New review paper led by our PI Tilbe Göksun, Demet Özer, Burcu Arslan, Gyulten Hyusein, and Emir Akbuğa!
@tilbegoksun.bsky.social
@gyultenhyusein.bsky.social
"Gesture Use Across Different Concepts: Focusing on Cross‐Linguistic Diversity"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Our MA student Kardelen Koç presented her recent work at the Congress of International Association of Empirical Aesthetics in Jena, Germany (May 5–8). Congratulations Kardelen! 🎉
Our master's student Kardelen Koç has been accepted to PhD in Psychology at George Mason University!
Congrats Kardelen!🍀
We hosted @ydkisa.bsky.social at our lab meeting this week, who is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at the Max Planck Institute! Yağmur worked as an undergraduate assistant at L&C Lab. Thank you for this great presentation, Yağmur!
Our master's student Can Ceylan has been accepted to PhD in Psychology at the University of Toronto!
Congrats Can! 🎊 @scanceylan.bsky.social
We are happy to announce that our PI Tilbe Göksun @TilbeGoksun.bsky.social has been elected to Academia Europaea (@acad-euro.bsky.social)! 🎊
Yesterday, we hosted Prof. Sotaro Kita @sotarokita.bsky.social from the University of Warwick at Koç University
@kocuniversity.bsky.social!
Dr. Kita gave a presentation on hand gestures, language, and thought.
Thank you for this great talk!
This review synthesizes research findings on individuals' cospeech gesture production across four concepts (space, time, event, and emotion) that are encoded and expressed differently across language...
Great news from the Science Academy’s BAGEP Awards! Our lab director, Tilbe Göksun, spoke as a newly elected member, and our former postdoc, Dilay Karadöller, received the BAGEP award.
@tilbegoksun.bsky.social
@dilaykaradoller.bsky.social
Huge congrats to Dilay and all the awardees! 🎉
Language and Cognition Lab is now accepting applications for Koç University Summer Research Program! 🎓✨
Open to both undergraduate and graduate students
🗓️ Application deadline: 15 May 2026
🔗 More info & apply:
research.ku.edu.tr/research-out...
New study led by our PhD student Begüm Yılmaz!
@begumyilmaz.bsky.social
@dilaykaradoller.bsky.social
Müge Caferoğlu
@tilbegoksun.bsky.social
@ecedemirlira.bsky.social
"Parental gestural math input and children's math skills: An intervention study"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Koc University Language & Cognition Lab
Koc University Language & Cognition Lab
Koc University Language & Cognition Lab
Koc University Language & Cognition Lab
2026 Graduate and Undergraduate Projects Apply to KUSRP Development of Communication and Languge; Interaction with Robots Aylin Küntay Psychology In person attendance required July 1-September 1, 2026...
The present intervention study examines how parents' use of gestures changes the way they provide math talk to their children, and whether increased u…
