Excited to share our paper:
“Historical and Experimental Evidence that Inherent Properties Are Overweighted in Early Scientific Explanation”
I’m grateful to Zach Horne & my dear advisor @andreicimpian.bsky.social to let me be part of this project, it was a great experience!
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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
@tilbegoksun.bsky.social

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Recent paper from our lab led by Işıl: Early parental multimodal input is differentially associated with later vocabulary knowledge for preterm & full-term infants
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Thank you so much!

I am so excited to be a part of this wonderful paper led by the very talented @mkobas.bsky.social and my fav collaborator @tilbegoksun.bsky.social. I am generally a big fan of beautiful descriptive statistics and Mert did an amazing job in this paper! Enjoy!

Teşekkür ederim Akira hocam 😊

Proud to share this work from my time in Koç University Language & Cognition Lab.
Read the full paper here: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We hope it contributes to better understanding early spatial language development pathways.
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This work highlights the importance of parents' spatial input during infants’ early object exploration for early spatial language development especially for populations like preterm infants who may receive less of it.

We also found that infants who both explored more and received more spatial language input had stronger spatial vocabularies later on.
This suggests a cascading developmental effect shaped by early experiences.

Importantly, the interaction between object exploration and spatial input at 14 months predicted spatial language at 26 months regardless of whether infants were born preterm or full-term.

On average, spatial input co-occurred with 44% of object exploration events.
This co-occurrence differed by group:
-Preterm: 36.1%
-Full-term: 52.1%

We found that preterm and full-term infants showed similar levels of object exploration.
However, parents of preterm infants used significantly less spatial language during play sessions.

This longitudinal study followed infants from 14 (Time 1) to 26 months (Time 2). We examined:
1-Infant object exploration at Time 1
2-Parents’ spatial input during play at Time 1
3-Infants' spatial language at Time 2

You might wonder: do infants actually know spatial words before age 3?
According to parent reports, many do! Our results from CDI showed that infants in our sample were already producing several spatial terms by 26 months.
Here’s a summary from our data👇

Learning spatial words opens important pathways for later cognitive development.
While much of the existing research has focused on preschoolers and toddlers, the predictors of spatial language development in younger infants remain understudied, and this was our motivation.

We investigated how early object exploration and parents’ spatial input shape infants’ later spatial language development — in both preterm and full-term infants.
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🚨 New paper out!
Huge thanks to my former advisor @tilbegoksun.bsky.social
and to @ecedemirlira.bsky.social .They were amazing collaborators as always 🙏
Here is the link:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Here is the latest paper from our lab led by my former amazing graduate student Mert:

Spatial language development in preterm and full-term infants: The role of object exploration and parents’ spatial input

@mkobas.bsky.social @ecedemirlira.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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