New review paper led by our PI Tilbe Göksun, Demet Özer, Burcu Arslan, Gyulten Hyusein, and Emir Akbuğa! @tilbegoksun.bsky.social @gyultenhyusein.bsky.social "Gesture Use Across Different Concepts: Focusing on Cross‐Linguistic Diversity" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our MA student Kardelen Koç presented her recent work at the Congress of International Association of Empirical Aesthetics in Jena, Germany (May 5–8). Congratulations Kardelen! 🎉

Our master's student Kardelen Koç has been accepted to PhD in Psychology at George Mason University! Congrats Kardelen!🍀

Our master's student Can Ceylan has been accepted to PhD in Psychology at the University of Toronto! Congrats Can! 🎊 @scanceylan.bsky.social

Yesterday, we hosted Prof. Sotaro Kita @sotarokita.bsky.social from the University of Warwick at Koç University @kocuniversity.bsky.social! Dr. Kita gave a presentation on hand gestures, language, and thought. Thank you for this great talk!

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! 🎉

We hosted @ydkisa.bsky.social at our lab meeting this week, who is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at the Max Planck Institute! Yağmur worked as an undergraduate assistant at L&C Lab. Thank you for this great presentation, Yağmur!

New study led by our PhD student Begüm Yılmaz! @begumyilmaz.bsky.social @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social Müge Caferoğlu @tilbegoksun.bsky.social @ecedemirlira.bsky.social "Parental gestural math input and children's math skills: An intervention study" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We are happy to announce that our PI Tilbe Göksun @TilbeGoksun.bsky.social has been elected to Academia Europaea (@acad-euro.bsky.social)! 🎊

Language and Cognition Lab is now accepting applications for Koç University Summer Research Program! 🎓✨ Open to both undergraduate and graduate students 🗓️ Application deadline: 15 May 2026 🔗 More info & apply: research.ku.edu.tr/research-out...

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! ☺️🎉

At our final meeting of the fall semester, we had the pleasure of hosting Merve Tansan, a former undergraduate researcher at the L&C Lab. Merve presented her doctoral and postdoctoral research conducted at Temple University. Many thanks to Merve for such a great talk! 🥳

New study led by Demet Özer and Efe Soyman! @tilbegoksun.bsky.social "Distinct Temporal Dynamics of Speech and Gesture Processing: Insights From Event-Related Potentials Across L1 and L2" Read the open-access article! 👇 psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

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...

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 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

Last week, we were delighted to host Dr. Can Çarkoğlu, a former undergraduate assistant in our lab. He presented his doctoral research at Purdue University and is now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago!

Last week, we hosted Salih Özdemir, who completed his MA at L&C Lab! Salih shared his ongoing doctoral research at the University of California, San Diego. Thank you Salih for this amazing talk! 🥳

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

Last week, we hosted Işıl Doğan, who completed her MA at the L&C Lab! Işıl shared her ongoing doctoral research at the University of California, Davis. Thank you Işıl for this great talk! 🥳

New article led by our PhD student Can Avcı! @canavci.bsky.social @tilbegoksun.bsky.social Demet Özer Terry Eskenazi “Assessing Others’ Knowledge Through Their Speech Disfluencies and Gestures” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Last week, we hosted Erim Kızıldere, who completed his MA at the L&C Lab! He shared his ongoing doctoral research at the University of California, Davis. Thank you Erim for a truly insightful and engaging discussion! 🥳

Last week, we hosted Dr. Emir Akbuğa, who completed both his MA and PhD at L&C Lab! He presented his doctoral research along with the exciting projects he is currently conducting at Lund University. Thank you for this wonderful presentation! 🥳

Our lab member Dila Falay has successfully defended her master’s thesis titled "Handing out novel metaphors: Gesture use in explanations by L1-Turkish and L2-English Bilinguals.” Congratulations Dila! 🥳 @dilafalay.bsky.social

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

One of our recent studies on speech disfluencies, gestures, and metacognition is now featured on the Cognitive Science Society blog! 🎉

Our PhD students İbrahim Akkan and Begüm Yılmaz presented their recent research at the 9th Lancaster International Conference on Infant and Early Child Development! Congratulations 🎉 @ibrahimakkan.bsky.social @begumyilmaz.bsky.social

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...

Super excited to share our new multimodal corpus analysis, "Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures" 🥳 Project led by our PhD student Ell Wilding and in collab w/ @jeannettel.bsky.social & @mperlman.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/cogs...

New Publication with @tilbegoksun.bsky.social @kudilvebilis.bsky.social 🎉 Our study examines beat & palm-revealing gestures during creative thinking. mdpi.com/2226-471X/10... Surprisingly, these gestures, unlike representational ones, may not always help creativity and sometimes even hinder it.

Spatial and social cognition jointly determine multimodal demonstrative reference: Experimental evidence from Turkish and Spanish. New paper by Paula Rubio-Fernandez, @madeleinelong.bsky.social & @asliozyurek.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

Our position paper is now out: "Learning Variability Network Exchange (LEVANTE): A Global Framework for Measuring Children's Learning Variability Through Collaborative Data Sharing". srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...) What is LEVANTE? 🧵

Our 6-week summer research program has come to an end! We’re grateful to our incredible high school and undergraduate assistants for their dedication and hard work throughout the program 🎉✨

New publication from L&C Lab led by our PhD student Begüm Yılmaz in collaboration with Reyhan Furman, Tilbe Göksun, and Terry Eskenazi! @begumyilmaz.bsky.social @reyhanfurman.bsky.social @tilbegoksun.bsky.social Read the article 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Salih Can Özdemir, who completed his master’s degree in our lab and is currently pursuing his PhD at the University of California, San Diego, has been elected as a Graduate Student Representative on the Cognitive Science Society Board! @cogscisociety.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!

Brilliant keynote by @laurennross.bsky.social at #cogsci2025 on cognitive science and its philosophy. Lauren pointed out the myriad ways in which cogsci and philosophy support and benefit one another, using explanation and causal reasoning as case studies. Thank you for a great talk!! 🙏

Susan Carey mic-drop at #cogsci2025. "There are no innate concepts: Discuss"

Happy to share that the chapter that I co-authored for Advances in Child Development and Behavior is in press today! 🎉 The chapter focuses on children's spatial thinking assessments and contains a lot of the underpinnings of my dissertation work. You can read it here:

❗️New Open Access paper out 📝 Multimodal Skills, but Not Motor Skills, Predict Narrative and Expressive Pragmatic Skills in Children With Typical Development and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

New study alert from L&C Lab led by our former lab member Işıl Doğan! @mkobas.bsky.social @aslierciyes.bsky.social @ecedemirlira.bsky.social @tilbegoksun.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We attended the 10th International Society for Gesture Studies Conference with 2 talks and 2 posters! 🎉

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!

New study alert from L&C Lab led by our former graduate student Emir Akbuğa and our PI Tilbe Göksun! @tilbegoksun.bsky.social “Spatial metaphors of time elicit more temporal gestures in second language” Read the article 👇🏼 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...

Today, we had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Ece Demir-Lira @ecedemirlira.bsky.social, director of DEN Lab at the University of Iowa, for a talk titled “An Introduction to Two-Person Neuroscience: Theory and Practice”!🧠

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....

We presented our recent work at 11th International Symposium on Brain and Cognitive Science (ISBCS)!

We participated in the 54th Jean Piaget Meeting with one talk and three poster presentations! Congratulations to our PhD students Begüm Yılmaz @begumyilmaz.bsky.social and İbrahim Akkan @ibrahimakkan.bsky.social, and our master’s student Sultan Karakaş @sultankarakas.bsky.social ✨