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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.
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 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
September 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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
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
September 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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...
www.mdpi.com
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:

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...
doi.org
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.
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…
www.sciencedirect.com
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".

srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...)

What is LEVANTE? 🧵
August 13, 2025 at 6:09 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 🎉✨
August 12, 2025 at 1:05 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/...
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...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 5, 2025 at 2:16 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
August 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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
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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:
authors.elsevier.com
July 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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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
July 21, 2025 at 6:38 AM
www.tandfonline.com
July 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
We attended the 10th International Society for Gesture Studies Conference with 2 talks and 2 posters! 🎉
July 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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
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”

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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...
link.springer.com
July 6, 2025 at 7:26 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”!🧠
June 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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...
www.tandfonline.com
June 13, 2025 at 10:56 AM
We presented our recent work at 11th International Symposium on Brain and Cognitive Science (ISBCS)!
June 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM