Tilbe Göksun

Publications

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Language Development

  • Arslan, B., Aktan-Erciyes, A.,& Göksun, T. (in press). Gesture production and speech disfluency in bilingual and monolingual children. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.
  • Özdemir, S. C., George, N.,& Göksun, T. (2023). Combining forces for causal reasoning: Children’s predictions about physical interactions Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 234,105711.
  • Kobaş, M.,Kızıldere, E., Doğan, I., Aktan-Erciyes, A.,Demir-Lira, E., Akman, İ., & Göksun, T. (2023). Motor abilities, visual perception, and language development in preterm and full-term infants. Current Psychology, 42, 12463-12475.
  • Aktan-Erciyes, A.,& Göksun, T. (2023). Early parental causal language input is associated with later child causal verb understanding Journal of Child Language, 50,177-197.
  • Singh, L., Göksun, T. , Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M.(2023). Sensitivity to visual cues within motion events in monolingual and bilingual infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 227,105582.
  • Ger, E. You, G., Küntay, A., Göksun, T. ,& Stoll, S., & Daum, M. M. (2022). General route to productivity: Evidence from Turkish morphological causatives. Cognitive Science, 46,e13210.
  • Kızıldere, E., Esmer, Ş. C., Göksun, T. (2022). From woof woof to dog: Interactions between parents’ use of sound symbolic words and infants’ vocabulary development. Infancy, 27,972-996.
  • Ünlütabak, B., Aktan-Erciyes, A., Yılmaz, D., Kandemir, S., & Göksun, T. (2022). Parental input during shared book reading and toddlers’ elicited and spontaneous communicative interactions. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 81,101436.
  • Ger, E. Küntay, A., Göksun, T. ,& Stoll, S., & Daum, M. M. (2022). Do typological differences in languages influence preschool children’s causal event construal? Language & Cognition, 14,161-184.
  • Kobaş, M.,Aktan-Erciyes, A., & Göksun, T. (2021).Fine motor abilities and parental input of spatial features predict object word comprehension of Turkish-learning children. Infant and Child Development, 30 e2243.
  • Ger, E., Stuber, L., Küntay, A., Göksun, T. ,& Stoll, S., & Daum, M. M. (2021).Influence of causal language on causal reasoning: A comparison of Swiss-German and Turkish. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 210, 105182.
  • Clingey-Silvey, S., Nelson, P., Göksun, T. ,& Demir-Lira, E. (2021). Spatial thinking in term and preterm-born preschoolers: Relations to parent-child speech and gesture. Frontiers in Psychology, 19, 923. (in .PDF format)
  • Söğüt, M. Göksun, T. ,& Altan-Atalay, A. (2021). The role of numerical ability on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task performances of 5- to 8-year-old children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 39, 231-246.
  • Turan, E., Kobaş, M.,& Göksun, T. . (2021). Spatial language and mental transformation in preschoolers: Does relational reasoning matter? Cognitive Development, 57, 100980. (In .PDF format)
  • Demir-Lira, E., Kanero, J., Oranç, C., Koşkulu, S., Franko, İ., & Göksun, T. , Küntay, A. (2020). L2 vocabulary teaching by social robots: The role of gestures and on-screen cues as scaffolds. Frontiers in Education. (In .PDF format)
  • Kızıldere, E., Aktan-Erciyes, A., Tahiroğlu, D.,& Göksun, T. . (2020). A multidimensional investigation of pretend play and language competence: Concurrent and longitudinal relations in preschoolers. Cognitive Development, 54, 100870. (In .PDF format)
  • Aktan-Erciyes, A., Göksun, T. , Tekcan, A., & Aksu-Koç, A. (2020). Thinking-for-Speaking in Bilingual and Monolingual Children Bidirectional Effects of L1-Turkish and L2-English. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 10.
  • Kartalkanat, H. & Göksun, T. (2020). The effects of observing different gestures during storytelling on the recall of path and event information in 5-year-olds and adults Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 189, 104725. (In .PDF format)
  • Aktan-Erciyes, A., & Göksun, T. (2019). Early event understanding predicts later verb comprehension and motion event lexicalization. Developmental Psychology, 55, 2249-2262. (In .PDF format)
  • Kısa, Y. D., Aktan-Erciyes, A., Turan, E., & Göksun, T. (2019). Parental use of spatial language and gestures in early childhood. British Journal of Developmental Psychology,37 149-167. (In .PDF format)
  • Demir-Lira, E., Aktan-Erciyes, A., & Göksun, T. (2019). New insights from children with early brain injury: Lessons to be learned from examining STEM-related skills. Developmental Psychobiology, 61, 477-490. (In .PDF format)
  • Vogt, P., van den Berghe, R., de Haas, M., … Göksun, T., … (2019). Second language tutoring using social robots: A large scale study Human-Robot Interaction Conference Proceedings. (In .PDF format)
  • George, N., Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2019). Any way the wind blows: Children’s inferences about force and motion events. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 177, 119-131. (In .PDF format)
  • Kanero, J., Geçgin, V. , Oranç, C., Mamus, E., Küntay, A.,& Göksun, T. (2018). Social robots for early language learning: Current evidence and future directions. Child Development Perspectives, 12, 146-151. (In .PDF format)
  • Belpaeme, T., Vogt, P., van den Berghe, R., Bergmann, K. Göksun, T., de Haas, M., Kanero, J. et al.(2018). Guidelines for designing social robots as second language tutors International Journal of Social Robotics, 10, 325-341. (In .PDF format)
  • Göksun, T., , Aktan-Erciyes, A.,Hirsh-Pasek, K. & Golinkoff, R. M.(2017). Event perception and language learning: Early interactions between language and thought. In N. Ketrez, A. C. Kuntay, S. Ozcaliskan, & A. Ozyurek (Eds) Social Environment and Cognition in Language Development: Studies in honor of Ayhan Aksu-Koc (pp. 179-198). Trends in Language Acquisition Research (TiLAR) Series, John Benjamins. (In .PDF format)
  • Kon, M.,Göksun, T., Bağcı, A., & Arunachalam, S. (2016). Verb acquisition in English and Turkish: The role of processing. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. (In .PDF format)
  • Belpaeme, T., Kennedy, J., Baxter, P., Vogt, P., Krahmer, E.E.J., Kopp, S., Bergmann, K., Leseman, P., Küntay, A.C.,Göksun, T., Pandey, A.K., Gelin, R., Koudelkova, P., & Deblieck, T. (2015). L2TOR – Second Language Tutoring using Social Robots. Proceedings of 1st International Workshop on Educational Robotics at ICSR 2015. (In .PDF format)
  • George, N. Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2014). Carving the world for language learning: How neuroscientific research can enrich the study of first and second language learning. Developmental Neuropsychology, 39, 262-284. (In .PDF format)
  • Göksun, T., George, N., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2013). Forces and Motion: Causal understanding of preschoolers. Child Development, 84, 1285-1295. (In .PDF format)
  • Roseberry, S., Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek,K, & Golinkoff, R. M. (2012). Infants carve categories in a continuous world: Infants discriminate categorical changes before distance changes in dynamic events. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 12, 231-251. (In .PDF format)
  • Pruden, S. M., Roseberry, S., Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K, & Golinkoff, R. M. (2013). Infant categorization of path relations during dynamic events. Child Development, 84, 331-345. (In .PDF format)
  • Pruden, S. M., Göksun, T., Roseberry, S., Hirsh-Pasek, K, & Golinkoff, R. M. (2012). Find your manners: How do infants detect the invariant manner of motion in dynamic events? Child Development, 83, 977-991. (In .PDF format)
  • Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K, Golinkoff, R. M., Imai, M., Konishi, H., & Okada, H. (2011). Who is crossing where?: Infants’ discrimination of figures and grounds in events. Cognition, 121, 176-195. (In .PDF format)
  • Göksun, T., Roeper, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K, & Golinkoff, R. M. (2011).From nounphrase ellipsis to verbphrase ellipsis: The acquisition pathfrom context to abstract reconstruction. In J. Harris and M. Grant,(Eds.) University of Massachusetts Occasional Working Papers in Linguistics Vol 38: Processing Linguistic Structure, (pp. 53-74). Amherst, MA: GLSA. (In .PDF format)
  • Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2010). How do preschoolers express cause in gesture and speech? Cognitive Development, 25, 56-68. (In .PDF format)
  • Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2010). Trading Spaces: Carving up events for learning language. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5, 33-42. (In .PDF format)
  • Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2009).Processing figures and grounds in dynamic and static events. In J. Chandlee, M. Franchini, S. Lord, & G. Rheiner(Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, (pp. 199-210). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. (In .PDF format)
  • Göksun, T., Küntay, A., & Naigles, L. (2008). Turkish children use morphosyntactic bootstrapping in interpreting verb meaning. Journal of Child Language, 35, 291-323. (In .PDF format)
  • Naigles, L., Küntay A., Göksun, T, & Lee, J. (2006). Language specific properties influence children’s acquisition of argument structure. In D. Bamman, T. Magnitskaia, &C. Zaller (Eds.). Proceedings of the 30th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 388-398). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. (In .PDF format)

Language & Thought

  • Arslan, B., Ng, F., & Göksun, T., Nozari, N. (in press).Trust my gesture or my word: How do listeners choose the information channel during communication? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Language, Memory, and Cognition.
  • Özer, D, Karadöller, D., Özyürek, A. & Göksun, T. (in press). Gestures cued by demonstratives in speech guide listeners’ visual attention during spatial language comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
  • Akbuğa, Y. E. & Göksun, T., (in press).The role of spatial words in the spatialization of time. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
  • Çapan, D., Furman, R., & Göksun, T., Eskenazi, T. (in press).Hands of confidence: When gestures increase confidence in spatial problem solving. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
  • Bilgin, E., Adıgüzel, Z. & Göksun, T., Gülgöz, S. (in press).The cost of changing language context: The language-dependent recall of fictional stories. Memory and Cognition.
  • Asalıoğlu, E. & Göksun, T. (in press). The role of hand gestures in emotion communication: Do type and size of gestures matter?. Psychological Research.
  • Hyusein, G., & Göksun, T.(2023).The creative interplay between hand gestures, convergent thinking, and mental imagery. Plos ONE, 18(4), e0283859. (In .PDF format)
  • Aydın, Ç., Göksun, T., Ötenen, E, Tanış, S. B., & Şentürk, Y. D. (2023).The role of gestures in autobiographical memory. Plos ONE, 18(2), e0281748. (In .PDF format)
  • Özder, L. E, Özer, D, & Göksun, T. (2023). Gesture use in L1-Turkish and L2-English: Evidence from emotional narrative retellings. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76,1797-1816.
  • Aktan-Erciyes, A., Akbuğa, Y. E., Kızıldere, E., & Göksun, T. (2023). Motion event representation in L1-Turkish vs. L2-English speech and gesture: Relations to eye movements for event components. International Journal of Bilingualism, 27,61-86.
  • Aktan-Erciyes, A., Akbuğa, Y. E., Dik, F. N., & Göksun, T. (2022).Linguistic and nonlinguistic evaluation of motion events in a path-focused language. Applied Psycholinguistics, 43, 829-865.
  • Callizo, C., Tutnjevic, S., Pandza, M., Ouellet, M., Kranjec, A., Ilic, S., Gu, Y., Göksun, T., Chahboun, S., Casasanto, D., & Santiago, J. (2022). Does time extend into the past and the future symmetrically or asymmetrically? A cross-cultural study. Language and Cognition, 14, 275-302.
  • Arslan,B., &Göksun, T. (2022).Aging, gesture production, and disfluency in speech: A comparison of younger and older adults. Cognitive Science, 46, e13098.
  • Akbıyık, S,Göksun, T., & Balcı, F. (2022). Elucidating the common basis for task-dependent differential manifestations of category advantage: A decision theoretic approach. Cognitive Science, 46, e13078.
  • Kanero, J., Tunalı, E. T., Oranç, C., Göksun, T., & Küntay, A. C.(2021). When even a robot tutors zoom: A study of embodiment, attitudes, and impressions. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. (In .PDF format)
  • Kanero, J., Oranç, C., Koşkulu, S., Kumkale, T., Göksun, T., & Küntay, A. C.(2021). Are robots for everyone? The influence of attitudes, anxiety, and personality on robot-led language learning. International Journal of Social Robotics.
  • Arslan, B. & Göksun, T.(2021). Aging, working memory, and mental imagery: Understanding gestural communication in younger and older adults. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74, 29-44.
  • Özer, D,& Göksun, T.(2020). Gesture use and processing: A review on individual differences in cognitive resources. Frontiers in Psychology. (In .PDF format)
  • Callizo, C., Tutnjevic, S., Pandza, M., Ouellet, M., Kranjec, A., Ilic, S., Gu, Y., & Göksun, T., Chahboun, S., Casasanto, D., & Santiago, J. (2020). Temporal focus and time spatialization across cultures. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 26, 1247-1258.
  • Akbıyık, S,Göksun, T., & Balcı, F. (2020). Cathodal tDCS stimulation of left anterior temporal lobe eliminates cross-category color discrimination response time advantage. Behavioral Brain Research, 391, 112682.
  • Özer, D,& Göksun, T.(2020). Visual-spatial and verbal abilities differentially affect processing of gestural vs. spoken expressions. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 35, 896-914.
  • Çatak, E. N., Açık, A.,& Göksun, T.(2018). The relationship between handedness and valence: A gesture study Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71, 2615-2626. (In .PDF format)
  • Özer, D., Tansan, M., Özer, E. E., Malykhina, K., Chatterjee, A., & Göksun, T., (2017). The effects of gesture restriction on spatial language in young and elderly adults. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (In .PDF format)
  • Özer, D., Kranjec, A., Balcı, F., & Göksun, T., (2017). The effects of duration words and spatial-temporal metaphors on perceived duration Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (In .PDF format)
  • Akhavan, N., Nozari, N. B., & Göksun, T. (2017). Expression of motion events in Farsi. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 32, 792-804. (In .PDF format)
  • Bostan, İ., Börütecene, A., Özcan, O., & Göksun, T., (2016). Temporal expressions in speech and gesture Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (In .PDF format)
  • Akhavan, N., Göksun, T., & Nozari, N.(2016). Disfluency in gesture and speech. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (In .PDF format)
  • Akhavan, N., Nozari, N. B., & Göksun, T. (2015). Motion event expressions in language and gesture: Evidence from Persian. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (In .PDF format)
  • Nozari, N. B.,Göksun, T., Thompson-Schill, S., & Chatterjee, A. (2015). Phonological similarity affects production of gestures, even in the absence of speech. Frontiers in Psychology. (In .PDF format)
  • Göksun, T., Goldin-Meadow, S., Newcombe, N.,& Shipley, T. (2013). Individual differences in mental rotation: What does gesture tell us?. Cognitive Processing (Special Issue on Spatial Learning and Reasoning), 14, 153-162. (In .PDF format)

Neuropsychology of Language

  • Saatci Yurtsever, S., Öztop Çakmak, Ö., Yapıcı Eser, H., Ertan, S., Demir-Lira, Ö. E., & Göksun, T. (2021). Production and comprehension of co-speech gestures in Parkinson’s Disease. Neuropsychologia, 163, 108061.
  • Özer, D., Göksun, T., & Chatterjee, A.(2019). Differential roles of gestures on spatial language in speakers with and without speech problems Cognitive Neuropsychology, 36, 282-299.
  • Akbıyık, S., Karaduman, A., Göksun, T., & Chatterjee, A.(2018). The relationship between gesture use and macrolinguistic discourse abilities in people with focal brain injury. Neuropsychologia, 117, 440-453. (In .PDF format)
  • Akhavan, N., Göksun, T., & Nozari, N.(2018). The integrity and function of gestures in aphasia. Aphasiology, 32, 1310-1335. (In .PDF format)
  • Karaduman, A., Göksun, T., & Chatterjee, A.(2017). Narratives of focal brain-injured individuals: A macro-level analysis. Neuropsychologia, 99, 314-325. (In .PDF format)
  • Göksun, T., Lehet, M., Malykhina, K, & Chatterjee, A. (2015). Spontaneous gesture and spatial language: Evidence from focal brain-injury. Brain and Language, 150, 11-13. (In .PDF format)
  • Göksun, T., Lehet, M., Malykhina, K, & Chatterjee, A. (2013). Naming and gesturing spatial relations: Evidence from focal brain-injured individuals. Neuropsychologia, 51, 1518-1527. (In .PDF format)

Designing Tools for Children’s Learning

  • Beşevli, C., Göksun, T., , & Özcan, O.(2022). An Inquiry into the TUI Design Space for Parent-Child Math Engagement at Home. Proceedings of the 12th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Game-changing Design (NordiCHI).
  • Beşevli, C., Göksun, T., , & Özcan, O.(2022). Designing Physical Objects for Young Childen’s Magnitude Understanding: A TUI Research Through Design Journey. Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference (Pictorials, IDC’22). (In .PDF format)
  • Gürbüzsel, İ. Göksun, T., , & Coşkun, A.(2022). Eliciting parents’ insights into products for supporting and tracking children’s fine motor development. Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference (Work in progress, IDC’22). (In .PDF format)
  • Baykal, G.E.,van Mechelen, M. Göksun, T., & Yantaç, A.E.(2019). Embedded figures in stories (EFiS): A method to observe preschoolers’ interactions with spatial manipulatives. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 21, 121-129.
  • Beşevli, C., Salman, E., Göksun, T., , Ürey, H., & Özcan, O.(2019). MaR-T: Designing a Projection Based Mixed Reality System for Nonsymbolic Math Development of Preschoolers. Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC’19.) (In .PDF format)
  • Sabuncuoğlu, A., Erkaya, M., Buruk, O.T., & Göksun, T. (2018). CodeNotes:Designing a low-cost tangible coding tool for/with children In Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC). (In .PDF format)
  • Baykal, G.E., van Mechelen, M., Göksun, T., & Yantaç, A.E.(2018). Designing with and for preschoolers:Adapting methods to observe tangible interactions with spatial manipulatives. In Proceedings of the FabLearn. (In .PDF format)
  • Baykal, G.E., Veryeri Alaca, I., Yantaç, A.E.,& Göksun, T.,(2018). A review on complementary natures of tangible user interfaces (TUIs) and early spatial learning International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 16, 104-113. (In .PDF format)
  • Baykal, G.E., Göksun, T., & Yantaç, A.E.(2018). Customizing Developmentally Situated Design (DSD) Cards: Informing Designers about Preschoolers’ Spatial Learning. In Proceedings of the CHI 2018. (In .PDF format)
  • Baykal, G.E., Veryeri Alaca, I., Yantaç, A.E., & Göksun, T., (2016). Developing Transmedia Puzzle Play to Facilitate the Spatial Skills of Preschoolers. Proceedings of the 15th Interaction Design and Children Conference. (In .PDF format)

Other

  • Balcı, F., Baykal, G. E.,Göksun, T. ,& Kisbu-Sakarya, Y., & Yantaç, E. (2023). My Creative World (MCW): Improving creative thinking in elementary school-aged children. Creativity Research Journal.
  • Beşevli, C., Genç, H. U., Coşkun, A., Göksun, T. ,& Yemez, Y., Özcan, O.(2022). 2HandTouch: A user centered design process for hand specific on-skin gestures in the kitchen. Design Journal.
  • Özcan, M. Ş., Çetinkaya, E., Göksun, T. ,& Kisbu-Sakarya, Y. (2021). Does learning coding influence cognitive skills of elementary school children? Findings from a randomized experiment. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 91,1434-1455.
  • Börütecene, A., Bostan, İ., Akyürek, E., Sabuncuoğlu, A., Temuzkusu, İ., Genç, Ç., Göksun, T., & Özcan, O.(2018). Through the Glance Mug: A Familiar Artefact to Support Opportunistic Search in Meetings. 12th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interactions (TEI). (In .PDF format)
  • Göksun, T., Kranjec, A. & Chatterjee, A. (2014). The development of visual art preferences. Proceedings of the 23rd International Association of Empirical Aesthetics. (In .PDF format)
  • Göksun, T., Woods, A. J., Chatterjee, C., Zeloniss, S., Glass, L., & Smith, S. (2013). Elementary school children’s attentional biases in physical and numerical space. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 10, 433-448. (In .PDF format)
  • Woods, A.J.,Göksun, T., Chatterjee, A. Zelonis, S. J., Glass, L., Mehta, A. & Smith, S. (2013). The development of organized visual search. Acta Psychologica, 143, 191-199. (In .PDF format)
  • Matlen, B. J., Atit, K., Göksun, T., Rau, M. A., & Ptouckina, M. (2012). Representing space: Exploring the relationship between gesturing and geoscience understanding in children. In C. Stachniss, K. Schill, & D. Uttal (Eds.), Proceedings of the Spatial Cognition VIII: International Conference on Spatial Cognition (pp. 405-415). Berlin: Springer (In .PDF format)