New review paper on visual aesthetics development led by our lab director @tilbegoksun.bsky.social, Aykut Coşkun, and @anjanchatterjee.bsky.social!

Tilbe Göksun@tilbegoksun.bsky.social · 7d ago

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...

Kardelen Koç has successfully defended her master’s thesis titled "Aesthetic Beginnings and Beyond: The Role of Complexity in the Development of Visual Art Preferences.” Congratulations Kardelen! 🥳

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! 🌿

A great day of research talks at the lab! Our existing and new lab members shared their work on a wide range of topics, including cognitive science, human–robot interaction, autobiographical memory, and linguistics. Thank you all for the engaging presentations and discussions! 🍀

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 🌿

Today at our lab meeting, our visiting researcher Jiali Li presented her PhD research at Pompeu Fabra University. Thank you Jiali for such an engaging presentation! 🌿

A huge congratulations to our MA and undergraduate students! We wish them all the best 🌿🎉

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/...

Gesture Use Across Different Concepts: Focusing on Cross‐Linguistic Diversity

This review synthesizes research findings on individuals' cospeech gesture production across four concepts (space, time, event, and emotion) that are encoded and expressed differently across language...

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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...

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! ☺️🎉

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...

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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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/...

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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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! 🥳