Jia Ern Loy

After 10 years in academia, I finally decided it was time to say goodbye and pursue other things. I currently work as a data visualisation and front-end engineer at Agora Energiewende. I spend most of my time building web apps that let you explore and visualise climate data, and give the occasional training on how to create cool visualisations.

Previously, I did post-doc stints in Vera Demberg's lab at Saarland University and the Centre for Language Evolution at the University of Edinburgh, where I worked on topics such as individual differences and the pragmatics of communication. You can find out more about my past research here.


publications

Loy, J. E. & Demberg, V. (2023) Perspective taking reflects beliefs about partner sophistication: Modern computer partners vs. basic computer and human partners. Cognitive Science.doi.

Loy, J. E. & Demberg, V. (2023) Individual Differences in Spatial Orientation Modulate Perspective Taking in Listeners. Journal of Cognition. doi

Demberg, V., Kravtchenko, E. & Loy, J. E. (2023) A systematic evaluation of factors affecting referring expression choice in passage completion tasks. Journal of Memory and Language. doi

Loy, J. E. & Smith, K. (2021) Speakers align with their partner's overspecification during interaction. Cognitive Science. doi.

Loy, J. E. Bloomfield, S & Smith, K. (2020) Effects of priming and audience design on the explicitness of referring expressions. Discourse Processes.

King, J. P. J., Loy, J. E., Rohde, H. & Corley, M. (2020) Interpreting nonverbal cues to deception in real time. PLoS ONE. doi

Loy, J. E., Rohde, H. & Corley, M. (2019) Real-time social reasoning: the effect of disfluency on the meaning of some. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science. doi

Rabagliati, H., Corley, M., Derring, B., Hancock, P. J. B., King, J., Levitan, C. A., Loy, J. & Millen, A. E. (2019) Many Labs 5: Registered Replication Report of Crosby, Monin & Richardson (2008). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. link

Loy, J. E., Rohde, H. & Corley, M. (2018) Cues to Lying May Be Deceptive: Speaker and Listener Behaviour in an Interactive Game of Deception. Journal of Cognition. doi

King, J. P. J., Loy, J. E. & Corley, M. (2018) Contextual effects on online pragmatic inferences of deception. Discourse Processes. doi

Loy, J. E., Rohde, H & Corley, M. (2017) Effects of disfluency in online interpretation of deception. Cognitive Science. doi


conference proceedings/presentations

Mayn, A., Loy, J. E. & Demberg, V. (2024) Capable but not cooperative? Perceptions of ChatGPT as a pragmatic speaker. In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. pdf

Loy, J. E. & Demberg, V. (2024) Adaptation to Speakers is modulated by working memory updating and theory of mind--a study investigating humor comprehension. In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. pdf

Loy, J. E. & Demberg, V. (2022) Partner effects and individual differences on perspective taking. In Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. pdf

Loy, J. E. & Smith, K. (2020) Influence of partner behaviour on overspecification. In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. pdf

Smith, K., Frank, S., Rolando, S., Kirby, S. & Loy, J. E. (2020) Simple kinship systems are more learnable. In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. pdf

Saldana, C., Loy, J. E. & Smith, K. (2019) Illusory correlations and the acquisition of probabilistic linguistic variation. Poster at Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning.

Loy, J. E., Rohde, H., & Corley, M. (2016) Lying about where the treasure lies: Pragmatic cues to deception in production and comprehension. Poster at the 22nd AMLaP conference.

Loy, J., Rohde, H & Corley, M. (2016) Lying, in a manner of speaking. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 8. pdf

Loy, J. E., Rohde, H. & Corley, M. (2015) The truth about lying: Pragmatic judgements about speaker reliability are made on-line. Talk at the 21st AMLaP conference.


PhD thesis

Loy, J. E. (2018) Effects of manner of delivery in on-line pragmatic inferences. pdf (UoE archives)