Koc University Language & Cognition Lab
@KuLanguage
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We study language and cognition interface, led by @GoksunTilbe. Bilingual (Turkish-English) tweets.
Istanbul - Turkey
Joined October 2019
Last week, we hosted Salih Özdemir, who completed his MA at L&C Lab! Salih shared his ongoing doctoral research at the University of California, San Diego. Thank you Salih for this amazing talk! 🥳
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Lab direktörümüz Tilbe Göksun'un Bilim Akademisi'ne asli üye olarak seçildiğini duyurmaktan mutluluk duyuyoruz! @BilimAkademisi We are proud to announce that our PI Tilbe Göksun @GoksunTilbe has been elected to the Science Academy (Bilim Akademisi)!
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Last week, we hosted Işıl Doğan, who completed her MA at the L&C Lab! Işıl shared her ongoing doctoral research at the University of California, Davis. Thank you Işıl for this great talk! 🥳 @Isildogan_
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4-5 yaş çocuğunuz varsa araştırmamıza davetlisiniz! Çocukların matematik becerilerini araştırdığımız çalışmamıza katılmak için skarakas24@ku.edu.tr ile iletişime geçebilirsiniz 🌿
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New article led by our PhD student Can Avcı! @avcican_
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@GoksunTilbe “Assessing Others’ Knowledge Through Their Speech Disfluencies and Gestures” https://t.co/7yExz939oo
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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...
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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! 🥳 @erimkizildere
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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! 🥳 @PennywiseDerler
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How to develop good research questions https://t.co/XIjlYux0hC
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This week, we hosted Dr. Zeynep Aslan in our lab! Zeynep previously worked in our team as a graduate student. She presented her PhD studies and her current work she is conducting at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Thank you for this great presentation! 🥳 @zeynepaslan94
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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! 🥳
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Our lab graduate @GyultenHyusein has joined Kadir Has University! Congratulations Gyulten! 👏🏽🎉
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7-9 aylık bebeğiniz varsa çalışmamıza davetlisiniz! 🌼 Bebeklerin görsel tercihlerinin estetik algılarını nasıl şekillendirdiğini incelediğimiz bu çalışmaya online olarak kolayca katılabilirsiniz. İletişim için: kkoc24@ku.edu.tr
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Our PI Tilbe Göksun @GoksunTilbe was a keynote speaker at IEEE ICDL Conference @icdl2025 held in Prague with her talk on the links between spatial cognition and multimodal language!
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One of our recent studies on speech disfluencies, gestures, and metacognition is now featured on the Cognitive Science Society blog! 🎉
Do speech disfluencies and gestures merely help us articulate our thoughts, or can they also shape how we reflect on those thoughts?🤔🧠 Get the full story on @cogsci_soc blog! https://t.co/qTtctDYqTb w/ @ReyhanFurman, @GoksunTilbe, and @terryeskenazi
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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 🎉 @ibrahimakkan_ @begum_yilmaz_
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Here is our take on Scaff et al.'s recent paper: Diversity as a Core Feature of Language Acquisition https://t.co/eiogBqy03y
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This commentary builds on Scaff et al.’s (2025) systematic review of the CHILDES database, highlighting persistent biases in child language corpora and research. We expand the discussion, emphasizi...
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New publication from L&C Lab led by our former member Gyulten Hyusein and our PI Tilbe Göksun! @GyultenHyusein @GoksunTilbe "The Role of Non-Representational Hand Gestures in Creative Thinking" Read the article 👇 https://t.co/36yJbsGJkV
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Previous studies suggest that representational gestures support divergent thinking and that mental imagery is necessary for gestures to aid convergent thinking. However, less is known about non-rep...
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New Publication with @GoksunTilbe @KuLanguage ! 🎉 Our latest study examines beat & palm-revealing gestures during creative thinking. https://t.co/jTztGvZcxC Surprisingly, these gestures, unlike representational ones, may not always help creativity and sometimes even hinder it.
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Our 6-week summer research program has come to an end! We are grateful to our incredible high school and undergraduate assistants for their dedication and hard work throughout the program 🎉
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Our study examining the role of speaker-related cognitive constraints (speakers’ spatial skills) and listener-oriented communicative demands (listeners’ perceived spatial aptitude) on multimodal language is published as @cogsci_soc conf proceeding w/ @GoksunTilbe Link below👇🏼
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