September 2024- 4th Developmental Psychology Symposium (Bilkent University)

• The longitudinal effect of second language acquisition and mental state language on narrative skills in preschool and school-age children. (Tuğba Güler, Aslı Aktan-Erciyes)
• Where do children learn, and how do they use causal language? The contribution of parents in early childhood. (Songül Kandemir, Aslı Aktan-Erciyes)
• Counterfactual reasoning in childhood. (Pınar Öztürk-Atlı, Aslı Aktan-Erciyes)
• Enhancing word recall with beating gestures in preschool children. (Özden Yüksek, Aslı Aktan-Erciyes)

June 2024 – ISCBS2024 Poster Presentations

• Emotion-Memory Interactions in L1-Turkish and L2-English Bilingual Individuals Memories. (Kardelen Koç, Büsra Sena Özcan, Özden Yüksek, Petek Keçe, Bilgesu Etili, AslI Aktan-Erciyes)
• Causa Structures in Couples’ Dialogues: Relation with Paralinguistic features. (Pınar Öztürk-Atlı, Aslı Aktan-Erciyes, Mehmet Harma)

May 2024- Our lab director, Dr. Aslı Aktan Erciyes, gave a talk titled ‘Landscape of Action vs. Landscape of Consciousness: Longitudinal Effects of L2 Exposure on Narrative Structure in Young Children’ at the Cognition Symposium at Özyeğin University on May 9th.

May 2021 – We have presented our studies on “Effects of L2 proficiency on L1 lexical property evaluations” and “Effects of L2 on causal structures in L1 frog story narratives in children” at #DuCog2021!