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Between July 04-08, graduate students Demet Özer and Hazal Kartalkanat presented their latest research findings at the gesture conference (ISGS) in Cape Town!Read More →

Between June 30 – July 3, 2018, post-doc Aslı Aktan-Erciyes presented her research at the ICIS conference in Philadelphia, PA.Read More →

On June 23, many undergraduate and graduate student from the lab graduated!  They will start new adventures all around the world. We wish good luck to all of them!Read More →

Seda Akbıyık received her MA degree (co-advisors: Tilbe Göksun & Fuat Balcı). Her thesis title is “Colored by Language: The role of latent decision processes and left anterior temporal cortex in categorical color perception.” Seda will continue her PhD at Harvard University, USA. Congratulations Seda, we will miss you in the lab!  Read More →

Gökçe Elif Baykal received her PhD degree (co-advisors: Tilbe Göksun & Asım Evren Yantaç). Her dissertation title is “Developing Transmedia Learning Environment to Facilitate Spatial Skills of Preschoolers: A Child-Centered Approach to Design.” Congratulations Elif, we will miss you in the lab!Read More →

Between May  31 – June 2, 2018, post-doc Aslı Aktan-Erciyes and masters student Hazal Kartalkanat presented their research at the Jean Piaget Conference in Netherlands.  Read More →

Between January 4-7, at the Budapest Cognitive Development Conference (http://www.bcccd.org/), undergraduate students Eylül Turan and Erim Kızıldere presented their work.  Read More →

Our director Tilbe Göksun recently received JSMF Human Cognition Scholar Award! This award is given to recognize and support to study human cognition. This year the emphasis was on developmental science. The lab will receive funding for 6 years and we will continue to study early language learning, focusing on event representation and relational language. Please see the link below for further information: https://www.jsmf.org/grants/20170003/Read More →

We were in the Cognitive Summit 2017 that was held in Ege University, İzmir. Tilbe Göksun gave a talk on “Language & Thought Interaction” and our PhD student Seda Karaköse Akbıyık presented a poster. Read More →