Berna Uzundağ and Sümeyye Koşkulu presented their poster about mother-infant interaction and infants’ language development at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development.

Sümeyye Koşkulu successfully defended her master dissertation titled “Maternal Behaviors and Joint Attention Mediate the Link Between Maternal Education Level and Infants’ Language Development” and received her M.A. degree. Congratulations!

Cansu Oranç successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation titled “Knowledge Acquisition of preschoolers from technological source” and received her Ph.D. degree. Congratulations!

Berna Uzundag and Sümeyye Koşkulu presented their poster titled “The Development of Attentional Orienting and its Relation to Cognitive Development” at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development.

We completed the 3-year-long L2TOR: Second Language Tutoring using Social Robots Project. To celebrate, we organized an international and multidisciplinary symposium at Koç University. Aylin Küntay, Junko Kanero and Cansu Oranç presented our L2TOR-related studies.

Hilal H. Şen successfully defended her PhD dissertation “Conversational interactions of peer dyads in rule observance situations” and received her PhD degree. Congratulations!

Our M.A. student Sümeyye Koşkulu presented her research at the 8th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies: Gesture and Diversity in Cape Town. Koşkulu, S., Ger, E. & Küntay, A. (2018). Relationship between gesture and language in infants: Devamını Oku

With the moderation of Yankı Yazgan, we talked about “language-communication, spatial skills, math, technology use, digital applications for the cognitive development” in early childhood in the panel of Aklın Çocuk Hali: İlk Yıllardan Öğrendiklerimiz. The speakers are: Elif Baykal, Ece Demir-Lira, Tilbe Devamını Oku

Berna Uzundağ successfully defended her PhD dissertation “Referring to entities and conveying source of information: Development of children’s communicative skills” and received her PhD degree. Congratulations!