At the BCCCD 2025 conference held in Budapest, our master’s student Dilara Özalp presented two posters from her thesis study.
At the 4th Developmental Psychology Symposium held at Bilkent University, our doctoral student Nursena Koç presented two posters.
In her presentations, Nursena shared her research examining the relationship between joint attention established between mothers and infants and parental reflective functioning, as well as the relationship between mothers’ talk about mental states and their children’s theory of mind.
We presented our study at ICIS (International Congress on Infant Studies) held in Glasgow. The study, conducted by our lab director Berna Uzundağ together with lab members İlke Nur Güven, Özce Sıvış, and Gülnihal Başpınar, was presented on behalf of our group by İlke Nur Güven. We would like to thank all our members, especially Nursena Koç, Gizem Akel Güçlü, and Şüheda Nur Erdoğan, who contributed to data collection and coding, as well as all the families who participated in our BilgeBebe study.
At the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, held on 4–6 January 2024, our lab member Nursena Koç presented two posters.
At the LCICD conference held at Lancaster University in 2023, we presented our work through one talk and four posters. We congratulate our lab members Gizem Akel, Nursena Koç, and Dilara Keşşafoğlu.
Our lab director, Dr. Berna Uzundağ, was a guest speaker at the seminar titled “Family in a Changing World” organized by the Turkish Psychological Association.
Our lab director, Berna Uzundağ, and our member, Ezgi Yıldız, attended the Lancaster Conference on Infancy and Early Childhood, held at Lancaster University on 24–26 August 2022, and presented their work.
We participated in the BCCCD conference on 10–14 January 2022 with four research projects. Our lab members Ezgi Yıldız, Merve Nur Altundal, and Dilara Keşşafoglu presented their studies at the conference and answered questions about their work.
Our project titled “Understanding the Role of Mothers in the Development of Children’s Theory of Mind Skills” has been awarded funding by TÜBİTAK under the 1002 program. The project, jointly prepared by our lab director Berna Uzundağ and master’s student Nursena Koç, also involves Dr. Deniz Tahiroğlu from Boğaziçi University’s Department of Psychology as a consultant.
In our study, we will follow up with children, whose interactions and play with their mothers were recorded at age 1, when they reach 3 years old to examine their communication skills.
In February 2020, our project proposal was awarded funding by TÜBİTAK. In this project, we will examine the relationship between the development of attention skills in infancy and environmental factors, as well as the associations between attention skills and language and self-regulation abilities in early childhood.
In January 2020, we presented our joint work with Sümeyye Koşkulu at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD).
In January 2020, as part of the Kadir Has University Psychology Winter School, we discussed language development in infants and children, as well as methods for assessing language development.
Our lab director, Dr. Berna Uzundağ, gave a talk titled Cognitive Development to psychology students participating in the PsiArt training program.