Tilbe Göksun, Ph.D.
Dr. Göksun received her PhD in Developmental Psychology from Temple University in 2010 under the supervision of Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek. She had her BA in psychology from Bogazici University, Istanbul-Turkey in 2002 and MA in Developmental Psychology from Koc University, Istanbul-Turkey in 2005. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania in the Department of Neurology, working with Dr. Anjan Chatterjee. She is also affiliated with the Spatial Intelligence Learning Center (SILC). Her research interests center on the relationship between event perception and language. She currently studies different levels of representations (perceptual, neural, verbal, and gestural) in this relationship using behavioral, neuroimaging, and lesion analysis techniques and working with normal and brain damaged adults and focal brain injured children.
Email: tilbegoksun@gmail.com
Current lab page: http://ccn.upenn.edu/~chatterjee/chat_lab.html#People
Personal website: http://www.tilbegoksunyoruk.com
Selected Publications
Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K, & Golinkoff, R. M. (2010). How do preschoolers express cause in gesture and speech? Cognitive Development, 25, 56-68.
Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K, & Golinkoff, R. M. (2010). Trading Spaces: Carving up events for learning language. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5, 33-42.
Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K, & Golinkoff, R. M. (2009). Processing figures and grounds in dynamic and static events. In J. Chandlee, M. Franchini, S. Lord, & G. Rheiner (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, (pp. 199-210). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Roseberry, S., Göksun, T., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2009). In season? A review of Katherine Nelson’s Young minds in social worlds. Journal of Child Language, 36, 225-233.
Göksun, T., Küntay, A., & Naigles, L. (2008). Turkish children use morphosyntactic bootstrapping in interpreting verb meaning. Journal of Child Language, 35, 291-323.