In the past two years I have been slowly removing deadlines in my undergrad teaching and allowing students to have multiple attempts for an assignment. The results have been positive so far so I'm sharing the idea here. Two things have been bothering me in teaching: 1. we know

So excited about this work being published! Fabulous former (Erim Kızıldere) and current (Şeref Can Esmer) grad students Erim & Şeref did a wonderful job! Koc University Language & Cognition Lab From woof woof to dog: Interactions between parents' use of sound symbolic words and infants' vocabulary development

It's been a joyful process to work with two great researchers: my wonderful friend and colleague Erim Kızıldere and our splendid advisor Tilbe Göksun. Stay tuned for the follow-ups! Koc University Language & Cognition Lab

A great paper showing not only the link between parent language use and child vocabulary knowledge, but also investigating this in a sound symbolically rich language (i.e., Turkish)! I find it always amusing to learn more about my native-language🤓

I could not be at Burcu's talk (I was presenting at a symposium), but I am sure she did a wonderful job! She presented her work on speech disfluency and gestures! Burcu and thanks Jonas for tweeting!

Most kids love pretend play. But did you know that pretend play can reduce gender gaps in STEM? Our new paper in press Association for Psychological Science shows that pretending to be a woman role model boosts 4-7 yr old girls’ science persistence Tamar Kushnir, Lin Bian 🧵1/4 cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/voices.uchicag…

Woof woof, boing, choo choo, beep and many other sound symbols parents say to their babies might contribute to their vocabulary development! Check out our paper with Şeref Can Esmer and Tilbe Göksun! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Huge congrats to the legendary Demet Özer! She has always been super duper supportive to those who want to pursue a career in academia and contributing to the multimodal language processing literature meticulously! Also congrats to her mentor Tilbe Göksun, always at her side!

You are gonna be great! Congrats to your new position Burak Özkum!

Here is a new paper from our lab led by Emir & Demet! Demet Özer Koc University Language & Cognition Lab Gesture use in L1-Turkish and L2-English: Evidence from emotional narrative retellings The accepted version is here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

📣📣Check out our new paper w/Minel Instantaneous positive feedback (rewards in video games) can facilitate flow. Then flow can lead to high intrinsic motivation for the subsequent cognitive task and enhance the performance. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

When hate couples with ignorance.. Still cannot believe that this happened.

Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science: it has led to premature claims of universality (due to over-sampling of English speakers) and limited the cognitive constructs being examined (due to the use of English as a meta-language). doi.org/10.1016/j.tics…

We’re excited to introduce Carlos Albizu Miranda for this week’s DEI spotlight!

I should start checking Twitter more frequently! I am just seeing that my dear friend Sally Hang, M.A. tweeted about both of us giving presentations on structural equation modeling! Her presentation rocked the class! Shout out to our prof Mijke Rhemtulla, she taught us A LOT!

My lab is looking for a researcher to coordinate our exciting NSF project about parent-infant interactions in bilingual families! Bachelor’s degree-level position, great for people interested in getting more research experience before grad school. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF05763

Found a way to combine some of my passions. Allow me to present: infant studies representing each of Taylor Swift's eras ✨🫶💖 (a thread)