Conversation Lab

“Conversation is one of nature’s most complex phenomena."

Professor Sophie Scott, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL, Speech & Communication Author

Our Laboratory identifies the key problems throughout each stage of conversation, uncovering possible solutions via collaboration and R&D.

What?

Read our blog

Read our blog

Podcast coming soon

Podcast coming soon

Academic network

To do this, we work with academics and institutions specialising in conversation not just as a random happening, but as a field and a science.

Alongside a network of conversation analysts, cognitive and neuroscientists, phonetics experts, audience experts, voice artists, creative technologists, we explore the past, present and future of conversation.

Harry Yeff (this&that Co-Founder) & Nokia Bell Labs, Second Self & Vocal Twin

Our studies

this&that + Harvard Business School, Equity & Empowerment Study 2021

Assessing the beneficial effects of using our Beta tool in the visual moderation and planning of group discussions, on generating speaker empowerment and equity.

Read the full paper here.

Talk to us

Have a research interest in conversation? Do you often talk about talking? Or pondered conversation linguistically, historically, visually or stylistically?

If so, talk to us.