We study language and cognition interface, led by @GoksunTilbe. Bilingual (Turkish-English) tweets.
Istanbul - Turkey
Joined October 2019
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This week, our visiting researcher Luyao Wang, who is pursuing her PhD studies at Paderborn University, presented a section of her thesis research in our lab. We would like to express our gratitude to Luyao for her valuable contribution and presentation! ✨
Our PhD candidate İbrahim Akkan has joined Development, Experience, and Neuroscience (DEN) Lab at University of Iowa as a visiting researcher! We warmly congratulate @ibrahimakkan_ and wish him an enjoyable research period 🎉.
New study alert from L&C Lab led by our former PhD student Emir Akbuğa with Tilbe Göksun!
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"What Makes a Novel Spatial Metaphor of Time: A Study of Hand Gestures" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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Bilim Akademisi Üyesi Tilbe Göksun bilişsel bilim alanının dünyadaki en saygın kuruluşlarından Cognitive Science Society’nin 2027-2028 dönemi başkanlığına seçildi.
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Ayrıntılar bağlantıda.
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This week, Prof. Renia Lopez-Ozieblo @renialo
from Hong Kong Polytechnic University visited our lab! She presented her research on why we gesture. Thank you for this great talk! 🌿
Our PhD candidate Begüm Yılmaz presented her work with Tilbe Göksun titled “From Asking to Teaching: Developmental Changes in Parents’ Pedagogical Questions, Gestures, and Children’s Responses” at MMSYM 2026 in Leuven, Belgium.
Congratulations @begum_yilmaz_! 🎉👏
Our lab director Tilbe Göksun has been elected President of the Cognitive Science Society @cogsci_soc for the 2027–2028 term!
She is currently serving as President-Elect and will take on the presidency in 2027.
Congratulations @GoksunTilbe! ✨🎉
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Sultan Karakaş has successfully defended her master’s thesis titled "Home Math Environment and Children’s Math Skills: Distinct and Similar Roles of Mothers and Fathers” Congratulations Sultan! 🎉
New book chapter on preterm children's language development led by Begüm Yılmaz and İbrahim Akkan, in collaboration with Ece Demir-Lira and our lab director Tilbe Göksun is now online!
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Can Ceylan has successfully defended his master’s thesis titled "When Faces and Gestures Are in Conflict: The Role of Gesture Direction in Multimodal Emotion Judgment.” Congratulations Can! 🥳 @can_ceylan_
New review paper on visual aesthetics development led by our lab director @GoksunTilbe, Aykut Coşkun, and Anjan Chatterjee!
Here is a new paper I wrote with Aykut Coşkun and Anjan Chatterjee for the COPSY Special Issue on "Psychology of Art" edited by Eftychia Stamkou and Oshin Vartanian.
“Looking at artifacts”: The development of visual aesthetic preferences
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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 @oedemir 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 new and existing 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! 🌿
New review paper by our PI Tilbe Göksun, Demet Özer, Burcu Arslan, Gyulten Hyusein, and Emir Akbuğa!
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Gesture Use Across Different Concepts: Focusing on Cross‐Linguistic Diversity
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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! 🎉
