Elif Orakci
Elif Orakci
About me
I'm a developmental psychology MA student at Middle East Technical University and a research assistant at the Istanbul University Psychology Department. I'm mainly interested in spatial and language development. My research focuses on the interaction between the perspective of the speaker's gestures and children's spatial performances on visuospatial maps. I'm also curious about studies on the modality of language, especially gesture and audience-design studies. I enjoy film photography, cooking, and making illustrative embroidery.
Publications & Presentations
Conference Presentations
Talks
Orakçı, E., Karadöller, D. Z. (2024, May). Exploring the relation between gesture presentation perspective and children's spatial performance. 6th Annual Student Conference on Linguistics. Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Turkey.
Poster Presentations
Orakçı, E., Karadöller, D. Z. (2024, January). How does the perspective of gesture presentation affect children's spatial performances? 14th Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development. Budapest, Hungary.
Orakçı, E., Karadöller, D. Z. (2024, June). The perspective of gesture presentation relates differently to the spatial performance of children on visuospatial maps. IMPRS Conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Language Sciences. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Orakçı, E., Karadöller, D. Z. (2024, July). Multimodality on screen: Multimodal spatial directions enhance children's spatial performance on virtual visual-spatial maps. 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Rotterdam, The Netherlands.