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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 →

                We celebrated a productive summer and many achievements!  Read More →

Our graduate student Elif Baykal was one of the organizers of a workshop at the Conference on Interaction Design and Children. The conference took place in June 2017 at Stanford University. Check out the publications page for the proceeding paper.  Read More →

We attended the annual meeting of Cognitive Science Society in London, UK last week. Check out the publications page for the proceeding papers we presented there.  Read More →

Our graduate student Demet Özer attended a workshop on “The Role of Gesture in Cognitive and Linguistic Processes” organized by Sotaro Kita at University of Warwick. (http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/psych/research/language/gesture2017/)Read More →

In June, Seda Karaköse Akbıyık and Demet Özer presented their work at the “Language as a Form of Action” Conference in Rome, Italy.  Read More →

Last Saturday (June 17), our independent study/honors students  graduated. Yağmur Deniz Kısa  will start her PhD at the University of Chicago psychology program. She graduated 3rd in the college! Merve Tansan who graduated 1st in the college will finish up her Management degree at Koç and Can Çarkoğlu will also finish up his degree here before moving to graduate programs! Büşra İzgi will continue her PhD studies in Turkey. We wish good luck to all of them!Read More →

Last week, at the Budapest Cognitive Development Conference (http://www.bcccd.org/), undergraduate students Can Çarkoğlu, İlkim Sarıçimen, and Yağmur Deniz Kısa and PhD student Aslı Aktan Erciyes presented their work.         Read More →