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Suzanne submitted her PhD thesis entitled 鈥淗ow seeing iconic gestures facilitates action event memory and verb learning in 3-year-old children鈥� on the 27^th September 2017 and had her viva on the 8^th of December 2017 which she passed with no corrections. Suzanne鈥檚 PhD project examined how children鈥檚 word learning and memory of events are affected by seeing adults鈥� hand gestures that depict the referent of words or events to be remembered. Suzanne was nominated by her supervisor, Professor Sotaro Kita, who expects the theoretical depth of Suzanne鈥檚 studies to become very influential in the field and in whose words Suzanne 鈥渋s thinking about communicative functions of gestures in a very innovative way, going beyond the state-of-the-art understanding that gesture simply encode information and convey it to the recipient.鈥� The judging panel was very impressed by the originality and quality of Suzanne鈥檚 PhD research as well as by the high level of Suzanne鈥檚 publications that have resulted from her PhD work.

All Faculty Thesis Prize winners and their PhD supervisors will be invited to attend the Faculty of Science End of year event where they will be presented with a certificate by the Chair of the Faculty of Science.

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