Multimodal Language & Cognitive Development Lab | We study language in all kinds of modality!

Our Lab Member Mehmet Ali Atik Receives International Award from the Jean Piaget Society!

One of our lab members, Mehmet Ali Atik, has been selected as one of the two Emerging Scholars to receive the prestigious Pufall Travel Award from the Jean Piaget Society this year! We...

Summer Internship Applications

Summer internship applications for summer 2025 has been closed.

Our Lab Coordinator's First Authored Article Published in Journal of Cognition and Development

The article titled "Full-Term Children with Lower Vocabulary Scores Receive More Multimodal Math Input Than Preterm Children," authored primarily by our laboratory coordinator, Dr. Dilay Z....

Our Lab Coordinator's Co-Authored Article Published in Cognitive Science Journal

The article titled "Children's multimodal spatial expressions are sensitive to the complexity of the spatial relations," co-authored by our lab coordinator Dr. Dilay Z. Karadöller, has been...

Kartalkaya’daki Yangında Kaybettiklerimizin Acısını Paylaşıyoruz

Bolu Kartalkaya'da meydana gelen otel yangını hepimizi derinden üzmüştür. Yangında hayatını kaybedenlere Allah'tan rahmet, yaslı ailelerine ve yakınlarına sabır diliyoruz. Yangından yaralı olarak...

Congratulations to Our Master's Students!

We congratulate our master's students Aybüke, Ceren, and Deniz for being awarded the TÜBİTAK BİDEB Graduate Scholarship. We are proud of your achievements and wish you continued success in your...

Xiaowei Gong's MA study is just published in Journal of Linguistics Research!

Our lab's master's graduate, Xiowei Gong, has had their master's thesis, titled 'The Relationship Between Bilingual Experience and Cognitive Control in Bilingual Children,' published in the Journal...

Congratulations to Mehmet Ali Atik on His Erasmus+ Internship at Max Planck Institute!

Congratulations, Mehmet Ali Atik! Our lab's master's student, Mehmet Ali Atik, has been awarded the opportunity to complete a summer internship at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics as...

Our lab directors at METU Cognitive Day.

Our lab director, Dr. Dilay Z. Karadöller, delivered her talk titled "Multimodal Language Acquisition" as part of METU Cognitive Day.

A new publication is available from our lab coordinator.

You can access the article titled "Sources of Variation in Preschoolers' Relational Reasoning: The Interaction Between Language Use and Working Memory", co-authored by our lab coordinator, Dr. Dilay...

A new publication is available from our lab coordinator.

Our lab coordinator, Dr. Dilay Z. Karadöller, co-authored a newly published paper titled "Parental attitudes and beliefs about mathematics and the use of gestures in children's math development",...

ODTÜ BAP Support for Asya Hilal Çebi's Thesis Project!

The thesis project of our graduate student, Asya Hilal Çebi, titled "Exploring Optimal Fit: Maternal Personality and Child Temperamental Reactivity in the Context of Book Reading," has been awarded...

Emine Zeyrek Defended Her Thesis Successfully!

Our lab member Emine Zeyrek successfully defended her master's thesis titled "Beyond the Screen: Impact of Gaming Experience on 3D Spatial Visualization Skills and Navigational Strategies" on Friday...

A new publication is available from our lab coordinator.

Our lab coordinator, Dr. Dilay Z. Karadöller, is first author joint with Dr. Beyza Sümer of a newly published paper titled "First-language acquisition in a multimodal language framework: Insights...

Turkish Language Congress

Our lab director, Dr. Dilay Z. Karadöller, delivered a presentation titled "The Role of Iconic Representations in Sign Language Acquisition" at the 10th Turkish Language Congress held this year.

A New Collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

We are excited to announce the signing of a new collaboration agreement! Funded by the Max Planck Society, this agreement involves a 5-year partnership between the Multimodal Language Department at...

Uluslararası Engelsiz Bilişim Konferansı

Our lab director, Dr. Dilay Z. Karadöller, delivered an online presentation titled "Benim İşaretim Uygulaması Aracılığıyla Sağır Çocukların İşaret Dili Gelişiminin Desteklenmesi" at the Uluslararası...

A new publication is available from our lab coordinator.

Our lab coordinator, Dr. Dilay Z. Karadöller, co-authored a newly published paper titled "The Multifaceted Nature of Early Vocabulary Development: Connecting Children's Characteristics with Parental...

Our Lab Members Presented Their CogSci Posters!

Graduate students of the Multimodal Language and Cognitive Development Lab, Hüseyin Yalçıner and Elif Orakçı, presented their posters at CogSci 2024 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Elif Orakçı's poster...

Our lab director is at IASCL2024.

Our lab director, Dr. Dilay Z. KARADÖLLER, gave her talk titled 'Children's visual attention when planning informative multimodal descriptions of spatial relations' at IASCL2024.

Our Lab Member İlkyaz Deniz Bilgiç Successfully Defended Their Thesis!

On July 3, 2024, our esteemed lab member, İlkyaz Deniz Bilgiç, successfully defended their thesis titled 'The impact of contextual multimodal language input and children's inhibitory control on...

Our lab director, Dr. Dilay Z. Karadöller, has been awarded the METU Career Support Fund (400,000 TL). Within the scope of the fund, an intervention program will be developed for children with...

Elif Orakçı Defended Her Thesis Successfully!

Our lab member Elif Orakçı successfully defended her master thesis titled "Exploring the Relation Between Gesture Presentation Perspective and Children's Spatial Performance" on Thursday, June 27,...

New Publication from Our Lab Members!

The review article titled "Number Development from Infancy to School Age", authored by our lab members Hüseyin Yalçıner and Tuğçe Yalçınkaya, with our lab coordinator Dr. Dilay Z. Karadöller as the...

Our lab member Elif Orakci was accepted into the Doctoral Program in Psychological Sciences at Kadir Has University.

Congratulations to Elif on Acceptance into Doctoral Program We are pleased to announce that our lab member Elif Orakci has been accepted into the Doctoral Program in Psychological Sciences at Kadir...

The book "Understanding Behavior: From Neuron to Algorithm," to which our lab director Dr. Dilay Z. Karadöller contributed, is now published!

The book "Nörondan Algoritmaya Davranışı Anlamak" which includes a chapter by our lab director Dr. Dilay Z. Karadöller titled "Dil ediniminde multimodal faktörler: Konuşmaya eşlik eden jestler...

We hosted Assistant Professor Dr. Beyza Sümer!

We were pleased to host Dr. Beyza Sümer, Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Department of Amsterdam University, and to listen to her talk titled 'A multimodal perspective on language'.

Our Laboratory Director Dr. Dilay Z. Karadöller's Article Has Been Published.

New publication: Our lab director Dr. Dilay Z. Karadöller's article titled "Iconicity and Gesture Jointly Facilitate Learning of Second Language Signs at First Exposure" has been published. In the...

Seminar on Sign Language Acquisition

Our lab director, Dilay Z. KARADÖLLER, gave a seminar on Sign Language Acquisition at Kemal Yurtbilir Special Education Preschool.

Yansıma kelimelerle ilgili bir çalışma için gönüllü katılımcılar arıyoruz. Üç farklı anketten istediğiniz birine, ikisine veya hepsine katılabilirsiniz. İlgilenebilecek tanıdıklarınızla bu ilanı...

Our laboratory director, Dilay Z. KARADÖLLER, participated in the Ankara University Experimental-Cognitive Psychology Day!

Our laboratory director, Dilay Z. KARADÖLLER, gave a speech on sign language acquisition at the Experimental-Cognitive Psychology Day organized by the Psychology Department of Ankara University.

Xiaowei Gong Successfully Defended Their Thesis!

We congratulate Xiaowei Gong for successfully defending their master's thesis titled 'The effects of bilingual experience and home language environment on cognitive control of bilingual children.'

We Returned with Second Place from the 'Tell Me About Your Research' Competition!

We are pleased to announce that our lab member, İlkyaz Deniz Bilgiç, received the 2nd prize in the competition titled 'Tell Me About Your Research' organized by the METU Science Communication Office...

We're at the "Tell me About Your Research"

We are pleased to announce that Ilkyaz Deniz Bilgiç, one of our Developmental Psychology Master's students at the Multimodal Language and Cognitive Development Laboratory, has advanced to the...

Sign Language Seminar

METU Cognitive Science Community (ODTÜ Bilişsel Bilimler Topluluu) held their second event, a seminar titled "Sign Language Acquisition" presented by professor Dilay Karadöller.

New book published!

The textbook "Cognitive Psychology: Behavioral and Psychological Foundations of Cognition", for which our lab director Dr. Dilay Z. Karadöller together with Dr. Aslı Aktan-Erciyes and Dr. Demet Özer...

MA student Xiaowei Gong presented at "MPaL" conference

Our MA student Xiaowei Gong successfully presented the results of her MA research at the international conference "Many Paths to Language" in the Netherlands via online presentation. Her research...

First ML & CDL Weekly Meeting

The first official meeting of the Multimodal Language & Cognitive Development Lab on October 6th, 2023! Want to know who we are? Check out Our Team page.