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 ✨

New study alert from our former lab member Mert Kobaş, Ece Demir-Lira, and our PI Tilbe Göksun! @ecedemirlira.bsky.social @tilbegoksun.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A new study from L&C Lab led by our PhD student İbrahim Akkan! @aslierciyes.bsky.social @ecedemirlira.bsky.social @tilbegoksun.bsky.social "Narratives of preterm and full-term preschool-aged children: Analyses of different narrative dimensions" bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A new paper led by our PI Tilbe Göksun! @tilbegoksun.bsky.social "Variations in early relational vocabulary development: How do children become language-specific users?" www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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....

Inaugural post on bsky: The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus, providing audiovisual recordings and annotations of multimodal communicative behaviours by English-speaking adults in dyadic interaction with a child or another adult is now available rdcu.be/eblMF

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

New study from L&C Lab led by Demet Özer, Aslı Özyürek, and Tilbe Göksun! @tilbegoksun.bsky.social @asliozyurek.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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...

Our PI, Tilbe Göksun, will give a keynote speech at ISGS 2025 @isgs2025.bsky.social! Stay tuned for the conference 🎉

New paper out of the lab! Can Carkoglu investigated the different ways parents respond to children's math errors (and correct responses). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our previous PhD student, Dr. Emir Akbuğa, will continue his postdoc at Lund University, Sweden! Congrats Emir! 🥳

New paper from our lab led by our former MA student Şeref Esmer, Eylül Turan, Dilay Karadöller, and our PI Tilbe Göksun! @turaneylul.bsky.social @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social @tilbegoksun.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A new paper led by Begüm Yılmaz and Tilbe Göksun in collaboration with Işıl Doğan, Dilay Karadöller, and Ece Demir-Lira has been published in Cognitive Development! @begumyilmaz.bsky.social @tilbegoksun.bsky.social @ecedemirlira.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our research team for 2024-2025, including our principal investigator (PI) Prof. Tilbe Göksun, undergraduate students, and graduate students!

Our lab member Hazal Civelek has successfully defended her master’s thesis titled "Emotional Language and Gesture Production of Preschoolers"! Congratulations Hazal 🥳 We also thank her thesis committee members Tilbe Göksun (advisor), Aylin Küntay, and Aslı-Aktan Erciyes for their contributions ✨

A new study by Isabelle Farmer, Paige Nelson, @tilbegoksun.bsky.social and @ecedemirlira.bsky.social on the relation of verbal and nonverbal skills to basic numerical processing of preterm versus term-born preschoolers! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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/...