James Trujillo

@jamestrujillo.bsky.social

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Assistant prof at University of Amsterdam using motion tracking and virtual agents to study multimodal language and social interaction. Autistic and interested in autistic language and interaction. Dad/papa, artist, runner, gamer.

View out the window. A courtyard under a sunny sky with some clouds. A cathedral stands on the right side of the courtyard.
Plot showing distributions of responses across the four domains of the SSQ, with colours in each panel indicating the participant group.
Screen showing the list of 26 nominees for the Leo Waaijers award
Brain areas activated by context informativity. Highlighted are the the left IFG, left MTG, and right TPJ.
Brain areas activated by contextualized and decontextualized information content. For contextualized information content, the left IFG, Occipitotemporal gyrus, and the medial prefrontal cortex are highlighted. For decontextualized information content, the left IFG and occipitotemporal gyrus are highlighted.
Figure showing an example of the storyteller gesturing, and how information content and context informativity are derived from the narrative transcript.
Figure showing surprisal and next-word entropy between utterance halves. The left panel shows surprisal, and the right panel shows entropy. In both panels, there is a pattern of higher surprisal or entropy in the first utterance half, shown in blue, compared to the last utterance-half, shown in orange.
Examples of visual signals used in this paper. The images depict a moving hand, a smile, an eye squint, eye widening, nose wrinkle, raised eyebrows, frown, and pulling mouth corners down.
Picture of the cover of the Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies