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Tilbe Göksun
@tilbegoksun.bsky.social
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language & cognition (http://lclab.ku.edu.tr), faculty member @ Koç University - Istanbul, Turkey

http://www.tilbegoksunyoruk.com/
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cogscisociety.bsky.social
The CogSci Society would like to congratulate the brilliant Dr. Damián Blasi @damianblasi.bsky.social for being awarded the 2026 Early Career Impact Award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences @fabbs.org 👏👏👏

Learn more at cognitivesciencesociety.org/fabbs-early-...
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January 16, 2026 at 5:12 PM
tilbegoksun.bsky.social
Here is the first published paper of 2026 in JEP: General led by Demet & Efe! Very happy about this EEG paper in which we assessed temporal dynamics of speech and gesture processing in L1 and L2! @kudilvebilis.bsky.social

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January 16, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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juliafloritpons.bsky.social
Check out our new paper about children’s multimodal imitation, which has been published in the special issue “Multimodal language, communication and thinking” (eds. @tilbegoksun.bsky.social @ecedemirlira.bsky.social) in Cognitive Development
January 14, 2026 at 8:54 AM
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kudilvebilis.bsky.social
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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kudilvebilis.bsky.social
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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@caglaaydin.bsky.social
@sgulgoz.bsky.social
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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...
doi.org
December 31, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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kudilvebilis.bsky.social
New study led by Aslı Aktan-Erciyes and Tilbe Göksun!
@aslierciyes.bsky.social
@tilbegoksun.bsky.social

"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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kudilvebilis.bsky.social
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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bilimakademisi.bsky.social
28 Kasım 2025’te gerçekleşen Bilim Akademisi Genel Kurulunda 16 yeni asli üye seçildi.

Detaylar bağlantıda.
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Bilim Akademisinin yeni üyeleri (Kasım 2025) - Bilim Akademisi
28 Kasım 2025’te gerçekleşen Genel Kurulda Bilim Akademisine 16 yeni asli üye seçildi. Ali Fuat Kalyoncu – Allerji ve İmmünolojik Hastalıklar, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Arzucan Özgür – Bilgisayar Mühendi...
bilimakademisi.org
December 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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newscientist.com
Our brain wiring seems to undergo four major turning points at ages 9, 32, 66 and 83, which could influence our capacity to learn and our risk of certain conditions
Your brain undergoes four dramatic periods of change from age 0 to 90
Our brain wiring seems to undergo four major turning points at ages 9, 32, 66 and 83, which could influence our capacity to learn and our risk of certain conditions
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November 29, 2025 at 9:08 AM
tilbegoksun.bsky.social
Our new paper in Cognitive Science, led by Can! @canavci.bsky.social

"Assessing Others’ Knowledge Through Their Speech Disfluencies and Gestures"

Cognitive Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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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 1:46 PM
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mpi-nl.bsky.social
What enables human language? A biocultural framework. New paper by Inbal Arnon & al. with @limorraviv.bsky.social , @profsimonfisher.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1126/science.adq8303
What enables human language? A biocultural framework
Explaining the origins of language is a key challenge in understanding ourselves as a species. We present an empirical framework that draws on synergies across fields to facilitate robust studies of l...
doi.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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A very useful review and update on the anatomic infratstructure for language:
"Brain structural networks underlying language" by
Angela Friederici
journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Brain structural networks underlying language | Physiological Reviews | American Physiological Society
The unique human ability to process complex language requires the interaction of multiple brain areas located in the inferior frontal and posterior temporal cortex connected by white matter fiber trac...
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November 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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cogdevsoc.bsky.social
📣📣 A recent paper by Abigail Wolff et al. in JCD:

"Cultural Constructions of Parent–Child Spatial Interactions: Journal of Cognition and Development"

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Cultural Constructions of Parent–Child Spatial Interactions
Cultural influences, such as a language’s reading direction and parents’ everyday interactions, can impact a child’s asymmetric mapping of information to the left and right sides of space. To deter...
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November 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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psychscience.bsky.social
Join APS on November 5 for a free workshop on science writing and storytelling. Learn tips for engaging and accessible science communication and make sure to bring your questions! #SciComm #AcademicSky
https://instats.org/seminar/science-writing-and-storytelling
October 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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dirkwulff.bsky.social
🚨 New publication: How to improve conceptual clarity in psychological science?

Thrilled to see this article with @ruimata.bsky.social out. We discuss how LLMs can be leveraged to map, clarify, and generate psychological measures and constructs.

Open access article: doi.org/10.1177/0963...
October 23, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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nielsmede.bsky.social
Published today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess
October 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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ercenurunal.bsky.social
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/
cogscisociety.bsky.social Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · Sep 30
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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October 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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yasharali.bsky.social
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.
October 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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kudilvebilis.bsky.social
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
tilbegoksun.bsky.social
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 💙
September 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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begumyilmaz.bsky.social
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

@kudilvebilis.bsky.social
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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September 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:
September 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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kudilvebilis.bsky.social
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...
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August 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
tilbegoksun.bsky.social
A recent work from our lab on creativity & gestures by Gulten!
@gyultenhyusein.bsky.social

Take-home message: Non-representational gestures do not facilitate and might even hurt creativity
gyultenhyusein.bsky.social 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.
August 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
tilbegoksun.bsky.social
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....
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August 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM