Esra Nur Turan-Küçük
@esranur.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Developmental Science, Boston University, exploring how young minds make sense of the world.
cognition, concepts & possibilities
Fulbright Alumni
🔗 www.esraturankucuk.com
cognition, concepts & possibilities
Fulbright Alumni
🔗 www.esraturankucuk.com
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🎉Our paper "Three- and Four-Year-Old Children Represent Mutually Exclusive Possible Identities" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology!
You can read the preprint here: osf.io/rx4h9 (1/5)
You can read the preprint here: osf.io/rx4h9 (1/5)
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This is going to be an incredible event celebrating Alan Leslie's amazing career. Speakers include Susan Carey, Lisa Feigenson, Randy Gallistel, Ori Friedman, Zsuzsa Káldy, Ágnes Kovács, Sydney Levine, Sandeep Prasada, Brian Scholl, Luca Surian (and me!) Join in person at Rutgers or livestream
📢 Come join us on Sunday, November 9th for the Rutgers Symposium of Learning with an amazing list of speakers and great company! More details: sites.rutgers.edu/symposium-le...
Rutgers Symposium of Learning
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August 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
This is going to be an incredible event celebrating Alan Leslie's amazing career. Speakers include Susan Carey, Lisa Feigenson, Randy Gallistel, Ori Friedman, Zsuzsa Káldy, Ágnes Kovács, Sydney Levine, Sandeep Prasada, Brian Scholl, Luca Surian (and me!) Join in person at Rutgers or livestream
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Children’s reasoning about possible outcomes of events in the present and the future
📣 Work by Esra N. Turan-Küçük & Melissa M. Kibbe
📣 Work by Esra N. Turan-Küçük & Melissa M. Kibbe
APA PsycNet
psycnet.apa.org
August 20, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Children’s reasoning about possible outcomes of events in the present and the future
📣 Work by Esra N. Turan-Küçük & Melissa M. Kibbe
📣 Work by Esra N. Turan-Küçük & Melissa M. Kibbe
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You can access the paper from our website as well www.bu.edu/cdl/files/20...
www.bu.edu
July 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
You can access the paper from our website as well www.bu.edu/cdl/files/20...
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New from me and @esranur.bsky.social! In two exps with 3-4-year-olds, we find no differences in kids' reasoning about possible outcomes of an event in different temporal contexts; kids perform the same under physical and epistemic uncertainty psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... #devpsy #psychscisky
APA PsycNet
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July 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
New from me and @esranur.bsky.social! In two exps with 3-4-year-olds, we find no differences in kids' reasoning about possible outcomes of an event in different temporal contexts; kids perform the same under physical and epistemic uncertainty psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... #devpsy #psychscisky
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Come check out work from my lab at @socphilpsych.bsky.social SPP 2025!
June 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Come check out work from my lab at @socphilpsych.bsky.social SPP 2025!
Hey, people who have kids, can you please share some info about staying in academia (job search mode) + being a mom? Thanks!
April 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Hey, people who have kids, can you please share some info about staying in academia (job search mode) + being a mom? Thanks!
Check out my personal website: www.esraturankucuk.com/about
March 29, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Check out my personal website: www.esraturankucuk.com/about
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Paper w/ Gergely Csibra now out in Psych Review!
Work in CogDev often assumes that infant object representations are perceptual/spatial in origin. There is a ton of beautiful work showing that this is not always the case — e.g. they represent objects that they are only told about (1/4) (links below)
Work in CogDev often assumes that infant object representations are perceptual/spatial in origin. There is a ton of beautiful work showing that this is not always the case — e.g. they represent objects that they are only told about (1/4) (links below)
February 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Paper w/ Gergely Csibra now out in Psych Review!
Work in CogDev often assumes that infant object representations are perceptual/spatial in origin. There is a ton of beautiful work showing that this is not always the case — e.g. they represent objects that they are only told about (1/4) (links below)
Work in CogDev often assumes that infant object representations are perceptual/spatial in origin. There is a ton of beautiful work showing that this is not always the case — e.g. they represent objects that they are only told about (1/4) (links below)
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If you/ your students are interviewing for PhD psych programs in US (especially social psych), check out the resource page on my website. There are guides prepped by grad students + questions to ask faculty etc. Good luck!
www.pbandjlab.com/resources
www.pbandjlab.com/resources
The PB&J Lab - Resources
Resources
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January 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
If you/ your students are interviewing for PhD psych programs in US (especially social psych), check out the resource page on my website. There are guides prepped by grad students + questions to ask faculty etc. Good luck!
www.pbandjlab.com/resources
www.pbandjlab.com/resources
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You might think that having just one word for "yesterday" and "tomorrow" would make learning harder, but we find the opposite - that children learning the Hindi word "kal" understand its use to refer to past & future events earlier than English-speaking kids understand "yesterday" and "tomorrow".
Out now! @drbarner.bsky.social & I find that Hindi kids learn yesterday & tomorrow earlier than English kids, despite having only word 'kal' to reference both the past and future. We argue that kids rely on tense info (over associations w/ events) to learn.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Twice Upon a Time: Children Use Syntax to Learn the Meanings of Yesterday and Tomorrow
Time words like “yesterday” and “tomorrow” are abstract, and are interpreted relative to the context in which they are produced: the word “tomorrow” refers to a different point in time now than in 24....
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January 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
You might think that having just one word for "yesterday" and "tomorrow" would make learning harder, but we find the opposite - that children learning the Hindi word "kal" understand its use to refer to past & future events earlier than English-speaking kids understand "yesterday" and "tomorrow".
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SPP 2025 will be at Cornell, June 18-21!
December 5, 2024 at 7:07 PM
SPP 2025 will be at Cornell, June 18-21!
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Boston University Philosophy Dept welcomes applications for Findlay Visiting Professorship (Assoc or Full) for a semester or year beginning Fall 2025 or Spring 2026. AOS Open. Applicant will be expected to offer 1 course & give 1 public lecture.
Deadline April 7, 2025
#philsci #philsky
Deadline April 7, 2025
#philsci #philsky
Findlay Visiting Professorship, Boston University
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October 17, 2024 at 9:48 PM
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📣🚨From Esra Nur Turan-Küçük & Melissa M. Kibbe:
Three- and four-year-old children represent mutually exclusive possible identities
Three- and four-year-old children represent mutually exclusive possible identities
Three- and four-year-old children represent mutually exclusive possible identities
How do children think about and plan for possible outcomes of events that could happen in the future? Previous work that has investigated children’s a…
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October 13, 2024 at 8:40 PM
📣🚨From Esra Nur Turan-Küçük & Melissa M. Kibbe:
Three- and four-year-old children represent mutually exclusive possible identities
Three- and four-year-old children represent mutually exclusive possible identities
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The official version is now online! You can access it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... or on our website: www.bu.edu/cdl/developi... #devpsych #psychscisky #cogpsych #cogdev
October 7, 2024 at 5:04 PM
The official version is now online! You can access it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... or on our website: www.bu.edu/cdl/developi... #devpsych #psychscisky #cogpsych #cogdev
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New work from my lab, lead by superstar @esranur.bsky.social!! 🌟
🎉Our paper "Three- and Four-Year-Old Children Represent Mutually Exclusive Possible Identities" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology!
You can read the preprint here: osf.io/rx4h9 (1/5)
You can read the preprint here: osf.io/rx4h9 (1/5)
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September 4, 2024 at 7:48 PM
New work from my lab, lead by superstar @esranur.bsky.social!! 🌟
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Example #23,498 of developmental work being adorable & touching: When kids weren't sure who was going to eat snack, they prepped the favorite foods of both possible agents, b/c kids are amazing. Lovely work by @esranur.bsky.social & @levelsof.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps...
#DevPsyc
#DevPsyc
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September 17, 2024 at 6:13 PM
Example #23,498 of developmental work being adorable & touching: When kids weren't sure who was going to eat snack, they prepped the favorite foods of both possible agents, b/c kids are amazing. Lovely work by @esranur.bsky.social & @levelsof.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps...
#DevPsyc
#DevPsyc
🎉Our paper "Three- and Four-Year-Old Children Represent Mutually Exclusive Possible Identities" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology!
You can read the preprint here: osf.io/rx4h9 (1/5)
You can read the preprint here: osf.io/rx4h9 (1/5)
OSF
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September 4, 2024 at 7:43 PM
🎉Our paper "Three- and Four-Year-Old Children Represent Mutually Exclusive Possible Identities" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology!
You can read the preprint here: osf.io/rx4h9 (1/5)
You can read the preprint here: osf.io/rx4h9 (1/5)
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Do infants represent collision events that violate Newtonian constraints on elastic collisions as causal? I tested this in my new paper with Susan Carey, "Infants' representation of Michottean triggering events", out today.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#CogSciSky #PsychSciSky #CogSci
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#CogSciSky #PsychSciSky #CogSci
Infants' representations of michottean triggering events
The classic Michottean ‘launching’ event is consistent with a real-world Newtonian elastic collision. Previous research has shown that adult humans di…
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June 9, 2024 at 8:17 AM
Do infants represent collision events that violate Newtonian constraints on elastic collisions as causal? I tested this in my new paper with Susan Carey, "Infants' representation of Michottean triggering events", out today.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#CogSciSky #PsychSciSky #CogSci
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#CogSciSky #PsychSciSky #CogSci
Hey everyone! I'm excited to share that I'll be giving a talk on young children's ability to reason about multiple, mutually exclusive object identities at #SPP2024!
Come check out our new work with @levelsof.bsky.social!
🗓️ Saturday, June 22
🕒 3:30 PM
📍 North Ballroom, Session 6A
Come check out our new work with @levelsof.bsky.social!
🗓️ Saturday, June 22
🕒 3:30 PM
📍 North Ballroom, Session 6A
June 20, 2024 at 3:38 PM
Hey everyone! I'm excited to share that I'll be giving a talk on young children's ability to reason about multiple, mutually exclusive object identities at #SPP2024!
Come check out our new work with @levelsof.bsky.social!
🗓️ Saturday, June 22
🕒 3:30 PM
📍 North Ballroom, Session 6A
Come check out our new work with @levelsof.bsky.social!
🗓️ Saturday, June 22
🕒 3:30 PM
📍 North Ballroom, Session 6A
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We have filled two positions but one is still open. Please apply to the position ending in 305– it’s a silly HR thing. Feel free to email me directly for more info.
March 24, 2024 at 12:18 PM
We have filled two positions but one is still open. Please apply to the position ending in 305– it’s a silly HR thing. Feel free to email me directly for more info.
Interested in young children’s understanding of possibility and how they represent the actions (minds) of others’ in tasks involving mutually exclusive possibilities?
Meet me at Poster P1-137, end of the room, during Poster Session 1 at 1:15. See you there! #CDS2024
Meet me at Poster P1-137, end of the room, during Poster Session 1 at 1:15. See you there! #CDS2024
March 22, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Interested in young children’s understanding of possibility and how they represent the actions (minds) of others’ in tasks involving mutually exclusive possibilities?
Meet me at Poster P1-137, end of the room, during Poster Session 1 at 1:15. See you there! #CDS2024
Meet me at Poster P1-137, end of the room, during Poster Session 1 at 1:15. See you there! #CDS2024
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Looking forward to #CDS2024! Come check out our symposium: “Reasoning about social distance and affiliation across human development”. Presenters include Caroline Cha and @hghwang.bsky.social, @lindseypowell.bsky.social, Aaron Chuey, and me. Friday at 4:15 pm.
March 20, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Looking forward to #CDS2024! Come check out our symposium: “Reasoning about social distance and affiliation across human development”. Presenters include Caroline Cha and @hghwang.bsky.social, @lindseypowell.bsky.social, Aaron Chuey, and me. Friday at 4:15 pm.
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Please come see @esranur.bsky.social 's poster at CDS! She is presenting on some very cool work examining children's understanding of others' actions on multiple possibilities.
[Very annoyed that her name got left off of the program!]
[Very annoyed that her name got left off of the program!]
Excited to share that I'm presenting at #CDS2024! 🌟 Though there's been an oversight with my name in the program, my enthusiasm is undiminished. Eager to share our work with @levelsof.bsky.social
titled “Young children’s understanding of others’ actions on mutually exclusive possibilities.”
titled “Young children’s understanding of others’ actions on mutually exclusive possibilities.”
March 20, 2024 at 10:35 AM
Please come see @esranur.bsky.social 's poster at CDS! She is presenting on some very cool work examining children's understanding of others' actions on multiple possibilities.
[Very annoyed that her name got left off of the program!]
[Very annoyed that her name got left off of the program!]
Excited to share that I'm presenting at #CDS2024! 🌟 Though there's been an oversight with my name in the program, my enthusiasm is undiminished. Eager to share our work with @levelsof.bsky.social
titled “Young children’s understanding of others’ actions on mutually exclusive possibilities.”
titled “Young children’s understanding of others’ actions on mutually exclusive possibilities.”
March 20, 2024 at 3:20 AM
Excited to share that I'm presenting at #CDS2024! 🌟 Though there's been an oversight with my name in the program, my enthusiasm is undiminished. Eager to share our work with @levelsof.bsky.social
titled “Young children’s understanding of others’ actions on mutually exclusive possibilities.”
titled “Young children’s understanding of others’ actions on mutually exclusive possibilities.”
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Come check out the Boston University Developing Minds Lab at the 2024 Cognitive Development Society Meeting!
March 17, 2024 at 8:14 PM
Come check out the Boston University Developing Minds Lab at the 2024 Cognitive Development Society Meeting!