Newcomer: Bera Sena Yiğit

Bera Sena Yiğit is a third-year Psychology student at Boğaziçi University in Türkiye. Her research interests lie at the intersection of language and memory, particularly the impact of narratives on memory formation. She is also interested in multimodality and how people from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds use speech, gesture, and other communicative cues to convey meaning.

At the Multimodal Language Department, Bera joins as an Erasmus+ trainee. She will work with Prof. Aslı Özyürek and her team on the annotation and organization of multimodal language data. She is excited to learn from and contribute to the MPI community during her time in Nijmegen.

In her free time, Bera enjoys traveling and discovering new places, learning new languages and how they reflect culture, as well as hiking and spending time in nature.