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
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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
@KuLanguage @LabSomi
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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
@AsliErciyes
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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.
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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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Our pre-registeted #EEGManyLabs project testing the replicability of N2pc (across 22 labs from 14 countries) originally reported by Eimer (1996) is now out in Cortex @CORTEXjournal
https://t.co/rhpOoVwfzf
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New publication from L&C Lab led by our PhD student Begüm Yılmaz @begum_yilmaz_ ! @ReyhanFurman
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@GoksunTilbe “Speech disfluencies and hand gestures as metacognitive cues” https://t.co/K14WCXLKsb
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How language interacts with metacognitive processes is an understudied area. Earlier research shows that people produce disfluencies (i.e., “uh” s or “um” s) in their speech when they are not sure...
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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 the Graduate Student Representative on the Cognitive Science Society Board! @cogsci_soc
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This year we attended #cogsci2025 with a talk and a poster! Our alumni Demet Özer @DemetOzer11 gave a talk on her recent work with @GoksunTilbe and our graduate student Can Ceylan @can_ceylan_ presented his poster on the relationship between gestures and emotions! @cogsci_soc
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New study from L&C Lab led by our former lab member Işıl Doğan @Isildogan_ ! @erimkizildere @mertkobas @oedemir @AsliErciyes @GoksunTilbe Read the paper through the link below 👇🏼 https://t.co/2dSAdZzNcK
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This study examined whether (1) parents’ language input and its modality differed in Turkish-learning preterm (PT) (<37 weeks of gestation) and full-term infants (FT), and (2) the type of language ...
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We presented our latest work at the 10th International Society for Gesture Studies! @isgs2025 We congratulate our alumni and graduate students 🎉 @GoksunTilbe @zeynepaslan94 @DemetOzer11 @GyultenHyusein @begum_yilmaz_ and Kardelen Koç!
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Our PI Tilbe Göksun was a keynote speaker at the 10th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies! 🎉 We thank @isgs2025 for this amazing organization!
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