Eylül Turan
@turaneylul.bsky.social
Graduate student at KU Leuven. Interested in spatial language, spatial thinking and mathematical development.
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Hello #MCLS2026, Padua, Italy! 🇮🇹
This is the moment to find international researchers to compose your #symposium. The call for submissions will open in November!
🎯 Registration will open by mid-January.
Check @mcls-official.bsky.social and @mclstrainee.bsky.social for updates.
This is the moment to find international researchers to compose your #symposium. The call for submissions will open in November!
🎯 Registration will open by mid-January.
Check @mcls-official.bsky.social and @mclstrainee.bsky.social for updates.
October 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Hello #MCLS2026, Padua, Italy! 🇮🇹
This is the moment to find international researchers to compose your #symposium. The call for submissions will open in November!
🎯 Registration will open by mid-January.
Check @mcls-official.bsky.social and @mclstrainee.bsky.social for updates.
This is the moment to find international researchers to compose your #symposium. The call for submissions will open in November!
🎯 Registration will open by mid-January.
Check @mcls-official.bsky.social and @mclstrainee.bsky.social for updates.
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Such a pleasure to work with @boldinsights.bsky.social to put this piece together. Always happy to discuss the role of spatial thinking in STEM learning and beyond
“Spatial thinking is a fundamental, yet often neglected, aspect of human cognition.”
@zackhawes.bsky.social tells Aisha Schnellmann how central spatial thinking is to STEM learning. #EdChat boldscience.org/the-psycholo...
@zackhawes.bsky.social tells Aisha Schnellmann how central spatial thinking is to STEM learning. #EdChat boldscience.org/the-psycholo...
Spatial thinking in the STEM classroom
Zachary Hawes studies how spatial thinking makes abstract ideas accessible
boldscience.org
September 4, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Such a pleasure to work with @boldinsights.bsky.social to put this piece together. Always happy to discuss the role of spatial thinking in STEM learning and beyond
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New paper with @euniceyiu.bsky.social both a theoretical account of how empowerment in RL could lead to causal learning and some lovely experiments showing that children do just that.
Children & adults don't just explore—they seek empowerment: controllable and variable interventions. This intrinsic drive supports causal learning & generalization.
📄 Forthcoming in Phil. Trans. A (2026): osf.io/ept4n/download
With @alisongopnik.bsky.social, @shiryginosar.bsky.social & Kelsey Allen
📄 Forthcoming in Phil. Trans. A (2026): osf.io/ept4n/download
With @alisongopnik.bsky.social, @shiryginosar.bsky.social & Kelsey Allen
osf.io
June 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
New paper with @euniceyiu.bsky.social both a theoretical account of how empowerment in RL could lead to causal learning and some lovely experiments showing that children do just that.
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Training children's spatial skills improves their maths performance, research shows – and here are 6 ways teachers can do that
How to boost children’s spatial skills – and their maths performance
Training children’s spatial abilities improves maths performance, studies show – and new research from the University of Surrey identifies practical teaching methods to do just that
www.tes.com
June 17, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Training children's spatial skills improves their maths performance, research shows – and here are 6 ways teachers can do that
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✨New publication✨ #MathActivities on #SocialMedia: Examining content, design, and alignment with mathematical cognition research
doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
with Juyun Lee and Eric Dearing @ericdearing.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
with Juyun Lee and Eric Dearing @ericdearing.bsky.social
Redirecting
doi.org
June 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
✨New publication✨ #MathActivities on #SocialMedia: Examining content, design, and alignment with mathematical cognition research
doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
with Juyun Lee and Eric Dearing @ericdearing.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
with Juyun Lee and Eric Dearing @ericdearing.bsky.social
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Sharing my recent pub with the bsky community! The Factor Structure of Parents' Math-Related Talk and Its Relation to Children's Early Academic Skills doi.org/10.1111/cdev...
<em>Child Development</em> | SRCD Journal | Wiley Online Library
This study, involving 120 children (Mage = 4.25; SD = 0.83; 53% Female, 49% White, 23% multiracial, 16% Black, 9% Asian American, and 3% Latine) and their parents, examined parent talk constructs and....
doi.org
May 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Sharing my recent pub with the bsky community! The Factor Structure of Parents' Math-Related Talk and Its Relation to Children's Early Academic Skills doi.org/10.1111/cdev...
New paper alert: “From language to mathematics and vice versa?: A longitudinal study on the associations between preschoolers' mathematical language and mathematical abilities” with a wonderful team @bertdesmedt.bsky.social 🥳 Access here ➡️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
From language to mathematics and vice versa?: A longitudinal study on the associations between preschoolers' mathematical language and mathematical abilities
Mathematical language, such as quantitative (e.g., few) and spatial (e.g., after) terms, is critical for mathematical development. However, studies of…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 9, 2025 at 3:34 AM
New paper alert: “From language to mathematics and vice versa?: A longitudinal study on the associations between preschoolers' mathematical language and mathematical abilities” with a wonderful team @bertdesmedt.bsky.social 🥳 Access here ➡️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Come check out our lab's research this week at
@srcdorg.bsky.social! ✨
@srcdorg.bsky.social! ✨
April 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Come check out our lab's research this week at
@srcdorg.bsky.social! ✨
@srcdorg.bsky.social! ✨
It's different from the work I'm doing now, but I was involved in an fMRI project during my Master's and it's so exciting to see the outcome of it! Special thanks to Estela Camara and Audrey E. De Paepe as well as the whole Brainvitge group! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Striato-cortical connectivity patterns predict clinical profiles in Huntington’s disease
Huntington’s disease is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder affecting striato-cortical circuits, with significant heterogeneity in the severity an…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
It's different from the work I'm doing now, but I was involved in an fMRI project during my Master's and it's so exciting to see the outcome of it! Special thanks to Estela Camara and Audrey E. De Paepe as well as the whole Brainvitge group! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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New paper out of the lab! Can Carkoglu investigated the different ways parents respond to children's math errors (and correct responses). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
How does activity context relate to parents’ responses to preschoolers’ errors and correct math statements?
Research shows that parent–child math activities in the home positively relate to children’s math learning. Although there is evidence suggesting that…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
New paper out of the lab! Can Carkoglu investigated the different ways parents respond to children's math errors (and correct responses). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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I am one of these NSF postdocs. NSF has frozen everyone’s access to their salaries and research stipends (that were already awarded) with no information about when they might be expected to be unfrozen. It still appears like we are expected to continue doing our work though.
Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.
It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.
January 31, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I am one of these NSF postdocs. NSF has frozen everyone’s access to their salaries and research stipends (that were already awarded) with no information about when they might be expected to be unfrozen. It still appears like we are expected to continue doing our work though.
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@mclstrainee.bsky.social @mcls-official.bsky.social
Still making sense of ur data or looking for the 4th symposium speaker?😬
✨We've got you covered✨
📢MCLS deadline is extended to 26 JAN 2025. That's 9⃣more days or 2⃣1⃣6⃣hrs‼️ If you don't have a symposium, there's definitely time to form/join one😉
Still making sense of ur data or looking for the 4th symposium speaker?😬
✨We've got you covered✨
📢MCLS deadline is extended to 26 JAN 2025. That's 9⃣more days or 2⃣1⃣6⃣hrs‼️ If you don't have a symposium, there's definitely time to form/join one😉
January 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
@mclstrainee.bsky.social @mcls-official.bsky.social
Still making sense of ur data or looking for the 4th symposium speaker?😬
✨We've got you covered✨
📢MCLS deadline is extended to 26 JAN 2025. That's 9⃣more days or 2⃣1⃣6⃣hrs‼️ If you don't have a symposium, there's definitely time to form/join one😉
Still making sense of ur data or looking for the 4th symposium speaker?😬
✨We've got you covered✨
📢MCLS deadline is extended to 26 JAN 2025. That's 9⃣more days or 2⃣1⃣6⃣hrs‼️ If you don't have a symposium, there's definitely time to form/join one😉
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www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/ai-... — Alison Gopnik
A Very Human Answer to One of AI’s Deepest Dilemmas
Imagine that we designed a fully intelligent, autonomous robot that acted on the world to accomplish its goals. How could we make sure that it would want the same things we do? Alison Gopnik explores....
www.psychologicalscience.org
January 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/ai-... — Alison Gopnik
Thrilled to share exciting news!
I’ve joined Ariel Starr and her amazing team, the LCD Lab, as a Postdoc! I received the warmest welcome, and couldn’t be more excited to work alongside such brilliant minds 🥳 Yay Huskies!
I’ve joined Ariel Starr and her amazing team, the LCD Lab, as a Postdoc! I received the warmest welcome, and couldn’t be more excited to work alongside such brilliant minds 🥳 Yay Huskies!
January 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Thrilled to share exciting news!
I’ve joined Ariel Starr and her amazing team, the LCD Lab, as a Postdoc! I received the warmest welcome, and couldn’t be more excited to work alongside such brilliant minds 🥳 Yay Huskies!
I’ve joined Ariel Starr and her amazing team, the LCD Lab, as a Postdoc! I received the warmest welcome, and couldn’t be more excited to work alongside such brilliant minds 🥳 Yay Huskies!
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New year, new paper! 4- and 5-year-olds can represent abstract relations (i.e., sameness and difference) predicated on an abstract dimension (i.e., kind membership) in a relational match-to-sample task. Moreover, noun label training facilitates task performance.
direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
Preschoolers Represent Abstract Relations Predicated on Kind Membership
Abstract. Recent work demonstrates that U.S. preschoolers can represent the abstract relational concepts same and different when these abstract relational concepts are predicated upon perceptual dimen...
direct.mit.edu
January 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
New year, new paper! 4- and 5-year-olds can represent abstract relations (i.e., sameness and difference) predicated on an abstract dimension (i.e., kind membership) in a relational match-to-sample task. Moreover, noun label training facilitates task performance.
direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
I am incredibly happy to have been part of this work! A wonderful team to work with and to learn from ☺️
Ending the year with another paper from our lab. This was part of my amazing MA student Şeref's thesis at our lab with a great team! @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social @turaneylul.bsky.social
Sources of variation in preschoolers’ relational reasoning: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Sources of variation in preschoolers’ relational reasoning: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Sources of variation in preschoolers’ relational reasoning: The interaction between language use and working memory
Previous research has suggested the importance of relational language and working memory in children’s relational reasoning. The tendency to use langu…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 19, 2024 at 7:50 AM
I am incredibly happy to have been part of this work! A wonderful team to work with and to learn from ☺️
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Delighted to write for the Times Education Supplement.
Timms: Could a focus on spatial reasoning improve maths scores?
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
For more: www.surrey.ac.uk/spatial-reas...
Timms: Could a focus on spatial reasoning improve maths scores?
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
For more: www.surrey.ac.uk/spatial-reas...
Timss: could a focus on spatial reasoning improve maths scores?
The latest Timss international rankings show English pupils' weakness in key areas of maths – and our lack of focus on spatial reasoning is a major factor, argues Emily Farran
www.tes.com
December 8, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Delighted to write for the Times Education Supplement.
Timms: Could a focus on spatial reasoning improve maths scores?
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
For more: www.surrey.ac.uk/spatial-reas...
Timms: Could a focus on spatial reasoning improve maths scores?
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
For more: www.surrey.ac.uk/spatial-reas...
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A reminder to join us tomorrow (December 3) for our Speed Networking Events! Join us at 4pm HKT / 7pm AEDT / 8am GMT / 9am CET and/or 11am EST / 8am PST / 4pm GMT / 5pm CET to chat informally with potential mentors, mentees, and buddy matches!
Save the date for our December Special: 2 Speed Networking Events to launch this year's MCLS mentoring program. Join us on December 3rd at 11am EST / 8am PST / 4pm GMT / 5pm CET and/or at 4pm HKT / 7pm AEDT / 8am GMT / 9am CET to chat informally with potential mentors, mentees, and buddy matches!
December 2, 2024 at 1:39 PM
A reminder to join us tomorrow (December 3) for our Speed Networking Events! Join us at 4pm HKT / 7pm AEDT / 8am GMT / 9am CET and/or 11am EST / 8am PST / 4pm GMT / 5pm CET to chat informally with potential mentors, mentees, and buddy matches!
For my first post on bsky, a throwback: me two months ago becoming a Dr. 🤓 Forever grateful to my fabulous advisor @bertdesmedt.bsky.social and jury members @ekfarran.bsky.social @davidjpurpura.bsky.social and Pol Ghesquière.
Bonus: the beautiful sea in Turkey & lovely gift from my colleagues!
Bonus: the beautiful sea in Turkey & lovely gift from my colleagues!
November 27, 2024 at 7:48 PM
For my first post on bsky, a throwback: me two months ago becoming a Dr. 🤓 Forever grateful to my fabulous advisor @bertdesmedt.bsky.social and jury members @ekfarran.bsky.social @davidjpurpura.bsky.social and Pol Ghesquière.
Bonus: the beautiful sea in Turkey & lovely gift from my colleagues!
Bonus: the beautiful sea in Turkey & lovely gift from my colleagues!