Very excited about this paper I published with my former PhD students, who are brilliant researchers and scholars (and I am super proud of them!).

📣📣 A recent paper by Marie Krenger & Catherine Thevenot in JCD: "Finger Counting Is Not a Dead End: Early Finger Use as a Marker of Arithmetic Development." Results show that finger counting scaffolds the acquisition of more advanced mental arithmetic strategies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 A recent article in JCD by Gisella Decarli et al. "Relationship Between Inhibitory Skills and Numerical Momentum in Infancy" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Great news from the Science Academy’s BAGEP Awards! Our lab director, Tilbe Göksun, spoke as a newly elected member, and our former postdoc, Dilay Karadöller, received the BAGEP award. @tilbegoksun.bsky.social @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social Huge congrats to Dilay and all the awardees! 🎉

Bilim Akademisi üyesi ve 2015 BAGEP Ödülü sahibi Tilbe Göksun, Avrupa’nın en prestijli bilim topluluklarından Academia Europaea’ya seçildi. Ayrıntılar bağlantıda. @tilbegoksun.bsky.social bilimakademisi.org/yeni-uyemiz-...

Our report of variability within components of aesthetic experiences. Going Beyond Beauty: Characterizing the Complexity of Aesthetic Experiences - Estrada Gonzalez - 2026 - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - Wiley Online Library nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Here is a new intervention study from our lab on the development of math skills, in collaboration with Ece Demir-Lira from the University of Iowa, led by Begüm Yılmaz and with Dilay Karadöller and Müge Caferoğlu @begumyilmaz.bsky.social @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social @ecedemirlira.bsky.social

New study led by our PhD student Begüm Yılmaz! @begumyilmaz.bsky.social @sultankarakas.bsky.social @tilbegoksun.bsky.social @ecedemirlira.bsky.social "The Links Between Spatial and Math Skills in Preterm and Full-Term Children" @tandfresearch.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/eprint/3PWR7...

Language and Cognition Lab is ready for the new term! ☺️🎉

People form ad hoc conventions, establishing linguistic & gestural abstractions, and shift information across speech and gesture to communicate more efficiently over time. We study this in our #CHI2026 paper, led by Kiyosu Maeda with @judithfan.bsky.social @rdhawkins.bsky.social and team 🧵👇
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📣📣 A recent paper by Emily K Farran et al. in JCD: "Deconstructing Block Building Behaviours in 7- to 9-year-olds; Associations with Spatial and Mathematics Performance" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The CogSci Society would like to congratulate the brilliant Dr. Damián Blasi @damianblasi.bsky.social for being awarded the 2026 Early Career Impact Award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences @fabbs.org 👏👏👏 Learn more at cognitivesciencesociety.org/fabbs-early-...

Here is the first published paper of 2026 in JEP: General led by Demet & Efe! Very happy about this EEG paper in which we assessed temporal dynamics of speech and gesture processing in L1 and L2! @kudilvebilis.bsky.social psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Check out our new paper about children’s multimodal imitation, which has been published in the special issue “Multimodal language, communication and thinking” (eds. @tilbegoksun.bsky.social @ecedemirlira.bsky.social) in Cognitive Development

Last week, we welcomed Mert Kobaş, a former master’s student in our lab, who shared his doctoral research at New York University (NYU). Thank you, Mert! 🥳

New article led by our PhD student İbrahim Akkan on how gestures and L2 speech relate to emotional autobiographical memory narration! @ibrahimakkan.bsky.social @caglaaydin.bsky.social @sgulgoz.bsky.social @tilbegoksun.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1747...

New study led by Aslı Aktan-Erciyes and Tilbe Göksun! @aslierciyes.bsky.social @tilbegoksun.bsky.social "Narrative development in L1-Turkish children: A longitudinal examination of L2-English immersion effects" bit.ly/4sj9QOM

Lab direktörümüz Tilbe Göksun'un Bilim Akademisi'ne asli üye olarak seçildiğini duyurmaktan mutluluk duyuyoruz! @bilimakademisi.bsky.social We are proud to announce that our PI Tilbe Göksun has been elected to the Science Academy (Bilim Akademisi)! @tilbegoksun.bsky.social

28 Kasım 2025’te gerçekleşen Bilim Akademisi Genel Kurulunda 16 yeni asli üye seçildi. Detaylar bağlantıda. bilimakademisi.org/bilim-akadem...

Our brain wiring seems to undergo four major turning points at ages 9, 32, 66 and 83, which could influence our capacity to learn and our risk of certain conditions

Our new paper in Cognitive Science, led by Can! @canavci.bsky.social "Assessing Others’ Knowledge Through Their Speech Disfluencies and Gestures" Cognitive Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @kudilvebilis.bsky.social

What enables human language? A biocultural framework. New paper by Inbal Arnon & al. with @limorraviv.bsky.social , @profsimonfisher.bsky.social doi.org/10.1126/science.adq8303

A very useful review and update on the anatomic infratstructure for language: "Brain structural networks underlying language" by Angela Friederici journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...

📣📣 A recent paper by Abigail Wolff et al. in JCD: "Cultural Constructions of Parent–Child Spatial Interactions: Journal of Cognition and Development" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Join APS on November 5 for a free workshop on science writing and storytelling. Learn tips for engaging and accessible science communication and make sure to bring your questions! #SciComm #AcademicSky https://instats.org/seminar/science-writing-and-storytelling

🚨 New publication: How to improve conceptual clarity in psychological science? Thrilled to see this article with @ruimata.bsky.social out. We discuss how LLMs can be leveraged to map, clarify, and generate psychological measures and constructs. Open access article: doi.org/10.1177/0963...

Published today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess

Know someone whose excellence in research and contributions to the CogSci community should be recognized? Nominate them to be a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society! Deadline: Nov 1 More info: cognitivesciencesociety.org/fellows/

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words. The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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