Presentations

Bariş, C., & Ünal, E. (2025). Agent preference in children: The role of animacy and event coherence. Talk presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2025). San Francisco, CA, USA. 2025-07-30 - 2025-08-02.

Moser, C., Tarakçı, B., Ünal, E., & Grigoroglou, M. (2025). Encoding instruments in multimodal event descriptions: The roles of language-specificity and conceptual prominence. Poster presented at the 10th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS 2025), Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Moser, C., Tarakçı, B., Ünal, E., & Grigoroglou, M. (2025). How language-specific encoding options and conceptual prominence shape instrument mentions in speech and gesture. Poster presented at the Annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Montreal, Canada.

Moser, C., Tarakçı, B., Ünal, E., & Grigoroglou, M. (2025). Language-specific event role mappings in multimodal possession-transfer event descriptions. Poster presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2025), San Francisco, CA, USA.

Tarakçı, B., & Ünal, E. (2025). Word learning of metaphors in space and time domains. Talk presented at the MEDAL Conference: New Challenges, Novel Approaches. Tartu, Estonia. 2025-10-09 - 2025-10-10.

Ünal, E. (2025). From event representation to linguistic meaning and back. Talk presented at the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication Seminar. University of Amsterdam. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 2025-05-23.

Ünal, E. (2025). Segmenting events in language and cognition. Talk presented at the Workshop on Events in Language and Cognition and Beyond. University of Groningen. Groningen, The Netherlands. 2025-10-09.

Karadöller, D. Z., Özyürek, A., & Ünal, E. (2024). Children’s visual attention when planning informative multimodal descriptions of spatial relations. Talk presented at the 16th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL 2024). Prague, Czech Republic. 2024-07-15 - 2024-07-19.

Karadöller, D. Z., Özyürek, A., & Ünal, E. (2024). Children's visual attention when planning informative multimodal descriptions of object locations. Poster presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2024), Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Karadöller, D. Z., Özyürek, A., & Ünal, E. (2024). Bilgilendirici Uzamsal İfadeler Öncesi Yöneltilen Görsel Dikkatin İfade Modalitesi ile İlişkisi. Talk presented at the 4.Bilkent Gelişim Psikolojisi Sempozyumu. Ankara, Turkey. 2024-09-10 - 2024-09-11.

Karadöller, D. Z., Özyürek, A., & Ünal, E. (2024). Children’s visual attention when planning informative multimodal descriptions of spatial relations between objects. Talk presented at the IMPRS Conference 2024. Nijmegen, the Netherlands. 2024-06-05 - 2024-06-07.

Moser, C., Tarakçı, B., Ünal, E., & Grigoroglou, M. (2024). Conceptual and language-specific effects on multimodal recipient event descriptions. Poster presented at the third Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) conference, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Moser, C., Tarakçı, B., Ünal, E., & Grigoroglou, M. (2024). Conceptual and language-specific syntactic influences on the description of Instrument events in Turkish and English. Talk presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. New York, NY, USA. 2024-01-04 - 2024-01-07.

Moser, C., Tarakçı, B., Ünal, E., & Grigoroglou, M. (2024). Multimodal description of instrument events in Turkish and English. Talk presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2024). Rotterdam, The Netherlands. 2024-07-24 - 2024-07-27.

Tarakçı, B., Barış, C., & Ünal, E. (2024). Boundednes is represented in visual and auditory event cognition. Poster presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2024), Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Tarakçı, B., Barış, C., & Ünal, E. (2024). Boundedness is represented in visual and auditory event cognition. Poster presented at the 10th International Symposium on Brain and Cognitive Science (ISBCS 2024), Ankara, Turkey.

Tarakçı, B., & Ünal, E. (2024). Word learning of spatial and temporal metaphors. Poster presented at the IMPRS Conference 2024, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Karadöller, D. Z., Kırbaşoğlu, K., Sumer, B., & Ünal, E. (2023). Children use gestures to increase the informativeness of their spatial expressions depending on the complexity of spatial relations. Talk presented at the 1st International Multimodal Communication Symposium (MMSYM 2023). Barcelona, Spain. 2023-04-26 - 2023-04-28.

Karadöller, D. Z., Ünal, E., & Özyürek, A. (2023). Children allocate more visual attention when planning informative spatial descriptions in speech-gesture combinations than in speech. Poster presented at the 9th International Symposium on Brain and Cognitive Science (ISBCS 2023), Istanbul, Turkey.

Karadöller, D. Z., Ünal, E., Sümer, B., Göksun, T., Özer, D., & Özyürek, A. (2023). Children express more information multimodally when describing Left-Right relations. Talk presented at the 52nd annual meeting of the Jean Piaget Society. Madrid, Spain. 2023-06-01 - 2023-06-03.

Moser, C., Tarakçı, B., Ünal, E., & Grigoroglou, M. (2023). A cross-linguistic investigation of possession-transfer and instrument events in language production. Poster presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2023), Sydney, Australia.

Tarakçı, B., & Ünal, E. (2023). Is word learning of spatial metaphors grounded in perceptual modality?. Poster presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2023), Sydney, Australia.

Tarakçı, B., & Ünal, E. (2023). Word learning of spatial and temporal metaphors across auditory and visual modalities. Talk presented at the 5th Student Conference on Linguistics (SCOL '23). Istanbul, Turkey. 2023-05-05 - 2023-05-06.

Tarakçı, B., Barış, C., & Ünal, E. (2023). Word learning of spatial and temporal metaphors across auditory and visual modalities. Poster presented at the 9th International Symposium on Brain and Cognitive Science (ISBCS 2023), Istanbul, Turkey.

Ünal, E., Kırbaşoğlu, K., Karadöller, D. Z., Sümer, B., & Özyürek, A. (2023). Development of informative spatial expressions in speech and gesture. Talk presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2023). Sydney, Australia. 2023-07-26 - 2023-07-29.

Karadöller, D. Z., Sumer, B., Ünal, E., & Özyürek, A. (2022). Relationship between spatial language experience and spatial memory: Evidence from deaf children with late sign language exposure. Talk presented at the International Conference on Sign Language Acqusition (ICSLA 4). online. 2022-06-23 - 2022-06-25.

Karadöller, D. Z., Sumer, B., Ünal, E., & Özyürek, A. (2022). Geç işaret dilini ediniminin uzamsal dil ve bellek ilişkisine etkileri [Effect of late sign language acquisition on the relationship between spatial language and memory]. Talk presented at 3. Gelişim Psikolojisi Sempozyumu [3rd Symposium on Developmental Psychology]. Istanbul, Turkey. 2022-07-08 - 2022-07-09.

Kırbaşoğlu, K., Ünal, E., Karadöller, D. Z., Sumer, B., & Özyürek, A. (2022). Konuşma ve jestlerde uzamsal ifadelerin gelişimi [Development of spatial expressions on speech and gesture]. Poster presented at 3. Gelişim Psikolojisi Sempozyumu [3rd Symposium on Developmental Psychology], Istanbul, Turkey.

Özyürek, A., Ünal, E., Manhardt, F., & Brouwer, S. (2022). Modality specific differences in speech, gesture and sign modulate visual attention differentially during message preparation. Talk presented at the 9th International Society for Gesture Studies conference (ISGS 2022). Chicago, IL, USA. 2022-07-12 - 2022-07-15.

Ünal, E., Kırbaşoğlu, K., Karadöller, D. Z., Sumer, B., & Özyürek, A. (2022). Children's multimodal spatial expressions vary across the complexity of relations. Poster presented at the 8th International Symposium on Brain and Cognitive Science, online.

Karadöller, D. Z., Sumer, B., Ozyurek, A., & Ünal, E. (2021). Producing informative expressions of Left-Right relations: Differences between children and adults in using multimodal encoding strategies. Talk presented at the 15th International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL 2021). online. 2021-07-15 - 2021-07-23.

Karadöller, D. Z., Sumer, B., Ünal, E., & Ozyurek, A. (2021). Spatial language use predicts spatial memory of children: Evidence from sign, speech, and speech-plus-gesture. Talk presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2021). online. 2021-07-24 - 2021-07-26.

Karadöller, D. Z., Sumer, B., Ünal, E., & Ozyurek, A. (2020). Sign advantage for children: Signing children’s spatial expressions are more informative than speaking children’s speech and gestures combined. Talk presented at the 45th Annual Boston University (Virtual) Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 45). Boston, MA, USA. 2020-11-05 - 2020-11-08.

Karadöller, D. Z., Ünal, E., Sumer, B., & Ozyurek, A. (2019). Children but not adults use both speech and gesture to produce informative expressions of Left-Right relations. Poster presented at the Donders Poster Sessions 2019, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Karadöller, D. Z., Ünal, E., Sumer, B., Göksun, T., Özer, D., & Ozyurek, A. (2019). Children but not adults use both speech and gesture to produce informative expressions of Left-Right relations. Poster presented at the 44th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 44), Boston, MA, USA.

Ünal, E., & Flecken, M. (2019). Universality and diversity in event cognition. Talk presented at International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS 2019). Paris, France. 2019-03-07 - 2019-03-09.

Ter Bekke, M., Ünal, E., Karadöller, D. Z., & Ozyurek, A. (2017). Cross-linguistic effects of speech and gesture production on memory of motion events. Poster presented at the workshop 'Event Representations in Brain, Language & Development' (EvRep), Nijmegen, The Netherlands.