Koc University Language & Cognition Lab
@kudilvebilis.bsky.social
We study language and cognition interface (lclab.ku.edu.tr), led by @TilbeGoksun.bsky.social. Bilingual (Turkish-English) tweets.
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! 🥳
November 21, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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! 🥳
November 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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
October 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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!
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@ieee-icdl.bsky.social
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September 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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
@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! 🎉
Why does a speech pause make us doubt, but a hand gesture make us sure? 🤔🧠
Find the answer on the @cogscisociety.bsky.social blog!
cognitivesciencesociety.org/why-does-a-s...
w/ @reyhanfurman.bsky.social, @tilbegoksun.bsky.social, and Terry Eskenazi
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Find the answer on the @cogscisociety.bsky.social blog!
cognitivesciencesociety.org/why-does-a-s...
w/ @reyhanfurman.bsky.social, @tilbegoksun.bsky.social, and Terry Eskenazi
@kudilvebilis.bsky.social
Why does a speech pause make us doubt, but a hand gesture make us sure? - Cognitive Science Society
Welcome to CogSci Unpacked, an exciting blog series dedicated to summarizing academic papers from the Cognitive Science, a CSS Journal. Our goal is to bridge the gap between academia and the broader p...
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September 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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
@ibrahimakkan.bsky.social
@begumyilmaz.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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
@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...
@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...
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August 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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...
@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...
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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...
Project led by our PhD student Ell Wilding and in collab w/ @jeannettel.bsky.social & @mperlman.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1111/cogs...
Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures
Iconicity ratings studies have established that there are many English words which native speakers judge as “iconic,” that is, as sounding like what they mean. Here, we explore whether these iconic E...
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August 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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...
Project led by our PhD student Ell Wilding and in collab w/ @jeannettel.bsky.social & @mperlman.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1111/cogs...
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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.
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.
August 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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.
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.
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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....
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Spatial and social cognition jointly determine multimodal demonstrative reference: Experimental evidence from Turkish and Spanish
All languages in the world have demonstrative terms such as ‘this’ and ‘that’ in English, which have traditionally been treated as spatial words. Here…
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August 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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....
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....
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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? 🧵
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...)
What is LEVANTE? 🧵
August 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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? 🧵
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 🎉✨
August 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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/...
@begumyilmaz.bsky.social
@reyhanfurman.bsky.social
@tilbegoksun.bsky.social
Read the article 👇
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Speech Disfluencies and Hand Gestures as Metacognitive Cues
How language interacts with metacognitive processes is an understudied area. Earlier research shows that people produce disfluencies (i.e., “uh” s or “um” s) in their speech when they are not sure of...
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August 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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/...
@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
August 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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!
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!
August 4, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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!
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!
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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!! 🙏
August 2, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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!! 🙏
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Susan Carey mic-drop at #cogsci2025. "There are no innate concepts: Discuss"
August 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Susan Carey mic-drop at #cogsci2025. "There are no innate concepts: Discuss"
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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:
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:
authors.elsevier.com
July 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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:
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:
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❗️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
📝 Multimodal Skills, but Not Motor Skills, Predict Narrative and Expressive Pragmatic Skills in Children With Typical Development and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
July 21, 2025 at 6:38 AM
❗️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
📝 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....
@mkobas.bsky.social
@aslierciyes.bsky.social
@ecedemirlira.bsky.social
@tilbegoksun.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
July 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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....
@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! 🎉
July 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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!
July 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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...
@tilbegoksun.bsky.social
“Spatial metaphors of time elicit more temporal gestures in second language”
Read the article 👇🏼
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Spatial metaphors of time elicit more temporal gestures in second language - Cognitive Processing
We use space to think and talk about time. Our hand gestures reflect how we conceptualize time. This study examines the processing differences between L1-Turkish and L2-English spatial metaphors of ti...
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July 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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...
@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...
@tilbegoksun.bsky.social! 🎉🎉
Read the article through the link below 👇
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Thinking creatively in two languages: Effects of mental imagery vividness, foreign language proficiency and hand gestures on bilingual creativity | Bilingualism: Language and Cognition | Cambridge Cor...
Thinking creatively in two languages: Effects of mental imagery vividness, foreign language proficiency and hand gestures on bilingual creativity
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June 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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...
@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”!🧠
June 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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”!🧠