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kudilvebilis.bsky.social
Koc University Language & Cognition Lab
@kudilvebilis.bsky.social
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We study language and cognition interface (lclab.ku.edu.tr), led by @TilbeGoksun.bsky.social. Bilingual (Turkish-English) tweets.
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New article led by our PhD student İbrahim Akkan on how gestures and L2 speech relate to emotional autobiographical memory narration!

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Talking Hands, Shifting Tongues: How Does the Use of Co-speech Gestures and Second Language Relate to Emotional Autobiographical Memory Narration? - İbrahim Akkan, Cagla Aydin, Sami Gülgöz, Tilbe Göks...
Gestures can play a role in narrating emotionally valenced autobiographical events, particularly in second language use. We investigated how hand gestures, phen...
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December 31, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Last week, we welcomed Mert Kobaş, a former master’s student in our lab, who shared his doctoral research at New York University (NYU). Thank you, Mert! 🥳
December 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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New study led by Aslı Aktan-Erciyes and Tilbe Göksun!
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"Narrative development in L1-Turkish children: A longitudinal examination of L2-English immersion effects"

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Narrative development in L1-Turkish children: A longitudinal examination of L2-English immersion effects | Applied Psycholinguistics | Cambridge Core
Narrative development in L1-Turkish children: A longitudinal examination of L2-English immersion effects - Volume 46
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December 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Last week, we were delighted to host Dr. Can Çarkoğlu, a former undergraduate assistant in our lab. He presented his doctoral research at Purdue University and is now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago!
December 24, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Last week, we hosted Salih Özdemir, who completed his MA at L&C Lab! Salih shared his ongoing doctoral research at the University of California, San Diego. Thank you Salih for this amazing talk! 🥳
December 18, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Lab direktörümüz Tilbe Göksun'un Bilim Akademisi'ne asli üye olarak seçildiğini duyurmaktan mutluluk duyuyoruz! @bilimakademisi.bsky.social

We are proud to announce that our PI Tilbe Göksun has been elected to the Science Academy (Bilim Akademisi)!
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December 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Last week, we hosted Işıl Doğan, who completed her MA at the L&C Lab! Işıl shared her ongoing doctoral research at the University of California, Davis. Thank you Işıl for this great talk! 🥳
December 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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New article led by our PhD student Can Avcı!

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Demet Özer
Terry Eskenazi

“Assessing Others’ Knowledge Through Their Speech Disfluencies and Gestures”

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Assessing Others’ Knowledge Through Their Speech Disfluencies and Gestures
As part of the multimodal language system, gestures play a vital role for listeners, by capturing attention and providing information. Similarly, disfluencies serve as a cue for the listeners about o...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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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
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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
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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
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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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September 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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One of our recent studies on speech disfluencies, gestures, and metacognition is now featured on the Cognitive Science Society blog! 🎉
September 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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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 🎉
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September 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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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"

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August 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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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:

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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
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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.
August 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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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.
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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
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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".

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(preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...)

What is LEVANTE? 🧵
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August 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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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
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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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August 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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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
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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!
August 4, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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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
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Susan Carey mic-drop at #cogsci2025. "There are no innate concepts: Discuss"
August 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM