy Cooperrider
@kensycoop
Cognitive scientist, writer, podcaster. Interested in the diversity of communication & cognition. Especially: gestures, metaphors, concepts.🎙️: @ManyMindsPod
How are humans able to make sense of time? Not with special biology but with “time tools”—ideas, practices, and artifacts that render time more concrete. My new paper explores this vast toolkit—one that makes use of knots, nuts, hands, flowers, mountains, shadows, and more. 🧵
How does one thinker differ from another? I wrote about a fun tradition of classifying intellectual personality in terms of emblematic animals—foxes, frogs, birds, bees, and more. (First blogpost in—yikes!—almost three years.) kensycooperrider.com/blog/2024/10/1…
New preprint!! 📣📣 A review of gesture in New Guinea, covering: pointing, emblems, time gestures, body count systems, and facial expressions. The region remains woefully under-documented, but there are still plenty of intriguing observations. osf.io/preprints/psya…
Our new paper on emblems. This was a fun one to put together!
New Research Article: Emblems: Meaning at the interface of language and gesture All about gestures like: 👍✌️👌🤷 With @kensycoop in @glossa_oa. I'm so proud of this one.
Revisiting the dawn of human cognition open.spotify.com/episode/5qSyJZ… - loving the Many Minds podcast with @kensycoop !
One of my favorite episodes of late. Not to be missed!
Spiders commonly add "stabilimenta"—decorative motifs—to certain parts of their webs. But *why* they do this remains a puzzle. Just one of the topics discussed in our latest episode, w/ Dr. Ximena Nelson! Listen: disi.org/consider-the-s…