Paper & Poster Presentations
Göksun, T.,, Ferrara, K., Winslow, C.*, George, N., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2010, March). Forces and motion: How young children understand causal events. Poster to be presented at the XVIIth International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD.
Göksun, T.,, Tynan, E., Roseberry, S., George, N., Ferrara, K., Stahl, A., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2010, March). A new angle to infant causality. Poster to be presented at the XVIIth International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD.
Austin, S.* ., Göksun, T.,, Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2010, March). What is in an event? Infants' discrimination of inanimate figures on grounds in dynamic events. Poster to be presented at the XVIIth International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD.
Roseberry, S., Göksun, T.,, Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2010, March). Paper to be presented in S. Roseberry and T. Göksun (chairs), When representational systems collide: Aligning space and language. Symposium to be presented at the XVIIth International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD.
Fitzhugh, S. L., Göksun, T., Goldin-Meadow, S., Newcombe, N., & Shipley, T. F, (2009, November). Insights into mental transformations: Combining gesture, speech, and eye movements to understand mental rotation. Poster presented at 50th Annual Meeting of Psychonomics, Boston, MA.
Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, Imai, M., Konishi, H., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2009, November). The “Where” of events: How do English- and Japanese-reared infants discriminate grounds in dynamic events? Paper presented at 34th Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA. [Received Jean Berko Gleason Best Student Paper Award] .
Göksun, T., Austin, S.*, Hirsh-Pasek, Roseberry, S., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2009, October). Categorization of grounds in dynamic events. Poster presented at Cognitive Development Society Conference, San Antonio, TX.
Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Fisher, K., Misitzis, Y., Ferrara, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2009, April). Forces are in action: Causal understanding of preschoolers. Poster presented at Society for Research on Child Development, Denver, CO.
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Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., Shallcross, W. L., Misitzis, Y., & Hafri, A. (2009, April). How do preschoolers express cause in gesture and speech? Poster presented at Society for Research on Child Development, Denver, CO.
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Roseberry, S., Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Newcombe, N., Golinkoff, R. M., Novack, M.*, & Brayfield, R.* (2009, April). Individual differences in early event perception predict later verb learning. Poster presented at Society for Research on Child Development, Denver, CO.
Göksun, T., Roseberry, S., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2009, April). When is a path not a path? Spatial relationships account for infants’ processing of path and manner. Poster presented at Society for Research on Child Development, Denver, CO.
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Roseberry, S., Göksun, T., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2009, February). When is a path not a path? Infant path categorization disappears in the absence of a ground object. Poster presented at the 2nd Annual Inter-Science of Learning Center Student and Post-Doc Conference, Seattle, WA.
Göksun, T. (2008, November). Processing figures and grounds in dynamic and static events. Paper presented at 33rd Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M. (2008, July). Figure and Ground: Conceptual primitives for processing events. Paper presented in T. Göksun & S. Pruden (chairs), Foundations for learning relational terms: What is in an event. Symposium at the 11th International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., & Göksun, T. (2008, June). Trading spaces: when language meets universal components in events. Paper presented at Spatial Language Conference, Chicago, IL.
Roseberry, S., Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Shallcross, W.L., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2008, March). Where you’re going trumps what you’re doing: Infants prefer paths over manners in dynamic displays. Poster presented at the XVIth International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver, Canada.
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Shallcross, W.L., Göksun, T., Golinkoff, R. M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Lloyd, M., Newcombe, N., & Roseberry, S. (2008, March). Building talk: Parental utterances during construction play. Poster presented at the XVIth International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver, Canada.
Golinkoff, R. M., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Göksun, T., Roseberry, S., Pulverman, R., Pruden, S. (2008, April). Foundations of verb learning: How infants view motion events. Paper presented at Princeton University Mini-Conference on Language Acquisition (organizer: A. Goldberg).
Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Roseberry, S., Golinkoff, R. M. (2008, March). Processing events and learning relational terms: Figures are more prominent than Grounds. Paper presented in S. Pruden, & T. Göksun (chairs), Conceptual primitives for processing events and learning relational terms. Symposium at the XVIth International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver, Canada.
Roseberry, S., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., & Göksun, T. (2008, March). Distance categorization: Do relations matter? Paper presented at the 79th Annual Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.
Parish-Morris, J., Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., & Richardson, A. (2007, June). Talking books: What kind of parental talk do they promote? Paper presented at Jean Piaget Society Conference, Amsterdam, Holland
Göksun, T, Jones, M. C., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Roeper, T., Golinkoff, R. M., &Roseberry, S. (2007, March). Finding the missing piece: Ellipsis as a clue to grammatical development. Poster presented at Society for Research on Child Development, Boston, MA.
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Göksun, T., Jones, M. C., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Roeper, T., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2006, April). What’s missing? Sensitivity to Ellipsis Signals Grammatical Categories. Paper presented at the Conference on Human Development, Louisville, KY.
Naigles, L., Küntay A., Göksun, T, & Lee, J. (2005, November). Language specific properties influence children’s acquisition of argument structure. Poster presented at 30th Boston University Conference on Language Development.
Göksun, T., Küntay A., & Naigles, L. (2005, July). Development of comprehension of (in)transitivity in Turkish: An act-out study. Poster presented at 10th International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Berlin, Germany.
Özyürek, A., Goldin-Meadow, S., Gürcanli, Ö, & Göksun, T. (2005, July) Gestural expressions of motion events with and without a language. Paper presented at 10th International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Berlin, Germany.
* Undergraduate student under supervision