İbrahim Akkan

MA in Psychology, 2023 (Thesis on foreign language effect on personal narratives and the role of gesture production)

Currently, Ph.D. student at Koç University

Salih Can Özdemir

MA in Psychology, 2023 (Thesis on combining forces for casual reasoning)

Currently, Ph.D. student at University of California, San Diego, USA

Dr. Burcu Arslan

Ph.D. in Psychology, 2023 (Thesis on understanding gesture-speech interaction
through the lens of gestures)

Currently, Post-doctoral researcher at Koç University

Şeref Can Esmer

MA in Psychology, 2023 (Thesis on sources of variation in preschoolers)

Currently, Ph.D. student at Yale University, New Heaven, USA

Dr. Demet Özer

Post-doctoral fellow (2021-2022)

Currently, Asst. Prof. at Kadir Has University, Istanbul

Ceylan Beşevli

Ph.D. in Design and Society, 2022 (Thesis on design considerations for young children’s magnitude understanding)

Co-advised by Prof. Oğuzhan Özcan and Assoc. Prof Tilbe Göksun

Currently a Post-doctoral researcher at UCL, Multi-Sensory Research Group

Işıl Doğan

MA in Psychology, 2022 (Thesis on children’s iconic gesture comprehension)

Currently Ph.D. student at University of California, Davis, USA

Esma Asalıoğlu

MA in Psychology, 2022 (Thesis on emotion understanding and gestures)

Zeynep Adıgüzel

MA in Psychology, 2021 (Thesis on Turkish-learning children’s recency bias)

Erim Kızıldere

MA in Psychology, 2021 (Thesis on pretend play and language development)

Currently Ph.D. student at University of California, Davis, USA

Mert Kobaş

MA in Psychology, 2021 (Thesis on object exploration and spatial language development)

Currently Ph.D. student at New York University, USA

Aslı Yurtsever

MA in Psychology, 2021 (Thesis on bilingualism and inference-making)

Currently Ph.D. student at Iowa State University, USA

Ezgi Bilgin

MA in Psychology, 2020 (Thesis on the interplay between language and memory)

Currently Ph.D. student at Cornell University, USA

Sümeyra Saatçi

MA in Psychology, 2019 (Thesis on Parkinson’s Disease and gesture)

Currently Clinical Psychology MA student at Koç University

Zeynep Aslan

MA in Psychology, 2019 (Thesis on emotion and language)

Currently Ph.D. student at University of Chicago, USA

Junko Kanero 

Postdoctoral fellow (2016-1018)

Currently Asst. Prof. at Sabancı University, Istanbul

Aslı Aktan Erciyes

Postdoctoral fellow (2017-2018)

Currently Asst. Prof. at Kadir Has University, Istanbul

Gökçe Elif Baykal

Ph.D. in Design, Technology, and Society, 2018 (Dissertation on tangibles and spatial learning)

After the lab postdoctoral fellow at Aarhus University, Denmark

Currently Asst. Prof. at Özyeğin University

Seda Akbıyık

MA in Psychology, 2018 (Thesis on color categorization and language)

Currently Ph.D. student at Harvard University, USA

Hazal Kartalkanat

MA in Psychology, 2018 (Thesis on gesture and memory)

Eylül Turan 

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Honors Thesis  (2016-2018)

After the lab MS student at the Brain and Cognitive Sciences in University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Currently Ph.D. student at KU Leuven

Can Çarkoğlu

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Honors Thesis  (2015-2018)

After the lab MA student at the University of Chicago, USA

Currently Ph.D. student at Purdue University

Orhun Uluşahin

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Honors Thesis  (2015-2018)

After the lab MSc Student in Cognitive Neuroscience Program at Radboud University, Netherlands

Currently Ph.D. student at Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics at Nijmegen

Erim Kızıldere

Undergraduate Research Assistant (2016-2018)

Currently MA student at Koç University Psychology program

Yağmur Deniz Kısa

Undergraduate Research Assistant (2015-2017)

Currently Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago, USA

(Fulbright Scholarship recipient)

Dilara Avdagiç

Undergraduate Research Assistant (2015-2017)

After the lab MA Student in Family Therapy Program at Özyeğin University, Istanbul

(Fulbright Scholarship recipient)

Ezgi Mamus 

Research Assistant (2016-2017)

Currently Ph.D. student at Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics, Netherlands

Ege Ekin Özer 

Undergraduate Research Assistant (2015-2017)

Currently Ph.D. Student in University of Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Vasfiye Geçgin 

Postdoctoral Researcher (2016-2017)

Niloofar Akhavan

MA in Psychology, 2016 (Thesis on motion events in Farsi)

Currently Ph.D. student at UCSD and San Fransisco State University, CA, USA

Demet Özer

MA in Psychology, 2016 (Thesis on language and duration perception)

Currently Ph.D. student at Koç University

Deniz Çetin

Honors Student  (2015-2016)

After the lab MA Student at Leiden University, Netherlands

Melis Çetinçelik

Honors Student  (2015-2016)

After the lab MA Student at University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Currently Ph.D. student at Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics at Nijmegen

Ayşenur Karaduman

MA in Cognitive Psychology, 2015 (Thesis on narrative production in focal brain injury)

Currently Ph.D. student at Bilkent University, Ankara

Esra Nur Çatak

MA in Cognitive Psychology, 2015 (Thesis on body specificity hypothesis and gestures)

Currently Ph.D. student at Bilkent University, Ankara

Aslıhan Bağcı

Undergraduate Independent Study Student (2014-2015)

After the lab MA in Applied Developmental Psychology Program at Özyeğin University, Istanbul

Sevgi Bahtiyar

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Honors Thesis  (2014-2015)

Currently Ph.D. Student in Cognitive Neuroscience Program at Radboud University, Netherlands

İdil Bostan

Undergraduate Research Assistant (2014-2015)

After the Lab  Research Assistant at Koç University Arçelik Research Center for Creative Industries  

MSc Student in Cognitive Neuroscience Program at Radboud University, Netherlands

Ceylin Ertekin 

Undergraduate Independent Study Student, Honors Thesis (2014-2015)

Currently works at UX division of Arçelik

After the Lab – MA Student at University of South California, USA

Summer Research Assistants from Other Universities

2019

Elif Erkekli (İstanbul University)

Mahmut Kurupınar (Boğaziçi University)

Gülfem Sarı (Ege University)

Yağmur Şentürk (Sabancı University)

2018

Alp Domaniç (Sabancı University)

Nesli Aslan (Sabancı University)

Feyza Nur Dik (Boğaziçi University)

Bartuğ Çelik (Bilkent University)

2016

Ayça Başçı (Bilkent University)

Buse Ölmez (Özyeğin University)

Mehmet Arda Güneyi (Boğaziçi University)

2015

İdil Alaftar (Bilkent University)

Benay Başkurt (Bilkent University)

Gülipek Candan (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Hilal Demircan (Boğaziçi University)

Melike Hazır (Boğaziçi University)

Atakan Kaya (Boğaziçi University)

Aziz Gürkan Tan (Uludağ University)

2014

Gürer Gündöndü (St. Johns College, USA)