Publications

Göksun, T., George, N., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (accepted). Forces and Motion: Causal understanding of preschoolers. Child Development.

Göksun, T., Woods, A. J., Chatterjee, C., Zeloniss, S., Glass, L., & Smith, S. (in press). Elementary school children's attentional biases in physical and numerical space. European Journal of Developmental Psychology
(In .pdf format: Goksun et al._bisection paper_in press)

Pruden, S. M., Roseberry, S., Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K, & Golinkoff, R. M. (in press). Infant categorization of path relations during dynamic events. Child Development.

Roseberry, S., Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek,K, & Golinkoff, R. M. (in press). Infants carve categories in a continuous world: Infants discriminate categorical changes before distance changes in dynamic events. Spatial Cognition and Computation.

Pruden, S. M., Göksun, T., Roseberry, S., Hirsh-Pasek, K, & Golinkoff, R. M. (in press). Find your manners: How do infants detect the invariant manner of motion in dynamic events? Child Development.
(In .pdf format: Pruden et al_2012.pdf)

Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K, Golinkoff, R. M., Imai, M., Konishi, H., & Okada, H. (2011). Who is crossing where?: Infants’ discrimination of figures and grounds in events. Cognition, 121, 176-195.
(In .pdf format: Goksun et al._FG_2011.pdf)

Göksun, T., Roeper, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K, & Golinkoff, R. M. (2011).From nounphrase ellipsis to verbphrase ellipsis: The acquisition pathfrom context to abstract reconstruction. In J. Harris and M. Grant,(Eds.) University of Massachusetts Occasional Working Papers in Linguistics Vol 38: Processing Linguistic Structure, (pp. 53-74). Amherst, MA: GLSA.
(In .pdf format: Goksun et al._ellipsis.pdf)

Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2010). How do preschoolers express cause in gesture and speech? Cognitive Development, 25, 56-68.
(In .pdf format: Goksun et al._Gesture&Causality_2010.pdf)

Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2010). Trading Spaces: Carving up events for learning language. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5, 33-42.
(In .pdf format: GoksunHirsh-PasekGolinkoff_2010.pdf)

Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2009). Processing figures and grounds in dynamic and static events. In J. Chandlee, M. Franchini, S. Lord, & G. Rheiner(Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, (pp. 199-210). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
(In .pdf format: Goksun et al._Figure&Ground_2009.pdf)

Roseberry, S., Göksun, T., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2009). In season? A review of Katherine Nelson’s Young minds in social worlds. Journal of Child Language, 36, 225-233.
(In .pdf format: Roseberry et al_2009.pdf)

Göksun, T., Küntay, A., & Naigles, L. (2008). Turkish children use morphosyntactic bootstrapping in interpreting verb meaning. Journal of Child Language, 35, 291-323.
(In .pdf format: GoksunKuntayNaigles_2008.pdf)

Naigles, L., Küntay A., Göksun, T, & Lee, J. (2006). Language specific properties influence children’s acquisition of argument structure. In D. Bamman, T. Magnitskaia, &C. Zaller (Eds.). Proceedings of the 30th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 388-398). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
(In .pdf format: Naigles et al._Argument structure paper.pdf)

Manuscripts Under Review/Under Revision/In Preperation

Woods, A.J.,Göksun, T., Chatterjee, A. Zelonis, S. J., Glass, L., Mehta, A. & Smith, S. (under review). The development of organized visual search.

Göksun, T., Goldin-Meadow, S., Newcombe, N.,& Shipley, T. (ms. in prep). Individual differences in mental rotation: What does gesture tell us?.

Göksun, T., Ash, S., Grossman, M, & Chatterjee, A. (ms.in prep). In a manner of speaking: Narration in frontotemporal dementia.

Göksun, T., & Chatterjee, A. (ms.in prep). Dis(associations) between speech and gesture in naming spatial relations: Evidence from focal brain-injured adults.

Matlen, B., Atit, K., Göksun, T., Rau, M. A., & Ptouchkina, M. (ms.in prep). Representing space: Exploring the relationship between gesturing, sketching, and geoscience understanding in children.