ABOUT ME

I am a cognitive scientist interested in the question of how language is represented in the human mind and how it is processed during comprehension and production. Therefore, my work is mainly in the interdisciplinary field of psychology of language, also known as psycholinguistics.

I use psycholinguistic experimentation (such as behavioral experiments with reading time and eye-tracking methods) to study the representation and processing of language, particularly of morpho-syntax. My research has primarily consisted of structural priming experiments with various monolingual and bilingual populations, on different linguistic structures in a number of different languages.

Here are some keywords representing my general and specific research interests:

GENERAL: Cognitive science, Psychology, Linguistics, Psychology of language (psycholinguistics)

PSYCHOLOGY: Cognitive psychology, Experimental psychology, Developmental psychology, Memory, Learning, Individual differences, Motivation

LINGUISTICS: Experimental linguistics, Language acquisition (in children & adults), Bi-multilingualism, Syntax, Morphology, Morho-syntax, Turkish

PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE (PSYCHOLINGUISTICS): Language production, Language comprehension, Mental representation of grammar, Structural priming (within & across languages), (Morpho-)Syntactic processing (in mono-/ multilinguals), Processing head-final languages, Acquisition of Turkish (as first & second/foreign language)

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY: Behavioral tasks, Picture description, (Paper-based and Internet-based) Written sentence completion, Reaction time, Self-paced reading, Eye-tracking