Browsing by Author "Sümer, B."
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Development of multimodal expressions of space in speech and gesture: the case of sagittal and topological spatial relations
Previous literature has shown that learning to communicate about space follows a lengthy timetable. However, prior work has shown that children can express some concepts, including spatial relations, in gestures prior to ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
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