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Ercenur Ünal @ercenurunal.bsky.social · 19h

Know someone whose excellence in research and contributions to the CogSci community should be recognized? Nominate them to be a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society!

Deadline: Nov 1
More info: cognitivesciencesociety.org/fellows/

Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · 8d

The CogSci Society is accepting nominations for 🌟Fellows of the Society🌟

Fellows are individuals whose research has exhibited sustained excellence and had sustained impact on the #CogSci community.

Visit cognitivesciencesociety.org/fellows/ and submit your nomination until November 1st!

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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

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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Tilbe Göksun @tilbegoksun.bsky.social · 28d

I am over the moon to see that my wonderful PhD advisor, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, received the APS Mentor Award. She is absolutely the best, and I am honored to be her mentee 💙

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek @kathyhirshpasek.bsky.social · 28d

Thank you to my amazing students who taught me so much about our field and how to teach and mentor. I am humbled. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

APS Honors 12 Psychological Scientists With 2026 Lifetime Achievement Awards

Scientists who have shaped our understanding of clinical cognitive neuroscience, mental health, and racial biases are among the 12 recipients of the 2026 APS lifetime achievement awards.

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Tilbe Göksun @tilbegoksun.bsky.social · 28d

You are the BEST! I am so thrilled that you received this award. Proud to be your student!!! Congratulations!

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Begüm Yılmaz @begumyilmaz.bsky.social · 29d

Why does a speech pause make us doubt, but a hand gesture make us sure? 🤔🧠

Find the answer on the @cogscisociety.bsky.social blog!

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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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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Sep 6

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

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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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Tilbe Göksun @tilbegoksun.bsky.social · Aug 26

A recent work from our lab on creativity & gestures by Gulten!
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Take-home message: Non-representational gestures do not facilitate and might even hurt creativity

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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Tilbe Göksun @tilbegoksun.bsky.social · Aug 26

The original paper can be reached from here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Demographic Biases in Naturalistic Language Recordings in the CHILDES Database

In recent years, the importance of estimating demographic biases in research has become apparent. Here, we provide a systematic review of the CHILDES database, the major source of naturalistic record....

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Tilbe Göksun @tilbegoksun.bsky.social · Aug 26

Here is our take on Scaff et al.'s recent paper:
Diversity as a Core Feature of Language Acquisition
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Demographic Biases in Naturalistic Language Recordings in the CHILDES Database

In recent years, the importance of estimating demographic biases in research has become apparent. Here, we provide a systematic review of the CHILDES database, the major source of naturalistic record....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social · Aug 20

📣📣 A recent paper by Hawes et al. at JCD:
How Language Influences Thought: The Case of Multiplying Fractions

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How Language Influences Thought: The Case of Multiplying Fractions

This study addresses the question of whether and how language influences mathematical cognition. Canadian students in Grades 4–7 (N = 348) were asked fraction multiplication questions in one of the...

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Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · Aug 15

Sad but true. Lessons here though. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A Month‐Long Parent‐Led Spatial Intervention Failed to Improve Children's Spatial Skills

Eighty 4- and 5-year-olds and their parents were randomly assigned to a spatial or narrative activity condition. For a month, parents engaged their children in these activities and learned about the ...

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Tilbe Göksun @tilbegoksun.bsky.social · Aug 5

Wonderful work by Begüm from our lab on gesture, speech disfluency, and metacognition! @begumyilmaz.bsky.social

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!

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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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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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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · Jul 31

Huge congratulations to the brilliant Nora Newcombe, recipient of the 2025 David E. Rumelhart Prize! 🏅#CogSci2025

Nora S. Newcombe and Robert Glushko stand together smiling on stage at CogSci 2025. Nora wears the Rumelhart Prize medal around her neck

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Tilbe Göksun @tilbegoksun.bsky.social · Jul 31

Highlight of the CogSci 2025 - Amazing Rumelhart Prize Talk by Nora Newcombe! @noranewcombe.bsky.social @cogscisociety.bsky.social

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Tilbe Göksun @tilbegoksun.bsky.social · Jul 21

You may also check recent work by Ezgi Mamus et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Lack of Visual Experience Affects Multimodal Language Production: Evidence From Congenitally Blind and Sighted People

The human experience is shaped by information from different perceptual channels, but it is still debated whether and how differential experience influences language use. To address this, we compared...

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Tilbe Göksun @tilbegoksun.bsky.social · Jul 17

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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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 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 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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Tilbe Göksun @tilbegoksun.bsky.social · Jul 11

Finishing ISGS with a wonderful keynote talk from Lorna! @lornaquandt.bsky.social

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ISGS2025 @isgs2025.bsky.social · Jul 10

We are beginning Day 2 with Johanna Mesch’s great keynote on tactile adaptations of gestures and emotions in deafblind communication #ISGS2025

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ISGS2025 @isgs2025.bsky.social · Jul 9

Full room for Tilbe Göksun’s keynote on multifunctionality of gesture processing & use with an individual differences approach #ISGS2025

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