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Koc University Language & Cognition Lab @kudilvebilis.bsky.social · 23d

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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Koc University Language & Cognition Lab @kudilvebilis.bsky.social · Sep 9

One of our recent studies on speech disfluencies, gestures, and metacognition is now featured on the Cognitive Science Society blog! 🎉

Begüm Yılmaz @begumyilmaz.bsky.social · Sep 9

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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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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Koc University Language & Cognition Lab @kudilvebilis.bsky.social · Sep 1

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
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Koc University Language & Cognition Lab @kudilvebilis.bsky.social · Aug 30

New publication from L&C Lab led by our former member Gyulten Hyusein and our PI Tilbe Göksun!
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"The Role of Non-Representational Hand Gestures in Creative Thinking"

Read the article 👇
www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/10...

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · Aug 15

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...

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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Gyulten Hyusein @gyultenhyusein.bsky.social · Aug 26

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.

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · Aug 21

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....

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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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · Aug 13

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? 🧵

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Koc University Language & Cognition Lab @kudilvebilis.bsky.social · Aug 12

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 🎉✨

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Koc University Language & Cognition Lab @kudilvebilis.bsky.social · Aug 5

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/...

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

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

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

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!

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Tobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · Aug 2

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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David Barner @drbarner.bsky.social · Aug 2

Susan Carey mic-drop at #cogsci2025. "There are no innate concepts: Discuss"

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Kiley McKee @kmckee.bsky.social · Jul 26

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:

authors.elsevier.com

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Prosodic and Gestural Studies Group (GrEP-G) @grepgupf.bsky.social · Jul 21

❗️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

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Koc University Language & Cognition Lab @kudilvebilis.bsky.social · Jul 17

New study alert from L&C Lab led by our former lab member Işıl Doğan!

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@aslierciyes.bsky.social
@ecedemirlira.bsky.social
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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Koc University Language & Cognition Lab @kudilvebilis.bsky.social · Jul 13

We congratulate our alumni and graduate students, and thank @isgs2025.bsky.social for this engaging conference!

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Koc University Language & Cognition Lab @kudilvebilis.bsky.social · Jul 13

We attended the 10th International Society for Gesture Studies Conference with 2 talks and 2 posters! 🎉

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Koc University Language & Cognition Lab @kudilvebilis.bsky.social · Jul 11

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!

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Koc University Language & Cognition Lab @kudilvebilis.bsky.social · Jul 6

New study alert from L&C Lab led by our former graduate student Emir Akbuğa and our PI Tilbe Göksun!
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“Spatial metaphors of time elicit more temporal gestures in second language”

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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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Koc University Language & Cognition Lab @kudilvebilis.bsky.social · Jun 20

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...

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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Koc University Language & Cognition Lab @kudilvebilis.bsky.social · Jun 20

We thank Dr. Demir-Lira for this engaging, interactive, and very insightful talk! ✨

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Koc University Language & Cognition Lab @kudilvebilis.bsky.social · Jun 20

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”!🧠

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Koc University Language & Cognition Lab @kudilvebilis.bsky.social · Jun 13

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"

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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Retellings of emotional videos: the dynamics of gesture characteristics in diverse emotion categories

We express and ground our emotions through multiple channels. Across these channels, gestures play a critical role in emotion communication, yet how characteristics of gestures change across differ...

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