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! 🥳

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! 🥳

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

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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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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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 🎉✨

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

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!

We congratulate our alumni and graduate students, and thank @isgs2025.bsky.social for this engaging conference!

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We attended the 10th International Society for Gesture Studies Conference with 2 talks and 2 posters! 🎉

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!

We thank Dr. Demir-Lira for this engaging, interactive, and very insightful talk! ✨

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”!🧠

Congrats to our post-doc student Gyulten Hyusein and our graduate students Can Avcı, Kardelen Koç, Dilay Falay, and Deniz Nur Köken! @gyultenhyusein.bsky.social @canavci.bsky.social @dilafalay.bsky.social @deniznurkoken.bsky.social

We presented our recent work at 11th International Symposium on Brain and Cognitive Science (ISBCS)!

We participated in the 54th Jean Piaget Meeting with one talk and three poster presentations! Congratulations to our PhD students Begüm Yılmaz @begumyilmaz.bsky.social and İbrahim Akkan @ibrahimakkan.bsky.social, and our master’s student Sultan Karakaş @sultankarakas.bsky.social ✨

Our previous PhD student, Dr. Emir Akbuğa, will continue his postdoc at Lund University, Sweden! Congrats Emir! 🥳

Our research team for 2024-2025, including our principal investigator (PI) Prof. Tilbe Göksun, undergraduate students, and graduate students!

Our lab member Hazal Civelek has successfully defended her master’s thesis titled "Emotional Language and Gesture Production of Preschoolers"! Congratulations Hazal 🥳
We also thank her thesis committee members Tilbe Göksun (advisor), Aylin Küntay, and Aslı-Aktan Erciyes for their contributions ✨