Our PI Tilbe Göksun was a keynote speaker at IEEE ICDL Conference held in Prague with her talk on the links between spatial cognition and multimodal language! @tilbegoksun.bsky.social @ieee-icdl.bsky.social

I am over the moon to see that my wonderful PhD advisor, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, received the APS Mentor Award. She is absolutely the best, and I am honored to be her mentee 💙

Why does a speech pause make us doubt, but a hand gesture make us sure? 🤔🧠 Find the answer on the @cogscisociety.bsky.social blog! cognitivesciencesociety.org/why-does-a-s... w/ @reyhanfurman.bsky.social, @tilbegoksun.bsky.social, and Terry Eskenazi @kudilvebilis.bsky.social

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

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

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

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

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