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Yağmur Deniz Kısa

@ydkisa.bsky.social

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Postdoc at MPI EVA. Interested in language, culture, and cognition.

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Cognition @cognitionjournal.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Human cultures vary in how they talk and think about space: some rely on body-centered (egocentric) reference frames, others on environment-centered (geocentric) ones.

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Manuel Bohn @elmanubohn.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

Bahar Koymen and I are looking for two RA positions in Turkey to work in a longitudinal project. Details here - please share and repost! 🙏 manuelbohn.github.io/vw-add.html

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Yağmur Deniz Kısa @ydkisa.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

New paper out in Cognition 🎉 Why do people gesture when they speak, especially when their speech is disfluent? Our study shows that, in contrast to long-held beliefs, these gestures are produced for the listener, not for the speaker. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Gesturing during disfluent speech: A pragmatic account

People are more likely to gesture when their speech is disfluent. Why? According to an influential proposal, speakers gesture when they are disfluent …

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