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LangCogLab @AMLaP2024

Fatma Nur Öztürk and Duygu Sarısoy will make a poster presentation entitled "Can someone really fall in despair?: Facilitating children's processing of metaphors through Theory of Mind training" at...

METU Language and Cognitive Development Lab Seminar Series

Simge Topaloğlu from Harvard University will virtually visit our lab on December 13th and give a speech titled “Does Language Affect Children's Understanding of Number Concepts?”. Please contact lcd@...

LangCogLab @BUCLD48

We presented our study "Domain and conventionality influence how metaphors are processed as well as children's inhibitory control and working memory: A gesture-based study with Turkish speaking...

LangCogLab at the 7th Experimental Cognitive Psychology Symposium!

Fatma Nur Öztürk and Duygu Sarısoy gave a talk entitled "Moving Beyond Literal Motions: Transference Effects of Theory of Mind Intervention On Children's Processing of Metaphorical Expressions" at...

LangCogLab @XPRAG2023

Ecenur Çağırıcı will make a poster presentation entitled "Investigating conditional presuppositions and prior beliefs" at the 10th XPRAG - Experimental Pragmatics Conference on 20th September...

LangCogLab @BUCLD48

Our lab will give a talk and poster presentation at the 48th Boston University Conference on Language Development on 2nd-5th November 2023. Congratulations Meryem Ezgi Bayramoğlu and Semih Can Aktepe...

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METU Workshop on Conditional and Causal Reasoning

We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the Middle East Technical University Workshop on Conditional and Causal Reasoning (METU WCCR), which will be hosted by Middle East Technical...

METU Language and Cognitive Development Lab Seminar Series

Dr. Yağmur Deniz Kısa from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology will virtually visit our lab on December 20th and give a speech titled "Do Gestures Really Facilitate Speech...

METU Language and Cognitive Development Lab Seminar Series

Mary Beth Neff from the University of Oslo will virtually visit our lab on December 6th and give a speech titled "Uncoupling Children's Literal Bias from Their Metaphor Comprehension Abilities"....

METU Language and Cognitive Development Lab Seminar Series

Prof. Dr. Özgür Aydın from Ankara University will virtually visit our lab on November 22nd and give a speech titled "Geçişsiz Eylemlerin İşlenmesi: Taşımanın Etkisi Var mı?". Please contact us...

NEW: A Book Chapter!

Duygu Özge and Özlem Yeter have a book chapter titled "Salience and definiteness in Turkish children’s narratives" in Paths through meaning and form: Festschrift offered to Klaus von Heusinger...

Congratulations Meryem Ezgi Bayramoğlu

Congratulations to our lab member Meryem Ezgi Bayramoğlu for receiving the Fulbright FLTA Scholarship for the 2023-2024 academic year.

LCDL at 9th XPRAG - Experimental Pragmatics Conference

Özge Günay will make a poster presentation titled "Preschool children incrementally interpret causal and concessive connectors" at 9th XPRAG - Experimental Pragmatics Conference on 22nd ...

Congratulations Özlem Yeter.

We are very proud to share that our lab member, Özlem Yeter, accepted a Phd offer in Philosophy at the University of Groningen for Fall2022! Congratulations Özlem! Well-deserved!

Effects of Modality Differences on the Development of Spatial Language and Memory

METU Language and Cognitive Development Lab Seminar Series: Effects of Modality Differences on the Development of Spatial Language and Memory

Dr. Dilay Z. Karadöller from Koç University will virtually visit our lab on April 20th and give a speech titled "Effects of Modality Differences on the Development of Spatial Language and Memory"....

METU Language and Cognitive Development Lab Seminar Series: The Implications of Polysemy for Theories of Word Learning

METU Language and Cognitive Development Lab Seminar Series: The Implications of Polysemy for Theories of Word Learning

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mahesh Srinivasan from University of California, Berkeley will virtually visit our lab on Tuesday April 12th at 8 pm and give a speech titled "The Implications of...

METU Language and Cognitive Development Lab Seminar Series: Sources of Variation in Early Language Learning

METU Language and Cognitive Development Lab Seminar Series: Sources of Variation in Early Language Learning

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tilbe Göksun from Koç University will virtually visit our lab on April 6th and give a speech titled "Sources of Variation in Early Language Learning". Please contact lcd@metu.edu.tr...

METU Language and Cognitive Development Lab Seminar Series: More Than Words: Maternal Mental State Talk in Repeated Storytellings as a Form of Dynamic Scaffolding That Supports Social-Cognitive Development

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hande Ilgaz from Bilkent University will virtually visit our lab on March 30th and give a speech titled "More Than Words: Maternal Mental State Talk in Repeated Storytellings as a...

METU Language and Cognitive Development Lab Seminar Series: Effects of L2-English on Causal Structures in L1-Turkish Frog Story Narratives of Children

Asst. Prof. Dr. Aslı Aktan Erciyes from Kadir Has University is going to virtually visit our lab on January 12th and give a speech titled "Effects of L2-English on Causal Structures in L1-Turkish...

METU Language and Cognitive Development Lab Reading Groups

METU Language and Cognitive Development Lab Reading Groups

If you would like to join our reading groups, please read the invitation below and send an email to lcd@metu.edu.tr

METU-Edinburgh Workshop on Language and Cognition in Under-Represented Children

As METU Language and Cognitive Development Lab, we invite you to submit your finalized or ongoing work to our online workshop titled "METU-Edinburgh Workshop on Language and Cognition in Under-...

METU Language and Cognitive Development Lab Seminar Series: Epistemology and Apriori Knowledge

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Samet Bağçe from Middle East Technical University is going to virtually visit our lab on July 1st and give a speech titled “Epistemology and Apriori Knowledge”. For further details...

METU Language and Cognitive Development Lab Seminar Series: Temporality and Categorical Interactions

Assoc. Prof. Soner Akşehirli from Ege University is going to virtually visit our lab on June 24th and give a speech titled "Temporality and Categorical Interactions". For further details and...

METU Language and Cognitive Development Lab Seminar Series: Brain Lateralisation in Figurative Language Processing: An rTMS Study

Dr. Hazel Zeynep Kurada from Hacettepe University is going to virtually visit our lab on June 10th and give a speech titled "Brain Lateralisation in Figurative Language Processing: An rTMS Study"....

New Paper published online on the Proceedings of 45th Annual Boston University Conference

Paper by Özlem Yeter, Hugh Rabagliati (University of Edinburgh) and Duygu Özge is now published online with the tittle "Are Refugee Bilingual Children Disadvantaged in Their Cognitive and Linguistics...

METU Language and Cognitive Development Lab Seminar Series: Some Generalizations about Quantification in Natural Languages

Asst. Prof. İsa Kerem Bayırlı from TOBB University of Economics and Technology is going to virtually visit our lab on 27 May and will present about "Some Generalizations about Quantification in...

Language and Cognitive Development Lab is looking for a researcher!

Language and Cognitive Development Lab is looking for a doctoral and post-doctoral researcher interested in semantic and pragmatic processing to work in a project titled Metaphor Processing and...

New Paper in Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi!

Fatma Nur Öztürk, Meryem Ezgi Bayramoğlu and Duygu Özge have a new paper titled "Processing Metaphors: Models of Processing, Factors Influencing Processing Mechanisms, and Recent Studies in Turkish"...

METU Language and Cognitive Development Lab Seminar Series: Learning Sound Contrasts from Infancy to Adulthood

Assoc. Prof. Izabelle Grenon from Tokyo University is going to virtually visit METU Language and Cognitive Development Lab on 14 January and will present about learning sound contrasts in first and...

LangCogLab @Virtual LDS Seminars, Harvard University.

Duygu Özge will present how children use morphosyntax to understand various aspects of meaning at LDS Brownbag Lunch Speaker Series on 16th November, 2020. Abstract: Adult-like mastery of...

The Multilingual Mind: lecture series on multilingualism across disciplines

Prof Dr Theodoros Marinis (University of Konstanz) & Duygu Özge (Middle East Technical University): How do bilingual children acquire complex syntax in their heritage vs. the majority language:...

LangCogLab @Virtual BUCLD45

The lab will virtually go to BUCLD, presenting Are refugee bilingual children disadvantaged in their cognitive and linguistic abilities? by Özlem Yeter, Hugh Rabagliati, Duygu Özge Click here...

Summer Retreat Seminar Series

We are happy to announce that our lab will be hosting a series of summer retreat seminars online. The series include variety of topics linking psycholinguistic theory with practical research skills....

New paper in Frontiers in Psychology!

Gülten Ünal (Yıldırım Beyazıt University), Duygu Özge and Theodoris Marinis (University of Konstanz & University of Reading) have a new paper titled "Assessing Complex Working Memory in Turkish-...

New paper in Dil Dergisi!

Duygu Özge has a new paper titled "Sentence Processing Processes" in Dil Dergisi. https://doi.org/10.33690/dilder.693690 Abstract: This article aims to describe the components of the sentence...

Two papers in Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi!

Enis Oğuz (Istanbul University) and Duygu Özge have a new paper titled "A Developmental Study on Turkish Connectives" in Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi. https://doi.org/10.18492/dad.698824 Abstract:...

Congratulations, Ebru!

We are super thrilled for our own Ebru Evcen, who accepted a PhD offer in Linguistics at the University of California San Diego for Fall2020! Congratulations Ebru! Well-deserved!

NEW: A chapter in Discourse Meaning: The View from Turkish

We have a new book chapter! Özge, D. & Evcen, E. (2020). Referential form, word order and emotional valence in Turklish pronoun resolution in physical contact events. In Zeyrek. D. & Özge, U...

LangCogLab @Virtual CUNY2020

The lab presented two posters at the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference on March 19-21, 2020. Duygu Özge, Ebru Evcen & Joshua Hartshorne: Referential form, word order and emotional valence in...

CANCELLED - LangCogLab Spring School in Psycholinguistics

Dear attendees, It is s with a heavy heart that we have decided to cancel the METU LangCogLab Spring School at Nesin Village on May 19-21 due to the unforeseen circumstances surrounding COVID-19. We...

METU LangCogLab Spring School in Psycholinguistics

METU Language and Cognitive Development Lab in collaboration with TheRabLab at the University of Edinburgh is delighted to invite you to take part in a three-day training in psycholinguistics at...

Our Twitter account is now online!

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First Theses @ LangCogLab

Ebru Evcen successfully defended her master dissertation titled "Processing of Conditional Constructions in Turkish L2 Speakers of English" and received her M.A. degree. Congratulations...

LangCogLab @ XPrag 2019

Turkish “unless” is not biconditional unless the pragmatic context allows it. Ebru Evcen, Umut Özge and Duygu Özge presented a poster on biconditionality of "unless" at the 8th Experimental...

Language and Cognitive Development Lab Opening Seminar

We are very much excited that Dr. Hugh Rabagliati of the University of Edinburgh will be visiting our lab next week and he will deliver a speech titled "The Development of Lexical Flexibility" next...

LangCogLab @ WAFL 14

How do Turkish speakers interpret pronouns in Transfer-of-Possession contexts? Duygu Özge, Ebru Evcen, Alper Kesici & Engin Köse presented a paper on how we understand pronouns at the Workshop on...

LangCogLab @ Zeka ve Yetenek Kongresi

Duygu Özge will present a paper on how Turkish-speaking children learn quantifiers and how they use case markers to understand quantity at VI Zeka ve Yetenek Kongresi on September 29, 2018. http://...

LangCogLab @ ICPL 2

Duygu Özge, Ebru Evcen, Alper Kesici & Engin Köse presented a paper on how we understand pronouns at the Second International Conference Prominence in Language in Cologne on July 11, 2018. https...