Although emoji interpretation has been widely studied, there is less that has provided a systematic investigation of how interpretation may be influenced by native language of the receiver. If emoji have key psycholinguistic functions (which we are pretty sure they do), it makes sense that their interpretation will be bound by linguistic and cultural influences. Led by dissertation student Aleks Bogdeva, we replicated the work of Scheffler and Nenchev (2024) but specifically

Team Emoji has been gracing a number of conferences recently. At the start of July, we were at the British Psychological Society's Cyberpsychology Section conference on the beautiful grounds of York St John University. Team Emoji (from left to right): Lee Hurley, Rebecca Fuller, Sneha Thomas and Linda Kaye In attendance at the conference was Team Emoji PI, Professor Linda Kaye, as well as Lee Hurley and Edge Hill University interns, Sneha Thomas and Rebecca Fuller. We were es

Do we draw on sensory information when perceiving emoji? The short answer is, yes! Team Emoji and I have been exploring how we perceive concepts represented in emoji based on different sensory modalities such as vision, smell, taste and so on. Our research is a replication of the Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms research led by our collaborator Dr Dermot Lynott, which gathered measures of sensorimotor strength for 39,707 concepts represented in English words. But instead, we are