Here is a new paper I wrote with Aykut Coşkun and Anjan Chatterjee for the COPSY Special Issue on "Psychology of Art" @anjanchatterjee.bsky.social “Looking at artifacts”: The development of visual aesthetic preferences www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Following the vote of the IASCL Executive Board, the IASCL is pleased to announce the 2027-2030 IASCL Officers (www.childlanguage.org/officers#off...). Congratulations to: - President: Aylin Küntay (Turkey) - Vice-President: Mele Taumoepeau (New Zealand) - Treasurer: Gary Morgan (Spain) (2ndTerm)

How many languages have existed over the Holocene—and what does that reveal about the design space of languages and cultures? Now out in @science.org www.science.org/eprint/QDZNY....

The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene

Characterizing the factors that have shaped linguistic diversity is fundamental for understanding human history, culture, and cognition. In this study, we combined statistical and social computational...

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This week, we were delighted to host Assoc. Prof. Ece Demir-Lira @ecedemirlira.bsky.social from the University of Iowa. She presented her research titled "New Perspectives on Home Math Environment and Neurocognitive Pathways of Numerical Development." Thank you for this inspiring talk! 🌿

We are delighted to welcome the research assistants joining our lab as part of Koç University Summer Research Program. We look forward to a productive and rewarding summer together 🌿

📣📣 A recent paper by Cindy Chiang & Toben H. Mintz: "Uh, What Did You Say? Children’s Parsing Preferences are Altered by Experience with Disfluent Sentences" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Uh, What Did You Say? Children’s Parsing Preferences are Altered by Experience with Disfluent Sentences

Children can be primed to anticipate a recently heard sentence structure. This is more likely to occur when the structures of the primes are unlikely, or surprising, for a given context. The disflu...

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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!).

Koc University Language & Cognition Lab@kudilvebilis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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/...

📣📣 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....

Finger Counting Is Not a Dead End: Early Finger Use as a Marker of Arithmetic Development

Finger counting is recognized as a valuable tool that supports young children in performing arithmetic tasks. However, concerns have been raised about whether this practice traps children in immatu...

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📣📣 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....

Relationship Between Inhibitory Skills and Numerical Momentum in Infancy

Infants as young as 9 months demonstrate both inhibitory control, as revealed by the Spatial Negative Priming (SNP) effect, and numerical biases, such as the Operational Momentum (OM) effect – an o...

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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-...

Yeni üyemiz Tilbe Göksun’a uluslararası onur: Academia Europaea - Bilim Akademisi

Bilim Akademisi üyesi ve 2015 BAGEP ödülü sahibi Tilbe Göksun, Avrupa’nın en prestijli bilim topluluklarından Academia Europaea’ya seçildi. Koç Üniversitesi Psikoloji Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi Tilbe Göksun...

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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/...

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Aesthetic experience extends beyond beauty and liking. Using a structured taxonomy of emotional and cognitive impacts, we measured agreement in responses to artworks. Additionally, we tested such agr...

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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

Koc University Language & Cognition Lab@kudilvebilis.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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...

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...

The Links Between Spatial and Math Skills in Preterm and Full-Term Children

The current study investigated the link between subdomains of spatial and math skills in preschool-aged full-term and preterm-born children. We assessed 238 English-speaking children living in the ...

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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....

Deconstructing Block Building Behaviours in 7- to 9-year-olds; Associations with Spatial and Mathematics Performance

Block construction performance is related to mathematics and block construction training leads to improvement in mathematics. However, block construction is a complex task, and it is unknown which ...

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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

Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G)@grepgupf.bsky.social · 7mo ago

❗️New paper out (OA) 📝 Multimodal imitation reveals differences in typically developing children and children with neurodevelopmental disorders 📕 Cognitive Development 👥 @juliafloritpons.bsky.social, Mariia Pronina, @saracoegom.bsky.social and Pilar Prieto 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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...

Talking Hands, Shifting Tongues: How Does the Use of Co-speech Gestures and Second Language Relate to Emotional Autobiographical Memory Narration? - İbrahim Akkan, Cagla Aydin, Sami Gülgöz, Tilbe Göks...

Gestures can play a role in narrating emotionally valenced autobiographical events, particularly in second language use. We investigated how hand gestures, phen...

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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...

Bilim Akademisinin yeni üyeleri (Kasım 2025) - Bilim Akademisi

28 Kasım 2025’te gerçekleşen Genel Kurulda Bilim Akademisine 16 yeni asli üye seçildi. Ali Fuat Kalyoncu – Allerji ve İmmünolojik Hastalıklar, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Arzucan Özgür – Bilgisayar Mühendi...

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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

Your brain undergoes four dramatic periods of change from age 0 to 90

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

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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

Assessing Others’ Knowledge Through Their Speech Disfluencies and Gestures

As part of the multimodal language system, gestures play a vital role for listeners, by capturing attention and providing information. Similarly, disfluencies serve as a cue for the listeners about o...

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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

What enables human language? A biocultural framework

Explaining the origins of language is a key challenge in understanding ourselves as a species. We present an empirical framework that draws on synergies across fields to facilitate robust studies of l...

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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...

Brain structural networks underlying language | Physiological Reviews | American Physiological Society

The unique human ability to process complex language requires the interaction of multiple brain areas located in the inferior frontal and posterior temporal cortex connected by white matter fiber trac...

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📣📣 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....

Cultural Constructions of Parent–Child Spatial Interactions

Cultural influences, such as a language’s reading direction and parents’ everyday interactions, can impact a child’s asymmetric mapping of information to the left and right sides of space. To deter...

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