language & cognition (http://lclab.ku.edu.tr), faculty member @ Koç University - Istanbul, Turkey http://www.tilbegoksunyoruk.com/
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New publication from L&C Lab led by our former member Gyulten Hyusein and our PI Tilbe Göksun! @gyultenhyusein.bsky.social @tilbegoksun.bsky.social "The Role of Non-Representational Hand Gestures in Creative Thinking" Read the article 👇 www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/10...
A recent work from our lab on creativity & gestures by Gulten! @gyultenhyusein.bsky.social Take-home message: Non-representational gestures do not facilitate and might even hurt creativity
The original paper can be reached from here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Here is our take on Scaff et al.'s recent paper: Diversity as a Core Feature of Language Acquisition onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @aslierciyes.bsky.social
📣📣 A recent paper by Hawes et al. at JCD: How Language Influences Thought: The Case of Multiplying Fractions @zackhawes.bsky.social @hannahwhitehead.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Sad but true. Lessons here though. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Wonderful work by Begüm from our lab on gesture, speech disfluency, and metacognition! @begumyilmaz.bsky.social
This year we attended #cogsci2025 with a talk and a poster! Our alumni Demet Özer gave a talk on her recent work with Tilbe Göksun @tilbegoksun.bsky.social and our graduate student Can Ceylan @scanceylan.bsky.social presented his poster on the relationship between gestures and emotions!
Huge congratulations to the brilliant Nora Newcombe, recipient of the 2025 David E. Rumelhart Prize! 🏅#CogSci2025
Highlight of the CogSci 2025 - Amazing Rumelhart Prize Talk by Nora Newcombe! @noranewcombe.bsky.social @cogscisociety.bsky.social
You may also check recent work by Ezgi Mamus et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @ezgimamus.bsky.social
Recent paper from our lab led by Işıl: Early parental multimodal input is differentially associated with later vocabulary knowledge for preterm & full-term infants @ecedemirlira.bsky.social @aslierciyes.bsky.social @mkobas.bsky.social @kudilvebilis.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We attended the 10th International Society for Gesture Studies Conference with 2 talks and 2 posters! 🎉
We congratulate our alumni and graduate students, and thank @isgs2025.bsky.social for this engaging conference! @tilbegoksun.bsky.social @gyultenhyusein.bsky.social @begumyilmaz.bsky.social
Our PI Tilbe Göksun @tilbegoksun.bsky.social was a keynote speaker at the 10th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies! 🎉 We thank @isgs2025.bsky.social for this amazing organization!
Finishing ISGS with a wonderful keynote talk from Lorna! @lornaquandt.bsky.social
We are beginning Day 2 with Johanna Mesch’s great keynote on tactile adaptations of gestures and emotions in deafblind communication #ISGS2025 @meschjoo.bsky.social
Full room for Tilbe Göksun’s keynote on multifunctionality of gesture processing & use with an individual differences approach #ISGS2025 @tilbegoksun.bsky.social
Thanks a lot, Lorna! I am so happy to see you!
Erica Cartmill is giving the first keynote on gestures of apes and children #isgs2025
#isgs2025 ISGS has started in Nijmegen! So excited to be here!
In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
Here is a recent paper from our lab on how spatial metaphors of time and gestures elicit temporal gestures in a second language! The study was led by my fabulous former graduate student Emir! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
New article from L&C lab led by Gyulten Hyusein @gyultenhyusein.bsky.social & Tilbe Göksun @tilbegoksun.bsky.social! 🎉🎉 Read the article through the link below 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Symposia, keynotes, workshops, and more! The full #CogSci2025 program is now available! Start planning your trip to San Francisco! 🌉 cognitivesciencesociety.org/program/
New publication from L&C Lab led by Can Ceylan @scanceylan.bsky.social, Demet Özer, and Tilbe Göksun @tilbegoksun.bsky.social! 🥳 "Retellings of emotional videos: the dynamics of gesture characteristics in diverse emotion categories" Read the article 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📣📣 A recent paper by Nicholas A. Vest and colleagues: Does Focusing on the Unit of Change Help Children Learn Growing Pattern Skills? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @nicholasvest.bsky.social @marthaalibali.bsky.social
Congrats to our post-doc student Gyulten Hyusein and our graduate students Can Avcı, Kardelen Koç, Dilay Falay, and Deniz Nur Köken! @gyultenhyusein.bsky.social @canavci.bsky.social @dilafalay.bsky.social @deniznurkoken.bsky.social
Very sorry to learn of the passing of LouAnn Gerken, who had such an impact on our understanding of the acquisition of speech sounds and sound patterns obits.mlive.com/us/obituarie...
doi.org/10.1162/opmi... Very cool paper on the effect of gravity on gestures (especially in the vertical direction) and speech prosody
@jpsociety.bsky.social JPS has started with a keynote by Michele Grossen.
New results! Different anesthetics, same result: unconsciousness by shifting brainwave phase MIT study finds that an easily measurable brain wave shift may be a universal marker of unconsciousness under anesthesia picower.mit.edu/news/differe... #neuroscience
📣📣 A recent paper by Dilay Karadöller, Ece Demir-Lira, & Tilbe Göksun: Full-Term Children with Lower Vocabulary Scores Receive More Multimodal Math Input Than Preterm Children www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social @ecedemirlira.bsky.social @tilbegoksun.bsky.social
#APSGlobal is October 21-23. Join us from anywhere in the world for three days of in-depth scientific exchanges designed to strengthen global connections, create meaningful scientific dialogue, and confront the barriers impacting global science – all without travel. Submit your research by June 17
We're launching a new webinar series! Cognitive Science: Perspectives for Higher Education ✨ Join us May 7🗓️ to hear about the future of #CogSci education, from interdisciplinary challenges to innovative teaching and research. Learn more and register at cognitivesciencesociety.org/higher-educa...
9. Bilişsel Deneysel Psikoloji Sempozyumu bildiri özeti başvuru formu açıldı! Son bildiri özeti gönderimi tarihi 11 Haziran! Linkten başvurunuzu tamamlayabilirsiniz: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
11-12 Eylül tarihlerinde Koç Üniversitesi'nde gerçekleşecek olan 9. Deneysel Bilişsel Psikoloji Sempozyumu detaylarını öğrenmek için takipte kalın! 🎉
📣📣 Check out this commentary by Vikram Jaswal et al.: "The Future of Cognitive Development in Challenging Times" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Co-speech hand gestures are used to predict upcoming meaning. New paper by @marlijnterbekke.bsky.social , @lindadrijvers.bsky.social & @judithholler.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/09567976251331041
📣📣 Check out the special issue on "Delay of gratification: What have we learned after more than 50 years?" co-edited by Ulrich Mueller & Caitlin Mahy: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu... Interested researchers can submit a 1000-word abstract by May 31, 2025.
📣📣 A recent paper by Ebru Ger, Paul Ibbotson & Tilbe Göksun on "The Relationship Between Cognitive and Morphological Skills: Evidence from Turkish Kindergarten Children." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @tilbegoksun.bsky.social
Unfortunately, the NSF grant that supports our work has been terminated. This is a setback, but our mission has not changed. We will continue to work hard on making cognitive science a more inclusive field. Stay tuned for upcoming events.
Here is the latest paper from our lab led by my former amazing graduate student Mert: Spatial language development in preterm and full-term infants: The role of object exploration and parents’ spatial input @mkobas.bsky.social @ecedemirlira.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📣📣 A recent article in JCD by Annette Sundqvist et al.: "Beyond Words and Time: Investigating the Association Between Screen Use, Vocabulary and Grammar Development in Five-Year-Olds" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Our commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek paper: "Promoting a multimodal first language acquisition framework" @ecedemirlira.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/eprint/9PHBG... @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social @asliozyurek.bsky.social
I'm now searching for new PhD students who are interested in studying how people's brains understand sequences of images like in comics. So, a mix of comics, cogneuro (EEG), and psycholinguistics (especially syntax/semantics). Please circulate to all who might be interested! tiu.nu/22739
Acceptance notifications for #CogSci2025 have been sent! 📨 This year, we got 1,275 submissions. After careful peer review, we accepted: • 176 for oral presentation • 721 for poster with full publication • 203 for poster with abstract only 🎉 Got in? Tag us — we’d love to repost!
📣📣 In a recent paper Hongyang Zhao and colleagues examined individual differences in attention to analogical relations in children from the US and showed that relational attention is a key mechanism for learning. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I am calling on all #devpsyc colleagues to condemn & speak out about the abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk by the US govt on March 25, 2025. She is a developmental psychology graduate. #childpsyc #developmentalpsyc #lifespanpsyc #acadmicsky #childrenandyouth @srcdorg.bsky.social @issbd.bsky.social
📣📣 A recent paper by Jonet Artis and colleagues at JCD: "Personal Pronoun Comprehension in Addressed and Non-Addressed Situations in Autistic and Nonautistic Preschoolers" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A recent paper led by my wonderful graduate student İbrahim!@aslierciyes.bsky.social @ecedemirlira.bsky.social @kudilvebilis.bsky.social "Narratives of preterm and full‐term preschool‐aged children: Analyses of different narrative dimensions" bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We're pleased to announce an in-person event celebrating 25 years of the Rumelhart Prize at #CogSci2025 Join us to celebrate the impact of the Rumelhart Prize on Cognitive Science! 🗓️ July 30, 2025 📍The Internet Archive, San Francisco Learn more at cognitivesciencesociety.org/rumelhart-25...
📣📣 A recent paper in JCD "Children Infer Intentions by Assessing Epistemic Attitudes in Interpersonal Interactions." Nina Ni Ye & Xiao Pan Ding showed that children pay attention to interpersonal interactions when making trustworthiness judgments www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New publication alert from our former post-doc Dilay Karadöller, Ece Demir-Lira & Tilbe Göksun! @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social @ecedemirlira.bsky.social @tilbegoksun.bsky.social Read the article 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📣📣 A recently published registered report in JCD by Samuel Essler, Johannes Bullinger, & Markus Paulus: "The Development of Redistributive Justice in Response to Individually and Structurally Based Inequalities" @johannesbullinger.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A new review/discussion paper based on my keynote talk at the European Conference on Developmental Psychology in 2023: "Variations in early relational vocabulary development: How do children become language-specific users?" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📣📣 A recent study published in JCD by Naoko Nakamichi found that 4-5-year-old children remember foods disliked by others better than foods liked by others! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Participate in the CDS Mentorship Program as a mentee, mentor or both! Mentees at the graduate student, postdoc, and faculty level are also encouraged to serve as mentors for more junior mentees. Application deadline: March 31 cogdevsoc.org/cds-me...
Multifaceted nature of early vocabulary development: Connecting child characteristics with parental input types. Final version by Tilbe Göksun & al. @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12524 Paper: tinyurl.com/4kut2n9s
Gabriella Vigliocco (@gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social) discusses in her #AbralinTalk the role of perception, action & emotion in language. Her research shows that multimodal experiences—gestures, facial expressions & sensorimotor cues—support learning & communication. #langsky #linguistics
📣📣 Check out a recent article on "Theory of Mind Development in Middle Childhood and Adolescence" by Qiuyi Kong and colleagues in JCD! Both ToM accuracy and preference for mental state reasoning continue to develop from middle childhood to adulthood. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Excellent piece by Vera Kempe on "Scholarship Under Autocracy"
The Cognitive Science Society's Broadening Participation Grant is entering its 3rd year, funding initiatives that expand global participation in Cognitive Science! We're excited to share updates on our 2024 recipients—each with a dedicated blog post. Follow along! 🧵👇 #CogSci
📣📣 A recent article in the Journal of Cognition Development! How Often Do Verbs Co-occur with Relevant Events? Examining Parent and Toddler Speech in Latin America and the US by Priscilla Tovar-Perez et al. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📣📣 A recent article in the Journal of Cognition Development! Emily Foster Hanson, Katherine M. Ziska & Marjorie Rhodes found that common conceptual biases from cultural input may shape U.S. children’s idealized biological prototypes @marjorierhodes.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Our recent paper led by Demet Özer with Aslı Özyürek! @asliozyurek.bsky.social @kudilvebilis.bsky.social Spatial working memory is critical for gesture processing: Evidence from gestures with varying semantic links to speech link.springer.com/article/10.3...
📣📣 Check out a recent article published in the Journal of Cognition Development by Jessica N. Steil & Claudia K. Friedrich! 2-year-olds link nouns to typical space (e.g., moon to an upward space), showing early language-space associations! #language #space www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A thread explaining our new discovery about humpback whale song published today in Science... We found key statistical properties that characterise all human languages in another species for the first time. We have more in common with whales than we previously thought! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Romano et al. (2025): modelling short phrases w/ gestures ⬆️ likelihood of pointing specifically and gestures overall but modelling short phrases w/o gestures ⬇️ likelihood of any infant gesture in 11-25mo infants #PsychSciSky #DevPsySky #EarlyYears #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...
Huge congratulations to Tim Rogers, recipient of the 2025 Jeffrey L. Elman Prize for Scientific Achievement and Community Building! This honor will be celebrated at #CogSci2025 with a prize and dedicated symposium. Visit the #ElmanPrize page for more cognitivesciencesociety.org/elman-prize/
🗣️ Language is widely distributed throughout the brain 🧠 In a recent correspondence in @natrevneurosci.bsky.social, we suggest that there is no 'language network' in the brain. What appears as such is an inevitable illusion created in part by the methods we use. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Fellowships for non-UK scientists who want to come to the UK. Happy to chat to postdocs who want to visit my lab @oxexppsy.bsky.social www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...
I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔
Tip from a journal editor: if you are late on a review, ask for an extension so we know when to expect it and so we can adjust those annoying auto reminders. I almost always would rather have a late review than no review.
Join us as we celebrate Ruth Byrne, Seana Coulson, Adele Goldberg, Arthur Graesser, Ping Li, and Asli Ozyurek – our esteemed ✨Cognitive Science Society Fellows of 2025!✨ Visit cognitivesciencesociety.org/fellows to learn more!
Ending the year with another paper from our lab. This was part of my amazing MA student Şeref's thesis at our lab with a great team! @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social @turaneylul.bsky.social Sources of variation in preschoolers’ relational reasoning: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Our research team for 2024-2025, including our principal investigator (PI) Prof. Tilbe Göksun, undergraduate students, and graduate students!
A new paper from our lab on math development led by my amazing grad student Begüm in collaboration with Ece's lab!
A new paper with Ece's lab! "The relation of verbal and nonverbal skills to basic numerical processing of preterm versus term-born preschoolers" @ecedemirlira.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The Manybabies4 paper is out! Infants' Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large-Scale, Multi-Lab, Coordinated Replication Study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 1000 babies tested in 37 labs; "Overall, 49.34% of infants preferred Helpers over Hinderers in the social condition"
New publication alert from our lab led by Işıl Doğan, Demet Özer, Aslı Aktan-Erciyes, Reyhan Furman, Ece Demir-Lira, Şeyda Özçalışkan and Tilbe Göksun! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
So true... And even when we have a native English speaker as co-author (and they proofread the paper), we still get the comment of "the paper needs English proofreading" ...
The thing about studying gestures is that I notice them everywhere, even in podcasts. I've started collecting examples of people referring to their gestures in podcasts, if you notice any - send them my way! https://www.superlinguo.com/post/659622302480318464/gestures-in-podcasting
Come join us as a post-doc on NWO project 'Multimodal Signalling in Face-to-Face Communication' 😃 at the Donders Centre for Cognition. Deadline 8th December! Dutch language proficiency required. ru.varbi.com/what:job/job...
Is perceptual novelty important in your research? We created, standardised, and validated a database of truly novel perceptual stimuli (matched to BOSS objects on size, contrast, luminance & colourfulness) so you don't have to! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #cogpsy #psychology #EEG #neuroskyence
Here is the gesture researchers starter pack!
Marimon et al. (2024): German-learning infants rely on prosodic cues than transitional probs for speech seg'n by 6mos; infants showed no seg'n when prosodic cues absent, highlighting early imptance of lang-specific prosody > stat'l cues #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...
Ece Demir-Lira (@ecedemirlira.bsky.social) and I will guest edit a special issue on “Multimodal language, communication, and thinking” for the journal Cognitive Development. We accept letters of intent for both theoretical and empirical papers by Jan 15, 2025! www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Here is our latest paper! Agreed that this is a dream team to work with 😍
Nominate a psych grad student to give a talk at Princeton, expenses paid! Nominate yourself or a colleague here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Priority given to non-ivy schools and students from diverse backgrounds
So happy for this! Yay! Congrats Nora! @noranewcombe.bsky.social
Excited for CogSci!
My brilliant graduate student Emir has a new paper in Cognitive Science on "Temporal gestures in different temporal perspectives"! @emirakb.bsky.social @kudilvebilis.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Congrats Leher, wonderful news!
Excited to (finally!) share the published version of my 15-part, amply illustrated, curio-packed essay on the human pointing gesture. In short: pointing contains multitudes. journals.lub.lu.se/pjos/article...
Huge congratulations to @asifamajid.bsky.social, recipient of the 2024 Jeffrey L. Elman Prize for Scientific Achievement and Community Building! This honor will be celebrated at #CogSci2024 with a prize and dedicated symposium. Visit cognitivesciencesociety.org/elman-prize/ for more.
Meet the winners of the 2023 CogSci #MindChallenge 🥇Ilina Bhaya-Grossman and Deb Levy, from UCSF 🥈 John Hollander, from the University of Memphis 🥉 Alex Carstensen, from Arizona State University, and Anjie Cao & Sarah Wu, from Stanford 🌟 Qi Guo, from UC Berkeley Check out their videos! 🤩👇
We’re looking for an 🌟Outreach Coordinator🌟 to help us make #CogSci accessible to non-experts, particularly targeting those at high school and early undergraduate level from under-represented communities. Visit cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-jobs/ to learn more! #CogSciJobs
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And here it is for your Spring Adoption! If you are teaching Infancy, Infant Development, or Early Childhood, in the Spring term, check out our new text. Request a review copy here: us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/in... #devsci #developmentalpsychology #infantdevelopment