Our PhD candidate İbrahim Akkan has joined Development, Experience, and Neuroscience (DEN) Lab at University of Iowa as a visiting researcher! We warmly congratulate @ibrahimakkan_ and wish him an enjoyable research period 🎉.

This week, Prof. Renia Lopez-Ozieblo @renialo from Hong Kong Polytechnic University visited our lab! She presented her research on why we gesture. Thank you for this great talk! 🌿

Our PhD candidate Begüm Yılmaz presented her work with Tilbe Göksun titled “From Asking to Teaching: Developmental Changes in Parents’ Pedagogical Questions, Gestures, and Children’s Responses” at MMSYM 2026 in Leuven, Belgium. Congratulations @begum_yilmaz_! 🎉👏

Our lab director Tilbe Göksun has been elected President of the Cognitive Science Society @cogsci_soc for the 2027–2028 term! She is currently serving as President-Elect and will take on the presidency in 2027. Congratulations @GoksunTilbe! ✨🎉 cognitivesciencesociety.org/…

Sultan Karakaş has successfully defended her master’s thesis titled "Home Math Environment and Children’s Math Skills: Distinct and Similar Roles of Mothers and Fathers” Congratulations Sultan! 🎉

New book chapter on preterm children's language development led by Begüm Yılmaz and İbrahim Akkan, in collaboration with Ece Demir-Lira and our lab director Tilbe Göksun is now online! sciencedirect.com/science/ch… @begum_yilmaz_ @ibrahimakkan_ @GoksunTilbe @oedemir

Can Ceylan has successfully defended his master’s thesis titled "When Faces and Gestures Are in Conflict: The Role of Gesture Direction in Multimodal Emotion Judgment.” Congratulations Can! 🥳 @can_ceylan_

Kardelen Koç has successfully defended her master’s thesis titled "Aesthetic Beginnings and Beyond: The Role of Complexity in the Development of Visual Art Preferences.” Congratulations Kardelen! 🥳

This week, we were delighted to host Assoc. Prof. Ece Demir-Lira @oedemir from the University of Iowa. She presented her research titled "New Perspectives on Home Math Environment and Neurocognitive Pathways of Numerical Development." Thank you for this inspiring talk! 🌿

A great day of research talks at the lab! Our new and existing lab members shared their work on a wide range of topics, including cognitive science, human–robot interaction, autobiographical memory, and linguistics. Thank you all for the engaging presentations and discussions! 🍀