Browsing Psychology by Author "Ünal, Ercenur"
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From event representation to linguistic meaning
Ünal, Ercenur; Ji, Y.; Papafragou, A. (Wiley, 2021-01)A fundamental aspect of human cognition is the ability to parse our constantly unfolding experience into meaningful representations of dynamic events and to communicate about these events with others. How do we communicate ... -
How children identify events from visual experience
Ünal, Ercenur; Papafragou, A. (Taylor & Francis, 2019)Three experiments explored how well children recognize events from different types of visual experience: either by directly seeing an event or by indirectly experiencing it from post-event visual evidence. In Experiment ... -
Jestlerin çocukların dil-iletişim ve bilişsel becerilerinin gelişimindeki destekleyici rolü
Avcılar, Gökçen; Bilir, Bilge; Cihankaya, Şevval; Coşkun, Zeynep; Piri, İlayda; Ünal, Ercenur (İstanbul Üniversitesi, 2021)While communicating, people frequently use visual articulators, such as hand gestures, together with speech. Speech and gestures form a tightly integrated communicative system during language production and comprehension. ... -
Late sign language exposure does not modulate the relation between spatial language and spatial memory in deaf children and adults
Karadöller, D. Z.; Sümer, B.; Ünal, Ercenur; Özyürek, A. (Springer, 2023-04)Prior work with hearing children acquiring a spoken language as their first language shows that spatial language and cognition are related systems and spatial language use predicts spatial memory. Here, we further investigate ... -
Linguistic encoding of inferential evidence for events
Avcılar, Gökçen; Ünal, Ercenur (The Cognitive Science Society, 2022)How people learn about events often varies with some events perceived in their entirety and others are inferred based on the available evidence. Here, we investigate how children and adults linguistically encode the sources ... -
Multimodal encoding of motion events in speech, gesture and cognition
Ünal, Ercenur; Mamus, E.; Özyürek, A. (Cambridge University Press, 2023-12)How people communicate about motion events and how this is shaped by language typology are mostly studied with a focus on linguistic encoding in speech. Yet, human communication typically involves an interactional exchange ... -
Representing agents, patients, goals and instruments in causative events: A cross-linguistic investigation of early language and cognition
Ünal, Ercenur; Richards, C.; Trueswell, J. C.; Papafragou, A. (Wiley, 2021-11)Although it is widely assumed that the linguistic description of events is based on a structured representation of event components at the perceptual/conceptual level, little empirical work has tested this assumption ... -
Sign advantage: Both children and adults’ spatial expressions in sign are more informative than those in speech and gestures combined
Karadoller, D. Z.; Sümer, B.; Ünal, Ercenur; Ozyurek, A. (Cambridge University Press, 2022-12)Expressing Left-Right relations is challenging for speaking-children. Yet, this challenge was absent for signing-children, possibly due to iconicity in the visual-spatial modality of expression. We investigate whether there ... -
Spatial language use predicts spatial memory of children: evidence from sign, speech, and speech-plus-gesture
Karadöller, D. Z.; Sümer, B.; Ünal, Ercenur; Özyürek, A. (The Cognitive Science Society, 2021)There is a strong relation between children’s exposure to spatial terms and their later memory accuracy. In the current study, we tested whether the production of spatial terms by children themselves predicts memory accuracy ... -
Speaking and gesturing guide event perception during message conceptualization: Evidence from eye movements
Ünal, Ercenur; Manhardt, F.; Özyürek, A. (Elsevier, 2022-08)Speakers' visual attention to events is guided by linguistic conceptualization of information in spoken language production and in language-specific ways. Does production of language-specific co-speech gestures further ... -
Speaking but not gesturing predicts event memory: a cross-linguistic comparison
Ter Bekke, M.; Özyürek, A.; Ünal, Ercenur (Cambridge University Press, 2022-09)Every day people see, describe, and remember motion events. However, the relation between multimodal encoding of motion events in speech and gesture, and memory is not yet fully understood. Moreover, whether language ... -
Speaking but not gesturing predicts motion event memory within and across languages
Bekke, M. t.; Özyürek, A.; Ünal, Ercenur (The Cognitive Science Society, 2019)In everyday life, people see, describe and remember motion events. We tested whether the type of motion event information (path or manner) encoded in speech and gesture predicts which information is remembered and if this ... -
Universality and diversity in event cognition and language
Ji, Y.; Ünal, Ercenur; Papafragou, A. (The Cognitive Science Society, 2022)Humans are surprisingly adept at interpreting what is happening around them – they spontaneously and rapidly segment and organize their dynamic experience into coherent event construals. Such event construals may offer a ... -
Zihinsel durumların dilde ve bilişte temsili
Ünal, Ercenur; Baturlar, Özge (Bogazici University Press, 2020)Başkalarının zihinsel durumlarını anlama becerisi okul öncesi çağlarda hızlı bir gelişim göstermektedir. Bu makalede dilin, kavramların çocukların zihinlerinde temsil edilişi ile ilişkisi ele alınmıştır. Bu ilişkiyi ...
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