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View article: The Role of Non-Representational Hand Gestures in Creative Thinking
The Role of Non-Representational Hand Gestures in Creative Thinking Open
Previous studies suggest that representational gestures support divergent thinking and that mental imagery is necessary for gestures to aid convergent thinking. However, less is known about non-representational gesture use (i.e., beat and …
View article: Thinking creatively in two languages: Effects of mental imagery vividness, foreign language proficiency and hand gestures on bilingual creativity
Thinking creatively in two languages: Effects of mental imagery vividness, foreign language proficiency and hand gestures on bilingual creativity Open
This study investigated the influence of language context on creative thinking, mental imagery vividness and the use of representational hand gestures among Turkish-English bilinguals. Participants solved verbal divergent and convergent th…
View article: Narratives of preterm and full‐term preschool‐aged children: Analyses of different narrative dimensions
Narratives of preterm and full‐term preschool‐aged children: Analyses of different narrative dimensions Open
Preterm birth increases the likelihood of early language and cognitive delays, but less is known about later aspects of language development, such as narrative generation. Narrative skills involve dimensions, such as linguistic and narrati…
View article: Full-Term Children with Lower Vocabulary Scores Receive More Multimodal Math Input Than Preterm Children
Full-Term Children with Lower Vocabulary Scores Receive More Multimodal Math Input Than Preterm Children Open
One of the earliest sources of mathematical input arises in dyadic parent–child interactions. However, the emphasis has been on parental input only in speech and how input varies across different environmental and child-specific factors re…
View article: Spatial working memory is critical for gesture processing: Evidence from gestures with varying semantic links to speech
Spatial working memory is critical for gesture processing: Evidence from gestures with varying semantic links to speech Open
Gestures express redundant or complementary information to speech they accompany by depicting visual and spatial features of referents. In doing so, they recruit both spatial and verbal cognitive resources that underpin the processing of v…
View article: The Relationship Between Cognitive and Morphological Skills: Evidence from Turkish Kindergarten Children
The Relationship Between Cognitive and Morphological Skills: Evidence from Turkish Kindergarten Children Open
This study investigated the role of domain-general cognitive processes, specifically inhibitory control, verbal working memory (WM), and nonverbal reasoning, on children’s productive grammar skills, focusing on Turkish past tense (e.g. fır…
View article: The Relationship between Cognitive and Morphological Skills: Evidence from Turkish Kindergarten Children
The Relationship between Cognitive and Morphological Skills: Evidence from Turkish Kindergarten Children Open
This study investigated the role of domain-general cognitive processes, specifically inhibitorycontrol, verbal working memory (WM), and nonverbal reasoning, on children’s productivegrammar skills, focusing on Turkish past tense (e.g., fırç…
View article: The link between early iconic gesture comprehension and receptive language
The link between early iconic gesture comprehension and receptive language Open
Children comprehend iconic gestures relatively later than deictic gestures. Previous research with English‐learning children indicated that they could comprehend iconic gestures at 26 months, a pattern whose extension to other languages is…
View article: The multifaceted nature of early vocabulary development: Connecting children's characteristics with parental input types
The multifaceted nature of early vocabulary development: Connecting children's characteristics with parental input types Open
Children need to learn the demands of their native language in the early vocabulary development phase. In this dynamic process, parental multimodal input may shape neurodevelopmental trajectories while also being tailored by child‐related …
View article: Does source reliability moderate the survival processing effect? The role of linguistic markers as reliability cues
Does source reliability moderate the survival processing effect? The role of linguistic markers as reliability cues Open
Adaptive memory retains information that would increase survival chances and reproductive success, resulting in the survival processing effect. Less is known about whether the reliability of the information interacts with the survival proc…
View article: Give your ideas a hand: the role of iconic hand gestures in enhancing divergent creative thinking
Give your ideas a hand: the role of iconic hand gestures in enhancing divergent creative thinking Open
View article: Temporal Gestures in Different Temporal Perspectives
Temporal Gestures in Different Temporal Perspectives Open
Temporal perspectives allow us to place ourselves and temporal events on a timeline, making it easier to conceptualize time. This study investigates how we take different temporal perspectives in our temporal gestures. We asked participant…
View article: Grammatical Complexity and Gesture Production of Younger and Older Adults
Grammatical Complexity and Gesture Production of Younger and Older Adults Open
Age-related effects are observed in both speech and gesture production. Older adults produce grammatically fewer complex sentences and use fewer iconic gestures than younger adults. This study investigated whether gesture use, especially i…
View article: Collective co-design activities with children for designing classroom robots
Collective co-design activities with children for designing classroom robots Open
In order to design classroom robots that meet children's expectations, it may be useful to involve children in the design process. In this paper, we propose a suite of activities that can be utilized collectively to help in co-designing cl…
View article: Malleability of spatial skills: bridging developmental psychology and toy design for joyful STEAM development
Malleability of spatial skills: bridging developmental psychology and toy design for joyful STEAM development Open
Previous research has established that advances in spatial cognition predict STEAM success, and construction toys provide ample opportunities to foster spatial cognition. Despite various construction toy designs in the market, mostly brick…
View article: Parental use of causal language for preterm and full-term children: A longitudinal study
Parental use of causal language for preterm and full-term children: A longitudinal study Open
Parents are often a good source of information, introducing children to how the world around them is described and explained in terms of cause-and-effect relations. Parents also vary in their speech, and these variations can predict childr…
View article: Correction to: The cost of changing language context: The language-dependent recall of fictional stories
Correction to: The cost of changing language context: The language-dependent recall of fictional stories Open
View article: The creative interplay between hand gestures, convergent thinking, and mental imagery
The creative interplay between hand gestures, convergent thinking, and mental imagery Open
Using hand gestures benefits children’s divergent thinking and enhances verbal improvisation in adults. In the present study, we asked whether gestures were also associated with convergent thinking by activating individuals’ verbal lexicon…
View article: Multimodal language in bilingual and monolingual children: Gesture production and speech disfluency
Multimodal language in bilingual and monolingual children: Gesture production and speech disfluency Open
Bilingual and monolingual children might have different styles of using multimodal language. This study investigates speech disfluency and gesture production of 5- and 7-year-old Turkish monolingual (N = 61) and Turkish–English bilingual c…
View article: The role of gestures in autobiographical memory
The role of gestures in autobiographical memory Open
Speakers employ co-speech gestures when thinking and speaking; however, gesture’s role in autobiographical episodic representations is not known. Based on the gesture-for-conceptualization framework, we propose that gestures, particularly …
View article: Trust my gesture or my word: How do listeners choose the information channel during communication?
Trust my gesture or my word: How do listeners choose the information channel during communication? Open
Information can be conveyed via multiple channels such as verbal and gestural (visual) channels during communication. Sometimes the information from different channels do not match (e.g., saying right while pointing to the left). How do ad…
View article: Playing Minds: Parental Pretend Play Input and Infants’ Vocabulary Development
Playing Minds: Parental Pretend Play Input and Infants’ Vocabulary Development Open
View article: An Inquiry into the TUI Design Space for Parent-Child Math Engagement at Home
An Inquiry into the TUI Design Space for Parent-Child Math Engagement at Home Open
Preschoolers' early-math development is vital for their later math and academic achievement. Tangible user interfaces (TUI) may support early math as they feature physical objects imperative to math development and multimedia to support en…
View article: Linguistic and nonlinguistic evaluation of motion events in a path-focused language
Linguistic and nonlinguistic evaluation of motion events in a path-focused language Open
This study examines how properties of path (the trajectory of motion) and manner (how an action is performed) components of motion events are reflected in linguistic and nonlinguistic motion event conceptualization in a path-focused langua…
View article: Designing Physical Objects for Young Children's Magnitude Understanding: A TUI Research Through Design Journey
Designing Physical Objects for Young Children's Magnitude Understanding: A TUI Research Through Design Journey Open
Magnitude understanding, an understudied topic in Child-Computer Interaction, entails making nonsymbolic ‘more-less’ comparisons that influence young children's later math and academic achievements. To support this ability, designing tangi…
View article: Does time extend asymmetrically into the past and the future? A multitask crosscultural study
Does time extend asymmetrically into the past and the future? A multitask crosscultural study Open
Does temporal thought extend asymmetrically into the past and the future? Do asymmetries depend on cultural differences in temporal focus? Some studies suggest that people in Western (arguably future-focused) cultures perceive the future a…
View article: Do typological differences in the expression of causality influence preschool children’s causal event construal?
Do typological differences in the expression of causality influence preschool children’s causal event construal? Open
This study investigated whether cross-linguistic differences in causal expressions influence the mapping of causal language on causal events in three- to four-year-old Swiss-German learners and Turkish learners. In Swiss-German, causality …
View article: CRAFT: A Benchmark for Causal Reasoning About Forces and inTeractions
CRAFT: A Benchmark for Causal Reasoning About Forces and inTeractions Open
Humans are able to perceive, understand and reason about causal events. Developing models with similar physical and causal understanding capabilities is a long-standing goal of artificial intelligence. As a step towards this direction, we …
View article: Gradual Route to Productivity: Evidence from Turkish Morphological Causatives
Gradual Route to Productivity: Evidence from Turkish Morphological Causatives Open
Children’s spontaneous speech may not reflect true productivity with grammar rules. We investigated Turkish-learning children’s rule-based understanding of causative morphology by combining experimental and corpus work. We asked (1) when t…
View article: Early parental causal language input predicts children’s later causal verb understanding
Early parental causal language input predicts children’s later causal verb understanding Open
How does parental causal input relate to children’s later comprehension of causal verbs? Causal constructions in verbs differ across languages. Turkish has both lexical and morphological causatives. We asked whether (1) parental causal lan…